Chatterbox: Inkwell

Tree Town Story

For hundreds of generations, the Mother Tree has stood in the center of the town of Mirileth. It is a gigantic tree--its shaggy trunk is too large for several people to join hands and reach around it. It's tall--so tall, it seems to touch the heavens, stretching its limbs up and out. And its leaves are monstrous, wider than the space between your hands would be if you spread your arms out as far as you could. They are of many colors, making the tree look like a sea of rainbows. Each leaf stands for one life in Mirileth. When a baby is born, a new leaf will sprout and grow. And when a citizen dies, their leaf will fall from the tree's branches and slowly drift to the ground, while the tree weeps tears of sap.

But something is terribly wrong. The tree is sick, and the leaves are falling--and each time a leaf falls, one person dies.

The mayor of the town has called the citizens together, and this day will choose fourteen children--two representatives from each leaf clan--to form a group that will attempt to find the cause of the tree's sickness and reverse it.

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I am, in a way, bringing back this roleplay, which I believe was originally created by Katydid. But this time...it's a story. Not a CB story, a solo write.

The leaves, originally called Nortasun Hostoak, or "personality leaves" by Katydid, are seven different colors, and two CBers can join for each leaf color. The color of your leaf vaguely dictates what you will be like, or what skills you will have.

The Green Leaf~ People with the green leaves are generally skilled at things involving nature.

The Blue Leaf~ Blue-leaf people are generally skilled at things involving water or swimming.

The Red Leaf~ People with red leaves tend to be aggressive or warlike, skilled at the arts of combat.

The Orange Leaf~ People with the orange leaves are usually intellectual, smart, intelligent.

The Yellow Leaf~ Yellow-leaf people tend to be good at understanding people's and animal's feelings.

The Purple Leaf~ Purple-leaf people are skilled at creative things, such as writing, drawing, architecture….

The Pink Leaf~ People with the pink leaf have assorted talents. This leaf is slightly less common that the rest, and its owners can have talents in thievery, (discouraged by the town elders) singing, (encouraged) gardening...really anything.

Note: None of the talents are magical.

Second note: This is set in a medieval-type fantasy world, please make your charries with that in mind.

Character Sheet

Name:

Age: (between the ages of 8 and 18)

Appearance:

Personality:

Leaf color:

What is your character's talent?:

Family members:

Relations to other characters?: (fill this out after other CBers have posted their sheets)

Other:

And let's have some male characters, too! Shipping is allowed. I'm not a romance novelist, but I don't think I'm too bad at it, either. But please note that I won't write gay shipping.

My character.

Name: Hestia

Age: 8

Appearance: Long, wispy blonde hair that's always either loose or up in a bun. She has dark grey eyes and long, curly eyelashes. Hestia is about 3'11", and medium weight. She has a way of smiling at you that will make you feel uneasy for some reason or other, and her emotions have a habit of showing plainly on her face. She wears a lot of knitted dresses.

Personality: Sweet, likes to help people. But she often acts older than she is, as if she was 13 instead of 8. Hestia has a vast knowledge of plants, and carries a satchel full of various herbs with her wherever she goes.

Leaf color: Green

What is your character's talent?: Hestia is talented in healing people, and like I said she knows a lot of plants that she uses to make poultices and medicines.

Family members: She has a mother, a father, and two twin older sisters.

Relations to other characters?:

Other: Hestia as an odd accent, because her parents came from a land far away. But when she was born, the Mother Tree accepted her just like the rest of the tree's "children."

Note: Don't expect me to post a new chapter more than once or twice a week. I'm aiming to take my time with this and do actual, quality writing. Also, I like writing on paper so that will add to the wait.

Yet another note: Each chapter/segment will be from a different character's POV.

--The Caretaker