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Name: Silasarn
Status: Teen
Type: Blue Opal
Guardian: bronzed

Personality: A very passionate person, yet she doesn't care too much for negative, she avoids violence, loves to be around people but not so much that she could lose herself

Good attributes: very calm and relaxed yet social, deeply caring for those that care for her

Bad attributes: sometimes becomes too dreamy that she loses perspective on reality, tends to worry overmuch for others



Markings: a lustrous blue color shimmering with prismatic color in the light, large wings shaded in blue

Special properties: Minor healing, minor self healing, amplifies psyche abilities in others

Height: 4.0"

Intelligence: 73
Health: 55
Speed: 35 Flight Speed: 40 (like a butterfly)
Weapons: None yet
Charisma: 75
Dexterity: 55
Strength: 45
Endurance: 48

<+2 to End from time spent upon her own>
<+3 to Int from time with Riglach>
<+5 to all stats from evolution>

Saved for future use...purpose unknown wink

Moving the previous entries here to make room for other stuff above...


Dear Journal,

Well, I am finally home from my vacation!

The strangest thing happened to me on my way in the door, I happened to look down at just the right moment to see the sun catch in its rays the most beautiful stone. Someone must have slipped it beneath my door while I was away.

It looks like a blue opal, long my favourite type of stone, and what an appropriate gift! Long have I saught a blue opal of my own, for those which i have are ones borrowed from friends in the way of the light, ones bronzey knows...

She will be quite pleased to have one at long last, my twin. She is out at a meeting right now, which has left me some time alone with this wonderful gift. Although I am not the mystical one of the two of us, even I can sense that this stone is no mere stone, and I felt compelled to expose it to some stimulus to see if my hunch is correct about it.

First, I tried placing the stone on a few household objects.
1) the television
2) the laptop
3) the microwave
4) the stove
5) a book
6) a radio
7) my bedside table
cool the coffee table in the main room

Following that, I thought perhaps exposing the opal to some different kinds of music would be fun.
1) Chopin
2) Mozart
3) Tori Amos
4) Enya
5) Evanesence
6) Linkin Park
7) Black Eyed Peas
cool Simple Plan

And as fun as those experiments were, I didnt want to overwhelm the stone with stimuli...its funny, I am already thinking of my opal as more than just a stone, meanwhile, all I have is just the barest inkling that my opal is not some dead object.

But, I embrace this odd feeling in myself despite my unfamiliarity with such things. Mayhaps bronzey will have some more insight when she returns home.


Well, the responses to the stimuli were certainly interesting!

My hints from the blue opal was leading me towards more social things, rooms where company could be found. and yet, and yet, the opal seemed to respond positively to small, private areas as well. I am very reassured to find actually that the stove was hated, as I hate it myself.

I have never been an able cook. the microwave is about all i can manage on the best of days. but my favourite things were not disliked, namely being beside my bed, my book and my laptop. i felt a surge of love from the stone when placed on the book, and i have to admit it gave me quite a thrill! imagine, me, the "non-emotive" one being able to discern the nudges of a stone!

i am careful now to play music that I know the stone appreciates. mozart is close to my heart, and its a pleasure for me to have it echoing throughout the house for us both.

its funny, noticing the reactions to the things makes me feel compelled to name my stone...and i hesitate to admit this but, i have this feeling about the stone that makes me think its female. isnt that weird?

so i went ahead and named the stone, Silasarn. it means stone of shining white light. I think thats a pretty appropriate name for a stone that not only reacts to things by sending feelings coursing through my body (at least, i assume its Silasarn who is sending the feelings...they eminate from wherever Silasarn is touching me at the time).

in any case, as i said before, i dont want to overstimulate her, but i plan tomorrow to take her around other people, see how she reacts to different emotions.

in the meantime, i plan to set her on my favourite book, on my bedside table, and relax listening to my mozart cds. ahhh this is the life smile


So, here Silasarn and I are at work, and so far we have come across people who were experiencing the following emotions (just as a reminder, I work at a welfare office)...

-sadness
-happiness
-exultation
-gratitude
-anger
-violent urges
-depression
-contentment
-hilarity at jokes

It's always an interesting time at my work, and I wonder what Silasarn will make of all these conflicting emotions from different sources, clients and co-workers.



Another test for my wonderful Silasarn...
I have exposed her to some of my wonderful gaian friends who have different .... well lets just say not all are human.

-a persocom
-an elf
-a fox-person
-a cat-person
-a gryphon
-and last but not least, an angel living on gaia

myself, I'm not completely human either...but thats a different story for a different day wink

(( An OOC note about bronzey:

Here is how I described her to Lizzy, just so the explanation is not missed:

she could be anyones mommy who asks her nicely shes the motherly, loving, caring, earthy side of bronzed, but she is also a person of her own. so she can separate from bronzed when the worries of the world have become too much, but will rejoin her when her perfect vision sees something that is too disturbing. when separate, she is a complete person, visible by others, can interact with many levels -spirits and earthbound creatures both- but at the sign of anything truely unplesant, she immediately recoils and retreats to the safety of bronzed, who is the worldly one, and can handle the truth of the world...if that makes sense

Hope that clears up any confusion! ))

Some more tests, point form from here on out smile

Genres of stories
-Fantasy
-Horror
-Science Fiction
-Biography
-Historical Fiction (ancient histories)
-Historical Fiction (recent history related)
-Comedy
-Drama
-Romance
-Mystical Tales

Movie Genres
-Documentary
-Emotional Drama
-Comedic Drama
-Plays in Movie Form
-Fantastical Adventures (ie. The neverending story, LOTR)
-Armageddon/End of the World Speculation Stories
-Mysteries

Types of animals
-Dogs (Small)
-Dogs (Large)
-Horses
-Cats
-Bunnies
-Foxes
-Wolves
-Sheep
-Birds

Poor Bronzed is sick, tucked into bed like the preverbial bug in a rug. I have given her some mint tea, a good bowl of chicken broth, and one of those bears which you can warm in the microwave and placed it on her chest. While she rests, it will fill her body with the wamth and smell of lavender to calm her coughing fits and relax her mind, for I know her head is hurting.

Not wanting to force Sila to experience the negativity of her illness, I decide that mayhaps it is time for this entity and I to do some bonding. We made our way out onto the front step, my eyes landed upon a bundle placed lovingly by a stranger to us both. Picking it up, I scan the note, and a feeling of love spreads from it into me, this gift was given with the purest of intentions, and I know Silasarn will enjoy it. Creeping back into the bedroom, I place it on the bedside table where our stone will be able to enjoy it despite her status as a stone.

Returning outside, I can feel the sun on my face, and immediately take Silasarn out of my pocket and hold her up to the sun so that she can feel the brightness and soak up the energy that Mother Sun gives us simply by rising in the morning.

We spend the day at the park, watching children play, parents care for their young, and I whisper to Silasarn about all of the fun we will have once she emerges.

When the day at last is done, we return slowly to the house, and enter in time to be present when bronzed wakens. Smiling, I place Silasarn into her cold hands, and press them gently. It is her turn now, and maybe somehow Silasarn will cure her ills.

Leaving the room I cannot help but concentrate on the feel of my feet on the cool hardwood floors beneath me. The smoothness reminds me of the ease with which Silisarn and I passed the day. This is the beginning of a great relationship, and I hope that this bond will be strong enough to survive the dark I glimpsed in our path ahead.

Ahhh, another wonderful day of exploration with Silasarn has passed, and I am left simply breathless with wonder by the things I have learned.

First things first, I must pick up where I left off, when I placed the bear with Silasarn for the night on Friday. The most peculiar thing happened, I turned my back for only a moment, as I was getting ready to tuck a sickly bronzed into bed, and when I looked back, Silasarn was glowing! Not super brightly, more like glow in the dark paint after a few hours in the dark, but enough for me to notice.

The rest of the weekend was spent taking care of my poor sick bronzed, helping her to recouperate inside and out in time to return to work today, but once she returned from work this evening I rushed to the Relic Center for some insight into Silasarns glowing. As we approached the building, she began to glow anew, almost as if she could sense my excitement!

When inside, we met Naphor almost at once, and finally I was able to thank him for the wonderful gift. And, he explained to me that the glowing was a sign of happiness, and I am certain it was the kindness of his gift that had Silasarn glowing on Friday night.

Another joy for me was seeing Silasarn's reaction when placed in our dear friend Lizzy's hand. She glowed strongly, but I am not sure if it was because of the feelings Lizzy has for bronzed and I, or the other way around. With any luck, it was something that went both ways.

In any event, I am so glad that I brought her by the center tonight, and I will be encouraging bronzed to stop by many more times as the days and weeks pass.

Today I decided to do some research on Opals so that I can better understand Silasarn...

-High quality opal is more valuable than diamond; up to $20,000 per carat.
-Opal is the October birthstone.
-Some people think the opal is bad luck when worn if it is not your birthstone. This is not true. The story was started by Sir Walter Scott in his novel Anne of Gierstein, in which the heroine of the novel has her life force caught in the beautiful opal she wears and she dies when the fire in the opal is extinguished.
-In ancient times opal was accepted as a symbol of faithfulness and confidence.
-The name "opal;" is derived from the Latin word opalus, meaning seeing jewel.
-The Arabs believed that opals fell from heaven in flashes of lightning, and that's how they received their fiery color.
-Opals are very powerful in ritual magic. Since a quality opal contains every color of every other birthstone, it can be used or charged with all the energies and powers of the other stones combined and can be used in place of any birthstone for spells, rituals or other magical needs. Opals have been linked to invisibility and astral projection. and have been used to recall past lives (each color supposedly represents a past life).
-It has reputed healing properties, especially to increase mental capacities such as creative imagination and other unused powers of the mind.
-Fire opals are often used in money rituals to draw funds to those who are in need, normally worn as a pendant on a gold necklace, one surrounded with 10 or 12 small diamonds is said to have excellent money drawing power.
-Black opals are the tools of choice for witches and magicians, who use them primarily to enhance their magical receptive or projection powers. Black opals worn near the heart on necklaces made of gold are said to ward off evil, protect one from the evil eye and protect travelers on journeys to far away lands. Opals have been ground up and used a magic potions to heal the body, ward off bad dreams, and used an energy enhancement tools.
-The white opal, when used in rituals on the full moon night, is said to bring the moon goddesses' powers to full fruition in the practitioner.
Archaeologist Louis Leakey found six thousand year old opal artifacts in a cave in Kenya!
-The Aztecs mined opal in South and Central America.
Opal was also treasured in the Middle Ages and was called ophthalmios, or "eye stone," due to a widespread belief that it was beneficial to eyesight. Blonde women wore opal necklaces to protect their hair from losing its color.
-A beautiful opal called the orphanus was set in the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor. It was described "as though pure white snow flashed and sparked with the color of bright ruddy wine, and was overcome by this radiance."
-Opals are also set in the crown jewels of France. Napoleon gave Josephine a beautiful opal with brilliant red flashed called "The burning of Troy," making her his He
-Opal has been described in medival times as a cure for diseases of the eye.
-Opal is given as a symbol of hope, happiness and truth.
-Black opal is regarded as an extremely lucky stone.

((fyi, although I call Silasarn a blue opal, the true name for her is a Black opal, as Blue opals do not exist, and black opals are blue in appearance most times))