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Revenge of the Goose-Girls


Date:  September 13, 1998
Place:  Master Beast Hall's Pond
Game:  PernMUSH
Copyright Info:  The World of Pern is copyright(c) to Anne McCaffrey 
l967. The Dragonriders of Pern(r) is a registered copyright.

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Kassi's Note:  How now, Mother Goose?  The Beastcraft's Rodeo continues,
and its next event is a goose-herding competition... inspiring Kassi to
break out an array of strange items meant to help her cause.  Just call
her the James Bond of the avian world.

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The Log:

<*> Lysseth emerges from Between with a blast of cold air!

Dragon> Kvasith bespoke Lysseth with << We got here before you! >>

You wind down from the sky above.

Lysseth> I bespoke Kvasith with << Yes, but we are not last, so we are not
the kidneys. >>

<*> Owyn grins. "Oh, I'm not sure. They've their own charm, once you get to
know them, and they make a lovely meal..." He waves to the riders,
squinting at their knots before calling, "Beastcraft's duties to Telgar.
You're just in time to join us in herding some avians"

<*> From the sky above you, Torinth emerges from Between with a blast of
cold air!

<*> Kaitra peers into the pen, trying to evaluate the gaggle of geese in
some way, when Birioc's question draws her attention. With a grin, she
shrugs. "Enjoying it fairly well, and yes. Sales are going well. And you,
sir?"

<*> Aurian chuckles as she waves, "And Telgar's to Beastcraft and her
masters.."

<*> From the sky above you, Void wings out over the coastal waters towards
Ista Island.

<*> Lysseth lands neatly near Kvasith, rumbling a low and indeed almost
inaudible greeting. "Duties t'the Beastcraft and her Masters, all... and
t'everywhere else 'tis appropriate t'give duties to. Herding avians?"

You slide off of Lysseth's neck to land beside her easily. She rumbles,
cocking her head down at you, and you rub her eyeridges gratefully.

Kvasith rests his head on his forefeet, no staring at her this day.

Owyn nods. "Indeed!" He indicates the gaggle of geese milling about in the
pen behind him. "In a moment, I'm going to let these geese out, and then
anyone who cares to compete will try to get them back in. The winner will
be the person who gets the most geese back in"

Kiyana comes in from the road to the west.

Kaitra's grin falters just a tad as she recognizes the riders. Perhaps it
has to do with the bronco event, perhaps not. All the same, she calls a
cheerful, "Beastcraft's duties to Telgar!" As the riders arrive.

Birioc snorts like a porcine as he hears Owyn's greeting to the Telgar
riders. "More like get bitten by a goose," he drawls in an aside to Kaitra.
As he watches dragon after dragon land and female rider after female rider
climb down, the journeyman straightens his posture and brushes off some
dirt and feathers on his shirt, his eyes glinting with interest.
"BeastCraft's duties to Telgar," he calls out with a little too much
eagerness.

M'kla comes in from the road to the west.

Fahlina comes in from the road to the west.

Kassima whistles sharply, eyebrows lifting. "Sounds like an intriguing
challenge t'me... stress being on *challenge*. Can't say I've ever herded
geese a'fore." From the interested, curious way she's watching the
creatures, one might wonder whether she's even *seen* geese before. At the
call of greetings, she straightens to nod amiably to each person she hears.
"And returned, Apprentice--good t'see you again, by the by--Journeyman,
all. M'thanks for the courtesy. M'kla! There you are!"

Owyn grins. "Thanks to the generosity of the Vintnercraft, that winner -"
he recaps the victory conditions for the new arrivals "- that is, the one
who gets the most geese back into the pen after I let them out - will get
two skins of a lovely Benden vintage, as well as a roast goose"

Birioc rubs his chin thoughtfully at the mention of the prize. "Benden, eh?
I can think of a few good uses for a good Benden wine." He continues to
stroke his chin as his gaze wanders from Telgar rider to Telgar rider and a
tiny bit of drool wets the corner of his mouth. It must've been the mention
of the roast goose that has set him to salivating.

Aurian peers at the geese, "Are they the kind that bites?"

Kiyana eyes Owyn as she approaches. " What are you up to now, Master Owyn?"

M'kla chuckles, "All geese will bite lass...depends on how mad ye make em."

Owyn's eyes dance. "Taking another opportunity to extend the appeal of
avians, of course, Kiya

Aurian rakes a hand through her hair, she hmmmms, "Ohhh well that shouldn't
be to hard."

Kaitra's eyes sparkle just a bit - after all, it's a rare occasion that an
apprentice gets her hands on good wine. Her arms fold, and she straightens
just a little bit, ambling over to Kiyana. "Care to work together on this?
And share the prize?" She asks, in an undertone.

Kassima looks apt to drool, too, but not from the mention of the goose.
"Wiiiiiine," she murmurs, going starry-eyed. "*Benden* wine. Oh, I've just
*got* t'give this a try." It's a shame that Kassi isn't one of the geese;
clearly, waving a wineskin at her from within the pen would get her to come
running. "Just so long as they don't bite me in the rump. I don't need
beak-marks to add t'my collection!"

" Avians have appeal?" Kiyana asks dryly, glancing at the geese. Kaitra
gets a cocked eyebrow and a slow smile. " Now that sounds interesting."

Birioc sidles closer to Aurian, feigning a knowledgeable aire. "Afternoon,
ma'am. Journeyman Herder Birioc at your service. Did I hear you asking
about the geese?" All of this is said in a slow Boll drawl.

Telgar Weyr> Neliea says, "Are they chasing geese at the MBH now?"

Telgar Weyr> Kassima says, "Haven't quite started yet. :)"

Telgar Weyr> Neliea says, "I didn't miss it? Yea! :)"

Aurian glances up at the sidling Journeyman, she cocks an eyebrow, "Yes...
I did.."

Kaitra nods, slowly, a smile lighting up her own features. "Hmmm, the prize
seems to be two skins of benden wine, and he didn't say a thing 'bout
apprentices. And, a roast goose." She eyes the pen of geese. "Now, the
question is, how to do it."

Telgar Weyr> Kassima says, "Nope! Just get your rump to the pond! :)"

" Herd 'em towards each other?" Kiyana suggests with a chuckle. " The one
who catches it'll share the stash wi' the other?"

Birioc takes this teaching opportunity to step a little closer to the
Telgar brownrider. "What can I help you with? What question can I answer
for you...I'm sorry but I didn't catch your name." His teeth gleam in the
sunlight as he smiles.

Owyn takes up the latch. "If we're all ready," he says, carryingly, "we can
begin?"

"Aurian, brown Kvasith's rider.." she glances to the geese, "Oh its
starting.."

Kaitra spies Birioc paying an amazing ammount of attention to the Telgar
brownrider, and grins, nudging her fellow apprentice. "At least we won't
have any problems from him, he's too busy tryin' to herd her..." This, of
course, is said in a very quiet voice. Louder, she nods, "We're ready!"

Telgar Weyr> Neliea tears herself away from the TV and moves. :)

Kiyana grins at Kaitra and shakes her head, nodding quietly to her mentor.

Kassima aims an elbow to nudge Auri lightly in the side. "Quit flirting,
Auri... the games are about to start." She dips one hand in her pocket to
rifle around for something, apparently intending to use a prop of sorts.
How curious.

Birioc flicks a glance at Owyn, his mouth twisting connivingly as he
overhears the man. But when he looks back at Aurian he is all beaming
smiles and mildly attentive eyes. "If you've never worked with a goose
before, I can help you, Aurian. That's a lovely name."

Xylath wings down from the sky above.

Neliea nimbly climbs down from Xylath's neckridges, pausing to gently brush
a hand along her lifemate's muzzle as he turns a large light blue muzzle to
his lifemate, wuffling her hair gently in return.

Aurian ummms in confusion. She blinks.

Owyn opens the gate, and beckons the geese out. A moment or two of milling
around follow, and then the geese tumble out of the pen, and scatter to the
four winds. Most seem to be heading for the pond

Neliea removes her helmet and gloves, deftly climbing down and landing next
to Xylath at a small tilt. So, she rushed a little, but hopefully she
didn't miss anything. Straightening and standing back a ways, she watches
the geese with a slight smile.

"Nor her," Kaitra continues her quiet commentary on the subject of Birioc
and the brownrider. "Too flustered. Benden wine, here we come!" Edging
towards the pond, she crouches, holding her arms wide, waggling her fingers.

Kiyana yelps as geese start tumbling out all around her and twists, trying
to find one to herd. She leaps in front of a gander, stomping her feet and
waving her arms in an effort to turn it from it's course, back towards the
pen. " Hai!"

When the geese are freed, Kassima removes from her pocket--with a great
flourish--her secret weapon. It's a handkerchief. A pink... lace...
handkerchief. Confident in the powers of pink lace to frighten *anything*,
she sprints after the fleeing birds, intent on getting into a position from
where she can scare them back *towards* the pen. "See the lace and flee,
flying dinners!" she yells. Melodramatic? Who, *her*?

Telgar Weyr> Aurian dies at Kassima!

Telgar Weyr> Kassima says, "Hey, if it works on men.... ;)"

Telgar Weyr> Neliea blinks and just stays away from Kassi...."Scary
greenrider..." :)

Aurian slides off her jacket as she remembers what she' here to do, she
waves it at some of the geese, "Move your feathered fannies.."

Telgar Weyr> Aurian says, "Well so far it's worked on horses and men and
now geese"

Chuckling oh-so-sweetly at Aurian's attempts to herd the geese, Birioc
moves to join her. Crouching down he spreads his arms wide and waddles
after the animals, dodging to the left and the right in an attempt to block
their escape.

Suddenly challenged geese rear back, honking and threatening to snap. A
particularly bold goose waddles through Birioc's legs, and - finding
freedom opening before it - hop runs towards Kassima, too focused on the
water to notice the fearsome handkerchief. Meanwhile, the two apprentices
seem to have confused their gander, as it keeps turning round to avoid one
or the other of them

Aurian stamps a booted foot at some of the geese, "Move back shard it!"

Neliea slips off her jacket, following Aurian's exapmle and moving towards
the feathered geese. Giving her heavy jacket something that's similar to a
*crack*, she moves carefully towards those walking pillow feathers towards
the pen. Hey, everyone else is doing the same thing and she doesn't have to
lean over. Not yet at least.

Kaitra gives the greenrider an astonished look, as the woman confirms her
belief that all riders must have some fatal flaw. This one, insanity. Pink
lace, indeed. Now, to convince a goose to go where you want it to, not
where it wants to. Perhaps a yelling, waving, waddling Kaitra is enough to
turn some from the pond? She's trying it, her voice rising above the honking.

Kassima uses the small nefarious scrap of frippery as she might a wet
towel, trying to snap it at the rear ends of her feathered foes. "Back!
Back! Yield to the powers of the lace, edible cretins, lest I be forced to
route you with ribbons and sisal! Back, say I!" Okay, who gave the
greenrider too much caffeine this morning? However fearful the lace,
though, it does't seem to be working, and Kassi isn't blind to this fact.
"These critters are as water-obsessed as barren women! This calls for a
back-up plan." She sprints backwards ahead of the charging goose in
question as she this time rummages through her belt pouch, searching for
secret weapon number two. No matter how they may run, the birds don't look
apt to get away from the lunatic rider.

Fingers waggle as Kiyana bites back a giggle, dodging around to block off
the gander's escape, sending it fleeing towards Kaitra. She follows, her
voice shrill as she tries to spook the beast towards the pen. " Hai! Back,
back, beast!" And they say Kiya doesn't know anything about geese. Sandaled
feet stomp upon the ground, stirring up dust clouds towards the gander. "
Back you go!" Hands flick out, swift, never touching the gander, but boxing
it in, away from freedom, towards the captivity of the pens.

Birioc stifles a mild curse as the goose sneaks between his legs and makes
a break for freedom. The Herder doubles over to peer between his knees at
the animal, concluding after a moment's thought that that animal is too
smart for him. Still crouched over, he starts to waddle towards the next
goose when he hears Aurian. He lifts a finger to his lips in a shushing
gesture as he looks up at her and then he motions for her to get lower.
"You can't push them. It'll only scare 'em."

A smithcraft apprentice yelps, clutching at a nip on the back of his hand.
The goose that got him backs away, until it hears the crack of Neliea's
jacket. At this sharp sound, the goose senses a threat, and charges towards
the outstretched wherhide. Meanwhile, a number of geese have stopped their
headlong flight to the lake, watching Kassima warily to see what she'll do
next. A shout of triumph indicates the first success, on the the part of an
Igen wingsecond, as Kiyana and Kaitra seem close to capturing their first

Aurian peers at Birioc, she's short enough as it is. How low does she have
to get.. She dashes closer to some of the geese.

Kaitra looks past the weaving long neck of the goose, making eye contact
with Kiyana. "Almost, almost..." she says, creeping forward, arms spread
wide and fingers waggling. See? Who needs pink lace.

Kassima draws from her belt pouch, after a suitable (if brief) dramatic
pause, Secret Weapon Number Two. It's... a sandwich! A perfectly normal
sandwich, with soft, crumbling bread and a delicious-smelling filling. So
much for lunch. A piece of cornbread is similarly exposed, and, hunkering
down, the greenrider starts to waggle these at the geese in what she
fancies is a tempting fashion. "C'mon, c'mon... follow the sandwich, follow
the sandwich...." She turns to walk backwards towards the pen this time,
clucking her tongue and always holding the foodstuffs *just* out of reach.

Feet stomp, dust raises as Kiyana closes in on the gander, nimbly avoiding
the serrated beak as she skips from foot to foot, waggling her hands and
fingers in his direction. " Back, beastie! To the pen wi' ye! G'wan, get in
there!" Her voice shrills slightly as she steps down on a rock, but
apprentice keeps going, grinning in Kaitra's direction.

Telgar Weyr> Kassima shouts, simply because she can't resist, "Follow the
gourd! Follow the goooooooooourd!"

Neliea paues in moving, um, cracking her jacket like some trainer's whip
while keeping said bundle of Weyrhide in her hand as she moves towards the
water. Catching Birioc's waddle, she arches an eyebrow and shakes her head.
Never tried that, but whatever squaks your gander might work. Speaking of
squaks, there's goose heading in her direction. Um, that isn't good is it?
Maybe she can use this to her advantage. "Over here you walking bundle of
feathers! Yeah, you," she taunts the goose, moving rather quickly in the
direction of the pen and /away/ from the water. Hopefully she doesn't fall
backwards.

Birioc's rear nearly drags on the ground as he crouchwaddles alongside
Aurian, trying to use their two bodies to press the geese back. His fingers
trail in the grass as he spreads his arms wide, much to the anger of a
goose they are starting to surround and earning them a loud *honk* of protest.

Telgar Weyr> Aurian ties Kassima down while she tries to find the right
size strait jacket.

The Herder apprentices' gander looks rather confused as the gate clicks
shut beyond him, giving them their first success. Meanwhile, Kassima's
strange behavior has a handful of geese interested, and they straggle
behind her towards the pen. One of these is, in fact, too interested in the
sandwiches to look where it's going, and blunders right into Aurian's back,
knocking her towards Birioc. Neliea's stratagem seems to have backfired, as
the pursuing goose catches up, and takes a firm grip on the wherhide with
its beak, pulling backwards suddenly

Aurian stumbles against Birioc, she yelps.

Kiyana hahs softly, before making towards another goose, jerking her head
at Kaitra. " Over here." This one, quite obviously /not/ a gander, quickly
finds Kiyana on it's far side, 'tween lake and her. The waggling of fingers
and screeching of insults continues as the young... in her mind... senior
starts to force it in Kaitra's direction. " Back! Back! To the pen, I say!"
She limps a bit, and one foot doesn't stomp as hard, but she'll be danged
if she's gonna give up now. Kiya doesn't like wine, but she loves goose.

Kassima is quite content to use insanity as the Pied Piper of Hamlin used
music, and slowly and steadily makes tracks towards the pen, her Holy
Grails of Goosedom trailing a few tantilizing crumbs on the way. "C'mon...
you can hear the sandwich calling," she whispers to the geese as she
waddles along, backwards no less. "They're saying, 'Eat me... eat me....'"
She waggles the sandwich a bit to emphasize the point. At least it's less
scary than pink lace.

Kaitra lets out a whoop, as she and Kiyana achieve success. "Next one?" and
with a nod, she takes up a finger-waggling position at an angle to her
fellow apprentice. Her own voice adds to the clamour of the event, yelling
and whooping.

Neliea oofs in surprise as she takes a firm grip on her jacket, briefly
fanning about the goose's head. "Oh, shards! You are /not/ getting my
jacket!" Not if she has a say about it and she does. Keeping a light grip
on her jacket, maybe she can think of a way to keep her Wheyhide in one
piece. In the tangle, her necklace slips out of her tunic, swinging like a
pendulum but fortunatly it's too far up for that beak to reach. Ooooh,
pretty shiny thing?

When Aurian stumbles against him, Birioc doesn't yelp though he tumbles on
his rear in the grass. Instead he looks pretty darn happy about the whole
situation and he beams up at Aurian as he tries to steady her. "Sneaky
little beasts, aren't they."

Aurian blinks and blinks, she yelps again and scampers off of Birioc as
quickly as she can stumbling into some geese.

Confusion erupts as Kassima reaches the gate, and she loses most of her
followers. Still, with 3 geese inside, she leaps into the lead. Aurian's
stumble serves a similar purpose, getting a goose inside for her. With
successes by various others, there are now just four geese outside - the
one holding Neleia's jacket, the one being trapped by Kaitra and Kiyana,
and two of Kassima's lost followers

Kassima lobs her sandwiches neatly into the pens, apparently figuring that
the geese deserve them. Fair's fair, after all... and besides, the filling
was starting to leak out over her hands. Ugh. One more ploy. This time, she
removes a wrapped object from one of her pouches, unwrapping it to
reveal... multiple pipes? Yes. Apparently, she wants to try and lure them
in with music; no one ever said she was sane. But when, standing by the
pen, she lifts the pipes to her lip and plays a note... something's wrong.
Maybe there's something caught in the pipes, or maybe her playing really
*is* as bad as she always claimed--but the resultant sound isn't *musical*.
It sounds, in fact, rather like... a goose mating call? Uh-oh....

She's going to play hard to get, is she? Birioc likes that game. Twisting
on his side and then on to his knees, the journeyman is soon back on his
feet and he follows after the Telgar brownrider. "Good work!" he cheers as
she gets one goose in there. "Now for the rest. I say we change tactics and
make them chase us." Like he's chasing Aurian. Putting deeds to words, the
Herder stamps his boot and claps his hand by the nearest goose, tyring to
anger it.

Kiyana bites her lip as Kassima's lead skyrockets, but she won't give up.
Yelping as she comes down on her bad ankle, she pitches forwards towards
the goose. A squawk, and she windmills, catching her ballance. " In with
you," the apprentice cries. " G'wan!" Goose is circled, herded towards her
partner as she hops on one ankle, hands before her, shoving at the air
before the avian. " C'mon! Home wi' ye!"

Kaitra spreads her arms wide, the goose is going to have to duck if it's
too chicken to go into the pen, to get past her. Fingers keep waggling,
yells keep comming, though she's getting a little hoarse.

Aurian dashes up to a goose and pokes the stupid bird, she makes sure it
sees her and heads back towards the Pen..

Neliea remembers that the goal is getting this goose /into/ the pen as she
spots the other two stray geese. She's going to regret this, but that
jacket can always be mended and thankfully it isn't her Thread fighting
one. Still playing tug-o-war with the stubborn feathers, she tries to go
about this another way. Dancing. That beak's distracted and they're almost
dancing, right? Well in any case, she tries to take the goose into a few
dance steps towards the pen. "Hope you like to dance you silly bird..."

Birioc waggles his fingers invitingly in front of the goose's beak as he
continues to threaten it verbally. "Yeah, you're a stupid bird. You'll
never catch me. Nope. Nope. Cause you're stupid. Nyah nyah." So he might
lose a few fingers. It'd be worth it for the wine and the rider.

Nyki comes in from the road to the west.

R'val comes in from the road to the west.

Aurian's ruse seems to work, as the goose begins to chase after her.
Unfortunately, however, Kaitra's arms are a little high, and her quarry
ducks under them. The two geese collide, and settle to the ground, stunned
briefly into quiescence. Neliea and Birioc, meanwhile, each manage to get
their geese to just outside the gate, but now have to get the gate open and
keep both of their targets interested

R'val walks over to the crowd, waving to the Telgarians. He peers at the
goose chasing.

Aurian hahahs as the goose chases her, she pinches another goose on her way
to the gate, trying to get another one to join the other angry waddling
bird that's after her tuckus.

Kiyana hahs quietly and leaps towards the geese, reaching down as if to
scoop the twain into the pen by herself. A jerk of her head goes to Kaitra
as she circles around the stunned pair, still hopping on one foot. " C'mon,
Kaitra! Help me get 'em in 'fore they recover!"

Kaitra curses, loudly, as the goose escapse, and spins around nearly
loosing her balance. As the geese collide and settle, she whoops!
"Grab'em!" is called to her parnter, diving for them.

Nyki stands back from all the insantiy, laughing at everyone's antics. She
pulls out her wineskin from her bag and sips at it.

Kassima peers in puzzlement at her pipes, and tries again. *Squawk.* That
is *not* an alluring sound to her, however tempting it may be to the geese,
so she sighs and slips the things into her pocket. The time for subtlety is
ended. Stealthily, she sneaks towards the two quiescent geese... and, upon
reaching them, lunges to try to slap one on its goosely rump. "Take that!"
she yells in triumph, whether or not her hand actually *contacts*. It's the
idea of the thing, you know!

Neliea glances at Birioc and then the gate and then the goose. "Can you get
to the gate? I'm a little tied up here..." The way she's 'dancing' with
that goose isn't something you want to pause from.

Kiyana hahs quietly and leaps towards the geese, reaching down as if to
scoop the twain into the pen by herself. A jerk of her head goes to Kaitra
as she circles around the stunned pair, still hopping on one foot. " C'mon,
Kaitra! Help me get 'em in 'fore they recover!"

Grimacing as he nows that he's going to regret this, Birioc crouches down
again but this time he thrusts his rear towards the goose, wiggling it
invitingly as he fumbles for the gate. He inches forward, still wiggling,
trying to keep a hold of the gate. "I've got it! I've got it!" Maybe.

Ninya comes in from the road to the west.

R'val shake shis head with amusement, watching.

Ninya steps over to the pond, glancing at the chaos and wondering if she's
made a mistake.

Nyki sees the confused look on Ninya's face, and she grins, motioning the
girl over to the place she snagged out of the chaos.

Neliea piviots herself, the jacket and maybe the goose towards the pen. Do
they go in is anyone's guess. "Okay, let's see if they go in," she says
almost wincning at Birioc's latest tatic. That's going to hurt.

The quiescent geese - with help from Kassima, go to the apprentice pair,
and are quickly put into the pen. Birioc's and Neliea's follow soon
afterward, after a few nips, and the feathers begin to settle. Owyn
chuckles. "We have a somewhat unusual situation..." He nods to Kassi. "You,
Wingleader, come out best singly, but Kiyana and Kaitra there have matched
you jointly. Perhaps the three of you could share the meal?"

Ninya steps nearer to the pen, almost tripping over a stray goose. "What's
going on?!" she shouts. "Need help?"

Kiyana grins at Kaitra, leaning against the pen now that she can rest. " I
don't mind, Master," the apprentice assures. " I was just in it for the
fun, anyway."

Nyki's felinish eyes flick about. She sips on her wineskin as she quietly
watches the events, an amused grin playing on her lips.

Kassima dusts crumbs and whatnot from her hands, scrubbing them against her
slacks for good measure, and pausing a moment to catch her breath. "So long
as they're willing t'share the wine," she says, flicking a grin towards the
two apprentices in question, "I'd hardly be objecting, sir!"

Kaitra hurahs, as the final pair land in the pen, grinning at her
parner-in-herding. What? Share? With a...a ... Telgar rider? Oh, dear - but
Benden wine's worth anything. "Sharing's fine, sir." she answers, looking
hopefully towards Kassima.

Aurian whews as the geese are put away and she doesn't have to deal with
the geese anymore... though the goose dinner and wine would have been nice.

Birioc's elation at getting his goose in the pen despite the damage to his
tuckus is quickly overshadowed by Owyn's announcement of the winners. "All
that work for nothing," he grumps briefly as he rubs at his rear, his eyes
going to Kassima's behind. "I'll bet she didn't get bit," he mutters to
himself before he shrugs off his mood and looks around in search of Aurian.

Nyki catches sight of a familiar form out of the corner of her eye, and
grins. "Mir!" she goes over to snug the girl soundly. "Where you been all
day?"

Ninya steps away from the pens and the group of geese-herders, looking
around hurriedly for anyone she might know. At last, she spies someone.
"Naldo!"

Neliea sighs as she retains her jacket after a rather...intresting dance.
"Whew, it's finally in," she mutters, lifting the jacket and carefully
inspecting it for any rips. There's a reason why Weyrhide is so strong, but
still...

Mirala wanders over, scanning the crowd. She blinks, grinning at the girl.
"Hey Nyki! Oh, I've been hanging around."

Naldo turns at the sound of someone calling his name. He spots his fellow
Bitran. "Ninya! Hey!" he calls.

Aurian stretches, "Well done Kassima"

Kassima bows to the two K-named folk, with a wince when she straightens.
Bit or not bit, her rump's still not happy with her after yesterday's fun
and games. "Sharing's fine, aye. Felicitations t'you both... ach, thankee,
Auri! 'Twas luck, y'know." Everything's luck to her.

Aurian nods to Kassima, "Twas the sandwiches.."

Kiyana smiles at Kassima, still standing on one ankle. Looks like this lass
may be out of comission for a bit. " That it was," she agrees completely. "
And congradulations to you, as well."

Neliea chuckles, slinging the jacket over her shoulder. "Should have known
that food would have done it, Kassi. Congratulations, though. At least you
didn't get nipped."

Nyki grins at Mirala, looping her arm around her waist. "Well, I had the
worst hangover this morning..But I bought you something!" she reaches in
her backpack and pulls out a small ring box, handing it to her.

Kvasith leans down to wuffle at the geese. He rumbles an inquiry.

Owyn nods, with a smile. "Good, good." He takes the two skins from a
steward, handing one to Kassima and the other to the apprentices. "The
goose," he notes, "you just need to tell the kitchens when you want it."
The Master raises his voice again to address everyone. "Thank you all again
for participating - I hope you don't /all/ hate geese now"

Naldo lands on all fours. He stands, and brushes himself off before walking
over to Ninya. "Hey." he says.

Birioc feels a tug on his sleeve while he's searching for Aurian and he
looks down to see a young apprentice standing there. Whispered words are
exchanged between the two and the Journeyman Herder's expression grows more
serious by the second. "All right. Take me there."

Birioc heads southeast towards a field containing large herdbeasts.

Aurian calls to Kvasith, "Don't even think about it..."

" Don't worry Master Owyn," Kiyana says sweetly. " My opinion about geese
remains completely unchanged."

Mirala grins, putting her own arm through Nyki's. "Oh! Shells, thanks," she
looks around, and leans over to talk in Nyki's ear.

An eyebrow raises slightly at Naldo's graceful landing, but Ninya says
nothing. Couldn't have done much better herself. "Watching the geese,
Naldo?" she half-shouts over the crowd of people. "In a /tree/?"

Kassima grins at Neliea. "For which I'm most grateful, you may be certain."
Her expression brightens measurably as she accepts the 'skin, green eyes
practically glowing. Not hard to tell that she loves her wine, is it?
"Thankee! Ah, nay... they're rather interesting, actually." Stealing a
glance back towards the penned creatures, she adds, "They remind me of a
few men I know. They only do what you want if'n you bribe 'em with food
first."

Naldo grins, and he shrugs. "Hey, it got me away from all," and he gestures
all around him, "This." he shouts.

Kaitra smiles her congratulations to Kassi, and licks her lips in
anticipation of the goose dinner. "I couldn't hate geese, sir, but I
think," a dubious glance is cast to the pen, "That I'm going to regret this
next time I pull cleaning out the avian shelters for chores."

Nyki opens the ring box for Mir to reveal a silvery rope looking ring
speckled with gold stars. "It's a friendship ring." she grins, and listens
to what Mir says. She nods.."Definetly. Wanna go look at the clothes some
more?"

Neliea grins at Kassima, "I can tell, though I'm not going to be too eager
chase any geese anytime soon..."

Nyki takes Mir's hand and leads her away from the chaos..

Nyki heads southwest towards the road.

"Kassima I do believe there is a winecraft tent nearby.." Aurian grins at
the greenrider.

Mirala heads southwest towards the road.

Ninya ducks the elbow of a passing Ruathan. "Okay, I can see why. Want to
come with me, take a look around?" She gestures towards the road and the
stands. "I don't know many people here."

Naldo nods. "Sure. You're the only familiar face I've seen here today as
well."

Ninya chuckles. "I've seen a few others, but none that would recognize me.
I've been away from Ruatha too long." She heads quickly towards the stands,
nimbly dodging the crowd.

Ninya heads southwest towards the road.

Kassima beams as Aurian speaks the magic words, though she does take the
time to head over to her dragon and stash the wineskin in a strap-pouch
with loving care before answering. "Sounds like a delight t'me,
m'friend--though I'll have t'find a chance t'shop about other tents
sometime while I'm here. 'Tis only a few sevendays till Khari's Turnday,
and I still need t'find a good present. Wine just won't do."

Naldo heads southwest towards the road.

Kassima turns to ask the two Apprentices, "Would either of you care t'be
getting a glass of wine or summat with us ere the next event, whenever 'tis?"

Owyn, for his part, leans against the pen, and almost seems to be
conversing with the geese. At least, he makes soothing sounds, and
gradually feathers are unruffled

Kiyana cocks her head, thinking. " Aye... lemme see if I c'n find something
to lean on, though..." She glances around for a stick or anythin' useful.

Aurian chuckles at Kassima, "When I was small I used to have a little
wooden boat that I would put in the pond and tug it about on a string."

Kaitra glances to Kiyana, and offers her arm as support. "D'you want to get
checked out by the healers?" She asks, softly. "Looks like that hurts." To
the greenrider, she looks more than a little suprised. "That would be...
fine, sure, wine."

Tasso comes in from the road to the west.

Kiyana shakes her head, wrinkling her nose. " I'm sure I'll be fine, just
need a bit o' support." She, like all healers, even beast ones, knows she's
invincible to the harms visited on smaller beings. (Hah!) But she does lean
on the other apprentice's arm. " Maybe I c'n find something in the tents."

Aurian pulls herself up onto Kvasith, carefully. Her fingers grip at the
straps as she eases herself onto his back.

Calista comes in from the road to the west.

Neliea glances towads the path leading towards the lliama, deciding to go
see what's in that direction.

Neliea heads east towards a field of smaller herdbeasts.

Katreana turns to Calista "I guess there over."

Kassima smiles at the two, swiping a straggle of hair back from her eyes.
"In that case, then, shall we? I'm eager t'see whether they've Green Stuff
or Harper's folly. A few of the tents do; y'never can know--which is one
reason why I always to them go."

Calista smiles, "Oh well."

" Sounds a plan to me," Kiya agrees, glancing at her partner/walking stick.

Katreana says "I'm sorry, to make you have missed them, would you like to
do something else?"

Kaitra mouths the words, green stuff, and Harper's folly, curious but in a
dubious sort of way. "Uh. Okay?" She says, letting Kiya establish the pace.

Katreana says "I learned how to play dragonchess this morning until
Kreolin's Feline ruined the game."

Calista chuckles, "Felines do that.."

Kassima gestures for the other two women to precede her, eyes sparkling.
Ah, what fun it is to inform the uninitiated! "After you, then."

Kaitra heads southwest towards the road.

Tasso waves and winks to Kassima, on his way to check out the corral.

You head southwest towards the road.