Free-Write: Everyone's Invited!
Well, I for one hope that more people decide to get involved here in the Arcane Arena, and so I'm going to try something. A place like this can be so much more fun if people just get involved, so let's try some free-writing! You remember it from high school, right?
So basically how this will work is I will start with a basic story. Then the next person can add to it and/or introduce their character(s) and just build upon it. It doesn't have to go in any particular direction or it can. We can have multiple story lines if we want. The main thing is just for us to write! It's much more fun if people are involved. So here we go!
EDIT: One thing that might help, too, is if you start off your post with the name of the character you are focusing on. If you're using more than one character, you can focus on both or just one at a time or even switch between them. It's up to you!
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Taifa
Taifa was sitting at the table alone, quietly listening to the sound of the wind in the trees and the faint hollers of kids playing a ways away. It was the kind just the kind of day off that she was looking for as that last week had been rather hectic. She and the others on her squad had been doing mostly manual labor, which was hard enough for normal people, but harder even for one who was blind.
She was enjoying her lunch of a couple of simple fish rolls soaked in soy sauce that her mother had prepared for her, while the sun gently warmed her back. She loved being close to the river, which seemed to block out much of the extra noises that she heard every day as well as provide a cooler atmosphere.
Not long after she had finished lunch, she heard footsteps walking down the path in her direction. Judging by the cadence and weight of the footfall, she had not met them before. They were obviously not trying to sneak up on her, so she was curious if they were simply coming to sit down or walk down to the river or what their plans were. As they approached, she gripped her staff which sported her village's symbol and called out, "Hello there."