Alonzo goes Home

About this bronze...

Name: Alonzo

Nickname: Lonzo
Color: Bronze
Size/length: 36 inches from nose to tail
Age: 3 turns
Birthplace: Tillek Sand Dunes
Favorite food: Spiced Wherries, packtail and redfins (only proteins)
Hobbies: Chasing greens, sleeping, eating, fighting browns and smaller bronze
Strength: Able to carry heavier loads, knows how to toggle buttons, knows how to open doors and windows without having to go between, good listener
Weakness: Food, food, food... oh and mating golds and greens

Today:

Alonzo wants to go home. He's been popping in and out of the between and I know he's been back home to Tillek. Well, maybe its time to go home and have a little vacation. Swimming with dolphins does sound nice after an inland journey.

A little game

Answer:

Lioth-N'ton Mnementh-F'lar Golanth-F'lessan Gaddareth-T'lion
Tiroth-D'ram Monarth-T'gellan Canth-F'nor

A cry in the night

Don't leave me alone
The cry in the night
Of anguish heart-striking
Of soul-killing fright.

Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone
A world heard that cry.





Menolly's composition just after F'nor fell from the Red Star (DragonSinger by Anne McCaffrey)


My favorite couple from the series, F'nor and Brekke.

Menolly

The little queen all golden
Flew hissing at the sea
To stop each wave
Her clutch to save
She ventured bravely

As she attacked the sea in rage
A holdergirl came nigh
Along the sand
Fishnet in hand
And saw the queen midsky

She stared at her in wonder
For often she'd been told
That such as she
Could never be
Who hovered there, bright gold

She saw her plight and quickly
She looked up the cliff she faced
And saw a cave
Above the wave
In which her eggs she placed

The little queen all golden
Upon her shoulder stood
Her eyes all blue
Glowed of her true
Undying gratitude

First page of DragonSinger by Anne McCaffrey (Originally, Menolly wrote this in a boy's point of view. I changed all he to she)

Menolly, a seaholder's daughter from Half Circle Sea Hold, was a genius with music and composition. Her father doesn't approve of lady harpers and has often beat her up when he finds her tuning.
It was Robinton's father who trained Menolly. Petiron went to Half Circle Seahold after Robinton became MasterHarper. Menolly ran away after Petiron's death and her unfortunate accident while gutting packtail fish.
She then discovered a clutch of fire-lizard eggs and lo and behold, 9 hatched and she impressed all of them. Then, she was caught out by threadfall. A rider rescued her and brought her to Benden. There, she met T'gellan and Mirim. It was also there that Harper Elgion discovered her and pointed her to Master Robinton.
At Harpers Hall, She is Master Robinton's apprentice who excells in all classes. Piemur and Camo befriends her. They are her only friends. She gets her journeywoman's knots in two weeks!

The reason Robionton liked Menolly is because she reminded him of himself when he was still young. He often tuned simple tunes that were very easy to sing, even for the common people. She was also a woman harper. His mother was the greatest woman harper known during her days. She was also a very sought after singer.

Trivia
If Menolly trains your fire-lizard, they tend to be more reliable. Having nine, she knows how to handle them.

Gee, I only have one and he's a big trouble already. Aside from being a pet and message carrier, my Alonzo is like a little baby. (a wise-ass baby!)
I wanted him to eat now before I clear up the breakfast table. I had to coax him for ten minutes before he would eat pancake! Now he asks for more! What a pig!

Menolly's Fair of Lizards:
Gold - Beauty
Bronze - Rocky, Diver, Poll (Beauty's clutch)
Brown - Lazybones, Mimic, Brownie
Green - Auntie One, Auntie Two
Blue - Uncle

Piemur of Pern

Piemur is a Harper Journeyman.

His journeys started in Harpers Hall. He is a son of a herdsman introduced in Dragon Singer as Menolly's first friend in Harpers Hall. He is mischievous but is tolerated because of his high soprano voice.
In Dragon Drums, he looses his voice and is no longer Master Shonagar's apprentice. Luckily, Master Robinton has plans for him. Piemur is placed in the Drum Heights to learn drum codes. Nobody but the Master, Menolly and Sebell know that Piemur is Master Robinton's secret apprentice. He goes to undercover missions for Robinton. In one of those missions, he steals a queen egg from Lord Meron of Nabol and is accidentally transported to the Southern Continent. Sharra discovers him and brings him to Southern Hold.
Lord Torric of Southern thinks drum heights is a good idea. Piemur remains in the south to teach drum codes. He shows interest in Sharra but Torric doesn't approve. Torric then sends him back to Harpers Hall to get his journeyman knots. He does and went back to Southern. He explores the whole of Southern Continent for Torric and Master Robinton but his first priority is for the good Harper. He discovers the Paradise River and helps Jayge acquire it as a permanent Hold. Piemur's volcano is one of his discoveries.
Piemur is taken by a girl named Jancis. He couldn't believe she was a smith journeywoman and still so thin. Jancis is actually Master Fandarel's granddaughter. Jancis discovers the AIVAS building and Piemur demanded Jancis gets the credit. They marry and soon, the AIVAS project takes place.

Trivia

There was a man named Tea Mur in the Irish legends. It means The Graveyard of Tea because the man drinks tea like crazy. I understand now why Piemur loves Bubbly pies.

I love this guys character. He's so fun loving and isn't afraid to cease the day! Aky loves this guy too. Though, she actually hasn't read him yet but I keep telling her about him. He's really a funny guy. Do you know the name of his runner beast is Stupid?
He's street smart for a Pernese and is really witty.

Alonzo

The coloring didn't quite translate here. . .

Oh well, never mind.

This is my Alonzo, always hungry and very lazy. He a real ladies' frie-lizard, if you know what I mean. But I keep him around. He's handy when I can't seem to remember when threafall will be. He's also very companionable. You can talk to him. He can keep a secret if you tell him but not SHOW him.
He'll only be a chatter box when he's hungry. He's always hungry. YOu have to give him foor every two to three hours. What a baby!
Seriously, I love him. He's very affectionate and knows when you're really sick. Plus, he's handy in sending messages. I usually send him to four specific places:
Tillek- home to send letters to relatives.
Harpers Hall- to see the next set of assignment
Printers Hall- to get my latest music sheets
Landing- know the latest in technology and recieve some letters from my sis, Aky.

Oow! Lonzo is back! He's got a message from Tillek Hold.
It's from Diky. Her Watch-wher, Mangles, caught some vandal intruder. Now, she's gonna treat Mangles with some treats.
I simpathize for Watch-whers but honestly, Mangles is dead ugly. He's a blue and not much to say about his face. Diky loves his shade of blue though.

Dolphins of Tillek

Tillek was the first place in the North where a Dolphin Bell was reestablished. Now that Readis has established the Dolphin Crafthall, dolphins and humans talk to each other once more. I love dolphins. They are very intelligent and interesting creature. There is more about dolphins that we don't know and cant even prove yet. For instance, they can tell when a woman is pregnant. They can cure minor cancers with the use of their sonars.
Do you know they know if a person is retarded or autistic? They handle these people with more care. They can even bring out an autistic person from their shell.

The Colors of Dragons

Dragons were bio-engineered from the indigenous fire-lizards of Pern. In the 1st Pass, the people from Planet Earth were oblivious to the coming threat of the Red Star. It was the Fire-lizards who warned them. The Fire-lizards urged them to get into their homes and tried to char the deadly thread. It was then that they came up with an idea. Make big ones!
Admiral Paul Benden approached the Eridani Geneticists, Kitti Ping and her daughter Wind, Blossom to create bigger dragons to protect Pern. Thus, the dragons and their riders came to be.

These dragons have 5 different colors and roles

Gold
Gold are queen dragons. Other colors instinctively protect golds. These golds rule and govern the other dragons. They are very broody and very temperamental but they are the smart ones.
Gold dragons are the only egg-laying colors. A gold clutches about two to three times a year, bearing average of 20 to 40 eggs. They clutch more when the Red Star nears.
There is only one or none gold egg in a clutch. Queens are very rare and very treasured.
Gold riders are weyrwomen. The one who rides the Senior Queen is the Weyrwoman of the Weyr. She has the responsibilities and privileges that goes with being leader to the whole Weyr with her Weyrleader.
For Fire-lizards, golds are the smartest and most reliable. Look at Menolly's Beauty or Piemur's Farli.

Bronze
Bronze dragons are the second largest to golds. They are strongest and have stamina to withstand throughout a threadfall. They are one of the two who can fly(mate) a gold.
Bronze riders can attain a Wingleader position. Since their Bronze can out fly any other colors, they can fly a gold and become Weyrleader.
For Fire-lizards, Bronze can be smart too. They can search for things you want them to look for and with the right initiative, they can deliver messages. Examples: Master Robinton's Zair, Menolly's Rocky and Diver.
Rocky is an odd fire-lizard. He grew a little attached to Piemur making people think he is Piemur's fire-lizard. Though it might be because Piemur feeds him regularly.

Note: Weyrleader and Weyrwomen may not always be weyrmates. They each may have their choice weyrmates like T'gellan and Mirim.

Brown
Browns are the third largest dragons and third most reliable fire-lizards.
Browns have stamina but not as much as a bronze. Some can outlast a threadfall but not all.
They can try to out fly a bronze for a gold but it is not common. The largest brown so far is Canth who intended to fly gold Wirenth before her tragedy.
Brown riders can attain a position called Wingsecond. They head the Wing after the Wingleader. Trivia: Some brown riders are homosexual.

Green
Green dragons are female but cannot lay eggs. The chewing of firestone renders them infertile.
Greens are very valuable to a wing. They are very agile, though cannot last the whole of threadfall.
Most green dragons impresses girls. In the 6th Pass, plague leveled the population so females were needed to populate the planet. Greens were given to choose bisexual males instead. They riders of the green mate with the riders of whoever flies their dragon.
By the 9th Pass, greens are going out of the hatching ground to search for a female rider. Tai and Mirim are green riders who were not in the hatching ground when their greens came to them.
Green fire-lizards are different from their dragon cousins. They can give birth but unfortunately, their clutch is all greens too and most of the eggs are addled. Green lizards are not very good mothers. They tend to lay in the beach too close to the water.

Blue
Blue dragons are the smallest males. They are roughly the size of a green. These blues only mate with green because they are as small. The number of blues are not as much as the population of greens, though.
Blue dragons pick their candidate like the greens, bisexual males or females. Though there was never a mention in any book of a female blue rider. They can pick straight males too.

White
Ruth is the only white to be recorded. This white dragon is unusual because he is the only one that there is. He is small and has different other shades of the other colors against his white hide. Ruth was thought to die in a turn or two because he looked like a premature dragon. He was able to prosper and live very long.
Though he was called an overgrown fire-lizard, he was in fact a dragon. He does have fire-lizard capability which was to retain memories. (dragons cannot retain memories) Because of his size, fire-lizards are attracted to him. They talk to him and give him a lot of pictures. That led to the discovery of Landing.
Ruth is the only dragon to know when he is.
He is also the friendliest dragon!

read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_%28Pern%29

My Bronze, Alonzo

My bronzy champion is called Alonzo. He's really a big baby but he's my baby. Alonzo is big for a fire-lizard. He's one and a half meters in length and nothing but muscles. The shade of his hide is dark bronze, very shiny, but his belly is lighter bronze in color. One thing special about Alonzo is that he has a goatee under his chin. Kawaii!
(Honestly, he does! I mean the Earth version Alonzo does!)
Jady, my sis, has a gold and Alonzo is the eldest of the clutch. I was supposed to have Stu, the brown. We had a lot of memories together but sadly, I lost Stu to threadfall.
So, Alonzo followed me. We were never really sure which one of us impressed him.
I love Alonzo. He's there when I'm sad. He's there when its feeding time but he's never there when I need to send a message.
I can blackmail him sometimes! If I'm desperate that is.
Alonzo loves to fight if he knows I'm nt watching. He fights with strays. I never really know who wins. He tries to show he's the victor but I see too much scratches on his hide. 'Lonzo really has a lot of pride, too much.

My Journey Begins

I'm in to the world of Pern. Here, I begin my walk in a world where dragons live and fight for survival. This is my "notebook" of the things I expect to encounter, the things I did encounter (from the book) and the view of my daily Pernese life.

My Character: Call me Maity.
I am a Journeywoman Harper of Pern, origin could be Tillek. I seem to like Tillek a lot and I was sent by my holder parents and sibling to study at the Landing School. After some time, I went back to the North Continent to study at Harpers Hall.
Achieving my Journeywoman's knots, I left Harpers Hall in search of adventures.
With me is my trusted fire-lizard, Alonzo, and an egg he gave to me. This egg might contain small fir-lizard like a green or blue. Although Alonzo would never admit it, I think its from one from his clutch.


Items/Tools: What am I bringing?
First of all, I am stuck at the North Continent. I bring a runner beast with a small wagon. I can sleep and withstand the remaining threadfall in this wagon. The rooftop, mind you, is topped with galvanized metal. I also have an extendable sheet for my poor hourse. By the way, my horse's name is Peper but he's not much ofa companion.
Of course I won't be able to document my work if I don't bring my scribing set. AKA a laptop with internet connection. Ha, pen and paper brought to you by Master Tagetarl.
Of course, what's a harper without instruments?
I can play a Lire and a pipe. Not a bagpipe just the recorder type pipe.

There, I'm off!