Post by Kit on Aug 16, 2012 11:08:21 GMT -5
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
In the beginning of the sixth Interval, a plague not seen for four hundred Turns comes back with a vengeance. In the face of what may be the extinction of dragonkind, the weyrs scramble for a cure. But Benden Weyr, closed and uncommunicative for as long as anyone can remember comes out of hiding to propose a solution.
To inject a gene therapy vaccine into an egg heavy dragon, and then send that dragon, plus 50 more, four hundred turns into the past, thereby ensuring an entire weyr of immune dragons. It sounds insane, but the Benden weyrleader assures them that success is garaunteed, because he and his entire weyr are the descendants of those dragons.
Seeing no other choice, the weyrs eventually agree. Gold Dakotath, the next junior Queen to Rise, is chosen to lead the expedition, and in a Flight open to every bronze on Pern, Bronze Sioraith is the winner. Now Weyrleader M'thos and Weyrwoman Annalees have chosen the other members of their weyr. All have received the vaccine.
On a cool spring morning, 50 dragons and their riders, plus their associated weyrfolk, arrive just a few months before the beginning of the Fourth Pass, in a desolate Benden Weyr. They know from history that there is a surviving weyr to the south, hiding from an angry holder population, but the decision is made to keep their presence a secret, for now. This weyr will be called Atarashii, a symbol of their break from the past.
Now the work begins to build themselves a new home and secure the future for dragonkind. Dakotath will soon lay her clutch, and the Searchriders will begin to carefully look for Candidates. Come join us to rebuild Pern!
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To inject a gene therapy vaccine into an egg heavy dragon, and then send that dragon, plus 50 more, four hundred turns into the past, thereby ensuring an entire weyr of immune dragons. It sounds insane, but the Benden weyrleader assures them that success is garaunteed, because he and his entire weyr are the descendants of those dragons.
Seeing no other choice, the weyrs eventually agree. Gold Dakotath, the next junior Queen to Rise, is chosen to lead the expedition, and in a Flight open to every bronze on Pern, Bronze Sioraith is the winner. Now Weyrleader M'thos and Weyrwoman Annalees have chosen the other members of their weyr. All have received the vaccine.
On a cool spring morning, 50 dragons and their riders, plus their associated weyrfolk, arrive just a few months before the beginning of the Fourth Pass, in a desolate Benden Weyr. They know from history that there is a surviving weyr to the south, hiding from an angry holder population, but the decision is made to keep their presence a secret, for now. This weyr will be called Atarashii, a symbol of their break from the past.
Now the work begins to build themselves a new home and secure the future for dragonkind. Dakotath will soon lay her clutch, and the Searchriders will begin to carefully look for Candidates. Come join us to rebuild Pern!
What we have to offer:
Home
History
Rules