Jewels of Pern

[Jewels of Pern]

The Jewel Weyr

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I have seen it...
I have seen it with my very eyes...
Yes. I have seen it.

What changes 700 turns can bring to a single planet, freed from the only enemy that might ever be an enemy.Pern, freed from the shackles of Thread, by the silver clad savior that was AIVAS.

Nearly a thousand turns of peace, in which the planet may flourish, the Holders will live and the dragonriders... will dwindle.
But 700 turns is a long time, and nothing lasts forever.



Beware; it takes many shapes...
In fact, it's shapeless and also colourless.

A third of the population over the spread of Pern is gone, nothing but ashes and memories to call their names.
And dragons, once so mighty, and so forgotten, rise to be heroes again.

And two thirds of their numbers perish in the silver rain.



Yes, I can testify that I have seen it.


Cezine

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I had been at Telgar less than a sevenday when it came. It was utterly silent, strangely beautiful, but deadlier than any knife. Being out in the Weyrbowl, I caught glimpses of Thread as it slipped almost gracefully through the sky, glinting silver in Rukbat’s midday rays. The glimpse was brief; everything erupted into chaos and I was whisked into the safety of the lower caverns as the wings prepared themselves. By the time it was over, roughly a fourth of the dragons that went out returned able to still take to the skies. The dragon population of Telgar was utterly devastated. It inspired awe of the most horrible, gut-wrenching kind to walk through the ‘Bowl and see scores of dragons laid low, moaning in agony with their riders either trying to sooth them or simply trying, mostly in vain, to hide their own pain from their mindmates.



It comes under many forms...
One might only see its' effect.

All of Pern's final hope rode upon the hardening clutch in Telgar's sands – the last weyr on Pern.The day came, the crowd stared in awe and horror. For there, standing on the sands, was a silvery queen and a male that was as dark as a night sky and as brooding as storm clouds on the horizon.

So many surprises these two brought, whether they be Amythest, Garnet or Pearl, or a challenge to a traditional system.



I don't care how one choose to call it...
I call it Destruction.

But over six turns of surprises, even the most amiable relationships may strain, and when a golden queen is killed along with a diamond queen as they both rise to mate, The blame is placed on the Jewels.



Oh! No...I am sorry...
That is what we call progress...
That is what we call development.

And so the jewels are banished from Telgar to the south, where Lapis Weyr is formed.

But all is not lost, the Diamond queen Enalath is close to clutching once more, and with all the surprises the jewels have brought before, who can say that more won't come about?

Are you in?

Or are you out?

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