You walk in a lush thick forest. The sun shines brightly, the birds are singing, and the sweet perfume of spring blossoms invites you in further. You walk for several miles through this forest for several hours, completely content to ignore the fact that you are quite lost. You take just one more step, and everything suddenly changes. The trees are gray and leafless, the grass has turned to thatch. The sky is covered in grey clouds, as if it is about to rain. Frightened, you try to turn back to the beautiful forest, but it seems you are stuck in this grey world. Through the gloom, however, the sound of a woodwind instrument reaches your ears. You walk towards it to find a krawk sitting on a tree stump. He has large white wings and a white body. There are several black markings on him, and his mane is black. As you get closer, you see that the markings seem to be related to music and his eyes are closed, totally engrossed with his music. His instrument looks a little like a recorder, but makes a sound like no other instrument ever heard. Scattered around in the immediate area are a bunch of other instruments, some you've seen before, but others are very strange. As you stop, he opens one yellow eye at you, as if to ask you to wait for a while. He finishes his song up, puts his instrument down, and gets up. "Hello. I am Niveaus." he says, bowing. "How did you find my realm all the way out here? I don't get visitors often." he says. You explain the forest ordeal, and he nods. "Yes, there is one exact spot in that forest that will take you immediately here. I'm afraid I didn't like the other forest much. Too noisy," he says, laughing slightly. "Please make yourself comfortable. I may as well tell you a little about myself.



~Story~

I was born on krawk island, a rather bad place for a young one to be brought up, eh? Both of my parents were pirates and wanted me to carry on the family tradition of piracy. Naturally, I wanted to. What young boy doesn't dream of the life of a pirate? Go wherever you want, do whatever you please... it sounds so appealing at that age. So I grew up stealing things and terrorizing people. When I grew older, my parents eventually let me go on my first ship ride to a nearby island. We were going to steal all their money and valuable jewls. Maybe even recruit some more members for our crew. Nevertheless, when we arrived, I planned on having great fun. I eventually came upon a small house, in which a widow and her daughter lived. I had no morals then. I'd been raised that way. I saw no difference between wrong and right. So I marched into their house and began digging around for anything valuable. The daughter tried to stop me, and the mother tried to save the daughter. I took out my gun... and I shot the widow. She died immediately. The little girl was distraught and in tears, but my shipmates were all laughing at her. They were so cruel... One of them shouted at me to "finish the job." I hesitated and was called soft-hearted and weak. I couldn't let them think that, so I shot her too. However, I missed and didn't quite hit where I was aiming. The girl wailed in agony. With tears in her eyes, she looked up at me and whispered "Why?" She rolled over and lay dead. Something inside me snapped. The crew continued lauging, but I couldn't take it. I yelled at them to shut up, and I ran away, never to return again.
I ran into a secluded area on the island, fell upon a tree stump and sobbed. For once in my life, I knew that what I did was wrong. I couldn't take it. That girl's last word, her face... it cut into me like nothing I had ever felt before. I went on like this for several days, not eating or sleeping. One day, I found that a piccolo-like instrument had appeared near my stump. I picked it up and played it. I don't know how, but I could already play whatever I wanted, as if I had been playing it all of my life. It helped me to erase the pain. Months later, I felt better. I decided it was time to go on with my life. I ate some of the native fruits and I headed off for the nearest market.
Using money I had earned, not stolen, I bought several instruments from a vendor. I believe they were a violin, an accoustic guitar and an oboe. As I was walking back, I was recognized as the person who killed the widow and her daughter. The locals thought that I had made my purchases with the widow's money. They attacked me, and I ran. Little did I know, there was a faerie watching over me. She guided me away from the mob. We reached a very green forest, and then she left me. The mob was far behind, but still coming. They were close enough that I could still hear them shouting. I ran a step further, and then, just like you, the world around me changed. I spun a circle once to make sure that this was all real, and I continued running. Then I found this tree stump, which I sat down on to catch my breath. I looked around and noticed that all of the instruments I had bought, including the one I found, were scattered around me. I also noticed many other instruments, a wonderful surprise for me. I was exhausted and then fell asleep.
When I awoke, I was different. I was white, with wings, a black mane and several black musical markings. I assumed that the faerie changed me so the locals wouldn't attack me again if they ever did find me. I have slipped out of this place on occasion, but I always come back. I don't really like it anywhere but here. Here, I can be alone, I can play my music. Outside, there is noise, distraction, and other people. I'll just stay here, alone in my world...



~Instruments~

Now, I'll tell you about some of the instruments I play.

-The violin is the smallest member of the strings family and relies on a long, slender piece of wood with horsehair attached called the bow to make sound. You put a sticky substance on it called rosin. The rosin makes the bow stick to the strings, and when you pull it accross, it makes sound. The violin is one of the hardest instruments to play. But don't take my word for it. Ask misperfection. She's been playing violin since she was three. That's about 10 years. It'll be 11 in the fall.

- The Cello is similar to the violin, but larger. It is also a member of the strings family. Instead of holding it under your chin, however, you must hold it out in front of you due to it's large size. It works exactly the same as a violin, though.

- If anything is harder than the violin, this would be it. The harp has a different string for every note. This makes it extremely difficult to play well. To create sound on this particular instrument, you pluck the strings, which vibrate to make noise.

- The flute is a woodwind instrument, and is played by blowing air through it. Holding your fingers (or claws, in my case) over the holes will change the pitch. You hold a flute out to the side of your mouth.

- The clarinet is one of my favorites. It's also a woodwind. It produces a very mellow sound, and is used in many of my favorite songs by Danny Elfman. Unlike the flute, however, you hold this instrument out in the front of you.



~Adoptables~

Yes, I made my own instrument adoptables. However, you must follow several basic rules.

1. No recoloring, stealing, claiming as your own, etc...
2. Do not use these in the beauty contest
3. Do not steal the instrument adoptable idea. If you ask nicely, Saaski may let you use the idea as long as you give her credit.
4. Saaski does customs only. Please reffer to Saaski's userlookup for info on if her adoptables are open or not. Trades, however, will always be accepted, unless she's is really busy.
5. Don't take someone else's adoptable. If it's not yours, you shouldn't be taking it. That's called 'stealing' and it's AGAINST THE LAW.


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~Farewell~

Time for you to leave... just walk through that tree over there. Don't worry, you won't hit your head or anything, I promise. Oh, and please, take my link with you. Also be sure to visit the other links at the bottom. Goodbye.







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