The First Settlement (An Avatar based Role-Play)

[Dovakin]

This is a post first meeting, pre movie world. It involves the initial release of scientists for field research and the secret beginning of the mining project.

Playable characters include:
Humans: Scientists, Soldiers, Construction workers, tech drivers, Avatar Drivers, Avatar Teachers, and the miners.

Na'vi: Clan members, ie Hunters, gatherers, healers, fliers.

The humans have been on Pandora for about 5 years now. They have build a preliminary base, and are working on building Hell's Gate in a new distant location.

Communications with the Na'vi have been rough, which is why a cluster of schools have been opened half way between the base and nearby Hometree's. Avatars are just being initiated for use in the field, and most are being sent to the schools to teach, that is, until new demands pull them to be on the geological survey teams.

[Dovakin]

"Do you feel the wind?"

"Yes sir."

"Do you taste the flavors in the wind?"

"I do."

"Then why haven't you changed direction? The yerik changed direction before the stream."

Run'tstew swallowed and looked up, "I- thought we could follow a different path today?"

His teacher frowned, "Child, your mind wanders more than a herd of hammerhead with no Alpha male."

Run'tstew's eyes widened, "Has there been a herd like that reported near? Can we go see it!?"

"And yet others wonder why you haven't completed your dreamhunt yet..." The teacher sighed. "Run'tstew... do you truly desire to be a hunter?"

"With all my heart."

"Then we need to have a long hard talk about your... daydreams."

Run'tstew looked up at his teacher, "Sir, I-"

"I don't wish to argue, child." There was a warm smile on the teacher's face, "I think we have been going about this the wrong way. Your mind wanders. Where does it lead?"

Run'tstew frowned, "You will not like the answer."

"Oh?"

"I want to go see the strangers. The people who came to us from the sky..."

"No."

"But there are people like us there." Run'tstew said, "People like us, but they walk and talk and wear clothes like them."

"Boy, have you been to their home before?"

Run'tstew flinched, "Y-yes... But only from a distance, hidden in the trees!"

"Our clan has sworn not to go near them- Wait, what did you say?" The teacher stopped, "Our People walk among them?"

Run'tstew nodded, "Yes. I wanted to show you, so I thought I could try to take us that way..."

"No more ruse, show me."

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Run'tstew pointed out over the tree's, "See down there?" He whispred, "There is a fenced in home, but it opens from both ways. They are not prisoners, whoever they are."

"I see no Na'vi..."

"They sleep in those little huts. I have only seen them a few times."

The teacher gripped his hand to Run'tstew's arm, "Look!"

Two Na'vi-like figures stepped out of the hut, a woman and a man. They spoke in the strange tongue of the newcomers, and indeed also wore their clothes and behaved like them.

The teacher and student watched the pair come out into the fenced in area and pick up a small ball, which they tossed back and forth before bouncing it on the ground, one trying to keep it away from the other.

Run'tstew smiled, "They play this game." he said, "Every time I see those two they play it."

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"No skill, Alec. You have no skill at basketball!" Deanna laughed, "come on, come on! Are you even trying?"

"Deanna!" Alec laughed, "Come on! Why so competitive?"

"Because you are my twin brother, I won't have you make my genes look bad!" Deana laughed, scooping up the ball and making a two-point shot.

Alec caught the ball and whooped, "Ohhh! Now whose got no game? Huh? Huh?" He teased as he dribbled the ball away.

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The teacher watched the pair, "We must talk to our clan leaders. See if they know any more about these People than we do." with that student and teacher crept away from the human settlement and hurried back towards their hometree.