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Name: Meridian
Status: Teen
Type: Tiger'sEye
Guardian: Agent_W

Personality: Confident and self assured, everything about her is open, even her competetive streak

Good attributes: Strongly determined in anything she does, is unafraid to say what she thinks, tries to understand how others feel

Bad attributes: sometimes can be too competetive, especially when challenged, can be unforgiving when lied or betrayed



Markings/cracks- various browns and golds stripped through

Height: 4.5"

Intelligence: 56
Health: 64
Speed: 55
Weapons: None yet
Charisma: 64
Dexterity: 75
Strength: 70
Endurance: 66

Special Abilities: Reveals hidden deceptions, inspires truth

<+3 intelligence from experiences>
<+3 charisma for poise lessons>
<+3 intelligence due to extensive book reading>
<+1 charisma from gardening>

This is a private journal, please don't post unless you are a reliquiant staff member or have a reliquiant and are stopping off to say hello. This is not an RPG thread, it's a diary and scrapbook.

I can be contacted through AIM at MyWishingBear for private RPG or discussion with Reliquiant members and staff.


(excerpts from various webpages)

"Tiger's Eye is the Planetary stone for Gemini (May 21-Jun. 20) and the accepted gem for the ninth wedding anniversary.

Tiger's eye (tigers eye, tiger eye, tiger iron) is a member of the quartz group. It is one of the chatoyant gemstones. Chatoyancy exhibits a changeable silky luster as light is reflected within the thin parallel fibrous bands. This effect is due to the fibrous structure of the material.

In human terms the qualities of patience and timing relate to our ability to create what we want for our lives. The color gold represents the ability to manifest; while the dark brown corresponds to the energies of the earth. Thus, tiger's eye can help us to translate our ideas into physical reality.

Specifically, this stone helps us to have more confidence in our ability to realize our dreams by assisting us in recognizing the inner resources we can use for accomplishment.

In meditation this stone is most commonly placed on the navel center (whose colors are yellow and gold), but it can also be placed by the feet or at the base of the torso. This is especially helpful if you're feeling drained or unfocused. You can also hold it for the purpose of focus and grounding.

This is also a wonderful stone to gaze at. Hold and move it, watching the shifting patterns of light. In so doing you may come to appreciate the message of tiger's eye: that the physical plane has been designed as a playground where our spirits can materialize our dreams easily and joyfully as a cat changes the appearance of its eyes."

So far, the results have been interesting. She appears to be vegetarian, even potentially vegan. Anything that came from an animal she didn't really respond to. Luckily there is an abundance of both water and rice, which makes my life so much easier. Her tastes seem to be organic and simplistic when it comes to dietary preference. As far as her environmental testing goes, she seems to love being in the open air, no matter what time of day or night. But she is especially responsive to sunlight. She glows brightly and when I lay her in the sun I feel a wave of contentment and energy run through my own body. So I've taken to setting her out in the sun as much as possible, since she likes it so much.



More tests for Meridian. They yielded immensly interesting results...

01
The white tent glimmered in the hot sun, flap closed against insects and sand. The campsite sits in the middle of a small oasis: a few palms, some tall grass, vivid flowers, and a spring that starts somewhere subterranean and pops up to create a little pool with lotus and lilies floating on the surface in my little corner of paradise. Soon, in a month or two, it will be time to move on again. But for the moment, I'm content where I am. I'm even getting a tan from this desert sunshine. It's a long journey to the nearest city, a good three days walk if I don't dawdle along the way. So my visits are infrequent at best.

Morning finds me up at dawn and shivering as I bathe in the spring, desert nights are as cold as their days are hot. My quarry has yet to show itself, and I've been here six months already. The place is starting to feel like home and I think I shall be sad to leave it. But a job is a job, after all. The soap ran out yesterday morning, so I reach to the bottom of the pool for sand to rub gently over my skin instead, it's abrasive qualities cleaning yesterday's dirt from my body.

A stone in the handful of sand catches my attention. Rinsing my hand out, I clean it enough to get a good look at it in the morning light. Soft creamy golds and browns, it resembles a cat's eye and it's warm and almost appears to be illuminating my skin. Odd.

Setting it on a stone where I can keep an eye on it, I finish my ablutions and go back to the tent, where a letter is waiting for me. Strange...I didn't see anyone come or go, and it's fairly impossible to approach without my noticing.

I open the envelope with a pocket knife, my eyes skimming the contents of the letter. How utterly bizzare...and yet, the stone seems somehow sentient. I can't explain it, I should feel very silly trying. But I return to the spring and retrieve the stone. Yes, sentient would definitely be the word.

There's an address contained within the letter and I make the decision to pack up camp and leave next week, once I've made the necessary arrangements. If anyone wants their fortunes told or their political leaders assassinated, they'll have to go somewhere else. And as for my current quarry...the job can wait and the prey can count himself lucky he didn't meet death as early as was planned.

I speak to the stone as I do my daily chores, carrying it always with me in a pouch about my neck. But somehow "stone" or "rock" doesn't seem appropriate for this...this thing, for lack of a better term. What did the letter say? Reliquiant? Ahh then. I shall call her... for I am almost certain that it exudes a feminine aura... Meridian. After the name which I have been calling my camp.

Meridian and I will leave for the city soon...perhaps someone there will have the answers I crave.

03
Today we are leaving camp to go into town. I decided against packing the entire camp up this time, as I plan to come back to it. The climate is good for Meridian and I like it here. So we got an earlier start than I expected, which was nice. I've fashioned an amulet in which she hangs, exposed to the fresh air while I walk, since she seems to enjoy it so much.

I'm not taking much more than a canteen and a pack with clothing and a bedroll and a small pup tent in case the weather gets bad and we run into a sandstorm. But things have been so calm lately that I don't expect any trouble whatsoever.

Meridian is excited, she's glowing and humming. I doubt anyone else can hear the humming, it seems to reverbrate through my skull but I know it comes from her. So far, she hasn't communicated in words, only a soundless hum that keeps me calm, focused and energized. Generally at peace with the world.

I hope I find the answers to unlock her secret...three or four days is all the time the journey should take, I'm hoping to do more tests when we get to town.

05
Today I met Suzaku and Sakura, twins, who used to be stones like Meridian is now. They are most enchanting children, especially little Sakura, and through them I discovered that Meridian will grow into a child.

It's amazing to me, I've never heard of this sort of creature before, or been so fascinated. But it also explains why she seems so human, and why I can relate to her so well. Knowing that she will eventually evolve, I decided to yet again do some tests to try and gain insight into her personality. Knowing she will soon become a child, I wanted to know what sort of things to surround her with when she evolves.

I tested her tastes in music, video games and movies and posted the results in her Test Journal. I was suprised by some of them. I'm not sure if she doesn't like television, or just hates my taste in movies, but maybe with further testing I can figure out what sort of videos she likes. As far as music goes, Meridian seems to lean towards softer, more meditative music, especially instrumentals. But she's picky, or as I would call it, selective. She glowed beautifully when I played enya, I think the surreal instrumentals and wordless vocals really inspire and relax her. Above all, though, her video game preferences amused me. It seems that Meridian has a deep competitive streak and, lo and behold, seems to like the concept of beating people up...at least in an imaginary scenario that is. She didn't like the disturbing imagery of Silent Hill which was reassuring and did enjoy the laid back atmosphere of Harvest Moon. But her excitement towards Mario Kart made me laugh out loud.

Anyways, enough theorizing for tonight. I'm going to take Meridian to bed and perhaps we will find yet another adventure in the morning.

07
Happy birthday to me...happy birthday to me...
I'm strangely reluctant about turning twenty. It's like, theres no going back to childhood now, no matter how much I want to. Eighteen may be legal adult, but twenty means grownup and theres no way around it. Twenty means GET A JOB and JOIN THE REAL WORLD and JURY DUTY and all sorts of unpleasant things. But it also means GIVE ALL YOUR STUFFED ANIMALS TO GOODWILL and STOP WATCHING CARTOONS.

Not that I have any intentions whatsoever of being even remotely grown up just because it's my birthday. In fact, I plan on celebrating by watching cartoons. blaugh And eating ice cream.

I also plan on taking Meridian to The Beach. Not just the beach, but The Beach. The specific place in which all my girlhood dreams were created, where I learned about romance and that people really do slow-dance without music under a full moon. The place where I ran to when my heart was broken, where I found succor and comfort and a tie to whatever Divine Being(s) created me. The place where I was proposed to, at the tender age of seventeen, and where I said goodbye to that particular lover forever a year later. It's a highly emotional place for me, and I only go there now on special occassions. And since autumn is now plucking away the temperature, I know I'll be alone to stand and stare at the initials carved inside a heart on the old dock and remember what it was like to grow up. I only hope that Meridian's life is filled with all the joy I've known, and none of the pain.

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And then I'm going to go home and watch Peter Pan (the new live action version which is so amazingly beautiful) and eat huckleberry pie and bask in the Cleverness of Me.