3colorcritters:

Demons and devils hail from planes beyond our own, lands of thumping rock music and burning mountains where the fives are high and they dig for skulls or blow things up and perceive reality in a more dilated capacity than any other known line of creatures, often known to speak with the unseen in ways no other line can replicate.  But while the demons who visit our world may be loud, obnoxious, hedonistic and grossly-inarticulate in their use of language, they’re not freeloaders.  They have unique talents that they’ll offer for the right price, and many enterprising demons have set up thriving businesses in our plane, none of them loyal to anyone but themselves.  And if you’ve ever shipped post or parcel with the carriers in blue, you’ve surely struck a deal with these demons, whether you know it or not.  They call themselves “Mailer Daemons”- spelled as such to make them sound fancier.  They’re a line of outworlders who have set up shop on our soil, offering “to send whatever ya got wherever ya wants it to go,” committed to a code of conduct unmatched by any other parcel service by “super-duper pinkie swearin’ we won’t look at whatever dumb thing you’re tryin’ to send.”

Local city-states, kingdoms and alliances have their own established postal services, but there’s limitations where they can go and how fast they can get there- if the realm is at war or poor weather befalls a region, your urgent letter will assuredly be delayed or intercepted.  Mailer Daemons don’t have this problem since they hold no earthly allegiance except to the customer.  Equipped with nimble hooved legs and large wings, a Mailer Daemon can sprint across loose rocky terrain, thin ice and searing sands, and their wings let them sail over mountains, lakes and oceans alike.  Their outposts dot the whole of the world, and they’re famous physiques allow them to dart from point to point without pause or interruption, ensuring your parcels get where they need to go as quick as possible.  Their services don’t come cheap, though, and it isn’t because their job is hard, no.  Mailer Daemons are great at doing what they do best… the only problem is their speed and mobility make them tempting targets for roaming Cannonesses eager to pick one out of the sky from far down range.  ”Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the Mailer Daemons from doin’ their job; but those dang sharpshooters with their big fat devil-bullets might slow ‘em down a peg.  Just a heads up.”

(Source: grandeur-joker)

3colorcritters:

To live healthy is to be as the waters themselves.  You command a great deal of power, able to give life and take it away within the shifting span of a single breath.  You can be soft and soothing one moment and hit hard as stone the next, adapting to be a gentle mist or a wall of ice as the situation demands.  And while the world around you may drive your waters to ripple and churn, in the end you will always find your level and always find your calm.  Live as water and you will always endure- these are the core beliefs and guiding principles of the Ten Coral tribe, a lineage of aquatic ascetics who have perfected and passed down their potent martial art for untold generations.  Life for the Ten Corals is focused on finding oneness in self and harmony with one’s environment through physical and mental discipline, and a marriage of their lifestyle and their environment has produced some of the most fearsome fighters the world has ever known.  And while the Ten Coral are excellent fighters, never will they use their arts with malicious intent.

A small and secluded group of grapplers, Ten Corals live in a simple, spartan life in the Ten Coral Reef in the deep, warm waters of the south seas.  Casting an average silhouette, Ten Corals are made of rubbery muscle and are impossibly limber creatures, able to bend with the flow or stiffen their bodies to break a carrying current.  The Ten Corals’ small society has a simple social structure- each member is either a Teacher or a Student in a given regard.  One Ten Coral may teach another the proper technique for a powerful kick, and at once be student to their student in the philosophy of morality and self-discipline.  The Ten Coral martial arts are known as the Minh Sai Bah- or “Mist, Wave & Ice” in their language- and incorporates focused strikes and grapples using all points of the body, including the Ten Corals’ unique cranial tentacles.  The real secret to the power of Minh Sai Bah is in its training occurring entirely in the thick, resistive environment of the sea.  Ten Corals can breathe the air as well as water, and they have been known to emerge from seclusion to participate in martial arts tournaments and festivals.  Martial artists are wise not to underestimate the lithe figure of the Ten Coral, because they know their opponents have spent a lifetime training underwater, and the move to open air is like shedding ten thousand weights all at once; their kicks snap like lightning bolts and hit like collapsing towers, their reflexes responsive and completely uninhibited.  Ten Corals do not win every tournament they enter, but those wins they give up are always, always hard-fought and given with graceful sportsmanship.

The idea of my cousin and Hillary together is somewhat disturbing. Hilarious, but disturbing.

(Source: thetvscreen)