Riddle Me This!

[Venril]

Finally, back from college!

Cairn: 
1.  I have been directly involved in two other contests.
2.  One of them I placed lower than here, but not much lower.  The other is Redscape, which is still in session.
3 and 4.  Here and Redscape, pretty much.  I do sometimes lurk on the RFF.  Contrary to what several people have guessed, I AM NOT on the Vulpine Imperium (yet, I may in fact join soon), and do not go on Terrouge more than once a month or so.  I was on Diadem, the Divided Kingdom, on the very off chance that that means anything to any of you.
5.  I so far have only one ID, but I am pretty new to active participation in the ROC, so that may or may not change.

Eliza: 
1.  General Eisenhower.  A lot of people don't realize it, but prior to being made the supreme commander of allied forces in Europe, Eisenhower was actually known more for his role as an administrator and training/doctrine expert than as a combat leader.  He was not considered a rising star for much of his career, and did not display early on the tactical acumen of, say, MacArthur.
2.  I think he would like to kill Lady Amber from Mossflower.  This snobby jerkette of a squirrel thought it was fun to bring her whole tribe to shoot a bajillion kazillion arrows into Fortunata, another vermin who was not particularly strong as a fighter, which I think Venril would view as rather bullying.
3.Ooh, this is a hard one...I'm gonna have to go with Desmond.  I imagine he would very quickly get on Venril's nerves.  Actually, I think Venril would have interesting relationships with the MM cast in general.  I can see him falling into the Nallmian/Biara/Saveaux group, but maybe being a little friendlier towards Quincy than Nallmian was.

Revel:
1.  I'm not sure there was one single moment as opposed to a process.  He probably heard people say she was crazy, and being around her would not exactly refute that.  I'd say it probably started around the time the fritterik lodged them together and she started flipping out on him.  It probably didn't help when she stole Liza's dress.
2.  Venril was apprenticed to be a clerk at an early age.  His home life was actually pretty normal.  He had two parents, since his father didn't know that Lord Proklyan was his birth father.  He sometimes got picked on by other kits, but he was still pretty young when Proklyan brought him to the castle. 

Venril was tutored a bit by Proklyan.  However, Proklyan only really taught him how to read and write.  I think some people thought Venril was much smarter than he actually was.  He was literate, but he never really learned much in terms of knowledge or information, and was more of a glorified personal secretary than anything else.  He's definitely not as smart or well educated as at least one of my other characters, even though this beast doesn't always act like it.  Venril was really just a functionary, and didn't really have any further knowledge or education past what was strictly needed for that.

4,  No, I don't think so.  The only other female martens I'm familiar with are Biara and Sybil.  I think he'd be put off by Sybil's hostility, and I think he'd find Biara intimidating, not to mention that he would probably assume that Nallmian would get angry at him if he showed any interest in her.  I think he'd still choose Liza.

Also, a question for you:  I have never read anything by Terry Pratchett, and have only a very limited knowledge of him (he wrote Discworld, and a vulgar drinking song about bluebirds, and that's ab out all I know about him) and his works.  What about him made people think that he was an inspiration for my writing style early in the contest?

[Cricket Argyll]

Ah...I'm bad with new faces on the ROC, so this is going to be hard for me to guess. I can start listing off folks involved in RS, but that doesn't seem terribly sporting.X3 So, um...I'll ask fun, yet irrelevant, questions and wait for the big reveal! =D

1. Is Venny a boxers or briefs sort of fellow?

2. Did Venril ever suspect Baron Proklyan was his father, or did he always think his adoptive dad was the real McCoy?

3. If Venny were a crayon, what color would he be?

[Venril]

1.  Hmm...not sure about this one.
2.  Nobody knew for certain, including Venril's parents, since Venril's parents were already mated when Proklyan came into the picture.  In any case, this is one of those cases where even if Venril's father had had his suspicions, he would have had a good reason to not try to find out for sure.
3.  Light green..

If you have any further questions before I reveal, post them up now.  I'll probably do my reveal tomorrow.

[Eliza Lacrimosa]

3.  Light green..

Especially when Damask is flirting with Liza!  ;)

[Damask the Minstrel]

I'd say it's a bit deeper than that at those moments, Liza. ^.-

[Revel]

2.  Nobody knew for certain, including Venril's parents, since Venril's parents were already mated when Proklyan came into the picture.  In any case, this is one of those cases where even if Venril's father had had his suspicions, he would have had a good reason to not try to find out for sure.

If Venril's parents had the same problem Revel had there would be really no way to tell.  :P

[Venril]

Okay, and my true identity is....



























































Nallmian.

[Jarrtail]

...alright, who isn't headdesking right now yelling "I should've known!"?

[saffy]

I already knew.  ;D

[Venril]

Nobody was doing much guessing, so I figured I'd go ahead and do the reveal.  But yes, I suppose the male stoat/female pine marten thing probably does seem a bit revealing in hindsight ;D

Anyways, keep asking me any questions you might have.

[Magical Fish]

But yes, I suppose the male stoat/female pine marten thing probably does seem a bit revealing in hindsight

That and your enormous blocks of text!  :P

Congrats on making it this far, Nallmian. I liked Venril a great deal.

How difficult was it to juggle writing for Redventure with managing Redscape?

[Venril]

Fairly easy, actually.  Admining a contest is more work before it starts and during the first week, although I have, by necessity, had to take a more activist approach with Redscape, given the disruptions.

[Venril]

And ah yes, the blocks of text.I think that has improved somewhat, but it's still definitely an issue.  I think perhaps it's partially because almost everything I read is nonfiction, where that's not quite as much of an issue, but I'll definitely keep that in mind as something to work on.  That and typos.