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Indomer Island

  • Ghooa's Journal

    Diary of the Elephant Woman of Indomer
    (Only updated when she is being RPed or I get an idea for a story about her - in other words not very often. Also the stories are posted as I RP her or think up stories not in the order the events logically would have had to happen to make sense.)

  • Indomer Island

    Inhabited Island

    The coastal outpost was bustling with life. gulls cried over head as another ship dropped anchor in port. No doubt the birds were hoping to get some cast off tidbits from the new arrivals. Captains haggled over the price for spices and tobacco, making their men wait to unload their cargo until they'd gotten a deal sorted out. Some men came to try and make their own fortunes in the spice trade having paid their passage in added labor on ship. The shops and houses near the port were so crammed together that people had to walk a long way to get around them. It was loud and air stunk of fish though the fishing boats were still out at sea.

    Far away from the noise and stink of the town, deep in the jungle wild pygmy elephants splashed in a pool. Monkeys ambled along the tree branches looking for fruit and brightly colored birds squawked at each other. A young woman as bare as the day she was born crouched in the muddy water. She kept her chin raised above the surface as she pushed herself along the bottom of the pool toward one of the small elephants. The elephant cow trumpeted in surprise when the woman leaped onto her back pushing her sideways into the mud. The elephant shoved the woman away with her trunk and then lobed a wad of mud at her. Soon the whole herd got into the act throwing mud on their backs and rolling in it.

    		 Uninhabited Island

    The Indomer Island had once been a spot along the trade route and home of a small colony in addition to a native population. Diseases introduced by the newcomers had devastated the locals and the tropical diseases had ravished the colonist, a way the two had canceled each other out. The colonists had survived better but there numbers had been lowered so greatly in such a short time that new colonists stopped coming in. At this late date it was assumed at no humans still lived on the island as a plague was said to have wiped out the last remaining colonists over ten years ago.

    The sand on the beach was soft and below the tide line. Tracks crossed the sand coming the going from the jungle in many directions. There were round prints from the rare pygmy elephant herd, large cat prints from the tigers and small hoof marks from the zebra as well as other marks. A patch of tracks told the story of a wolf who had been hunting a lame zebra only to be blindsided by a tiger. The tiger had been the victor. There was one other set of prints had appeared more often than the others as the beasts had few reasons to hang around the shore when there was so much plenty in the jungle. A set of human tracks all the same size lay under and over the other tracks. Often passing between gaps in the rocks at one end of the shore. The empty shells of crabs were littered around a sharp spike of rock stuck out of the sand. There were many human footprints around it and signs that the spot was often used and had been in use within the last few days.
  • ((The other character in this rp was Bialis who wore a blue scarf.))

    Ghooa meets a human (old spellings used)

    G'oooo'h splashed around in the water. Some of the calves pushed her into the mud as they jostled each other and spread their ears, bluffing that they might charge. The woman grumbled and rolled in the mud coating her skin and hair in the yellow-brown muck. Her hair hung over her shoulders and down her back in long matted cords. The fresh coating of mud made the cords stick to her body and kept them from falling into her face. The elders of the herd nibbled on water plants as the younger adults and the calves continued to stomp about in the pool which was becoming darker and darker as more silt was churned up.

    The old leader and grandmother of the herd smelt the man first and soon the adults had ceased their play to settle the calves. The adult elephants formed a protective ring of bodies around the calves who knew too be still during these times. The naked mud caked woman joined the ring though she was not as wide as her herd sisters she was much taller than them and could throw rocks at predators if they came too near. The pygmy elephants as their name suggested were not near as large as their cousins in Africa or Asia, being only three feet high at the shoulder though strong enough to knock a grown man off his feet.

    G'oooo'h smelt the stranger and quickly squatted down to collect some muddy rocks. She spied something blue amid the green. It did not look like a bird and it moved in a way birds did not move. She was not sure what the blue and it seemed too small to be the intruder but just to be safe the woman hurled a rock at it anyway.


    G'oooo'h grunted as the blue thing cried in pain and fell to earth. It sounded much larger than it looked and this made the woman supicious. Was the blue thing only part of the creature? A lure perhaps like the end of a lizard's tail, which would continue to move in the tiger's paw after its owner had ran away to safety. She stared at where the blue thing had fallen. She burbled at her mother and dropped to a crouch. The elephants tightened the circle around the calves as the woman slowly crept toward the blue thing. G'ooo'h was sure she'd hit the thing and feared very little as the only thing that hunted the herd were the tigers and she had taught them to be wary of large elephants that threw like monkeys.

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    The woman had never seen another human and while she had seen her reflection a few times the creature she had hit did not look like her either. She was not sure what it was or how injured it was so she kept out of hitting range, assuming its arms were as long as her own and its aim as good. The woman could not see anything on it that would make it a danger at first. She did notice the knife but could not reason its use as it did not seem to be food.

    G'oooo'h did not understand the creature's gesture but the sounds he made did not seem friendly. She paused and studied him. The woman raised up to feet to stand fully exposed in front of him without the least hint of shame. She was only the least bit shorter than him and her ribs could be counted where the mud was drying and falling away from her skin.

    The creature's sound changed and the woman tilted her head at him puzzled. He did not seem at all threatening now as he broke eye contact with her again and again. She took this to mean that he did not with to challenge her or the herd and that he was backing down. Seeing that he was not a danger G'oooo'h began to step closer to him and raised a hand to try and touch his face. She supposed he lived underground as things underground were paler than those above. She wanted to cover him in mud to protect himself against the hot sun as he didn't seem to have thought of that.

    G'oooo'h was curious about the knife but the man's gestures distracted her from trying to ask about it. The woman did not know how to sign. She watched the man's hands closely. She understood that he was trying to ask her something, maybe something about hands and maybe her ears or head but that was all that she could figure out from his motions. She raised her hands up, palms facing the new creature and wiggled her fingers. She had hands and they worked she wanted him to know. Monkeys hooted above them and she looked up at the shaking tree limbs. She pointed up where the monkeys could just be seen as they swung through the tree tops. She held up her hands again and pointed up then unknowingly signed 'much' by spreading her hands to tell the man that if he liked hands he should see the monkeys as they each had four hands.

    G'oooo'h did use her hands to talk but her gestures did not align with the standards of sign language as she was self taught. The woman noticed that the man still did not look directly at her which was good since staring would mean to her that he wanted to fight. The naked human sniffed at the man and slowly stared to walk around him, inspecting him without touching him. She had never seen a human before other than herself and if she could have spoke she'd have called herself an elephant had she the words to do so. G'oooo'h raised a hand again and reached out to try again to touch the man's face. To the woman her dominate arm could act in place of a trunk and touching a trunk to another elephant's face was a friendly action. The thought that this strange new thing might not know that or agree did not occur to her of course.
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    G'oooo'h tugged at the tunic and rubbed the edge between her fingers. This whatever it was was not part of the creature she decided but something he had put on himself as a covering. Why he would cover himself she did not know, it wasn't raining or overly warm nor were there a larger number than usual of biting insects around. The elephant cows rocked side to side on their feet. The herd trusted G'oooo'h but they were still unsure about this creature that looked so much like her to them but acted like nothing they had seen before.

    "Clo?" the wild woman said slowly as she tried to mimic the creature's sounds. If she could figure out his words things would be much easier or he could try to copy her, she wouldn't be too picky about who copied whom. She turned and looked at where he pointed. She trumpeted happily at the herd to tell them it was alright, the new thing was safe. She didn't answer the man's question as his words were mostly noise to her.

    "Close?" the woman asked not quiet getting the word correctly. She noticed he kept making motions near his mouth and assumed he was hungry. The elephants had relaxed and returned to wading in the pool. Some sucked water into their trunks and raised the tips to their mouths to drink while others plucked grass from the bank. A few adolescent males rubbed their tusks against a tree to scrap off bark. G'oooo'h plucked some grass and held it out to the man. The woman did not see the man as a cat so much as a fox or weasel skirting around a tiger or wolf looking for an opportunity to rush in and steal a bit of meat from a slain zebra or elephant. The calf poked at the strange creature with his trunk. The babe turned away to dip his trunk in the water but rather than drink it he sprayed the man with water .

    "Gah Oooooo Ah," she trumpeted at him as she copied his gesture by placing a hand against her breast. The man spoke strangely compared to the animals but the woman understood that the sound he made when gesturing to himself was what he was or his name, one or the other.
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    The naked woman clapped her hands in approval at the thing's attempt to speak. He'd butchered her name terribly but she hoped with practice he'd learn enough words of hers and she of his that they could make themselves understood to one another. "Gahua," she said trying to make her name sound more like his noises. Her name sounded horribly distorted that way but if it helped him learn she would try to meet him half way.

    The woman looked up to try and see what the man had looked up but she saw nothing out of the ordinary in the treetops. A zebra snorted and stepped into view from behind a bush. He was leading his herd to the pool to drink. The striped equines paused and sniffed the air. They did not know Bialis but as he looked enough like G'oooo'h to them the stallion chose to ignore the stranger.

    The wild woman snorted at the striped horses and imitated their chattering whinny for the thing's benefit. She pointed at the handful of zebras and chirped at the man as she told him all about the zebras and who was who and what their names were. She didn't expect him to understand all of what she was saying, but though that if she talked a lot maybe he'd learn a few words.


    G'oooo'h led the man through the jungle for miles. Brightly colored birds squawked loudly from the trees and monkeys chattered back at them. Butterflies flitted through the warm moist island air. The woman moved swiftly on her hands and feet like an animal. She looked over her shoulder now and then to check that Bialis was behind her. She stopped at the edge of a blue pool of warm water. The gravel at the bottom of the water could clearly been through the water and at the deepest point it wasn't even up to the woman's waist if she stood up. G'oooo'h slipped into the water silently and paddled around under the shade of the giant trees. The wild woman swam toward a tree in the middle which had a large hole in the trunk. The trunk had been hollowed out to make a space the woman could stand up in. The floor of the little den was covered with grass. A few short sharpened sticks had been driven into the 'walls' of the den and dried out fruit hung from the pegs. A few had been hollowed out so that the skin was very thin and nearly transparent.

    G'oooo'h watched the creature wade across the water and was puzzled as to why he didn't swim across. She found it much easier to swim across than to wade. She sat in the tree den and squeezed the water out of her hair back into the lagoon. Some of the brown color went with it, she was not a natural brunette. The woman noticed Bialis' interest in the fruit and stood up to take some rocks out of one and held them over one of the dried lanterns. She struck one rock against the other to make a spark which lit the grass inside the died out fruit. She lit three more lanterns making the den glow with a faintly orange light. She put the rocks back and took down an empty dried out fruit husk and dipped it into the lagoon to fill it with water. The woman sat back down on the grass bedding with her 'cup' and watched Bialais as she drank her fill from her cup.

    The woman tilted her head and looked in the direction he gestured in. As best she could tell he was from some far corner of the island, it was the only thing that made sense to her. The wild girl let him wander as long as he stayed in sight. The walk as not a long one. The land leveled out a bit and the herd stopped walking. An elephant skull lay on the ground partly covered in grass. The matriarch of the herd touched it with her trunk. The others in the herd took turns touching the skull. There were no other bones in sight around it. G'oooo'h took her turn with the others and looked at Bialis. Their were tears running down the woman's face and the elephants appeared to be crying as well. The herd stood around the skull touching it now and then, they made no motion to move on.

    G'oooo'h waited as the herd stood silently around the skull for several minutes. She blinked and rubbed her arm over her face to clear her eyes a little. She barely glanced at Bialis. Whatever he was doing was of less interest to her than the skull on the ground. The matriarch was the first to move away and the others followed. They were going back the way they had come and the naked woman followed along with the herd. They walked slower as if reluctant to leave the skull.

    The mother elephant was still standing near where they had left her. She had also been crying. Wet tracks ran down the sides of her face, her ears drooped and her beady eyes were sunk in from mourning. The grief stricken elephant cow rocked on her feet. The rest of the herd joined her. Her dead baby was not visible on first inspection. The herd stood silently around a crude pit that had not been there before. The calf had been nudged into the hole and his mother had torn up grass and thin tree branches to cover his body. The herd stood silently around the small grave (for what else could it be).

    A few of the elephants rocked on their feet the way the mother elephant did while others slowly paced around the grave site. All of the elephants poked at the covered pit with their forefeet and trunks. G'oooo'h she stumbled as her vision blurred and a fresh stream of tears poured down her face. She sat near the grave and gently stroked the leafy covering that hid her nephew's body from her sight. The other calves looked confused as they poked at the grave. They seemed to think that their playmate was only hiding. Their mothers let them explore only adding more branches and grass when the little ones made large holes in the covering.
  • ((Xander's player came up with the name Samantha for Ghooa (then spelled as Gahua) when the humans captured her in this old rp.))

    Ghooa is captured by 20th century human explorers (old spellings used)

    Samantha woke feeling ill. She stumbled about on all fours in a slow circle then wobbled to a corner of her crate and vomited for several minutes. She nearly laid in it as her stomach emptied itself. Once nothing more would come up she moved away from the mess to other end of the crate and laid down too out of it to pay much attention to what was going in the too bright loud place outside her cage. She wrapped her arms over her head to block out the light and slept for an hour.

    When she awoke the second time she was herself again, curious, hungry and very afraid and angry to be in a little box surrounded by those things that had attacked her family. She trumped through her mouth to try an call the herd, but it her no good as they could not hear her from so far away. Her human body could not trumpet as loudly as she needed it too.

    She was hungry but did not eat the food that had been provided. Instead she paced back and forth in a tiny circle near the front of her crate and well away from the place where she'd been sick all over.

    'Sam' bared her teeth and hunched up to try and make herself look bigger. Without her long cords of hair the display wasn't as impressive as it had once been. She stared at the creature as it, no he, it was a male she could smell that much in the short distance between them. He was showing his teeth which made her nervous. She sniffed at the thing he'd dropped. Judging by his breath the thing was food. 'Sam' sniffed at the sandwich trying to figure out the unfamiliar the scent it had. After a moment she hobbled to the corner where her fruit lay. She grapped a large ripe fruit in her hands and sat back on her heels as she shoved it in her face and bit into it. She was hungry and if she didn't eat the food in her crate she assumed that the creatures may eat it and she couldn't let them have it. Where she'd get more once her supply was gone or where the fruit had come from never entered her mind as she gnawed at the fruit, her face becoming smeared with pulp and juice.

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    'Sam' turned her head and looked at the stick that had poked her and edge farther away from it. When Xander took her food she bared her teeth and snarled at him. She closed the short space between her remaining fruit and the side of the wooden crate quickly and stuck an arm out between the wooden slates to try and reach the fruit. She rammed her body against the side of the crate to try and get closer causing the crate to shudder and shake violently. There was a possibility that if given enough prompting the feral woman could break through the wooden slates and escape her cramped prison.

    Surely there were laws concerning the treatment of humans which the test had proved 'Sam' was and in theory those laws would extend to the island or at least the people that had come to the island. What good would keeping her caged do for the scientists? Sure they could work up the 'missing link' factor but there would be a risk that any who saw her would see her as a human that was being mistreated instead of as Al's great discovery.

    G'oooo'h grabbed the fruit and pulled it back into the cage. She bit into the fruit as the loud creature came in. She held the fruit in her mouth and stayed still as they approached her cage. She growled around the fruit in her mouth. She struggled and kicked as she was taken from her cage and put into the pen. She sat in th pen confused by the creatures behavior toward her. The pen to her was much nicer than the cage had been, but it was new and smelled too clean. Sam scrambled to one of the far corners of her new pen and emptied her bowls. Slowly she crept along the wall of the pen to inspect the rags. She picked them up and rubbed them between her hands and against her face. She dropped her fruit and wrapped it in a rag then looked around for the fruit as if it had disappeared.

    It took her a few minutes before she thought to look in the rag for the fruit. When she found it her face lit up and she shoved it in her mouth again as if she thought someone would steal it from her. Sam's eyes darted around to try and keep watch of all the creatures as much as she could so they couldn't sneak up on her.

  • The Elephant Herd

    The some of the elephant herd with names and relations to Gahua for reference:

    Elephant's name - relation

    Ghooa - human herself, raised by small elephants

    Arooa - Ghooa's mother - a dark elephant - appears black when wet or muddy. Gray skin with brown areas.

    Wooa/Woona - Ghooa's sister, pink-red when covered in dirt, has large pink patches of skin along side brown skin.

    Neea - Ghooa's aunt - Brown skin

    Hoowan - Ghooa's aunt - Gray skin - lighter shade than Arooa.

    Thu - Ghooa's baby nephew - Gray fuzzy baby.

    Ila - Ghooa's sister the same age as her, they were nursed together by Arooa. - Brown skin with small pink patches down her trunk.

    Aya - Niece - Ila's youngest daughter.

    Neva - Niece - Ila's older daughter.

    Ikaika - Ila's father (means strong in Hawaiian)

    Koa - Woona's father (means warrior in Hawaiian)

    Kale - Ghooa's uncle (Hawaiian form of Charles)

    Kimo - Ghooa's uncle (Hawaiian form of James)

    ? - Ghooa's older brother

    ? - Ghooa's younger brother

    ? - Ghooa's new baby sister

  • Other Inhabitants

    Kyri - Hawk

    Nyla - Tigeress

    Zebra Herd

    Big Bad's Wolf Pack, named such by researchers, is the larger pack of wolves that roam the island. Guhooa calls all canines 'dogs'.

    Red's Pack (Whiner's Dogs - local name) - a smaller pack led by a former member of Big Bad's Pack

    Spotted Pack (Tiger Dogs) - feral dogs mostly mixed between village dogs and wolves. They look and act more dog like and many of them have markings on their coats that wolves would not naturally have.

    As far as Guhooa cares the dogs are all one group, but the tiger dogs are a bit more dangerous as they are more reckless than the other canines. Nyla the tiger eats the tiger dogs when their paths cross as they are less sneaky and more likely to pester her than the wolves. Nyla does not hunt them but if they get her way she will kill them and often eat them. Nyla is not the only tiger on the island but she is the one that goes after the feral dogs the most of all the tigers on the island (there's about a handful of tigers as there isn't enough prey to support a large population of tigers).

    Tigers - There are on average 5 adult females and 3 adult males on the island (this does not take into account any cubs from year to year. Sometimes there are more sometimes less but most of the time there are more females than males and many male cubs do not make it to adulthood.

    Adult Females - Nyla(see above), Yara, Gia, Fast Stripes, Mow

    Fast Stripes is one of Nyla's daughters.

    Mow is one of Yara's daughters.

    Ghooa does not know Gia as well as Yara or Nyla and can't say how many cubs she may have as Gia lives at the other end of the island and rarely ever finds herself in the part of the jungle where Ghooa's elephant herd lives.

    Yara knows Ghooa well enough to allow her around her cubs but not nearly as well as Nyla, and does not seek the girl out unless she needs a babysitter.


    Adult Males - Hee(pronounced like a hiss 'heee')

    Hee knows of Guhooa and has seen her around the island. He has not tried to hurt her as she has not come close enough to him to be a bother. So far he seems to be the live and let live sort, not wanting to go out of his way to investigate humans or other odd creatures if he doesn't have a reason to.

    Being the only adult male tiger of breeding age on the island at the moment it is quite possible that Hee has fathered both Reu, Mow and Bando - though given how much older Bando is than the others he may have been fathered by another older male or all three may have been fathered by a male now too old to breed. Hee himself wouldn't know what cubs are his anyway nor care once they're grown.


    Sub Adult males - Bando, Reu

    Reu is one of Yara's sons and brother to Mow, their third littermate, another male, died young.
    Reu, Mow and their brother were all babysat by Ghooa from time to time when they were little cubs, as such they tolerate her presence better than their elders.

    Bando is one of Gia's sons.

    If they are related to Hee, Reu and Mow seem to favor him more than Bando does.
    (Hee is most likely Reu and Mow's father as Ghooa recalls seeing him, Yara, and her cubs eating together and a tigress would not allow a male around her cubs unless he was their father or otherwise knew it would be safe for them to be around each other). Hee did kill Yara's second son during a dispute over territory. It was not intentional but the younger tiger's wounds were too severe to heal on their own. The dogs ate well that night.

    Bando is more like his mother but worse in behavior. While Gia is not in any way fond of Ghooa, at worst she will give a warning and move a bit away from the woman if they cross paths. Bando will make a loud fuss if he smells or sees the human, as if her very presence were a threat to him. Ghooa lets him throw his fits and stays well out of his reach as so far he has not come after her in earnest to drive her away when he crosses her path. Unfortunately Bando has drifted into Ghooa's stomping grounds of late while searching for a mate - he is too young to win against Hee but he is older than Reu and feels the urge to try now and then when he dares to pass through the adult male's territory.

    In reality the tigers all share the island together and most of the time they get along just fine. Bando is the most obviously aggressive of the males which further suggests that Hii may not be his father unless the aggressiveness is inherited from his mother Gia instead.