Mister/Miss Rhydin 2007 - Hosted by Diane Snoberella

"It is my pleasure to be hosting this year's pageant! With so many lovely and beautiful people here and an ever growing population I have taken it upon myself to make a few changes this year! The first and most obvious of course, is the including of males in our pageant. The second is, on top of Mister/Miss Rhydin, there will be sub-categories that some of the.. less-lovely have a chance to win at! The sub-categories are as follows:

Most Likely to Take Over Rhydin
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness
Rhydin's Smarty Pants
The Town Drunk
The "Best Friend"

Mister and Miss Rhydin of 2007 shall win 2500 silver crowns, a Frederick's gift card with a value of 1000 silver crowns, a year's supply of chocolate, and of course, the fabulous ribbons to wear so people know just who you are!

Winners of sub-catetories will win 1000 silver crowns, a $100 silver gift card to The Rhydin Diner and a small pin with their title.

I will be taking nominations until February 20th. You can deliver them to me personally at my room at the Red Dragon Inn, room 23B, or by putting them in the entries box in the town square!

There will be one man and one woman winner for each catagory. Winners will be announced in the March edition of the Oracle!"

And under the announcement was a very nicely made ballot:

"Mr Rhydin:
Ms Rhydin:
Most LIkely to Take Over Rhydin(f):
Most Likely to take over Rhydin(m):
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(f):
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(m):
Rhydin's Smarty Pants(f):
Rhydin's Smarty Pants(m):
The Town Drunk(f):
The Town Drunk(m):
The "Best Friend"(f):
The "Best Friend"(m):"


((Nominations can be sent in via PM or as a respond to this post in the Rhydin Bulletin Board). Please direct PMs for this to Lydia Loran or Erinalle Dunbridge. Winners will be determined by a majority of votes for each category. If there is a tie, or close race, nominations will be narrowed to the top two and a ballot will be held.))

Erin passed the bulletin board and blinked. The announcement had caught her eye. She read it once. Then again. A slow smile formed on her face as she leaned against the post it was affixed to. Bundled up as usual for the exceptionally cold winter, she had on the purple pea coat, hat and oversized mittens. Erin grabbed up a ballot and a pen from that giant messenger bag she was always lugging around and began tapping on her chin.

Erin didn't think of herself as vain. She didn't really think of herself as selfless either... and part of her really wanted to win one of these. Ms. Rhydin, truly. And it was mainly for the gift card. That and to mend her pride after no one bid on her at the auction save Miles. Whom she asked.

Taptaptap on her chin with the pen. Could she really do that? A glance right, a glance left and... well, no one was looking! So... she scribbled her name in.

Then for Mr Rhydin. A bit of a blush crept up her cheeks as she wrote the next name. A snicker to herself and a bite of her lip. She glanced around yet again. Gosh, this ballot thing was starting to get to her!

"Mr Rhydin: Alain D'Mourir
Ms Rhydin: Erin deVernon

The next category was a little harder. Erin chewed on her bottom lip as she thought and then she smiled again. She had the perfect idea! Scribblescribble. Gosh it was hard to write in mittens!

Most LIkely to Take Over Rhydin(f): Tara R(sorry forgot her last name!)
Most Likely to take over Rhydin(m): Talomar Longden

There was a long debate in the girl's head about the next one. Mainly because she wasn't sure what kill with cuteness really meant. But, she did know who the cutest girl she ever saw was. It wasn't that hard, really. The cuteness made her want to vomit anytime it was in the room... Men, well that was harder. In fact, it was one of those categories where you just write someone in because you don't know what else to write.

Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(f): Suki
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(m): James( the boy staying with Taneth)

Erin felt kind of dumb at her lack of names to write for categories... she had plenty of friends and they were all many things. Though, for some reason, when she had to put them in little boxes like this, it was a bit harder. She started for a long moment at the Smarty pants category. Why was the smartest among those she knew? Well, she thought about who she had actually called smart in the last week, and that was the names that went on the ballot!

Rhydin's Smarty Pants(f): Kitty
Rhydin's Smarty Pants(m): Grem

Some would say Erin was being cruel as she filled out the next one. Town Drunk! But, really now, it was just a term of endearment and Erin thought back on her friends and just who got her the drunkest the most often.... and really, that was easy. A snicker under her breath as she scrawled. it was a good thing these were secret, cause -boy- would this one get her in trouble.

The Town Drunk(f): Cassie
The Town Drunk(m): Miles

And then for the easiest. There was no question what she would put for this one. It never even crossed her mind as a problem. Just a few little scribbles and a smile to herself. Really, it was the least she could do for who she saw as her best friends... if not the best friends in all of Rhydin.

The "Best Friend"(f): Lydia
The "Best Friend"(m):" Sebastian

There, that wasn't so bad. A self satisfied smile to herself and she folded the ballet in half, sliding it in the box. She shoved her hands back in her pocket and went back to her milling around the city.

Amthy gnawed on the butt of her blunt green-colored pencil and considered the ballot that rested on the table before her. Her dark green brows furrowed as she closed one bright, tsavorite-green eye. Filling out the ballot was turning out to be more difficult than she had original thought! Not the first two nominations, though. Those, she found, were effortless.

?Mister and Missus Rhy?Din,? She said to herself under her breath with a happy hum. Her pencil was lowered as she took a sip from her cup of cooling tea. Thunk! The cup was replaced with minimal sloshing before she jotted down a few names in her messy print:

Mr. Rhy?Din: Brian Ravenlock
Ms. Rhy?Din: Tara Rynieyn

Root beer-flavored glossed lips rolled inward into a pensive line as she moved on to the next catergory: most likely to take over Rhy?Din? Her mouth relaxed. It seemed everyone wanted to take over the realm these days.

Most Likely to Take Over Rhy?Din (f): Tara Rynieyn
Most Likely to Take Over Rhy?Din (m):

She searched her airy little head for fellow Blades?or anyone else for that matter. Drawing a blank, she left that selection open. The next selection proved easier. There were two, well, three people she could always turn to when she had a question.

Rhy?Din?s Smarty Pants (f): Kitty Helston
Rhy?Din?s Smarty Pants (m): The Chicken Avenger or Miles Malign

Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm with Cuteness? Amthy regarded those spaces for a long moment before skipping them entirely. Town drunk? She knew people who drank (she hung out in tavern!) but she rarely saw anyone actually drunk. Skip! Best friend. Now, this was something she could answer since she had best friends. She wasn?t quite sure the meaning of the words in context for the pageant, but she made do with what she had.

The ?Best Friend? FOREVER (f): Caytlin Benn?et, Tara Rynieyn, and Jewell Ravenlock
The ?Best Friend? (m): Christopher (The RPS guy)

Satisfied that her ballot was filled out as much as it was going to be, she folded the sheet once and settled back to finish her tea before she submitted her nominations.

The phantom took a long time to fill out its form. After all, having shadows for fingers made gripping and writing rather tedious. Eventually, however, the ballot was completed.

Mr Rhydin: Alain D'Mourir
Ms Rhydin: Cassandra de Vernon
Most Likely to Take Over Rhydin(f): Kitty Helston
Most Likely to take over Rhydin(m): Gideon
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(f): Lydia Loran
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(m): WoodySprite
Rhydin's Smarty Pants(f): Illiana Valentine
Rhydin's Smarty Pants(m): Isidore Grey
The Town Drunk(f): Erin de Vernon
The Town Drunk(m): Baker
The "Best Friend"(f): Erin de Vernon
The "Best Friend"(m): Jack Daniels

As the ballot was slid into its box, the murky ghost chuckled (as best one may without lungs or throat) and promptly dissipated, leaving a smear of goo in its place.

Ryo was walking aimlessly around town, scanning the area, eyelids half closed out of boredom. He spotted the Rhy'Din Bulletin Board and decided to go check it out. Couldn't be too bad, right? He blinked at the contents, skimming past all the boring-looking things. His eyes fell on one particular thing that looked like it could cure his boredness. It was a survey. He decided it could be a little fun. So, after materializing a pen in his hand, he began to fill it out.

Okay, first... Mr. Rhy'Din? He blinked and looked it over again. Hn, he hadn't met many men who would be able to earn such a title, but he remembered someone who he'd seen in the Inn often and learned his name just by listening.

Mr Rhydin: Grem
Ms Rhydin: Tera Starfare

Ms. Rhy'Din was much easier. Des seemed to know almost everyone in town, who else would be a perfect candidate for such a thing?

Next Q. Easy enough. He'd seen Tara around the Inn before, like Grem, he'd learned her name just by listening to people talk to her, though he'd never caught her last name, also similar to Grem. She was the best choice for this one.

Most Likely to Take Over Rhydin(f): Tara Whats-her-face
Most Likely to take over Rhydin(m): Tyranacus

Ty had always been a control freak in Ryo's eyes, and you never knew what that dragon could be up to. So, he went with that.

As he read the next one, he blinked more than once. "Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness?" he read aloud, "What the fuck?" he sighed. Whatever, just put someone ultra kawaii down and leave it at that. Then something came to him, he should nominate his daughter! She was so cute. Though, he didn't know if she would still count, the Nexus aging her and all. Whatever, he put her down anyway.

Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(f): Akira Tosaga
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(m): Fayloan

You would think a gay would find a guy for that category, but Ryo just couldn't think of anyone. True, Shishi-kun was cute, but he was more sexy than anything else. Hn, whatever, moving on.

Rhydin's Smarty Pants(f): Kairee
Rhydin's Smarty Pants(m): Fayloan

Both of those were easy enough. Next.

He blinked as this one. Town drunk, huh? Well...

The Town Drunk(f): Rain
The Town Drunk(m): Baker

Easy enough as well. On to the next one. He thought over all the possibilities for this one.

Shadow. She was nice, but then again, she kept on changing her gender, so perhaps she wouldn't really count...

Suzey, err, Suzume. Hn, maybe. Big maybe. If he couldn't find anyone else, then she'd do.

Iris. Don't even wanna go there. Next.

Illiana. She was kind enough, but he hadn't seen her around recently. So, did she count? Perhaps he'd skip her...

Uriko. Hyperactive and random. She'd do. But Suzey was so fun to annoy... Hn, choices.

The "Best Friend"(f): Suzume
The "Best Friend"(m): Fayloan

Fay seemed to be his best friend recently, so he decided Fay-kun deserved the nomination. The werewolf was so fun to be with, and really smart. Even though he didn't know all that much about English slang, that gave him an aura of innocence that was so cute at those times. He looked back at the earlier questions and filled in that one place he left blank. He reread what he wrote and blinked, whoa. He put Fay on there three times. Sheesh.

Lain had taken the opportunity to get herself some fresh air, walking head down against a light wind, her scarf billowing behind her in a mass of white yarn. She dared herself a few looks up, blue eyes squinted lightly, as to make sure she didn't run into anything or anyone.

With a small jump, she halted, seeing what sh thought was a whipping of lavender hair from the gigantic bulletin board in the middle of the square to the corner of a building and disappearing.

"ALE-! .. crap..." she muttered mid-wave. Though, she became presently curious as to what had caught his attention. After all, she'd never really seen him around here that much.

" .. pageant..?" Like hell she knew what that was, so she plucked up a ballot and began looking it over. Little did she know that that was what Alex had been up to. After giving a few looks over her shoulder, she pulled one mitten off with her teeth and grabbed the dangling pencil attached to another article.

"Hee," she muttered, scribbling.

Mr. Rhy'Din: Alex Ravenlock.
Mrs. Rhy'Din: Lain Amthras.

She had to do that, just had to. Lain didn't have any idea who the hell to put for any of these, but she was resolute in her thought that her votes really wouldn't matter and penned down the first names that came to her head.

"Oh good lord.."

Most Likely to Take Over Rhy'Din(F):
Most Likely to Take Over Rhy'Din(M): Alex Ravenlock.

She had a few ideas for those, but she only knew three of Alex's kids so...

Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(F):
Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(M): Alex Ravenlock.

Lain had looked over her shoulder once more to check to see if he was standing over her. The first slot in that category was totally skipped over with a scoff.

"Dun look't girls that way."

Rhy'Din's Smarty Pants(F): Jewell Ravenlock.
Rhy'Din's Smarty Pants(M):

"Hell yeah."

Town Drunk(F): Lain Amthras.
Town Drunk(M):

She hadn't done that herself in a long fricken while, though. Writing her name down had given her a few ideas..

The "Best Friend"(F):
The "Best Friend"(M):

Her lips slanted some as she folded the card, slipping it in the little container with the rest. Any of the people she'd know to be her 'best friends,' no one else knew. And as of those she did know, she really didn't consider any of them to fit that category. Perhaps in the near future, but most definitely not now.

She sniffed as she let go of the pencil, jamming her mitten back on her hand and shivering lightly as she hurried off in roughly the same direction Alex went in, hoping to catch up with him. But with those long legs of his, she'd totally doubt it.

Renna picked it up?

She left it for a few days?

She picked it up again, read it over her? Laughed ? she loved a good laugh now and again, and picked up her pen.

How could she even look at this and take it seriously?

Now the first question to be asked? Who should have the honour of having these two special titles? Who was; in Renna?s opinion worthy of such things? Let?s here?

Mr Rhy?din: Panther

Of course! Renna respected Panther for his awesomeness, not that she would admit the man did unnerve her a tiny bit. Being hairy? And cat-like. And not totally house trained.

Ms Rhy?din: ? Jewell.

What? It was the first name that came to her head! What? Did you expect Renna to be vain about it and put down her own name? Besides, Ms Rhy?Din should go to the most sexiest of the girls.

Most LIkely to Take Over Rhy?din(f): Stewie.

Most Likely to take over Rhy?din(m): Stewie.

What? The stew had no gender. It?s STEW. Surely it could jump in for both of the categories? And anyway, Renna wouldn?t want to take over Rhy?Din ? it?s pointless. No one can take over Rhy?Din in her eyes.

Unless it was Ayreg? But she?d see him dead before she would let that happen.

Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(f): Lucy Ren

Duh. Had to blow her own trumpet SOMEWHERE!

Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(m): Huge Giant Grab

What?s more cute than a disgusting oversized shelled creature, causing actual bodily harm? Renna would like to see anyone go up against this vote without a good excuse.

Rhy?din's Smarty Pants(f): Kairee.

Like that needed a moments thought.

Rhy?din's Smarty Pants(m): Talomar Longden

Who wears the most smartiest pants of all? Talomar does.

The Town Drunk(f): Renna.

Of course! Who else drinks four-eight bottles of vodka and lives to tell the tale? Oh wait. Most of Rhy?Din? Seems like I miscalculated this? But then again, no, no one drinks as much as Renna. NO ONE. NOOOOO ONNNNEEE!


The Town Drunk(m): Grem.

Since when don?t you see the guy without a bottle of beer?

The "Best Friend"(f): ? Jewell Ravenlock.

Be grudgingly.

The "Best Friend"(m): Brian AND Alex Ravenlock.

Even more be grudgingly. Yes, two votes in one section. Take your pick, stupid survey.

::Shea stopped as she passed the bulletin,looking to it she smiled, how odd these cutoms were to her, but all in good fun, she would fill it out and drop it off::



Mr Rhydin: James Black

Ms Rhydin: Wyh Black

::Shea smiled as she wrote in her votes, who better to win that title than those two,besides maybe Des and Gav, she snickered as she continued on::



Most LIkely to Take Over Rhydin(f): Jewell Ravenlock

Most Likely to take over Rhydin(m): Alex Ravenlock

::Shea snickered, Jewell she knew well,Alex she had just met but who better to take over rhydin than those of that clan::


Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(f): Taneth Mercer


Most Likely to Cause Bodily Harm With Cuteness(m): ?

::Who better than the all ways fluttering about Taneth::


Rhydin's Smarty Pants(f): Kitty

Rhydin's Smarty Pants(m): Grem

::Was being a smarty pants a bad thing Shea wondered as she wrote on::


The Town Drunk(f): Cassie

The Town Drunk(m): Stephen

::One pirate and one just as deserving of that title, sure there were many that could be labled as town drunk she wondered if she might put Connar there just to poke fun at him, but went against that..::


The "Best Friend"(f): Lydia

The "Best Friend"(m):Brian Ravenlock

::fold,fold fold.. and offf she dropped it, all in good fun::