Shireroth

*Swims up to a podium sitting on the sea floor, and plugs some hydrophones into the microphone so that hsi voice will carry all throughout the ocean.*Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3...*He then takes out the notes for his speech, but finds that the water has made them soggy and illegible. Oh well, just have to wing it... or flipper it. Or whatever.*Friends, Straylightians, countryfen, lend me your auditory receptors! I am called Shyriath, newly appointed Baron of Straylight. I shall make this short, because there's a tasty-looking school of fish swimming by, and I'm sure we'd all like to partake of the buffet.Our waters are the most unique of all the realms and territories of Shireroth, and indeed of much of the micronational world. How many governments can claim a population beneath the waves? How many can point so such great mountains on the continents as we have on the sea floor? Whose forests can compare to the great coral reefs? And who else could experience the life and ways of the dolphin kindreds?Yet this is not enough. To advance ourselves, to become great in the eyes of others, we must not merely be, but do; not merely think, but act. Let those with talents swim forth and display them for the admiration of others. Writers, make your stories and songs. Artists, create your images. Musicians, play your songs. Express yourselves, and express Straylight. Moreover, let us educate others about ourselves... let them know the dolphins, let them know the waters they inhabit.Let there be a Straylightian Renaissance, such that the world shall never after be able to ignore what we are!Thank you. Now, on to the buffet! *Swims after the fish*

*takes out her notebook and writes down the speech. Yeah. She's still hoping to get that MiniInfo...*Inspiring...Especially the buffet. "Never let sense conquer nonesense"-- Quixy the god of Madness.

Mmmmmm... tuna.Oh, and there's something else... I spent all of last night stretching my meager computer-artistry skills to the limit to produce something of a Straylightian bent. I thought to myself, "What if there was an undersea city somewheres in Straylight?"So I made a picture:Behold K'kriiai Nrra'ayu, Stars-Under-Wave.(And, just in case Angelfire won't let me display the image that way, the image can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/md2/shyriath/straylight.JPG.)

That is so pretty... So so pretty...*steals the picture* "Never let sense conquer nonesense"-- Quixy the god of Madness.

*Steals it back while no one's looking*

*sneaks into Shyriath's palace, takes the picture and makes a coloured photocopy of it, sneaks out again, hangs up the picture on her wall thinking "Now everyone is happy"* "Never let sense conquer nonesense"-- Quixy the god of Madness.

Ahhhh, much better.

One day I just gotta move here! That pic was beautiful! Richard LyonYansha Elaer Kyon gef ShanPernem kahn gef kuymal per varga stiPernem kahn gef varga per kuymal sti

*Smiles* Thank you. Has more flaws than I was hoping for, really, but I was still amazed that it didn't turn out uglier; I'm new to computer-based art.