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Description
Keero rests atop his balcony calmly, watching the goings on of the city of Calirest. Living along the wall of the large city, the gryphon has adopted the job of drak catcher. Feral draks that have been abandoned are either found by the gryphon or brought to him. He has a bad habit of keeping a lot, however, so it may take a bit of work to convince this gryphon you really want to care for the drak in question.
House Layout
The Home of the Drakkari Gryphon has tall walls around it, to keep the drakkari from wandering off too far. The large wrought iron gate has intricate scrollwork from days gone past, and though the two gates do not match, they latch just fine. They sit open most days, however, purely to invite those who want to adopt. The courtyard is vast, usually populated with drakkari and several other creatures that sometimes come to play. Overgrown bushes line the inside walls of the courtyard and the small manor, though the bushes along the house are rather tattered due to the younger drakkari that tend to use them as springboards. Wild flowers crop up randomly in the tall grass, often getting eaten by the draks too quickly to grow. Along the left hand side of the courtyard is another wall, separating the small, overgrown garden from the rest of the yard. The drakkari generally do not enter the quiet area, except for the various plant types, keeping the place untouched. A large fountain dominates the small yard with moss and ivy growing everywhere. Here and there are touches where someone's tried taming the place, but either hasn't succeeded or hasn't had the time. The fountain, however, works just fine without any care and the benches around it are kept clean.

On the right side of the courtyard is a flat open area with rocks, sand and other debris strewn haphazardly around. A sort of impromptu landing pad for the flighted types as Jaron and Jetaia often take the winged draks out for excersize every now and again. When not in use by the gryphon of one of the drakkari, its a playground of hide and seek among the larger rocks along the far side to finding exploration for the little ones.

On to the Rooms...

Earth - Ground Room
Inside the doorway is a short hallway. To the left is a wide archway with an open safety-gate. The room itself is warm browns and oranges with a contrast of blue and white wallpaper running along the top of the walls. The lower half of the walls are reinforced with a sturdy plastic coating, protecting from the rambunctious occupants of the younger earth types. Thick leather balls, stuffed with beans are strewn around the place, their worn surfaces attesting to the many jaws that have scuffed the beanballs and carried them around. Several sturdy flat pedestals and stone-like pillars grace the room for the earth types to rest on or play around. The large floor to ceiling windows remain open most of the day and only closed during bad weather, providing another way out of the manor beyond the front door. Several earth type babies are curled in a sleepy pile in the corner amidst pillows, making them difficult to see at times.

Ice - Tundra Room
The doors are split like a barn and the room is noticably colder. Walking inside, one notices several iceboxes and the ice drakkari start slithering forward curiously to inspect the newcomers and asking for pets. Not so many pillows here, but there are several potted plants and a large jaccuzzi tub in the back. Water is strewn everywhere due to the playful draks in the tub, so the floor can be rather treacherous if one isn't careful. A detailed warning sign is set up next to the door.

Air - Cloud Room
small-ish room with cloud-like pillows everywhere - literally. Several pillows are attached to the ceiling and walls, while there are supports and mounted catwalks along the walls and miniature bridges spanning several areas. Airdraks flutter around, some lazily dozing, while younger ones chase one another around the 'clouds'. Looking much like a cathouse, this room clearly houses the air types, though the larger hybrids remain closer to the floor, happily dozing on the fluffy pillows found there. The large far wall has a bubble window that dominates the entire wall, letting in plenty of light and sun.

Fire - Coal Room
There's a large grated fireplace with several fire types around it and one firedrak that always tries to get into the fireplace. Because of the fire, this room is generally warmer than the rest and the walls show various scorch marks, attesting to just who 'owns' this room: the fire drakkari.

Plant - Garden Room
While small in size, it more than makes up for it in lush greenery. While outside the manor, the plants may look beaten down, in here they are well kept by the plant types that sniff around and carefully groom and tend to their plants. This room is open to the sky, letting in plenty of fresh air and sunlight, though there is a dome that keeps most of the rain out.

Lightning - Sunshine Room
Strewn with large, rubbery beanbag pillows, the static crackle in the air warns visitors just who this room belongs to: the lightning types. Large open windows let in plenty of light and the varied drakkari are either sleeping or playfighting. Occasionally, a beanbag gets shoved into another's face playfully, but generally they're too heavy to move easily.

Spark - Pup Room
The left room is large, open, with a covered balcony to keep the sparkies from floating away. The ceiling looks to have been painted with a dawn sky, the stars still twinkling through the vibrant color. Plenty of windows let in light and the room is - as usual - strewn with pillows in varying stages of torn and chewed. Lots of chew toys dumped across the floor as the tiny dog-like spark drakkari immediately surround newcomers, tails flapping and thumping each other as they try to impress.

Dark - Shifty Room
To the right of the top of the stairs is the large, open room with plenty of feathers strewn about. Dark babies attack the feathers and other toys playfully, but generally remain aloof from visitors. While there are plenty of windows upstairs, most have heavy drapes closed across them, with the dark types napping in the cool shade.

Other
Dining Area
Moving further into the manor, the staircase goes up just past the right hand room entryway. Further into the house, is a hallway. To the right is what might have once been a dining room, the pillars looking worn and scratched, but near the top, the carvings are still faintly visible. No large dining table and chairs, however, just a few half-empty bowls of food strewn around. Several draks are always in the kitchen, though behind the counter is off-limits. A tall iscaelin smiles and waves at you from behind the counter where he 'hides' from the draks while he cooks for both the enormous gryphon 'overlord' and the dozens of drakkari that live under the roof.

Back Yard
Moving past the house itself and out into the backyard, visitors find a large man-made lake with several smaller pools along the edges, looking like hot springs with the tinge of mineral scent and the heat rising from several. The other end of the lake is cooler and a bit deeper, for the larger, more lethargic of water drakkari. A small dock is built a little to the right of the doorway, with a small boat tied, bobbing gently.

~*~

That said, if you're interested in an abandoned or rehomed drak, talk to Keero. He will ask you some questions, probably come across as hostile, but in the end, he'll give you a job to do. That could be anything from finding something specific on an explore (or finding a player who had one and buying it), to interacting with the drak for a certain amount of days. The choice is up to the gryphon, of course.

Link to the available drakkari: Keero's Cave
Some Basic Rules to Adopt

1) You must already have an ADULT drak. This is to prove you have what it takes to raise a drak. These draks have already been abandoned once. They will not like being discarded a second time.
Exception: New Players can still adopt the babies as their first drak, but only one. After that, Rule 1 still applies.
2) You cannot have more than 3 babies of your own at the time of your attempt. The drakkari are here to grow and be played with, not be adopted and just sit there. We have drawn in four stages for a reason, so please make use of them?
Five baby limit applies to ALL players. However, a drak that has had a Scroll of Eternal Youth used on them, no longer count as babies.
3) There are entirely too many abandoned to this house
4) List of Possible Requirements Keero may ask for. This is subject to change and/or be added to as admins see fit. If you feel your requirement is too challenging for you, let us know!
5) ...

People:

Keero - master of the house and joat (jack of all trades)

Argoyle - groundskeeper

Jaron - caretaker of water and dark

Jetaia - caretaker of plant and air

Arelia - cook

Meiron - caretaker of lightning and spark

Ryordin - caretaker of fire and earth

Leona Kyousha-Yang - caretaker of ice

Description
Keero rests atop his balcony calmly, watching the goings on of the city of Calirest. Living along the wall of the large city, the gryphon has adopted the job of drak catcher. Feral draks that have been abandoned are either found by the gryphon or brought to him. He has a bad habit of keeping a lot, however, so it may take a bit of work to convince this gryphon you really want to care for the drak in question.
House Layout
The Home of the Drakkari Gryphon has tall walls around it, to keep the drakkari from wandering off too far. The large wrought iron gate has intricate scrollwork from days gone past, and though the two gates do not match, they latch just fine. They sit open most days, however, purely to invite those who want to adopt. The courtyard is vast, usually populated with drakkari and several other creatures that sometimes come to play. Overgrown bushes line the inside walls of the courtyard and the small manor, though the bushes along the house are rather tattered due to the younger drakkari that tend to use them as springboards. Wild flowers crop up randomly in the tall grass, often getting eaten by the draks too quickly to grow. Along the left hand side of the courtyard is another wall, separating the small, overgrown garden from the rest of the yard. The drakkari generally do not enter the quiet area, except for the various plant types, keeping the place untouched. A large fountain dominates the small yard with moss and ivy growing everywhere. Here and there are touches where someone's tried taming the place, but either hasn't succeeded or hasn't had the time. The fountain, however, works just fine without any care and the benches around it are kept clean.

On the right side of the courtyard is a flat open area with rocks, sand and other debris strewn haphazardly around. A sort of impromptu landing pad for the flighted types as Jaron and Jetaia often take the winged draks out for excersize every now and again. When not in use by the gryphon of one of the drakkari, its a playground of hide and seek among the larger rocks along the far side to finding exploration for the little ones.

On to the Rooms...

Earth - Ground Room
Inside the doorway is a short hallway. To the left is a wide archway with an open safety-gate. The room itself is warm browns and oranges with a contrast of blue and white wallpaper running along the top of the walls. The lower half of the walls are reinforced with a sturdy plastic coating, protecting from the rambunctious occupants of the younger earth types. Thick leather balls, stuffed with beans are strewn around the place, their worn surfaces attesting to the many jaws that have scuffed the beanballs and carried them around. Several sturdy flat pedestals and stone-like pillars grace the room for the earth types to rest on or play around. The large floor to ceiling windows remain open most of the day and only closed during bad weather, providing another way out of the manor beyond the front door. Several earth type babies are curled in a sleepy pile in the corner amidst pillows, making them difficult to see at times.

Ice - Tundra Room
The doors are split like a barn and the room is noticably colder. Walking inside, one notices several iceboxes and the ice drakkari start slithering forward curiously to inspect the newcomers and asking for pets. Not so many pillows here, but there are several potted plants and a large jaccuzzi tub in the back. Water is strewn everywhere due to the playful draks in the tub, so the floor can be rather treacherous if one isn't careful. A detailed warning sign is set up next to the door.

Air - Cloud Room
small-ish room with cloud-like pillows everywhere - literally. Several pillows are attached to the ceiling and walls, while there are supports and mounted catwalks along the walls and miniature bridges spanning several areas. Airdraks flutter around, some lazily dozing, while younger ones chase one another around the 'clouds'. Looking much like a cathouse, this room clearly houses the air types, though the larger hybrids remain closer to the floor, happily dozing on the fluffy pillows found there. The large far wall has a bubble window that dominates the entire wall, letting in plenty of light and sun.

Fire - Coal Room
There's a large grated fireplace with several fire types around it and one firedrak that always tries to get into the fireplace. Because of the fire, this room is generally warmer than the rest and the walls show various scorch marks, attesting to just who 'owns' this room: the fire drakkari.

Plant - Garden Room
While small in size, it more than makes up for it in lush greenery. While outside the manor, the plants may look beaten down, in here they are well kept by the plant types that sniff around and carefully groom and tend to their plants. This room is open to the sky, letting in plenty of fresh air and sunlight, though there is a dome that keeps most of the rain out.

Lightning - Sunshine Room
Strewn with large, rubbery beanbag pillows, the static crackle in the air warns visitors just who this room belongs to: the lightning types. Large open windows let in plenty of light and the varied drakkari are either sleeping or playfighting. Occasionally, a beanbag gets shoved into another's face playfully, but generally they're too heavy to move easily.

Spark - Pup Room
The left room is large, open, with a covered balcony to keep the sparkies from floating away. The ceiling looks to have been painted with a dawn sky, the stars still twinkling through the vibrant color. Plenty of windows let in light and the room is - as usual - strewn with pillows in varying stages of torn and chewed. Lots of chew toys dumped across the floor as the tiny dog-like spark drakkari immediately surround newcomers, tails flapping and thumping each other as they try to impress.

Dark - Shifty Room
To the right of the top of the stairs is the large, open room with plenty of feathers strewn about. Dark babies attack the feathers and other toys playfully, but generally remain aloof from visitors. While there are plenty of windows upstairs, most have heavy drapes closed across them, with the dark types napping in the cool shade.

Other
Dining Area
Moving further into the manor, the staircase goes up just past the right hand room entryway. Further into the house, is a hallway. To the right is what might have once been a dining room, the pillars looking worn and scratched, but near the top, the carvings are still faintly visible. No large dining table and chairs, however, just a few half-empty bowls of food strewn around. Several draks are always in the kitchen, though behind the counter is off-limits. A tall iscaelin smiles and waves at you from behind the counter where he 'hides' from the draks while he cooks for both the enormous gryphon 'overlord' and the dozens of drakkari that live under the roof.

Back Yard
Moving past the house itself and out into the backyard, visitors find a large man-made lake with several smaller pools along the edges, looking like hot springs with the tinge of mineral scent and the heat rising from several. The other end of the lake is cooler and a bit deeper, for the larger, more lethargic of water drakkari. A small dock is built a little to the right of the doorway, with a small boat tied, bobbing gently.

~*~

That said, if you're interested in an abandoned or rehomed drak, talk to Keero. He will ask you some questions, probably come across as hostile, but in the end, he'll give you a job to do. That could be anything from finding something specific on an explore (or finding a player who had one and buying it), to interacting with the drak for a certain amount of days. The choice is up to the gryphon, of course.

Link to the available drakkari: Keero's Cave
Some Basic Rules to Adopt

1) You must already have an ADULT drak. This is to prove you have what it takes to raise a drak. These draks have already been abandoned once. They will not like being discarded a second time.
Exception: New Players can still adopt the babies as their first drak, but only one. After that, Rule 1 still applies.
2) You cannot have more than 3 babies of your own at the time of your attempt. The drakkari are here to grow and be played with, not be adopted and just sit there. We have drawn in four stages for a reason, so please make use of them?
Five baby limit applies to ALL players. However, a drak that has had a Scroll of Eternal Youth used on them, no longer count as babies.
3) There are entirely too many abandoned to this house
4) List of Possible Requirements Keero may ask for. This is subject to change and/or be added to as admins see fit. If you feel your requirement is too challenging for you, let us know!
5) ...

People:

Keero - master of the house and joat (jack of all trades)

Argoyle - groundskeeper

Jaron - caretaker of water and dark

Jetaia - caretaker of plant and air

Arelia - cook

Meiron - caretaker of lightning and spark

Ryordin - caretaker of fire and earth

Leona Kyousha-Yang - caretaker of ice