gaia_star [ Quest 15: ] EGGSTRATION: THE FINALE ** NEW ** Requirement: Every person in the party attempting this must have a wyvern egg.
Are you ready for chaos? Mayhem? No? WELL GOOD. It is time for the FINAL TEST OF YOUR PROOF AS A VILLAGER EGGSTRACTOR.
- On top of the highest hill through the highest mountain peak is the rarest of eggs, the Giant Snake egg. If you bring this home, then you have proven your worth as the greatest eggstractor of them all.
Step 1: Climb the mountain - You're already used to this part. Get going! Climb up that mountain and see what you're made of. Oh wait, right, we forgot to mention. The reason why you need a wyvern egg is you have to replace that egg with the Giant Snake Egg you need to get. That way the parent giant snake doesn't notice!
- As you climb the mountain, roll 1d4. Match your dice roll to the result below.
1: You break your wyvern egg! Sorry, you have to obtain another one.. 2. You manage to climb with relative ease. Something watches you in the distance. 3. You trip and stumble but save your egg! -10 HP for your character 4. You accidentally stumble into a giant cloud of miasma! Add +5 to your miasma meter.
Step 2: Replacing the egg
Finally you reach the base of the mountain with a [i 400 foot giant snake guarding its pile of eggs in the center. You must slowly sneak and take the Giant Snake egg, replacing it with the wyvern one. Roll 1d100 to see how quiet you were. If you roll 30 or less, you get eaten. You die and dissipate back to base camp. The good news is you still have your wyvern egg (must start quest again). Otherwise, continue onwards.
Step 3: New egg friend and you
At this point you no longer have your wyvern egg. You only have this Giant Snake Egg. So that means if you destroy your giant snake egg on the way back, you have to obtain a new wyvern egg from the previous eggstraction quest. The giant snake egg has 10 HP.
A pair of very hungry velicoraptor-like creatures seem to have found you and follow the egg hungrily! They have 10 HP. You only need to defeat one to move on (per group!) Every time you or ANYONE in the group rolls double dice (1, 1, 2, 2, etc) you take -2 damage to your egg, otherwise it takes no damage.
At the very end where the base camp is, there is a giant waterfall. You have no choice, you have to jump down! Roll 1d6 to see how much damage your egg takes. Good luck!
If your egg somehow survives, you have DONE IT. Go ahead and collect your prize and drop it off in this thread!
Rarity: Rare Size: 25 feet long (baby snek!) Weight capacity: 2 people max. (No mount/natural forms it gets skittish) Special ability: Is excellent at making impromptu bridges and shelter from cold areas. Sheds rainbow-coloured skin that can be used as waterproof wear. Has impeccable memory - as long as it has been to a place, it knows how to get there. Flying: Cannot fly. Teleportation: Teleports from Miasma Village to Halloween Town only (and vice versa) Temper: Extremely shy. Does not go indoors. Only likes large areas. Will escape through any given opening if the area is smaller than it is.
Merubee rolled 1 4-sided dice:
2Total: 2 (1-4)
Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:53 pm
More eggs. Why were there always more eggs?
Volt felt like crying, but that would be...unmanly, right? Babyish. He never cried. Mostly.
Instead, the dark phoenix turned to look over at his current questing companion; the fur-brained, muscle-bound lion was stretching or something, so Devoltados rolled his shoulders and stretched out his bony wing protrusions to garner some inner strength, and double checked to make sure that the wyvern egg that he'd striven to protect was safe and in one big, stupid piece.
Satisfied with that, at least, Volt gave one last baleful glance up towards the mountainside, and rolled golden eyes. "Here goes nothing. Meet me at the top, Furbrain." the last was tossed snarkily over one shoulder to Kalden, and Volt headed towards the top of the mountain.
The trip was pretty uneventful - then again, from his last little adventure, the phoenix knew which baby wyvern holes sand whale pits, and stupid cranky sand crab hangouts to avoid. Though...he kept a wary out for a very cranky sand snake..
Cheered immensely by his current progress, Volt ignored the prickle down the back of his spine that told him he wasn't alone, and peered around as he finally, finally reached the nest at the top.
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Character Name:Devoltados (Volt) Faction: Amityville (Ghost quest) Appearance: Coin-gold eyes are framed by rougish black bangs, his hair short but just long enough in the back to pull into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. Dressed in red and black, and with wing-shaped bone protrusions sprouting from his shoulders. Miasma meter 0
He was absolutely and utterly positive that he would make it this time. No way was something as trivial as a monstrous snake get the better of him. Not a Jacking chance! His spirit of adventure had been re-vitalized after a successful escapade or two, and now he had rendezvoused with his enterprising egg-straction pal Volt. Clearly that meant that fortune would favor this particular attempt.
Right? Of course right.
So invigorated was the Tibetan Snow Lion that he didn't at all pause when he hit the medium-sized miasma cloud that stood betwixt himself and the fragile-shelled prize that lingered atop the mountain. Coughing a bit to clear his lungs, his paws barely slowed their steps as he reached the summit, casting a glance or fifteen around the site itself to see if the enormous snake could be spotted pre-lunge on this go-round.
Winking at Volt, he shifted forward, the tip of is tail twitching like a cat about to pounce on its prey. All right. Time for the ol' switcheroo!
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Character Name:Kalden Faction: Amityville (Monster Quest) Appearance: 6'3" leanly muscled, broad-shouldered, manly dork-nugget with long, mane-like silvery hair that turns teal at the tips. Blue eyes with black sclera. Looks like he's never seen the sun a day in his life (pale as heck). Paws for feet, teal claws, fluffy to the max lion-like tail. Miasma meter 15
The hissing alerted him first, and Volt, with a hiss of his own towards the ever-confident Kal, snuck towards the nest and the writing, coiling mass of snake that occupied the center of it.
Please. Please, by all that was hellish...
Oh.
Volt found himself swallowing harder than normal, as the snake swung its giant head around to look straight at him. There was a darker coloration on its nose, and the dark phoenix got a lovely sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
Old friends, y'know?
Greeeeeaaaatt.
Volt took a deep breath, and as the snake hissed warningly, he clutched the wyvern egg to his chest and with a grunting effort, phased through the coils and into the safety of the massive snake's own coily body. There was a space occupied by the eggs that gave him room only for a second to regain form on his current plane, and Volt used his time as quickly as possible, taking the wyvern egg and replacing it with one of the snake's.
Making sure that the head was pointed away from him (and presumably looking for him, or, less luckily, looking at Kalden) Volt pulled the same trick again, holding his new prize close to his chest and phasing through the snake's coils.
Then - sorry, Kal - he immediately scooted towards relative safety, out of striking distance of the irritable snake before he turned to keep an eye out for his fur-brained egg-snatching partner.
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Character Name:Devoltados (Volt) Faction: Amityville (Ghost quest) Appearance: Coin-gold eyes are framed by rougish black bangs, his hair short but just long enough in the back to pull into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. Dressed in red and black, and with wing-shaped bone protrusions sprouting from his shoulders. Miasma meter 0
Kalden's sapphire on ebon eyes went rather hilariously wide as he watched the phoenix maneuver his way in to get his hands on one of the carefully guarded eggs. However, it seemed that the snake was well aware that a plot was afoot. As she hissed and once more turned to side-eye Volt as he phased his way to victory, the lion dove in and grabbed one of the large eggs as he deposited the wyvern one in its stead. Oh man. That was going to be an awkward hatching.
Leaping out of the way, as he'd never once fully taken his eyes off of the really dangerous part of the beast (the head), he backtracked as quickly as he was able, and took off running to make his way off of this mountain with his ill-gotten prize. "WOOOHOOO HOOO! Oh man! DID YOU SEE THAT!?" Crowing with delight, he was clearly absolutely astonished at his own talent. He'd just KNOWN this was going to be the attempt that won him the...uh...'whatever the heck that snake thing was' egg.
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Character Name:Kalden Faction: Amityville (Monster Quest) Appearance: 6'3" leanly muscled, broad-shouldered, manly dork-nugget with long, mane-like silvery hair that turns teal at the tips. Blue eyes with black sclera. Looks like he's never seen the sun a day in his life (pale as heck). Paws for feet, teal claws, fluffy to the max lion-like tail. Miasma meter 15
Volt didn't get far before he skidded to a stop, and this time he didn't think phasing was going to help him. Two hungry velociraptors stood in the path, blinking at him as they turned their heads sideways. Jaws were open as if testing the air, and he saw their eyes light up in a way that only a hungry animal's can as they zeroed in on his egg.
"Oh, no way in the seven hells," he muttered, and dove to one side, clutching his egg to his chest as one of the raptors took a screeching run for him.
"KALDEN, LOOK OUT!"
Raptor: 10/10 Volt's Egg: 8/10
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Character Name:Devoltados (Volt) Faction: Amityville (Ghost quest) Appearance: Coin-gold eyes are framed by rougish black bangs, his hair short but just long enough in the back to pull into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. Dressed in red and black, and with wing-shaped bone protrusions sprouting from his shoulders. Miasma meter 0
"Oh that's...." The lion stopped, looking at the rather voracious looking critters that happened to be blocking their pathway, "Just all kinds of lovely...." He rumbled, feeling his claws twitch and as one of them came up, he took a swipe, which admittedly missed. The raptor on the other hand, just almost got his teeth in the egg itself, which caused Kalden to cradle it all the more protectively. "Aww Jack, I stole this 'un fair and square, go steal your own, ya scavengers!"
He'd be damned if they were going to take this prize away from him. They had come too far down this mountain for the dynamic duo to be thwarted by some scaly pests. Seriously. Was this quest rigged? No wonder the villagers were so happy to throw strangers out onto these adventures. Likely so that they didn't endanger their own skins. "Oh man...I sure hope these things are for something more important than omelets..." He grumbled, rather loudly, keeping a wary eye on the oncoming lizards.
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Character Name:Kalden Faction: Amityville (Monster Quest) Appearance: 6'3" leanly muscled, broad-shouldered, manly dork-nugget with long, mane-like silvery hair that turns teal at the tips. Blue eyes with black sclera. Looks like he's never seen the sun a day in his life (pale as heck). Paws for feet, teal claws, fluffy to the max lion-like tail. Miasma meter 15
Volt heard his egg solidly crack - whether against his chest or the ground, he wasn't sure, but he didn't take time to check. Adrenaline pumped, and he tucked and rolled to get back on his feet - and now the dark phoenix was raging.
"You are NOT going to break THIS stupid egg!" He refused to allow another failure. Instead, he flared out those bony wings of his, inhaled...
And began to cry. Tears trickled down his face, but they were not just clear tears of sorrow or fear. It wasn't either of those in those golden eyes as Volt reached up, holding his egg tight with the other hand, and wiped those strange, echo-of-green tears with his fingers.
With a much-practiced flick of his wrist, the dark phoenix sent the hissing liquid that had come from his tear ducts flying straight at the raptor - and felt grim satisfaction as he heard the thing's screech of pain as the acid tears that he cried landed on it's scaly face.
Raptor: 5/10 Volt's Egg: 6/10
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Character Name:Devoltados (Volt) Faction: Amityville (Ghost quest) Appearance: Coin-gold eyes are framed by rougish black bangs, his hair short but just long enough in the back to pull into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. Dressed in red and black, and with wing-shaped bone protrusions sprouting from his shoulders. Miasma meter 0
At this point in the game, the giant lion boil was so utterly vexed, that snarling, he landed a rather energetic punch to the creature's snout as it whipped around in an attempt to move from Volt's egg to Kalden's own. "Uh-uh....does not fly. HOW ABOUT THAT YA BIG SCALEY DOUCHE-NUGGET!" All right perhaps not as big, but definitely just as vexating as the giant snake from before.
No. This egg was his and that raptor was going to have to pry it from his cold, dead, dissipating fingers before he was going to let them chow down on it like brunch was being served. Panting, he looked over to Volt. "Your hit, man...send this thing shrieking to the lowest, freezing pit of hell where it belongs!"
All jazzed up and ready to play whack-a-raptor!
It was comforting to see that the beast appeared to be flagging, disoriented and dizzy after the blow that Kalden had dealt.
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Character Name:Kalden Faction: Amityville (Monster Quest) Appearance: 6'3" leanly muscled, broad-shouldered, manly dork-nugget with long, mane-like silvery hair that turns teal at the tips. Blue eyes with black sclera. Looks like he's never seen the sun a day in his life (pale as heck). Paws for feet, teal claws, fluffy to the max lion-like tail. Miasma meter 15
For perhaps the first time in his life, Volt felt...a sense of purpose. A sense of camaraderie, if you will, with someone not of his choosing for a particular purpose, but because someone had chosen him. It was all very clarifying, really...or would be, if they weren't in a fight for their lives - and their eggs - with a bunch of hungry raptors.
Rather than dwell on "feelings" or anything remotely emotional, Volt instead grinned as he watched Kalden land a rather spectacular blow on the raptor's snout, sending it reeling and screeching.
While it still seemed incapacitated, Volt gathered more tears, and, making sure his current partner was out of the way, flung it towards the raptor.
With rather impressive aim, the dark phoenix hit his mark, and there was a nasty sizzling sound as the raptor's eye began to dissolve thanks to the acidic tears. When the thing hit the ground, Volt jerked his head towards the hole made through the raptor gang.
"Beat it! Let's get outta here!"
Raptor: 0/10 Volt's Egg: 6/10
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Character Name:Devoltados (Volt) Faction: Amityville (Ghost quest) Appearance: Coin-gold eyes are framed by rougish black bangs, his hair short but just long enough in the back to pull into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. Dressed in red and black, and with wing-shaped bone protrusions sprouting from his shoulders. Miasma meter 0
Unfortunately, there were more raptors, and the defeat of their friend hadn't seemed to be capable of driving them off any, in fact, a couple looked like they were now eyeballing their fallen comrade as prospective midday luncheon. "Oh yeah it is WAY time to go!"
The path was blocked, but if they dove over this uh....convenient waterfall they they would be within spitting distance of quest end. "....Jack, I hate water in vast quantities..." He grumbled, snarling at the prospect of what he was about to undergo. "My hair's gonna be a mess..." Shrugging, he tucked the egg against him as tight as he could without fear of cracking it.
"CANNONBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL~!" And he curled into a ball midair, feeling the water hit him like a kick to the ribs...but hey, at least the egg felt like it might survive this antic, even if he didn't. Coming up out of the water with a whoop, he held the egg high above his head, in both hands, and strutted right out of the pool like that, tail swishing droplets of water across the landscape like a sprinkler, hovering just a few extra inches from the grass - levitating by the sheer power of pride.
When Volt made it Kalden was going to HIGH FIVE HIM SO HARD!
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Character Name:Kalden Faction: Amityville (Monster Quest) Appearance: 6'3" leanly muscled, broad-shouldered, manly dork-nugget with long, mane-like silvery hair that turns teal at the tips. Blue eyes with black sclera. Looks like he's never seen the sun a day in his life (pale as heck). Paws for feet, teal claws, fluffy to the max lion-like tail. Miasma meter 15
Volt watched Kalden go over the edge of the waterfall with something akin to terror. Bare bones didn't do well in water, but it was either that or have said wing bones become Volt-kabobs with the rest of him.
The choice was an obvious one.
Volt cursed, and jumped after his partner. Bone protrusions flared in reflex, much as wings would, trying to slow his fall. Unfortunately, they couldn't do much and instead only steered him into the waterfall. The rush of water knocked him sideways, and sent him spinning out of control instead of a smooth cannonball as Kalden had done...
Volt hit the water with a bone-jarring thud, on his side instead of curled up to take the impact. He heard the egg hit the water and everything inside him froze.
Oh, by all that was hellish...
He sputtered to the surface, aching, wheezing, not daring to look at his wings or his egg as he scrabbled towards the edge of the water. When his feet touched dry land, he risked a glance at the egg that had nearly killed him...
It was whole. A little worse for wear, perhaps, but whole. They had done it!]/i] Volt let out a very uncharacteristic whoop of relief, and quickly got out of the water to join Kalden.
Y'know, before something in there decided it wanted to kill him like everything else on this damned mountain wanted to.
Volt's Egg: 1/10
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Character Name:Devoltados (Volt) Faction: Amityville (Ghost quest) Appearance: Coin-gold eyes are framed by rougish black bangs, his hair short but just long enough in the back to pull into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. Dressed in red and black, and with wing-shaped bone protrusions sprouting from his shoulders. Miasma meter 0
