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 Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:06 am
This Quest is for Vollerei who is striving to become a Guardian.
 OOC
||. The quest prompt must be answered with a 2000 word reply (can be more).
||. Respond to the prompt given with an adventure of your own creation as long as it meets the requirements of the specific tasks.
||. NPCs may be used as long as they advance the quest in an interesting manner.
||. You cannot include any playable characters other than the quest taker.
||. Your responses will be graded with a Pass or Fail. Those who fail will have to continue with assistance from the staff.
||. Questions about quests can be asked here.
IC
After the battle had ended and those that had ventured out to Yael had returned home, it had been time for everyone to try to resume as normal of a life as they could. The Alkidike traveled back to Jauhar, those that had stood against their Sisters and those that had feared banishment over the idea of being a weak race both in tow.
Vollerei could see those around her giving other Sisters looks and glares. Those that had refused to be banished viewed the other Sisters as traitors, those that fought against their Sisters saw the Extremists as dangerous still. What were the Alkidike to do when they were so obviously still parted in two?
Quest Tasks
||. The quest should begin with the trip back to Chibale from the last battle.
||. Vollerei will realize how the other Alkidike are looking at her.
||. They see her and the Sisters who stood against them as traitors and now that they are back in Jauhar there is no telling if they will attack or not.
||. Vollerei can decide whether to face those staring her down or to avoid any confrontation.
||. If the extremists choose to attack first, how does Vollerei handle the situation?
||. The quest should end with a resolution to the tense air and should include some introspection on Vollerei's part.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:49 pm
Vollerei was in a terrible mood as she headed back through Jauhur to Chibale. The whole ordeal and situation with the arrogant extremists left a foul taste in her mouth and ruined any good mood she had. Not only had they apparently corrupted many of the youths, they had decided to just march on a clan that the Alkidikes ad never had problems with and try to take away that land. If it’d been the jungles of Jauhur that her people had wanted Vollerei may have viewed it slightly differently... but not too much. They didn’t need more space; what they had was fine! And why would they go take land that was so far away? There was no reason to start a war with a far off clan to claim a strange land they didn’t even need much less want! No, it’d only been idiots being arrogant and trying to show that they were bigger, badder, and better than the earthlings. No other reason than foolish pride…
But that was not the only reason she was so upset: she felt betrayed by the Mystics…. They were supposed to speak for Aisha! But how could you trust them when one was off wandering the world on the holiest of days, one decided to go take the world over and the other two sort of… sat there. Didn’t speak out enough, didn’t persuade the youngsters who just wanted a war! Who spoke for Aisha? And how could they even tell?
She shook her head and had Zweil land as the sun began its descent towards the tree line. It was time to land and see if there was space in the village blow.
It was unfair of her to think this... the Mystics were only mortal! Of course they would have their own ideas and ethics… but to twist the Mother’s words so much to suit them? She scowled again. The eldest one, the Matron… she was the main source of the problems! If only the elders had noticed and done something earlier!
She sighed again: once more she was being unfair. The Matron was the eldest Mystic, worthy of respect and honor. And the views that earthlings were lesser and that the world belonged to the Alkidikes was, sadly, so wide spread through out the Alkidikes that it wasn’t just the Matron and her clique of elder’s fault. It was the way her people looked at the world that was at fault; the idea that they were better and the right to do this was where the problems stemmed from. As more people moved out into Jauhur, met and lived with earthlings the mindsets of her people were changing but apparently not fast enough.
Zweil landed and Vollerei pulled her packs off of him and let him flutter back up into the tree tops to roost. There was always an inn or a friend willing to put up with travelers so she wasn’t worried about finding a roof to sleep under. Or she could just sleep under the stars; she’d done it before! But as she walked the village she got a strange feeling. She was being watched, eyed by people that looked away when she turned to face them. Frowns and whispers followed her as she walked though and finally she had enough. This was too weird and she was in no mood for strangeness! She just wanted food and sleep! She was already angry and this just made it worse.
The next person she caught glaring at her found a very angry Vollerei in her face.
“Is there a problem.. Sister?” She asked quietly as she dropped her bag and got up close and personal. She had to look up at the much taller sister but was not intimidated at all. She had mass and anger on her side and Vollerei had never bee cowed by taller people. Height meant nothing; experience and skill did.
“…Yeah. You are…Traitor. We don’t want earthling lovers here.” Came the answer; an answer that hurt to hear.
Vollerei cocked her ears.
“Traitor? You are calling me a traitor?” She reached up and slapped the other one across the face. Hard. “A traitor is one who betrays family, clan, or goddess. I have done no such thing! I stood up for my sisters, I fought for them… to keep tour clan from going to war with the entire earthling clans and being slaughtered! Call me that again and it’ll be my spear instead of a slap!” She was angry; this stranger was calling her a traitor?
“You killed our sisters! You sided with earthlings!”
“Murdered our sisters.” Came a soft whisper from behind her.
She barked a harsh laugh and grinned, her cheek scars stretching painfully. “Ohhh.. You are one of the ones who decided to come back with your tail between your legs ehh? After getting your butts whopped you stayed here? Too scared to leave home, but fine with marching in a huge crowd to go kill people we have no quarrel with? One of the arrogant fools who think that we can kill who ever we want, take land from anyone we want… for no reason other than our pride?”
They had gathered a crowd now… and they were not friendly. She glared at all of them. “You all agree with this stupid arrogant idea? That we can just go kill people and take everything away from them cause mommy said so?” She laughed bitterly. “What a bunch of idiots! The land is not ours to claim. Was that not what the Obans did? Was that not their excuse? It was their right to attack and take our land and enslave us? Is that not why we went against them? That we said no, this land is not yours, you cannot come in and take it away from those that live here? That you cannot do what ever you like here? Are we now Obans? To go and take what ever we want because our Mystics say we can?”
She felt that hit home. Everyone agreed that what the Obans had done was wrong… and to be compared to them was painful. But the people still grumbled and scowled at her.
“We don’t enslave people!”
“No, you just kill them and take their lands all because ‘they aren’t us.’” Vollerei snarled back at the younger Alkidike who had spoken from within the crowd.
“We are no such thing! Ours is a divine right!” The woman Vollerei had accosted tried to strike back and Vollerei turned around and hissed at her.
“Divine right? No such thing exists! Just because our mother says we can is no excuse! You don’t know she said that.. you only know a Mystic claimed that! A Mystic who happens to disagree with the other Mystics…. Aisha is not the only goddess within this world, you arrogant p***k! Other spirits live in this world… and to assume that only we have a goddess is ignorant, wrong, and plain stupid. The Obans believed they were in the right as well… No doubt many other clans have their own divine spirits that can claim the exact thing; the land belongs to us.” She snorted and snarled at them; “If I tell my daughter she can go kill anyone and take their doll because she likes it does that make it right? NO! So why must you think our mother is any different? Because that’s what it is… Us taking dollies away from other kids cause we refuse to share.” She stepped back and shook her head in disgust. “Go and join the banished ones if you feel that this is all wrong and that Alkidikes can go and kill anyone they want and take anything they want. Go be with your idiot friends on that toxic island and wonder why your actions are wrong. I can and will defend those that cannot defend themselves from people like you. People who are no better than bandits on the roadside.”
Her vehemence shut them up for a bit; Vollerei was just fine with having a yelling contest. Calm words hadn’t worked on them before and she doubted yelling would either…. But it felt good to sy these things. To get them off her chest and aired.
She picked her bags up and turned to leave; this was a shitty town apparently full of extremist sympathizers!
“Where do you think you’re going?” The taller Alkidike tried to bluster. Vollerei cut her down with a scathing stare.
“Away before I start killing idiots and making the world a slightly nicer place. Unless you want me to stay and fight you… it won’t be pretty and will probably end up with you dead.”
She saw hands inching towards weapons and sighed inwardly. A fight was probably going to happen…
“You can’t come in to our village and talk like that to us!”
“You admit to gladly killing our sisters?”
“Get off your pedestal! You’re no better than us so why do you get to say that to us?”
Voices started raising from the crowd. Yup… this will be a fight, Vollereri thought.
“I do not gladly raise my weapons against my sisters… but I will if you continue to act like idiots, murderers, and zealots. And you are neither strong enough to stop me nor smart enough to argue apparently. If you are one of the few who decided to stay instead of being banished than I suggest you change your outlook. If you are simply sisters who didn’t march with your fellow extremists because of what ever reason… than I suggest you back off. I did kill that day and I am not happy about it. In fact I can honestly say I am pissed that it came to that…. But I will not stay my hand should you attack. “
She dropped her bag and grabbed her spear, letting them know she meant what she said.
“Come if you will, we can fight and have a repeat of what happened at the last battle. You will die and I will have more blood upon my hands if you force this issue. Or you can leave and no one needs to die today. “
They were young; young and naive. Some were too young to have marched or perhaps had been cowed by a parent into not throwing away their life… And here was someone they could lash out at and attempt to sooth their wounded pride at not having been in the battle. Vollerei knew she could easily kill them… but she didn’t want to. She was sick of attacking her sisters no matter how stupid and zealous they were.
The tall one she’d growled at first stepped forward despite her warnings and she gave an inward shrug. So be it.
“No! I won’t accept this at all! Our people are meant for greatness! We have our—” She started to yell when Vollerei whipped her spear shaft up and knocked her on the chin with the dull end. The girl’s eyes rolled back and she collapsed. Vollerei had held back some strength, enough to ensure she hadn’t killed the girl, but with enough force she knocked her out.
“Don’t spill your bile anymore. I have heard it all before and no longer will stand it.” She said as she looked at the other girls. “Well? You going to come and fight or leave.”
The younger ones shifted and looked nervous; as a group sure they were courageous, but with the leader of their group down (or maybe the more vocal of them) they were nervous.
“Look kids.” Vollerei sighed and grounded her spear. “Go out and see the world before you start making judgments on how supposedly great we are and how its okay for us to kill earthlings: go and live with the earthlings for a bit. Try to open that closed mind of yours and see that we are not alone in this world. We need to learn to coexist and not just kick others out of lands they have lived on for generations.”
She glared at the group one last time. “And if you can’t… well you will find out the hard way that Earthlings are not one to die easily…. I can only hope you don’t drag the rest of us into your personal vendetta and get us all killed when they strike back.” She sighed and felt her anger drain away, leaving her feeling tired and old.
She shook her head sadly at the fallen girl and left; the girl was merely unconscious and not dead so at least that was one good thing. Now to go sleep in a tree far away from here: she wanted out and to not see or hear other Alkidikes for a while.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:50 pm
have fun reading~ I ended up having to do a lot of edits to get 2k words O.o normally I can do this better but ahh weellllllll words: 2129
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:46 am
Class Quest Result
Pass!
Vollerei has passed and received a rank of Guardian!
Congratulations Vollerei!
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