Painted Egg - Novali - FIN

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The Painted Egg
Prompt 1


Solo or RP Format
Counts as 5 RP growth Points
Solo word minimum is 750, RP post minimum is 7

Spring has arrived in Tendaji; in most places flowers were blooming while others might only see a slight temperature increase. The weather was nice so you decide to take a stroll. As you leave town and enter a small clearing, you notice strange colorful dots all throughout the grass.

"Oh stop right there!"

Freezing, you stop with your foot hovering just a breath above the grass and then as you slowly take one step backwards you notice that something colorful had been nestled against the ground. What was this? A Gaein girl comes forward and offers a big smile, "Thank you for stopping! You nearly crushed the egg." From there she explains that the whole field is full of colorful eggs that she had spread out for the villagers to find. Apparently in Belrea this time of year is a time for festivities and one of their most popular games is finding brightly dyed eggs that children create with their parents who later hide them away. As a member of the Academy she had been granted permission to come and share this knowledge with those in Tendaji and so offers to allow you to play with those already shifting through the wide expanse of fields.


[ Roll a 1d20 to determine what happens during your hunt!]
1. You are reaching out for an egg when it suddenly floats away! What in the? But then you notice wings behind it. A sprite is trying to steal your egg away!
2. You find a total of 8, totally normal, painted eggs!
3. You pick up what appears to be an egg but doesn't have the same weight a normal egg should have and you notice a line down the center. As you pull the two halves apart, a strange vial [an eye of the goddess] falls out!
4. You find a total of 2, totally normal, painted eggs!
5. You pick up an egg but later begin to smell something foul coming from your bag, it seems that you picked up a rotten egg!
6. You feel a bit competitive and run around as fast as you can to collect every egg, too bad a little boy just left with a basket full!
7. Oh no, watch your step! You accidentally step on and break an egg!
8. You find a total of 10, totally normal, painted eggs!
9. You find an extra large egg hidden in some tall grass. Later, it hatches into a Xaraan!
10. You're a little late to the party, all the younglings have already gathered all the eggs before you even got a chance, how sad!
11. You find a total of 5, totally normal, painted eggs!.
12. You hear a quiet scratching noise coming from a slightly larger painted egg you just picked up. It later hatches into a Sailscale!
13. You find a total of 1, totally normal, painted egg!
14. As you're walking, you hear a strange noise coming from the bushes. A keldari pops out at you! Whether you get startled or just shoo it away, a few eggs fall out of your basket and crack as they hit the ground.
15. You find a total of 3, totally normal, painted eggs!
16. You're walking towards a particular egg when you feel something beneath your foot as you take a step. Whew! Close call, you move your foot and the egg remains unharmed and you add it to your basket!
17. You find a total of 15, totally normal, painted eggs!
18. You feel your basket start to wiggle a bit and then hear giggling. As you look down, you see a youngling taking your eggs! They make off with 4 of your eggs before you have a chance to stop them!
19. You find an unpainted egg. Figuring it's not a part of the egg hunt, you leave it alone and continue on.
20. It seems that something is weird about one of the eggs you've picked up. As you stare at it the egg begins to wobble and even glows from the inside?! It later hatches into a Sitara!  

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Rolling.....


4. You find a total of 2, totally normal, painted eggs!  

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Novali's mood was soured when his walk was interrupted by some girl yelling at him to stop where he was. Didn't she know not to bother him when he was brooding? He took in an irritated breath and turned to look at the stupid chit. What he came face to face with made him arch a brow curiously. He'd not seen anyone like her. Certainly not with those colors. He had to wonder if maybe the girl dyed her hair. Nova knew that a lot of girls did that when they wanted to stand out from others. It was the only explanation he had since he didn't know her tribe or even about the airship they came over on. He and his family kept to the deep woods and away from others.

As she rambled on about some egg and that it was part of a tradition to paint them and hide them then hunt for them he could only stare at her as if she had lost her mind. Novali wanted to be left alone. It was the whole point to his walks. It was time away from his mother and sister. He loved them dearly but after a while he needed some him time. Now was such a time, only the girl was putting herself into his time.

“Yeah, yeah, alright. I get it. You do this every year and it's fun.” He sighed heavily after speaking and shook his head.

The girl seemed to be a little upset that she was blown off in such a manner but didn't press the issue since another person came walking along. Novali could have sworn that was Seren's way of answering his plea to be left alone. A fact that he was thankful for. His soon goddess always answered when he needed her most.

The hybrid boy moved away from where he had been stopped and did what he could to avoid the others on the trail. There was a fair bit of thinking that he wanted to get done before having to return home in time for dinner. His mother always made meals at exactly the same time. It was how he knew when his father would be home. Unless he said otherwise. Which was very rare these days. Novali had noticed that he was staying away less and less now. It worried the boy.

Before he could get too far something bright at his feet caught his attention and he looked down. An egg. A painted egg. He made an irritated sound and rolled his eyes. He couldn't even think in peace! The dark haired boy leaned down and snatched it up off the ground. At first he was going to throw it, launch it into the trees to never be seen again, but then he noticed that the pattern on it was one his sister would like. So he kept hold of it and continued walking. If nothing else he could give it to his sister and watch her face light up with the gift. Not that it cost him anything.

His little sister was weird like that. She enjoyed getting stupid little things from him when he went out on walks. Novali enjoyed giving the gifts to her. She was his baby sister and he did just about anything for her.

Once he noticed that he'd gone pretty far he turned around and started to head back. If he kept going then he would be late for supper and his mother would scold him for it. Not something he wanted. Novali didn't like upsetting his mother. Family meant everything to him. As he picked up his pace some he noticed that another colorful egg was waiting just up ahead. It was only a little ways off the trail but it was his sister's favorite color. Orange. Not that he knew why she liked that ugly hue. Novali smirked and took the five or so steps that were needed to make it to the egg then scooped it up and went back to the trail. He looked the egg over and blew some spare grass off it before tucking it away with the other one. With it safely put up he looked forward and noticed the color of the sky between the leaves. It was getting late and if he didn't want to get yelled at he needed to hurry it up.

No longer bothering to scan the ground for the bright colors Nova turned onto a smaller trail that was less noticeable and disappeared into the shadows. He was heading home and he hoped to make it before dinner hit the table.

WC - 777