As soon as they met the desert sand, she felt its heat sucking moisture out of her. Every minute spent in that environment was a minute lost to slow dehydration, and they had only a distant oasis to approach in these endless dunes. The sun blazed overhead, the air sat stagnant and nothing stirred but for the woman calling them distantly. Others were either there before or appeared after — one most obvious against the dunes by how bark crawled around her fuku. No chaos crawled about that she noticed, so Pavo relaxed as much as her sensibilities would allow. Shoulders fell in the wake of Giza's highly convenient fanning.
Finally they drew close enough that Pavo heard the girl's solicitations. She lost something and expected the lot of them to find it. "What a waste of time," she muttered to Giza.
"Excuse me," she stated as she approached the girl. "The desert's very large and we're very short on time. If you want us to help you, help us help you. What is this thing you lost? When did you last have it? Be as thorough as you can." Any information was better than getting sent out into the desert and expected to find something with no description whatsoever and no general location to start. Unless she lost something in the oasis itself, Pavo was disinclined to start looking.
"Otherwise I'll assume you're looking for clothes as you seem to be missing yours." Pavo reached for the white front of her skirt and untied it before offering the swath curtly.
beejoux
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offering a strip of cloth
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:04 pm
[Sailor Botein] [Inventory: 1 Health Potion] HP: 15/20
It took longer for Botein to get herself together. Absently swiping at the tears that fell out of frustration, pain, and fear the girl climbed to her feet and put on a brave front. At least the fan would be useful in finding something to bring back to the lady.
So with that little 'cheerful' thought she started her search while slowly making her way back towards the oasis and the people who had made her part of their little group. Along the way the fan stopped creating giant sand tornadoes but that wasn't bad at all since Botein was getting rather tired of eating sand. She just used the fan like normal; gently blowing away sand and occasionally cooling herself.
She wasn't too far away when she finally found something, anything really, that wasn't food or drink to bring back to the beach bunny. So without pausing she grabbed it and carried it back with her. "How about this!" With pride, and a tinge of annoyance, the baby senshi displayed her find... a life size cut out of Danny DeVito!
Moira gains 10$ to spend at chuckie cheese, which is located over the 3rd large dune on the west end of the desert!
Fiction1119
Boetin gains a special gold Lock! She has cleared the trial for her Danny Devito offering is amazing.
tefla
Loses 10 HP.
Beejoux
Giza gains a magical suntan lotion that if he applies to skin, makes him sparkle in the sunlight and blind everyone around him.
Strickenized
Pavo's uniform magically returns to normal and every time she tries to rip it, it mends itself and adds ANOTHER layer on top of her uniform. This effect only happens in this desert.
Since the buxom babe had so many offerings, she looked over them all carefully. "These aren't right!" She pointed to the jewels that Moira offered, "But it's something like that! Its smaller! And they are a pair! They are super important!" She got off her chair and adjusted her beach ring though.
For the bag, she squinted at it before flicking her wrist. The bag comes alive, making a move to eat Meissa's face off. It last for only 10 minutes but the bag chases Meissa bag out into the desert. Really, no one likes a Shady Beach anyways.
"Think I got clothes covered." She rolled her eyes at Pavo, "There is nothing but time in here. It's a trial, not a hit and go." She runs a hand through her hair and looks Giza over before grinning, "You gonna rub it on me? No thanks, I'm working on a tan." Not that she isn't already golden tan now.
However, Sailor Botein's offer, and unsure how it got there made the buxom beach babe blush before flailing over and grabbing it. "You didn't see this! NONE OF YOU SAW THIS." She makes the cutout disappear before giving Botein a small lock. "That's what you wanted right? Please leave and don't tell anyone about him okay?"
Hint: You are on the right track with Gems! She's looking for a particular special one though. A pair if you will. She likes to see them.
So that was how the buxom lady wanted to play. Meissa panted as she attempted to recuperate from being chased willy-nilly into the desert under a hot, baking sun. "Sure," she muttered under her breath as she was on her way back, "must be pick on the cat day."
As she got close enough to the oasis and the evil lady got a skunk eye Meissa was starting to feel more charitable towards Moira's idea of throwing the thot into her own oasis. Then she'd see who was laughing. At the same time though the hot sun made it almost impossible to want to spend extra energy. Gamely the teen moved off into the desert. She spent a good timing wandering back and forth among the dunes and eventually came back with her found item resting behind her back. Glancing towards the ground she gently placed her item at the lady's feet and backed away.
Sunlight glinted off her offering of a pair of glass slippers throwing prisms into the air and into her eyes. Well, if this offering didn't work Meissa didn't know what would. She had seen Botein standing off to the side clutching a small gold lock. Had she passed then?
As she waited Meissa began to fidget a little. Hopefully she could redeem herself.
The fidgeting got worse. Meissa glanced at the glass slippers she had retrieved from the desert and started to inch back towards the dunes. She was starting to wonder if the glass slippers would be enough. Turning around the senshi shot back out into the desert and began searching earnestly for her next offering. Her gloves protected most of her hands from the scorching sand but still she was starting to get heat blisters. Wincing she stopped her digging and tried soothing her hands before wiping away the sweat that gathered on her brow.
At last she touched something. A very hard, unyielding something. Freeing it from the sand in which it was encapsulated Meissa got singed fingers again before rushing back to the oasis, "Here's something else Miss."
She placed the giant diamond alongside her slippers and waited to see what was thought of her offerings.
Pixie Nyxie
How about a big gem, the Devil's Eye?
Sweenys_Revenge
Fiction1119
-Inventory- 1 Health Potion (heal 10 damage)
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:17 am
Tefla
Meissa receives a +10 Hp potion
Meissa's glass slippers were immediately slipped on and the beach babe did a small twirl. "Not the most comfortable but man they look good!" Somehow, even in the sand, the beach babe seems to walk on the ground with the heels as if it was flat and solid. You can even hear the click of the heels on the sand.
Odd.
When the jewel was presented, Beach babe immediately comes over. "IS THAT IT?" She looks at it, holding it up in the sun before frowning. "Ah no. It's the wrong eye." She sighed and tossed the large jewel in the oasis, where it melts against the surface. "I need both of them...."
Frustrated, even as she took her potion offered from the beach babe, did Meissa trek back into the desert. So, eye gems. But not singular ones like her giant diamond which was now melted into a puddle. Well, what else could she find that was like that?
Circling back to the hints received Meissa sighed. What was she missing?
"Gems. Seeing. Pair .. and eyes?"
Inspiration then struck the bobcat senshi. She dove into a nearby sand dune and began digging furiously. It seemed that the deeper she dug, the cooler the sand was and sighing in relief Meissa continued to dig until she uncovered what it was that her mind screamed, 'THIS IS IT.'
Returning to the oasis Meissa held out her prize on burned and singed hands. She wasn't sure how much more digging she could do.
Pixie Nyxie
Cabochans? "Cat's Eye" gemstones?
-Inventory- 2 Health Potions (heal 10 damage)
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:35 am
Moira caught the look that Meissa flashed at the beach thot and grinned at the other senshi. Somewhere off in the distance, Botein was harassed by her own fan and Moira made a mental not to check on her later. Right now, not only did Botein seem to be well enough not to warrant being checked on, Moira also had very little energy to spend on things that did not involve finding what she needed and getting out of the desert to solve another trial.
As she searched, Moira passed her with glass slippers and a gem. Moira paused her search to see if maybe either of those worked. They didn't of course, but the woman did offer some hint.
Both eyes?
Moira picked up a pair of glasses from the top of a dune and blew the sand off. One could, if they stretched, liken the lenses to jewels. Right?
Moira picked her way back to the oasis and presented the glasses to the woman wordlessly, too thirsty and tired to speak this time.
She watched the woman on the oasis, trying
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:30 pm
[Sailor Botein] [Inventory: 1 Health Potion] HP: 15/20
Botein stumbled out a surprised "Oh, um, sure," when the beach babe snatched the cardboard cutout and practically shoved a small gold lock into her hands. She stood there for a moment confused and not sure what was going on, only moving to the side when the senshi that had invited her to their group stepped up with two more offerings. Offerings that weren't quite what the sandy lady wanted, she seemed to like the shoes and the gem got a strange reaction. It brought a look and a mutter and some contemplation before the lady casually chucked the giant stone into the water. It seemed to be a item close to what she was ultimately looking for.
The young senshi stood there uncertain what she should do. Should she leave? Should she continue to search to help her new friends? Could she even continue to search? She could at least stand here and try to think of the answer to the riddle.
What was an eye but also a gem? A pair of gem eyes? Pale brows furrowed even as the cat eared senshi presented two cat eye gems and Moira gave her glasses. The answer seemed to be right there, right on her edge of her mind. On the tip of her tongue.... What was it?
"Moira, should I keep searching?" She asked quietly, tugging on the other girl's skirt to catch her attention and flashing the lock she got for the cutout. She really didn't want to leave them behind. She wanted to help but would her continuing to search mean her lock being revoked?
tefla
Sweenys_Revenge
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:31 pm
Kainite - 18HP -
At least this place was nice, if a little dry.
Kainite had no idea he was 'late' to the party, although he did see a few other people looking for whatever the very pretty girl was trying to find - and without much to go by, he grabbed the first thing in the desert that happened to catch his eye, with no real rhyme or reason besides the fact that he found it, and wouldn't it be useful for an oasis?
His bravado was still suffering a little from his bout of death, but he tried to seem confident as he approached the pretty lady - even if his cheeks were kind of really red because he wasn't really used to girls so pretty and wearing so little wanting anything from him. "His name is Wallace, " because that was what he'd decided. "He'd really like to take a swim with you."
There was nothing about this place routed in reality, at yet Giza still found himself surprised by the woman, the desert itself, and the various items the other people were managing to find half buried in the sand. Like this place had at one point in time become a dumping ground for the miscellaneous and time and shifting winds had covered the lot of it with only hints and tips peeking through.
The scientist in him found that peculiar and fascinating, but this was neither the time or place to give into that curiosity. What was needed was whatever the woman wanted them to find. Without that they were stuck here, and with the heat and the sun there was only so long they could last there.
After the woman had rejected the items both Pavo and he had offered up the page lingered near to watch what the others were finding and her reactions to them; a pair of crystal slippers and a gem seemed to trigger the most excitement.
They were looking for a precious stone that had to do with eyes. There were only so many to choose from.
Fingertips gliding along Pavo's bare arm he left the shade of the oasis again to return to hunting through the sand. Numerous items were uncovered and discarded until he found something he thought might actually make the woman happy.
And if not her, than maybe Pavo would appreciate the pair of tiger's eye earrings he returned with.
strickenized
pixie nyxie
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 5:27 pm
Mauvian Wendell - [ entering - 18 / 30 HP ] INVENTORY: x2 health potions (+10 HP)
Wendell landed with a soft whoomph on the sand, rolling over in a pile until he could burst up onto his feet again. His head swiveled around to glance over at the woman, then at all her surrounding people, and began pawing in the space around his feet, the coins on his bandanna jingling noisily as he did so.
This was a perfect place. Wendell could have lived here forever.
He did, however, overhear the last shreds of conversation from the Babe to her entourage, and eventually came up with a handful of things that were probably more rocks and dirt than anything else. At some point in time, he'd morphed into his human form without realizing it, Wendell crouching in the sand, tail stretched out behind him.
"AHOY THERE MY LADY," he said, and proceeded to dump the rocks at her feet, beaming down at her. "I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A GIFT."
dragon's eye crystals / variation
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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:22 pm
Tefla
Meissa receives another +10 HP potion!
"Oh!" The beach babe cooed as Meissa offered her the cat's eye gems. She snapped them up greedily, and while she didn't seem entirely excited, she was beaming none the less. "In the ballpark, but you're not there just yet!" Despite the fact it wasn't exactly what she wanted, she kept them anyways, dropping both the stones from the front of her bikini for 'safe keeping'.
Sweenys_Revenge
Moira receives a +10 HP potion!
When the glasses were offered, the beach babe's lips puckered in disatisfaction. "Sweetheart, you can't see people handing me jewels and then hand me trash. Are you sure you don't need these?" The buxom babe tossed the glasses over her shoulder, back into the sands where they came from. "Here, you can have this out of pity." She handed Moira a HP potion.
frayedflower
Kainite receives a Super HP potion! +25 HP
When Kainite approached next and offered Wallace to her, the beach babe's eyes positively lit up. "This isn't what I want at all, BUT OH MY GOD I LOVE HIM!" The babe snatched Wallace from the lieutenant, and immediately pulled the tube on over her head, so that it rested above the current pink tube she was wearing around her waist. She then grabbed the lieutenant, and planted a wet kiss on his cheek. Being in such close proximity to the beach babe, the lieutenant might notice that she smelled a little fishy.
The babe released Kainite, and then twirled, as if she was wearing a fine ball gown. "It looks good, I know."
Beejoux
Giza receives a +10 HP potion!
The beach babe hummed thoughtfully as Giza presented her with the Tiger's eyes earrings. "Once again, close, but not quite, BUT---" She snatched them from the page anyways, and put them on. They dangled from her ears, and the babe nodded her head. "You've come a long way from offering me sun screen." She told the page. "Glad to see you developing some common sense."
kuropeco
Wendell receives a golden key!
The beach babe spun as Wendell approached. "Well aren't you a tall dark drink of---" The babe gasped as Wendell dropped some stones at her glass slippered feet. She was silent for a long moment before her shriek pierced the desert air.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOD!" Truly nearly deafening. "YOU FOUND THEM!" The babe clapped her hands excitedly, an intensity forming in her gaze the longer she stared upon the Dragon's Eyes Gems that were right before her.
"Now wait just a moment, all of you---" She said, as she bent to pick them up with reverence. "I'm going to put them on."
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gaia_crownSUCCESS
Huzzah! The correct item has been brought to the beach babe! BUT WAIT---it's not over just yet! The next part will be posted tomorrow! Please feel free to mingle or wander around until then
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:25 pm
Pavo
While Giza concluded to play the beach girl's game, Pavo teetered precariously on the cusp of many choices. She could brute force the desert and sift the sands for anything she could find, bringing trash and treasure alike to the woman, and expect further hints toward their goal. She could reason out the item based on those hints, but would then be left checking over a vast desert for what could be a slightly different colored grain of sand hidden in an ocean of sand. She could try using her magic to somehow gain an edge. She could continue questioning this girl until they were both exhausted of each other and halted at an impasse.
All these options, she realized, were vested in reality. In logic. In critical thinking skills endemic to real life. A fantastical desert littered with strange, magical items proved no place for such ends, and Giza had the better sense to recognize this before she did. While she pondered over what to do next, Giza returned with another gift from the sands. Ever closer, it appeared, but not quite there — not until a cat completed the task.
"At least it's done," Pavo offered to Giza underneath the girl's grating scream. Already she felt her eardrums throb. "Now we can focus on other tasks, like getting out of here."
There was no need to make a spectacle of the girl putting on her newfound gems. During the intermission, Pavo gave Giza a consolatory pat on the arm before departing for the oasis' pool. She could use a quick splash on her arms and face to cool off after her multilayered skirt mysteriously spawned more layers…
Well at least now it seemed to be over. The mindless searching, questing, trekking through burning sands and yet all Meissa wanted to do was curl up somewhere where there was a lot of shade. Idly she wondered if the umbrella she'd brought first of all was able to be taken back, or at the least, shared. There was no respite from the sun that was baking everyone and asking Botein to fan her would be a very dangerous idea. Uncapping one of her three vials of health potion the senshi of bobcats downed the potion in order to revitalize herself for whatever trial may lie ahead. She, Moira and Botein had spent all their time in this bottle and well, there was no idea on what was happening outside of this locale.
It was slightly irritating to stand and have to brush dirt off of herself before going over to sit just out of reach of the beach girl's sunning chair. Meissa knew to sit on that would be a large mistake but she glanced around before ducking under the beach umbrella. At least it was a little cooler sitting underneath it. Considering the one calling the shots in this trial was still admiring her latest round of gifts the bluenette figured that there was no harm it what she was doing. She'd move if asked but for now she was cooling down the best way that she knew how ... getting out of direct sunlight.
