There seemed to be little to do around the bus, and Saoirse found herself moving away, trying to put some distance between her and the general rabble. It meant stumbling across some villagers, villagers with a specific request to get some wyvern eggs, and there seemed to be little she could do to convince them that they were the ones that should be catering to her.
So now she was at the base of the mountain, realizing that it was probably useless to return without actually acquiring the eggs so there was really no where to go but up.
At least it seemed as though there was someone else in the same predicament as her, a figure not too far away. As she drew closer there was one thing that she realized. The other individual was, without a doubt, beautiful. A genuine smile graced Saoirse's lips as she moved closer, starting up the slight incline of the mountain, wings beating slowly in anticipation. "Greetings fair maiden," she tried, "if you're going up the mountain would you mind if I join you?"
- It seems as if the villagers now want you to collect some eggs. Some untainted, un-miasma fused precious wyvern eggs from an exotic wyvern couple that sadly passed away. You must scale a very high mountain in order to get these eggs.
- Your character is dropped off at the base of the mountain. The goal is to climb the mountain and get the egg. To scale the mountain, you must write a jaunty 250 word post of your character scaling the mountain. You can do this as you please, there are plenty of angry nesting minipets, boulders, and possibly giant serpents blocking your way. As you reach the top, obtain the egg, and you are ready to begin your descent.
- Every single creature possible, especially rolling sand lobsters, will try to destroy your egg. Roll 1d4 four times and match your dice roll to the prompt below to reach the bottom of the mountain. Yes, repeats do happen if you roll a repeat. Your egg has 10 HP. If you make it down without the egg reaching 0 HP (breaking) you made it!
1) A sand lobster rolls right into your egg and nearly breaks it! -2 HP 2) Strange velociraptor minipets are hungrily staring at your egg. They try to attack it! -1 HP 3) A giant snake smacks you with its giant tail. Ouch! -3 HP 4) Nothing happens. You were lucky!
gaia_star If you successfully get an egg to safety, you get herbivore egg. It is considered a quest item. Add it to your quest item list
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:16 pm
Fia's fascination of the village seemed to blinding her better judgement. First the village needed protection from the whale, now they needed her help gathering eggs of all things. She huffed a little at the idea, but the desire to help -- and possibly learn more secrets from the villagers -- caused her to be lenient with how much she'd help.
She had been dropped off at the base of the mountain and had to climb her way up the mountain to get the egg. Fia sighed. This was definitely a dirty job than before. At least she wasn't shooting at a creature. It seemed like she was supposed to protect this egg, despite not knowing what the villagers wanted with the egg.
Her slight irritability had put aside that there was another female with her. Fia hadn't noticed until someone had greeted her, and she felt bad having been so distracted. Fia smiled at the female and bowed in greeting. "Hello Miss. I'm Fia of the Conquest Clan. The villagers sent you up to get these eggs as well?"
It was hard to see someone as delicate as the female standing in front of her "I'd gladly have company, but wouldn't this be easier for you to fly your way up?" It at least seemed like her wings would do the job.
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The Conquest Clan? It took a moment to place where she'd heard that, and when she did Saoirse's eyes widened. "Conquest? So you're a horsewoman?" She didn't seem all that different, but she was beautiful, so perhaps it was a common trait. Beauty often did follow power after all.
Then she seemed to get everything under control, offering her a carefully practiced smile, meant to be disarming, one she'd used time and time again when she had to perform her royal duties. "I'm Saoirse, and yes, they sent me to fetch the eggs."
She gave a flap of her wings at the question, lifting off of the ground slightly. "I suppose I could, but it's a long way to the top I think. If there are any truly bad spots I'll just fly up to where I need to go, but this part doesn't seem too bad. So, why did you agree to help the villagers?" She couldn't help but be curious, this was a horsewoman after all. Plus they were walking up a mountain, there was plenty of time to talk.
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"Yes, a Horsewoman," Fia confirmed with a smile and a nod. It was nice to meet people that found her as interesting as she found them. Or was that odd...?
Despite her current situation, Fia couldn't help but continue smiling. Saoirse had a name to match her beauty. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Saoirse."
Fia realized that she technically could go into her horse form, but did agree that it may be quite tiring. Plus, she wouldn't want to accidentally smash what she needed to collect. "I'm not entirely sure how I was talked in to this. The desire to help, I suppose."
"What about you? Shall we ascend as we learn more about one another?"
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"They're oddly persuasive, and dense," Saoirse replied in regards to the villagers. "I informed them multiple times that someone of my rank should not be doing such a pesky task, but they were hostile and refused to consider anything else. I finally decided just to complete their quest and then perhaps they will listen to my demands."
Her tone was haughty, the sound of one used to being listened to, but she moved through the terrain with relative ease. Growing up in the forests of Halloween meant she knew to watch her step around prickly thorn bushes, and how to keep an eye out for pesky wildlife. At one point a rock slipped under her foot but her wings caught her balance, letting her hover until she got to surer ground.
It made climbing a mountain easier. When it was very steep she flew, when the path meandered slightly she walked, trying not to seem winded and using her glamours so it would appear she was accustomed to this level of exercise and wasn't bothered by it in the least.
"I was on the bus because I'd just arrived at the school yesterday and realized there were several things I forgot at home, so I was headed back," she offered as they climbed, trying to find something to break the ice. "Then again, my dorm room was, well, less than we expected, and there are more comforts that I need that the local stores don't offer. At least, not to the standard I'm accustomed to. I didn't expect traveling by bus to be so..." her voice trailed off as she searched for a word and came up empty. "What about you, why were you on the bus?"
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"Persuasive, or pushy?" Fia couldn't help but wonder why the villagers acted the way they did. Sure, she remembered others that acted like them, but a whole village? Well, they were stuck in a strange new place and it was better to make the best out of the situation than sulk.
Keeping busy helped. "Do you have any idea how to get out of this village? the fog is thick her and it makes it hard to decipher where we are and how exactly to get back. At least, from what I've noticed." Part of her was still interested in the village, but the other part missed the security of her flat.
The immense amount of fog didn't ease Fia's insecurity. She was used to being able to scout further ahead, and was glad that Saoirse seemed to know where she was going. Well, not so much where they were going but... At least they were not tripping all over the place. Fia probably would have if she had to do this alone.
"I wasn't on the bus. I had been working on one of my pieces, but then the day started to get a bit dull so I took a stroll... I just kind of ended up in the fog and found the us by accident." Fia continued to watch her step as well as follow Saoirse. She sighed. It was slightly starting to irritate her, not knowing the terrain better.
It wasn't before long that Fia tripped on a high tree root and landed on her elbows, what she was working on flew out of her hanfu and next to... "Oh look. Are those the eggs we're looking for?"
She stood up and dusted herself off a bit before staring some more at the eggs and her jewelry piece. Fia let out another sigh. "Well, that little guy's going to need some dusting off too..."
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"Not really, I had just started looking around when I got recruited for this," she admitted.
At the very least the trip went a bit faster with a companion beside her. What was lucky was that her companion was, well, not quite lucky judging from the trip, but balanced in her karma. "They are eggs, and I guess they could be wyvern eggs? They don't look like any eggs I've seen before."
She reached down to pick one up to take with her, scooping up the trinket in the process to hand back to the horsewoman. Of course it was impossible not to look at it when she did so, her eyes widening in surprise. "You made this? The craftmanship is exquisite."
To put it bluntly it was beautiful, and she was all for beautiful.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:59 pm
Fia looked at the eggs. She still didn't like the fact that they both had to trek all this way for those. Oh well. It was what the villagers wanted.
"Thank you," Fia responded happily. She enjoyed making her jewelry pieces and it was even more fulfilling to see others appreciating them. "It was the reason why I took a walk. It seemed to lack something, but I couldn't quite place it."
Fia looked at the butterfly brooch in Saoirse's hand. She cocked her head to the side, looking between Saoirse's expression as well as the brooch. "Hm.. Maybe what it was lacking was a new home."
She walked over and picked up two of the eggs. "If you'd like, you can have an egg and the brooch." Fia paused, unsure of if Saoirse would accept. "I think it wants a new home rather than staying with me. I mean, it did fly out of where I had it hidden."
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Saoirse glanced at the broach, then back at the horsewoman. This was a horsewoman, one of the clan, and she'd heard tales. Tales enough that she knew better than to simply take this as tribute, as she might have from one of the citizens in her mother's domain.
Nor was she foolish enough to offer an open favor.
"It is beautiful, but surely you could find it a home without simply giving it away. What is it that a horsewoman could want from a student?"
It was something they could discuss on the way back, so she set off toward the base of the mountain, one egg held gently but firmly in her hands.
Egg HP: 10
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Fia had to think rather hard to figure out what she 'wanted'. At the moment, she didn't really want anything. In the long run... All she wanted to do was to piece together her memories and figure out her role in the Clans.
"I guess you can think of it a token of our quest today." She paused. "It could also be a token of our acquaintance or... Friendship."
She gently held the egg in her left hand while she used the right to make sure she didn't lose balance again. "Remember, it's technically not done. There's no enchantments and such. It means a lot to me because I created it, but to others, it may seem rather useless."
Not noticing a velociraptor approaching them through the fog, it ran for the egg in Fia's hand. It dove for it, nearly getting it. Thankfully, Fia had folded in her hand and protected it. The egg suffered little to no damage. "Well... I guess we're not the only ones wanting these eggs..."
Egg HP: 9
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It still seemed a bit suspicious, but it was hard to say no when it was in her hand. Inwardly she made a vow to try to resist pranking Fia, at least for a couple of weeks. That ought to suffice. But she wasn't making any vows.
"Beauty is never useless," she pointed out, voice filled with conviction. Beauty was important, just as people caring for their appearance was important. Pride. The craftsmanship, the fact that the creator cared for the piece, that added to it's worth.
The velociraptor that had gone for Fia's egg twist to try to catch her off guard as well, leaping past though it's tail tapped the egg on its way. It didn't seem to be too damaged, but she held it a bit closer just in case.
Egg HP: 9
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:39 pm
Fia wasn't sure how to ease Saoirse's mind, but she could understand why they felt that way. She could very much have used the piece to barter for information or otherwise, but sometimes... Fate had a way of steering things in a different one. Her walk was one thing. That brooch was another.
"It definitely can be used in some situations, but...." Fia trailed off, looking at her surroundings. She noticed a wilted flower. Fia gently placed the egg next to it and picked the flower. "See this flower? It could have been a very exquisite specimen at some point, but fate had decided that it just wasn't meant to be."
"In the case of the brooch, Fate seemed to want it to end up in your hands. It did, essentially, fly away from me."
She didn't notice there had been a sand lobster not too far from the wilted flower... And well, it got a bit too close to the egg and caused it some damage. Fia couldn't help but chuckle before dropping the flower and picking up the egg again. "It seems like fate doesn't want this egg to make it back to the village..."
Egg HP: 7
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The horsewoman was wise, but she was talking to a teenager, and her words, while not falling on deaf ears, might as well have. "Just because fate decides something doesn't mean you have to accept it.
She bent down, scooping up the discarded flower, and held it out to the mare. This time the flower seemed in it's prime, a glamour to showcase it in the best possible light. "There's always a chance things can change."
Apparently it was Fia's egg that fate was against, as nothing came near her charge.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:23 pm
Fia smiled at Saoirse. "Well, I honestly don't mind what Fate had in store for the brooch. More than don't mind... I'm happy that it's going to be in the hands of someone that appreciates it."
She looked at the flower in Saoirse's hand. The flower was quite lovely now. "How... Did you do that?"
She couldn't really understand what was going on, but she put down her egg again and looked at the flower closely. It definitely deserved to to be a model for one of her pieces. If and when she got out of the village, anyways.
Her distractions were definitely failing her. The sand lobster from before seemed to be following her egg and damage it once again. "The fate of my egg really needs to change, I think."
Fia laughed again. She really didn't want to know what the villagers would think if she didn't manage to bring an egg back.
Egg HP: 5
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From the way Fia was examining it Saoirse had the feeling she had fallen for the glamour completely. "It's a glamour," she said after a moment, decided that the least she could do was tell her the truth. It was a simple trick, whatever was within her sphere of influence could be transformed.
She was distracted though, missing the giant snake until it was too late. It's tail whacked the egg solidly, and it looked ready for more, probably with thoughts of devouring the egg in its mind.
So she used her ability. She flared out her wings, but now they took on the appearance of a cobra's head around her, and she watched the snake flee rather than stay to attack her.
Simple.
And that was it, they were down to the foothills now, all she had to do was prove to them that she had the egg.
