gaia_star[ Quest 8: ] Eggstraction: It Returns! (Click spoiler for mechanics) Requirement: One person in the party must have a herbivore egg.
- It seems as if the villagers now want you to collect some more eggs. Those eggs are really delicious you know, and surprisingly enough, get you into the good graces of the villagers quite fast.
- Your character is dropped off at the base of an even taller mountain The goal is to climb the mountain and get the egg. RP climbing it appropriately
- As you near the egg, whatever is following you will try to eat it. Roll 1d6 to see what it is.
1. A sand crab minipet 2. A 100 foot giant snake 3. A baby wyvern 4. A zombie deer minipet 5. A sand whale (estimated 400 feet) 6. A rolling sand lobster minipet
If by any chance a sand whale is the culprit, it automatically eats the egg and you have to try again. Otherwise, rp gathering the egg.
- Now you must carry the egg down the cliffside of the mountain. Roll 1d6 again and see what is trying to push you off the cliff aggressively.
1. A sand crab minipet 2. A 100 foot giant snake 3. A baby wyvern 4. A zombie deer minipet 5. A sand whale (estimated 400 feet) 6. A rolling sand lobster minipet
If the result is a sand lobster, you drop the egg, and have to try again.
- You finally pass the cliffs into the forest region of the mountain. Roll 1d5 to see what tries to block your way.
1. A sand crab minipet 2. A 100 foot giant snake 3. A baby wyvern 4. A zombie deer minipet 5. A sand whale (estimated 400 feet) 6. A rolling sand lobster minipet
If the result is a 100 foot giant snake, it squishes you and you have to try again.
Finally, you make you way past all of that and you get to the base camp. Oh wait, something is waiting for you at base camp! Roll 1d6 again:
1. A sand crab minipet 2. A 100 foot giant snake 3. A baby wyvern 4. A zombie deer minipet 5. A sand whale (estimated 400 feet) 6. A rolling sand lobster minipet
If a baby wyvern shows up, very mean adult wyverns land, reprimand you, and then extract the egg from you before flying away. You don't get an egg. Otherwise, success!
gaia_star If you successfully get an egg to safety, you get wyvern egg. It is considered a quest item. Add it to your quest item list
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 4:29 pm
In Kalden's mind, this was the perfect opportunity for him to prove himself further...
...and leave that whole balloon incident behind him. Not that he'd thought he'd done poorly, but that dragonseer sure was a cranky codger.
Now, the lion had the perfect potential partner for this second, egg-scapade....he chuckled to himself as he thought about the pun. Oh yes. After all, Devoltados had something to prove, right? Cracking that egg right open and all. Not that Kal could blame the guy, velociraptors were cranky lil' bastards and Jack knew that if they had their hearts set on omelets...then who was he to judge such a reptilian palate?
So there he was, now standing at the foot of an even taller mountain, dragging Volt in tow. All right!
Grinning like an utter fool, he looked over to his bone-winged, newfound partner. "Ok so apparently these eggs are more special than the last set....so maybe we'll get less of the stink-eye around here if we go grab a couple, yeah?" Not that Kal cared, but so long as they were stuck at this weird little backwater, they might as well have some fun with it. "Also apparently they do make damn good omelets, so you were real close to pan-fried glory when you cracked that last one." It was only half teasing.
Kal had eyed the egg in his pack more than once.
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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 0
Devoltados rolled his eyes skyward, and huffed out a breath. "Gotta be more of the freakin' eggs, huh...figures." But, as much as he hated to admit it, he did have something to prove. To himself, of course. He owed Fluffy Meat Head nothing.
Nada. Zip. Nilch.
"Yeah, yeah so...how is this gonna go?" He hadn't been paying much attention, honestly - why would he? Someone else usually was, and then he'd figure it out from there.
His gaze, when he eyed his partner, was much less enthusiastic...but then again, he managed to cheer himself up by realizing that this time he did have a muscle-bound macho to do all the heavy lifting.
Bonus~
"So, ah...what was your name again, you said?"
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:51 pm
"Apparently a delicacy." A shrug of broad shoulders wrote off any potential concerns as to Volt's derision concerning the continuation of their egg pursuits. He'd already hoodwinked the other into this adventure, and so the attitude of the bone-winged phoenix was really the least of his worries. Didn't matter, he'd win the chap over before the end of this disaster.
"Well...gotta get up this mountain, which is just a touch bigger than the last one...and get these super EXTRA special eggs which are apparently better than the last ones we er....attempted rescue on." He smirked over at the darker male, "...not so light-fingered with the delicate things, are we?" It was teasing, not particularly scolding, just amusing himself with the other's last, disastrous attempt at egg retrieval.
At the query, Kalden rolled his eyes heavenward, "KAL-DEN, my bony brother, Kalden. You can call me Kal tho, it's easier for those not good with the name bit." He winked exaggeratedly at the other, nudging him in the ribs with an elbow.
"Beat you to the eggs!" Igniting that competitive spark, he then began to charge his way up the mountainside with a determined, playful snarl, canines bared as he mustered all the energy he possibly could for the initial dash.
That lasted possibly a good fifty percent of the way, rather doggedly not looking back at the other just in case Volt was gaining on him. At the same time, he was glad to have company, never considering for a second that the other was going to back out. After all....it didn't look like the phoenix was a coward....and only cowards would go running back down the mountainside.
Yet it felt strangely like they were being watched from all sides.
Ah. Whatever. Must be just nerves.
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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 0
Race? Kalden surely had to be joking. Those big grinning jaws surely had displaced some of his brain cells. But when the white lion took off running up the mountainside, the dark phoenix knew that his luck was about out on having a companion with any sort of brain.
"Oh, well," he shrugged, though he was the only one there to hear now. "He'll be the brawn, and I'll take care of the brain capacity."
Still, he was not to be outdone - the big oaf wouldn't let him live it down should he prove to be...lesser of a companion himself. Luckily for Volt, while he didn't have the strength to back up his quick tongue, he did have speed to his name, and he tucked in his useless wings and took off after Kalden.
Despite his rather slow beginning, Volt caught up to the other boil quickly enough, keeping himself low to the ground and as streamlined as possible. Running may not have been his thing, but he could certainly hold his own at this at least - after all, this was more of a physical adventure than a mental one. Were it a mental one, he assured himself, he'd be running laps around these other boils...especially Kalden.
As he ran, however, Volt felt...odd. Something was wrong with this mountain, in a way that hadn't been wrong with the other. Sure, danger on all sides, yadda yadda. But this was different. This was...apprehensive, he decided.
About halfway up the mountain, the other slowed some, and came to a stop - none too soon, as Volt found himself aching in his guts. "H-hey." He attempted a smirk. "You f-feeling alright, then?" For the moment, he didn't mention the feeling that tickled uncomfortably along his bony wings. No need for the Macho-Head to have another reason to smirk.
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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
Turns out that what the lion had written off as paranoia, shouldn't have been so hastily disregarded. At the summit, there were a few of the eggs sitting there, nestled somewhat innocuously in their cozy little circle, without a parental creature of any sort. "Eggggs-cellent~" He crooned, reaching out clawed hands to scoop up one of the hefty spheres...only to feel his hackles rise as he turned around, feeling that supposedly illusionary stare at the back of his neck like a physical burden.
He was just in time to throw himself to the side and avoid the hissing strike of what had to be the LARGEST snake he'd ever seen in his life. And considering the mountains he'd been raised in, that was saying quite a great deal about the oncoming predator. "Oh Jack no you DO NOT! I claimed this egg and it is mine, good snake, sir!"
Whilst the massive beastie sulked over its bruised snout and wounded pride, the silvery-maned boil began hoofing it back down the mountain, putting paws to the rocky ground to give himself more traction. Oh hey! It looked as though Volt had made good time, despite his inability to actually hoist himself from the precarious terrain. "Hey! Brosky! Look out for the huge critters up here! I think they want to go for another round of omelets!" He laughed a bit at that, the sound a touch breathless. His adrenaline was thrumming and amping up the beat of his heart....and frankly he absolutely loved the sort of excitement. His blood was singing with adventure and the lion felt positively unstoppable.
That could have something to do with the fact that running down was much easier on the momentum than the uphill plunge that had led to his egg acquisition.
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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 0
Volt raised both eyebrows high into his hairline as the fluffy hairball of a lion he was following suddenly buzzed back past him, something in his arms and looking as if all of hell were following at his heels.
The dark phoenix found himself with a bad feeling, but he had to continue, right? Willingness or not, he'd allowed himself to be hijacked onto this quest, and he had to follow it through. Y'know, for pride's sake and all.
He very nearly renigged on that when he continued his way up the mountainside from whence Kalden had come hurrying back down, and found not only the nest with the necessary cache of eggs...but a very hacked off, very sore snake.
"BUGGER!" The thing had to be at least a hundred feet long, and not for the first time Volt cursed his lack of wingpower. "Oh, I hate him," he muttered, aiming curses down at the lion who had only so briefly warned him of what waited.
The snake hissed, and lunged; Volt, with a rather unmanly yelp, focused...and the snake slid straight through him, smashing once more into the cliff wall.
"Ha! Teach ya!" Without waiting around for more taunting - mostly because the snake still looked mad as a hornet and now twice as sore - the dark phoenix grabbed a second egg and hightailed his way from whence he'd come, following the trail Kalden had bypassed him on before.
"Wait for me, you stupid furball!"
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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
His headlong dash screeched to a stop for a pair of reasons...the first being that he heard Volt cawing after him. "Aww c'mon, I'm not that stupid." He teased lightly, pausing, tail lashing to and fro behind him, to give the phoenix a chance to catch up. Kalden was a real pal, after all, and it wouldn't do to leave his comrade behind. "Toldja there were big critters."
"OW!"
A pinch, a nudge....another nudge, and the lion nearly went head over heels over the cliffside in time to look over and...
...wow they did NOT make crabs like that back where he was from. With a snarl, he turned, still clutching the egg like a protective father to his chest, and he punted at the offending critter, which made a high-pitched, completely dissatisfied noise and scurried backwards. "Yeah! HAH! Thought so!"
It clacked its claws and looked as though it might come back, and Kal could have sworn that the crotchety crustacion was scowling....you know, if crabs actually had the anatomy that allowed him to scowl. "C'mon, Volt! Pinchy here thinks I'm on his turf!" Careful not to drop over the more sheer edge of the cliff that the offending critter was so fond of, the lion hedged his way back onto a slightly more promising looking foothold, before continuing his retreat back down the mountain.
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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 0
Volt skidded to a halt as he heard Kalden japing at him - and then he heard the other boil hiss out aggressively, and saw him land a rather spectacular punt at a vicious-looking, rather large crab.
"Yikes!" Note to self, Volt, avoid the giant crabs!
Instead, he clutched his own egg to his chest - rather determined, this time, not to break the gosh-darned thing - and scouted his own way down the cliff side. One step at a time, he made his way down, edging cautiously over rocks and footholds.
One particular foothold was bigger than the others, and Volt stopped for a moment to breathe, looking over at Kalden. "Doing alright there, Furba- YEOW!"
Something moved against his food, and when Volt looked down, he stuttered to see a rather hacked off baby wyvern flapping at him, hissing like the sand snake from higher up and snapping sharp little teeth at his ankles.
"Make way!"
Moving much faster, Volt avoided a particularly nasty snap that almost gave his leg bone some new piercings, and half slid, half hopped his way further down.
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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
It was about that time that they hit the forested portion of the descent, which was, honestly, why Kalden lowered his guard just a smidge. After all, forests were nice, right? And if he ran into a bear or some nonsense well...lions were proper mammalian predators too, surely they could suss it out, come to an understanding...
....run faster than the bear, at the very least.
Which was why it was the most utterly infuriating of things for that familiar clacking to materialize out of the shadows of the trees.
"Aww no way, clackles. I refuse to believe you're the same crab." He groaned, taking a step back as the pincers snipped at the air not three feet from the lion and his fervently coddled quest item. "My egg, my business, this isn't about you, mate." Giving a vibrating sound that was half a roar and the other part growl, he dashed off to the right, hoping that he could beat the misplaced crustacean at a game of zip-zag.
"You doin' all right, Volt? I think I've seriously pissed off the crab population ont his mountain!" Another chuckle at his own predicament occurred as white-furred paws picked up the pace. Almost there! The base of the mountain was in sight! He would show those villagers that he was the king of all egg-hunters.
...not that the eggs had been running away, but they should really get on evolving legs before everything else out here had them for brunch.
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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 0
Volt steered clear of Kalden's little pincer problem, making sure to double check that his own egg was still whole and free of any cracks. By some miracle, this egg quest had decided not to hate him, and his prize was, currently, untouched.
Because of this, he took a second to stop, holding his egg carefully to his chest, stretching out his wings. They made a familiar clacking sound as they outstretched...and then the clacking didn't stop.
What the-
It was the ground that was shaking!?
Volt stumbled, clutched his egg tightly as the entire forest floor seemed to vibrate and quake. An earthquake? On a mountain?! Not even his luck could be that bad, right?
No. But it could be worse.
From the sandy edges of the forest he'd just left behind, a spectacularly huge creature rose with a loud, angry wailing sound. "HOLY-"
A sand whale?! Here?!
With a high-pitched groan, Volt took off after Kalden, seeing that massive tail raise for an earth-quaking THUD. "Kalden, JUMP!"
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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
Not only did Kalden jump when he heard Volt's warning, he tucked, ducked and rolled too, the wyvern egg in the very center of his body so he could cushion it from any potential oncomers.
Which was very lucky, because as he settled, his tumble losing momentum as the lion very suddenly hit flat ground, he rolled over and was about to let loose a cry of victory, when out of the corner of his eye he spotted something tumble-wheeling towards him at alarming speed. "OH JACKIN' NO YOU DON'T! I'll put you little suckers in to boil and such the meat right out of your exo-skeletons!" At least he assumed that crabs had exo-....
....wait, ok, it was hard to tell for a second, but that was definitely a lobster.
Either way it required him to catapult himself out of the way, this time holding his prize well above his head and out of the reach of migrating, out of water, creepy-crawlies.
"WOOO!" Once the lobster made its way onwards, Kalden was sporting a fanged grin from ear to ear, turning to the villagers in a slow victory walk. "Now that's some professional egg-security you've just seen there....no, seriously, DID YOU SEE THAT!?"
Man, he was good.
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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 0
Though his wings gave him no lift, they could give him balance, and as the monsterous whale thumped his tail and set the whole forest to shaking, Volt jumped as high as he could. Bone wings flared for balance if not glide, and allowed him to land on his feet, egg safely in tow.
Running by momentum more than actual skill, Volt focused on not falling and squashing his egg flat, keeping it cuddled close to his chest as he made his rather ungraceful way down the forest to the base of the mountain.
He skidded to a stop with all the grace of a newborn giraffe, and promptly fell flat on his butt as momentum finally gave out. Almost disbelieving, he held out his prize - the egg, completely whole and untouched by the copious amount of d-
"OH are you kidding me?"
The click-clack he heard this time was not the rattling bone of his wings, but the pincers of a very hacked off crab. "Kalden, I think your friend is back?!"
He couldn't believe it - no way this could be the same crab! But it was - the tell-tale dusty paw-print from Kal's massive foot was proof of that, from where the lion had punted the crustacean earlier.
"Oh, I did NOT come this far to let YOU have it!" With a mighty grunt, Volt swung back his foot...and temper promptly had him swinging for the fences...ineffectually, as he kept hold of his egg, but phased completely through the angry crab.
The crab, confused, scuttled away back towards the treeline and Volt stared after it incredulously, barely realizing that he'd phased back into a physical form - thankfully, still clothed and clutching his egg. His golden eyes turned to Kalden.
"Oh, I SO blame you..."
But hey, the victory was theirs! Even Volt couldn't help the cocky smirk. "But you weren't half bad, for a furbrain."
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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
