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Creepy Crawlers
Prompt 1

Counts as 3 EXP Growth Points, or 5 RP growth Points (only if done with a friend)
Solo word minimum is 500, RP post minimum is 7

Something strange is going on...

Creatures that don't belong are appearing in the middle of the night, like ghosts, haunting the world around them. Their creepy markings make them stand out, and their dark coloring leaves many feeling cursed. These creepy crawlers are invading the world of Tendaji, and it's up to brave souls to step up and run them off, or even tame them as pets.

Do you think you have what it takes to face these creepy creatures that have wandered away from home? Well test your luck, and see how you fare.

|| These spooky familiars have been spotted in the following locations: Maglardilla (Oba, Matori, and Yael), Perzi (Jauhar/Chibale and Tale), Keldari (Sauti and Zena). Only individuals in set locations can encounter the specific familiars.

This prompt will be resolved by each player rolling 1D100 to test their success. (You can only roll once - there are no reattempts!)

Younglings Cannot Participate In This Event

xxxxxPrentice must roll 60-100 to successfully subdue the beast.
xxxxxStage 2 must roll 50-100 to successfully subdue the beast.
xxxxxStage 3 must roll 40-100 to successfully subdue the beast
xxxxxStage 4 must roll 30-100 to successfully subdue the beast.

|| Success or fail, completion of this event rewards you with 15 EXP!

|| If you roll a 90-100, you get to keep the familiar! Congrats!!

Dyakida had been out taking a walk with her sprite. Peyla was a suitable enough escort when she was only in the settlement, and walking through the humid air with it's bright scents and sounds was the perfect thing to clear her head. Things had been complicated as of late, sure, but simply in general one sometimes needed to just take a walk. After all, just sitting at a workbench all day made one weak. And antsy.

It was a pleasant, quiet walk... until Peyla shrieked loudly just near her ear. "Ow!" Dyakida exclaimed, putting her hand to it as the sound rang in her ears for a few seconds more. "Peyla, what...?" Peyla chittered an abrupt answer, unintelligable as sprites were, and Dyakida heard the flutter of her wings drawing away. "Peyla, where are you going? Peyla?" Dyakida tried to follow, but she was sure that she would have lost track of the fast moving sprite even if she could see her.

Peyla zipped by Mnyiri, not even taking the time to coo a greeting to the pretty-haired hybrid before chasing... something.

Dyakida followed the sound a ways, but stopped before she could run into anything. She tried to regain her bearings, resting her hand on a wall - still in the town, of course, so that was good. She used the wooden wall as a guide, walking around it. She 'listened' with her antennae for any movement that might be someone. Theoretically, she would find someone to help her back if she hung around. If not, she was at least still safe...

"Mnyiri!" Ah, good! A friendly voice to guide her. "Good..." Late. Was it really so late? "Evening? I thought it was earlier. I was just out taking a walk... have you seen my sprite? She just took off out of nowhere." Dyakida hoped she was safe, though the sprite was cunning and wild enough to manage on her own.

"What are you up to?" she asked, taking Mnyiri's hand gratefully, "What rumors are you chasing?"

"I actually... hadn't." Dyakida said, faltering slightly. She'd been inside working a lot, hence the walk, and the conversations she'd been in on had happened to never land on the subject of strange beasts.

Strange, haunted, demonic beasts.

Somehow, even though they weren't that well acquainted, Dyakida was not surprised that Mnyiri was hunting such creatures. "Perfectly understandable." Dyakida said, with just a hint of sarcasm. Perhaps, she had to admit to herself, she would have been inclined to do the same.

It also sounded like exactly the sort of thing that the sprite would do. And that wasn't a good thing - they were after all Demonic, Evil, Haunted things, and her sprite was merely... a sprite. "Did you see where she was headed? She often flies in a straight line when she has a goal in mind." Barring trees, of course.

"I feel like surely someone, somewhere knows what they are. Just not the ones here... but I agree. It is more exotic that way." It also sounded a lot like upselling, something she herself partook in on occasion. Who wouldn't want to make something slightly above ordinary seem extraordinary?

And if that was not what this was, and these were eerie monsters of some sort...

"Of course." she said, smirking at Mnyiri's tone as she was led in that direction. She was hoping they found Peyla first.

As they walked, Dyakida sensed the world around her as she always did - through her antennae, ears, and fingers. Mnyiri's hand was warm and tantalizingly rough, a warrior with the callouses of the spear. It had a surprising softness to it, the callouses trained to flexibility. The air around her was still, silenced by the jungle, and the invisible vibrations of the leaves and branches and the creatures that lived in them were mostly muted so close to the settlement. And then there were the sounds, the ever present, living sounds of Jauhar that made the stalls of the Oban Tournament wool-in-ears dull by comparison. She knew the sounds of the jungle well.

Except for that one - that high-pitched, petulant wailing. "That is an... unusual sound." she said, trying to pinpoint it, "Did the rumors actually say what the sounds were like?" A splintering sound, like crystal on crystal and crystal on wood, a sound she was very familiar with, though not as violent and sharp in her own hands.

"What? What did you see?" Dyakida asked anxiously. It was increasingly important for her to know, since she was apparently stumbling towards it.

Is it Peyla? she wanted to ask, but she knew the sound of Peyla's wings well enough to know that something else was out there.

Another sound - not wings. A hiss, and then a scampering sound- again, crystal on wood. Scrabbling - crystal on crystal. Is it a monster? Dyakida wondered. How big was this beast?

"I think it's climbing...!" she exclaimed, as if that would help. It was the likeliest reason to scrabble, and it would mean...

Oh dear... It would be above them, whatever it was. That was, according to Dyakida's strategic instincts, not a good thing.

"A perzi?" Dyakida had heard of such things, but she'd never met one up close.

"P... perhaps." Dark coats and Oban animals where they weren't supposed to be.... hmm, what did that remind her of? Weren't the Obans also dark of skin, or so she'd heard.

Unusual animals in unusual places in unusual colors, even as pets, could stir up everybody's fears.

Crystals, though... Hmm. Didn't they have very sharp, barb-like crystals? She'd heard that they were fairly good quality, and their hide...

No time to think about crafting materials, though - a frantic chime from above them reached her sensitive ears.

"Peyla!" she called out. She heard loud, angry sounds, and the tink of wood on crystal - a sound she knew well. "Peyla, come here!"

An answering chime. From her aggressive flight around the Perzi's face with a poke-stick, Peyla decided that her chase - against the Perzi, of course - needed to be interrupted by making sure her mistress was ok. She dashed over, gleaming eyes -- and claws -- following in the darkness.