[WE] The Painted Egg - Jerami - FIN

[Orpheus Solon]

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.

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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!

 

[Orpheus Solon]

The idea of going around picking up colorful eggs was something that he hadn't really been planning on doing today. In fact he'd only come out so that he could get himself some new bolts of cloth for another project that he was planning for himself. He was thinking of making a dress that was a bit prettier, with a bit more fluff, but a bit shorter as far as the length of the skirt went. He didn't want it to be crazy short but short enough that he could maybe get some nice knee high boots to wear with it. That had been the plan for the day but here he was, caught up in a game of finding eggs, but he wasn't really all that good at it was he?

It wasn't for lack of trying exactly but it seemed that each time he found an egg there was some cute little youngling nearby that was also looking. It was something that prompted him to call out to them, helping them to find the eggs instead. He didn't need them really and it seemed as though the whole event was more set up so that the little ones could have fun. He'd just gotten caught up in the event because the one that seemed to be in charge had given him a basket after scolding him for almost stepping on an egg, something that had been an accident on Jerami's part... but here he was.

A shame that Drexl wasn't around, he might have fun with this sort of thing too. Ever since their journey to Sauti though it seemed a bit harder to catch up with him, maybe due to training? He knew the brothers wanted to be ready for the battles ahead so that could very well be why he wasn't able to hang out with the bigger man as much anymore, something that he felt he should remedy soon. Maybe after the egg collecting and the buying of cloth? Oh! Or he could always invite him along on the errand that was fetching cloth? Though wouldn't he end up just getting bored by such an exercise? He supposed there was nothing to do but to ask him along and see what he said.

Giving a little smile he squatted down, picking up a pretty, green colored egg, and then turned to see a cute little Shifter girl starring at the egg. Giving a smile he held it out to her, "Here you go, I think you need it more then I do." She only had a pair of eggs after all compared to some of the children that seemed to have so many of them. The girl gave a happy sort of squeal, taking the egg from Jerami, before she went rushing off back to her mother to show it off. The reaction made him smile a bit before he pushed up to his feet, wanting to continue on with helping others to collect eggs for a little while longer since it seemed fun. Well, fun to hand them out to the little ones that was.

Jerami didn't have a lot in the way of regrets in his life but the singular one that he might have was his inability to go to Aisha to plead for a lotus of his own. Had he been able to follow the path of Aisha he could have asked for a child for himself and Drexl in the future. A shame that they wouldn't be able to do such a thing but maybe there would be another way to go about things? Not something to worry about not but it was something that he found himself thinking about as he saw the little ones running around collecting eggs. He wondered what Drexl might thing about children, if he was at all interested in having some in the future. He might have to ask him about that sometime... though not now. He'd do that once things were more peaceful, once the Dretch had been taken care of and things were looking up for the world for a bit.

Scooping up another egg that he found he looked around, this time handing it over to a boy that looked like he might be a mix of Shifter and Leaf blood. He gave a little wave to the boy who then rushed off with the blue egg to show off to a group of friends, declaring how a 'cute girl' had given it to him. A comment that caused Jerami's cheeks to go red before he continued on with the task at hand, collecting eggs that he then gave away. At the end he was able to get only one for himself, not that he was really worry about the low number. At least he got one, that was better then none.

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