[WE] The Painted Egg - Eira - 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]

Eira gave a little sigh as she looked out over the area of Dernd that was set up for some sort of egg festival. It was most certainly not meant for one her age and demeanor but that didn't mean that she wasn't interested in a sense. Mostly because as she watched people of various ages as they ran around looking for eggs she was starting to come up with ideas herself. It would be a rather good idea to have events at the inn, wouldn't it? It might draw in even more traffic, not to mention more in the way of travelers that came to the inn not just because it was in a good spot between towns but instead it would be people going there just for the inn itself.

Sure, she had number fans that would come by just to see her but she wanted people interested in the inn itself for when the time came that she retired one day. It was a while off but she had to lay some ground work to make sure the place was successful for years to come. She had all manner of facilities that helped to draw attention to the inn these days but if she could add even more to her inn that was something she was more then happy to see set in motion. What sorts of events would draw interested people in though?

It wouldn't take a lot given how much attention was being given to a simple event about finding hidden eggs. So long as it was fun or just different then it would draw people in, that was what this sort of festival proved to her. From what she gathered the eggs were doing more then just entertaining children as well since there were a number of merchants that seemed to be making good coin off the parents of those that were collecting eggs. That was what she was really banking on when it came to the creation of events. People coming to the inn to participate then either paying to stay in one of the inn's rooms or paying to have a meal, to take a bath, tipping the various performers, and so on.

There really was a lot to be had by having these sorts of events. She had to start thinking on one of them for sure. On top of that would be her figuring out how often she had them. Too often and it would become routine and boring, not often enough and people would risk missing them. She needed to find a happy middle ground and she would end up bringing in more traffic to the inn, a thought that had her smiling in delight.

Business aside she found herself looking around and feeling a bit on the nostalgic side as far as the little ones went. It hadn't been all that long since her own son was as tiny as the younglings that were all gathered her gathering eggs. Not that he was exactly as mature as he could be given that she knew he was out there chasing after eggs himself at the moment. A thought that caused her to give a bit of a smile. Even if he wasn't acting as mature as an heir to the inn should she knew that it wasn't a normal thing for him. He was normally quite he was quite serious about his title of heir after all so she could let him off the hook today so he could have a bit of fun.

There were times that she considered a second child and gatherings like this made her think about the option seem that much more tempting. At the same time she felt that she was also far too busy for those sorts of things and since it would possibly mean finding another person like Callistos's father. It was just took much work that she didn't have time for at the moment. She was happy with the way that things were and were she to have another child one day she wasn't sure if she wanted it to be with someone that she sent on their way so she could raise the little one herself. A thought that she waved off before she started walking forward, deciding not to worry about it.

Instead she would turn her thoughts to business instead. As she walked along she found herself nearly tripping over a pair of colorful eggs. She paused, glanced down at them, and then called out to the nearby younglings to point out the eggs. She didn't exactly need them so she might as well share them with the children that wanted them.

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