2025 Star Festival Prompt
Poultrygeist (15) : As Destiny City is a bustling metropolis, it’s not unexpected that there should be some strange animals running the streets. Sometimes it’s a tiger, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a chicken. Sometimes it’s something worse. Strange egg clusters have appeared in Destiny City’s parks and officials aren’t really sure what they are; these eggs have nothing inside of them. Though it’s an anomaly, they are chalking it up to teenaged pranks. However, they have advised to just leave the eggs as they are. Nobody wants to say why, but if you’re out late at night, you’ll find out. In the darkness, whispered between the sounds of the city: a guttural, rasping cluck. The creature stands on stilt-like legs, rooted to the ground with razor-sharp talons. It wears a cloak of long, oily feathers that drag on the ground with a sinister scraping. If you stare into the darkness, piercing red eyes stare back at you. That’s all it takes for a confrontation: a mangled bird, maybe a chicken in another life, comes barreling out at you. It stands easily as tall as a person, but the proportions are all wrong. The smell of sulfur follows it as it lunges, pecking and screaming and scratching as it attempts to chase you away. Maybe, from the nests full of empty eggs. The battles are fierce, but fleeting; it will viciously try to chase you away but the effects are always the same: at some point, the eggs are crushed. As always, there’s nothing inside of them, but with one final wail, the bird will vanish into a plume of foul smoke.
Note: If you choose to encounter one of these bird-like creatures, your character will recognize they are not youma. It is impossible to tell if it is a single entity or if there are many. The bird does not seem to understand or care to listen to human words. It will always disappear in a malodorous plume of smoke and leave nothing but a foul odor and a clutch of empty, broken eggs behind. This RP can be used as a battle requirement as long as there are two powered characters involved; you must be interacting with another player’s powered character. This does not count as the one youma battle per stage for growth so characters can still use an NPC youma battle as well as this one for growth purposes. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.
Note: If you choose to encounter one of these bird-like creatures, your character will recognize they are not youma. It is impossible to tell if it is a single entity or if there are many. The bird does not seem to understand or care to listen to human words. It will always disappear in a malodorous plume of smoke and leave nothing but a foul odor and a clutch of empty, broken eggs behind. This RP can be used as a battle requirement as long as there are two powered characters involved; you must be interacting with another player’s powered character. This does not count as the one youma battle per stage for growth so characters can still use an NPC youma battle as well as this one for growth purposes. This can only be used as a battle requirement once per character, but there is no limitation for how many times a player can use this prompt.
Sailor Clara did not fancy the idea of walking in a park at night in his powered outfit, but he had to patrol and he figured as long as he stayed in the well-lit areas, things would be okay. However, as he slowly, cautiously made his way from park lamp to park lamp, staying within the circles of their light as best he could as if it were a game, something shiny caught his eye as it reflected the lamplight. Unfortunately, it was beyond the scope of the light circles, so he couldn't see it clearly. So, making a decision, he decided it couldn't have hurt to venture a little out of his comfort zone - aka the lamp light circles - in order to check it out really quick. Someone could have lost car keys or a phone or money or something equally as metallic and important.
As it turned out, all it was was a Opal Star Charm from the Star Festival that Destiny City was putting on. Clara recognized it as a star charm, but he hadn't seen one of the Opal variety before. It was very lovely, so he decided to put it away for safekeeping.
Nearby were some other white-ish objects all clustered together, so he decided it couldn't have hurt to check those too, but when he found out they were a cluster of eggs, a sense of dread immediately overcame him. He had heard enough about the rumors to know that the local authorities had told people to leave the eggs well alone, so he decided to do just that. At least, he would have liked to...but as soon as he stepped a few paces backward in his scarlet high heels, he heard a rasping, horrifying gutteral cluck behind him and slowly glanceded over his shoulder as a terribly foul smell assaulted his nose. It was a bird. A giant, hideous, monster of a bird.
The bird and senshi screamed at the same time before Clara tripped and fell back, scrambling to get out of the way before the bird clawed him with vicious talons or pecked at him with its ferocious beak. He fell over and lost a shoe before turning to reach out and grab it, holding it up threateningly as if the feel were a weapon with which to stab the bird. He sincerely hoped it wouldn't come to that, though.
As he tried to force down his fear long enough to discern his practical options, he did his best to back away while still on the ground facing the bird, thinking about how his powers of illusion with embarrassment probably would have had no effect on it. Birds - especially this one - probably didn't get embarrassed; at least not as far as he knew, and he wasn't willing to take any chances. So, when the bird looked about ready to lunge at him, he threw his high heel at it with a cry, hoping it would at least distract the thing long enough for him to get up, remove his other shoe, and try to run barefoot back into his precious circles of lamplight. At least there, he might have been able to get a better look at the bird-thing if it decided to follow him and to see if he could spot any weaknesses.
Kapoodles
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