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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:06 pm
This is the quest thread for Rojiza's growings. All her quest will be posted here. Only Menelie, Valleldia, and Pandara are allowed to help here unless otherwise noted by either Valelldia (Pandara) or asked by Menelie.Growth Quest #1:Acorn top to squirell(completed) Growth Quest #2: squirell-darkling infant (completed)
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:32 pm
Valelldia lead Caroline and Rojiza into whistle sticks. Everything that was normally out for decoration was now packed away in cabinets and wooden chests for safety. It was fairly sparten and odd looking when all of Val's knick knacks were put away.
Val pulled down her table from the wall. It retracted to give her room when she needed it and packing was definately a time when you need space. This is a stressful thing for many people but when you wander as much as Val has in your life, you thrive on that stress, or what little stress may come.
"Alright we shall get started, go ahead and sit down." Val told Caroline as she sat her cloths out on the table and pulled the cards out from her pouch yet again. Val sat down herself and began to shuffle.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:50 pm
Caroline looks around in mild awe. This was only the second time she'd been in Valelldia's wagon, and it looked so....different than the last time she saw it.
Following Val's instructions, she takes a seat, tucking her feet underneath her. Her skirt clicks faintly.
Rojiza, for once in her life, is silent. She sits solemnly in Caroline's lap, sensing that something important is about to happen.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:30 pm
Val finished shuffling the cards and handed the deck over to Caroline to shuffle. "Think about Rojiza and shuffle." She instructed.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:36 pm
"Alright," she answers, taking the deck. She taps it on the table a few times to straighten the deck, then expertly (solitaire's a passion of hers) cuts it and shuffles. The snapping of cards breaks the thick silence.
Caroline thinks about her precious Rojiza whilst she shuffles. She smiles as one particular memory comes to mind...something had spooked Rojiza during the night, and she'd promptly dove down Caroline's nightdress. Caroline had spent the rest of the night comforting the terrified squirrel and nursing the scratch-marks on her breastbone and stomach.
Caroline smiles again and hands the deck back to Valelldia.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:56 pm
Val set the cards out in a simple spread, 3 cards in one role, 3 underneath. With now surprise to her, most of the cards were pentacles. There was one dark card though, the devil, a card that had a picture of a goat and a man and a woman at his side, chained down. Stagnacy and trapped within the material.
"I suspected to see mostly pentacles, seeing as Rojiza is an earth element and all." She pointed to the page of pentacles. "That's her." She looked at the cards for a bit, her face serious. "And also just as suspected, she has to watch out for stagnacy and being trapped within the material. She can become possesive and vain, which would put her along the darkling path."
Her eyes lit up with an idea, "Alright, I know the perfect quest for her, it's quite simple really, Rojiza needs to give many of her precious items in her hidden hoard to members of the caravan or other animals in need. This will be the first part of her quest. Problem is, you are going to have to find where she keeps those things. I don't think she will be too happy to let them go."
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:18 pm
Caroline blinks in surprise. Evidently a 'secret horde' was news to her. She looks down at Rojiza, who blinks up at her innocently. Caroline scratches her head, unable to resist smiling at her. She looks back at Val and nods. "Thank you." She stands with Rojiza and leaves.
"Now, where are you keeping all your wee trinkets, mi'ja? Hmm?" asks Caroline, entering Mountain Air.
Rojiza blinks at her again, as if to say "Trinkets? What trinkets? I have no trinkets..."
"You know they're around here somewhere, Rojiza. Where are ye hiding them?" She almost absently turns over objects to look under them. She opens drawers and looks inside. The cluttered state of her wagon definitely doesn't facilitate this search. "You'll never get to be a bairn if ye don't show me where you're keeping your bittie horde." Continuing to poke around the wagon, she continues talking to the increasingly agitated squirrel. "Now ye have to give away some of your baubles. That willna be so hard, hm? Let's think...what could ye give to that nice Van Di'en?"
This strikes a chord within Rojiza. She might be a hoarding, selfish brat of a creature, but she's essentially kind at heart.
Caroline senses this change within her beloved daughter and smiles a little. "Giving things away gives you a nice warm feeling in here." She taps her breastbone to indicate her heart. "I think ye can give away a few of your treasures, hm?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:55 pm
Reluctantly, Rojiza digs through her bed, pulling out random shiny things. That should've been the fist place Caroline looked, in Rojiza's opinion, but she doesn't say anything. A small pile collects on Caroline's trundle. Things that Rojiza had picked up during their travels. Lots of bits from Caroline's clothing--when she notices a decoration fall off, she takes it and puts it away. Some other things are stolen from Caroline--most notably semi-precious stones that Caroline had aquired. Opals, agates, and little balls of hematite shine with the faint light in the wagon.
Still other things aren't valuable at all--simply taken for the sake of expanding her hoard. A shiny red ball, about the size of a human fist. A tiny ragdoll. And a multitude of clankety bracelets, not one matching another.
"Och, look at this, ye wee magpie!" exclaims Caroline, her hand going to a translucent white crystal.
Rojiza snatches it away before she can get to it.
"Those things are mine!" she says angrily. "Leave them alone!"
Caroline, as usual, ignores her. Humans are hopeless.
"That stone holds light, you know," muses Caroline. "Perhaps if you charged it with light, Van Di'en could find some use for it."
Rojiza turns away, unwilling to part with any of her precious belongings.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:38 pm
Caroline shakes her head and tsks at Rojiza. "You should be more generous, my dear," she says softly. "Wouldn't it make you happy to know that your trinkets are doing more than just sitting? That someone loves them dearly?"
Rojiza shakes her head, a surprisingly human gesture.
"Come now. Just give away one thing as a trial. Something you don't care for so much, hey? You'll soon see how good it feels."
Rojiza turns around and starts pawing through her pile, looking for something she is willing to part with. Evidently this is her way of acquiescing to Caroline's suggestion. Finally she holds up a little bug carved out of wood.
"That it, then?" Asks Caroline. "It's a bonny wee buggie, too. Let's find someone to give it to, then." Rojiza hops on her shoulder, clutching the wooden bug posessively. "Och, surely it isn't as bad as all that," says Caroline. She heads out to the campfire with Rojiza. "Do you see anyone you want to give your trinket to?"
Rojiza looks at her blandly.
"Of course you don't -want- to give it away, but look over there. There's wee Anezka. Mayhap she'll like your wee buggie."
Rojiza hops down from Caroline's shoulder and then bounces around until she gets to Anezka and Lesh. Reluctantly, Rojiza offers the bug to Anezka.
|Yes, Maeko has my permission to assist me by posting.|
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:55 pm
Anezka tilted her head and looked at the squirrel, "hhumm?" She reached slowly and took the bug with one hand and touched Rojiza with the other. Giggling softly, she continued to pet the fuzzy little creature.
Lesh looked up at caroline and smiled, "Wow...look at that...Ani isn't scared of her"
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:08 pm
Caroline smiles at Lesh in return. "I've just discovered that my precious little girl has been hoarding things." She sighs, maybe nostaligically. "A gypsy at heart, yes?"
Rojiza doesn't really know how to react at first. But there's this...warm spot in her chest that blooms. She chatters happily and nuzzles against Ani. When Ani pets her, she nearly purrs with delight. Rojiza is a bona fide attention whore.
"I'm glad that went well," comments Caroline offhandedly, watching the two. "She was very reluctant to give up a piece of her horde. But I think she found the pleasure in generosity."
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:33 pm
"She is a true gypsy then...we may horde much, but we give away even more" Lesh smiled and kneeled down next to Anezka, petting Rojiza gently and then picking up Anezka, "Oh wow...what a neat little trinket...ya know, I could make this into a necklace"
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:43 pm
At this, Rojiza dashes back to the wagon and returns with a bunch of the little wooden things. All different shapes and types of wood. She'd had them stuffed in her cheeks like normal squirrels do with acorns. She puts them all out on the ground and bounces up and down excitedly. She points emphatically at Lesh.
Bewildered by this sudden change of heart in Rojiza, Caroline blinks. "I think she wants you to make necklaces out of all the little figurines."
Still buzzing with energy, Rojiza points to all the wagons and back to the wooden things. "For all the Fortunettes?" Caroline guesses.
In reply, Rojiza scurries up Caroline's person and to her shoulder, nuzzling against her. "I guess that's a yes," she says with a smile.
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:21 pm
"I can most definately do that...I would just need some ribbon or leather for the neck part...but I definately have the tools to make some lovely jewelry out of these" Lesh smiled and laughed at Rojiza's sudden burst of energy and good idea.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:18 am
|I'm gonna wrap it up--thanks for helping!|
"Well, I have plenty of ribbon that I use for tying the decorations onto my skirts. I'd be more than happy to give you a bunch to use." She pauses. "Perhaps these necklaces could be given to the Fortunettes upon their progression to Darkling infants?"
Rojiza nods emphatically, suggesting that she very much approves of this idea.
Arrangements are made, figurines collected, and Rojiza and Caroline go back to Mountain Air.
"So, do you feel better?" asks Caroline. Rojiza just settles in her lap contentedly. Caroline smiles. "That's my girl. Hoard all you like, but give more than you take, eh? Tomorrow we'll go see Valelldia again. Perhaps you can find something to give to her."
Sleepily Rojiza digs through the pile of baubles still sitting beside Caroline on the bed. She finds the perfect thing--a flawless drop of amber, already set with a pendant fitting. Caroline smiles and finds a length of black ribbon and strings the pendant with it. She ties a firm not at the top and tucks it into her pocket.
"Let's go to bed, querida," says Caroline, yawning. She scoops all of Rojiza's trinkets back into Rojiza's bed, not bothering to hide them all away again. She lethargically changes into her nightgown and crawls into her trundle bed, circling Rojiza with her arms and creating a warm, comforting place for her to sleep. Before Rojiza even settles down, Caroline is asleep, dreaming fanciful dreams of bouncing an infant Rojiza on her lap.
|I'll finish up tomorrow by going back to Val's wagon.|
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