❪ mini-event ❫ OLYMPIA QUESTS: 1

[natha]

It isn’t easy starting life in a new place. It quickly becomes apparent that you are in dire need of two very important things: money and a good name. In addition to full-time jobs, certain people in Olympia will reward handsomely for helping them with tasks. Submit any AC eligible thread of participating in this log's prompts for One (1) Olympia REP point HERE. Threads involving your flora/fauna submission may also be submitted, even if your submission is not made official game canon. FOR THE RECORD     It’s time to put on your hiking shoes. Characters will be approached by both Evras and Lysa at separate times. Both individuals are interested in recording species of plants and animals-- El Nysa is bursting with all sorts of life, after all! It is impossible to chronicle all of it without help. You will be provided with a journal to chronicle your findings. Each submission pays 100 silver. OOC: We need YOUR help in worldbuilding the area in and around Olympia and The Outlook! Create a creature or plant and submit it HERE by August 31st at 11:59 PM EST. ONE entry per character only. NOTE: If you have accepted a job at The Sanctuary or Simwe Institute, you MUST submit your entry to your boss to maintain your position. You may assume a character got the job if they established contact, even if an official offer hasn't been extended yet. Although an entry will net you TWO (2) Olympia REP points no matter what, we will be choosing a maximum of 20 entries to include in the official bestiary for future encounters. THE BIRDS AND THE BEES     Along with the request to record traits of a certain specimen, Evras and Lysa independently ask for more quick favors. Certain species, due to their unique natures, aren’t as prone to procreating as one would hope. They need your help. The directions for these requests, provided by Evras or Lysa, are simple. You will be provided a small amount of heavy aphrodisiacs (and a mask) to spray in a particular region. Because the natural aphrodisiacs of the island run a bit thin there, the wildlife has been less... willing to comply. Each species you help will net you 50 silver. Three species in particular are in need of a little help. Note: There will be a mask provided. Forgetting it may mean you start to feel some of the effects yourself. You may also be immune. Please put appropriate warnings in threads if applicable. Xlarix, also commonly referred to as the love bug. Found in MURKWELL HOLLOW. They have an ability to release literal positive energy, making those exposed to it more willing to be friendly and jovial with another. Even the most heated rivals can easily become the closest companions. You may even be tempted to temporarily abandon the request and do something fun with your new best friend. Unfortunately, while many have desired to use its effects in diplomacy, its effects only last a few minutes at best. Despite their powers to assist others in bridging emotional gaps, they are vicious insects. During mating, they engage in battle, normally losing the lives of both parties before their spawn is even properly produced. This is why they need a little help. Try to break up the fights as much as you can. For the Xlarix, being in each other's presence for long enough will eventually get them to calm down and continue the process. You may get unlucky in the process and end up with an extremely painful sting that requires healing, however. The pain increases with time, and if you allow it to go untreated for more than a day, it will be excruciating, enough that it may be debilitating, for 12 hours before eventually healing on its own. Sepht, found in EDRATHE RUINS: Both shy and antisocial, it’s no wonder these little marsupials don’t have much luck in the mating department. They prefer to live in isolation, and are much more concerned with hoarding everything they can get their hands on. This includes stealing anything you may have brought with you. As a warning, they are incredibly strong. They can also fly, so good luck catching them after they’ve made off with your stuff. Let’s hope you can get back that magical sword or enchanted necklace of yours. Once you have sprayed the chemical in their habitat, do not stick around the area. Despite being more suggestible to mate now, they are shy to the core, and will not come out of hiding until they are sure the coast is clear. Cinjaw, found JUST OUTSIDE OLYMPIA. Domestic animals kept by local farmers in the outskirts of Olympia. These guys are just really, really lazy. Too lazy to care about things like passing on their genes. Honestly, if it weren’t for the efforts of humans and the fact that their meat is too delicious for the Olympians to allow these creatures to go extinct, they would have been wiped out years ago. Stay too long near the herd, and you will begin to feel extremely lethargic yourself. Nothing sounds better than using the person next to you as a pillow for your nap, or dropping everything you’re doing to go sleep in that hay. Hopefully someone finds you and is kind enough to wake you up. After spraying the aphrodisiac, you won’t want to stick around. They are loud: loud enough to damage hearing without proper ear protection (Now you know why those farmers walk around with ear plugs). HELP A NEIGHBOR     Being new is tough in any given neighborhood. This is especially the case when you’re a newly arrived refugee. Though you’ve been welcomed here, you haven’t established a lot of trust in the community. Your neighbors don’t know a single thing about you, and that name tag fiasco doesn’t count. Fortunately for all of you, the rule of this game is simple. There is no monetary payment, but isn't it priceless to feel good about being a good samaritan? Make yourself helpful. Did you neighbor mention wanting to take their pet chicken out on a walk? Offer to do it for them and they may pay you back in a meal or a small gift. Did one of them mention needing help with rearranging their collection of thousands of cat figurines? Well, who better than to ask but you! You over there, why not help your fellow refugee by doing this task together? It never hurt to do some teamwork. Or maybe your roommate is the one taking that chicken out on a walk, and you’re just ready to judge. Complete judgment. But hey, that’s fair. BLOOD BANK     CW: Needles, Blood One of the things that quickly becomes apparent about life in Olympia is that all citizens are welcome, including those who may possess unique dietary requirements. The Blood Bank is an institution that has stood proudly for many years, and in addition to providing meals for some of its citizens, the supply is invaluable for care in The Sanctuary, research in Simwe Institute, and for use in certain types of magic. They're offering you a special today, for your blood in particular! You just look so... healthy and able-bodied. Donate a few pints, and you'll earn an easy 200 silver. Unfortunately, the center is so busy today that they've had to call on volunteers, and depending on who you've met so far, your particular volunteer may look familiar. It's... another refugee. Wait, are they even qualified?! How did they even get roped into this?! Qualified or not, the job pays well for both the refugees donating, and the ones drawing the blood (much more for whoever's donating, though. Fair is fair.). A blood drawing set inclusive of clean needles, antiseptic swabs and a blood storage kit, will be provided. Sticking a needle into a vein isn't as easy as those people in the Sanctuary make it seem, though. You may not always get it the first time, so try, try again! And if you still can't hit the bulls-eye? A rogue-looking Olympian "volunteer" approaches and hands you a knife. Apparently, cutting right into the vein and collecting the blood in a saucer also works; the staff would only need to sterilize the blood with a spell afterward. And about the gaping wound you'd cause? They always have healing potions on hand for when things go wrong (but just like the potions from before, they have been known to cause some nausea). You'll do anything to help your fellow Olympian, right? OOC     There are a total of 3 OLYMPIA REP POINTS possible to earn in this log. 2 from OOCly submitting a flora/fauna above in For the Record, and 1 for submitting any AC-length thread for any of these prompts. You may do one or the other, or both. Submit a flora/fauna HERE and submit an AC-eligible thread HERE by AUGUST 31st 11:59 PM EST. The results of The Birds and the Bees will be submitted to whoever you submit a flora/fauna entry to. If you do not submit a flora/fauna entry, submission to either one may be handwaved. In the event of CAPTCHA, we will be providing an overflow. In the event of a second CAPTCHA, players are advised to move threads to an overflow post on their character journals. These threads remain eligible for AC, AC Rewards, and REP. 1 SILVER = 1 US DOLLAR. QUICK NAV premise ● faq ● world ● map ● reputation ● npcs taken ● reserves ● application calendar ● hiatus/drops ● modbox [ FULL NAVIGATION ] elnysa nysalogs nysaisles nysaooc elnyan

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And your little dog

[heraldsdawn]

[ Now he hadn't expected this. Lance out here actually looking like he's capable of doing something than lying about. He'd just been taking a few notes on a small bird that was perched just a few meters away from him when he heard the yelling. The bird instantly flies away and Senren looks back over his shoulder to see the screaming teen climb up over the mound. There's a surprised blink and his mouth hangs open before he says: ]

Lance, what on-?

[ But, it's immediately answered when he see's the small little creature zooming away with something.There's only just a heavy sigh as he slams his book closed and gives chase. ]

Do you have a tendency to having trouble find you? Or do you just provoke it like with Penny?

[competing]

Penny was vindictive way before we started school together! [ amazing how he still has time to point that out, but not enough time to stop and say hello as he bullrishes right past the other. he's got longer legs, so he's got a bit of an advantage. thank god he'd done all that swimming before, too, otherwise who knows how he'd be able to muster all this stamina.

the sepht, at least, seems entirely amused by all this, and while could easily out-fly them, decides to have a little more fun instead, keeping low, within sight. ]

Arrgghh, c'mon you dumb monkey!! Give it back!

[heraldsdawn]

Right.

[ He will drop that for now since it didn't have anything to do with the current situation the young man got himself into. He sprints after and while he keeps up, his legs are much shorter than Lance's. Should he really be trying to shoot magic at it to knock it out of the air. Probably not. Likely would kill it, but if he could mind blast it... ]

Can you try and corner it while I go around?! I may be able to surprise it!

[competing]

[ lance spares lavellan a quick glance over his shoulder before he delivers a sharp nod. ]

To your left!

[ it's a split-second decision, but it's a plan he doesn't think to question. the other man seems pretty convinced he can do it, and lance has no reason to think he couldn't, so he turns on his heel sharply, coming at the sepht from a different angle so it is forced to veer and flutter towards the elf's left. ]

[heraldsdawn]

[ He makes a hard turn to the left, sprinting as he does. It's a good thing there was a steep uphill climb; it'd work well for this plan. He needed more speed if he was going to reach the top before and his legs wouldn't give him that. It's just a twitch of his fingers, but he soon becomes a bluish, icy blur of after images rocketing up this hill.

Lance had timed it right for him, the Sepht was flying right near him. The spell fades just as he reaches the top but he uses the momentum to leap and grab hold of it around the middle. ]

Gotcha! [ ...Too bad no one told him that this thing could carry him too. It almost gives something of a giggle as it just starts flying away, taking him with it. ]

THIS IS NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND!

[competing]

[ lance's feet come to a skidding halt the moment he sees the sepht make off with both his necklace and lavellan. ]

Oh cheeseballs, [ he curses quietly to himself.

hastily, he starts to look around, eyes peeled for something, anything he could— there!

in a mad dash, he lunges for a pebble sitting innocently nearby. smooth, smaller than the palm of his hand, perfect for flinging right at the sepht. it makes a bullseye right for its right wing, startling the creature enough that its flight is disrupted, and dooown it goes.

he cups his hands around his mouth, yelling off after them. ]

Brace yourself...!

[heraldsdawn]

[ How is that a curse, Lance?

But, should he be thinking such things when this little creature is dragging him off to what he can assume his potential doom over a river? Then suddenly he feels the sensation of falling as the creature's wing is taken out from under it. Lance's voice cuts through again and he looks back and yells; ]

Couldn't you have tried something that didn't end in a broken Neeeeeeeeck!?[ His yell trails off as he vanishes behind the hill, there's a loud thud and then silence. ]

[competing]

[ not everyone has fancy shmancy magic, okay, lavellan...

anyway, lance waits until he hears the tell-tale thud of a landing, then he cups his hands around his mouth once more to yell: ]

You're welcome!

[ a pause. and then: ]

Thank you!

[ because he didn't forget the help! anyway, he's gonna jog on over to where y'all have landed....... ]

[heraldsdawn]

[ Oh, don't mind him Lance. He's just currently lying turn around in a bush lying ontop of the small creature.

Neither of them seem to be stirring much though other than the occasional twitch.

At least you got your necklace back. ]

[competing]

[ that's true, he'll just go ahead and pocket that to make sure it no longer bothers anybody...

but once he's done with that, he will be tentatively poking lavellan's cheek. ]

Hey, uh... Thanks for that...

[ but also— ]

Should I call a healer?

[heraldsdawn]

[ How Lance thinks poking him in the cheek is remotely helpful is beyond him. Finally he wheezes out: ]

No [ and he slowly begins to sit up. ]

No, just fine. Just help me up. I'm pretty sure I only broke an unnecessary bone.

[competing]

[ lance wonders if there are any unnecessary bones in elf physiology, but he wisely keeps such thoughts to himself. still, he takes an arm and helps hoist lavellan back up to his feet. ]

Well — thanks again. That was pretty good teamwork back there.

[heraldsdawn]

[ Answer: all bones are important in Elf physiology.

Now back on his feet he looks to Lance with something of a smile before running a hand through his blond hair. ]

It's not a problem. What are allies for?

[ because he's not sure they're close enough to be friends quite yet. Soon though. Maybe. ]

[competing]

[ meanwhile, in lance terms, having a conversation with him pretty much puts you in total homie status.

anyway, he returns that smile, but once lavellan is back onto his feet, lance makes a quick dash for the flying creature he'd pinned down. deftly, he snatches the piece of 'string' from the creature's hands, who doesn't seem to care at this point and is just eager to get out of there. ]

Oh thank goodness, it's not broken...

[ holding it in his hands, lavellan will be able to see it for what it is now: a simple sharktooth necklace along black hemp. ]

[heraldsdawn]

[ He takes a side step for a moment to try and get a good look around Lance. He squints, attempting to see what the boy had gotten but finally he's given a full view of it when Lance brings it over.

He looks at it carefully, canting his head to the side at this curious little object. ]

It must have a lot of sentimental value if you were willing to risk so much for it.

[ It's not said to be chastising or rude. Just a general observation. But he has a feeling as to why one might go to such lengths to save such an object. It might be a piece of home for Lance. ]

[competing]

[ a piece of home, yes... but perhaps not in so literal terms. ]

Yeah, um. [ he shifts a little, looking a strange mixture of sheepish and uncomfortable. ] A friend gave it to me for my birthday. See this tooth here? It's from an animal back home.

[heraldsdawn]

[ Oh Lance. Lavellan just tilts his head with a bit of a smile watching the look on their face. His hands reach out to the boy's and has them fold over the trinket the boy worked so hard to retrieve. ]

Then keep it safe, Lance. We need things like this. To remind us what we have to fight for.

[ and he slowly lets go of the others hands. ]

We should get back before the sunsets. I'd rather not get picked up by those creatures and added to the nest.

[competing]

[ lance's own smile comes a touch or two later, stalled by his own moment of surprise. without even thinking of it, his hand curls tight around the necklace in his palm, determined not to let go any time soon. ]

Heh, yeah... Who knew those little guys could be so strong, huh?

[ he'll follow after without much protest, quietly stuffing his hands into his pockets, free from any prying sepht's eyes. ]