nysalogs | ❪ mini-event ❫ OLYMPIA QUESTS: 1

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.

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[Junpei isn't standing outside the blood bank so much as he is trying to skirt around it without making eye contact - he's already been conned into donating himself, but that doesn't make him hate needles any less, so naturally he's concerned some staff member will think he's not yet been and try to pull him in. As you do. Obviously.

He does not have OJ and cookies, but what he does have as he skulks past looking haggard is an entire plate of pound cake pieces from running into Yusei earlier. Like, it's unnecessary, carrying this much cake around. Maybe that will help Magnus, who gets his attention by being so... in a bad way? Jesus christ, dude??]

Whoa—what'd they do, take a couple gallons from you? [He has no free hands to futilely try steadying Magnus, only occupied hands to offer some cake.] Don't, uh, fall...?

[Yes. Good. Taking the cake, and leaning against the wall to tear off a big piece with his hands and eating it.]

I'm okay! They took a lot, though. I forgot to ask their rate upfront. Turns out they just pay you a flat fee even if you donate more!

[Take all the cake you need, big guy, he can't finish all of it anyway. But, hmm...]

What the hell? You got blood scammed? [Shady needletown just got way shadier!!] Maybe you should sue.

Nah - [Having a little more pound cake for the sugar.] I was planning on scamming them! See, they didn't consider that I could just give them unlimited blood, and then go and get healed, and come back and do it again! But I forgot to get the cash upfront, that was my mistake.

[He's had like 2 conversations with Magnus and he's not surprised that this was his plan, cool. Got it.]

Oh, huh. Maybe you can put on some of those fake nose glasses and pretend to be someone else, and try again. That always works on TV.

Hah! Yeah, that's a good idea! Or Taako could use magic to make me a disguise? Since I don't think I have any of those glasses.

[Otherwise the glasses were a great idea.]

[Magic disguise, sure, sure. He apparently believes in magic now, so yeah, nice.]

Maybe he could magic up a pair of those? Then you'd, uh, always be prepared. Got any crappy normal glasses lying around?

No... I don't think I do. Maybe I could make some? Without lenses, but you don't need lenses on fake glasses anyway.

Do you carry around wire to make crap glasses out of? [This isn't a serious question, but also it is? Magnus is kind of an odd dude, Junpei thinks.] Or just pop the rim off these cups and tie them together.

I was going to carve them, but wire works, too.

[He reaches into his pouch, where he does, in fact, have a spool of wire. Why.]

Maybe a combination of wire and wood? And then, if I need a mustache, I could kill something for its pelt...

[Yeah, of course he has a spool of wire. Junpei can go with it, nodding, only looking quizzical about the pelt hunting bit. Just cut off a lock of hair? Come on.]

Tell me you've got a ton of carving blocks or whatever in there too. Then we're in business. I can do that.

[That, the wire part, that he indicates with a nod, since he can't carve a wooden nose or whatever. Team effort?]

[Pulling out.......a big hunk of wood and a carving knife.]

Of course! Okay, don't use all my wire, I might need it. [Handing it over, though.]

[This is both the coolest and the dorkiest thing he's ever seen. Shit. Hell yes. He's going to craft the most adequate wire frame anyone has ever seen.]

Yeah, I'm on it. Poke a hole in your carving thing so we can attach them later.

[They're also going to do this right here, thirty feet from the blood bank, it's cool.]

Gotcha, gotcha.

[Carving! A fake! Nose! Right here in front of the blood bank.]

[Right here, doing the thing. Junpei makes some adequate wire frames; the space for the lenses is probably a little too small? But they're fake and it adds character, so it's fine. After a few minutes of Intense Wirecrafting, he holds them up.]

How's this?

Kind of a spectacles look. Maybe they'll make me look more intellectual?

[He twists the wire of the frames into the place he made in the fake nose. And then....he puts it on. The frames do not fit his face at all. This looks. Bad.]

What do you think? Intellectual?

[Ooh... oh.... oh, it's bad. Junpei makes a face.]

Intellectual for someone who's never seen glasses before... But, uh, you do look different, so that's 50% done?

[God yeah it's awful.] I think we need more wire in the middle.

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