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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[ It's an odd time and place for a nap, and usually, he isn't the type who'd abide by this. They have work to do, and it's hard to manage that much when he has some lump of a man snuggling with him—honestly, who was supposed to be the adult here? He should just leave him in the dirt and get back to Animal Planet business. What an invasion of his personal bubble.

But he was very recently robbed of a similar opportunity to this one, and it's been nagging at him since. After a moment of excited, heart-thumping deliberation, he leans in experimentally, keeping his voice low and soft as he ever-so-gently pries one of his arms free. ]

Nakahara—? [ He tests how deep his slumber is by tapping at his cheek. Poke poke. ] Are you awake?

[ Why can't Yusuke be a good boy and let the strange adult man cuddle up with him ...

Yusuke's voice is way too soft for Chuuya to hear, and not even having his arm moved, or the tapping against his cheek, seems to be enough to arouse him. He's always been a deep sleeper. If Yusuke really wants to wake him up, he's going to have to shake him or shout at him.

Since he's being so quiet, Chuuya continues to lead against his ... bony, probably uncomfortable twink body. ]

[ Stop bodyshaming him?? He can't be picky about human pillows, especially since Yusuke is being generous enough not to slap him awake.

Not out of any altruism, though. Instead... Yusuke's expression brightens, suddenly delighted—what fortune! Circumstance smiles upon him!! The last time he tried this, the slumbering party had woken up immediately, but now is his moment, his chance, his golden ticket opportunity.

And so, he takes out a pen and immediately sets to work, drawing on Chuuya's face. ]

[ what is this strange child

Being a deep sleeper, Chuuya doesn't rouse yet. He twitches a bit when he feels that pen touching his face, but it isn't enough to wake him. Instead, he continues to lean against Yusuke's chest, cushioned by his own curly hair. there is no introspection i have for this... he's just sleeping. ]

[ trying to salvage this into a cute sleep thread..... i admire your efforts

Anyway, as Chuuya sleeps cutely, Yusuke takes the time to figure out what he thinks best suits his new roomie/pal/unwitting art partner. His personality thus far has been fiery, brusque and short-tempered... and he's also very short, literally speaking.

Eventually, a Vision comes to mind, and he gets to work— ]

There.

[ —Chuuya is now the proud owner of a very extravagant facial tattoo of a weasel, winding up and down his face with its long, sinuous form. Having expended his use as a canvas, Yusuke slaps him across the shoulder. ]

Please wake up before you start drooling.

[ The sad thing is that he has no idea this is happening, and with no mirrors out here in the woods, he might not find out until ages later. ]

Wah! [ The slap works. Chuuya finally rises from his sweet little nap. The first thing he notices is this ... warm form, that he's hugging for some reason. It dawns on him in a second that it's a person, and not just any person --!

Cue Chuuya breaking apart immediately, stepping off. ] What the hell happened? [ Why was he hugging Yusuke... That doesn't feel like something he would ever do. ]

You fell asleep. [ Stated plainly, because shouldn't it be obvious... What isn't so clear is why he's such a snuggler, and why with him in particular—it does seem a little out of sorts for a man like Chuuya. ] I'm not certain why you wanted to embrace me, if that's what you're asking. You may need to look inside yourself for the answer.

[ A secret paramour, perhaps? Ah, no matter. He leans back, task at hand forgotten. The cinjaw chew their cud harmlessly in the background, threatening more naps as Yusuke crosses his arms. ]

—Well?

[ He expects Chuuya to notice the fruits of his labor. Don't ignore him??? That said, it probably just sounds like he's awaiting an explanation for being cuddle buddies. ]

[ He, too, doesn't know why his sleepy self chose t[ ]o hug Yusuke, but he isn't about to ponder that. Unfortunately for him, Yusuke kind of ... forces him to, by questioning him directly. Or, at least, that's what he assumes had happened. ]

Well -- what? Like I know why I decided to do that, I was asleep! I probably just fell into you.

[ Having to talk about this feels like an attack on his ego. He has to retaliate. ] You don't even make a comfortable pillow, with your skinny ass body.

[ That's not what he meant... why is Chuuya giving him shit like this out of nowhere, don't sully his honor. He looks affronted, defensively touching the shoulder that Chuuya had leaned all over just moments before. It is bony, but still, that's very unappreciative. ]

...How rude. I could make a perfectly serviceable pillow. [ It's just a matter of using a part of him that isn't pure noodle. ] Next time you can rest your head on my thighs instead.

[ He stops to think on this after it's already left his mouth, which twists into a frown. ]

But then my legs might fall asleep...

[ He didn't expect Yusuke to start defending the meatyness of his body. Most people would just feel affronted and drop it, not offer another part of their body as a cushion. Then again, Yusuke's a strange boy. ]

I don't want to! I'm not going to lie on a teenager's thighs! [ Somehow, that just makes him feel creepy. Like he might go to sheith jail?!? ]

What were we even doing -- [ There's another yawn. He can't quite shake the drowsiness yet. ] And why's it making me sleepy?

[ He's also oblivious to the drawing on his face still. ]

[ It's Chuuya's fault for jumping immediately to sheith jail, he really is a pervert. Yusuke's just being practical. Though he shouldn't even give Chuuya that much, given how callously he ignores his hard work...

He frowns, waits another few seconds, and gets nothing. Unbelievable. Somewhat curtly, ]

We're working. Have you forgotten? [ Had he really dozed off that long... Despite his scolding, Yusuke hasn't been paying much attention to the time either. ] I can pinch you if you require help staying awake.

[ He slowly, gradually feels the tug of sleep as well, but they have a job to do. To this end, he doesn't wait for a response before pinching a (clean) spot of Chuuya's cheek. ]

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