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❪ 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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[ She just stares up at him, her brow furrowed in puzzlement. ]

I cannot discern your meaning. Did you intend to ask if I am able to whisper to marsupials?

[ What a strange question. What a strange boy...

Well, no matter! He obviously needs help of some sort, and it probably has something to do with the sephts and him being in a tree. There's probably very little she can do from down here, so she leans her spear (yeah, she came armed) against the trunk and starts climbing up the tree. ]

That was the idea!

[ So he's gonna take that as a "no". She's not a marsupial whisperer. Still, she offered to help and he's desperate for any sort of assistance at this point.

...Wait, no, he takes that back. Is she seriously climbing up here?

He peers down at the top of her head, plainly flummoxed. ]

Whoa - hey, you don't have to do that!

[ He's flummoxed, she's flummoxed—everyone is flummoxed. That answer didn't do anything to tell her what the heck he meant by marsupial whisperer, but, well... she'll just have to figure it out. ]

Whyever not? I cannot assist you very well from the ground, now can I?

[ But yeah, she's seriously climbing up here. She's not too bad at climbing trees either, apparently, because it doesn't take her very long to get up to where he is.

Though, she does end up with a few leaves stuck in her hair. ]

[ He opens his mouth to protest, but no words come out, and she shows no signs of stopping. Instead, he takes the few moments it takes her to ascend up the tree to consider his place in the universe and what path got him to this point in time.

- Oh, wow, she's already here?! ]

Whoa! You are some tree-climber. [ He sounds awed, and can't help a grin. ] Okay, so...got any ideas on how we might flush this tiny bandit out?

Why, naturally! [ And she's so modest about her talents too. ] My brother and our bosom friend, Fernand, were quite rambunctious little rapscallions when we were young, and it was my duty as their younger sister to look after them.

[ In reality, it was probably more like she just followed them around everywhere, like any annoying little sister would—but in her mind, she was gracing them with her presence.

With that out of the way, she moves closer in order to peer into the hollow, her eyebrows raised. ]

My goodness... has it absconded with something of yours?

[ Bosom friend...............

No, not gonna ask about it. Not now, anyway. They have pressing matters to attend to! ]

It sure has! [ And he sounds plainly outraged about it. That camera survived the end of the world. Twice! He is not about to let some flying klepto keep it for its own, no matter how cute it is. ]

It's a camera. [ Then, after a beat: ] Do you, uh...know what a camera is?

[ She used the word "rapscallion", it's a fair question. ]

[ It's a close friend!!! Don't get any weird ideas!!! ]

I cannot say that I have ever heard of a... camera.

[ A fair question, after all. Most modern technology—modern as in, like, invented after the 16th century—is completely foreign to her. She had a great time with the sinks and toilets on the space station. And, you know, the space station in general. ]

What is it?

[ This is so not the time or place to be trying to explain this in any great detail, but no matter how high-strung he might be right now, he still can't resist the opportunity to gush about his favorite thing. It helps that he's had to explain this a few times now. ]

It takes portraits! [ He takes both hands off the tree to make a little square with his hands, but holding onto his knees is evidently not good enough because he starts to slip a bit and back his hands go. ] B-but instead of the pictures looking like they've been painted, they look like what you'd see just as you're seeing it now.

[ It's really cool, and he'll definitely show her how it works once he, you know, has the camera back in his possession. ]

[ Going by her bemused expression, his explanation isn't really helping her wrap her head around what a camera actually does—rather, she only really understands the idea of portraits... something about making realistic portraits? She probably would've thought he was crazy a few weeks ago, but. Space station.

In any case, he seems pretty enthusiastic about it, and she can't help but feel a little endeared of anyone who shows such passion for their... passions. ]

I see! The boy shall demonstrate this camera once we recover it from this fiend.

[ He just got downgraded to "boy," apparently... without really waiting for his answer, she adds: ]

Now! How about a small distraction? Perhaps if we can entice the creature with something it covets more than your camera, it can be lured out.

[ He's answered to far worse than "boy", too, and there is something weirdly charming about her referring to him in the third person like he's...not right here next to her...in a tree.

You know, this isn't quite how he pictured today going. ]

Rrrright! Great idea. [ He looks ready and rearing to go, before his expression blanks. Ah... ] Hang on - what are you gonna lure it out with?

[ Because the only other thing he really has on him is a gun, and that should...probably not be used as bait. ]

[ Ah... her expression suddenly blanks too, matching his. Look... the planning part of the attack was never really her forte—that was more the actual attacking bit. And that's exactly why they had Alm around to call the shots. ]

Do you not have some article about you that we can use? Food, perhaps?

[ The tone of her voice says that he's the disappointment in this scenario, being as unprepared as he is. This just isn't going according to how she pictured it at all.

Well, since he isn't going to be useful at all! Offhandedly: ]

Very well. I suppose I can use my lance. [ You know, the one she left leaning against the tree. ]

[ ...Dang it, he really shouldn't have eaten that bag of chips earlier. He doesn't really have much of anything else on him, not even pocket change. That's the reason he's doing this in the first place. Soooo, it's her lance or his gun. ]

I think that miiiiight - [ Wait. He smacks himself on the forehead. ] Hello! Duh! I've got just the thing.

[ He reaches where he's got his gun stored at his hip, flips it over if his hands, and opens the cylinder so he can pull out one of the bullets. ]

Ha! How's this for distracting and shiny? [ He holds it up between his finger and thumb. Great for killing monster and luring them out of their nests! ]

[ Goodness gracious, is that—what did Riza call it again? A gun? Clair had thought that perhaps these weapons were unique to her roommate's world, but it seems that she'd assumed wrong. Well, unless they hailed from the same world? But Riza hadn't mentioned anyone...

Well, that's a mystery that will just have to wait for a later time. She just watches his process with unconcealed puzzlement, as if she's trying to work out how this... works—but that's probably another mystery. Ah, technology. ]

Ah... [ She peers at the... little cylinder thing. ] It is quite a bit smaller than I had envisioned.

[ ...Well, no matter! She claps her hands together. ] But let us make our attempt! The boy will distract this creature while I recover the camera.

[ Maybe his demonstration later will have to include the gun, too. You know, with all the appropriate safety precautions. If she thinks this is strange, she should see some of the stuff he has locked away in Noct's hammerspace, though. ]

Small aaaaand pretty deadly when its splitting through the air. [ But they're not trying to kill this thing - really, his task was pretty much the exact opposite of that. So nodding, he leans closer to the nest, waving the bullet in front of the opening so it catches the light. ]

Here, sephty sepht sephty...

[ Warily, the sepht pokes its head out of the nest. ]

[ While he sets about running distraction, Clair climbs to a different branch, one a little higher then the one they're currently perched on, and sticks close to the trunk of the tree so that she can lie in wait for the right opportunity to strike. It will (hopefully) be simple, if he can lure the beast out so it leaves the camera behind—all she has to do then is swoop in to get it.

Stealth isn't really her go-to move, but one does what one must for the situation. Silence also isn't really her thing either (just ask... anyone), but she doesn't want to startle and/or confuse the creature and make it retreat further.

So she just gestures for him to keep going, waving her hand in a circular motion and nodding. ]

[ If there's one thing Prompto is good at, it's being distracting. That, and filling silence with mindless chatter, which is also what he's doing right now. The idea is to keep the sepht's attention on him, and whatever he has to do to make that happen, he'll do it. ]

That's it! Nice 'n' easy...goooood sephty...we are definitely not trying to trick you, at all...

[ ...At least the sepht doesn't seem to understand human speak. It's probably not even listening to him at all, but that glittering bullet definitely has his attention, and after hesitating another moment on the opening of its den, it flies out and grabs for the bullet.

Prompto is faster, but not by much, and they might not have a long window before the sepht is able to wrest the bullet from him. The little guy is pretty strong. ]

[ At least all those years of training to be a knight have given her quick reflexes—she leaps off the branch as soon as the sepht goes after the bullet with a battle cry!! Luckily it's well enough distracted by Prompto to not notice...

She has to reach deep into the nest, her shoulder wedged into the opening as she feels around blindly with her hand for... well, she doesn't really know what a camera is supposed to feel like, but as soon as her fingers find a small box-shaped contraption she figures that's it. ]

Ha! I have captured the article. Now—

[ Now it's time to probably get the hell of out dodge, but she soon as she pulls away she realizes that... she can't move. Whatever angle she'd had to bend into to pick up the camera has gotten her stuck, and she can feel a tugging on her sleeve—something caught on her clothes. ]

Ah, perhaps... do keep distracting it! [ She's totally got this. It's fine. ]

[ For a moment, thing are going so well that he thinks they might actually get out of this without a single hitch, but since when has that been true for him? He moves his arm around in circles, weaving a track for the sepht to follow the bullet, but he can't help but falter when she says she's got the camera - and then that he needs to keep distracting it. ]

What's the -

[ But he sees the problem well enough when he glances over at her and she hasn't pulled her arm from the nest. ]

Uhh - everything okay over there?

[ BECAUSE THIS IS MAKING HIS ARM TIRED ]

[ Wow, uh, she's really stuck in here. First she tries to brace her legs against the trunk and force her way out, but that seriously felt like she was going to yank her arm out of its socket, and so she switches to trying to kind of... shimmy out.

It probably paints a very distinguished picture. ]

Indeed! I just need... but a moment...

[ No, nothing is okay over here. Well—at least the sepht hasn't caught on yet? That could make it less okay. She shimmies harder. ]

[ For what it's worth, she's still cute...just a distressed kind of cute? Not that that's what he's focused on right now! They need to get her unstuck before the sepht grows bored of following the bullet around, or manages to snatch it away from Prompto - whichever comes first. ]

Uhh - maybe stick your other arm in? To get the first one unstuck?

[ It seems like solid advice...his arm-windmilling is sure getting tired, though. ]

[ Stick her other arm in??? what kind of advice is this?? Well, it's not like anything else she's doing is working right now, so why not? ]

I do not see... well, I suppose I have little choice!

[ She huffs, blowing her bangs out of her face, and reaches up to push on her shoulder, since that seems to be the part of her that's most stuck. She wiggles some more, and there's a sound of tearing fabric—her sleeve.

That seems to help, though, since one last tug—okay, one more big tug—sets her free! Too bad it's a little too free, and she careens backwards with new, sudden momentum and—

Well, there's really not much more space on this branch, so down she starts to go. Help? ]

My—!

[ Look, he's not an ideas guy! At least, not a conventional one. But that's exactly right - something is better than nothing?? ]

You can do this! Don't lose hope!

[ Because this is totally the type of moment that requires a motivational speech, as if she's in danger of giving up and just staying stuck to that tree forever. Miraculously, though, his advice seems to have actually worked, even if the tearing sound of her sleeve makes his face draw palely. Oh man...that's totally his fault.

He can't dwell on this fact though, because no sooner has she loosed herself from the branch and started falling backwards does the sepht finally tug the bullet from his fingers. He's got precious little time to react, then, and it's fortunate, perhaps, that he's used to pulling ridiculous stunts that involve a probability of snapping his own neck. She starts to fall, and Prompto leans towards her, legs locked tight around the branch so he can go pretty much 180 and wind an arm around her waist before she falls any further! ]

Don't worry! i-I got you!

[ ...How does he get himself into these situations. ]

[ He's... got her, alright, but at what cost?

Heights don't really bother her—she wouldn't be a pegasus knight if they did—and she's fallen plenty of times from trees as a child or her pegasus' back during training, but still. She braces herself for a long fall—or, in a better scenario, the chance to catch herself somewhere on the way down.

Luckily, the best possible scenario happens instead, and she finds herself jerking to a halt, his arm around her waist. Decidedly... not falling anymore.

Well, that's a relief. ]

Goodness... [ She blinks. Now is probably the right time for thank yous but more importantly—she opens up her clutched hands to reveal his camera. ] Ha! I have the article!

[ She's really excited that she completed her mission, okay. ]

[ She reveals the camera in his hands, and for a moment, he just looks at her blankly. Wow, they...really did it, didn't they? Who knew getting his camera back would be so much work, and would end with him having to catch a girl before she fell out of a tree. But when he spots her holding his camera, a wide, joyful grin cracks his face, and a laugh gusts out of him. ]

Haha - so you do! That was amazing! [ He continues to chuckle. ] Ah...sorry about your sleeve, though.

[ He'll buy her a new shirt??? ]

Do not trouble yourself! It is but a small sacrifice to make for our triumph, no?

[ RIP her dope dress. It went towards a good cause.

She waves off his apology, then proceeds to right herself on the branch again, sitting down so that her feet dangle off the edge. Finally, she presents him with the camera, with all the pomp and gravitas of some sort of medal of honor or something. ]

Here you are! A victory well won.

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