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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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[Drink some milk and ~~date~~ hang out with better dudes. That's his sage life advice.]

You could just poke a hole in the leech. [Fact: Junpei has no idea how leeches work as a concept. They're not just tubes, god... Anyway, he still has half of the first piece of cake, so give him a second before he takes this new one.

Now he has cake in both hands. Hmm.]

...I doubt the leech would appreciate that.

[a.k.a. yusei doesn't know either but he knows they have some kind of digestive system. so you'd be getting back half-digested blood and that's gross and probably unhygenic.

junpei cakehands. actually, yusei never did explain where he got that cake from, did he?]

[The weirdness level of this encounter just skyrocketed thanks to the combined efforts of Junpei bringing up leeches and Yusei just handing him cake nonstop. It's getting surreal. People have confusing dreams like this.

Junpei takes another bite of cake.]

So what? It's a leech. [........okay,] Wait, where is this cake from?

[Leeches have feelings too, Junpei. Gosh. He was about to say as much before you asked him that question.]

They gave it to me for fixing their fridge.

[He jerks a finger to point back at the house he came out of.]

They were in the middle of trying to use up all their perishables before they went to waste when I found them, since they didn't have the time or money to get it fixed immediately.

Huh.

[Also he'd disagree about the leeches, but never mind that. He looks at the cake again, only now hesitating before he takes another bite. Hmm...]

Think they put anything weird in it? Like, uh... flour that makes you tell the truth all the time?

...Why would they have anything like that?

[They're your average poor everyday peasants, dude. They coo'.]

[It's always possible!!]

The last time I got free cake here, it made me... loopy. It's a valid concern!

[when you accidentally the whole alien pot brownie]

...This cake wasn't free.

[He worked HARD for that cake, dude! Yusei knows better than to take free shit! Free shit is always suspicious!]

It's free for me.

[Junpei did fuck all for this cake. It's free.]

Because I'm unlikely to eat it all myself.

[Yusei did not spike the cake, friend. Promise.]

Hey, as long as it's just cake, I don't care what alien flour they put in.

[It sure is delicious? He's still eating it, regardless.]

I'll take some for Snake, if you're trying to get rid of more.

[It is a good cake, yes. Yusei nods and holds the tray out a third time.]

Sure, take what you want. [A pause.] How is he doing, anyway?

[Junpei begins immediately shoving cake into his pockets—no, but it will take him a minute to decide he doesn't want to just carry loose cake around.]

Oh, uh—good. Yeah. Especially after the, y'know. [He sort of gestures at his own arm, since saying "the repair" sounds super weird to him. Thanks anyway, milk mechanic.] He's great.

[....anyway this is a lot of cake. He puts his most recently claimed piece back on the tray.] Uh, hey, what if we went for a walk down to my house, then did something about this cake?

No issues with that so far then? That's good...

[Yusei blinks, then kind of remembers that he doesn't exactly have a way to let Junpei take a sizable portion of cake home.]

...Why not? [Lead the way, Jumpy.]

[He will indeed lead the way, down the street toward house 9. Speaking of house 9, and Snake, and Yusei's thrilling robotics...]

Yeah, he pinched me to make sure the fingers worked. I've still got a mark— [He's like, actually pushing up his sleeve here? And sure enough, there is a little mark, a few inches below his cartoon bandaid. Being pinched by a robo-hand is torture.]

But uh... thanks for the help.

Oh. [Blink. Now he feels a little guilty.] I didn't make the grip too strong, did I?

[Or was it already like that. Um.]

No... I'm pretty sure he did it on purpose. [Snake offers to kick his ass like twice a week? If not more. So... so yeah that's fine. Junpei tugs his sleeve back down.]

Trust me, it's definitely him, not you.

...

[You know what.]

I think I can believe that. He's...definitely the character.

[Enough of one that Yusei frequently forgets the man is blind, honestly.]

[Junpei might agree that that's actually kind of easy to do, given how Snake carries himself like he's hypercompetent at literally everything, but he hears 50 blind puns a day so he can't anymore...]

You're telling me. He's happier now than he was, uh, armless though—even if he shows it by pinching. [So for real Yusei, you're a goddamn gift? Thanks. Let's get to house 9 before Junpei loses all his cynicism cred and gets too sappy, we are almost there—]

...I'll keep my arms covered when I come visit, then.

[that's??? one way to acknowledge the thanks, I guess. yusei you cryptic fuck.

anyways oh look, there it is! that's house 9, right? yaaay]

Good idea. That's how he gets you.

[Don't tell Snake he said any of this, by the way, thanks. Here's house 9, anyway, and Junpei pushes the door open for Yusei to head in first.]

There's space on the counter. [There's a lot of space on the counter. From the looks of it, these boys live off sandwiches and plain pasta and water.]

Ah-thanks.

[boys, don't ya even know how to cook. Yusei might live off milk, but he at least knows how to grill things. You know. Like a man.]

You have containers or plates in the cabinets, right?

[This sure is a bare kitchen you guys have.]

[Look, one of them is blind and had only one arm for several weeks? They had other problems settling in. Junpei moved a bed and that is the extent of trying to make this house livable that they've achieved.

To wit: he hesitates, then opens a cabinet to reveal some containers, at least 2 of which have labels on them indicating they originally held, like, bulk snacks. And these cheap morons kept them. He takes one out and pops off the lid.]

Here you go. You need more, I'll grab another.

[Yusei shrugs, but starts filling out the container regardless (after checking to make sure it doesn't smell. like. stale. or musty.).]

It just depends on how much you want to take, really.

[He'll probably fill at least two of those containers, though, unless Junpei stops him.]

[wow... it's CLEAN..........

Junpei is not going to stop him at all, because free food is good food? It's still free from his perspective.]

You're saving me having to cook breakfast for like a week. I'm not complaining.

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