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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[ She hates to see that flinch, regrets having caused it but hopes that maybe, if his story is anything like hers, that knowing he's not the only one who's been through that hell might help him. Somehow.

The closest thing she's found to bourbon in this city is what she orders, and her expression turns a little sad at his question. ]

They cataloged and processed everyone who arrived at the camps, but only the ones they wanted to keep alive for a while ended up with the tattoos. M4827. The M is for mutant.

[Rocket glances down so he doesn't have to see her face. Even with a chip on his shoulder as deep as they come and the self-martyring personality to go with it, he knows that people born sentient with actual lives and feelings being treated like nothing more than objects is way more disheartening than just being born for no purpose other than to be someone's plaything.

Both suck though. Both suck really hard.] I-

[And then he closes himself off again immediately.] Mutant, huh... That their word or yours?

[ It doesn't matter what your story is. Being used by someone else in such terrible ways is still terrible, regardless of whether you've known any either life or not. Life is precious, and all beings deserve to know what it is to life without pain and suffering. That's the only thing Rogue has left to fight for now.

He starts to say something and when he stops, her chests constricts a little. She'd been right -- something about her story mirrors his own in some way. ]

Both. It's what I am, what we called ourselves. Humans with a genetic mutation that manifested in hundreds if not thousands of different ways. It's why the war started, because baseline humans were afraid of us. And throughout history it's been the human way to deal with what they fear by simply getting rid of it.

It ain't just humans.

[A lot of races throughout the universe have got that weird disdain for things that don't fit their worldview. The only good thing is that at least you can usually avoid the genocidal maniacs if you try hard enough, but he supposes not everyone has that.] But I guess it ain't as simple as just goin' off-planet, huh?

[ What a sad thing to hear, that it isn't just her species that can be so cruel. In some distant part of her mind, she'd hoped it might be unique to them, a fatal flaw that the rest of the universe could escape -- but no such luck. ]

I wish it were. That would have made things a lot easier.

[ She's quiet for a moment, and then ] So what's your story, sugar? Where were you before all of this happened?

[Fortunately the answer to that isn't as awful as "a lab on Half-World," because that's years gone by now. He can respond without hesitation, though he does lean in a bit so the patrons can't hear him.]

Eh, you know... Just savin' the galaxy from a living planet. Typical stuff.

[If he's bound to look pathetic for half this conversation, he'll be fast to remind people he's also a stone-cold badass.]

[ She can't help the laugh that bubbles out of her at that, though there's not a bit of mocking in it. Enough weird stuff has happened in her life that even the strangest things seem totally plausible. ]

Do you do that often? Saving the galaxy.

It was sort of a recent development before the whole universe got eaten by a frickin' cosmic storm and made the whole point moot.

[He shrugs, barely able to restrain himself from scowling.]

It still says something about you that you did it at all.

[ Something awfully good, at that. Something that makes her want to get to know him better, find out what makes him tick - in a sharing drinks kind of way, not through scientific experiments. She's guessing they've both had enough of that for a lifetime. ]

[He shrugs, looking briefly proud, before his self-deprecation and desire to make himself look like less of a decent person kicks in.] Yeah, yeah. You try not saving the galaxy when you live in it, and will be an unfortunate casualty if you don't do anything.

[ A shadow falls over her expression, hardening those soft lines for a few seconds before she forces it away again. ]

Not everyone would be willing to do what was necessary even in those circumstances, sugar. You could have looked the other way and waited for someone else to take care of things, but you didn't.

Stop. You're gonna make me blush. [He chuckles awkwardly, now that she's fully slapped away all arguments he might have about the matter.] Just don't get attached to that part of me. It's all incidental. I look out for myself.

[L I A R.]

I'll get attached to whatever part of you I like, hero.

[ Yes, there's a massive dose of sass in there and a giant smile attached as well, which only grows as their drinks are delivered. After taking a generous sip of the not quite bourbon but pretty damn close, she realizes they've missed something. ]

My name's Rogue, by the way.

[Your funeral, his expression seems to say, though the impact is lost because of the way he glances away, clearly cowed. Ugh. People liking him is so hard. ] Rocket. Looks like we both got descriptive names.

[You can pretty much tell what kind of person you're gonna get with a name like "Rocket." The same could be said of Rogue, even if he hasn't quite gotten that impression from her yet. That seems like a Rogue thing, though.]

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