[WE] The Painted Egg - Torva - FIN

[Orpheus Solon]

The Painted Egg
Prompt 1

Solo or RP Format
Counts as 5 RP growth Points
Solo word minimum is 750, RP post minimum is 7

Spring has arrived in Tendaji; in most places flowers were blooming while others might only see a slight temperature increase. The weather was nice so you decide to take a stroll. As you leave town and enter a small clearing, you notice strange colorful dots all throughout the grass.

"Oh stop right there!"

Freezing, you stop with your foot hovering just a breath above the grass and then as you slowly take one step backwards you notice that something colorful had been nestled against the ground. What was this? A Gaein girl comes forward and offers a big smile, "Thank you for stopping! You nearly crushed the egg." From there she explains that the whole field is full of colorful eggs that she had spread out for the villagers to find. Apparently in Belrea this time of year is a time for festivities and one of their most popular games is finding brightly dyed eggs that children create with their parents who later hide them away. As a member of the Academy she had been granted permission to come and share this knowledge with those in Tendaji and so offers to allow you to play with those already shifting through the wide expanse of fields.

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Roll a 1d20 to determine what happens during your hunt!]
1. You are reaching out for an egg when it suddenly floats away! What in the? But then you notice wings behind it. A sprite is trying to steal your egg away!
2. You find a total of 8, totally normal, painted eggs!
3. You pick up what appears to be an egg but doesn't have the same weight a normal egg should have and you notice a line down the center. As you pull the two halves apart, a strange vial [an eye of the goddess] falls out!
4. You find a total of 2, totally normal, painted eggs!
5. You pick up an egg but later begin to smell something foul coming from your bag, it seems that you picked up a rotten egg!
6. You feel a bit competitive and run around as fast as you can to collect every egg, too bad a little boy just left with a basket full!
7. Oh no, watch your step! You accidentally step on and break an egg!
8. You find a total of 10, totally normal, painted eggs!
9. You find an extra large egg hidden in some tall grass. Later, it hatches into a Xaraan!
10. You're a little late to the party, all the younglings have already gathered all the eggs before you even got a chance, how sad!
11. You find a total of 5, totally normal, painted eggs!.
12. You hear a quiet scratching noise coming from a slightly larger painted egg you just picked up. It later hatches into a Sailscale!
13. You find a total of 1, totally normal, painted egg!
14. As you're walking, you hear a strange noise coming from the bushes. A keldari pops out at you! Whether you get startled or just shoo it away, a few eggs fall out of your basket and crack as they hit the ground.
15. You find a total of 3, totally normal, painted eggs!
16. You're walking towards a particular egg when you feel something beneath your foot as you take a step. Whew! Close call, you move your foot and the egg remains unharmed and you add it to your basket!
17. You find a total of 15, totally normal, painted eggs!
18. You feel your basket start to wiggle a bit and then hear giggling. As you look down, you see a youngling taking your eggs! They make off with 4 of your eggs before you have a chance to stop them!
19. You find an unpainted egg. Figuring it's not a part of the egg hunt, you leave it alone and continue on.
20. It seems that something is weird about one of the eggs you've picked up. As you stare at it the egg begins to wobble and even glows from the inside?! It later hatches into a Sitara!

 

[Orpheus Solon]

Torva had been volunteered as per usual when it came to his little sisters wanting to do something. At least this time it was something really interesting though, that being a gathering in which everyone was trying to find a whole bunch of colorfully painted eggs. They had been hidden by those that had set up the event and it was the job of everyone that participated to try to find all of the eggs. It really made him curious though, what would happen if they missed some of the eggs? Wouldn't that start to really, really smell after a while? What would happen if animals came by a stole some of them? There were a lot of things that he could think about that could go wrong in an event like this but it really interested him to see how it would go to be honest.

Next to him Svana and Eayolin made various, excited sounds, looking as though they were really interested in all of the people that were gathered. Boss on the other hand was getting carried along by one of the twins, looking quite pleased with himself over not having to walk on his own four legs, lazy dog. He shook his head at the duruf. Well, so long as everyone was having fun he supposed.

Looking over at the girls he said, "Look, I want the two of you to assure me that you're going to behave and not cause problems for those that are running the event. The two of you are prentices now and you need to act your ages, got it?" He tried his best to sound as grown up as possible even though the two of them were already making cross eyed faces at him and sticking out their tongues. Giving a bit of a sigh he said, "At least agree to be nice to any younglings that you run into. Help them to find eggs instead of taking them out from under them, can you at least do that for me?"

The twins exchanged glances before they both nodded, with one of them saying, "Alright! We will be nice to the younglings!"

"Those that are our age though, they are free game!" The other chirped, giving her twin a high five before the two of them rushed off, telling Boss that he was in charge of finding them 'all of the eggs possible'. He watched the girls as they ran off with his dog, giving a bit of a sighing sound, "Traitor. At least I still have the two of you." He said, looking over at the two bird beasts that were there at his side. He reached out, giving each of them a pat on the head, then started forward. He wanted to get some eggs, not for himself but for those that hadn't been able to come along for various reasons. A lot of set up was still under way so not a lot of children were allowed to come along. He'd have to get what he could egg wise for them... as well as do his best to get the girls to share too. It would be a bit difficult since they weren't exactly the sharing sorts, not at their age, but he might be able to talk them into it with time.

Walking along he found an egg here and an egg there but he didn't really go rushing forward for any of them, not when there seemed to be a lot of people that were a lot younger then he was here trying to find eggs too. He felt that it was probably best that he found the ones that were out of the reach of the younger kids so that he didn't feel guilty about it. Even if he was getting eggs for a good cause he was sure that the younglings that were present wouldn't know that, nor would they buy it either. They might just thing that he was a mean, selfish adult that was trying to get all of the eggs for himself. That was the very last thing that the amiable Lightning Tribesman wanted. Instead he'd rather help them to get eggs where he could instead of taking them all for himself.

As he went he gathered some eggs for himself, though seemed to hand out more of them then he kept. In the end he had five of them of various colors that he'd bring home with him. The twins on the other hand seemed to get a mass of them... and the walk home consisted of him trying to get them to share with the youngest members of the troupe. Something they agreed to only after he agreed to let them borrow Boss for a while. He felt bad selling his dog out but since the little beast seemed to like to play with them he doubted that he'd mind.

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