[WE] The Painted Egg - Dair - 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]

Dair looked out over the area that was laid out before him, listening as a Geian woman told him what was going on and how he could participate. It seemed as though they were going to be allowed to go and gather a bunch of eggs and the one that got the most eggs... well, got the most eggs. In his mind it meant hat they were the best though since they had gotten the most eggs, more then anyone else that was present! Dair really did wish that he'd brought Faisal along with him but he'd ducked out, taking the path up the tree and out of the garden, with Faisal having been busy with some studies he was being made to do. He only got out of it because he'd hurried off before he'd gotten dragged off for study time. Pure luck on his part... and half because poor Fai had gotten stolen by their mother first. He was... sort of a distraction that Dair had taken advantage of. He'd have to thank his twin for that later.

Looking from side to side he finally headed out on his own, looking for some eggs. He wanted eggs and he wanted them now, lots of them! A whole basket or two of them full! More then everyone else! The problem being that they seemed to be few and far between for some reason. Were they just not all that plentiful? Were they well hidden? Was it because there were a lot of others that were playing things game as well? Likely people that had gotten here before him in fact, which was a pain. Why did he have to be so late in coming to the game?

After a moment he spotted the main reason for why there weren't a lot of eggs, a youngling that had a whole basket full of them. He gave a little snorting sound, debating on whether or not he might be able to get away with stealing the basket from the brat. It was oh so very tempting but he didn't go after him. Best that he behaved himself since he was the son of a member of Oba's army. He didn't want something like that coming back to bite his father since he loved the man even if he was often busy with his work. It was just the way of things. If they wanted to live peacefully then he had to be out there ready to take on the various dangers of the world. As such he wouldn't complain. Instead he'd just hang out with the man when he had time off to come home.

Alright! Time to see about finding some eggs in a manner that wouldn't make him look like too much of a monster. He'd have to do it in a way that let him get the eggs without taking them from someone else. He supposed that he could start by checking another area, one that the other kid hadn't completely cleared out. Such a place had to exist after all, right? Surely they wouldn't just let one kid go around taking every single egg because that would be complete quhar dung if you asked him. A thought the kept to himself as he started his search anew in a direction different from the greedy kid. Best way to find eggs was to go in a direction that was different from the one that was taking them all after all, right?

Humming to himself he wandered along, looking for eggs. As he searched he found himself wondering what he should do about the eggs he found. His mother would definitely know that he'd been away from home if he came back with a bunch of colorful eggs after all. As such he'd either have to figure out a good excuse for why he had them or he would have to hide them from those that might bug him about them. He'd share them with Faisal of course but nobody else just to be careful! With a plan in mind his search continued, with him check every place that he felt a hidden egg might be. After a while he was able to find a couple of errant eggs that the other kid hadn't taken for himself, tucking them carefully into his pockets, and continued on with his search.

A short time later he'd found enough eggs to fill his pockets but far from being the million eggs that he'd really hoped for. A shame but better something then nothing. With this in mind he headed for home, wanting to get back before he was missed since he didn't want his way of sneaking out to be found by the adults.

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