The Painted Egg - Ejskoia - FIN

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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.


[ 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!  

[Heras Box]

Rolling .....


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!  

[Heras Box]

A walk wasn't so unheard of for her. In fact her brothers had come to expect it, so when she went out to take one they didn't bat an eye. There was a collective mumble of "Be safe" from them but that was the extent of it. Ejskoia was happily walking along with her head tilted back so that she could stare up at the sky when she heard someone tell her to stop. It hadn't occurred to her that she might run into someone on her walk so she was a bit taken by surprise. A gasp left her and she threw her arms out wide as she paused mid step to freeze in place. 

"What did I do?" Instantly she questioned that she may have done something wrong. Which was possible given how her head had been in the clouds just a moment ago. Maybe she'd stepped on something, or walked through something, or was just on someone's property. It was hard to tell. 

The tale that was told to her following her question had her teal gaze widening with delight. To think that such a custom existed! Almost immediately she was turning her head this way and that and looking out at the rocky field to see if she could spot any of these eggs. Others had already started and the children seemed to have more that one in hand. They had such sharp eyes in order to have as many as they did. Despite the eggs being a different color than the terrain, they were hidden among the rocks well. 

A large smile spread across her full lips and she looked back at the strange girl that has shared the seasonal secret with her. "This sounds wonderful!" Ejskoia exclaimed. With a clap of her hands in front of her she moved so that she could take up the search for an egg of her own. 

If she were lucky then she might be able to find more than one. Then she could take the extras home and show her brothers. Wouldn't that be great? They would be able to see that one of her usual walks was fruitful enough to maybe join her on them. She had been trying for some time to get her brothers to join her on her walks but they always told her that they were pointless. Though they had long since given up on trying to stop her from going. She was more stubborn than they were in the long run. 

As she walked, and thought, she passed a few eggs without even noticing them. When Ejskoia finally did see one she gave a squeal of delight and made her way towards it. The color was striking and it had caught her eye from some distance away. 

Once she was upon it she grinned even more and bent down to collect it from the ground. Ejskoia was just about to put her fingers on it when the egg... moved? "What the...?" She blinked her eyes a few times then reached again. This time the decorative egg started to float! "H-hey!" The wing girl was unsure if that was supposed to happen or not so she stared at it for a second. As it began to move farther and farther away from her she begin to follow it. Was this part of the custom? As that thought started it's own course in her train of thought she noticed something else about her floating egg. It had wings! 

All of a sudden she understood what was going on! Those were sprite wings! A sprite was trying to steal her egg! Well, not so much trying as actually stealing. Ejskoia let out a chime of laughter and followed the flying egg, one hand stretched out to try and snatch it from the air. The sprite weaved between her fingers and ducked out of the way, clearly not willing to give up it's precious find. Not that she blamed it. After all the color was so bright and inviting. Even the designs on it were a welcome sight. 

With the sprite struggling to carry the egg away from her she continued to follow, once again walking without looking where she was going. Only this time her beautiful eyes stayed locked on the egg and it's courier. Maybe if she followed it long enough the sprite could get tired and drop it so that she might catch it and take it home with her. Of course there was no telling how long that might be.



WC - 759