[FIN] The Painted Egg [WE, Aylin, Oba]

[Alethryia]

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!  

[Alethryia]

Aylin strode down the now-familiar path. It seemed so long ago that she first ventured here to learn more about the Oban and Matori cultures. She supposed that knowledge was power in a way, and she had hoped to gain power over her fears, of the nightmares that would intrude into her sleeping thoughts unannounced and have her shaken awake in panic…

...and for the most part it had worked. The night terrors were fewer than they had ever been, perhaps in part due to the time that had passed since her childhood, and she was no longer on edge when she felt the heat of a nearby flame. She hadn’t yet summoned the courage to try her hand at handling the element yet though, she wasn’t ready to embrace its destructive potential, and attempting to control an element without adequate understanding was asking for trouble- she had the scar on her arm to prove that.

This is what she was working to resolve at the moment, and was en route to her little bit of paradise that she used for meditation. But now that she had left the city and was entering the surrounding scrubland she found herself assailed by an unusual character. "Oh stop right there!" Aylin found herself looking at one of those Geians- so similar in skin color to the Obans, but with light markings in lieu of crystals and cool shades of green and blue in favor of the reds and golds of the native region. With a smile the girl explained, "Thank you for stopping! You nearly crushed the egg." Sure enough, there was a colorfully painted egg nestled in the desert grass in front of her. The girl continued to explain this tradition from Belrea and invited Aylin to join in this “egg hunt”.

So much for mediation, Aylin thought, it makes sense that she would use this area, it’s one of the few spots with dense enough vegetation for a game of foraging, and with this many people strolling about no quiet reflection is going to take place. She decided to join in the revelary and challenged herself to find only the trickiest of eggs- anything too visible would be left for the younglings that were excitedly scouring the dense brush and sparse grass of the clearing.

Leaving the Geian with a smile, she left the egg that she had been in danger of crushing and moved to look at some of the boughs of a nearby copse of trees. Ah-ha! Sure enough, with a bit of searching she found an egg painted a melon green and stippled with pink dots tucked away in the nook created by several criss-crossing branches- that was one egg down! She checked the trees’ roots and discovered another small egg nestled in the space where the heavy winter rains had eroded away the soil from the base of one particularly gnarled tree. This second egg joined the first, adding its joyful yellow hue to the group that was forming. There was another egg in the hollow of one trunk, but Aylin thought that somewhat predictable, so she left it for the youngling that was making his way towards her and moved on to find new prospects.

She picked her way down towards the river bank, adding a sneaky blue egg that had been hidden in a stack of rocks to her collection as she walked. Aylin spotted an unusual purple peeking through a thick patch of weeds at the water’s edge, and investigating further, found it to be adorned with darling little pink hearts and added this fourth egg to the group. She was really getting into the search now, it was almost like hunting for treasure. With no small amount of surprise, Aylin saw an egg lazily floating down the river in front of her- maybe one had fallen and rolled in? Regardless she used a touch of her magic to pull the egg closer to her and was able to add the orange and yellow trophy to the bunch.

Leaving the river, she made her way to the thicket on the opposite end of the clearing, it looked like it was already picked clean, so any eggs she found here she wouldn’t feel guilty about taking. Eggs six, seven, and eight were found in the various crevices created by the intertwined shrubs and trees. Realizing that she had spent a good part of her morning on this hunt, Aylin noticed that hunger was beginning to gnaw at her, and hard-boiled eggs would make a decent lunch!


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