[WE] The Painted Egg - Bisera - 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]

Bisera found himself looking quite confused as suddenly an oddly colored girl that he'd never seen the likes of was suddenly talking to him, thanking him for not stepping on some eggs, and he found himself turning slowly to look down at his feet where there was actually a rather brightly colored egg. It appeared as though it were painted from the likes of it which had himself that much more confused. What was going on? What had he stumbled across? He'd been so caught up in the sketch for a new piece that he was working on and it would seem that he'd just wandered into some sort of strange, egg based event? One that was getting a lot of attention from those of the youngling age.

So why did it seem as though she wanted him to participate? She was even offering him the use of one of her baskets so that he could go around and collect eggs despite the fact that he was a grown man. Lifting the hand that was only holding onto his writing implement he gave it a wave and said, "It's quite alright I don't need a whole basket. I would hate to take eggs away from the younglings." He'd glance around, sure, see if he saw any eggs as he went, but he didn't want to take anything that was meant for those that were far younger then he was. It just felt wrong to him to do otherwise.

Once the girl had moved on to the next person that she was going to drag into the event he gave a breath of relief and started to glance about. He was supposed to be meeting Xarnith here after a time, to see about going to the marketplace together, so that Bisera could see about selling a few pieces that he'd made. They were the more simple pieces that he made for the specific intention of selling them to make a bit of coin, coin that would help as far as any supplies he and Xarnith might need. At least of the variety that they couldn't get on their own that was. It was nice to be able to take care of themselves but they couldn't do it all on their own since there was a lot that Bisera didn't know how to do himself.

Finding himself a place to stand that was in the shade of a tree he watched for a time as people ran from side to side, gathering up the colorful eggs as though they were the most important thing in the world. It was something that caused him to give a bit of a smile at the sight. It was actually nice to see. For so long everyone was terrified over the Dretch and the looming threat of them. That they were able to enjoy something as simple as this was actually good for the heart he felt.

He knew that the reason that people were able to enjoy things like this was because the bug mages had pinpointed a specific target that they really wanted, one that wasn't the Earthlings anymore. A lot of people were relieved by the attention of bug mages turning elsewhere and found themselves once again able to go from place to place more freely again. He found himself wondering if Xarnith and himself should move on again too. Would they be alright from here on out to continue their journey? Or would they want to just stay where they were since it was a nice place? Staying meant dealing with Mano though... and even if Xarnith said he was over him he still wasn't a fan of the guy. He was just too in your face for his liking.

Shaking his head he started forward again. He needed to leave those worries behind and try to focus instead on the good stuff that was going on, especially where Xarnith was concerned. He wondered where they should go next now that they had an opening to travel again. Should they go deeper into Matori? Should they back track? Should they go to one of the more distant lands like Yael or Belrea? he really couldn't say that he had strong feelings one way or the other save for being a bit afraid of the idea of going to Yael. There was a scary tribe there made up of Alkidike zealots, not to mention it was a poisoned island. It might best just to avoid that place. So he'd just see about finding another route, even if it meant backtracking to Sauti and going to Belrea since it was the newest place to go.

As he was thinking this Bisera once more nearly tripped over an egg. He was able to pause though, reaching down to pick it up, then instantly flailed his hand and dropped it when he smell a rather terrible scent coming off of it. Nope, nope... that was a terrible smell and instantly had him wanting to avoid that egg and the rest. Instead he'd just focus on finding Xarnith instead.

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