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Post by aki on Apr 1, 2023 19:25:32 GMT -5
Aki smiled to herself, humming a little tune as she strolled along the pathways of the market place. The sun was shining down on her, such a lovely afternoon. There was a slight breeze, ruffling the fur on her body as she peacefully strode along. Burden free and careless, she was having quite a nice time. Ah, surely nothing could go wrong today, right?
And right as she thought that, the gods decided to jinx her and have a good hearty laugh at this. Of course, just as she was having a perfect day it'd get ruined. While she was striding on along, something made her pause. A pebble was shaking on the ground, making her go and pick it up to look at it.
Just as she did that, it seemed the world exploded. Buildings started to crack and fissures appeared in the ground, making gaping holes to dodge and rubble to avoid. Carts, wagons, stalls, they all tumbled and tossed around, getting destroyed or about to be.
She groaned, pinning her ears against her head with annoyance. Her eyes searched the surroundings, seeing people getting trapped under buildings and trying not to fall into the fissures. She sighed, anger clear. Guess she'd have to help with this mess, maybe she could get something out of this.
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Quest Name: Evacuation!
Participants: Two or more
Location: One of Charon's Major Cities
Post Requirements: 6 post per person, 200 words per post
Reward: +1 Renown, +1 Mystical Archive Ticket
Description: You have found yourself caught up in one of these earthquakes, one of the biggest yet. While spending time in one of Charon's popular cities, the earth begins to shake, cracking open and throwing the city into chaos. Buildings collapse, fires spread and lava seeps from a massive fissure that has sprouted open, leaving those in the city to run for their lives. As a brave, capable member of Charon, you are needed to help evacuate the city, tend to wounded and assist civilians in getting to safety. The destruction is massive, rendering a small portion of the city destroyed and in need of repairs, but fixing things comes later, the priority now is to survive!
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Post by Lillian Morrows on Apr 4, 2023 20:11:00 GMT -5
Lillian walked quietly, most locals giving her room to walk seeming to distance themselves some as she went. She didnt mind as she was used to it and continued on buying what she needed not caring to examine those around her much. She didnt like others and they didnt like her. That was fine in her opinion.She was about to move to another stall when the ground shook and buldings began cracking and breaking, the ground following suit as lava dripped up from the cracks. She stumbled back a bit eyes wide at the scene and how strange it was "what the..." she muttered and glanced around seeing other confused faces and terror setting into the eyes of some around her. She didnt care much for helping most but knew it would only be more annoying if she didnt and had to just listen to pitiful pleading. With this in mind she ran to a fountain and stood inside it focusing as two tendrils of water formed from her back. She moved her arms, the tendrils moving as she did so and she caught a pillar, grabbing others out of harms way with the other. It was a tiring experience but it was working
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Post by aki on Apr 6, 2023 18:59:15 GMT -5
She looked around, dodging crumbling pieces of buildings and the fissures that were now radiating heat. At least there was one thing she could stand, even with her fur. She kept searching, hearing pleas for help and screaming all around her, please getting trapped, crushed, or burned in the cracks.
Her head was on a swivel, darting this way and that as she tried to figure out her own escape. Helping rescue these people quickly fled her mind, too many were already dead or dying for her to even think that she could escape alive while helping. If only she had decided not to visit this dratted city, she would have been fine.
But, because of her head turning this way and that, she found someone trying to aid the rescue of others. This was the one person she had seen helping rescue others, most probably were just civilians and counting on adventurers like her to save them. Adventurers like her...
Aki groaned, running over. "I don't know what I'm meant to do, but you look like you know something, so tell me what to do and I guess I'll do it!" She yelled over the roaring of the angry earth, the screams of those pleading for someone to stop and help them.
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Post by Lillian Morrows on Apr 8, 2023 12:14:48 GMT -5
"Get people out from the rubble and take the injured up the hill away from here. Those able to help try to have them help you save more people. I'd rather not pull all the dead bodies out of this rubble later." she remarked glancing over though stayed focused on the task. Once everyone was away from the rubble she held up, she dropped it and lifted other rubble with the tendrils of water to find survivors. It was strange how she jumped into helping these people without question when they never cared to hep her or even acknowledge her yet here she was, protecting a city that despised her. She gave a wry laugh at the absurdity but continued to help, holding rubble until people were out of the way.
Were her motives to finally be noticed and liked by her home city or was it something else? Proving to herself that she wasn't the monster they considered her as? Why did it matter to her? She always told herself that it didnt but a part of her knew that was a lie. She shook the thoughts from her head for now and focused on her task. Fine once a monster always a monster but who said they all had to be bad?
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Post by aki on Apr 9, 2023 20:53:48 GMT -5
Aki nodded, hurrying off and yelling for people to help her. She tried to pull rubble off of people, but the best she could manage was pull the less stuck people out. This hurt her, having to choose who was saved and who wasn't. She was terrified of being left behind, and here she was leaving others. Nothing in her head could manage to justify this.
But she still had a job to do, even if it meant leaving others behind. She kept working, directing people away and pulling as many as she could from the rubble. Helping the injured limp away, and getting the able-bodied people to stay behind and assist in the evacuation.
She weaved and dodged around rubble, listening for anything above the roaring of the earth and the crumbling of the city. She could hardly hear anything, most in this city were evacuated or already gone. More and more cracks were appearing, spewing fires into the streets and lava slowly leaving out. Options for escape were dwindling, she needed to get out fast if she wanted to save her fur. Continuing to run around the destroyed city, she searched desperately for an escape.
But the gods weren't on anyones side today
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Post by Lillian Morrows on Apr 17, 2023 12:34:17 GMT -5
Once everyone was out of the rubble near lillian she took a breath dropping the tentacles and looking for a way out. She saw the furred feline in the distance and moved towards her looking around “have you found any form of escape?” She asked as she looked around not seeing much of anything sadly in this current situation. She cursed seeing nothing trying to think of other suggestions or ways out before something came to mind. She looked to the other “do you trust me?” She asked looking at the girl needing an answer quickly. She knew it would be rough with her plan but it was better than dying here and the other girl seemed quite scared. She half expected the other to say no even in this situation as no one ever really seemed to trust her. “If you do we need to get to the ocean (or other body of water) as quickly as possible. I can get us out that way I think but we need to be fast before the lava reaches it” she replied looking into the others eyes and across her features as she waited to hear back from the other on what to do
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Post by aki on Apr 21, 2023 11:48:13 GMT -5
Aki shook her head. "No, found nothing. I've just been getting whoever I can out." Then she frowned, hearing the stranger speak about needing a body of water. Oh this was just a great day, huh. She sighed and gave a nod, reluctantly agreeing. "I can try to get us to the port, but we might need the long way." She informed the stranger, while looking at the still shaking world. She reached her hand out to grab the strangers, giving a reassured nod. "Yeah, I can get us there. But the shortest way might not work. Come on!" She grabbed her hand and took off, weaving through broken streets. The way she had planned wasn't seeming to work out well, the more they went that path the more destruction there was. Out of breath and starting to cough from the smoke, she kept running without looking to check on the stranger. She had thought she knew the way there, but with all this chaos and destruction there was it was getting difficult to figure the way out. Blast it all, what sick joke were the gods trying to play on them all? Whatever it was, it planned on destruction.
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Post by Lillian Morrows on Apr 28, 2023 11:41:45 GMT -5
Lillian flinched at the contact but nodded and followed along pausing when the other seemed confused or lost. She listened a moment before tugging her towards the water “hold your breath” she said quickly before diving into the water pulling the other along. She focused and summoned the tendrils again using it to help propel them through the water. Her gills gave her some peace as she could breathe more than just smoke for a few moments. Once she got them out of the towns bounds a bit she surfaced with the other and looked around guiding them to shore. She glanced back at the now soaked cat “are you alright?” She asked, the tendrils having dispersed behind her once they could stand. She moved some wet hair from her face and looked back towards the almost fully demolished town then around seeing where people were gathering “your best bet is to go join them. I’m sure they have anything to help you and the town can be scavenged for supplies when the fires stop” she explained to the other before turning back to the water signaling she wouldn’t be going with the other. She was used to being alone after all and never expected a warm welcome
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Post by aki on May 8, 2023 10:23:16 GMT -5
Aki, looking less than pleased as she was pulled onto shore, nodded. "I'll live." She replied, shaking her hands off. She nodded at Lillians words. "Thank you." She said to her, keeping her gaze locked somewhere else. Then, turning her head back up to watch Lillian walk away, she frowned. She had just helped save a bunch of people, didn't she want to go with her?
She thought for a moment, before quickly walking towards her. "I'm sure it'd be good if we both went." She said, seemingly a tad awkward. She looked at Lillian, thinking quickly. "I mean, you did just save people, I'm sure they'd want to at least thank you."
Lillian didn't seem all that fond of the people though, she knew this was a long shot and a hard thing to ask for. But, she wasn't ready to just let her leave yet. Maybe because she had helped her out not once, not twice, but three whole times. Or she was just not wanting to be left alone here, not yet. Whatever it was, she was wanting Lillian to stick with her for a little longer.
"I'd get it if you didn't want to stay though."
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Post by Lillian Morrows on May 9, 2023 10:33:04 GMT -5
Lillian paused her walk and glanced back “I doubt it. They may become wary if I were to join you. I’m afraid they have never liked me here. They are scared if anything” she remarked. “I am trying to help.. I don’t know how they would treat someone seen with me. It could cause you more trouble than anything helpful” she remarked “I plan on camping farther down the beach as usual. I suppose you can come along if you like but I believe it is a bad idea for me to go to where they all are” she replied. She wasn’t sure why she never hated those in the city who seemed to hate her but she was wary and found life easier to keep her distance. She was typically left alone besides a few kids dating each other to look for the “witch of the waves” they would run upon seeing her and if she tried to interact they would scream saying the witch was cursing them and run to the town.
On top of this she was used to her solitude at this point and typically found it better to push people away and to not trust those around herself typically. She wasn’t sure why she wasn’t pushing this other away however
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Post by aki on May 9, 2023 11:45:17 GMT -5
Aki nodded and was about to give a sigh, but paused at the invitation to join Lillian. She nodded, looking to the crowd for a moment, then back to Lillian. "I'll meet you in a moment, they might have some food. I'll follow soon." And with that she turned to the crowd once more and walked over, looking around for anything to eat.
She looked back for a moment before disappearing into the crowd, intentionally stomping on as many peoples toes as she could out of spite. Lillians words were burning through her, why were they going to hate her even though they had just been saved by her? She wasn't mad at Lillian though, she was mad at the townsfolk. Bunch of selfish idiots who were cowards, thats what they were.
Scowling as she made her way through the crowds, she found a little area where scavenged food was. Picking up a small thing for her and Lillian, she turned to retreat from the crowd and follow Lillian. Glares were being tossed at her as she shoved her way through, giving equally mad glares in return. Breaking through the edge of the crowd, she began to make her way back to where she was with Lillian.
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Post by Lillian Morrows on Jun 26, 2023 14:34:59 GMT -5
Lillian nodded and after a moment began walking along the shore line once more before stopping a ways away and sitting on the sand. Lillian had made a small little fire to keep a decent temperature and looked at the water before pausing as she had heard the other approaching. A part of her hadn’t truly expected the other to come back. “Guessing they had a decent amount then” she replied as she saw the other with the few supplies once more surprised “I’m amazed they were willing to share” she remarked tilting her head a little. Maybe they weren’t completely horrid as she thought but she was too tired to think mug of it especially after being the “sorceress of the sea” and “a witch” for so long. “Well welcome to my little camp I suppose. If you find it too cold out here it is better in the cave. Didn’t collpse surprisingly” she remarked glancing back to it. The entrance was covered with strung up colorful bottles and inside a faint light illuminated cushions and blankets she had gathered over the years. It wasn’t the best but she had made it a home.
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Post by Lillian Morrows on Oct 22, 2023 19:10:41 GMT -5
(checking if this is done)
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