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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Apr 9, 2023 20:06:08 GMT -5
There are many things I would do for information of any kind. Bribe, trade, search, even give up who I truly am. But the fact of the matter is, I would never go and enter a spot known for having Geonids in hopes for history. Much less, I would refuse to have anyone attack the near extinct species. Especially in the name of finding historical information. You just need to ask the oldest living being about what ever you want! I walk slowly as I look around to the area around me, finding small Geonids littered on the path. I could only feel sorry for the small rock people, they are so simple and completely neutral to what ever happens. "This peaceful species is way to over hunted, who would think that archeologists would take this opportunity to kill something that would later be studied by future people of their own job occupants." I look to my side, nodding to Nit, acknowledging the fact he simply spoke my mind... wait. "Did I accidentally have message activated?" I look to him, pleading with my eyes that I needed to know if my power is leaking by accident. He shakes his head with a teasing smile, "Nope, but you are too easy to read." I simply hopped on his foot and kept walking, waiting for the help promised for the 500 creatures, ignoring the sounds of pain behind me.
Quest Name: The Rocks that Roll Participants: Two or more Location: Moonglade Post Requirements: 5 post per person, 200 words per post Reward: +1 Renown, +1 Stone, +1 Earth Catalyst Description: Some dumb archeologist were digging out in the glade, and without investigating first, tunneled into a nest of Geonids. The disturbance caused the nest to scatter, trying to flee for safety, which was further complicated by the researchers trying to hit them with axes and picks. Now 500 of these small rock like things are just everywhere, disturbing travelers, getting into homes, and just being an overall pain. Your job is to go in, and some how round these things up. Use force if you need to, but the longer they stay out the more danger they are to others and themselves.
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Post by Gwendolyn on Apr 14, 2023 15:00:00 GMT -5
She stepped over a rock on her way to the meeting point. It rose, gave her an angry look, and scattered. Must be close. Up ahead, Gwendolyn saw who she was supposed to be meeting, the short woman she had met in Zeinav. Refreshing, almost, a job where her partner isn’t some barbarian urchin or something. She raised an armour hand to wave her arrival. “Miss Keyke! It’s been a while. They’ve got you rounding up rocks now?” said whilst taking a minute to catch her breath and surveil the area surrounding. It looked like a cart carrying supplies for a mason ran through the forest and tipped over at high speed, throwing rocks all over the shaded path. This would definitely be a long day. “Any bright ideas? There’s always the option of just going around and picking each one up, but I think they'd just scatter once more once we turn our back. Something like a pit would work?” She said, gloved hand holding her chin in contemplation. Did Geonids know how to tunnel through earth? She didn’t know, but if they did a pit wouldn’t come close to stopping them. On top of that, once they were underground they would be impossible to track down.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Apr 16, 2023 16:35:29 GMT -5
As I saw Gwen walking up, my head did a little happy dance in response. Finally, someone who can have a calm head and be rational enough to work together! I give a bright smile to her as she walks forward to us, giving a form of greeting. It was very sarcastic, I couldn't help but giggle at the statement over the quest. "They know me as a collector, one of all aspects. That might have something to do with it." As she surveys the area, I share a look with Nit, his face of confusion quickly changing as I mouth 'I'll tell you later'.
I think over the problems presented by Gwen. Relaying information I checked before the journey I had a safe-ish answer to that. "If memory serves me correctly, Geonids do not dig, rather, they find previously chosen area to blend in with. I will say, a pit would do us good till we are in need of transporting them." I poke at my cheek as I think. I feel Nit bowing next to me, not giving much thought to it as I contemplated a plan to do.
"The name is Nitin Ashwood, feel free to call me Nitin. It's easier if any help is needed." He raises as I snap back with a plan. "Nit! If you will, , mold an area to form a pit to hold the tiny rocks. I know me and Gwendolyn can handle the not so hidden creatures!" I give a little clap, looking at Gwen for her input.
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Post by Gwendolyn on Apr 19, 2023 4:00:10 GMT -5
“Alright then, lets get to it I guess!” A little bit of a false upbeat attitude to help her get excited for a job she was really not looking forward to was all that she could muster. The Sylvan elf went about his errand, clearing a spot and molding the earth below to form a large pit for gathering the offending creatures. It was impressive, her idea would have been to place all the explosives on her person into one pile, but that might have been a small bit messier than otherwise intended. Looking around their area, it was incredibly littered with Geonids. They were scattered every which way in each of the cardinal directions. “Well, I suppose the first order of business is to somehow get them in the same area, preferably close to the pit. Ill go around the edge, and see if I can herd them closer to you.”
Walking out to the periphery of the pack, she tossed an explosive pebble away from the direction of the pit. Detonating, and taking out a tree with it, a collection of nearby geonids were disturbed enough to get up. They waddled away from the disturbance, slowly towards the pit. “Great… Just need to do that several more times…”
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Apr 22, 2023 1:47:18 GMT -5
As I watch Gwen explode items round to direct the Geonids, I walk away to a group hiding away. I lightly tap little patterns into the ground, allowing a processing of information for how they react to each one to auto-file my analysis. Some start to shift to e useless the patterns, but most stones remain still. I sigh, knowing my tactic would be useless unless I could tell which stones were alive and which ones were being affected by the explosions that Gwen was releasing around her. I rub my head as I get confirmation from Nit that the pit was finished being prepped and made. At this note, I had a new idea form, allowing me to form a constant pattern for all of them to know how to work it out. I give a nod to myself and walk forward, pushing the rocks on to their sides and nudging them forward.1 I kept to the rocks that fit the sizes described in books, forcing enough to make up my body forwards before moving another group around. I slowly gain a group of stones to cover the large paths. I continue to walk forward to push them as if I'm one of the cattle dogs rounding up the cattle.
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Post by Gwendolyn on Apr 22, 2023 21:23:49 GMT -5
The Geonids scatter as bombs go off in the forest. Gwen notices Keyke marching them in some form of formation, and attempts to guide more over her direction. Most are surprisingly compliant with her attempts, guessing that moving is more desirable than the mini bombs that she was flinging all over the woods. The large majority of the little critters were now in range of the small woman, slowly meandering towards the pit that Nit had created. Gwendolyn stopped running for a moment, needing to catch her breath. It had been nearly half an hour of this now, the large majority of the work being mobile. Sprinting had always been her forte, none of this long distance stuff was really working too well for her. Sweat poured off her brow as she leaned against a massive boulder that had been sitting nearby as she worked. The odd feeling of being watched crept over as she did so, and not a moment later did the rock subtly shift to the side. She jumped back in surprise as it settled back into place, one of it’s grey arms sliding back under it’s edge as it went back to sleep. A giant Geonid? Unmoved by her explosions? This would be a problem.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on Apr 26, 2023 22:42:58 GMT -5
I am very grateful for Gwen's help, her bombs were simply adding to my pile, allowing me to work with higher efficiency around the movement of gathering, I had to slow my perceptive to focus on moving more. This is causing my movement of the group to slow down. The casual walk has slowed to a pause after every step to more each of them far enough to allow the next group for movement. I couldn't complain, it let me work at a basic pace and helped my not grab useless rock on my way back to the hole. This prevented me from seeing the impending question that would ruin any semblance of previously known knowledge for their sizes.
Nit, on the other hand, has seen this abnormal movement in rocks. He was about to rush to me when he noticed my crawl like speed that the small creatures were giving me. That stopped him in hos place, making him look back down to the hole. Noticing that the hole was not deep enough, he leaned back down and focused once more onto the ground. This resulting in a larger hole with steeper sides and even smoother ground to prevent any escape from all of the sizes.
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Post by Gwendolyn on Apr 29, 2023 17:23:48 GMT -5
Gwen gazed upwards at the heft of this monstrous Geonid. It’s sheer mass rivalled that of a house. She summoned her maul, and gave it a solid whack on the side, trying to prompt it to elevate and change it’s position at all. It did, slightly. The underside of the monster lifted about a foot off the ground, revealling a hand that stretched out to swat at her. Gwen tumbled back slightly in an effort to dodge it, tripping on a tiny geonid that stood underfoot. She grunted, scowled, and pulled herself back up to her feet. “Don’t want to move huh? We’ll see about that.” Said as she rolled up her sleeves and reared back with her maul once more. With a swing, she began to spin the hammer around like a shotput, gaining momentum and speed. At the apex of her spin, a blast from her gauntlets granted a boost, and she let the hammer impact the side of the monster. With a thunderous CRACK, the rocky carapace surrounding it shuddered.(1) The impact left a small crater like a rock hitting glass, and with that the monster picked itself up and began to move. Repeated light whacks with the hammer directed it towards the Nit Pit, until it eventually waddled close enough to fall in.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on May 9, 2023 3:41:39 GMT -5
It was going to smoothly, Nit had made a large hole, perhaps he overestimated how many of these fellas were around here? I didn't pay much mind as I started to fill the hole with the small creatures by pushing each of them in. but from behind me, I heard a very familiar sound, one of cracking. My focus lost in that moment, I look up, seeing the large creature for the first time. I reeled back with my hand, Nit there to grab me before anything could happen, such as falling into the hole. The little ones I had already been directing continued on their way into the hole, not needing much force unless they wanted to go quicker. The slow movements of the creature that suddenly moved quickly wore off as it made it's way to the hole.
Knowing the need to secure the final groups, I focus on the little ones once more, lightly pushing them as before, boosting them like before, and allowing the gathering of the pesky small ones and the large on gather into a nice pile in the ground. As being close to other rocks and other Geonids allow them a proper camouflage, all of them fall into a still like slumber to hide as the ground once more. Feeling the starting of a head ache appearing, I rub my eyes as I give a smile to Gwen, "Thanks for handling the large one while I gathered the small ones." I give a light bow before returning to easing the head ache. Nit was about to come forward to care for me, but i raised my hand to stop the gesture, as while it does help, consequences are there for a reason.
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Post by Gwendolyn on May 10, 2023 8:34:28 GMT -5
“Of course Miss Keyke, anytime. A pleasure as always. Nice to be meeting you as well, Mr Ashwood was it?” Gwen says as the last of the little varmints corral into the pit. “I’ll take it upon myself to contact those archeologists and have them finish cleaning this mess. Peacefully, of course.” It would be a pain, where would they even put this many Geonids where they wouldnt bother anyone of importance. Paying to ship them to the moutains would be the best solution, but also extremely expensive. Regardless, it occured to her that she didn’t altogether care that much to be honest. It was no longer her problem, nor anyone else’s but the fools who had started this mess in the first place. In fact, telling them to resolve the situation without simply dumping them into the sea to drown would be spiteful enough in and of itself. The thought of a bunch of nerds having to requisition a crane to lift the gigantic geonid danced gaily in her mind as she waved goodbye to the two, and strutted off to find the perpetrators once more.
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Post by Lady Keyke Runi on May 30, 2023 13:29:14 GMT -5
With the question, Nit gives a formal bow with a clear, "Yes ma'am, that is correct." Lifting his torso as he finishes with that formality. With the off hand comment to leave this to her, I glanced at Nit. He gave a nod, knowing what I was thinking. I give Gwen an easy smile, "Very well, I wish you luck dealing with those... bland people."
At the leave of Gwen, I turned to Nit and gave a smirk. "As if we would simply leave like last time." Around the area me and Nit quickly worked to build a better slippery wall so the creatures got a level of comfort before the rock lovers got here. With a spring in our steps after confirming the security of the little ones, we rushed from the site. Not long after the people were there to move the creatures, with little need to help on our part. Simple little tasks, such as lifting the large one slightly to help balance the lifts. Before long, we left entirely to make our way to the ship, readying and making our why out to sea.
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