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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Dec 13, 2023 22:17:30 GMT -5
"I'll goin when I please." Percy was far too busy trying to just rip the bear's arm out of its socket. Stupid thing is already dead, how is it still holding on to this dumb arm? Eventually there is a pop and tear as he prys the meal away from the corpse. He takes a bit into the bear and takes a seat on the head to watch the campfire. The shark does not bother trying to cook the meat, in his own stupid mind he thinks he doesn't have to. Sharks don't exactly have access to fires. As much as he may secretly hate his animalistic nature, he also doesn't try to escape it either. Leaning into it has been the only way her survived after all. Before those thoughts take his mind too far off track something catches the attention of his fins. What is that sound? Water? There isn't supposed to be a river or pond around here so where the hell is that coming from? Did they somehow wander outside of the bounds of the Flats and get closer to the coast than they thought? "Feckin hells this place sucks." He grumbles as he continues to chew through the raw meat.
Quest Name: Calls in the night Participants: Two or more Location: Marsh Flats Post Requirements: 4 post per person, 200 words per post Description: A night or two into your search, you begin to hear voices coming from the woods, but only at night. These voices are faint and far, but are calling out for you! You can occasionally hear your name being beckoned into the void of the swamp, and while this would normally be enough to send you running the other way, you know this is the work of a Bogaboo, the very thing you are after. So, to do your job, you trek out into the swamp hoping to find this mysterious monster. But its a very elusive creature and finding it comes with it's own obstacles. Mud, bugs, thick vines, thorny bushes and more stand between you and your goal.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Dec 14, 2023 4:45:12 GMT -5
Javal’s mind soon entered deep sleep as he rested his head, his worries of the day and the bugaboo disappearing as his mind began dreaming. It was a nice dream at first, he was swimming in his trunks among the Luna Sea alongside various sea animals, a sea otter, fishies, and even a giant turtle. Everything was fun and vibrant, the sea a deep blue, the sun above a nice warmth but suddenly everything changed in an instant. There was a great dark cloud that loomed on the ocean dragging in his friends and him. Javal struggled to stay up but the darkness it dragged suffocating him with its dark tendrils dragging him down. He tried his best to fight, wriggling around and biting the air but it was a futile effort. He was falling deep into the ocean and as he struggled to swim back up he felt a great heavy weight on his arms as he wildly glanced he noticed both his father and his captain holding his arms back pulling him down with them. They both whispered in his ear, “This is all your fault, we’re both gone because of you. If only you had been stronger, if only you had tried harder we’d both be alive”.
He awoke quickly in a cold sweat breathing heavily sitting up in his verdant bed trying to calm his nerves from that horrible nightmare. He looked outside his window to notice a small bird chirping, “Odd isn’t it”, he remarks as he sits on his bed trying to get his mind away from his bad dream.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Dec 14, 2023 10:21:48 GMT -5
The sound of the water continues to grow as he continues to eat. Percy does his best to try and grumble his way through a meal and just straight up ignore the noise for as long as possible. It proves to be a lot harder than he thought though as she sound just seems to grow to overpower whatever noise he was making.
"OI I KNOW IT'S YER DUMB ARSE DOIN THIS YE FECKIN SKELETON PRICK, SHOW YERSELF ER SHUT UP." Percy shouted into the emptiness of the flats, throwing the bone into the darkness.
Stupid skeleton...stupid swamp...stupid everything. BUrning this place to the root, Percy decided it, that's what he's gonna do. Burn it all down.
He grumbles as he stomps towards the hut, kicking in the door. Percy has now given up on trying to be quiet and is rummaging around for any sort of fuel. Oil, lamps, magic dust that goes boom....whatever he can find to try and start a big enough fire.
"Oi, anything in this feckin place that can burn down a swamp? I'm sick o' waitin for this prick, so let's just smoke him out." He turned to look towards the fellblood.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Dec 14, 2023 12:42:59 GMT -5
Javal had gotten up from his bed and started to stretch, deciding it was probably a better idea to stay vigilant and ready for the bogaboo. Also, he didn’t want to go to sleep again, a little fearful of having another horrible dream like that. He stretched for a minute, truly awakening his body, and left his well-constructed hut and stood outside to check on Percy as well as look out for anything strange. As he walked out he began to hear strange noises among the fog, splashing of water, chirping of birds faint growling. It unnerved Javal as he stood by the door of his hut and he took a minute to listen more, it felt like it was coming from all around them.
He then responded to Percy, “I’m not sure that’d be a good idea Percy other things live here besides it. Although I do have to agree that just waiting for it to appear wouldn’t be the best idea either. I can use my cuirass to breathe fire but that’s it. Do you know what's with the weird sounds around us? Is it the creature? Does that mean it’s nearby”.
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Dec 15, 2023 0:09:39 GMT -5
"Aye, well I ain't keen on waitin' around fer this fella to show his feckin' arse, so jus' speedin' up the process." He grimaced as there really wasn't much around the hut.
At least there wasn't much that wasn't also furniture or something he assumed Javal wouldn't let him light on fire....Maybe just torch the hut itself? There's an idea...a bad one, but Percy doesn't have good ones.
"It's whatever the feck we're after....Lloyd said something about mutterings, I ain't clear on what he said, I stopped listening, but it is whatever the thing is. Godsdamned shite fer brains bag o' bones....It's a feckin' siren song an' I got enough shite in my 'ead. I don't need some other fecker muckin' about up there."
Percy sneered as he looked out the window. Eventually, he would simply unclasp his mace and take it in hand. If he couldn't burn it down, he could maybe smash enough things to force it out of hiding. Gotta be somewhere right? Just gonna be a matter of time until he's smashed every hollow tree in a ten mile radius.
Maybe if he wandered around long enough, the thing would try and ambush him. That could be fun.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Dec 18, 2023 13:40:07 GMT -5
“I can agree with you on that front, at least all this waiting is beginning to annoy me. I just want to fight this creature already I have heard from Lloyd about how strong and formidable it is but yet all this fiend has done so far is hide from us”, Javal says a bit irritated, he wanted to fight this thing but instead all they had done was walk in circles and got some rest.
The fellblood nervously chuckles at Percy’s mention of listening for when he was met with loud he kind of spaced out during his lecture about it and was thinking of what type of bread he would be if he was born as one. Suddenly before he could say another word he heard a loud child’s pained scream coming from their right. He quickly jumps into action and without warning sprints over as fast as he can towards it. Whether it was the bogaboo or not he wasn’t going to take the chance that it was a real person in need.
He managed to arrive at the origin of the noise quickly before noticing nothing was there, suddenly more voices begun to ring out all in anguish and utter suffering. Javal kept running around trying his best to make sure not a single one was a real person
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Post by Percy Rhyssina on Dec 23, 2023 10:15:18 GMT -5
Percy can still hear the supposed siren call of the bogaboo, but he no longer cares. He finds the first hollow tree and smashes his mace into it. The unnaturally heavy weapon smashes a hole through the trunk, the tree slowly toppling over. He grumbles to himself was he watches it fall.
When nothing scrambles out of it except for a few bugs, Percy moves to the next one. Javal had just taken off again so Percy wasn't going to worry about him. Hard to work with a guy who sprints off like that, though on the other hand it is not like either of them really had a plan. This was essentially a smash and grab, just grabbing a weird gross monster and not valuables to sell.
"Come on ye little shite...yer gonna be found eventually, but the longer ye wait and hide, the slower I'm gonna beat your arse into the ground." He tried to catch any scent he could of something that was off, but he was more adept at tracking blood. This thing probably didn't have a whole lot of blood. If it did, Percy was going to drain every drop of blood out of it when he beat it into the bog.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Dec 27, 2023 2:29:43 GMT -5
Desperately Javal ran around following the shrieks and the anguished cries among the fog it pained him truly in his soul hearing the noise. Although some part of him knew this was just the work of the bugaboo he shoved precaution and common sense to the side. He still couldn’t take the chance that it was someone in need, he couldn’t just stand there and pretend it didn’t pull at his heartstrings even if he looked like a dumb idiot fool he was still going to try even if it took him all night to make sure it wasn’t real.
He hears the loud thud of the tree as it crashes into the swamp floor he guesses Percy is probably either bored or annoyed with the fellblood so disregards it. Hearing Percy’s exclamation for the bugaboo to call out does cause Javal to take heed as he stops in his tracks. He hung his head low as he stood calming himself centering his focus once more listening to all the voices and cries around him. It was like a booming echo all around the woods coming from every direction. Percy was right, this was all some sort of trick, a lie made from the bugaboo’s call. Javal was mad, really really mad the beast had not only made him a fool but disrespected those people’s voices by using them for foul mischievous reasons. He then got into a fighting stance and grabbed his waist with his right hand pulling out Theseus from his sheathe in an instant.
He grits his teeth and shouts, “Alright I’ve had enough of this, your foul and wicked treachery has reached its end. I promise you Bogaboo fellow I will crush you and I will put your reign of terror to an end here and now”.
He glanced widely across the swampy fog eventually hearing something among all the continued chaos rustling through the treeline something was moving, fast. He stayed in a stance trying his best to hone in on that noise trying to block out the chaotic cacophony of anguished cries. Before the fellblood could do anything else suddenly he heard something jump out from one of the trees behind them.
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