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Test Drive The First
| Our first, pre-game test drive! Feel free to backtag into this to your heart’s content. You may also (with permission from other players) have this be canon to your character’s RP if you wish; you can also tag without concerns of continuity too! Related to this, your Anima companion, spells, elements, etc, can/will change around from the test drive and game-proper. Be sure to include a starter in your response, so people have something to build off of and tag into; try and tag around different threads too, as players may want to use these threads for RP samples! | |||||||
| 1. Monster Hunting | |||||||
| Worried murmurs trace through the settlement of Scholar’s Rest. And the reason is due to rumors of a Bulette spotted nearby, close enough that the land shark poses a town devouring threat. You’ve been asked to scout out, and warned repeatedly not to engage without proper backup. Maybe that’s why the Chivalrous Guild has insisted you take at least one companion along with you. The magic you both carry, and your Anima, will hopefully see you through. | |||||||
2. Filling In The Blanks| A branch from the Diplomats Guild has approached you with a map. A patch work, incomplete map, but still a map. It illustrates a passage along the Salt Step Range, and several empty points are circled. The Diplomats want you to journey there, fill out the map, and return the completed document. Just watch for shifting passages, rock crumbling, and pack a good meal; you may be out for a bit. | 3. Shrine Tending | Ripple is a half sunken ruin, and some of these ruins carry old carvings suggesting shrines. Many of them are covered in marine plants, obscuring images of a sea serpent and various minor gods. The Devout hope to clear some of these carvings and unearth new shrines, and thus receive the blessings of the gods depicted in them. The one complication is in the amount of swimming and potential attention of marine life to reach these shrines in the first place, or needing to crawl down through crumbing passages. But with luck, you and the others they’ve brought along don’t mind getting your feet wet. | 4. Searching For Ingredients | The Discoverer’s Guild is running short on items for their alchemy, and one potion in high demand is a brew that strengthens one’s immune system. One of the key ingredients is fruit from the forest around Sun Rise, and an expedition ship has been sent out and anchored near the shore. And with a storm growling in, time is running short, and you may need to brave a blazing forest to find the ingredients. | 5. Training Wheels | It’s not an easy task, finding yourself bonded to a new creature and finding your feet in a strange place; there’s any number of growing pains for the two of you. That sometimes means bursts of wild magic, and an Anima creature ready to experiment and test its limits. Maybe your creature is curious, destructive, craving attention, or ready to run off and do whatever it wants. Good thing Haven is big enough for this much chaos… but you might need some help with managing a new Anima. | |
Li Li Stormstout | World of Warcraft
If by some miracle a Chen Stormstout wants to respond to this, please ignore the comment regarding missing her Uncle. <3]]
Searching for Ingredients
When the Discoverer's Guild was looking for volunteers for this particular task, Li Li jumped up at the chance to have a little adventure. She had yet to explore outside of Haven since her abrupt arrival here and she was eager to see more sights. She had only been in the city for about a month to acclimate with her Anima companion. She had adjusted pretty well, in her opinion and though the city still held some amazing things to suit her endless curiousity, she was looking forward to seeing some new lands.
Another nice thing about this mission was that she wouldn't be traveling alone. She'd have her Anima of course, but she'd also have another Adventurer like herself to work with her. She never minded traveling on her own, but it was nice to have company. Not for the first time, she wished for her Uncle Chen to be at her side. She wondered what he would think of a world like this.
The young Pandaren hopped off of the small boat and onto the beach. The larger boat they came in on was anchored not far from the shore. She worked on wading into the shallows and pulling the small row boat more onto the shore. She was barely five feet tall and slim, wearing a wrap around tunic and pants with a wide sash. A large backpack was on her back, along with a carved staff with decorative rings. By all appearances, she was a humanoid panda with the markings to match and long black hair tied up into a ponytail.
A patter of rain made an ear twitch and green eyes looked upward and squinted. The dark clouds looked heavy with rain and the winds kicked up in gusts. The coast would get hit pretty soon by the looks like. Maybe rain would help with the strange fires that seemed to flare up in the region. She had heard of them of course - and knew of the dangers. But she was eager to do this anyway.
Something squirmed in Li Li's backpack as the Pandaren straightened and stretched. "Finally!" She exclaimed, happy to finally arrive. She turned to her traveling companion with a grin. "Ready for an adventure?"
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But even with a brewing storm, she did a decent enough job of springing out of the boat too. She splashed down in the shallows and caused the water to lap around the new, lightly armored greaves she’d requested for this mission; it was worth both the time and money spent to have the outfit reforged, and she felt almost like a full fledged (apprentice!) queen’s knight.
“At least, I’m ready enough to see what else is out here. And it’d be good, to go gather something for potions that help people.” Behind her, the odd hybrid that was her Anima gave an agreeing warble and sloshed onto the beach; if someone had mashed together a cloud serpent, and quilen out of the Mogu’s strongholds, it may have resembled what shadowed Lyon.
Also Lyon herself didn’t seem too phased by the ’talking panda person’ part of the situation. Seems being from a world with varied races aided in that.
“I’m still trying to understand Tenei,” she nodded to the Anima. “I’m not used to matching up my steps and movements to her, or… many of the people here. But, I’m guessing you can take care of yourself with that?”
She nodded to the carved staff.
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The Pandaren nodded with a 'Mm-hm!' at the other girl's mention about helping people. She liked that too, being able to help folks in need, as well as explore a new place. As Lyon's anima Tenei sloshed onto the beach - Li Li's backpack wriggled again before a horned, whiskered head popped out of the flap with a squeak and a yawn.
"Hey you! Finally woke up after your nap?" Li Li grinned, scritching the little cloud serpent's head. She blinked over at Lyon at her question, then laughed. Reaching back for her staff, she unlatched it and gave it a twirl.
"Of course I can! I'm not a bad healer either!" She assured. "I've seen some pretty crazy stuff and made it out all right. This will be no different."
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And that she didn't need to go at this by herself. She grinned for a second at the tiny, dragon-ish creature poking its head from the pack. The creature was a touch smaller than her own Anima, which weighed in at about the size of a puppy.
"Any help is good, right? Even if the help is just waking up."
Lyon tilted her head, scanning the forest just beyond the shore edge. The leaves rustled in the growing storm front, but didn't seem ready to burst into flames at that exact second. Her hands went to her own weapon, a curious switchblade of a long handled sword, resting at her side.
"How long do you think until sunset? I'd say maybe a candle mark, maybe?"
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Li Li couldn't help but laugh a little at both the Anima's antics and the comment Lyon made about fire. It somewhat reminded her of her Uncle, who was a talented brewmaster in his own right. The question about how much time they had made the Pandaren pause for a moment in thought, squinting up at the sky.
"With all the clouds it's hard to tell..." She said finally. "An hour...maybe?" She adjusted her backpack, and with staff in hand, started up the beach towards the forest's edge, her Anima spiraled through the air in her wake. "We should hurry, just in case! I don't think getting BBQ'ed will be any fun!" She quipped with a grin - not even worried in the slightest.
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But if Lyon is eager to get going, her Anima is even more so; Tenei rushes on ahead, nostril's flared and catching the scent of... something, that catches her attention. The creature turns in a tight circle, all while Lyon raises her hands and gives a nervous,
"W-wait a second-!" But the command comes a second too late, as Tenei seems ready to charge off and blaze a trail herself; pintsized as she is, she still has her own ideas on what she wants to do. She dances away from Lyon's fingers, tossing her head impatiently and seeming to say 'go THIS way, slow-feet!'
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That and regular adventures help him feel useful for his age. Noah was never fond of sitting around and doing nothing, anyway.
The iguana-like reptile keeps himself draped over the man's shoulders, looking up at the forming rain clouds with a small bit of excitement. At least one of them didn't have to worry about getting cold from the rain. It didn't do much for the others in the party, however, but that's what preparations are for. It shouldn't take too long to find what they need, but the alchemist brought a few concoctions of his own to help them take on the elements.
He helps Li Li tie down the boat and adjusts his coat, glancing at the nearby stretch of forest before looking back at the young panda, smiling. "Just make sure you're bundled up, okay? Or else we'll really need those immune boosting potions."
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She nodded at Noah's words, jerking a thumb back to her backpack. "I have a cloak in here in case it starts raining before we're done. C'mon!! I've been cooped up on that boat for too long. What's this fruit look like anyway?" She chatted as she started up the beach, eyeing the forest. "You really think we'll see this catch on fire?"
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But that assumes luck.
He smiles a little at the eager anima and its equally excited scion, glancing over at his own animal companion. His tail baps against Noah's coat in anticipation, as if telling him to stop waiting around and get going already. He pulls out a map and readies his compass alongside it. "It's blue and pear-shaped with spots along its skin. Like some fruits, they grow on trees, so we can look forward to some climbing when the time comes." He offers to show Li Li the map, pointing at a particular spot in the forest. "They grow North from here, near the mountains. It's a journey alright, but like you said: at least we're off the boat."
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She paused to check out the map that Noah held, eyeing it curiously. "Blue with spots huh? That sounds pretty interesting and easy to spot. It's a good thing I'm a good climber then!"
She looked up in the direction of the mountains. "Yup! And it's a great way to stretch the legs." Her Anima trilled and did loops and spirals around them as they conversed. "How long do you think the journey is?" Not that she minded whether it was long or short - she just didn't know if Noah was the type of traveler to meander like her Uncle or go from point A to point B at a brisk pace.