Test Drive The First

[animamods]

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.

Comments

[soldier_7d6]

"We might. Things will go a lot smoother if we don't." They already have enough to worry about in roaming through this continent. If they were lucky enough, the rain really would help combat any spontaneous flames.

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."

[littlewanderer]

"Huh..." Li Li murmured. True, it would go smoother if the forest didn't burst into flames. The Pandaren wondered if it was a slow burning start or more like an explosion. Part of her was curious to find out, while the other part didn't really want to be in the middle of an explosion. Watching them from a safe distance was awesome though.

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.