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.

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[soldier_7d6]

Noah seems to share that thought with the ninja, as the alchemist finds himself inspecting the dead bulette, taking particular in its fin. A hand rests on the creature's head as he bows his own, paying his respects to the fallen shark. This ends rather quickly, as his hand moves towards the fin to give it a little shake. Yeah, that's not coming off that easily.

"This'll be enough proof." He gestures over to Yuki'to. "Ever carved up an animal before?" He's pretty sure this isn't the ninja's first time doing that, but it doesn't hurt to be sure. Quick pray the RNG gives you the rare carve

[purreptitious]

He looked up, and wondered why he hadn't thought of that sooner. The fin would be perfect, and nothing anyone would be able to fake this far inland. With the question he grabbed a dagger hilt and listened to the blade sing as it dragged against its sheath.

Yuki'to nodded, and set to work. The blade sank into flesh and fat, working its way around the fin to keep the entire thing intact. If the fin wouldn't convince, the shred of hide around it bearing the color of the bulette would. He'd just have to make a note to get his hands on a whetstone later, considering this thing was all plates and sandpaper.

With a neat pull, he removed the thing entirely, leaving an easy opening for carrion feeders that would have otherwise passed the corpse and its armored hide by. Always leave something behind, for it is a creature of the land... others have to eat, too.