anima_ooc | 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.

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“I think so…” said the traveling companion, brushing aside a few stray bangs of black air. The storm was already doing its best to tug her hair free from the hoops and beads she’d bound it into, and caused Lyon to squint against a growing breeze. It wasn’t going to be a good storm to be caught out in; Lyon could tell that already.

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.

Unlike Lyon, Li Li wasn't wearing anything like light armor. Her clothing was layered and woven cloth. Instead of boots, the bottoms of her pant legs were bound in cloth and her paw like feet were in sandals. She had a cloak in her bag if she needed it among other things. The young martial artist preferred to not wear anything too restricting so as to have freedom of movement.

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."

"Y-yeah, the same's true for me! In terms of strange things. Or... things getting set on fire. To be honest, I think I'll take the random fires in this forest, to anywhere else." Not that this was a good time to dwell on the past; better to focus on gathering ingredients, and applying them to something good, for a change.

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?"

The little dragon-serpent like creature wriggled the rest of the way out of Li Li's backpack and darted around in the air in circles excitedly, sniffing at everything along the beach curiously.

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.

"Right!" Maybe Li Li's enthusiasm is just contagious, but Lyon seems encouraged enough to follow her lead. And also doesn't seem too worried about things bursting into fire; for better or worse, she has experience in running through burning places.

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!'

Test Drive The First

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