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Post by Skylos on Dec 9, 2021 7:05:29 GMT -6
On the Board
As you look over the quest board, musing over your options, a small notice catches your eye. It’s handwritten, but neat and in very big letters.
“Mousers Wanted!
My farm, at the end of Miisaa Avenue is overrun by mice! I think they’re all hiding out in my barn. I can’t get anything done around here and they eat everything in sight whenever I leave five seconds. Get rid of them however you want, just get rid of them! I can’t stand it anymore!”
Below that is the farmer's exact address.
Well that sounds interesting. Surely you have something that could be used for scaring away or catching mice!
In Order to Succeed: Roleplay finding the quest giver's farm and clearing the mice out of their barn. Use whatever pets or methods you'd like, but please make sure those mice are gone!
Prize: Quest Points
Challenge Rating: Easy
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Post by Skylos on Dec 9, 2021 7:18:36 GMT -6
Em and Saph lv 3, lv 11 The mammalian has a problem. All the berry mush he acquired is out. And what he's offering the hive of vespa he's procured over the last several weeks is something they are not interested in eating. Particularly Em and Saph don't want anything else to do with fruit. More then once he's nearly had his finger nibbled instead. They want MEAT. Not skylos flavored please. /'the sooner these worms cocoon, the happier I'll be'/... the cat mumbles to himself as he works on slowly, and I mean SLOWLY, cutting apart a slab of meat into portions of five. It would be just enough for today but he needed to get a new source of meat for the wormlings until they grew up. Then he could feed them something else. Not him. He'll go check the pantry outside again. Maybe check the quest wall. What IS it with these cat people and being convinced wasps eat mainly fruit? It is COLD OUTSIDE, HELLO. Em hisses at the small lumps of fruit left for them, shuffling about like some sort of nubby centipede, with only four nubs instead of a hundred. Oh give it a rest already, their partner snits, about two days into their own hunger strike of wanting meat vs anything else. It won't bleed if you hiss at it. 1 [26 0/5 0/10 17/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 9, 2021 12:19:41 GMT -6
Well...it won't bleed if you starve at it either. Em snips back at their twin. Tempers running higher then normal, the rest of the hive gave the two of them a very wide berth when a happy chirp greeting got answered by a bout of hissing. Yeah, they're hungry, and pissed. And would you put us down you mad cat person? We are not interested in being socialized today! The spurt of hissing and attempting ot reach forward adn nip his grippy legs with grips doesn't go over well. /Calm down, we are going out to get food for you./ he tells the bugs, who don't listen whatsoever. What is his rush. The rush, in fact, was a desperate notice on the quest board, looking for mousers. He'd be a complete idiot to be uninterested in finding out, exactly why, this notice required a quester. And enough notes there for him to tear off one of the flyers and take it with them. Let's see... he reads the note over. Mice in the barn... don't care how they are dealt with... a farm out on Miisaa. One of the four "head out of town" streets for people ot live on who actually want their own property. 2 [26 0/5 0/10 18/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 6:09:57 GMT -6
Scritches and kind sounds won't soothe the vespa today. They're much less interested in his quiet cat face sounds and more interested in reaching the ground so they can go find food. A good idea that he stops when confronted with an empty cardboard box with an intact bottom. Loading the wormlings inside, the cat continues on his way, holding the box awkwardly but no longer in so much danger of being spat on. No Kotoku incidents please. That spit does sting. The quest board is the same as normal, but with more torn off notices then usual. Thankfully the mouser request is still fresh and active (and wiht multiple notes tacked together). Picking one off for himself, the cat puts it into the box with the buglets and heads off to Miisaa. Miisaa isn't too far off from the city center hall, so if he follows that, the quartet split should be right ahead. If anyone tries to hail him down for anything, the cat isn't paying attention today and keeps moving. Also, its cold! I take it back Saph; the emerald eyed twin grumbles, crossing their scythes. The mammal thing is genuinely stupid. So much for holding some sort of hope out that he wasn't. 3 [26 0/5 0/10 19/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 6:16:17 GMT -6
There's few things the emerald twin is willing to trill about being wrong over. Saph may have more 'experience' of being exposed to people, but their attempt of perceving what they will do next is not good. It was hope for the cat mammal creature to have a brain in his head, as he already had a small hive, but he doesn't seem to understand hissing, trilling or chittering. And stop looking so smug about it Saph! Em makes a point to stare adamantly out of the box, away from their twin. The occasional trill... how dare Saph laugh at that. Cold cold cold. Not even snowing and the chill is going to put everyone indoors, including the mice. Thankfully Skylos can speed up his walk ever so much. Fun part about walking about on your toes. Increasing the stride doesn't alter it so much. The quartet split is ahead, and thankfully well labeled. Big twisted iron archways with signs ofr hte individual streets laid out above his head. Needs...Miisaa. Just how far out is this farm anyway. He has to stop though, the awkwardness is making his elbows and forearms burn. How do humans carry boxes this long. 4 [26 0/5 0/10 20/20] lv 27 skylos
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 6:34:53 GMT -6
How was the farmer having such a problem that he has to ask questers to be mousers. The question gnaws at the mammalian cat man as he walks. The two shuffling vespa babies in the box turn the paper over... and it has more writing on the back? In a different hand. He stops again, fishes out the paper, and balances it on the edge of the box while walking some more. No, it has several different hands. Like someone's keeping up a conversation on th back of it. 'This farmer's granary is mouse free! Quest complete! -two months ago' 'Why is this still up if the quest is complete? I went down there and the guy is pleading about mice. Done' - six weeks ago 'Maybe the guy is forgetful. I went down, he's freaking out about mice.' - four weeks ago and the list goes on. It appears that every two weeks that someone picked up this quest specifically, probably because most have soemthing carnivorous and willing to chase small creatures for food or for sport. But the quest never went away? The cat thinks about that... until there's the tinniest mark at the edge of the paper. A round mark with a trifold stamp... 5 [27 0/5 0/10 1/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 6:41:06 GMT -6
He stops, and the two vespa complain with increasing volume about being cold and hungry. That...that's a Triad mark. He knows that mark anywhere. Why was a simple request for mice removal with a Triad mark? And the notes on the back are getting more frequent. The farmer must do an immediate payout because why wouldn't they. Something doesn't sit right with him, and the cat hurries forward. The farm is about as what is described in stories. Big property, large metal tower that has a lingering scent of grain as he passes it, a dirt road, and rows upon rows of harvested grain plants dying back for the winter. The farmer, a heavier set human with a pudge around the gut lumbers out of an incoming monstrocity of a machine that parks as soon as he's seen. is it a farmer thing to have a receiding amount of hair? "Who are you!" Skylos shows him the notice. "Well dont' just stand there admiring the scenery, go down the road to the big red barn. I do not care how you get rid of the damn mice, just make sure the job is ACTUALLY DONE." The door slams and hte machine monstrocity, with the farmer in it, drives away. 6 [27 0/5 0/10 2/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 6:46:55 GMT -6
/'Pleasant guy.'/ Skylos thinks to himself as he lets the paper drift back into the box. Grumpy and not pleased with previous work. What did other humans come in with to mouse of all things. The pair of bugs aren't disagreeing, hissing over the box edge as the monsterocity keeps going, belching horribly smelly black smoke and making loud rumble noises. /I don't blame your opinion of him./ Rude human! Loud noises, smelly smells, not nice! He must be hanging around bugs too much, because the beasts almost sounded like the two baby bugs had an opinion. Yep, he's going mad. But doesn't have that much empathy for such a rude human. The big red barn is just that; big, and red. Boring looking. Granted he'd have no problem storing his grown up wasps in a barn this big. It arches up over his head and the door is closed. Pulling it open, almost immediately a mouse speeds past his foot. There's no fear in its eyes as it drags along... good god is that a bird?... past him, into the haybales. /We have our work cut out for us you two./ Finally, finally the box is put down and the vespalings are released from prison of box. at least its warm in here. 7 [27 0/5 0/10 3/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 6:52:55 GMT -6
The two worms don't need to figure out what to do here. The smell of food is everywhere and all they had to do is catch it. Briefly squishing together to convene, the two buglets split away and start searching for mice. He's willing to let them try at least. Settling down on his haunches to watch, and let his arms rest, because OW, that was some distance. If baby bugs weren't so slow to crawl, he'd let them crawl home with him. The birds trail in front of him catches his eye.... a slow dragging red line, into the bale. Easing onto fours, about the size of a leopard, the mammalian tries to keep his paws from dragging from his less then familiar way of walking, beofre digging his claws into the bale and shovign it aside bodily. That... thats not a mouse. A big fat naked tail, long nose, chewed up ears... and splattered with bird guts. That may or may not have been a jibiji at one point. Uh... alarm. Alarm alarm instinct. What is this giant mouse thing. Those eyes are much too... unmousey to be normal. Interrupted from its meal, the creature spits out a red feather, and regards him. 8 [27 0/5 0/10 4/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 6:59:12 GMT -6
His eyes keep ranging not from its face, but to those hooked and wicked looking naked paws of its. There are rings on its tail, on its body here and there, like someone's been raiding a jewelry box, it if was full of human tool bolts. The 'animal' licks its long muzzle and looks at him again. The beady, much more intelligent then your normal mouse, eyes rake him up and down. The mouth splits, and there are many more then the initial and very noticable buck teeth. Skylos bristles, and growls at it. He's clearly bigger then this mouse, and no amount of people clothes will change that. The large mouse shifts into standing on all fours... and there is more then one tail attached to this giant of a beast. What sort of animal is this? A lab explosion of mice? Surprisingly fast, the creature disappears into the darkness with a snarl vs a squeak, just as the cat man takes a swipe at the monster. Darn, he wasn't fast enough. What was that! Backing away, suddenly this doesn't feel like an initial mousing. Because mice a. don't grow that big, b. don't wear rings liek humans do, or c. have no fear of cats. On the other side of the barn, the twin vespa were navigating around thick pillars of food smelling things to smell after small mouse that ran past it. Quite deliberately because when they got around the back of the barrel, the mouse freezes, with a metal twist in its claws. A metal ring is on its ear, but in less ragged condition then say the monster across the barn. 9 [27 0/5 0/10 5/20]
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Post by Skylos on Dec 10, 2021 7:09:10 GMT -6
The metal twist is stabbed into the food smelling thing, and making the smell stronger. Em retreats back a few paces, nervous. Saph bristles, trilling at the mouse. It pauses in twisting the metal twist deeper into the object, and looks at them. The thing is about half their size. And clearly not afraid of giant bugs. Giant in terms of ant vs vespa sized. Fine, you aren't afraid? Be so! The braver sapphire buglet spits at the mouse. The element of surprise doesn't couple with bad aim, because the spit lands on the food smelling thing, the metal twist, and on the mouses fore scythes, with grips. Em will complain later about small creatures having more then fore scythes. What did Em want, HANDS? already obsessed with LEGS... crazy. The mouse screeches at the burning on its legs and tries to escape but the acid is doing quicker work then itially thought, and falls. The two vespa don't waste time and converge on it, spitting acid, and finally it stops moving. FOOD! A brief snit of who did more work to get more food before the prey is evenly shared. And then Saph sees another mouse peeking around. They're doing more work then the cat man on the other side of the bales, thats for sure. Skylos did manage to catch a few himself, for the stupid ones would go right in front of him without a care in the world. He has to find his buglets behind the bales, splattered with mouse guts from their feast, to collect their corpses and put them into the box. Ten mice, but no sign of the monster with multiple tails... he'll have to watch for that if mice get into the kennel. The farmer doesn't see them off either, so its on his honor that he may or may not have solved his mouse problem. As the cat leaves with a box of dead mice and two stuffed to the gills buglets, out in a rosebush, a long faced 'mouse' watches with resentment. Foiled again. 10 [27 0/5 0/10 6/20] +2 lvs em and saph -end
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Post by NPC on Dec 19, 2021 11:08:41 GMT -6
Congratulations, you have successfully completed the quest! Your QP will be added to the bank shortly.
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