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Post by Skylos on Jan 11, 2023 5:08:39 GMT -6
There is a note on the quest board, scribbled in desperate strokes of black ink. Better check out what it says!
"My garden is overrun with pests again, could you run them out of the garden for me? Catch them, run them off, fight them, I just don't want them back!"
The Quest Chase the pests (a horde of unusually large caterpillars) out of the garden!
Post Requirement: 5
Prizes First Completion: 1 QP and a prize-winning vegetable from the garden 2+ Completions: another prize-winning vegetable from the garden
**1st COMPLETION OF THIS QUEST for Skylos**
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Post by Skylos on Jan 11, 2023 5:14:12 GMT -6
This farmer is irate, Skylos decides to himself as he lets the quest giver rave about BUGS BUGS BUGS. Bugs in his garden! Kinda had a strange-looking face like a horse but the...look wasn't right. Too much goat. Why was he here? Getting away from the innate buzzing in his kennel. Not one, not two, not even three, but FIVE grown wasps. Who could have pest control when the bugs are as big as a dragon? As for him, the frozen 'egg' of when he purchased an amphadron in his kittenhood had finally hatched. Drifting in a jam jar, the hand sized bug just hung in the subspace as slightly jammy water sloshed around. Wasn't a very stable journey, traveling by jam jar. But its a tiny buggy fish of sorts and the cat man doesn't really know how to deal with that. The jar lid had to be replaced so it didn't leak. 1 [31 0/5 0/10 13/20]
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Post by Skylos on Jan 11, 2023 5:18:01 GMT -6
As such, he also needed to feed his bug fish. So why not take a quest where it was feeding bugs to his bug? Anything that wasn't eaten he could take back for the wasp colony being founded in his ceiling. Unlike humans, he's got claws and that works grandly for picking bugs. He's shown into the garden and.... Hm. Those caterpillars might be a bit large for the jar. They're almost the size of the jar itself! Gorging themselves on bed of radishes, and producing one of the worst smells he'd ever experienced. Stiflilng a yowl, his paw smacks into his nose. A spicy, stinky smell that really makes the fur stand on end. Since when can bugs get so stinky? (maybe because the farmer didn't tell him he was growing horseradish). The bug fish, placed on a safe shelf away from the garden, drifts lazily, yellow eyes focused on the cat through the glass. It can sense him. Sense... IT. 2 [31 0/5 0/10 14/20]
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Post by Skylos on Jan 11, 2023 5:23:06 GMT -6
Well, these might end up being more for the wasps then his bug fish, but it would still be seen. Get the big ones first, he supposes. Fishing out a kerchief from inside his coveralls, the cat man wraps the cloth around his nose and mouth. It might mask the scent a little because OOF, its strong for his keen nose. The closest caterpillar is quite fat, but he gets his paw around its 'head'. The creature wriggles in panic before it stills. Ick, bug guts under his claws. He'll be cleaning his paws for hours to get the smell out. It's not a heavy beast as he takes the caterpillar, still by the head, and drops it into the large tarp-bag he procured for the day from a general shop. It smelled off but likely because it held something he didn't need to know about previously. But before that, a chunk of caterpillar is torn off, and undoes the jar lid to plop the thumb sized lump into the water. 3 [31 0/5 0/10 15/20]
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Post by Skylos on Jan 11, 2023 5:27:18 GMT -6
The jar lid is screwed back on before the corpse-pillar is placed in the bag. Hm, how bad is this invasion? Instinctively flicking his fingers to get the gunk out from under his claws, the cat goes back to finding the largest bugs first, then to recomb the garden for the smaller specimens. Might as well, right? Yellow eyes focus off the hazy figure it could sense through the jam jar's glass, and on the green lump that sinks to the bottom of the jar. Hunger overrides curiosity, as the bug fish swims awkwardly over (jar is a bit small for full swim), latching tiny pincers onto the meat of bug. Hm. Spicy. Bit gummy. Bug fish doesn't have teeth so cannot classify as chewy. But the bug meat is good. The fish makes short work of the caterpillar meat. If it had a tongue, which ancient bug fish do not, it would try to lick its pincers clean. 4 [31 0/5 0/10 16/20]
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Post by Skylos on Jan 11, 2023 5:32:08 GMT -6
One glance at the jam jar tells Skylos that the bug meat was eaten. Where it was enjoyed or not, he doesn't know. But the black, blue striped bug fish has turned towards him again. Is it able to see through the glass? Whatever. He drops another caterpillar corpse on the first few, tears off another chunk and feeds it into the jam jar. The large caterpillars don't number many, but the smaller ones are numerous. As well as a handful of ...what did that bug book call them... cocoons? Yeah, several cocoons he'd found in the back of the garden, clinging to the garden bench. Just what sort of creature was eating this old goat's crop? The spicy smell is starting to fade as the caterpillars are gathered, leaving a smell of decomposed crop instead. Finally, he's done, and has a fair harvest of dead bugs to feed his wasp colony. The goat is upset on the ruined crop but he asks kindly to take the ruined fruits/veg too so he can also feed the rest of his creatures who do not eat bug or meat. Its a deal struck. 5 [31 0/5 0/10 17/20] Done, 1 lv for amphadron
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Post by NPC on Feb 9, 2023 19:58:27 GMT -6
Congratulations, you have successfully completed the quest! Your QP will be added to the bank, and your prize will be sent out shortly.
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