Cold Spots [#28]
Jul 25, 2023 7:19:14 GMT -6
Post by Jewel on Jul 25, 2023 7:19:14 GMT -6
Quest #28
You see a tiny, handwritten note on the quest board, in stark difference from the more professional letters around it. The scrawl on it is messy, but still recognizable. Apparently it’s from a small child who, when visiting “Daddy”, lost her favorite doll. Her mother refuses to retrieve it because she has “much nicer dolls at home” and now she’s asking for you to go get it instead. Apparently she left it behind at… the local cemetery. Go figure.
You have no clue what the reward for something like this would be, but if it hasn’t been taken off the quest board then there must be something, right?
[First completion]
You see a tiny, handwritten note on the quest board, in stark difference from the more professional letters around it. The scrawl on it is messy, but still recognizable. Apparently it’s from a small child who, when visiting “Daddy”, lost her favorite doll. Her mother refuses to retrieve it because she has “much nicer dolls at home” and now she’s asking for you to go get it instead. Apparently she left it behind at… the local cemetery. Go figure.
You have no clue what the reward for something like this would be, but if it hasn’t been taken off the quest board then there must be something, right?
[First completion]
What kind of madness was Jewel getting himself into, this time?
It had been a little while since he had visited the quest board. Other preoccupations, alternative methods of scrounging up cash. But, his feet grew cold eventually, and the desire to have another go at the menial tasks posted there snuck up on him once more. Accompanied by Rosie, he pulled up to the regular place--
Only to find the most interesting request he had seen, perhaps ever. A child's handwriting, something he might've dismissed on impulse, but with such fascinating contents. A missing doll? At a cemetery?
"Wow," he said to his chiryma, rubbing a hand over her beak. She pressed gratefully back into the touch. "Kids these days are hardcore. What the hell was the anklebiter doing playing around in a graveyard?"
There was no way to find out without going there and trying to solve the mystery.
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