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- Job Title: Investigating the Growth
Rank: D
Player Requirements: 500 Word count. Must have completed The Sickness first.
Job Requirements: Must bring samples and data of all the plants, as well as kill the different animals. It takes a post action to study and harvest one plant.
Job Location: Beanstalk Village (forest nearby)
Job Description: After the incident, you receive word from the scientist and go to meet him. He informs you that the plants are somehow connected to magic and that he requires samples, as well as some data from them in the field. However his magic is for research and not studying so you'll be doing the field work. He gives you several devices meant to scan for magic essence. Determine whether the magic is dark, light, or neutral. And another that detects if it is harmful or harmless. If you wish to add any devices you are free to do so.
You must then venture into the forest, killing infected animals that will attack you, and harvest data from the plants before bringing them back for further research. At the same time you feel like something is very wrong with the forest. Not like your being watched, or that some evil creeps here. It almost feels as if it were welcoming you, drawing you in. In addition to the change of the environment, this could unnerve most.
Details on Individual Plants:
Upon bringing the information and harvestable samples back to the herbalist and scientist, they both thank you and pay you. The scientist mentions how it will take some time to gather the data and he will send for you once the data is completed.
Enemies: Players can choose one of these difficulties, or more to fight in the thread
Weak: Infected pigs that will attempt to knock you over and proceed to stomp or bite you. They can deal half your rank in damage each successful attack. It takes 4 rank D attacks to kill them. There are x4 pigs.
Normal: Infected wolves that are agile and quick to strike, able to detect weak points. They deal your rank in damage each attack. It takes five rank D attacks to kill them. There are x7 wolves.
Strong: Infected bear that is very durable and possesses strong attacks. They deal x2 your rank in damage. They take seven rank D attacks to kill them. There are x4 bears.
Reward 1,500 jewel
I've been out there and seen the things she's made
This infection seemed to be spreading and evolving. And that was a terrifying thing.
After Mythal had dispatched with the wolves and the bear, the herbalist had come rushing out to collect as many samples as possible. Her haste seemed to be a bit over the top but even as the God Slayer was thinking it, he could see the bodies of the creatures beginning to decompose at an alarming rate. She rushed out and gathered as many pieces of the infectious growths as she could before the bodies melted into a steaming, disgusting sludge. And just like that, only the bones remained.
“Well that’s not gonna haunt my nightmares,” Mythal mumbled as he looked around. He’d seen some disturbing things but this certainly was taking a cake.
“The disease is growing more intelligent, affecting creatures outside of plants. This is astonishing!” The herbalist exclaimed as she looked at the vials of flesh and plant in her hands. Her magic seemed to be focused on herbology, as she had managed to mutter a few words and lock the vials with runic symbols. Green vapor filled the glass tubes temporarily and kept the samples from deteriorating, granting her ample time to study them. “This isn’t some naturally occurring element either. This has to be rooted in magic.” She gasped suddenly. “I need more samples. I need more readings! I need to get my equipment and go out there.”
Mythal glanced at her. “Do you have any kind of offensive magic?”
“Uh… well, no…”
“Then that’s a bad idea. Give me the equipment. I’ll get the readings or samples or whatever you need,” he said, turning to her. He wouldn’t have been able to live with himself if he let her just go wandering off into the woods with no means of protecting herself. And given how the animals were acting now, there was no doubt in his mind that there were more dangerous things waiting.
She decided not to argue with him. After all, he had shown her a number of times now that he was perfectly capable of handling himself. She rushed back to her home and returned a moment later, holding several devices attached to straps so he could sling them over his shoulders. Together they managed to get all of the equipment on, with the herbalist talking a mile a minute about what he should be looking for.
As he began his journey inward, he began spotting plants that were already looking odd. He took out the sensors and ran them over each plant, watching as the light on it flashed green to show it had finished its scan. He continued walking for several minutes until he heard a shuffle in the bushes near him. From the growths emerged four pigs, covered in the same disgusting algae the wolves and bears had been in. Mythal’s hand reached behind him in a flash and pulled out Curse, whipping the blade around to cut into each of the four pigs in sequence and bring their suffering to a quick end.
He took the time to collect some of the meat from each pig for the herbalist’s vials as well. He also spotted a small pond, that had been infected by algae as well. He took a few samples there as well before he stood back up, looking deeper into the forest beyond. Even here he could feel an… odd sensation. Like the woods themselves had an aura about them, beckoning for him, summoning him to travel deeper. Was it just the infection or something more?
He had a feeling he would have to find out sooner rather than later.
After Mythal had dispatched with the wolves and the bear, the herbalist had come rushing out to collect as many samples as possible. Her haste seemed to be a bit over the top but even as the God Slayer was thinking it, he could see the bodies of the creatures beginning to decompose at an alarming rate. She rushed out and gathered as many pieces of the infectious growths as she could before the bodies melted into a steaming, disgusting sludge. And just like that, only the bones remained.
“Well that’s not gonna haunt my nightmares,” Mythal mumbled as he looked around. He’d seen some disturbing things but this certainly was taking a cake.
“The disease is growing more intelligent, affecting creatures outside of plants. This is astonishing!” The herbalist exclaimed as she looked at the vials of flesh and plant in her hands. Her magic seemed to be focused on herbology, as she had managed to mutter a few words and lock the vials with runic symbols. Green vapor filled the glass tubes temporarily and kept the samples from deteriorating, granting her ample time to study them. “This isn’t some naturally occurring element either. This has to be rooted in magic.” She gasped suddenly. “I need more samples. I need more readings! I need to get my equipment and go out there.”
Mythal glanced at her. “Do you have any kind of offensive magic?”
“Uh… well, no…”
“Then that’s a bad idea. Give me the equipment. I’ll get the readings or samples or whatever you need,” he said, turning to her. He wouldn’t have been able to live with himself if he let her just go wandering off into the woods with no means of protecting herself. And given how the animals were acting now, there was no doubt in his mind that there were more dangerous things waiting.
She decided not to argue with him. After all, he had shown her a number of times now that he was perfectly capable of handling himself. She rushed back to her home and returned a moment later, holding several devices attached to straps so he could sling them over his shoulders. Together they managed to get all of the equipment on, with the herbalist talking a mile a minute about what he should be looking for.
As he began his journey inward, he began spotting plants that were already looking odd. He took out the sensors and ran them over each plant, watching as the light on it flashed green to show it had finished its scan. He continued walking for several minutes until he heard a shuffle in the bushes near him. From the growths emerged four pigs, covered in the same disgusting algae the wolves and bears had been in. Mythal’s hand reached behind him in a flash and pulled out Curse, whipping the blade around to cut into each of the four pigs in sequence and bring their suffering to a quick end.
He took the time to collect some of the meat from each pig for the herbalist’s vials as well. He also spotted a small pond, that had been infected by algae as well. He took a few samples there as well before he stood back up, looking deeper into the forest beyond. Even here he could feel an… odd sensation. Like the woods themselves had an aura about them, beckoning for him, summoning him to travel deeper. Was it just the infection or something more?
He had a feeling he would have to find out sooner rather than later.
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Let me tell you, they are fear.
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