=>[MINI-META] The Decaying North Outgrowth

[zeflamigo]

Stemma stepped in another crunchy thing. Was it glass? Was this place just absolutely covered in glass? She supposed that made sense. When she got out of the hive, she had to sit down with some tweezers and get some of the big pieces out so she didn't get them piercing her shoe.

Location: Nutritionblock
Hazard count: 0/3
Obstacle count: 2/3  

[zeflamigo]

Stemma gasped as her foot fell through a hole of genuine rot. Thankfully, Krampa was there to grab hold of her before she fell right through to the catacombs. Stemma thanked him with a kiss and a pat on the muzzle.

Location: Nutritionblock
Hazard count: 1/3
Obstacle count: 2/3  

[zeflamigo]

"Ohhh, it's awful Krampa!" Stemma waved her hand about the awful rotten food smell that plagued the area. She tried to breath again, but couldn't take it. "Let's just leave, shall we? I need some fresh air, desperately." She reached up for her lusus to pick her up and carry her out of the mansion.

Location: Nutritionblock
Hazard count: 1/3
Obstacle count: 3/3  

[Yamashii]

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4: OBSTACLE: It takes you a while to fit your hand safely into a place where you can pull out rubble without dying.

"Huh, looks spooky. Why would there be chains here?" Volkei knew next to nothing about the history of this place. But he did know what chains were for. Prisoners. He shivered at the idea of vengeful ghosts looking for some payback on the public that failed to rescue them. Maybe it was time to move on and look somewhere else before his imagination got too intense.

"Is there something in there?" He poked at some rubble, trying to pry it open to grab at stuff inside. It was too difficult though and he eventually gave up, letting one of Demari's fish poke a head inside to proclaim it empty. He was starting to get hungry. Thankfully, he had planned ahead, figuring that an event like this wouldn't have any sort of free rations. Opening his bag, he pulled out some dried jerky and began to chomp away at it. He had experimented with making his own and marinating it in his own teriyaki sauce. Hmm, not bad.

He offered a sheet of it to his companion. Demari was probably hungry as well!

Team: Volkei, Demari
Block: Nutrition Block
Obstacles: 1/4
Hazards: 0/3
Items: 1

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Doutei

 

[Doutei]

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2. HAZARD: You put your foot on a stair and it immediately crumbles under your weight. Well...

"Mmm it smells delicious!" Demari proclaimed as she accepted one of Volkei's jerky sheets. The redblood had a great sense of what spices to mix together! Nibbling on the snack, the blueblood was delighted to find that it tasted amazing! Wow! She really needed to help Volkei get his business off the ground! If the rest of his stuff tasted as good as that, he'd be making beetles in no time!

"Oh! We should share some with Roa and Mio too!" Demari announced. She broke off a piece for the Shimmerswarm to sort out and then started breaking off pieces to give to Volkei's family. Roa got a piece without any fuss but for Mio, Demari giggled and started waving the jerky around. She loved to see him play!

"You want this right? Here!" Demari got into the game and started jumping back and forth to get Mio riled up. She miscalculated and slipped on some rubble from the steps they'd fallen through earlier and the piece of jerky went flying through the air for Mio to nab!

Block: Nutrition Block
Team: Volkei
Obstacles: 1/4
Hazards: 1/3
Items: 1

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Yamashii

 

[Yamashii]

Quote:

Used scratch lotto ticket
This person didn't win any beetles in last week's draw. Bummer.

"Haha, get it, Mio!" Volkei encouraged his brother as he lazily relaxed against a wall, chewing on his jerky. It was good to take a break every once in a while, especially considering how physically taxing it had been crawling through rubble and nearly falling through the floor several times. This was good for him to recharge his energy. Roa approved and laid down on the floor, though he was in a loaf position so he could spring back up easily should he need to.

Mio chased after the jerky eagerly, biting at the air as he ran. Unfortunately, the kitten wasn't fast enough and the piece sailed under a dusty tablecloth. Mio slid underneath and returned out with a scrap of paper in his mouth as he tried to chomp it down. Realizing it wasn't food, he scampered back under and returned with the right prize, rolling on the floor in a happy ball as both paws held it in place so he could chew it.

"An old lotto ticket? Guess the previous inhabitants weren't any luckier than we've been!" Volkei laughed and pocketed the scrap. Somehow even though the place was already full of trash, it still felt uncomfortable to litter and throw it back on the ground. He'd dispose of it later in a real trash can.

Team: Volkei, Demari
Block: Nutrition Block
Obstacles: 1/4
Hazards: 1/3
Items: 2

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Doutei

 

[Sypon]

Volkei finds:

Quote:

Used scratch lotto ticket

This person didn't win any beetles in last week's draw. Bummer.

 

[Doutei]

Quote:

6: OBSTACLE: You step on something that makes a painful crunching noise in the shallow water.

"Guess so!" Demari giggled. She was surprised at how good Volkei was at keeping the mood calm and happy. Watching Mio roll around, the girl found herself smiling despite their surroundings. She couldn't lie, she wished they were in a nicer place than this. She was a highblood, she was used to things being a little higher quality.

"I wonder what happened here. I don't really know much about this place." Demari admitted. She'd come mostly to see what other trolls would arrive. She wasn't really the target troll for this job, the blueblood knew. She liked to explore, sure, but she wasn't going to be able to do much against a ghost. Her swarm would protect her, she knew, but Demari had been counting on the older trolls handling any ghost attacks. Like the grand and wonderful Lorata! Or that greenblood that they'd met. Oh she wished she'd thought to catch his name!

"When I grow up, I was hoping to be a socialite too. Or a sailor! But I want to throw grand parties like this. Or how it used to be." Demari confessed some more, feeling safe enough to do so with Volkei. She knew it sounded pretty childish to compare herself to the past glamour of this place. But that was half the appeal of coming to these old places, wasn't it? Dreaming...

Block: Nutrition Block
Team: Volkei
Obstacles: 2/4
Hazards: 1/3
Items: 2

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Yamashii

 

[Yamashii]

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Volkei finds:
A candid photo taken of a crowd of trolls at a military gathering. One of the troll's faces has been viciously scraped over in an X shape. From what you can still glean, the troll in question is a young blueblooded girl.

Volkei thumbed through a bunch of the old cookbooks tucked away in the shelves of the nutrition block. Everything had a layer of dust on it, some even had cobwebs laced over them. He nodded along to Demari's words as he flipped through some of the pages. This house had to have something interesting in it, even if they couldn't seem to find any ghosts yet. He plucked a picture out from the pages, this seemed out of place.

"Yeah, grand parties sound like fun. Something with important people, like this?" He flipped the image around to show the blueblooded girl. He had no idea what this meant or who these people were. But he could recognize the military uniforms in the picture. This seemed important, considering there was a violently scratched out face. But who were the rest of the people that had remained untouched? Volkei wasn't sure.

"I wonder if someone in the picture did this. Or was it the owner of the hive? Spooky stuff." He was determined to not let it scare him too much though. So far things had gone well and the worst they'd seen were hordes of spiders and a weak floor structure. They were going to be okay.

Team: Volkei, Demari
Block: Nutrition Block
Obstacles: 2/4
Hazards: 1/3
Items: 3

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Doutei

 

[Sypon]

Volkei finds:

Quote:

Vandalized Photo

A candid photo taken of a crowd of trolls at a military gathering. One of the troll's faces has been viciously scraped over in an X shape. From what you can still glean, the troll in question is a young blueblooded girl.

 

[Doutei]

"Oh no!" Demari gasped at the vandalized photo. The blueblood looked genuinely disturbed by the edit. It was hard not to compare herself, a young blueblooded girl, to the one in the photo. Had someone wanted her dead? It made Demari uncomfortable to think about, unaccustomed to considering other trolls as well as her own mortality. Even now in this haunted hive with supposed ghosts, she'd been treating them as a separate entity. This place as some kind of event or game. The photo made it all real.

"I need some air." She finally spoke again after taking a deep breath. What Demari truthfully wanted was to go home and turn on the happiest tv show she could find until she fell asleep. She wanted to take her mind off of it until the subject was forgotten. However, she didn't want to look like a quitter in front of someone she wanted to potentially sponsor. So instead she'd try to take a short break and recover. Fear lost it's power over you once you stopped listening to it, right?

"How do we get out of here now?" The girl asked, evaluating the destroyed stairs they'd come down. They didn't look very safe... She noted she'd stepped on a used band aid and cringed, trying to wipe it off her shoe by scuffing it on the floor.

Block: Nutrition Block
Team: Volkei
Obstacles: 2/4
Hazards: 1/3
Items: 3

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Yamashii

 

[Sypon]

Demari finds:

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Used bandaid

You wonder if Erilyn's hive had a pool.

 

[T-Kai]

Aconan, Nutrition Block!
1/3 hazards
0/3 obstacles
items: ???  

[T-Kai]

VOID:: Forgot to roll. Blep.  

[T-Kai]

Aconan, Nutrition Block!
1/3 hazards
0/3 obstacles
items: ???