Quest Mingle: April-May

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Quest Mingle: April-May
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Guideline

• These quests are valid from start of April until end of May.
• Characters don't need to be a member of the guild to do quests and anyone can do any segment's quest! The quests are just marked this way to show where the quests are taking place.
• City Location Details | Segment Location details
• Remember to keep distances in mind: it takes 2 weeks to travel from the bridges to the edge of the map (barrier). Faster methods for travel exist, of course.
• For some of the monsters, additional details can be found from the Bestiary.
• Rewards are for one completion of the Quest, but characters can do it multiple times to earn more money from them, as the problems do repeat.

• Please see the guild page for permanent quests.

Quest Types
• Battle Quests: Usually deal with hordes of monsters or monsters that threaten the natives. Always involves battling.
• Boss Battle Quests: Boss Battles appear when a certain condition is met. Usually linked to normal battle quests and always involve battling. They can be "summoned" multiple times during the months.
• Gathering Quests: Ingredient hunting. These can be gathering minerals, plants or even capturing animals where necessary. Rarely involves battling - if there is it will be marked.
• Misc Quests: Quests that don't really fit into other categories.

City Quests

Even in your city... quests! [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Art Imitates Life	Some of the fairies in town decided to try to lift the local children's spirits by bringing their drawings to life! Unfortunately, now life-sized versions of children's drawings (just as poorly rendered as the drawing itself) are wandering the districts. Try to chase after them; touching one with a blank piece of paper will pull it into the paper and turn it back into a drawing.	Some drawings may fight back depending on what's drawn, but they should be easy to defeat. The stupider the better (the inspiration was the HONSE meme).	250 Moon Coins per retrieved drawing
Bug Catcher	Who brought all these Zapperpillars into the city? They're climbing the buildings and power poles and causing blackouts! Someone help clear out these bugs before they eat all the electric power in town.	Zapperpillars are the larval stage of Wi-Fi Moths. They're caterpillars with lightning bolt patterns that eat electricity, and while one or two is fine, large amounts can take out city blocks.	500 Moon Coins per blackout resolved
I Heard This Was A Jamjar, But...	Okay, who left an unclaimed Portal Gun unattended? When we found it, it was open to a dimension that's a giant jar full of jam, and now a chunk of downtown Nightwake is covered in raspberry preserves. Can someone clean this up?	Yes, the jam is edible... even if it's probably not a good idea to try eating something off the ground.	1,000 Moon Coins
Picture Purrfect	Miss Mae absolutely loves animal pictures and has recently purchased a small building in Nightwake. She plans to use it to create a small art space featuring pictures of animals seen throughout Ellipsa or animals brought from other worlds as companions to the otherworlders. Think of it as something like a small museum featuring the creatures with a credit to the photographer and the description of the animal itself. She wants it to not only be a place to learn, but a place to appreciate cute creatures of every kind!	The payment depends on the quality of the picture - meaning that cuter pics, rarer animals/creatures, and unique images will get more coins.	200-1000 Moon Coins, depending on picture quality (max 3 pictures)

Winter Segment

Lights, Snow, Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Flower Frenzy	The Drunk Yeti must be trying out a new hangover cure, because now they're eating Frozen Flowers. Unfortunately for them, it's only making them more of a nuisance. Try to clear them out or keep them from their new food source before they start causing problems for people.	Frozen Flowers grow near the Titanic Dome and come in four colours that affect anyone when consumed, including the Drunk Yeti. Drunk Yeti who eat the red ones become annoyingly friendly, those who eat the purple ones become more aggressive, yellow makes them chase each other around, and orange makes them and anyone around them laugh uncontrollably.	500 Moon Coins
Maiden the Shade	Reports are coming in of people in the Forest of Lost Souls seeing someone other than the spirits they were looking for. The descriptions vary, but the ones who make it back all say they saw someone really beautiful but were suddenly attacked when they were approached. More people are disappearing in there, too -- we think it might be related.	Ice Maidens are behind the attacks, creating illusions of the kind of person the character would be most attracted to and then draining their energy. The illusions won't work on people with a strong mind or will.	5,000 Moon Coins
This Really Bites	Some idiot EllipsaTuber decided to try and spike their viewership right before the Influencer Gala and trucked a whole bunch of live Gem Biters into the Titanic Dome for a video. And it's still infested! Clear these things out, will you?	While the Gem Biters won't have much to eat in the way of jewels, they are making nuisances of themselves attacking anyone who tries to get rid of them.	2,500 Moon Coins

Boss Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
A Match Maiden Heaven CW/TW: abduction	One of the reports mentioned they ran into a cave with people encased in ice, and then a group of Ice Maidens ganged up on them. It sounds like they're working together to "collect" people they find interesting...	This boss only appears if enough people resist or are pulled out of the illusions. There are three Ice Maidens who will attack with ice magic and use illusions to try and convince characters to attack the air or each other instead of them. They're strong against water and ice, weak to fire, and their illusions can still be resisted by a strong will.	7,000 Moon Coins

Gathering Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Gone Octofishin'	The Tower of Potions is running out of Octofish ink needed to brew medicines and antidotes. Please bring us up some Octofish, but be careful of their poison!	Octofish originally appeared in the Unfrozen Lake, but they've since migrated so now they also appear in the Half-Frozen Lake and the river between the two.	2,500 Moon Coins
Otherworlders On Ice	There used to be magical flowers underneath the Frozen Lake that bloomed to the surface when people skated in unison there. Recently, what look like buds have been spotted in bubbles under the ice. We'll supply the ice skates, so pair up and try to harvest some flowers.	The flowers will bloom through the ice when the skaters are working in harmony, and the more impressive the skating, the bigger the flower will be. The characters are meant to do figure skating routines, but if you really want to try and impress the flowers with speed skating or hockey, no one's stopping you.	500-800 Moon Coins per flower retrieved (depending on size), ice skates

Misc Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Wishing You Whale	It's Sky Orca migration season, so it's a good idea to head out to catch a glimpse of these rare creatures! You might even be able to play with one -- the babies are very friendly, and some of the adults will nuzzle up to people they recognize or people who are good with animals. After a friendly encounter, the Sky Orcas will bring down clouds that can be used as soft, fluffy blankets.	Seeing and playing with the orcas will boost anyone's luck and make them less likely to get into accidents for a whole week. On the flip side, if someone would kill any of the orcas, they would experience nothing but bad luck for two weeks. Sky Orcas from previous years' encounters will recognize characters they have met before.	Cloud blanket

Spring Segment

Breezing through quests [ Click to Expand ]

Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo CW/TW: Darkness-corrupted animals	Some livestock went missing a while back, and while they've returned to the Farmlands, it clearly wasn't without a trip into the Darkness. We've got monster cows on our hands! We still don't have a way to purify anything corrupted, so just get rid of them!	Monster Cows are slightly larger, buff versions of cattle that will chase anyone who comes near them and try to impale them with their horns. They're still not any smarter than normal cattle and can be tricked with decoys or cut off from their herd with skill.	3,000 Moon Coins
What Time Is It, Mr. Moth?	Fabric Sheep in and around the farms are being attacked at night by their natural enemies, Wolfmoths. We need to harvest the sheep's wool, but the Wolfmoths need to be dealt with first.	Wolfmoths are furry, fanged moths the size of wolves that swoop down on their prey and carry them off. They travel in packs and come out at night. They mostly prey on Fabric Sheep, but will also attack anyone who gets in their way and try to carry characters off or to eat them.	3,500 Moon Coins
Your Books Are Overdue CW/TW: soul removal	There are rumours of strange activity in one of the villages we were repairing in the Spring Segment. I checked out the abandoned library, and people who had come to do repair work were just staring soullessly into their books! Sounds like Soul-Eater Books again. Someone come and deal with this!	Soul-Eater Books can still be detected by winter power holders or anyone who can sense magical energy. They seem to have been shelved in with other books in the library recently.	2,000 Moon Coins

Boss Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Cows & Cows & Cows CW/TW: Darkness-corrupted animals	There's a cloud of dust in the distance, heading straight for the farmlands... don't tell me it's more Monster Cows! That's the biggest herd I've ever seen!	This boss only appears when enough Monster Cows are defeated. A large herd of additional Monster Cows stampedes into the area, and woe be anything in its path. Try and clear the entire herd out without getting trampled, tossed, or impaled.	6,000 Moon Coins

Gathering Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
End of the Rainbow	Rainbows are appearing above Prism Lake, and they're dropping treasure at the end! Well, Treasure Charms, anyway: colourful charms shaped like things like hearts, stars, and clovers, which boost your luck when gathering other items. Go out and harvest them before they disappear!	Treasure Charms look like little glass charms that can be affixed onto anything (weapons, jewelry, clothes...) and come in all the colours of the rainbow. They only last a small amount of time at the end of the rainbow before fading, but will remain when gathered.	500 Moon Coins, Treasure Charm
Scrappy, Aren't We?	Some of the factories in Nightwake need more scrap metal, but the Robot Dragons in the Valley of Wind are hoarding it. Try and bring as much back as you can, but watch out -- those things can get pretty possessive! Who even made them, anyway?	Robot Dragons are clearly constructs, but move on their own and shoot laser beams. Characters can try and steal from their hoards, but they'll need to be either stealthy or strong enough to defeat or escape from the Robot Dragon to do it.	2,500 Moon Coins

Misc Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Creature Carrier	A group of fae live out in trees and tend to keep their distance from people that appear. They've been sustaining themselves for quite a while, but have run into a snag and need a delivery of some supplies that they are running low on. These supplies can vary from seeds for their farming to magical equipment for purifying water. They were hesitant to ask for help, but finally compromised on allowing people to visit them on one condition - they only enter their land in their shifted forms. They will be giving a backpack that suits the form of your choosing and use that to make the trip to deliver the supplies to them.	Deliveries can only be made in one of your seasonal animal forms. They will not allow any other form to pass through. The trip itself should be pretty straightforward!	500 moon coins per trip (max 2500 coins), and a small backpack that fits the animal form

Summer Segment

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Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Combo Chain	Looks like the Temple of Life's Giga Man simulator got an update. Now there's a new difficulty setting where two players have to complete the challenge while handcuffed together and sharing one life bar. Can you clear it and obtain the new prize?	The actual temple's levels are much the same as last time. If a character doesn't already have a Laser Gun, they will be rewarded with one along with its new upgrade.	Laser Gun Upgrade: Plasma Chain (can be used to attach to items or enemies and pull yourself to them or them to you)
Mayo May Not	It's Cabbage Kite season, but there's a shortage?! The flying cabbages usually wander the Summer Segment and nearby districts this time of year in search of mayonnaise, but fewer are making it into the city this year because the Jungulls keep picking them off. If we don't pare down the Jungull population, we won't be able to send the cabbage spirits on (and eat the cabbage they leave behind)!	Cabbage Kites may still appear in the city to eat mayo and turn into normal, edible cabbages, but far fewer than usual until this quest is dealt with.	500 Moon Coins
Set Fire to the Rain	Hell's Monkeys are causing trouble in the Rain Jungle. They won't listen if you try to calm them down and they really don't want to be bribed with food, so can you try knocking some sense into them? It won't be good if the rain lets up and they're still acting up.	While the rain puts something of a damper on the monkeys' fire abilities, it's also turning that fire into noxious smoke. Characters will need to find a way to avoid breathing in the smoke to keep from being poisoned.	5,000 Moon Coins

Boss Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
When I'm Up I Can't Get Down CW/TW: abduction, Darkness corruption	There's something brewing to the west. Dark Albatrosses have been spotted again, carrying people off. Track them down and find out where they're taking them.	This quest only appears if enough monsters have been defeated in the Summer Segment. The Dark Albatrosses are lifting people up and carrying them into the clouds wherever rain appears, since their dark energy can make the rain corrupt things. Stop them before they can raise a mutant army.	7,000 Moon Coins

Gathering Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Dig and Dig and Dig	There's a strange amount of Ghost Ship activity around the Forever Falls, and people who can see spirits are reporting pirate ghosts going around with shovels and maps. You don't think... there could be pirate treasure hidden there? Try and dig some up!	Some sites won't have any buried treasure, but others will have anything from large amounts of Moon Coins to gold and jewels.	Whatever you find
Who Made This Big Mess?	The Great Ocean Lake would look a lot nicer if there weren't so much trash washing up on the shores! Could you clean up the beaches and water of everything left behind from previous vacations and parties? Garbage bags and rubber gloves will be provided. And who knows, you might salvage something better than trash too...	All manner of regular litter can be found and cleaned up, but the Great Ocean Lake also hides other treasures, like loose change in the sand, magic items from previous quests (such as the medicinal seashells from Motion Motivation), and things mermaids might have lost or dropped (anyone want a shell bra?).	500 Moon Coins per filled trash bag, anything characters salvage

Misc Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
H2Oh No	The weather's so dry in the Deserter's Desert that the poor Sponge Lizards are drying out and shrivelling up! If you go out and rehydrate them, they'll be good as new and maybe even reward you. Just make sure not to overdo it.	Both water magic and regular water brought in will work to rehydrate the Sponge Lizards. Giving them too much won't hurt them, but it'll make them grow bigger and bigger.	Water Potion (the next time the user is hit with water magic, it will heal them instead of hurt)

Autumn Segment

Maple scented Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Fruit Salad	Sentient Peach Monsters are back, and this time they're not alone! They're trying to wreck shop outside the Autumn Airship Station again with their acid, and they've brought along Sentient Cherry Monsters that do the same thing but are smaller and come in linked pairs. Clear them out before they can cause too much damage.	Both Sentient Peach Monsters and Sentient Cherry Monsters regenerate when damaged, although using that ability weakens them, and can only be destroyed when you break the pit inside (which is extremely hard and resistant to scratching). Sentient Cherry Monsters are about half the size of their peachy counterparts (so 0.5-1 m or 1'7-3 ft tall) and are attached by the stem in pairs, so both cherries have to be defeated.	3,000 Moon Coins
Move Your Dead Bones CW/TW: bone stealing	The flooded portion of the Abandoned Graveyard has washed up and mixed up bones from all the graves. Now they're combining into Amalgam Skeletons. Larger than regular skeletons and missing some pieces or having others where they shouldn't be, they're attacking people to try and take their bones to get even bigger and more monstrous.	Amalgam Skeletons can be defeated by breaking them apart and separating the pieces, or otherwise putting them back into the ground.	5,000 Moon Coins
Birch Please CW/TW: Dismemberment	Forced to sleep long ago, groups of Ents have been finally waking up in the wooded parts of the Autumn Segment. Unhappy about the forced sleep, they attack anyone who approaches - or even simply people passing near the wooded areas - as they consider it their territory. Including injuring people, it's causing delays in travel as people are forced to take an alternate route. Help quell the large, walking tree creatures - but please don't cause a forest fire.	While they can be killed with fire, since they move - any fires set will quickly spread the forest - so you'll have to work fast if you want to use it. Physical attacks work pretty well (especially if they're dismembered) and rot slows them down a lot. Groups of Ents vary in size - ranging from 3 to 7 of them.	5,000 moon coins

Boss Battle Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
But Now It's Filled With Evil Clowns	The funhouse mirrors in that one gathering quest are showing something weird? Huh... what about the one at the end? I remember they used to have those scary-looking ones right by the exit.	This boss only appears when characters have ventured to the end of the funhouse. Much like the regular funhouse mirrors, these ones show characters as if they were Ellipsan natives in the past; unlike those, these ones are specifically versions distorted by the Darkness, and the ghosts inside bring the reflections to life and pull them out of the mirror to attack. The evil reflections have all the same powers that the originals do, save for those nerfed in game.	7,000 Moon Coins

Gathering Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Not Mush More Room	The Magical Manor was working on cultivating medicinal mushrooms so they could grow anywhere and we wouldn't have to risk dealing with the Mushroom Fae. But now a senior prank went overboard and they're literally growing everywhere. Try harvesting the mushrooms before they start spreading into the flower yard, or worse, the city.	The mushrooms really will grow everywhere, even if there's no soil; anywhere characters store the mushrooms they harvest, from boxes and bags to hammerspace, may start sprouting mushrooms for the next few weeks.	500-1,000 Moon Coins depending how many mushrooms are brought back; medicinal mushrooms growing on your stuff
This Used To Be A Funhouse	The last attempt to scout out the Abandoned Amusement Park turned out to be... well, super haunted. If we're going to go ahead with salvage and repair for our own city fairground, we need adventurers to do it! I always did like those funhouse mirrors... wonder if they've changed since the Darkness came?	The funhouse mirrors start as normal, but as characters go deeper into the funhouse, the mirrors will stop reflecting the present. Instead, they show visions of them in the place of Ellipsans of the past, having fun at the fair, back in the days before the Darkness. As before, the park is filled with all manner of spirits, skeletons, and ghosts. Some are just playing around and will let you do your thing, but others will attack if they see characters trying to take out the mirrors (or at all).	1,000 Moon Coins

Misc Quests

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
The Prince and the Pumpkin	The Pumpkin Scarecrows are a bit more confused -- and confusing -- than usual. They always have multiple kings, but now they're claiming there are impostor kings in the mix! Can you figure out which ones are real?	The impostor Pumpkin Scarecrow Kings are Mimics copying their appearance to fit in. They can be spotted with truth- or magic-detecting abilities or simply convinced to tell the truth if pressured. When exposed the Mimic will run away. If a character has previously been made a king themselves by the Pumpkin Scarecrows, the Mimics may turn into them instead.	700 Moon Coins

NSFW Quests
DO NOT use the Quest Mingle for these quests and instead play them on other posts! This questboard is only unlockable by characters that are 16 or older.

The Spice [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Dance For Gold	Pole dancing is still wildly popular in the Red Light District and has spawned a tournament between the dancers of different strip clubs... all of whom have gone recruiting to boost their ranks! Whether you've been asked nicely or pulled off the street when you were minding your own business, it's time to dress for your team's theme and compete with each other for the sexiest dance.	Each participating club has a team with a theme that's common in "sexy X" outfits: Team Teacher, Team Nurse, Team Cheerleader, etc. Feel free to choose any for your character and have them either work as teammates or competing against their thread partner.	250 Moon Coins per victorious round, themed costume
Hotel Me Your Dreams	One of the love hotels in the Red Light District has added a special room that magically reads your surface thoughts when you enter and crafts a theme room around that. The special room is a permanent fixture, but they're also using the data from it to inspire new regular theme rooms, so they're running a promotion for the special room to get some more ideas of what the people want!	The special room will craft any kind of specific theme room, but because it reads the client's surface thoughts, characters who have something else occupying their mind might generate a room they didn't intend. If you're stuck thinking about work, the room might look like your office; if your mind wanders to the dinosaur movie you watched last night, enjoy your bed that looks like a Jeep and looming T.rex statue by the hot tub!	Discounted love hotel rate, 500 Moon Coins if your idea gets made

City Crime Quests
This questboard on an app on the phone and is only unlockable if your character has received a (handwaved) code for it from one of the crime organizations or just criminals of Nightwake. Another way is to hack your way in if you know it exists.
You don't need mod permission to do these, just make sure you find a reasonable way for your character to get there.
Anyone can be a victim of these quests.
Should players doing these quests wish for IC consequences, they may report their character here - or just assume that NPC law enforcement characters are on a lookout for them.

Dark Side of Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Blood for the Blood God CW/TW: blood stealing, implied experimentation	Seeing the abilities otherworlders have brought in with them is just so... tempting. I want to study them, but I need samples! Pick up some syringes and vials from this location and bring me blood samples from the strongest people you know.	The quest giver has drop points in every district to pick up and drop off materials and blood samples. They urge characters to take blood secretly, whether that's by knocking the other character out, distracting them, hypnotizing them, or what have you.	2,000 Moon Coins per blood sample from another otherworlder
Eight Times As Fishy	Smuggling in Octofish to serve in underground restaurants is getting tough, but with that other quest going on with potion makers wanting some, it's the perfect excuse! Bring us those Octofish instead. We'll make it worth your while.	Octofish is illegal to serve because if improperly prepared, the lethal poison can bleed into the meat.	5,000 Moon Coins
We're Only Particles of Change	The next stage of the plan is ready. It's nothing too complicated, just hit up these targeted areas and empty out bags full of live Zapperpillars without getting caught. Do it right and we've got rolling blackouts on our hands.	Zapperpillars are the larval stage of Wi-Fi Moths. They're caterpillars with lightning bolt patterns that eat electricity, and while one or two is fine, large amounts can take out city blocks. The targets attacked are largely important places in the city (e.g. the Welcome Centre, Research Centre, guild houses, city hall) or important events (e.g. the Influencer Gala and the Arts Festival, both traditionally held around this time).	1,000 Moon Coins per blackout caused