Quest Mingle: August-September

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Quest Mingle: August-September
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Quest Plotting!

• These quests are valid from start of August until end of September.
• 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 (times are calculated as walking times) in mind when planning what quests to do when. You have two full months, so there's no rush!
• For some of the monsters, additional details can be found from the Beastiary.
• 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.

🚨 Emergency Quest 🚨

Going Gorgon

A massive monster has been spotted in the Jungle of Judgement (Summer Segment). It has been feeding on the native fauna and even people! It looks like a giant snake lady with wings. Some have identified it's name to be "Gorgon". We can't have this monster feeding on everything that comes even close to the area of the Jungle its at, so we need people to take care of it! We will pay 2000 Moon Coins for your efforts of somehow solving this problem - may it be destroying the monster or just getting it leave!

OOC: This is a player made quest that won't last for two months. More information on it in this post. To suggest a quest, please leave a comment on the Player Suggestions page.

Log for the Gorgon Quest is here!

City Quests

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

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Blind Cooking	Local TV channel is looking for participants for a new type of reality cooking show. In the show one person is blindfolded and the other is giving them instructions. This is very much a trust building exercise for the participants, as well as entertaining for the viewers. Of course, any and all injuries will be healed by a team of specialists on set.	Upon entering the set the producers will do a spell that will determine how well the two people know each other. The closer they are the less likely they'll be allowed to work together. The goal is to find people who barely know each other to take a leap of faith in cooking. Of course the spell can be fooled by keeping your thoughts neutral about the other person while it's being cast.	500 Moon Coins, a free self made meal
Emotional Art	Amberfall artists have set up giant blank canvases all over the districts (even in Frostreign) with plenty of different painting tools (brushes, spray cans etc). The task is to paint with your positive emotions and make pictures that radiate with positive energy. The tools and canvases are all magical so trying to enforce negative emotions into the paintings will lead to the paint disappearing once it's been on the canvas for a while. These works of art are meant to uplift the spirits of the citizens and just let people have fun with painting.	Characters may learn an instant spell for cleaning their clothes from paint (and only paint) while they're participating in this quest or can be provided with overalls. Occasionally the paintings will be changed to a new blank canvas to give people more room to paint, but the "finished" canvases can be found from various places in the city.	100 Moon Coins, a watercolor set, watercolor paper
On a Magic Carpet Ride	The Research Center is always looking for fun new ways to travel. Now they are looking for people to test out the newest ones. It's a magic carpet meant to be ridden by two people. One of them powers up the carpet by singing (anything goes, even songs thought up on a whim) and the other steers the carpet. The test drivers are asked to complete a course where they need to pick certain items throughout the city and then return back to the Research Center.	You are free to come up with simple items (fruit, special tokens, stamps - anything that won't be too heavy to carry) for the course. If the character in charge of singing stops, the carpet will gently float down to the ground (or whatever is beneath it) until singing continues again.	700 Moon Coins
Pipe Express	Mysterious turquoise pipes have appeared all around the city. Some natives have entered them out of curiosity and ended up in a completely different place. Turns out they're warp pipes, a new way of fast travel! However, some of the warp pipes have an extra challenge that will take them to either a grassy terrain where you get chased by small dinosaurs that breathe fire or a pool with fish called Toe Nibblers. Some have even found just a room with a bunch of gold coins! Please help us label all of the pipes and where they might lead.	Fire Breathing Dinosaurs are the size of a house cat and can look like various different dinosaur species. Toe Nibblers are various fresh water fish that nibble on people's toes and aren't generally very dangerous. There's 1/10 pipe chance to end up in either of the enemy pipes and there's 1/50 chance to drop into a room full of gold coins.	300 Moon Coins
Undercovered CW: Gang Activity	After the opening of the Underground Mall, there has been an increase in criminal activity and shady people, especially in the center district. The police are very understaffed, so we're asking otherworlders to go undercover and infiltrate these crime groups (but only those on the surface). Any information provided is important and will help towards making the city a safe place to be in.	You're free to come up with different motivations, reasons and plans the minor crime groups may have and use the local Law Enforcement to bring them down with the help of your character. Some groups will hand out simple flower pins (imagine small, like hair accessories) to characters out of trust towards them.	2000 Moon Coins, possible flower pin

Winter Segment

Lights, Snow, Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Invisible Maze	Throughout the Winter Segment, invisible walls have appeared. These walls form a maze and occasionally one finds themselves stuck in an invisible dead-end. They're very hazardous and make traveling in the Segment difficult. We ask that you find whatever is causing this maze to exist.	Passing through the maze will lead to finding an invisible Mime Monster (a bipedal, masked ermine creature). Once the characters reach the Mime Monster it will turn visible and attack. All its attacks are invisible but you can predict what they are by participating in a game of pantomime. The Mime Monster doesn't need to be killed if you show it a pantomime it can't solve.	400 Moon Coins
Just Around the Riverbend	The rivers and lakes of the Winter Segment are flooding due to giant monstrous Snow Beavers making dams all over the place. These beavers are the size of human teenagers and their coat looks like powder snow. You don't have to kill the beavers, just get rid of their damn dams!	Snow Beavers usually travel in groups of four and make dams on any watery surfaces. The dams are strengthened with ice, but shouldn't be too hard to destroy; it's just that there's a lot of them and the Snow Beavers will try to bite anyone who attacks the dams.	600 Moon Coins
Snowed Out	The Summer Districts want to make ice and snow sculptures in the city to cool the areas a little bit. To accomplish this, special snow and ice need to be delivered from the Winter Segment. Any snow and ice that glitters like the northern lights under sunlight will be perfect for the task as it won't melt. Bring as much of it back as possible.	Sleds and other means of transport are provided for the task. Snowmobiles can be rented to pull sleds easily through the snow.	200 Moon Coins
Yet We Must Fight	A group of Giant Yetis have emerged from the forests of the Winter Segment, looking to destroy anything in their paths. They have weapons made out of wood that they use to hit opponents with. They've been making steady progress towards the City Barrier, attracted by the masses of people inside it. We believe the barrier will hold, but the natives would likely get spooked if they saw them banging on the barrier so chasing them away is important.	The Giant Yeti max height is 6 metres / 20 feet. They don't have any other abilities other than their size and their wooden weapons. Killing them is optional, they just need to be chased out. Usually by fire.	900 Moon Coins

Spring Segment

Breezing through quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Cats Need Catnip Badly	Local animal shelters have run out of cat- (and other creature-) nip due to not being able to visit the Creature-Nip Meadow regularly for the past two months (due to a certain quest). Now they want to fill their storage with as much of the herbs as possible.	Eating or otherwise ingesting the various herbs in the Meadow may turn people into the creatures they're meant for (cat nip -> cat). At the least they will make the person act like said animal for a few hours.	200 Moon Coins
Farming Life	The Research Center has provided barrier stones. These stones can be used to protect farming plots where you can grow various vegetables and herbs. The barriers don't protect them from normal animals, but they do protect them from various natural disasters and monsters. Place these barrier stones around the various abandoned farming plots and maybe get into farming yourself!	The barrier stones only cover plots of 5 x 5 kilometres / 3 x 3 miles. There can be multiple next to each other. Various vegetable and herb seeds are also provided by the quest givers.	200 Moon Coins, fresh vegetables/herbs later
Movie Inspirations	A movie producer needs references for a fight scene and wants people to defeat local Spring monsters in the flashiest way possible and get it on camera. Camera provided, of course, with enough film for four different takes.	Any Spring Segment monsters in particular will do the trick (even slimes). Cameraman safety is not guaranteed during the quest and they may have to tend to themselves.	100 Moon Coins per clip
Panda Picking Season	It's the time of the year when Giant Pandas tend to feast on the Bamboo Labyrinth in large parties. This is a necessary cycle to keep the labyrinth in good shape. However, the panda babies tend to run off. Please protect them and bring them back to their parents. The grateful mama pandas will give characters golden bamboo shoots they find from the ground as a reward.	Golden Bamboo Shoots are a special type of bamboo that will upgrade the Spring Power Holder powers when added to regular food. If a non-spring holder eats it they will just feel a lot lighter for a few days. It also tastes delicious. Please refrain from taking the baby pandas away from their parents. If you must adopt a panda, adopt the whole family at least!	Golden Bamboo Shoots

Summer Segment

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Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
All These Mummies CW: Mummies, Skeletons, Mind Control	Areas near the Deserter's Desert have recently seen an increased amount of Mummies. They have certainly appeared from out of nowhere (or from sand, we suppose). They're a menace... but not in a fatal way. Instead they're trying to wrap bandages around people to turn them into them. The bandages do have a 1/50 chance to actually make someone completely act like a mummy (walking in a trance, wrapping bandages around people) that can be canceled by taking the bandages off. They should be dealt with as soon as possible.	The mummies are otherwise mostly harmless, but the Research Center would appreciate if someone captured a few of them so they could study them! Actual mummies have skeletons underneath all the bandages but nothing else. If they're stripped off their bandages they will comically cover their genital area and run away.	300 Moon Coins
It's Raining ... Fire CW: Burns	The Summer Segment is a place where it rarely rains outside the Rain Jungle, and when it does rain it can be something other than your regular water. Like fire. Recently observational team has noticed fire raining down from the skies. The source seems to be Wyverns circling in the skies (their scales, when falling, turn into fire). Put out the fires before they spread too far and dodge the unpleasant rain.	The Wyverns can be fought, but they're danger level 10 and even killing one is a very, very hard task, especially since they're cloaked in Dark Energy most of the time.	400 Moon Coins
Pirates of the Great Lake	Mysterious ships have made an appearance on the Great Ocean Lake: ghost ships and pirate octopi ships. They're disturbing all life on the lake, throwing explosive and other things into it. The Research Center has provided ships that can be taken to the waters and some pirate outfits to fit the theme (optional). Destroy the enemy ships and restore peace to the lake!	Ghost Ships are ships that don't seem to have any members onboard (or they can only be seen by the Winter holders). Pirate Octopi are octopi with eyepatches (and some even have mechanical tentacles in place of normal ones). The ships rarely fight each other but they don't consider each other allies either.	700 Moon Coins
❗High Risk Quest❗ La Va Land CW: Burns	New creatures are emerging from the Lava-Ridden Land. Monsters made completely out of lava and rocks and are slowly making their way towards the segment and burning their way through everything. They're especially headed for the airship station, though we are unsure if they'll be able to cross the Forever Fall, but we don't want to risk them actually passing through it. Defeat them, however it takes or chase them back beyond the barrier.	Lava Monsters are extremely dangerous and will burn anything they touch. They're closely shaped like slime and other blobs, making hard to tear apart as they will just reform themselves. Their weak point is the lava core, lodged deep inside their bodies. Breaking the core means the lava creature will dissolve.	8000 Moon Coins

Autumn Segment

Maple scented Quests [ Click to Expand ]

Quest Name	Description	OOC Notes	Rewards
Leaf Me Alone	Majority of the autumn leaves have turned magical and have started to cause people to fall into a state of sleep whenever they hit someone. Luckily, most people have fallen asleep on the safe zones, but there are those who did not. Be careful not to get hit by the leaves and try to get rid of them instead, all while saving the people sleeping in wrong places. As long as a leaf remains on someone they will either sleep or feel very drowsy and the more leaves they have on them the more potent the effect is.	The effect is less effective through clothes, but will still make one feel sleepy/yawn a lot. With enough layers of clothes the characters will be able to collect the leaves for extra potent sleeping potions. However it's not recommended to eat the leaves as they are, as it might lead to a comatose state instead.	300 Moon Coins
Migrating Foes	Over the course of several weeks, some (Spring) slime and (Winter) Gem Biters have made their way to the Autumn Segment and are now eating special mushrooms near the Mushroom Sanctuary (but not inside it). These mushrooms grow them in size and now we're dealing with human-sized foes. Slime are still relatively harmless, though now they can cover someone in their slime drool, but Gem Biter bites may actually be dangerous. Fight these creatures and either destroy them or bring them back to their original habitats (the effects of the mushroom will fade with time).	Eating a mushroom will make someone grow triple their current size (clothes will transform with them). The effect will fade in a day. Used in potions this mushroom will help with plant growth.	400 Moon Coins
Silent Streams	In the woods, near the Silent Mountains, people will find they lose their voices. In fact, all the sounds disappear. However, it's also the place where you can find one of the purest of water sources, needed for a special potion. The quest is simple: obtain the spring water and bring it back, but be careful of the dangers you cannot hear.	While the area around the spring is relatively safe, sometimes Spirit Animals wander around, attracted by the emotions of those in the area. They will only attack if there are too many different emotions in the area at the same time. There are also actual bears and wolves wandering the woods, but they rarely come too close to the Silent Zone.	100 Moon Coins per water container
❗High Risk Quest ❗ Rest in Pieces CW: murder, drowning	Lately people have died or gone missing near the Abandoned Graveyard. A new type of Kelpie specie has emerged from the Flooded Woods: the Ghoul Kelpie (or Ghoulpie). It can't enter the protected area, but it will haunt people right outside of to either immediately feast on them or take them with them back to the woods to drown them. They're extremely aggressive and attack anyone on sight. They need to dealt with as soon as possible to bring peace back to the area.	Ghoul Kelpies have a sticky fur that anything sticks to. Their teeth are sharp and venomous and their mane turns into vines that poison or stun their opponents. Their weakness is that the more dry they get, the more vulnerable they are to attacks so they occasionally need to retreat back to water.	8000 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
Sex on Air	A new airship is looking for workers for their opening months. The airship cruise that circles around the districts and segments is meant for pleasure and pleasure only. Employees will dress up in sexy lingerie and serve customers drinks, food and entertainment. It's much like a sexy host club on air. There is also a chance of trying their new spell: actually having sex while floating in the air. Just make sure not to fall behind the airship or you may be in trouble.	Of course anyone is allowed to just be a customer of the airship - or why not both, with occasionally doing work and occasionally being served. The Airship leaves evening second evening from the Nightwake Central station and returns after two days. Think of it as a luxurious cruise.	900 Moon Coins per cruise
Shibari Lessons	Due to the last month's Freezing Heart incident, local sex shops have opened up workshops around the Underground Mall. They are teaching characters magical shibari. Every knot tied around someone will represent an emotional or physical block they have. Once all knots are in place a spell is cast on them that will relieve them of their burdens for some time (depends on the person, how fast they will grow these burdens back in their minds/bodies). May also cause arousal to doing this with a partner you know and trust might be a good idea.	The spell doesn't completely erase the burdens, it's merely meant to bring temporary relief and pleasure. The spell is a customized for every person, but it has to include the words "release you from your burdens", but otherwise it can be worded however the one doing the spell wants (for ex. "With my love and care towards you, I release you from your burdens"). The spell has to be one full sentence, but it can't just be "I release you from your burdens".	Shibari Spell, Shibari Rope

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Comments

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

That's one that I can't identify with. I've always been comfortable being what I am, but I'm glad that you were eventually able to be happy with yourself too.

[sangreine]

< I'm glad you can't. It was awful. I thought that because I'd done monstrous things, that I was a monster -- abomination is a better word, maybe. But because of the way my hibernation works it wasn't my doing. I was being used as a weapon, and they'd tell me anything to get me to fight and kill as they wanted me to. >

< I still blame myself, what would it make me if I could shrug that off, but it's better. >

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Well, whether or not you forgive yourself, just remember that matters most is you today. You can't change the past, you can only live with it and move forward.

[sangreine]

[ She makes a sad chirping sound ]

< If I could be sure the past wouldn't repeat itself, that makes sense. But I don't know what causes me to lose control of myself, and it seems to keep happening. Butchering civilians and friends while out of my mind is a nightmare. If I could stop having that happen at least I'd feel I paid some small debt to the people I killed while I was a weapon of war. >

[ This is an upgrade from thinking the only thing that could square that debt is her life. ]

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

No idea at all?

[That's pretty unusual.]

[sangreine]

< There wasn't much study on my kind, I was one of only two who weren't originally human. Most of their meddling -- humans, I mean -- just made matters worse. Disaster upon disaster, which they sent me in to mop up. >

[ Nothing like being an exterminator of your own species. ]

< My rampages were useful to them, so they only cared so far as they could point me in the right direction. I was their weapon, they were happy to wield me. > [ This is only partially true, but Saya would have no way of knowing that. ]

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

[Don't like that.]

Well, maybe that's something we can look into while you're here.

[sangreine]

[ Yeah it's not great. Her life is exclusively stories like this, up until she went to hell to be tortured which was an improvement. ]

Look into? How?

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Well, do you know the last time you lost it?

[That's kind of why he wants to help. His use case was pretty much the opposite.]

[sangreine]

My first hibernation fix treatment. Whatever was in the formulation made it happen. I attacked a whole room of people I love most, and injured most of them pretty badly before Red Son got me. Since I'm so hard to kill he had to burn me to ash to get it done while I screamed in his ear.

[ In case Wukong wondered why Saya is so firmly in the I MUST NEVER RISK HURTING RED SON camp, here's a big piece. ]

If that could be taken off the table, it would take a lot of stress off the whole attempts to cure me thing for everyone involved.

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Uh-huh. Let me take a good look at you. My eyes can learn a lot that way. But Imma need you to change back.

[That does explain a lot. It just doesn't make him feel less put out. This is more important though.]

[sangreine]

< Oh. Sure. >

[ She flares her wings and flies off his chest until she's hovering, then shifts back -- well, not exactly back. She's in that other form she mentioned, silver skin and hair and huge bat wings, since it's closer to the bat. But the rest of her is the same as normally, it's human enough to get the idea. ]

[ She takes a seat. Her eyes are back to being plain red, no gold in them at all. It vanished when the serious talk started. ]

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Alright. Let's see if I can find anything.

[He sits up, sitting cross-legged and getting comfortable. This is serious business, but it doesn't mean he can't keep it light.]

This literally won't hurt a bit.

[His eyes abruptly glow gold and he studies his new friend closely checking for anything that seems...out of sync with her, for lack of a better word.]

[sangreine]

I didn't think it would. [ Red Son did a similar scan, though admittedly Wukong is more experienced with all this so she doesn't think it out of the question that he would see things Red Son didn't. ]

[ The first thing he'll probably notice is that her old memories are still in there, just beyond her ability to access. ]

[ More importantly, her nature as a predator (the cause of her berserk episodes) isn't some side effect, it's what she is. Her self-control isn't awful since she maintains a veneer of civility most of the time, but it's not good enough to fight back her instincts when something effects her inhibitions, usually things involving her hibernation and coming out of it but also effects from quests or monsters. It's like a human's nasty temperament when they get woken up suddenly, but far more extreme. The part of her that wants to rage and destroy is always in her, it's just that it only comes out when she isn't capable of holding back the tide. ]

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

[It helps when you were literally born with the abilities to see and reveal the true nature of things to an extent.

The memories he can definitely help with, IF she wants it. But that predatory nature...that's something that is going to need very strict discipline to tame. He could help with that, but it's going to take time.

His eyes return to normal as he blinks.]

Well, I've got news. Not sure if it's good or bad news, but I did learn somethings.

[sangreine]

...Oh? Don't leave me on tenterhooks.

[ She expects bad news. It's her. ]

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

The first thing I found is your memories aren't gone. You just can't access them. I could help you with that pretty easily, buuuuut I know you have some unpleasant memories in there too soooo...that'd be completely up to you.

[sangreine]

...I was afraid you'd say that. I get flashes sometimes, so they had to be still in there.

[ She considers this for a moment. ]

I'll have to think on it. I remember all sorts of awful things, but there were people I loved, who loved me, and I don't remember how that happened. I wouldn't mind knowing.

But... I don't want those memories to change me. It might threaten what I have with the people I love now. So I'll have to consider it.

Thank you, though, for offering. It's nice to have the option. [ Even if it is paralyzing in terms of making a choice. ]

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

I get that. But the nice thing about memories is that they might tell you more about how things were, but they don't have to change who you are now.

Anyway, the second thing I found is that you losing control is tied to you as a person, and not something separate, but that means it is something that you can master through increasing your discipline and self-control. Just like I did!

[sangreine]

[ That is both extremely validating -- since she's always telling people she's a predator and given half a chance she'd destroy everything around her -- and devastating for the same reason. She's quiet for a moment. ]

[ But there's no use crying over spilled milk. She's always known this was true. Better to focus on trying to make sure she does everything possible to make sure she keeps control of herself, even if it's a veneer over who she really is. Saya doesn't mind violence -- at least not this version of her -- but she does mind it happening when she can't control herself. ]

What kind of training?

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Oh you know, meditation and focus to really get in touch with yourself and and to learn your tells. Sparring to use that focus to know when when you're close to losing it and when to really apply restraint. Stuff like that.

You've already got more than the basics down, so it's mostly just about refining those skills to increase your control.

[sangreine]

...I was afraid you'd say that. I'm terrible with meditation.

[ Her instinct is to move and touch, concrete physical things. ]

[ The thought of sparring with anyone while she's on the verge of losing her shit is extremely unappealing, but that at least sounds like something she can do. She focuses better when she's moving. ]

Do you have any tips? I'll try anything. My progress might get mostly erased when I hibernate and lose my memories, but sometimes I retain certain skills.

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Nah, you're perfectly fine. You just need to refine it.

I mean, I'm not doing anything 90% of the time. I could train with you every now and then. It'll be fun!

[sangreine]

[ Saya looks extremely relieved for a moment, then her expression softens into something more cautious. ]

I'd appreciate that. Everyone around me would appreciate that.

However... I don't know how you approach these things, but if it would mean I'd be your student all the time instead of your friend, I don't know if that's something I could do. You seem pretty friendly with MK and all, I just want to make sure.

[ She likes him too much to sacrifice being friends, messing around and having fun, flirting, all that good stuff. ]

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

Oh you don't have to worry about that. I was friends with my master and the other apprentices back when I was a student. And MK's my Bud AND my student.

[Didn't even miss a beat when mentioning his master. He misses him so much though. Also, teacher-student professionalism is boring anyway. At least if he's close to you.]

So why would I let me offering to train you as a way to help my friend change anything?