[Open | Quest] Watership Down (Orchard)

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Room Name: Watership Down
Room Type: Farm - Vegetable Farm/Orchard
Room Description: Watership Down is a slightly sloped orchard beside the cottage within the personal property of the assassin Kumori and the samurai Caerbannog, Schwarz-Oshiro Estate. In a white-fenced area, there are many rows of vegetables in a patch and a little to the side, there are fruit shrubs and trees. In the middle of the orchard, there stands a rabbit’s home which looks more like a dog house than an enclosure for small animals. It is shared by Hyzenthlay, an enemic buster, and Hrairoo, a frenmic rabbit and Hyzen’s “husband”. Hyzenthlay is very territorial and will pummel most people and animals in the face if they approached the rabbit house, or if they did something not nice to Watership Down. A little further to their right, amidst the fruit-bearing plants, there is a deep, dark hole at the foot of some apple trees. It is a centipede’s burrow where Foreman Mukade IX lives when he is not out searching for food or adventure.

Furniture: Windsor wooden garden bench
Decoration #1: Windsor rabbit house
Decoration #2: Centipede burrow
Lighting: Windsor lamp post

Trees: Apple, pear, quince, persimmon, peach, nectarine
Shrubs: Cherry, camellia, thyme, rosemary, sage, cranberry
Crops: Carrot, broccoli, bell pepper, romaine lettuce

Occupants: Hyzenthlay (Level 11 Enemic Buster - Female), Hrairoo (Level 5 Frenmic Rabbit - Male), Foreman Mukade IX (Level 30 Foreman Mukade - Male)

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Quest Details

Reward: 1,000 gold per post

The couple Kumori and @dindeen need landers or adventurers who can tend to their orchard when they are away from the Schwarz-Oshiro Estate. They will be paid in gold for their work.

- There is no class, subclass, crafting class, race, gender, age or level requirement. None at all!
- Maximum of ONE post every 72 hours since your last post. Even if the previous post was yours, you can post again as long as you let 72 hours transpire.
- You may interact with other "helpers" as necessary.
- Write a post describing your character as he or she tends to the orchard and its occupants.
- Please strictly follow the list of details described in this post with regards to the contents of the orchard (the furniture, the trees, etc.)
- Your post must at least have 500 words to be credited for the reward. Half of the post must contain ACTUAL WORK in the yard. I'm not giving gold in exchange for 500 words of talking or daydreaming.

Things that you may do to help include (but not limited to): cleaning the yard, tending to the plants, harvesting vegetables and fruits (which must be left at the door of the cottage), pruning trees, removing overripe/rotten plants, making compost (a mix of rotten plants and loose soil), warding off invading creatures, removing weeds and other unwanted plants (anything not in the list above), feeding the animals, cleaning the rabbit house (good luck!), giving the rabbits a bath (may the Gods be with you!), giving Mukade a bath (gotta get rid of that blood).

Things that the rabbits eat: Grass, all of the vegetables and fruits in the orchard.
Things that the centipede eats: Cows, snakes/angioserpents, pittered boars (young, adult, elite), treants, kobolds, goblins, ratmen, sahaugin, spiders/tarantulas, other centipedes, lizards (newts, crocodiles, etc)

Reward Sent to:
- Leo
- Eniko
- Icyferno
- Hikari
- Remy
- Grandeur

[Leo]

This was truly lucky that he read about this job in one of the taverns, it was a real blessing.. He could not die here (If one does not count the huge caterpillar, or the dangerous smacking monster in the middle.), he could take his time and most importantly, his efforts would be awarded with gold, gold that he can than exchange for alcohol to power up his play style, or finally brew something himself and learn the art. 

More or less these were the thoughts of the Werecat monk that went by the name Leo. Another bit of grass has been cut by the swift blade of sytchy justice. He enjoyed cutting the grass down this way, hoping it'll somehow work on his arm muscles, and perhaps build some more power in to his hits. The grass though laid everywhere now, cut, and the wind was bringing it in to the air, each time it blew, which turn the cleaning process in to a nightmare, once the werecat came back with a bag, to sort the mess up. 

Within a hour or maybe a bit less, he stuffed the linen bag till the brim, and with a grunt, he carried it close to the house, leaving it by one of the walls, for now, later perhaps he will dispose of those somewhere, but for now there was more work to be done. It was but a drop of water in the sea. He once more caught the scythe and walked to the edges of the orchid, in order to shorten the grass there, as wild types of it enjoyed sneaking between the "domesticated" plants, outgrowing them and in the process ruining the whole garden.

That was at least what he read in a book somewhere, back in the real world.  The blade had little trouble to bring the green, upstanding bits down, and with every strike, little by little, he was coming to an end of this part. His eyes fell up on the tidy garden, which was in excellent shape, and he hoped to keep it that way.

Leaving his "weapon" on the ground he once more walked towards the place, where he previously left the big sack, full of grass, and from there he took yet another one. This time though, instead of gathering all this with his hands, he decided to use the rakes. It made the job a lot easier, with just a few strokes, he could clump up the green "weed" and put it in to the container, where it belonged. By the end of it, his hands were in a shade of dark green, and so were his shortened, cloth pants. He drawn his hand over the forehead and took a deep breath, breathing in the sweet smell of freshly cut grass, it was rejuvenating to say the least. 

The monk keeled down and tied the bag at the top, than swiftly brought his hands underneath it and with a grunt straightened up, and step by step walked towards the wall of the house once more, to drop these garbage there. He really did plan to throw them out later, or just empty the bags on some meadow, preferably the latter.

Next on the list, to pluck out the wild grass that actually managed to sneak in between the neatly planted vegetables and shrubs.

[Eniko]

He needed a place to stay. He knew he didn't want to stay in the inn any longer as making more ink and making more mess might lead him to trouble. But when he heard about a quest that involved Adventurers or Landers making housework, he knew this was a right place to earn money other than fighting monsters all day. Eniko already spent his money on his equipment, so this was an only option for him to do that.

After he traveled all the way to Savill Flower Grove, he arrived at the yard of the two Adventurer couple when he was completely awed at the vegetable garden in the yard. He knew about the wife since she made his scythe, the Scythe of the Black Moon, but he didn't knew that she was married. Upon he thought about it, at least he should pay her back by accepting this quest. "I should better get started, I can't get any gold if I'm always standing around here." As he walked into the garden to start, he noticed a black furred Werecat somehow working in the gardens as well. He wanted to try to strike up a conversation, but he know he didn't have time for that.

He then decided to harvest the crops first as he carefully grabbed some apples, persimmons, and peaches from the trees and some carrots and broccoli from the garden. Since he had little experience in gardening from his mother from time to time, Eniko wanted to harvest them without being hasty. Then, the next thing he should do was to grab the watering can and fill it up with water to tend some crops that was still growing. He knew the Werecat got that job, but at least he should water the crops for once. With his can filled up, he came back from the garden and started watered some shrubs that need some while he picked some cherries and sage from them that already grew or ripened. Then, he focused back on fully harvesting as he picked some carrots from the ground and bell peppers from the yard before he went to the said cottage to deliver his harvested crops near the door while he kept some vegetables and fruits for his next chore: Feeding the animals.

He then went to rabbit house in the yard to see a said Frenmic Rabbit and an Enemic Buster inside it as Eniko noticed their HP bars. "Level 11 Enemic Buster named Hyzenthlay and Level 5 Frenmic Rabbit named Hrairoo. Wow, I can't believe either of the couple managed to take care of these monsters. I admit, but they are not only good fighters, but they are also good at taking care of them for so long." Then with some vegetables and fruits he saved for the rabbits, Eniko tried to enter the rabbit house, only for the Enemic Buster to pummel his face for entering his territory. Not wanted to risk his HP loss for a housework, he decided to leave the fruits and vegetables inside the rabbit house to avoid another confrontation before he gone to the next monster for him to feed.

HP: 55%

MP: 100%

WORDS: 529 (October AP Bonus for Tracker Class: 795)

TAG: @dindeen, Leo

NOTES: Eniko just harvesting crops and feeding the animals (by risking his HP, no doubt).

[Icyferno]

Status: Healthy / Rested

Note: I'm just stopping by to get some non-solo AP, plus do the task of feeding the centipede since the other two did not bring foodies. Just skip over me in the donations or pass it to someone else. I probably did not quailfy anyway.

THERE IS SERIOUSLY NOTHING TO DO, THOSE TWO TOOK ALL THE JOBS.

To Eniko: Skip to the bottom.

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It was a quiet weekday afternoon when the Swashbuckler known as Icyferno arrived at the abode of Caerbannog and Kumori. One might ask what he was doing there, for the only reason anyone would go there at the present moment would be to help them tend to their garden. So what then, was this particular Adventurer doing in this place?

He had no idea. Apparently, the centipede was bored, and thus asked Caerbannog to drag him to the garden to bring it some food. As such, he found himself here, at the home of the power couple, when he could be doing other things like decorating his own home. Not that he would actually do it.

Anyway, after all was said and done, nothing could change the fact that he was already here, so he might as well do what he came here to do.

As he entered the garden through the side gate meant for Caerbannog's slav- I mean, workers, he saw a couple of other Adventurers hard at work, the Werecat weeding plants while the fellow Human fed, or rather tried to feed, Caerbannog's rabbit. Good luck with that.

On his shoulders was a big brown linen bag stained with red. From the smell alone, it was quite obvious as to what it contained. As for its purpose, anybody who knew of the gentipede's diet would know that.

As he arrived at the entrance to the burrow, he called out a greeting to the gentipede. Now equipped with the ability to speak to animals, it should understand his speech. At the same time, he could probably understand the gentipede now.

The centipede crawled out of its burrow, its many feet clicking as it emerged. "The sad meat baby!" It proclaimed. Why was he given such a weird name? More importantly, where did the 'sad' part come from? He was pretty sure he did not look depressed or anything at the wedding. Or was he? Perhaps he himself did not know the answer to that.

In any case, the point of this trip was not to ask the gentipede why he was named so, but to give it some live food. He put down the huge sack he had been carrying for the entire morning, filling it with various animals from various sources. He upended the sack, and out tumbled several monsters, all bound tightly with strong rope.

Because he was a weakling, he could not challenge the much stronger mobs found in the Miasma Realms to capture. Instead, he brought the gentipede several slightly rare monsters; an Angioserpent with its mouth bound shut, a Rock Parasite which he literally just shoved into the sack, two Kobold Nobles bounded in a fashion that suggested a kidnap, and a bounded Swamp Sahaugin who was missing its weapon. He wasn't sure if the gentipede would like some of the things he brought, but thus was the reason for trying after all.

He unbounded each of them one by one for the gentipede to pick and eat. Whether or not it liked the Sahaugin or the Rock Parasite, that was probably for the gentipede to decide. Perhaps he should have checked with @dindeen first. The serpent refused to put up a resistance and simply laid there as it was eaten, leaving a very disappointed gentipede. But by far, he found the nobles the most entertaining. As the first one tried to make a run for it, it was impaled by the gentipede, and very slowly savored. The second paled visibly, but there was no escaping its fate. As it was unbound, however, it tried a different strategy, hoping to flatter the centipede for its life.

"Oh, no beast can match thy great ferocity! It is a shame that mine companion was slaughtered, but that was because he did not see thou for thy greatness! Allow mine humble self to serve thyself for the rest of mine life. I shall devote every ounce of power in mine possession to serve thou, my new overlor-"

The gentipede simply picked it up by stabbing it with one of its appendages and chewed it, causing a loud blood-curling scream to erupt from the noble's throat as its last few moments of life was spent in pain. The other people present would probably be judging him for this.

The gentipede had quite the appetite. In any case, he had nothing to give it at the moment, so he told the centipede that he would be back with more after gathering a couple of mobs for it to consume. It waved its appendages, then crawled back into its burrow for a bit to do whatever it is that centipedes always do in their holes.

Since he was here, he might as well help the labourers out. Not that he was staying here to get paid. Despite having purchased his own private property, he still had enough to get by on, so there was little worry in that area for him. The two Adventurers seemed to have gotten the bases covered in terms of feeding the rabbits and maintaining the garden, so the Swashbuckler saw little he could do to help. Or maybe he could help the poor Adventurer trying to feed the angry rabbits. He stopped in front of the rabbit house and spoke to the bunnies, mindful of crossing their territory. "Don't mind him, he just wanted to bring you some fruits and vegetables from the garden." Hopefully he won't get punched for that. Hopefully.

He would love to stay and all, but unfortunately, he had to go and get more stuff for the gentipede. Perhaps one could speak to the Swashbuckler when he returned later with a few more monsters in tow. Besides, the other two pretty much got every thing covered, so he saw no reason to stick around. But before he left, he stopped by the Human Assassin, Eniko, and said, "By the way, if you're planning to feed Mukade, bring it something that's alive."

With that, he was off. Hopefully he would be back soon.

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Word count: 1012
Total word count after multipliers (Animal Trainer): 1518
Note: Non-solo post because I talked to Eniko. 'Nuff said.

[Hikari]

As Hikari had substantial financial problems, it became clear that she needed a way to aquire funds for her evil plans. She had found information that one of higher leveled players needed some sort of a helper, and the best of all: the job had no requirements! She was walking along the side of a road when she spotted a slightly sloped orchard beside a cottage, which was hidden behind white-fenced area. When she got there, it appeared that she wasn't alone. Another group of adventures was already doing their job, which made Hikari a bit awkward. Yet, with a resolve to get those fundings, she proceeded.

Not even taking few steps, she glanced upon a very cute bunny near the rabbit house. As she rushed to take a good luck, it appeared that she didn't notice the scary-looking enemic buster standing next to it. As she did that, she completely forgot about the bunny and tried poking at the buster. As she did that, the buster immediately tried return the favor with a strong punch.

`Eek! I guess I'll be taking this bunny and leaving now!`

As the blow missed by a tiny shot, Hikari knew that she shouldn't stick around the territorial beast. Instead, she held the little bunny as the fluffy ball of cuteness he truly is. However, she noticed that his fur wasn't so shiny and that he reeked of dirt. It appeared that he needed a bath.

Hikari found a semi-large wooden basket, and soon filled it with water. Even though quite hesitant, Hikari menaged to find a way to trick the bunny to stand still without too much ruckus. She carefully cleaned the rabbit as she was patting him on the fur. When she was finally done, she hurried to find a cloth so the rabbit doesn't get too cold- and potentially grumpy. She slowed soaked up the water with the cloth and hugged the bunny which was literally a fluffy ball right now. Putting him gently on the floor, she continued her business.

With her already being wet, she decided to nurture plants. Once again, Hikari adventure appears to start by finding buckets. After she found a semi-small bucket, she watered the plants. She tried to balance out how much water each plant should receive, and such trees got watered the most and shrubs the least. As she was watered a regular apple tree, she noticed something quite peculiar behind it. After peeking a bit, to her surprise there stood a large Centipede. Surprised, she took a few steps back.

`What is next, a dragon?`

Oh well, there is nothing left that can surprise her now. She picked an apple from the tree and tried to give it to the centipede, but alas the centipede simple ignored her. Hakari thought that it probably wants meat or something like that, and at that thought she remembered about the bunnies. She picked a variety of fruits and vegetables, which she carried over to the rabbit house.

As she fed the little bunny, she was thinking about a plan to get the enemic buster to eat too. After some thought, she decided to wait until he's not here and just put the food on the floor. And so, waiting behind a shrub, Hikari stayed hidden until there was no sign of the enemic buster. After he left, Hikari graciously danced to the rabbit house and left some food on the floor.

`There is that, hopefully he gets to eat now.`

As she was preparing to do some other jobs, to her surprise, the enemic buster was standing right behind her.

`Eek!`

And so, running for her life, Hakari thought that it was a good idea to take a break before testing her luck against death again.

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Word Count: 630
Word Count with bonuses: 1260

[Remy]

Remy was in dire need of increasing both his strength but also getting a bit of gold into his pockets, fortunately it seemed two of the more skilled members of Elder Tale had earned a generous streak. In exchange for completing menial tasks, PC’s would earn 1000 gold in funds, a rather generous offer. He’d sat cross-legged by the white-picket fence whilst others did their best to find undone tasks to complete around the yard. Most of them keeping to themselves as they did so, and Remy didn’t have much trouble with matching their closeted personalities. Leo took care of shaving the grass and ridding it of the weeds, Eniko had gone fruit picking and plant watering, Icyferno had the more arduous task of attempting to feed the centipede, something even Remy would shy away from, harbouring a secret distaste for insects and the ilk, he finally ceased his opportunity when Hikari was chased away by the Enemic Buster though he’d had his own plot to deal with the creature as well.



His first decision was to make sure he had a plot in case Hyzenthlay bored itself of Hikari, he first summoned a golem made of soil, a material not uneasy to find in the area, and of course, he had no intention of trying to fight the Enemic Buster. No doubt he’d find himself destroyed rather quickly even made out of stronger material, and he wasn’t sure the vastly superior master of the animal would be pleased with him attempting it anyways. That was a loss-loss situation, instead the Soil Golem was built to be both fast and regenerative, to distract essentially. After two seconds past, he summoned another creature, this time a Phantom with the same purpose, to distract, it’s evasive ability and immaterial substance would help keep Hyzenthlay busy.



Remy had the easy task, though the more tedious one, grab a bucket of water, some cloth and some soaps, the clown-looking man looked odder as he snuck towards the rabbit house, which, did not look unlike his dog, Panda’s home back in the world they’d come from, many-a times he had had to scrub it as well whilst the dog distracted itself with a bone. He knew enough to do the task hurriedly though with a rushed pace to it. Hikari likely would find that the Enemic Buster had trailed off from her to deal with the bothersome golem and phantom around him. It would likely focus on the Soil Golem first, pummeling it after a short while of playing cat and mouse then turning its focus towards the phantom only to find him a more formidable opponent due to his speedier built and evasive form, and eventually the Soil Golem would rebuilt itself, faster than a stone would have done, and the process would renew.



Of course, Remy saw this as the perfect opportunity to both develop his abilities as a summoner and earn himself some gold so long as his two friends could provide sufficient enough of a long distraction. He finished scrubbing the reeking floor of the house and moved to the walls, an easier task though he did notice some small bloody markings, no doubt from the territorial Enemic Buster, the two property owners must have been rather capable adventurers to be able to tame such creatures, though Remy hid no truth of his desire to match their skills in the future though he doubted he’d live life with the same kind of mundane philosophy. He finally moved towards the ceiling, a slightly more arduous task but nevertheless already cleaner than the floor.



Upon completing it, he exited the dog house to turn and discover both a panting and sweating Hyzenthlay before him. A bead of sweat quickly swept down the side of his head. Guess those two couldn’t keep you occupied forever, nevertheless, they kept you occupied long enough. He noticed the food Hikari had left for the Enemic Buster and slowly reaching a hand to it, he pushed it towards the monster. “After all that hard work, isn’t it time for you to try and regain that energy.” He could see the doubt in the animal’s eyes, so he continued speaking, softly, “I was just leaving anyways… bon appetit!” He wasn’t sure how well Scout would work in this sort of situation but he had a hint of hope that it alleviated the Enemic’s Buster’s rabid tendencies, at least a tad. Slowly his feet shuffled to the side and grew in pace until the Enemic Buster would conclude that eating was a better way to spend his time. If that wasn’t enough to earn that gold, he wasn’t sure what was. His mana was nearly at it’s end at this point but he wouldn’t have any use for it now, he’d completed his part.

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Word Count: 804
Word Count with Bonus (Summoner): 1608
Notes: Not sure if I went about it right with the Enemic Buster but there it is, hope you enjoy. 

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Regina had heard of an advertisement proclaiming to pay handsomely for helping out at an orchard, it sounded quite easy, though she did also read something about not going near the rabbits but shrugged that off. When she'd arrive, she'd already see a few other adventurer's at work but seeing as how they were welcoming anyone willing to lend a hand, she smiled and asked what she could do. Thusly she was given a rather large basket and was asked to pick some of the fruit from the trees. Didn't seem 'too' hard so why not?

Regina made her way to the aforementioned trees and looked up to see that they were quite...high, a bit difficult to get to. Just then it came to her, she had a vine spell and maybe she could use it in an interesting way. She'd hold the large basket with one hand and then holds out her hand "Willow Spirit!" Suddenly vines would sprout from the ground and wrap about the tree good and tight, she'd then bite her bottom lip and then try to 'will' the vines to shake the tree. After a few minutes of nothing she grumbled a little bit and then tried again "Willow Spirit!" Every time she did this though the tree shook harder, until, after her third attempt, some of the fruit from the peach tree she was currently doing this to began to fall with her barely able to catch them all. She'd wipe her brow and then taps her chin, thinking maybe a better way to use those vines.

This time around, she moved onto the pears and would hold out her hand "Willow Spirit!" As the vines sprung up she'd grab hold onto one of them and be 'lifted' up along the large tree, several feet off the ground as the vines wrapped about that tree rather quick and allowed her a free ride up. Now up in the branches she'd begin to pluck the pears, only dropping a few to the ground below. She'd then hook her whip around a branch and slowly lowers herself down, snapping the whip off of the branch when she was on her feet. This was going to be a little tougher than she thought.

Regina made her way around several of the other trees, if she wasn't climbing up, she was shaking the trees, always being sure to not do any real damage to said trees. She'd make her way around, looking them over, wondering what the fruit tasted like, wondering if they had any taste at all, again this was a game and she was never sure just how 'accurate' they got everything. She'd sit down next to their water pump and begins to pump out some water into a rather large looking bucket. She'd then set the big basket next to her as she takes a seat under the apple tree and begins to wash the fruit, of bugs, dirt or whatever else gets on fruit in those trees. She'd continue doing this, inspecting all the ones she picked and setting aside any that didn't make the cut. She'd hum to herself as she cleaned and sorted the fruit, occasionally stopping to look around and take in the peaceful atmosphere.

When she was finally done, at least with that batch, she'd take it to the owner and ask where could she put them, to which she would then make her way into a small shed and sets them on a waiting table. There she'd look around for a moment or two and then walk out to take a wide look at the orchard, wondering what exactly went into a farmer's head when choosing which fruits or vegetables to plant.

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Word Count: 623