[TeirQuest]

[dramatispersonae]

Characters: Brother Deer, Teir (Malik)
Location: ???
Time: Day 130
Description:

[You may have been chasing this deer for fucking ever.]

Keeyahaha! You caught me! Good job. Ok, let's go!

Comments

[doubleminded]

[bends over to catch his breath.] What's next?

[dramatispersonae]

[tailflick]

Aah, you may rest a moment, that's right.

I will need you to deliver water to a place at the top of a mountain. There are some dangers there, however. What skills do you have?

[doubleminded]

The only thing I remember is playing cards, and I don't even remember the rules from that. That's how things work here, isn't it?

[dramatispersonae]

Yes! Oh, so you are new~ Ah, but if you don't know how to defend, then there are other things I can offer to help you on the way.

But first, come! Place your hand on my collar.

[he straightens his neck, where there's a golden collar]

[doubleminded]

[reaches out to touch the collar with a grin.]

[The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[You are at the foot of a tall, barren mountain rising from the middle of a vast forest. The weather is windy, and the clouds hang low. Grass and moss and greenery creep up the mountain a fourth of the way, but ends as if cut off and then it's all rocks and dirt. There's a mouth of a cave, high up.]

Your task is to carry water up to the cave, near the peak. Can you see it?

[Brother Deer is here too of course]

[dramatispersonae]

[The collar is warm and smooth.

The world seems to tilt and sway under your feet and shifts...]

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

The cave? [squints up.]

I can see it, just barely.

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[It looks as if there are several old paths around the mountain, too.]

Here, take this!

[A water-filled bowl made of peridot appears on the ground - or was it a bowl? NOW it's a little gem-green bottle on a leather cord. It looks like you could wear it.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

Water, huh.

[picks it up and puts it around his neck.]

Is the challenge to find the right path myself?

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

There are many paths, but with them come many dangers - creatures and riddles and rocks... Answer them and they may let you pass, though some may not be too fair. The way is high and the road can be rough, and I cannot go.

[he tosses his head back]

Open the bottle and take a sip! On this task you may transform into any beast which you can think of - though you won't be much larger than I am. Fight or fly or flee, try not to lose the water!

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

[stares at the water.] I can transform, huh…

[opens it and takes an experimental sip, thinking: falcon.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[You gain a new ability: Transform! You know you can change into any number of animals when you desire it.

The feeling of change rushes through you and heck yeah you're a falcon. CONVENIENTLY, the cord and bottle is now comfortably snug around your neck, adjusting to size.]

Keeyahaha! Bird Hero Teir! Now go, and good luck!!

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

[AWW YES THIS IS AMAZING I AM GOING TO FLY UP THIS MOUNTAIN STRAIGHT TO THE CAVE

well

I am going to try, anyway.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[You don't get to far when the dark clouds converge in your path and a harsh wind blows and tries to spin you around in midair. Warning, turbulence.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

[spun; attempts to fight through it, but failing that lands in a semi-crash.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[You find yourself among the rocks, just past the green section of the mountain.

In the clouds, a large shadow emerges, it's feathery wings beating hard as it circles above you.]

Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown.

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

You are Time.

[struggles to try to get another drink of water, thinking deer.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[The shadow lifts away, back up into the clouds which continue circling the mountain.]

[You are a deer, swift and fleet, but be careful where you place your feet.

There are rocks everywhere but the way isn't steep.
- Forward is a rocky wall-face that goes straight up
- To the right looks like a path through large boulders
- Left is a path with a gentler incline that curves around the mountain]

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

[hesitates, looking at the left path, then heads down the right-- not running, and being careful about his footing.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[Lots of rocks here, growing in size until they're as big as a cabin. There are pebbles where you walk, and crevices to step over successfully.

Something shadowy moves up ahead.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

[keeps moving, but calls out:]

Who's there?

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[It darts away with a short clatter of rocks \:D/]

Re: [The Mountain]

[doubleminded]

[hmm… :|a keeps going, then.]

Re: [The Mountain]

[dramatispersonae]

[Weird huh :|a

There's a short rumble behind you. When you look, the path you just walked is now obscured by boulders that have somehow rolled into its place.]