Seeking a Friend for the End of Her World <<Feeding the Enemy>>

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Lisa was worried that what she was doing wasn’t going to be enough to keep her alive. She’d taken on as many quests as she could thus far, but she was in need of more. She was nowhere high enough level to do much and she really needed her First aid skill to be a higher rank so that she could survive the upcoming boss fight. But even then that wouldn’t be enough. Sure, she could keep others safe, but what about herself? Her armor could regenerate health, but would it be enough to keep her alive? She doubted it. No, the healer needed a healer. She needed a familiar, one that could help her through the dark time, one that could see her through the possible end of her world. The young woman didn’t want to think about dying, but she knew if she wasn’t careful, that would be a possibility.

The woman had stumbled upon the quest quite by accident but she was glad that she had. She had accepted the quest some time ago, but made no effort to complete It as she had no idea what she wanted the familiar to do, nor did she know what kind she wanted. Now that she knew both answers, she found herself in the one place that she knew for sure she could find what she was looking for: the field of crossing. The garden she had come to for Zelrius’s birthday was the perfect place to go looking for the kind of familiar she wanted. There were hummingbirds a plenty in that place, all she had to do was wait for the right opportunity to collect one and hope that she caught an uncommon one. She really didn’t want to have to kill any of the pretty little birds. 

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Lisa walked through the garden, just staring up at the sky wondering what sort of hummingbirds she would find in the garden. She had seen one the night of the party. It was nested inside a bird box and she was all too excited to have found it. Now that she was there in the garden however, she seemed to be having trouble finding the damn things. “Come out little birdies!” she said as she walked around looking at all the roses in bloom. “This place is ridiculously pretty,” Lisa sighed to herself as she brushed her curls out of her face. 

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It was about then that Lisa had remembered the cookie she had bought from the Sunflower Café. “Maybe if I eat it now, I’ll have more luck finding one,” she said as she opened her HUD.  She scrolled through her inventory until she saw the name and clicked on it. The girl didn’t know why it was called a Marranito, but she gathered it must have mean “piggy cookie” in some sort of language. The young woman took up the sweet and began to take bites of the thing. It was soft and moist, and smelled heavily of molasses. In a few bites the cookie was gone,  and her luck modifier increased by two.

 

Persephone consumes +2 LD TREAT adding +2 to all her LD rolls. 

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Lisa already felt luckier. Or maybe that was just the placebo effect. Either way, she was going to take it and run with it. Hopefully it was enough to get her a damn pet on the first time. She did not like the idea of having to wait a long time just to find something that she probably wasn’t going to make use of. It was kind of like insurance, you had it in hopes of never having to need it, but when you do… you were glad you had it. She knew once she had a tiny bird in her possession, she would feel much better. But for now she was going to be apprehensive.

 

Edited September 27, 2015 by Persephone

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“Now where to look?” she asked herself as she scanned the garden. She needed to find bushes and other flowers that attracted hummingbirds and the like to it. “Butterfly bush…” she said as she remembered the blooming plant in her mother’s garden as a child. The butter fly bush brought all sorts of nectar loving creatures to call, even hummingbirds. She scanned the area and didn’t see any ought right. She would have to poke around here and there to see if maybe the game makers had added it into the game. If she got lucky, it would be here. 

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No butterfly bush yet, but it was there somewhere… She knew it had to be. She tried to think of alternatives; however nothing else came to mind. Her memory as vividly flooded with visions of sitting in the bay window and watching the things come to grab a bite. There were always honey and bumble bees and wasps a plenty. The plants were always teeming with life, and she would sit there and watch them for long stretches of time just buzzing in and out. On occasion she would catch hummingbirds all up in that action. It was why she was just so sure if she could find that plant, she would find the little helicopter birds as well.

Edited September 27, 2015 by Persephone

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Lisa walked about the garden keeping her eyes peeled for the damn flowering bush but she didn’t seem to spot one anywhere. It seemed that the cookie hadn’t been terribly effective, or maybe she was just that unlucky. She was pretty sure it was the second. The young man in the shop looked rather capable and when she pulled the molasses pig from her inventory it did have the enhancement on it, so it had to be working.  “Maybe they just didn’t put that in game…” she told herself. "It's not like they could think to put everything in the game." 

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A light breeze swept through the area and the leaves in the trees rustled softly around her.  Her long dark curls were swept up in the breeze and a lock tumbled into her face. She pushed her hair back and tired it with a strip of cloth she’d cut from the bottom of her top which was hidden by the fact that she tucked in her blouse. The sun shone warmly down upon her face and she looked up to the sky allowing it to radiate down upon her skin as she enjoyed being there that very moment. Even though she knew none of this was real, it felt wonderful all the same.