Project: TheirWorld - Chapter 017 - Part 2

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Fools’ First Quest

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TheirWorld

“I will do it,” Guin exclaimed stubbornly.

“Good!” said Jeek to her, sounding just slightly warmer than his usual monotone. “Of course I wouldn’t send her out there unprotected, idiot!” he said as the white wolf bit at the air over the rabbit’s head. Jeek went over to his hole and hopped in. After a moment he reappeared with small canvas bag, and handed it to her “Take this. Inside is a foot of mine when I was alive.” Nodding her thanks, Guin took the bag.

“Take this,” Ororos said, dropping a small white and yellow dagger at her feet. It looked like a - “This was made from one of my canines in life. Use it well.” Picking up the dagger, she bowed to him.

“And this!” shouted Lili, throwing something down from the tree that he had been in before. “It was made from the pelts of my family! Care for it well!”

Guin kneeled down and picked up a small cape made of dozens of little furs. The hairs on the back of her neck rose as the morbid nature of the items, but she thanked them again before looking at them.

In order to complete this quest, the three have loaned you some relics of their former lives. You will return them upon completion of the quest.

Jeek the Red Rabbit has asked you to find something: “My friend told me a story about a treasure that some mortal man left in the forest cave up in the hilly area to the north. He said that it was in a box; a box filled with shiny treasure - but the most important among the trappings wasn’t shiny at all. It was valuable like gold, but made of wood - though it didn’t look like wood. Wrapped in leather, it was, then in cloth. Would you find this item for me?”

This quest is optional. It can be skipped.>

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Waving in info away, she took a closer look at the items. The first had been from Jeek. The bag itself had no tooltip, which meant that she needed to look inside. Steeling herself for what could have been a scene from a horror movie, she opened it. To her appreciation, it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. Pulling it out, she found it to be a small black rabbit’s foot.

> <<[Jeek’s Lucky Foot]>> > > > > <> > >

Guin nodded her approval. The flavor text was interesting. She had thought about ignoring the items because they weren’t permanent, but judging from this, she would be able to learn something from them. In addition, it did give her stats a bonus.They were decent stats for a level zero to have, not to mention that accessories were some of the hardest items to find in the game. Unlike in many other games, Theirworld tried to approach the game from a more realistic direction with accessories; you could have as many accessories as places to put them - in this case, to keep people from being totally out of control, you were allowed two rings on each hand, two earrings, one necklace, and then you had six special accessory slots where you could place things that did not fall into one of those categories - for example, bracelets, masks, tattoos, totems that you just carried on your person, and a variety of other things. She pulled up the character screen, and dropped the foot into one of the slots. A black rabbit foot appeared at her side, dangling from her belt by a red ribbon.

Next, she picked up the tooth dagger.

> <<[The Fang of Ororos]>> > > > <> > >

After reading the flavor text, Guin gazed at Ororos with a dull sadness. And curiousity. His history was much more than she thought it would be. For him to have had a family that was killed in such a way, to have been a leader of a people who met tragedy. Silently, she re-evaluated him.

As for the item, like the foot, it was a good item. If it was in the main game, this item would probably be an uncommon item at least; at the very least for the no level requirement. She equipped it, and it appeared tucked within her belt.

Last, she took out the small cloak that Lili had passed to her.

> <<[Lili’s Family Tree]>> > > <

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For Lili’s item, she wasn’t sure if she should laugh or cry. On the one hand, people are horrible. On the other hand, the visual of the naked squirrel running around the city dressed in squirrel suit hardly seemed a serious image. Of course, as with the other two, a lot of people ended up dying.

When she equipped the cloak, it appeared on her back looking no different than rags.

The three in front of her nodded their approval and she bowed to them again. She went to leave, but then had a question came into her mind. Turning to them, she asked, “Mortals have done such horrible things to you - why do you treat me as if I am a friend still?”

It was Ororos who chuckled, “Child, we lost our lives so many years ago that counting is pointless. Imagine if we held the rage of our past in our current hearts - the shame of it! Besides, were you the one that tortured us? Poisoned us? Turned ours homes to ash? Nay; you are just a child. Allow your conscious to stifle the cruelty that rests in your bloodline.”

She accepted that answer. She was expecting snark from the old wolf. Tik-Tak was looking up at her curiously. Guin nodded to him, checked the map, and with that, they were off.