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Event 02: Wishing on a Star Firefly
☙Pupating Fireflies
Fireflies usually pupate in late spring, but for some reason these tiny pupa have been popping up everywhere in the labyrinth. Small, armored bug-like creatures which do nothing but hang out on leaves, their underbellies glowing softly. Wishes on them though get a glowy blink and then no matter what it is you wish for, a flower begins to grow from the top of your head. They did say to wish on a firefly and not on this wriggly little bug, after all.
Worse yet, the flower changes colour depending on your emotions. Deep red for anger, sunny yellow for happiness, and blue for sadness, with colors mingling for anything more complicated than that. They are only flowers after all, and eloquence isn't their strongest suit.
☙Star Fireflies Emerge
About a week after the fireflies pupate, you get a blue screen and a new mission:
Find a partner and capture a Star Firefly and make a wish!
Go forth into the Yggdrasil Labyrinth and you will find all the fireflies have emerged from their pupas overnight! Speaking to the various NPCs, you will get some clues as to where to find them and how to catch them.
One NPC says, “I think I heard the Star Fireflies like hanging out near water!”
Another NPC says, “If you catch one you can wish on them like on a star! But you need to make the wish with one other person!”
A third NPC says, “I caught a Star Firefly and it attacked me! Maybe it was just me but I could have sworn its light flashed red for a second…”
But yet another NPC says, “Those Star Fireflies! When I caught one with my husband we wished to be together forever and we became stuck together for a week until we managed to catch another one!”
Other NPCs may give tips on how to use the Star Net and Star Containers (sold at Napier’s Firm for a limited time only!) So do the RPG thing! Go talk to everyone!
A. Catching the Star Fireflies
The fireflies are about the size of your fists and they can only be caught by a Star Net bought from Napier’s Firm. They will burn through anything else. Place them into the Star Container, then hold it together and make a wish!.
Naturally, while you’re chasing the Star Fireflies the usual dangers of the Labyrinth are still there. Don’t focus so hard on catching them or making your wish that you enter the range of the Ragelope.
B. Those Pesky Mimics Again!
The mimic pupa from before also emerged and became fireflies! Unlike the Star Fireflies once caught in a net they will burst out of it and grow to the size of a monster! Cue the battle music and the fight begins! Beware, the Monster Firefly's light will call more of its allies to battle. Finish it off quick!
...or run away, that works too.
Before it shows its true colours, there is one way to tell the difference between is that the mimic’s light will flash red every so often unlike the Star Firelfies whose light only pulses a warm yellow.
☙End of Event
Please report to Expedition HQ to claim your reward!
3000 gold
Class Change Voucher
One vial of Firefly Luciferase (a portable lightsource, +2 Accuracy)
((OOC: Reward for the Mission can only be claimed once, the first time you make a wish on a firefly but wishes on the firefly can be made as many times as you want!
Make your own top levels for the event in this post. Remember to tag yourself. New characters can make their own tags, just follow this format: canon: character
If you have any questions about the event, feel free to ask us here.))
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[She's never really met a girl like this. Not in Zerestria but also not in Japan. Though she misses Haruko (and Rida)'s steadfastness, Momoka's bashful but kind nature and Maki's calm, collected coolness this is also nice.]
Pinya, then. It's nice to meet you. [A rover class...let's see...she thinks she might have heard the Guildmaster mention that when she went through all the explanation. It was a class that used bows, right...?]
Guess we'll have to keep our distance if we run into trouble.
IM SORRY I DID THE THING WHERE I READ THE TAG THEN WAS LIKE 'I have responded to this' BUT I DIDNT
"You'd be surprised how many Lawyers use Fae logic rules as practice and exercises in my home city," she laughs. It had been a game her mother would play with her and her siblings when she was younger. If they could successfully convince her that there really was a reason they needed an entire jar of sweets then perhaps they deserved it.
She was very, very hard to convince.
"It's nice to meet you too, Ms. Yuu," she gives a bow with a little flourish, and it's then that a large black wolf trots up to her side. The beast looks over Hiroki with his piercing yellow eyes, tilts his head in thought, and then promptly shoves his snout into Pinya's empty hand.
"Ah- hey! Fen!"
SEPTEMBER HAS BEEN KILLING ME I'M SO SORRY. Also I'm fine switching to prose!
Hiroki has never actually seen a wolf up close before. They didn't have them in Tokyo and as for Rainesburg Castle, they most just had squirrels, rabbits, foxes...small, harmless creatures.
So she bent down slightly. "Fen, huh? I didn't think a wolf would be this cute."
IT IS OKAY I THINK SEPTEMBER IS A LIMINAL SPACE????
Pinya gives a dramatic sigh, ruffling the fluff between Fenrir's ears with a smirk.
"Hear that, Fen? You're cute!" Fenrir's huff and rolling of his eyes gives away his sapience. The Direwolf looks at Hiroki for a moment, and then bows calmly, tail swishing lazily behind him.
"He says 'It's nice to meet you' and also, I think he's asking for more pets."
THAT MAKES SENSE
She's happy to give Fen more pets if it meant she doesn't have to look at anyone directly as she considered that question.
If she could wish for whatever she'd probably...wish to see the princess again even if it'd be awkward. She could wish to be stronger to not feel likr she can't even live up to her strength in her previous life (where even with that greater strength, skill and training the castle had still fallen).
But those were too depressing and raised too many questions.
Besides. They would never be granted so easily.
So after a flicker in her expression she smiled.
"I guess I might wish for gold? Or good equipment. Maybe something that will give me some kind of elemental protection! Those kinds of things are useful in games, right?"
And then she goes from petting to try to squish Fen's face gently between her hands.
"Has he always been this friendly?
October... also liminal qwq
"And... games?" She asks, not entirely knowing what the other woman means.
Fenrir's eyes blink, but he's not opposed to the oddly relaxing change of petting. He's surely had it done enough times from Pinya herself, after all.
"Not at the beginning; we've been together for a couple of years at this point, and I think I've rubbed off on him," she laughs.