I'm getting water!
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Lilac glances at the magic map with the X and looks to Grimm with a determined grin, "I can do this." She takes a more thorough look at the map and takes off. The buckets are light for now and that makes her happy, at least the first leg of the journey will be easy. She makes careful note of where she walks, she'll need to remember it for when she gets on her way back. Leaving the site where Grimm is, the forest becomes more dark. There's glowing fungi on some trees that cast small amounts of blue-green light on to the ground as she walks. But the leaves over head rattle in the soft breeze, making her skin crawl. She decides she needs to try to be smart and scoops up a paw full of the goopy fungus and smears it into an x on the trees as she goes. She has no clue for how long she'll be able to find the fungus so she spends a bit of time filling both of her buckets half way with the slippery stuff. She goes along, walking and marking the trees, and every once and a while jumping at shadows. She hears a growl in the distance and speeds up. Finally, her efforts of collection come to use. The forest grows entirely dark and her mold acts more as a lantern for her steps. The forest is much scarier without the bright splotches at the ground and the moss and vines hanging from trees manage to hit her in the face many a time before she can duck. Then she reaches the lake. It's a wonderful lake and she runs up to it excitedly. She dumps the small amount left of her fungus and cleans the rest out with her paw. the stones at the bottom of the lake glow light blue and she sits for a small moment to admire them. She wants to drink some of the water, but something makes her think it may not be normal. After all, Grimm wasn't giving a lot of information on this, perhaps he had greater plans for a special water. She carefully fills up the buckets and places them on either side of her on a big strong stick. The water is heavier than she had expected and she huffs up the small hill that lead to the lake, looking for her x's. She finds her first one and the second without much trouble, but the third comes with trouble. She had managed to double back on herself and ended up back at the second marker. She tried again and found it, getting back on her way. The rest come as easily as the first two and her fear begins to subside, everything seems to be going alright! She makes it back to Grimm with most of the water with her, having spilled a tiny bit here and there when she stumbled on rocks. "Here you go," she says enthusiastically. She places them down, instantly happy for the relief of the stick from her back. It had been digging into her the whole journey. She places the stick aside and sits down, waiting for Grimm's next command.
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I'm retrieving the blocks!
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Taking a closer look at the map this time Lilac nods, "just a few rocks shouldn't be too hard. I'll be right back!" She wonders how many blocks there will be once everyone had brought their's back. The sound of the ruins seemed mildly foreboding, what was it that had been ruined? Lilac followed a similar idea as last time, taking fungus from the ground and putting it on trees as to not get lost. She put check marks instead of x's this time however, just in case the two different markers crossed paths. This path is much longer than the first one she had to take and after a half hour of walking she sat down for a small break, leaning against a tree, after all she needed just a quick rest from two trips. She leaps back in surprise, something squishy was against the tree! She wipes it off of her shoulder in distaste, and recognizes the feeling. This was one of her old markers! She feels it out and sure enough the disgusting feeling makes one large x. She feels a squick of panic and instantly gets on her way, she's gotta get going before the glow of her new checks disappears! She goes off at a quick pace, the fungus is no more and she works off of landmarks; a large stone that sorta looks like a cat, a tree that had been struck by lightning, a boulder that scared the tar out of her because it looked like a beast and was covered in shaggy moss. Then her paw hits nothing but air and she tumbles downwards. She looks up in confusion, there was ground but a second ago. She stands and finds herself to be in a small ravine, luckily not very deep. She could already hear the words of her sister if she came back home from the festival with a broken leg. She feels at a loss, how in the world would she get out? Lilac decides to take a path, following the ravine to the left. She steps over and onto sharp rocks and branches, ending up bruised and banged up when she reaches a tunnel in the side of the ravine. It's fairly large and she could feel a breeze coming through it. She decides to follow it, despite the many more words of her sister echoing in her mind. She runs off happily, her braid hitting the side of the tunnel every once and a while. The tunnel ended after a while and her eyes opened wide in excitement. It was the ruins! She trots out of the tunnel and begins her search for the special stones. She looked for the rocks with glyphs and quickly found them. The trickier part was figuring out how to carry them. After a bit of searching she found a large piece of sturdy bark. Carefully setting it on top of her back she somehow managed to get the blocks on it as well. Now she was ready to go. She avoided the ravine and started looking for her landmarks. Scary boulder, lightning tree, cat rock. Then she found her markers, markers eight, seven, six, five, four - and the rest were gone, nothing but a smudge of dark wet plant against dark dry trees. She made the last leg of her journey haltingly, wishing she had looked for landmarks here as well. Luckily there was enough light to get back to where she began, and she eventually was able to follow the voices of the other lambicorns to where Grimm was. she deposited her blocks with the rest of the gathered ones and turns to him. "Alright, I got the rocks, is there anything else?"
by Eleya » Mon Aug 03, 2020 5:48 am 
