EVENT LOG: SCAVENGER HUNT

[lucetimods]

Who: All you scavenger hunters!
What: Scavenging and other fantabulousness, I suppose.
When: November 24th to 28th
Where: The whole village! And yet also all over time and space...
Summary: See this post for more info.
Rating: P for Points! (Keep it PGish, folks. Anything worthy of a higher rating can be brought to your appointments posts.)

As announced by CJ, the village's immediate environs are divided up according to this map. There are five areas: the Nile, Ice Age, Space Opera, Shogunate, and Gangland. Time-and-place appropriate architecture and conjured up NPCs exist in each area.

Don't forget the scavenger hunt! While actually finding things is ultimatly optional, you can find more information on the hunt here. If you want to claim a reward from the hunt, be sure to link at least two related threads on the new rewards claims post.

Finally, here's a quick rundown of the objects:
- In THE NILE: A ceremonial dagger and a piece of Pharoah's treasure
- In GANGLAND: A tommy gun and a set of car keys
- In ICE AGE: A bone spear and a smilodon's tooth
- In SPACE OPERA: a raygun and part of a robot
- In SHOGUNATE: a samurai sword and water from a kappa's head

Happy hunting!

Comments

any day, specifics on day 1!!

[colress]

[he could be anywhere on any of the days-- where he is is up to you (and it's very likely that he won't be alone).

the first day, however, is special. he'll be in Space Opera, outside of the local CM, with his Magnezone floating nearby. as for what he's doing, well... perhaps the piles of robot parts surrounding him would give you an idea?

robot parts litter the area around him, separated into piles depending on what part it is. colress himself is taking apart yet another robot-- his third larger one since this morning. Space Opera may have had him side-eyeing, but the robots have given him something to do to pass the time. and with the scavenger hunt everyone's doing happening, and with one of those items being a robot part...

well. colress is certainly hoping that a pokémon trainer that's not mei (or kyouhei, i guess) will come around.

he'll accept an examination of your wings too.]

[hueless]

[ Colress gets his wish on the first day! Hilda actually planned on getting the items in the Space Opera at a later time, but she simply couldn't resist going over for a visit to marvel at the scenery and wonder why the computers don't look like something the Pokémon equivalent of Apple would make.

She spots the heaps of robot parts and briefly debates taking one for herself before she notices Colress. Better not be a thief... ]

Hey!

[colress]

[thank goodness! and colress had wondered the same thing when he first woke up (how convenient for his chosen home to be in space opera)and had even felt mildly insulted by it... but whatever. that is then and this is now, and now colress discovers that he has a visitor as he picks apart some more parts to put in a nearby pile.

he near instantly lights up.]

Ah-- hello there! Fancy seeing you here!

[hueless]

That's a lot of robot parts you got there! [ She walks over to Colress and his pile of body parts. ]

Are you participating in the scavenger hunt?

[colress]

More like contributing, in a sense!

[he waves his wrench (or w/e it is he has in his hand) around him, gesturing to the general populace.] I was mostly curious as to how these robots worked since they seem so retro, but I noticed that a necessary item for the hunt was a robot part, and several people had been having trouble with obtaining one. It's like hitting two Pidoves with one stone!

[more like three in his case, but he's not saying anything about the 'third Pidove' yet.]

[hueless]

They do look pretty retro, huh. They're kinda clunky and not how I envision the future at all. [ she thinks they should look more like an ipod or something. ]

Are you giving them away?

[silversnowfall]

[Should he chance to wander through the Shogunate, he'll meet Nephry using her best smile and manners to try to divest a samurai of his sword. They're doing a lot of bowing and smiling.

She hasn't managed to get any robot parts yet, but she does seem to be keeping her eye on a small collection of other things. Perhaps he'd be interested in negotiations?

After this samurai hands over the goods, of course.]

AAAAAGH i'm so sorry this took forever Q////Q

[colress]

[actually, he had just managed to get away from two certain kids and is now wandering through the Shogunate freely for as long as he can. alas, besides a few choice parts he hid on his person, colress's inventory of robot parts had pretty much disappeared, so negotiations had been minimal.

especially since he'd been dragged around the entire village so that the two kids could keep an eye on him. now that he finally has some free time, he makes his way over to the pair (a familiar face!!), observing them before speaking up.] Having trouble?

q_q

[silversnowfall]

Oh, no, we're just enjoying conversation. [Whether either of them like it or not, the samurai is going to notice the...apparent similarities between the two. There's a conflicted moment, and then he bows and hands over the sword.]

Thank you very much. [A bow in return.] I will take excellent care of this.

[colress]

[colress could care less about whether or not the samurai notices the similarities: he's just here to observe as nephry manages to divest the man of his sword... quite easily at that, from what he could tell. it's interesting, really: both kyouhei and mei had taken it upon themselves to be "in character" as ninjas in order to gain their items from here.]

...Impressive! [he steps closer, having kept his distance while nephry and the samurai chatted.] With that sort of patience, I'm quite sure you have this scavenger hunt already beaten.

[silversnowfall]

[Heavens no, they'd been talking forever before Colress showed up.]

If only I could be so fortunate. Right now I imagine I have about half of the things I need. What about you?

[bravefighter]

[Sure enough, a trainer does show up! Well, a trainer in a suit. The only reason you might recognize him as one is because of the Pikachu in a small suit and fedora as well. Gangstachu.

But yeah. He's just kinda watching you take apart those robots.]

Uh... what'cha doin'?

[It looks... kinda neat?? Though why is he tearing apart robots, uhhhhh...]

[colress]

Creating inventory!

[he doesn't look up immediately... actually he doesn't look up at all (good thing too, lest he be all over your pikachu), too focused on getting this apparently delicate part out without breaking it... ah-ha! there we go. he gently sets it aside to sort later as he continues his work.

he absentmindedly waves the wrench in his hand towards the arrival before continuing.] There's a scavenger hunt going on and one of the items requested is a robot part. I'm simply doing the populace a favor!

[what went unsaid is that there's a price.]

[bravefighter]

Well hey, that's nice of you!

[He didn't see anyone collecting this much, anyway! And for everyone else. That's really helpful! Especially since...]

Think I could have a few, for me and my friends?

[colress]

That depends! What do you have to offer in return?

[oops you should have realized that there was a catch. barter wisely, as this man won't just take anything. hint: he may accept a battle, now that he's seen pikachu holy crap a pikachu]

[bravefighter]

[there's always a catch... !]

Uh... dunno! Have anything you want?

[cilantro]

[It's Colress' Magnezone that he notices first when he spots them in the Space Opera area. What an intriguing taste...oh, there's it's trainer...surrounded by piles of robot parts.]

You're taking apart the robots here? [Huh. Though honestly Cilan doesn't seem too surprised--either way we hope you don't mind speaking with us.] Is this for that scavenger hunt, or for the taste of scientific curiosity?

[colress]

A bit of both, actually! [ah-- it's the gym leader! colress would more than happily interrupt his latest project to talk to the young man, just about as much as he would give him a part should he ask for one... for a battle in exchange, of course. surely he must have some powerful pokémon in his arsenal!

he lifts a part that he had recently detached, examining it as he continues talking.]

None of these robots are like any I've seen, other than in shoddy scifi-esque entertainment, and I was quite curious as to how they worked. I had also just recently learned of the scavenger hunt, so you could say it's a sort of win-win situation!

[cilantro]

I agree, it certainly is! [Hooray for science! He examines a nearby pile of robot parts by them.] They do look like they have a bit of a retro taste to them, don't they? I would have thought they might be a little more advanced on the inside...

[Alas, but at least they're interesting.] I suppose you've got it covered, but is there anything I might be able to assist you with?

day one!

[savarin]

Man, those robots are way tougher than I expected-- huh?

[It's... Colress. What's more, it looks like he's had way more luck with the robots than Red has. It's probably due to that metal thing following him around - it doesn't really seem like any of the robots around here, so it's probably his if that creature from before was any indication.]

[Well... he didn't have his glasses before, and Beheeyem doesn't seem to be around. Maybe it's worth talking to him; Red knows for sure now that he's not that other guy, so no problems there.]

Uh, hey there. Think you can spare one of those parts?

[mischiefbreeder]

[Gold's eying those parts, Colress... He's debating how to relinquish them from you...]

[colress]

[well it ain't gonna be through theft. magnezone alerts colress of the new arrival, who looks up and Smiles.]

Can I help you?

[mischiefbreeder]

Yeah, you can! [He points at those robot parts.]

Gimme some of those parts!

[colress]

No can do.

[mischiefbreeder]

Why not?