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EVENT LOG: SCAVENGER HUNT

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!

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I am not...

[Vincent growls and gives the lid one more heavy shove. With that, it comes flying open, and he tumbles out of the coffin, very much not a mummy. But there's definitely strangeness in his appearance, from the cloak to the claw to the red eyes.]

I'm not a creature of this tomb... I mistakenly ended up in there.

[Perona hovers, literally, near the lid, trying to listen to the muffled voice within. It's so soft... Hiwever, the instant the lid comes flying off, she gives a hilarious shriek and soars behind a pillar, peeking out from behind it after a few seconds. Oh god, oh man, oh god, oh man...sh-she should have had someone come along with her! That sword idiot or Mihawk or the cook. Someon--

...Wait.]

[Cloak...claws...r-red eyes...

That's not a mummy. Not a mummy at all.]

[IT'S SO MUCH BETTER.]

Vampire! [dokidoki ♥]

[...what...]

[With a sigh, Vincent realizes how this must look. It's not the first time he's gone through a moment like this.]

Not exactly.

Oh...

[Don't sound so disappointed there, Perona. Though st the same time, while pouting, she's thinking on that. "Not exactly" isn't necessarily a "no", right? So maybe this dark, handsome, scary-looking man is along the lines of a vampire? Something like it? Oh, how she hopes so! Her luck would be so great to meet a vampire in a dark, sandy ruin with coffins everywhere, heee~! *w*]

What were you doing in there, then? Did you get stuck? If you're hurt, I'm afraid I can't help you the way I am now. [She'd have to fwtch her physical body first.]

[Not exactly. But he isn't yet going to go into further information. Yet.]

[He realizes, on looking at her that she's... a ghost? Were it not for her initial reaction, he'd be the one wondering if she belonged in here.]

I believe it was amusing for the Malnosso to have me awaken in there... or perhaps they thought it would be nostalgic. [...somehow.] I'm physically unharmed.

[A good guess, though it's really not hard. While she may not be see through like a normal ghost, her ghastly appearance and the fact that she is floating in mid air and able to pass through walls and object may give such a thing away.]

Mm. The Malnosso tend to like playing tricks and making fools of us all. But if you're unharmed... [Then that's good. She'd feel weird if she had to help or something and couldn't. But she can help in another way.] Though if you wish to remain that way, I'd take care to mind your step. This ruin is laden with traps of all kinds. Rather gruesome ones, too, horohorohoro! I can lead you out, if you like.

But in return, you have to carry some of this treasure out for me. [And help her find a dagger, too. <_<]

[Of course, there did have to be a catch. While Vincent could undoubtedly take more hits than some people, even he's not indestructible when it comes to potential traps. So perhaps he'll take the bargain.]

Very well... I accept.

[Nothing is this or any world is free, Mr. Vampire. And if she can get some time with a tall, dark, and relatively handsome creature of darkness as well as a packmule to carry out some pretty trinkets for her...well, that's just awesome. ♥ Perona smile happily and claps her hands together, wafting over to hover beside her new comrade.]

Wonderful! Now, shall we go? You can fill your pockets first, of course. I have some of my...friends scouting about as well, through the tomb. Be wary of them, please. It'll be bad if you touch them. [Her Negative Hollows, of course. Perona's Ghost Network has many uses. She can see what the ghosts see, and information gathering and navigating this place gets so much easier.]

[Vincent glances around, suspecting that it'll be something other than just other Lucetian people. He goes over toward a pile of jewels to select what he can carry.]

Define what you mean by friends?

[Perona observes Vincent for a moment, a slight frown on her face. Guh...she's going to have to tell him, isn't she? How troublesome...everyone's going to know about her powers at this point, if they keep being nosy. Oh well, at least they won't know about all of her powers, or what her hollow ghosts can really do.]

Observe. [And when her companion has his eyes on her, Perona holds out her palm...as a smiling, giggling, happy-go-lucky looking ghosts emerges from it, sticking its tongue out playfully at Vincent.] My hollows. ...I'll repeat again not to touch them, it'll be rather unfortunate for you if you're overly curious.

[Vincent watches closely, thoughtful.]

Understood... it must be often helpful, to have them at your command. [And he knows a thing or two about having unusual capabilities, the others inside him.] I have no reason to touch them, if that eases your mind... but what happens if someone does?

[Sigh, she really does hate to tell people about her powers, but...meh, this vampire-like man is helping her, and she pretty much was being mysterious about her ghosts, such a question was inevitable.]

They will hollow out your soul of all its happiness as well as the desire to live, for a minute or so. I can make as many as I like, and control them. They also have the capability of replicating themselves. And if I am near, I can see and hear what they do. It's very convenient for...observation.

A devastating power... but it's good that you have full control over them.

[When you have a power that isn't always in your control, well, that can be difficult to manage. This one at least sounds like it can be handled.]

I'll remain wary and stay out of their way.

It has its definite uses, and has served me well in my time.

[Seriously, Perona wouldn't be where she is now without her Devil Fruit powers and her intelligence. She's a schemer, a strategist when necessity (and battle) calls, and generally a smart cookie. Having her ghosts around to fight for her is definitely something she's made full use of over time. Her powers have been set it stone for a while now, though there is always room for...improvement, perhaps. New skills, new ways to use her power. Scarier ways. If she has the opportunity to better them, she will seek it.]

...What should I call you? It's rather impolite to refer to you as "you", though I am fond of Mr. Vampire personally, horohoro.

[He knows that the vampire thing will never, ever die... even the Malnosso have seemingly poked fun at the resemblance on a few occasions, through experiments.]

Vincent Valentine... and you are...?

Perona. [That's really all, though "the Ghost Princess" lingers on the tip of her tongue, dying to be said. It's her bounty title, given by the marines...and actually one she's fond of, imagine that. However, she's already given a lot of her ability away by word of mouth...best not cement it any further who and what she is.]

If that's all, Vincent-kun, we should be going. Please tread carefully...there are traps here as well. [And don't you dare lose a single coin. B|]

I'll take caution.

[After all, for his part, he doesn't want to end up accidentally transforming... then he'll be the one having to explain things. His power is no secret, but still, he doesn't want to complicate things. That is, if he can help it. He gives one more glance around the area, but for now he's gotten all that he can carry in pockets, and some in his claw-gauntleted hand. The other he keeps free just in case he'll need to shoot something.]

[He'll glance every so often where he's stepping, just to be sure...]

[For the most part, the journey through the lavish tomb is unhindered, except for the occasional shift of sand, scurrying scorpion across the wall, or rolling of some piece of treasure down a pile, to heavily laden with sand to keep upright. Perona, meanwhile, is floating around the room, through the walls and floor like a true ghost, scouting around for traps and secret corridors or somesuch. Anything that'll make this easier for them both.

It's probably a very, very ironic stroke of bad luck that as one scorpion passes right in front of where Vincent was about to step, that it's the one that triggers the trap, sinking into the sand before scurrying out quickly.

That rumble sounds...ominous... Before holes begin opening in the ceiling above and pouring out sand. Rather fast, too. Oh dear.]

...Oi. What did you do?!

[OOC: Continue here?]

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