QuestBoard - Feb. 2021

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QuestBoard is an app you can download onto your smartphones that's similar to TaskRabbit. Each month, people around town will posts jobs asking for help with various tasks like building furniture, running errands, pet sitting, and more. Characters can make a living off of this if they choose to and assume normal day-to-day tasks you would normally find on an app IRL like TaskRabbit. Handwaved tasks do not earn credit toward becoming a Knight or a Noble, but the special tasks labeled as this month's "Top Tasks" in the app will gain clout for your character.

QuestBoard Top Tasks are the ones that are posted at the start of each month. Any character may complete them, even if they seem like a unique task, because time being frozen and magic mayhem are a recipe for weird time pockets resulting in multiple occurrences in the same space. (Tl;dr there are no dibs, just have fun.) There are three kinds of tasks, each labeled with a symbol for its type:

 

🗡️ = COMBAT QUEST (counts toward Knighthood)
🛡️ = ASSISTANCE QUEST (counts toward Nobility)
🌌 = SPECIAL (see quest details)

Combat and assistance quests are the most common and will appear every month. Specials are tasks that either fit both categories, neither category, or has some kind of exceptional reward. Special tasks are uncommon, so do not expect to see them all the time. 

Each quest is worth 1 Rewards point unless your character has achieved Knighthood or Nobility status (See FAQ for more information), which both double rewards points.

Do not reply to this post to do a quest. Just thread out the quest and turn it in as instructed on the Rewards Points (Elphame Traders) page when you are ready to redeem. Threads must be started in the month that the quest was announced, though it may start at any day during the month and you may backtag as necessary. Feel free to reply to this post with questions about Top Tasks.

❄️ February Top Tasks ❄️

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Task Name	Details
🛡️ A Tall Order	The elves who live near the Red Springs may be no more than 2 feet (~60cm) in stature and are tired of getting bullied by the 3-foot (~92cm) elves of the south beach making fun of them. In an upcoming trip down to the south beach, they would like some people to carry their nobles' sedan chairs much higher than the south beach elves. In addition to the money and honor of carrying their greatness around, you'll also be invited to watch an amazing play about elf history.
🌌🗡️ The Libryrinth (Part 1)	The old crone running the library is keeping secrets, I just know it...! The shelves in the library seem to be arranged in a very peculiar pattern. I've also noticed a number of mysterious symbols etched into the corners of some of them. Sneak onto the top of the shelves after the library closes at night and get through the shelf maze without getting caught by the librarian, who patrols the area with a candle lantern. If she catches you, she'll send you to court and sentence you to community service, so be extra careful! Report back your findings! (OOC Note: If a character makes it through the shelves maze, they'll find themselves in a dungeon stone-walled labyrinth with a load of dangerous monsters. It's likely above the level of anyone currently in the game, particularly since all the monsters seem to be invulnerable to physical damage. Escape is the best option. This is a multipart quest, to be continued in the future.)
🛡️ A Quest for the Pure of Heart (CW: Potential NPC death)	Morganna is offering 1,000,000G for more of the Pure of Heart crystals to be harvested from the bridge, and asks that while you're doing that, you take a trip to visit a small cottage just a little further into the forest behind it. A gentle, kind old man lives there. She wants you to sneak a vial of a potion she made into his food in secret. Fool him however necessary. Don't ask what's in it and you won't have to lie to authorities. CONSEQUENCE NOTES: Anyone who gets across the bridge and manages to succeed will turn the pure of heart crystal black. Seriously, it was definitely implied you were supposed to be doing something bad! You'll definitely have trouble getting across the bridge now with a darkened heart and a crystal to reflect it. The old man passes out after eating and goes under a sleeping spell. Anyone who gets there and can't go through with it after an emotional struggle about it will turn the crystal golden, especially after the man collapses from poison. A heart that finds temptation and resists it is that much stronger and the crystal reacts to it, even if the result of the actions isn't desired. Morganna will appear in a swirl of mist to take your crystal from you regardless of what happens, and explain that the sleeping spell was an antidote that would've allowed him to expel a poison while he slept. She disappears with the affected crystals before any retaliation takes place and doesn't bother acknowledging your questions. As promised, you'll be receiving 1,000,000G for completing such a task. Hope it was worth it. (Please comment here if you're doing this quest to let us know how many corrupted crystals and how many golden crystals Morganna got out of this quest.)
🛡️ Cupid's Arrow Beta Testing	Spreading love is the mission of February holidays in some worlds apparently, and in order to help the otherworlders feel at home, we've decided to start selling enchanted archery sets. Strike someone with an arrow and they'll have amorous feelings and start seeking out a partner! Since this is an experimental magic, we need people to volunteer to get struck with an arrow to make sure it works as intended. (OOC note: It will work, but unfortunately will make the affected person lovestruck for a full week before it wears off and may have a number of other affection-related side effects that are up to you to have fun with.)
🗡️ Save a Beast, Kill a Man (CW: Forced marriage, murder)	I'm a selkie. Years ago, my husband stole my pelt and forced me to marry him. I would like to go back to the lake, but can only do so if my pelt is returned. If you have to kill him to get it back, I won't complain. He's on his own quest right now to slay a fresh-water kraken that's been hanging around the south beach. It's making people nervous, but hasn't harmed anyone, so I'll double your pay if you get there before the kraken is slain.