QuestBoard - April 2022

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QuestBoard is an app you can download onto your smartphones. 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 gaining a title, 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 OR Unseelie)
= ASSISTANCE QUEST (counts toward Nobility OR Arcane Mage)
= 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.





!!! APRIL UPDATE !!! We've added the content warnings to the top of the page so that you can see what the warnings are without opening the prompt and potentially glancing something you don't want to. So be sure to read these before you click anything.

CONTENT WARNINGS:

• The Missing Mindful: Nudity, virgin brides, kidnapping, dungeon setting, implied dragon/human relations, ppl getting eaten
• The Devil Sells Prada: Mentions of adultery
  
• Going Green: Body horror
  
• Breakfast for Dinner: Poaching for consumption

🌷 April Top Tasks 🌈

Hell in a Handbagsket

Help!! I ordered designer handbags to sell in my shop, but I accidentally typed 100 instead of 10! I need bold entrepreneurs to sell my top quality handbags on the streets to help me get rid of the stock. They're made-to-order so there's no returning it and if the fae I made a deal with to get my shop finds out I can't make rent this month I'm going to wish I was dead! HeeeeeeeEEEeeEEElllLLLLPPPP!!!

(OOC NOTE: Dark web counter quest is: The Devil Sells Prada)

Garrrrr! Goyles

Mischievous gargoyles have been moving around Camelot after the sun sets and springing to life just as people past by them, laughing like mad after they've scared the life out of someone. I'm worried they're going to come after someone and give them a heart attack before they can get to a healer! Chase them out of Camelot!
(OOC Note: Gargoyles are stone-appearing creatures with a variety of appearances, but the following is consistent: wings/flight, they cannot be harmed at night, and a scratch from their claws cause slow and painful petrification that takes about a week to completely turn someone to stone. A siphoner can remove the curse during the transformation week, or after turned to stone, a kiss on their stone cold lips will turn them back to human. Werewolves are immune to gargoyle petrification. Note that not all gargoyles are causing problems, just this particular gang of them. Harming a gargoyle that is protecting a building will not count for the quest and may upset the owners of the building.)

The Missing Mindful

There's something sketchy going on at the RR&R- The Realm of Restoration & Relaxation. It's a new spa that opened up at the Red Springs, but there have been reports of people checking in but never making it home. The front desk seems to not know what's going on and claims every person has checked out, but that was definitely the last place they were seen in all the cases we've been able to determine that on. Investigate and, if you find them alive, free the kidnapees.

(Notes: RR&R is a nude spa, which is not mentioned until you get inside the building, because clothes get in the way of "accepting your core self" or some kind of mantra like that. Clothes will disappear upon arrival, along with all weapons, so characters will have to use their magic to complete this quest. Don't worry-- all their stuff is waiting for them in their room at home! How they get there? Uhh... well, there are ways, we're sure of it. You may want to sneak over to the gift shop and buy something to wear once you're done.

There are the usual baths, saunas, massages, yoga, mud and cucumbers, banyas, and magical "spiritual journeys" with very magical drugs under safe supervision of a Lestari specialist. The works. But guests who come alone have been disappearing to be sold to an Unseelie fire wyrm who lives in the mudpit beneath the spa as guests to be one of his virgin betrothed. Those who are unworthy get eaten, but there are at least 13 people in a dungeon being kept until the wyrm demands another offering that characters can save. The heat from the fire wyrm creates diamonds in the cave that the owners of RR&R are getting filthy rich off with the spa as a front. And yes, the wyrm is going to be pissed when you try to stop this, as are the guards. Good luck!)

KNIGHT QUEST: This quest is available IC only to characters with the Knight title. Knights can invite anyone to complete the quest with them. The knights need some good PR. Complete an act of community service of your choosing and post it on social media with #KnightsofRound. Show the world that knights aren't all fight and no hugs! Or go save some kittens from a rogue slime. (OOC Note: This is a write-your-own-quest option this month. Write a quest you've been dying to do with your friends of any variety as long as there is at least one knight involved and get Combat Quest credit for it.)

⛈️ Dark Web Tasks 👁‍🗨

The Devil Sells Prada

That handbag bitch just put up a quest to get her handbag overstock full... She slept with my girlfriend and her husband behind my back. Please, block any and all sales you see happening by any means necessary. I want her to pay.

(OOC Note: Counter-quest on regular board is Hell in a Handbagsket)

Going Green

Green mages! Have you tried growing plants in unusual places yet? You can get them to grow just about anywhere. To help you develop your skills, I'll pay for photos or videos of your magic developing. 100G to grow a plant from a rock, 100,000G to use a building and cause structural damage, and 1,000,000G for every fellow otherworlder you grow a plant using their body to grow through their veins. It's gruesome and painful, but it works and you would not believe what good fertilizer people make! They'll probably put up a fight, though, so be careful!

Not a green mage...? hm, I guess I'll give credit for letting yourself be used for training!

Breakfast for Dinner

As life starts to finally overtake Lestari's ruins, new species have started arriving. In particular, there is one that's only about a tablespoon in size. They've started popping up all over the area and the person who discovered them has called them "Pancats." They look delicious, and I want to eat some alive for the freshest delicacy. Capture a jar full of pancats for me and deliver them to me! Here is a photo. It is said that it will smell of butter whenever they are near, with a mixed variety of sweets as they seem to have different toppings the same way cats have different fur patterns. (OOC Note: Pancats may bite, but they are made of pancake, so it won't do much so this is an assistance quest.)

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