Quests & Challenges

[center][color=red][size=5][i]The Grand Adventures of Training Camp Carmine[/i] [/size][/color] [emoji=coliseum team size=1][emoji=coliseum team size=1][emoji=coliseum team size=1][emoji=coliseum team size=1][emoji=coliseum team size=1][/center] [i]Deep in the Starwood, there is a barracks. This is a very unusual barracks, because it does not contain any dragons. In fact, it is home to over 400 Opheodrys Serthis, the infamous Clan Balmoral Serthis Army. But this story isn't about them. About half a mile west of the Barracks lies a small camp. It's a bit shabby and dilapidated, but the dragons who call it home would be extremely insulted if you said anything of the sort. To them, it is nothing short of the starting point of their entire existance, the opening act of their epic opera, the inn at the start of their role-playing game where RNG is the dungeon master and everyone's a dragon. This is Training Camp Carmine.[/i] [rule] Training Camp Carmine, named for the red Serthis, is home to a bunch of dragons whose only desire is to reach the Great Library of the Arcanist with the most insane life-story they could possibly manage. Winner gets to tell it to Spacedad. The more drama, chaos and mishaps that happens in it, the better - what better way to bring glory to the God of "Oops There Goes The Universe Again"? Follow the story begun by Colddemon and his troupe of merry troublemakers as they train, study, put up more tents for the new arrivals, knock down the tents of those who ran off to tell Spacedad their stories first, go on Quests for Great Treasure, find love, make friends (and enemies), and maybe smuggle a few unsuspecting children into the camp. Whatever happens, it's sure to be chaos. [rule] [quote]Current leader: Colddemon Longest-serving Trainee: Colddemon Highest Number of Tents achieved: 12[/quote] [rule] [center][emoji=left wing size=1] Fodderlocke Quest based on [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/2806527/1]squidragon's original [/url][emoji=right wing size=1][/center]

[center][color=red][size=5][i]Current Roll-Call at Training Camp Carmine[/i] [/size][/color][/center] [rule][center] [size=4]Leader[/size][/center] [rule] [url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61084208] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/350/610843/61084208_350.png[/img] [/url] [center][b]Colddemon Leader since 8th May 2020[/b][/center] [quote]Colddemon is the first and best of all the Trainees. He arrived first, he is the strongest, he has the fanciest armour - you name it, he's the best. That's why he's in charge. Don't question him on this. He will freeze you (he won't actually, he's from Wind so it's all blowing hot air). [/quote] [rule][center] [size=4]Trainees[/size][/center] [rule] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=204111&tab=dragon&did=61064836][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/610649/61064836.png[/img][/url][nextcol][size=4]Cynforest wandered into the Training Camp on the trail of a really enticing smell of cooking meat. Turned out it was just Enzo getting (verbally) roasted by Colddemon. [/size][/columns] [columns][size=4]Enzo tries very, very hard. He's a good boy, but he's just so much smaller than the other Trainees that it's a bit difficult to get noticed. Keep going, Enzo, you'll make it one day![/size][nextcol][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61066008] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/610661/61066008.png[/img] [/url][/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=60615355] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/606154/60615355.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Oriol has Ideas about how the Camp should run. Now all he has to do is work out how to challenge Colddemon... and how to keep all the others from inserting themselves into the power vacuum that would create. [/size][/columns] [columns][size=4]Rashad grew bored of life in the main lair, and decided that Adventures sounded far more fun! So now she's made the Camp her home... at least for now.[/size][nextcol][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=55112269] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/551123/55112269.png[/img] [/url][/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61030212] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/610303/61030212.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Ary was delighted to find a whole camp of dragons who wanted to go on adventures, as her favourite thing in the whole world is camping in the woods.[/size][/columns] [columns][size=4]Table is the child of Oriol and Fallah, and is determined to live up to her heritage[/size][nextcol][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61441621] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/614417/61441621.png[/img] [/url][/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=39531700] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/395318/39531700.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Minerva wants to learn everything. Literally everything. She's pretty certain the Library has most of the information she wants, but she also wants to actually experience them in Sornieth first.[/size][/columns]

[center][color=red][size=5][i]Elevated to the Arcanist[/i] [/size][/color][/center] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=60875104] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/608752/60875104.png[/img] [/url] [nextcol][size=4]Demonhammer will do [i]anything[/i], literally anything, to get Colddemon to notice her.[/size] [nextcol] Failed Test of Spirit, 11 May [/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61108301] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/611084/61108301.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Frostblast thinks camping is an absolute hoot. She's used to living in caves and glaciers, so sleeping in tents under the sky is ridiculously weird (but fun!). She particularly likes the sticky white and pink things Enzo toasts on the campfire, even if they get stuck in her fur - they're so tasty![/size][nextcol]Failed Test of Spirit, 11 May[/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61201058] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/612011/61201058.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Creamy has so many plans. So, so many plans. Now all she has to do is bring them to fruition and surely she'll become the most famous dragon to ever come out of Camp Carmine[/size][nextcol]Had an Unlucky Adventure, 15 May[/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61031853] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/610319/61031853.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Grove... doesn't talk much. Most of the other Trainees regularly mistake him for an actual tree. He doesn't actually mind this too much. [/size][nextcol] Left on the Grand Adventure, 24 May[/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=60687797] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/606878/60687797.png[/img] [/url] [nextcol][size=4]Fallah loves flying more than anything else in the world, except talking.[/size][nextcol]Left on the Grand Adventure, 24 May[/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61071863] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/610719/61071863.png[/img] [/url] [nextcol][size=4]System pretends to look up to Grove, but actually he just wants to use him as a literal vantage point.[/size][nextcol]Left on the Grand Adventure, 24 May [/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61161880] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/611619/61161880.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Cerbroaqu, cunning and quick-witted, sees the Camp as a chance to make his fortune as well as a name for himself. He'd much rather be making the plans than following them, but Colddemon is a lot bigger than him so he'll make do for now.[/size][nextcol]Left on the Grand Adventure, 24 May[/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=60953986] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/609540/60953986.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Alnair is tired. So very tired. He doesn't want to go on adventures. If he could hibernate until a story comes past to happen [i]to[/i] him, that would be just GREAT.[/size][nextcol]Left on the Grand Adventure, 24 May [/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61253411] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/612535/61253411.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Avni isn't entirely certain how he ended up sleeping in a damp tent in the middle of a forest. But he is a faithful servant of the Arcanist so if this is what the Knowledgeable One wants then he'll do it.[/size][nextcol]Left on the Grand Adventure, 24 May [/columns] [columns][url=https://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=61441620] [img]https://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/614417/61441620.png[/img] [/url][nextcol][size=4]Like her sister, Bowl is determined to live up to being the daughter of Oriol and Fallah, no matter what it takes.[/size][nextcol]Failed Test of Spirit, 26 May [/columns]

[center][color=red][size=5][i]Rules and Processes[/i] [/size][/color][/center] Each day, recruits are brought to the camp, trained to Level 6, and then have their luck tested. If a dragon is lucky (rolling a 6 on a d6), they have a much higher chance of getting a crazy story to tell Spacedad, and so they are allowed into the Camp proper. "Unlucky" dragons have to go to meet Spacedad without a fun story, sorry. Once the day's new recruit has been found, the day's adventures can begin! [quote]Rolling on a d12 [LIST=1] [*] [b]Creating A New Generation of Chaos[/b] - two randomly selected dragons make a nest together. If no dragons are ready to breed, a hatchling is bought from the AH. All hatchlings are immediately inducted into the Camp because nothing says chaos like having children running around, and are trained to Level 5 once they are grown. [*] [b]Together Or Not At All[/b] - two randomly selected dragons are now bound together by fate. If one goes to Spacedad, so does the other - their stories entwine so much they cannot be parted. [*] [b]The Quartermaster's Store[/b] - two randomly selected dragons head to the Coliseum to get supplies! They must stay in their venue until they get a Familiar, a piece of Apparel, a Battlestone or a Chest (depending on what is rolled on a d4). [*] [b]Suspicious Newcomer[/b] - Who's that dragon? They weren't here earlier! A Level 1 dragon from the AH has joined the Camp. What do they want? Who knows. Least of all them. [*] [b]Adventure Time![/b] - Two dragons are off on a Quest for Adventure! They both gain a level, but if the dice of fate roll a 1 against them, the Quest is the last one they get before they go to talk to Spacedad. [*]See above [*]See above [*] [b]The Chosen One Arrives[/b] - the cheapest hatchling arrives in the Camp from the AH. They are levelled to 5 once they grow up. [*] [b]Wayside Inn[/b] - It's raining. No-one wants to go out, so they all tell stories about how awesome they were on their last Quest. The d4 of Storytelling is rolled for each dragon, and everyone who rolls a 4 gains one level from learning how to tell stories better! [*] [b]A Test Of Spirit[/b] - The lowest-level Trainees are put through their paces. If the d10 of chaos rolls higher than their level, that's the last of their adventure. Anyone making it through the Test emerges one level higher, and very muddy. [*] [b]The Grand Adventure[/b] - Everyone is off on a Quest! The d12 of courage tests their mettle. If it comes out at 7 or higher on the first roll, everyone makes it home! Otherwise, it rolls for every dragon. If it comes out higher than their level, they disappear to Spacedad with their story. If it comes out lower, they return to Camp battered and bruised but with an extra level and a longer story to tell when they eventually reach the Observatory. [*] [b]Duel of the Fates[/b] - The leader of the Camp has received a challenge! He or she must enter the Coliseum with a randomly assigned challenger (and the trainer, Life), and whoever faints first is clearly not suited for leadership and must retreat to the Observatory. The survivor has shown their skills and is rewarded with an extra level. [/LIST] Note - Randomly Selected means if there is more than one option, RNG will be used to select them. If only one option exists (eg. only one pair of dragons is RTB) then they are automatically selected.[/quote] [quote=Bonus Rules] (use during Adventure phase, not Recruiting phase) [LIST] [*] [b]What A Good Egg[/b] - found an [b]Egg [/b]in Coli. Three hatchlings from the AH are immediately added to the Camp, and levelled to 5 when they come of age. [*] [b]Fate Waits for No Dragon[/b] - found a [b]Haste [/b]in Coli. Now the dragons can get through twice the adventure in half the time! This team gains another level. [*] [b]Eliminate The Competition[/b] - found an [b]Eliminate [/b]in Coli. Both dragons declare this the best thing that they could ever tell Spacedad and immediately leave. [*] [b]Rally Your Strength[/b] - found a [b]Rally[/b] in Coli. If either of these dragons were going to be exalted today, they get a reprieve! [*] [b]Protect And Guard[/b] - found a [b]Guard [/b]in Coli. If any other dragon not in the Coli party is due to be exalted, one of the Coli party dragons goes instead. [*] [b]Badly Startled[/b] - found an [b]Ambush [/b]in Coli. Roll the d6 of chaos. If an even number, the dragons continue on. If odd, they flee the battle immediately. [/LIST][/quote]

Camp Carmine Log, Day 1
Current Leader - Colddemon

For one so small, Enzo had definitely done his best to make an impression. He'd worked twice as hard as the rest of them to set up the tents, get the supplies in, dig trenches, find food and even found time to welcome in the newcomer, System. All he could hope was that Colddemon had noticed. Demonhammer was bad enough, going as far as setting up flares to get their leader to look in her direction, but Enzo just kept his head down and quietly set up his tent as close to the leader as possible. Whatever happened next, he was going to follow Colddemon, no matter where he went.
After all, who better to follow around to get a decent story to tell the Arcanist than the dragon who so firmly believed he was the main character?

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(Event - Together Or Not At All - anything that happens to Enzo or Colddemon now happens to both)

New Trainee - System

Camp Carmine Log, Day 2
Current leader - Colddemon

"And is anyone going to explain to me why there is a baby in the middle of my training camp?" Colddemon demanded.
"I blame the newcomer," Demonhammer said, squinting suspiciously at the frost-coated Tundra who was sat by the campfire munching her way through every marshmallow Enzo could push at her.
"Oh come on," Cynforest sighed. "She's been here one day, I hardly think she could have made a nest with anyone in that time, let alone hatched it." She fixed Colddemon with a very firm glare. "If anything, that baby looks a lot like you. Is there something you're not telling us, oh great and esteemable leader?"
Colddemon opened his mouth to protest loudly, but then the little Imperial hatchling (already bigger than both Frostblast and Enzo) looked up at him and chirruped sweetly.
For a dragon so large and so blue to turn so pale was quite a feat. Colddemon managed it anyway.
"Ah," he said after a long moment of silence. "She... would appear to be my cousin."
"Perfect!" Demonhammer seemed to perk up immediately. "Keeping things in the family! Exactly how it should be. Now, she's obviously going to need someone to look after her so I'm volunteering as I'm clearly the closest to Colddemon - "
("What?" System mumbled to Grove, who shrugged. "I thought Leader didn't even know her name?")
"- so she'll stay in my tent with me."
Cynforest shook her head. "Um, Demonhammer?" she said. "I think she's picked someone herself."
Indeed, the blue hatchling was curling around a dragon already - one who looked most surprised to be treated thus.
"Well, guess we needed to use that tree for something," Colddemon said faintly. "We'll sort this out later."
System patted Grove on the shoulder companionably. "I'll help," he promised, as the blue Imperial buried her head in Grove's shaggy mane of green fur and fell asleep.

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(Event - Creating A New Generation of Chaos - no-one was RTB so a hatchling arrived from the AH)

New Trainee - Frostblast

1.) add me to the pinglist
2.) I must inform you that I keep misreading Colddemon as Coldd-e-mon instead of cold-demon, completely seriously.

@Everburn I'm not sure what you might want out of a pinglist that you couldn't get from following the thread, but here's a ping for today's story entry where things went... differently. (and don't worry about misreading the names, I keep mentally stumbling over the double D as well!)

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Camp Carmine Log, Day 3
Current leader - Colddemon

"We're going on an adventure, we're going on an adventure, we're going on an adventure..."
"It's not an adventure, Frostblast," Colddemon said, rather crossly. "It is an intense test of your mental and physical fortitude that I have designed specially to ensure only the best dragons pass."
Frostblast shook her head, mane flying. "But we're leaving the camp to go and do something awesome, that's automatically an adventure."
System, wandering past with a pile of supplies, poked his nose into the conversation. "Sounds like an adventure to me. And anyway, boss, you're doing it too, remember? Enzo won that bet with you so you have to do anything he does."
"No-one respects me in this camp," Colddemon muttered to Cynforest, who just smiled. "Well."
"Um."
"That was... a thing."
Cynforest shook her head. "Well, at least most of us made it back in one piece, and with a few more stories to tell."
"I'm never going to get this mud out of my fur," System grumbled. "And Grove looks so much like a tree now that I nearly dragged home an actual tree instead of him!"
"Can we just all agree that Colddemon is never, ever allowed to set that test again?" Fallah complained. "Just because Frostblast and Demonhammer forgot to look both ways before crossing the stream, that's not a reason to fail them! Demonhammer was bigger than the stream anyway, and Frost's a Tundra, of course she forgot!"
"Well, they've gone now," Cynforest sighed. "Time to take their tents down, I suppose."
Enzo, perched on the top of his tent, looked rather pensieve. "Now who's going to eat all these marshmallows I ordered specially?" he wondered aloud.

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(Event - Test of Spirit - All level 6s were tested. Demonhammer and Frostblast failed the test, and went to Spacedad with many, many stories of mud and chaos. Cynhammer, Grove, Enzo, System and Fallah all gained one level.)

New Trainee - Fallah

Camp Carmine Log, Day 4
Current Leader - Colddemon

Considering what had happened the day before, perhaps the timings could have been... less inauspicious. But there was very little anyone could do about it. After all, no-one had seen (or admitted to being) the dragon who had snuck into camp in the dead of night and left a prominent poster nailed to the kitchen tent.


"I'm going!"
"Me too!"
"I always wanted to go on adventures..."
The babble of voices roused Grove from his dreamy state of mostly-treelike thoughts. Honestly. The other dragons were always so fast. If they just took a moment to think about things every now and then, they would always manage to find the right answer. The fact that the answer he usually came to was "act a bit more like a tree" was beside the point.
Tree or not, the poster was clearly ridiculous. The others obviously hadn't read the small print. He wasn't even sure the big dragons like Colddemon and Cynforest were actually able to see writing that small, which was probably against several laws but hey.
The newest dragon in the camp, a quick-witted Pearlcatcher by the name of Cerbroaqu, was clearly the most eager to go on the trip. He hadn't had the chance to go on any of the previous journeys with the group, and was very enthusiastic about finally getting a chance to develop his own story a bit. It didn't take him long to persuade everyone else.
Everyone except one, to be exact.
Grove had the job of telling Jadus, more than half his length but still very much a baby, that she had to stay behind in the camp. She, of course, immediately burst into tears. Honestly, Grove thought. The instructions clearly said only adult dragons were allowed to go. Besides, she'd be fine on her own. There wasn't that much chaos a single baby Imperial could cause in one day, right?

Right?

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(Event: The Grand Adventure. The d12 of courage declared that everyone got home safely, so everyone gained one level (except Jadus, the hatchling from the second day, who is still too young to go anywhere.) )

New Trainee - Cerbroaqu

@Everburn

Camp Carmine Log, Day 5
Current leader - Colddemon

"It's good that we're growing," Cynforest said, looking at the floor of the supplies tent. "But we're running very low on supplies. I know Alnair is tiny, but he still needs to eat. What are we going to do?"
"Easy!" Fallah said. "We just go and get some from the Serthis Army Barracks, right?"
"... no," Cynforest said. "No, we absolutely do not do that."
Fallah's face fell. "Oh," she said. "That's what I did last time, though..."
Cynforest resisted the urge to whack her own head into the nearest tree. "They'll want payment for that, now, Fallah! Oh, this is a disaster."
"Not really," System offered. "Head to the Delta. If you and Fallah get them a new recruit or two, or just some training buddies, they'll forgive you I'm sure. And you'll probably find a bunch of food in the meantime anyway."
Cynforest looked at him gratefully. "Now why didn't I think of that? Come on, Fallah, let's see if you can fight as well as you talk..."

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(Event: The Quartermaster's Store - Cynforest and Fallah were chosen to go to the Delta to bring back a Familiar. The Familiar ended up being a Fan Scorpion (they also brought back two battlestones and a piece of apparel before they found a familiar)

New Trainee: Alnair

@Everburn