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You've been walking through the gloom for a long, long time. Features shift in and out of the fog around you, but never for long enough to see what they are. Mud squelches as you step, squeezing up between your claws and clumping around your feet.

“Who goes there?”

Your eyes strain to see through the murk. A dragon is huddled under the overhang of a roof, terracotta tiles dripping rainwater onto his head.

“It's not often someone wanders in out of the fog. Are you looking for shelter?”

His voice is muffled by the mist, breath clouding in the air.

“I've got bad news and good news. The bad news is, you're at the end of the world. If you keep going, you're not going to find anyone else. Or anything, really.”

“The good news is - if you want to stay, I've got a job for you. It comes with some cutting-edge accommodation and a good night's sleep. What do you say?”

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“Well, well, welcome to the laboratory!”

A toothy grin meets you at the door, filled with a few too many fangs. The opening in front of you is warm, complete with dusty shafts of magelight and something pleasantly herbal bubbling on the stove. It looks like half a rotten tree, the roof boarded up with scrap wood and cobwebs.

The smiling Tundra steps aside, sweeping you into the stump with a wing.

“This is where the sausage gets made, and the copper gets weighed. Well … it does now. I'm sure Rainstorm told you that we're taking things in a new direction."

She moves over to the hanging vines, scrambling to get a grip on the stems before pulling them aside. Behind them, you see the looming shape of a coggy silhouette.

“This is my magnum opus. A decade of stolen ideas, documents from Lanternlea, bronze from Magmablood Rebuke, power from The Source and coding from Hellwell Undercroft. All of it wrapped up in shadows and turned into this.”

You take a step closer, craning your neck to look, and she yanks the vines back over it. “It's not ready yet. It won't be for a little while. You see, I didn't factor in the most important thing about living things - a soul.”

The light dims, shadows stretching in strange patterns across the floor. After a split second, it snaps back to normal.

“I’ve got some great news for you, so hang onto your britches. You're going to help me with it! I need your experiences, your motivations, your choices. I need to know who you are. Then I'll give you to the Basilisk, and a little part of you will come alive with it.”

Her smile is manic now, overbearing. You back up towards the door, turning around to find that it's no longer there. The herbal scent is suddenly overwhelming, clouding your brain like brood fog. You hit the ground without realising you fell.

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• Read the Daily Challenge
• Choose an ‘answer’ and click on the link
• Complete the coli hunt quest associated with your answer
• PM @Tiramissyou with the items requested
• Check back between 04:00FR and 06:00FR to see the results of your actions
• Rinse and repeat

• This event is an add-on to the coli hunt and is free to play
• You’re encouraged to post lore and roleplay-style responses on this thread. If you do, you can claim the 'creative participation' badge.
• Your answers will be accumulative throughout the push (July 6 - July 19).
• There are multiple endings. Each player will earn an ending based on their choices throughout the week.
• You must participate for at least 7 days to earn a 'complete' ending
• All three 'complete' endings are associated with their own prize pool and badge
• You will be able to purchase badges you didn't earn at the end of the push.

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The ground lurches.

You smell… oil and grease, metal and herbs. The awful, cloying air has a quality that the dream never did; a solid, grounding aroma that pushes deep into your sinuses.

You take it in, chest rising and falling on the paten. You're still here. You're still alive.

You open your eyes, met with the gaping jaws of the Basilisk. The paten is tilted towards them, sticky venom the only thing holding you in place. You peel yourself up, pushing back on your haunches to keep your balance.

You can move.

You hear panicked breathing, the wheezing of air through a closing throat. Claws grab hold of fur, yanking Rainstorm to and fro in a desperate attempt to bring him to. An anguished wail cuts through the stump.

“You said it would be fine! You said we would be safe!”

The ground lurches again, as though the world outside the stump is moving. Dark scales slide past the cracks in the roof.

“Wake up, wake up, please wake up!”

You feel a shudder, hear the splintering of wood. The stump is starting to break apart, groaning under the weight of something vast. The doorway folds into itself. You’re a sardine in a tin, a fly caught in a trap. There are only two ways to leave this place alive: with metal, or with grace.

Bella’s voice cracks into a terrified, broken whisper. “I don't want to die.”

1. The gods want these dragons, not you. You don’t owe your life to strangers, and you don’t owe your captors empathy. If you kill them both, you can leave this place and never look back.
   • Kill Rainstorm and Bella
2. No god or ghost gets to dictate what you do. You’ll leave this place of your own volition. You can take this metal husk and use it to free yourself: You will be powerful. You will live.
   • Become the Basilisk. Ascend to godhood.
3. You recognise manipulation when you see it. Years of someone else’s anger has been passed along to Bella, dictating her life, twisting her machines. You see only one villain here, only one dragon that deserves the wrath of the dark.
   • Become the Basilisk. Save Bella’s life.

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While this decision has extra weight, your ultimate ending will be determined based on your decisions throughout the week. Choosing to ascend to godhood doesn't guarantee you'll ascend, that is to say...

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Rainstorm as 'The Storyteller' Bella as 'The Inventor'

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Araneo as 'The Weaver' Vrie as 'The Curator'

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Sparta as 'The Divine Vessel' Pyxis as 'The Stargazer'

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Becias as 'The Philosopher' Jasper as 'The Harbinger'

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[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/qnc/3424706#post_59210153]Day 1. Leave the sheep(3). Choice C[/url] [columns] [nextcol] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/100576592][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/dressing-room/scry?sdid=5351038&skin=0&apparel=53070,12271,10370,10391,50499,20839,35202,58779,26885,26890,58783,58778,20840,20842&xt=dressing.png[/img][/url] [nextcol] This feels fishy. The sheep couldn't have gotten into the bush unless it fell from above. You need to investigate the area before you act - and you should stay hidden while you're at it. Although it is hard to be sneaky now, since that sheep noticed you and started paniking. It struggles to break free, only to get even more tangled in, thorns clawing deep into its whool. You cant smell blood yet, but it wont be long before that. If this is really a trap, someone will surely come to check it soon. You dont feel sorry leaving this poor sheep to its misery. Even if its not a trap and no one will come, you can always kill it later. Or wait untill it dies by itself - doesnt feels like it would take that long. You take a few steps back and dissapear into the bushes. [/columns] [First time writing something! ^-^]

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[center][size=4][color=#006400][font=bookman old style]Day 1: ~Training Fields~ [b]B. Heal the sheep[/b] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=4647600][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/portraits/46477/4647600.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=79714146][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/portraits/797142/79714146.png[/img][/url] Ambern [color=transparent]xxxxxxxx[/color]|[color=transparent]xxxxxx[/color] Woodwyrm[/size] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/4647600][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/46477/4647600_350.png[/img][/url][/center] [size=4][color=#006400][font=bookman old style] Having been dropped into parts unknown with xir overly excitable traveling partner, Ambern feels a distinct resentment for having been coaxed out of the Serpent’s Shrine after 50-odd years of relative peace. However, xir ire - and yes, perhaps curiosity as well - had been piqued by news of this basilisk, and the smith claiming to have the means of producing it. A dragonmade basilisk? What kind of abomination would result from such efforts? As the nominal god of a shrine of serpents, surely Ambern must take some sort of responsibility…or at least investigate further. And if it all goes wrong, as it already seems to be going, xe could always blame it on Woodwyrm for cajoling xir into this. As usual, Woodwyrm seems to take it all in stride. It hums as it leaps nimbly from the rosemary bush, releasing even more of the heady scent into the air. [/size] [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/79714146][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/797142/79714146_350.png[/img][/url][/center] [size=4][color=#006400][font=bookman old style]“Now this is interesting!” it exclaims, voice echoing tinnily from within its helmet. “I can hear a lot of crickets all around, but I don’t feel any about.” “There are no crickets,” Ambern replies tersely. “This is obviously some kind of unnatural conjuration created by that tundra. I ought to have suspected that you would lead us into another disastrous circumstance, Wyrm.” “Well I [i]was[/i] going to go alone until someone demanded xe [i]had[/i] to see the basilisk!” Their bickering is interrupted by the sound of terrified bleating. “Huh. Someone must have lost their sheep. Hold on.” “Not another animal rescue case,” Ambern bemoans. “Just leave it be, it is likely someone’s misplaced meal! And who knows if it is even a real sheep in this strange place…Woodwyrm, are you listening?” Woodwyrm is not listening. It is already crouched by the sheep, humming gently as it teases aside the rosemary branches and assesses the sheep’s injury. “Seems like you rolled your back ankle pretty bad there, buddy. Hang in there, me and my friends will help get you out in a sec. Stay still…” The unfortunate creature [i]baas[/i] in confusion and terror as a pair of unusually sized rodents dart from the ridgeback’s back, one clutching a roll of ragged bandages in its teeth. Woodwyrm roughly shaves down one of the nearby branches into a functional splint and holds the sheep’s leg still as its friends splint and wrap the leg. Ambern pointedly keeps watch from a safe distance.

Day 1

Osaka decides to heal the sheep, she has a knack with healing and adores animals..