Character(s): 3-4 needed Mission Duration: 5-6 days, pretty open though Mission Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Mission Type: Retrieval Projected Plot Impact: The characters will be asked to help retrieve two creatures that have disappeared from the temple, a pair of ‘Inan’. They are rare and very valuable… and given their unusual diet, also very dangerous. Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: If the characters find information, the whereabouts or the animals themselves they will be rewarded.
DOSSIER It’s pretty easy to tell the few citizens left in the living realm are pretty upset and unnerved about the disappearance of the two Inan. It happened right as the foreigners came to visit-- but ah, they will say and repeat that they would never dream of blaming the foreigners for their disappearance. It was just a sad coincidence and their visit was probably merely a distraction. Still the animals have to be retrieved, at all costs: the monks had entrusted the Arybar with their care because keeping them in Dreaming had proven far too dangerous.
The characters will get drawings of two maned creatures. They're about the size of regular Earth housecats, though in the picture they have been painted with rich colors, reds and blues and golds that appear to be natural. Those familiar with Chinese mythology might liken them very much to Pixiu (or Pi Yao), though on a much smaller scale. It's also possible that images of these creatures might have been seen around Keeliai, normally in picture books, or decorative building facades or occasionally tattoos, similarly to mythical creatures on Earth. Whatever these beings are, it's clear that the Kedan didn’t think of them as something to be regularly seen, and the will confirm they are extremely rare.
Their diet: pure energy. The monks themselves came to feed them every fortnight, and everyone is worried that, if they simply escaped, they will have ran to the portals to the dreaming realm and feed on the energy… which would prove dangerous in the end. Though, at the moment the Inan had just been fed, so they couldn’t be hungry.
There’s little clues around: the cages were not forced, they were simply open. One of the Arybar farmers named Veldyzh (the characters will be welcomed to talk to and question her as she is also one of the Inan's caretakers - played by Li) saw someone who looked like a monk run away from the area soon before they found out the animals disappearance. And a literal trail: one of the animals must have been hurt, and there’s a trail of blood to one of the portals to Dreaming. However, the trail doesn’t continue on the other side.
INAN (RETRIEVAL)
Mission Duration: 5-6 days, pretty open though
Mission Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Mission Type: Retrieval
Projected Plot Impact: The characters will be asked to help retrieve two creatures that have disappeared from the temple, a pair of ‘Inan’. They are rare and very valuable… and given their unusual diet, also very dangerous.
Proposed Worldbuilding Changes: If the characters find information, the whereabouts or the animals themselves they will be rewarded.
DOSSIER
It’s pretty easy to tell the few citizens left in the living realm are pretty upset and unnerved about the disappearance of the two Inan. It happened right as the foreigners came to visit-- but ah, they will say and repeat that they would never dream of blaming the foreigners for their disappearance. It was just a sad coincidence and their visit was probably merely a distraction. Still the animals have to be retrieved, at all costs: the monks had entrusted the Arybar with their care because keeping them in Dreaming had proven far too dangerous.
The characters will get drawings of two maned creatures. They're about the size of regular Earth housecats, though in the picture they have been painted with rich colors, reds and blues and golds that appear to be natural. Those familiar with Chinese mythology might liken them very much to Pixiu (or Pi Yao), though on a much smaller scale. It's also possible that images of these creatures might have been seen around Keeliai, normally in picture books, or decorative building facades or occasionally tattoos, similarly to mythical creatures on Earth. Whatever these beings are, it's clear that the Kedan didn’t think of them as something to be regularly seen, and the will confirm they are extremely rare.
Their diet: pure energy. The monks themselves came to feed them every fortnight, and everyone is worried that, if they simply escaped, they will have ran to the portals to the dreaming realm and feed on the energy… which would prove dangerous in the end. Though, at the moment the Inan had just been fed, so they couldn’t be hungry.
There’s little clues around: the cages were not forced, they were simply open. One of the Arybar farmers named Veldyzh (the characters will be welcomed to talk to and question her as she is also one of the Inan's caretakers - played by Li) saw someone who looked like a monk run away from the area soon before they found out the animals disappearance. And a literal trail: one of the animals must have been hurt, and there’s a trail of blood to one of the portals to Dreaming. However, the trail doesn’t continue on the other side.