A Faerie Affair Shorts: Violets are Blue, Apparently

[Ninja_Prawn]

Theodora sets to work writing a scroll. Well, really it's more like a collage of twigs and seeds with runes drawn in mud, but she teaches you how to activate the druidic magic inside the scroll, so you should be able to use it without any problems. "I hope this helps!"

It's getting really late now, and Arrow is itching to go back. "I don't see so well in the dark. If we're going, we should hurry."

[Archmage1]

Violet seems quite happy with Theodora's assistance, and she hugs her again once she finishes the scroll. "Thank you so much, Theodora! This'll make everything better! Thank you! If you need help, or a song, just ask!"

After a few moments of hugging, Violet ends the hug, just as Arrow approaches. Once he finishes speaking, Violet carefully packs the scroll into her pouch, before she smiles brilliantly at Arrow. Her voice practically shines with good cheer. "Ok! Let's go! I'm good at finding my way in the dark, so I'm sure we'll be fine!"

[Ninja_Prawn]

Between the two of you, you just about manage to find your way back to Swyncastle without getting lost. Once there, Arrow starts making some dinner for himself and Crystal; you're welcome to stay, or free to head back to your garden. It's properly dark now, except for the dim light from the sprites' cooking fire.

[Archmage1]

Not wanting to leave her flowers alone for too long, as they were prone to getting into trouble, Violet says her cheerful goodbyes(Complete with hugs), and departs, hope for the next day filling her heart as she flies back to her garden, looking forwards to being home once more.

[Ninja_Prawn]

Back home in your garden, the flowers are mostly asleep now. A few of them have had growth spurts while you were away though, putting new shoots into all sorts of places where they shouldn't be, with no respect at all for your horticultural designs...

[Archmage1]

Flying around her sleeping garden with a tiny smile, Violet notes the misbehaving flowers, but they're just too adorable to talk to now, so they'll get to be silly until the morning. With her flyabout done for the day, she flits into her home(A former woodpecker's nest, now smoothed out, and healed so the tree would be ok.), and quickly curls up to sleep, dreaming of happy bees, and nice spiders, and adorable flowers.

[Ninja_Prawn]

Today is the 5th of Mirtul, 1492. It is sunrise.
You gain the benefits of a long rest.

There's a distinct chill in the air this morning, and it has clearly been raining at some point in the last few hours. Spring can be like that, sometimes.

[Archmage1]

Waking up in her nice, cosy nest, Violet stretches, before getting ready for her day.

A few minutes later, she's flying out her door with a smile on her face, and a scroll at her side, despite the chill. Still, she had something important to do first, before she could help the spiders. She heads almost directly for the waking up flowers who were being silly, so she could admonish them firmly for being silly, and not as adorable as they could be.

About fifteen minutes later, she flits to the blueberry bush for some breakfast, leaving the admonished flowers behind, so they could mend her ways.

Shortly thereafter, after checking that there was nothing else terrible happening in her garden, she flits out, heading towards the spider clearing, and only getting lost along the way once!(She hopes.)

[Ninja_Prawn]

You leave your garden in good order, the sharp taste of the blueberries still on your tongue. Finding the spiders doesn't take too long. They are still swarming menacingly and, when you approach, it seems like they remember you. You're going to have to act fast!

[Archmage1]

With the spiders swarming, Violet lets out a short "Eep!" before she flies up a bit, to be out of reach of the spiders as she starts reading from the scroll.

[Ninja_Prawn]

You cast the spell from the scroll and suddenly the spiders become docile, looking to you with the soft eyes of a puppy. Well, if puppies had eight eyes.

You get the impression that they'd listen to you now, if you tried to get them to do something.

[Archmage1]

With the spiders suddenly calming down, and becoming their more normal selves, Violet flies down, so they can all see her, and feel her trust, as she earnestly explains. "There's too many of you here, because you've eaten all the insects in the area, and there won't be more, because they're all gone. But if you split up, spread out throughout the forest, like you should be, there'll be enough insects for you to not starve, and you won't kill all the insects in the forest too! Please, spread out, be responsible. Remember, if you want your children, and your children's children to be fine, you'll need to fit in, so there are insects to eat even then!"

The spider's previous inability to understand sylvan seems to have slipped her mind.

[Ninja_Prawn]

The spiders may not understand what you're saying, but your magical connection enables them to sense your emotions. Even that much understanding taxes their simple minds, so they appear slightly dazed as they start to disperse. But disperse they do, leaving this patch of forest damaged, but salvageable.

[Archmage1]

Smiling happily, and with an almost inaudible "EEEEE!" of excitement sounding from her lips, Violet watches the spiders leave. Once they've departed, she flits closer to their nest, to see if she can rescue anything caught within.

[Ninja_Prawn]

There's a lot of debris - leaves, dirt, dessicated corpses, etc. - so it's not exactly a pleasant search. Please make an Intelligence (Investigation) check.

[Archmage1]

With tears in her eyes, Violet continues her grim task, hoping that she'd be able to rescue some survivors of the horrifying nest.

(1d20+2)[22] Investigation

[Ninja_Prawn]

Buried under piles of rubbish inside a hollow in a tree, you find a small flower made of black crystal. It looks exactly like a real flower - even at your tiny scale you cannot find any imperfections in it.

Then, incredibly, you pull a honey bee from the ruins, alive and well. She must have been caught by the spiders while out foraging.

[Archmage1]

After almost spending a few moments wondering why someone would turn a perfectly nice flower into a crystal, Violet quickly pockets it, as she finds a captured bee, who drives all thoughts of crystal flowers from Violet's mind, filling it with concern instead. Almost instantly, she quickly dances, asking the bee if she was ok, and if she was from the hive in her garden, or another hive, so Violet could help her get home after her experience, and if she wanted a hug.

[Ninja_Prawn]

The bee doesn't want a hug. She wants to go back to her hive, which is the one near your garden that you'd visited yesterday.

[Archmage1]

Slightly disappointed by the bee's lack of hugly desire, Violet offers to carry the bee back, if she'd like. Either way, she helps the bee get back to the hive. The queen was going to be so happy!

[Ninja_Prawn]

You return the bee to her hive, imagining that they're happy to be reunited. The bees obviously can't say 'thank you', but they do allow you to collect some honey.

[Archmage1]

Having finished her dance, to tell the bees of the rescue, and the dispersed spiders, Violet cheerily passes over a few acorn cups to be filled with honey, carefully storing two in her home, so she could preserve the flowers, and sealing the other two, before putting them into her pouch alongside a few violet seeds. Wanting to bring a delicious snack as well, she collects four blueberries, two strawberries, loading them into a carrying net, along with a few almonds, before setting out for Swyncastle, to surprise Crystal and Arrow as thanks for their help.

[Ninja_Prawn]

The journey to Swyncastle is pleasant. You see a beautiful red parrot and stop to watch it for a while, as it pries open nuts with a shard of metal it must have found somewhere. But you do get there eventually, finding the two sprites in Crystal's bedroom, reading books and drinking tea.

[Archmage1]

Seeing the parrot, Violet just has to stop, and watch for a few moments. Aw... it's adorable! Still, her heart was determined, and it was only a short delay(No more than fifteen or so minutes!), and she soon found her way to Swyncastle, near lunchtime. When she arrives, she knocks, hoping to be invited in, with a lovely smile, and a bag of fruit clearly being carried.

[Ninja_Prawn]

"Oh hey, Violet. Do you need something?" Arrow asks.

[Archmage1]

Smiling cheerfully at Arrow, Violet nods, before she excitedly starts explaining. "I wanted to stop by, and thank you for all the help! The spiders split up, and I rescued a bee, and they had a weird crystal flower too! I brought things for lunch, if you're interested?" She shifts, to show the bag full of blueberries and strawberries.

[Ninja_Prawn]

"Oh, how lovely. I would be glad to share some lunch with you," Crystal says. "You're practically a real adventurer now!"

Please make a Wisdom (Insight) check.

[Archmage1]

Violet smiles cheerfully, clearly happy that Crystal was happy to Violet visit for lunch. "Yaay! Thank you! I was really hoping you'd be ok with me visiting! Maybe you could visit my garden, afterwards? It's really nice!" Violet looks around, to see if there was somewhere obvious she should put her bounty of fruits and nuts.

[Ninja_Prawn]

There's a dressing table that you could put stuff down on.

Crystal tells you she still isn't up to travelling anywhere, while Arrow says "I don't really have time - and I've seen gardens before. I don't really get all that artistic kind of stuff."

[Archmage1]

Violet looks to be quite disappointed by their decision, her wings drooping slightly, as she starts to unload her bounty of fruit and nuts. "Aw... it's really nice, and I even managed to make a hot spring!" She smiles cheerfully, before she continues, her voice a little softer, and a little sheepish. "Well, it's hot on sunny afternoons? But it's really nice!" Finishing her unloading, Violet looks back over at Crystal. "Are you hungry?"