Dark tunnels

The San d'Orian sewers - or the lower parts of the Bostanieux Oubliette, as the elvaans fancily call them - are dank and dark at best.

I remember the time, when a seasoned elvaan and a relatively new adventurer hume were trying to figure out if there was a safe way to go down there. "If I go first..." No, if I stand on the hatch and then you open it..." "Perhaps we shoud rather..." And in the end, of course, Phu dropped down first instead of the curious Pasifika - who then dropped down, without any sneak, and promptly died, and then witnessed a fierce battle in the dark, where Phu got rid of the pesky slimes, and...

But that's another story, already told quite a number of times. This time Pasifika explored the sewers with a tarutaru, and together they battled the oddly cute and plump leeches that infest some parts of the damp tunnels. The darkness was thick around the adventuring duo, although the light of weapon skills and weapon skillchains frequently pierced the blackness. Light skillchain FTW~

Some parts of the tunnels go way beyond damp, though, and the elvaans should really consider improving their sewer system, so that the water wouldn't get so deep. When Pasifika's elvaan adventuring fellow Romi joined the fun, the water reached barely past his knees - but a taru could drown in there..! Won't somebody think of the tarus! D:

This tarutaru didn't drown, though. Maybe some tarus can breathe through their pointy ears... or the top of their head. There's no other explanation.

Fairy Tale

Once upon a time some yagudos captured pixies and put them in bottles. Maybe they thought they could get the pixies to cure them, or perhaps they just liked how shiny the pixies are, but nevertheless it was wrong to capture poor pixies and put them in bottles, even if they remembered to poke holes in the lids.

Pasifika, Lina and little Dhm bravely fought the Yagudos and took away some bottled pixies. Gently holding the jars in their arms, Lina and Pasifika ventured to the area where pixies are rumoured to live. They found a wondrous place with pretty flowers, glowing pools of water and many shiny pixies and - at last - a waterfall.

Atop that waterfall was a shiny spring, and by that spring they opened the jars and released the pixies. The pixies were so happy and shiny and they all danced around Lina and Pasifika.

The glowing pools in this area seemed bottomless, and they looked so interesting that the rescuers decided to see what pretty things they could fish up from the shiny depths. (Can you see both of them fishing in the picture?) Pasifika didn't manage to pull up her catch, but Lina got a big fish that wasn't shiny or pretty at all, but instead it bit poor Lina.

The pixies didn't seem to notice that Lina had been hurt and didn't cure her at all, but it was ok. There weren't any other scary monsters around, and the pixies were so shiny and sparkly, and so they all lived happily ever after.

Strange Lands

If Pasifika happened to get lost in a strange forest one night, when the mist is really thick and and its' really, really dark, and she'd emerge somewhere so completely elsewhere it wouldn't even look familiar - at first glance, anyway - would she make it there..?

Survive, adventure, eventually call it home?

One thing that'd certainly help is Tarutarus. Whatever you call them, they're still so cutaru~

There might even be dancing Tarutarus~

... but it's still so weird, and different, and not the same at all, even though some things seem deceptively familiar. ,o_o,