☀️ The Day ☀️
You've chosen the relative safety of the daylight and enter Dave's house with the intention of exploring its secrets without having to constantly look over your shoulder
🌲 D1: Into the Den 🌲
You approach Dave's house with the light of the sun on your back, or whatever's left of it after it cuts through the heavy fog. Its comfort is short-lived. It's dark within. The windows are coated with a layer of dust and grime that makes the light filter through strangely... Eccentric items litter the floor in great piles - couches, boxes, vases of feathers, partial skeletons, things that look like they should be in a museum... It leaves ample space for someone unwelcome to hide behind, Snakekey, ghost, or otherwise. However, despite the unsettling atmosphere, the house seems to be lying still. Perhaps your timing will be rewarded.
🌿 Draw/write 300 words about your kekin exploring Dave's house. Do they find anything interesting within?
🌿 Drawn entries must be a minimum of a visible sketch (aka clear enough to tell what's going on) and include a background. Color and shading are optional
🌲 D1 Rewards 🌲
You feel a prickle across your skin. It seems that merely being here has had an affect on you. Already, you're not the same as when you first tread scale over the floorboards...
🌷 Per kekin included in the above prompt, you earn one use of an upgrade from this pool
🌷 These upgrades can be applied to any of your current or future kekin
🌷 Upgrades cannot be applied on hatchling or newborn approvals
🍃 1 > Horror jaw: Split the mouth into more pieces or otherwise alter the jaw structure. This allows you to swap your horizontal mouth to a vertical one, have a neat 4-part mouth, and stuff like that! Can only change color to added parts (such as large attached fangs)
🍃 2 > Mandibles: Add bug-like mandibles to a keke's face. These can go inside or outside of the mouth (or both!). May be any color and can come equipped with spiky 'teeth'
🍃 3 > Pierce teeth: Vampire fangs! These can stick out of the mouth, be retractable, or tuck away on the roof of the mouth like a snake's fangs
🥀 D2: *Clink Clank* 🥀
You're allowed to explore in peace for a good period of time before you hear something clinking in the distance. It sounds like it's coming from the kitchen, perhaps some haunted tableware. You become unnerved when you realize this could include knives for cutting meat... You think about heading for the door, but then again... Whoever's making that noise doesn't seem to know you're here yet. Or, at least, they haven't acknowledged your presence. A peek wouldn't kill you. It's what you're here for, after all
Holding your breath, you peer around the corner into the heavily tiled kitchen. Instead of seeing another explorer or some floating spoons, you see something that... doesn't make any sense at all. There's a small ball of light hovering above one of the counters, nudging a pile of silverware. The utensils seem repelled by its presence, as if it has a tiny force field around it. What is this little thing...?
🌿 Draw/write 300 words about your kekin encountering the dot of light. Do they approach?
🌿 Drawn entries must be a minimum of a visible sketch (aka clear enough to tell what's going on) and include a background. Color and shading are optional
🥀 D2
Rewards 🥀
You shudder, sensing something strange in the air. Your belly scales react in turn
🌷 Per kekin included in the above prompt, you earn one use of an upgrade from this pool
🌷 These upgrades can be applied to any of your current or future kekin
🌷 Upgrades cannot be applied on hatchling or newborn approvals
🍃 1 > Metalskin: Add metal bits onto a character. Metal may be any color and shape, though it can't replace current body parts. It can however, very thinly coat them to give the same sort of effect! Shouldn't create entirely new body parts such as limbs or eyes
🍃 2 > Construct: Change limbs/body parts to be mechanical and/or prosthetic. Material can vary. May be any color and size. Can be any shape as long as it doesn't change limbs into something their not. For example, you can have a paw with some fun swirly features like a lion's paw chair leg, but you couldn't change said foot into talons unless you had something like the stick arms upgrade (or some such)
🍃 3 > Glow: Add a glow anywhere on (or off, for that matter) a keke. These can form shapes such as appearing to have multiple glow-arms, but note that the glow won't be tangible. May be any color
🌲 D3: The Reveal 🌲
Without realizing it, you hold your breath for too long. You have to gasp to fill your lungs and the glowing mote responds immediately. It spins, presumably to face you, and bounces in the air, as if it's jumping in alarm. This sends silverware clattering across the countertops left and right. You wait, unsure of what to do or if you should be frightened at all. Is this... magic? Some light mage playing around? It wouldn't really make sense, but you struggle to come up with another explanation...
After a few moments of seeming staring each other down, the mote pans forward slightly - a questioning step. It pauses, then drifts closer, then closer still. You try to summon up an appropriate reaction, but what would that be...? Are you scared? Curious? Both? You don't have much time to dwell on it. Within moments, the light has come to hover right in front of your nose. You almost... want to touch it. The thought enters your head without permission, yet seems so appealing... You find yourself raising a tentative paw...
The second the glow seeps onto your fingers, there's a bright flash of light that illuminates the dim room. It blinds you for a second and you blink hard against the flare. When your vision next clears, you find yourself face to face with a Child of Shivelight. They glitter beautifully, as if made from hundreds of tiny stars
🌿 Draw/write 300 words about your kekin activating the mote. What do they think of the results?
🌿 Drawn entries must be a minimum of a visible sketch (aka clear enough to tell what's going on) and include a background. Color and shading are optional
🌲 D3 Rewards 🌲
Some of the Shive's sparkles twinkle close to your skin. You think you see a change out of the corner of your eye, but you can't be sure without looking...
🌷 Per kekin included in the above prompt, you earn one use of an upgrade from this pool
🌷 These upgrades can be applied to any of your current or future kekin
🌷 Upgrades cannot be applied on hatchling or newborn approvals
🍃 1 > Sections: Rings appear to cut the body into segments (though they don't really). Commonly the accent color, but can be any color. Rings must loop around the body and connect at the ends
🍃 2 > Jagged arms: Arm wings with a simple jagged outline that enable flight. While they can have ridges, these wings do not have fingers
🍃 3 > Clingy tail tip: Add a hand of any type to the tip of a keke's tail (can be naga or a hip-tail if they have one). May be any color, have any number of fingers, and have optional paw pads. Shouldn't have claws unless upgraded otherwise
✨ Interlude: Introductions✨
"Well met." The glimmering Shive greets you, a gentle smile on their long muzzle, "You frightened me there... My name is Last of Dark." They bend at the waist, giving you a formal bow. When they straighten again, you ask them what they're doing in a local haunted house. And why are they so shiny...?
"Oh, this?" The Shive looks down at themselves, a chuckle in their tone, "I hope it doesn't startle thee, but it's 'cause I'm a ghost." You tilt your head. They're unlike any ghost you've ever seen or heard of... "You see," The Shive continues, "I've been passed for many years now. I was visiting the home of an old friend when I stumbled across a strange light. I stepped through and found myself somewhere very peculiar indeed: a land where the sky shifts colors and burns with heat..." They glance around the kitchen. "I suppose my wanderings since have led me here."
There are many questions you could ask such a curious traveler of the afterlife. You try to sort through your thoughts for the most relevant. You decide on "Why can I see you?"
Last of Dark tilts their head, confusion twinkling across their starry features, "Whatever do you mean? I'm perfectly average - nothing special."
You explain to them that both their form as a glowing mote and this - seeing them in such a complete form that stands right in front of you - is highly irregular. Ghosts are supposed to be invisible, their presence only known by the living when they haunt inanimate objects. As you speak the words, Last of Dark's ears alert with recognition
"Is that what's wrong with this place?! Here I thought something was wrong with me, perhaps an imbalance for being here too long. As I'm sure you saw, objects from this world dance away from my hand. It's as if I'm not meant to touch them. But here, things throw themselves around with such violence...!" They lay a spindly hand on their chest and let out a relieved breath, "Perhaps I am not coming apart at the seams after all."
TL;DR: You meet Last of Dark, a Shive ghost from That He Made For Us. It seems ghosts there work differently than they do on Suise...
🥀 D4: On Their Way 🥀
For a ghost, Last of Dark seems harmless. If they've caused any recent disturbances, it would likely only be from others seeing their mote and being as confused as you were. Still, a haunting is a haunting...
The Shive watches you, waiting for you to break the silence. You ask them how long they intend to stay here.
"Oh, not long at all." They glance out the kitchen window, surveying the village. "It's strange here... Very... well, I wouldn't offend you. There was a peculiar feeling that drew me here, but I cannot find the root of it. Now, I think I am not meant to." They swivel their head back to look at you again, "Would you mind leading me to the village's entrance? All these twisting walls have me turned around and I'm not one for getting a Tender Wing's eye view."
🌿 Draw/write 300 words about your kekin sending Last of Dark on their way. Where do they lead them?
🌿 Drawn entries must be a minimum of a visible sketch (aka clear enough to tell what's going on) and include a background. Color and shading are optional
🥀 D4
Rewards 🥀
"Perhaps we'll meet again," Last of Dark smiles before you part ways. "Though, I've heard word that a new part of the world has recently opened up and my adventurer's heart calls..."
🌷 Per kekin included in the above prompt, you earn one use of an upgrade from this pool
🌷 These upgrades can be applied to any of your current or future kekin
🌷 Upgrades cannot be applied on hatchling or newborn approvals
🍃 1 > Cuts: Gaps in the body, such as on the neck, arms, etc..., where there appears to be only open air. The rest of the body will seemingly float in the correct place and function as normal. The insides visible seem to only include bones and vague colors to reflect their insides. Alternately, the skin can cover up the area beneath the cut, which will not expose the insides
🍃 2 > Limb loss: Well...that's not great. Allows you to remove limbs from a Snakekey. Limbs include arms, legs (if applicable), wings, and tails (attached tails only - not the naga tail)
🍃 3 > Light wings: Highly customizable beams of light that are able to provide powered flight (even if they're super tiny?? Whoa!). These must only be two wings unless upgraded otherwise and may be any color. Shape can generally be whatever!
