Goal: Collect as many mushrooms as you can!
Instructions: Roll 6d6 & match your rolls to the numbers below. When you're done, tally up your score & see how many tickets you get! You can't go into the negatives.
1. This mushroom is a little slimy and you're not entirely sure if that's a good thing or not. The last thing you want to do is give Bash food poisoning so you test it yourself. That's the only thing you remember and you wake up sometime later in a haze. (-3 mushrooms)
2. In the remnants of a decaying log, you find the mother load. The largest mushrooms you've ever seen! And even more lucky, you remember these mushrooms and know they're good to eat! (+5 mushrooms)
3.You seem to have stumbled into a large thicket of brambles. It takes you some time to pull all the thorns out of your sides and in the process of removing the thorns, you lose some mushrooms. (-2 mushrooms)
4. Some of the swampland creatures got curious at the kin traipsing through their home. You seem to be making an awful lot of noise and they want you gone asap! They brought you some mushrooms to help speed the process along. (+3 mushrooms)
5. Nothing out of the ordinary with this find, you just happened to sniff them out. (+1 mushroom)
6. Seems like another group of swampland creatures doesn't like you stealing their mushrooms. They perform an elaborate trick of death defying skill while another swipes some mushrooms! (-1 mushroom)
Memories had taken a bit of a break from the market after her experience in Fierce Warrior's obstacle course. It had really taken the wind out of her and left the poor doe needing to recharge a little bit. But, she was back now and feeling better than ever. Maybe not good enough to attempt the obstacle course again- ever -but certainly enough to lend a helping hand to someone in need. So, when Bash and Legend of the Second said they were in need of someone to complete quests for them, she was more than happy to lend her aid. And collecting mushrooms seemed like one of the more simple tasks they had available. At least, much more in her wheelhouse than fighting another kin or hunting for pelts.
Granted, she wasn't too familiar with the different types of mushrooms and how to forage for them, but it couldn't be that hard, right? There were mushrooms all over the swamp! All she had to do was look and she was look and she was practically guaranteed to find some. And find some she did. But something about them seemed off... Were mushrooms supposed to be this slimy? She couldn't recall ever eating a mushroom that looked like these. Maybe that was just due to the infrequency of her mushroom consumption though. She really didn't want to bring anything back to Bash that tasted bad, so she thought that maybe just a quick lick would help her determine if this particular mushroom was worth bringing back.
Whatever happened after that, Memories couldn't remember. All she knew was that suddenly she found herself standing atop a large rock, singing poorly to a crowd of toads and she had no clue how she got there...
Right. No slimy mushrooms. That was good to know. Though she wished someone had told her rather than finding out herself.
Still determined to return to Bash and his daughter with something, Memories continued her search for safe, completely edible mushrooms. After what had just happened, she decided that licking random mushrooms she'd never seen before was a bad idea and from here on out she was only going to bother with the ones she'd seen and consumed without any unfortunate side effects. With that in mind, she push onwards, keeping a look out for her quarry.
However, some time passed without so much as a hint of the delectable fungi anywhere. And to make matters worse, Memories had someone ended up in a bramble patch. She'd been so focused on finding mushrooms that she'd walked straight into it without even noticing. She was having flashbacks to the obstacle course, except this time her struggle came with a lot more pain. The thorns dug into her legs and sides mercilessly and by the time Memories had freed herself it looked as if she'd picked a fight with an owl cat and lost. With a pitiful whine, she began the arduous task of removing the thorns. If she'd actually managed to collect any mushrooms, Memories had a feeling she would have lost some in that fiasco.
Somehow, out of what seemed like pure luck, Memories stumbled across mushroom after mushroom, all familiar to her as something she had eaten before. She was overjoyed! At last she would have something to bring back to Bash and Legend of the Second. It was a bit interesting that every single mushroom had already been picked from the ground. It looked as if someone had harvested the mushrooms quite recently and possibly dropped them. Should she....maybe try to find whoever had lost these? It would mean she wouldn't have any mushrooms any more but it felt wrong to take something someone had put in the effort to collect. But it didn't seem like anyone was anywhere near by....
Eventually she decided to keep the mushrooms. It seemed like a waste to leave them here and it didn't seem likely that Memories would find whoever had harvested them. Behind her, hiding in the trees and shrubs, was a gathering of woodland creatures who were hoping their well-placed mushrooms would be enough to get rid of this bothersome doe.
After stumbling across several more of those conveniently pre-picked mushrooms, Memories found herself in another predicament. More brambles. She thought she'd spotted another of the fungi hiding within the brambles and, honestly, the brambles themself didn't look terribly deep or tangled. But Memories had severely miscalculated and now she was trapped yet again. And worse yet was the fact that what she thought was a mushroom was nothing more than a strangely shaped leaf. With a defeated sigh and a pathetic whine, Memories tried her best to escape the brambles without taking too much damage. There were still plenty of thorns to pull out, though. Worst of all, though, she'd lost some mushrooms...
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Though she hadn't been able to find any more mushrooms after her initial success, Memories felt she had collected a commendable amount. That and she was quite tired of stumbling into brambles. She was quite ready to return to Bash and his daughter. But as she was making her way back, something caught her attention. A familiar, earthy smell. She was almost certain it was more mushrooms. Or, a singular mushroom, she found. It was, at least, a rather large mushroom and was definitely one she recognized. Glad to add one more to her collection, Memories snatched the fungus up and headed back to the questing booth, quite pleased with herself.
