11 May 2024
~ When You Wish Upon A Star ~
~ When You Wish Upon A Star ~
With Celestia attending to tasks set by Nelebrie, the following is a recollection of the party's adventures during a Quest Board task...
Adventurers and heroes alike, you must help me! My most recent flock of Bressehuhn chickens have mysteriously started to glow neon green!
It’s already past the Heritage Festival’s deadline for when they need to be submitted in contest, they can’t be glowing green like this, or they’ll be disqualified and culled!
Please, for the good name of the Starkheart farmers, lend a helping hand to an old toiling dwarf!
~ Daemir Starkheart
As the party arrives at Starkheart's farm, they realize he speaks true; his prize bred chickens are indeed glowing radioactive green!
With Luna and Hannah sensing foul play and magic behind the chickens' iridescence, the party approaches cautiously into the pen that houses the poultry...
And as it turns out, they're rigged to be absolutely explosive.
So not only are the chickens glowing green; they're volatile and liable to explode upon approach!
As Luna suspected, someone was indeed behind the chickens' sudden transformation, behind their twisted alchemical mutations...
And it was none other than Grunguln Starkheart - Daemir's older brother! Throughout the years of running the Starkheart's Bressehuhn business, Grunguln had grown insane with jealousy. He had wanted to contribute to the family's breed of chickens, to make them stronger...but his experimentations with alchemical chicken transmutations was shut down by Daemir and their father.
Having been cast aside, Grunguln began hallucinating, developing delusions of prosecution - that he would be left out of the family inheritance, and abandoned altogether. Judging that it would be too dangerous to let the radioactive and explosive flock escape, the party defeated Grunguln and the bunch, who were ultimately under the dwarf's alchemical control.
With Grunguln out of the picture, one lone chicken stood in the pen. Both Finn and Ponk attempted to pet and calm down the hen - who took a liking to their soft hands. And with that, the chicken decided to stay under the party's care, now known as Mrs. Boom Boom.
On top of that...the party managed to obtain a flask of Grunguln's Potion of Explosivity used to create the explosive chickens. This could be useful for the future...
