[RQ] One rock, two rock, red rock, blue rock

Vi had answered their prayers but they had a great deal of work to do in order to earn the god's protection of Torchline's waters. At least the tasks were ones they had done before and were, for the most part, simple enough to pursue once more.

As he had led the last foray to the Rainbow Road to collect rocks, so Hadama ventured there again. Andromeda had been allowed to remain within the protection of the City this time, but he had extended invitations to Kaiden and Nysadeia along with the usual bribes payment in food and training, whichever they would prefer.

He swam in his Mer form, traveling slowly as he examined the corals and schools of fish they passed for signs of Void corruption. It was a relief to find little spread as of yet, and when they reached the shallow waters of the Rainbow Road he passed out rough, sturdy sacks to his helpers.

We will collect stones of all colors, he explained through the Bond they all shared, in equal amounts. The size should be between one and two fists. First we will collect stones of red and orange. Spread out, but stay in sight. The last time he had been here there had been a small school of void-touched echo sharks that had needed to be chased off. Hopefully today it would be more peaceful and their task would allow them to speak instead of defending themselves.

Nysadeia, have you met Kaiden?

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This is a PQ to collect rocks for the RQ from Vi to protect the Arclight Ocean from the Void!

Please post your characters arriving and getting to work on the first set of rocks (red/orange)!

1. Hadama
2. Kaiden
3. Nysadeia

Nysadeia

Strange as it may seem
horror loses its power to frighten

Nysa had chosen to shift fully, and the large pacific octupus trailed after Hadama with tentacles rippling in the current. Her scarlet coloration made her easy to spot in the clear waters, and while it made holding the sack a bit awkward, it was preferable to scraping up her skin on the rocks.
"Briefly," she replied, with supreme lack of interest. "He begged for food at Ludo's festival like it was a common fair, didn't he. Uncouth."

Drifting off along the shore, she began to pluck stones from the shallows. Normally she would have done anything to weasel out of the task because it reminded far too much of actual work, but she'd seen enough of the purple-black things that infested the waters lately to decide she wanted nothing to do with them. Like, come on, purple and black? That was just tacky. Plus they were weird, and nasty, and some people had even been bit by them. No thank you.

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kaiden

There is no shame in survival
Only strength

Kaiden leveled Nysadeia a glare, I didn't beg. I simply demanded what was rightfully mine! It wasn't their fault that the land dwellers had been so inconsiderate as to leave the food away from the water. Nor was it their fault that Hadama turned traitor and abandoned them to mingle like some haughty debutante. (Not that they knew what that meant but Kaiden had overheard the insult before, and it sounded right.) To make things worse, the King still hadn't made it up to them!

Huffing, the mershark turned and focused on finding red rocks. Orange was ugly. The rude octopus could get the orange ones. Like called to like, right?

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Kaiden collects red rocks.

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