Soothing Sewer - Beets the Beetle - 05/04/2022

Losing to Xingjuan was just what this beetle needed. I had been so frustrated after the date, and then the chance to save gem Coll that I had forgotten Quirlia’s words. There are people and friends that need my help now, and it’s up to me to help those in need!

So after a good dunk in the sea to clear my head I headed skyward above Port Ffirst, the fisher folk and pirates-I mean-ship people- turning below me into bugs-heh, before spying a gush of water flowing out of a round thing that I assumed must lead to these ‘sewers’ that mossy note said to meet at.

Seriously, a whole underground cave system just to flush away folks….folk stuff…These city dwelling folk really know how to make a lotta extra work for themselves, why back home it was straight in the old bucket or else head outside surrounded by good’old nature for a-*HACK HACK*

Lolli and the others really weren’t fans of the…oddurr of the sewer..and kept puffing out some magic scent every now and then that honestly just made my nose flittin’ inch. Hanging around the shallows of the ‘pipe’ I examined our willing party of do-gooders: We had Lolli my little bun bestie-who still didn’t get the whole, rough and trouble adventurer, idea as she was still dressed adorably as ever. Next was Amble the halfing, who had acquired the flooffliest poochey I’d ever seen called Stiffy, who was sure to find a few smelly things to roll about in down in the sewer. Next was my lizard pal Pippa, who was sure to have some gizmo to help us in our underwater search, and finally…very tough stern looking lass named Leonida-who if she really were kinda lion would have even King Verrin whimpering like a kitten.

After a long wait-during which I totally didn’t get bored and shout hello numerous times down into the sewer pipe-a rather mossy-and a little grumpy looking-women appeared from it, and introduced herself as Vitex. She said we weren’t what she was expecting-by which I took to mean that she wasn’t expecting such real adventurers to want to get their hands dirty with a job like this, but hey, ‘a bit of dirt is what separates the true bugs from the bloated grubs’ as Pa used to say!

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“A ducky haha!” Oh man that one by Lolli still gets my belly giggling. Her, Amble and me had a great time playing eye spy with their magic water whilst we made our way deeper and deeper into the sewers on our monster hunt! Apparently according to Vi some strange creature has been making its home down here leaving colour trails of slime like a snail and apparently was growin’ all the bigger each time she spotted it so she felt it had to be dealt with, or at least moved on.

After some sewer antics with water hopping, Lolli helping some wildlife with their animal’ture dramatics, me nearly getting run over by a wagon looking through a sky hole, Amble magic hand finishing for treasure in the muck, we all went for a little wild swim though gushing sewer pipe. It wasn’t so bad, more marshy tasting if anything, and kinda like swimming through a sideways waterfall, before we emerged into what only could be considered an ‘evil sewer lair’.

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Well it was a wild fight with the magic potion-and poop…yeah probably some poop too-goo monster that wanted to eat us-least from what Amble said. We all got some good blows in…especially Lolli who let herself get buggin’swallowed by the gloop to blow it apart from the inside-what a flittin’battle tactic!

My beetle horn javelin got pretty damaged by some of the potion gloop but hey, it’ll make a handy little dagger, and as part of the reward for our help Vi applied a special shroomy tattoo to my wrist. She said it may take a while for the magic to fully soak in, but it could help me at times to be a little more subtle and less noticeable. Not sure what she fully meant by that, but hey who am to turn down a show of generosity?…Though I do think I’m gonna take another dunk in the sea before I head back to Daring after Lolli, she said something about a party and something tells me my odur-de-toilette would not be favoured by many of the guests!