As day approaches a certain Silver Antlered Jackalope worries itself to pieces. Somewhat halfway through the night it returned with another group of adolescent rabbits only to be shocked out of its mind. Somehow a kit had ended up sleeping on the human’s lap. At double speed the Jackalope grabbed any other kits that were in the area and returned them. No need to have anymore nonsense happen. After that though there wasn’t anything it could do. Under orders not to reveal itself to the human all was able to do was to continue its work. Now with all the rabbits returned home except for a certain kit the Jackalope fidgeted. They had already known the human knew the adolescent rabbits were there. However the two sides had kept up the illusion of ignorance. No way to keep that up now. Not with a rabbit sitting on him. As dawn drew closer, the Jackalope had no other choice, then to give up. More important was to report this incident and so with one final glance back the Jackalope bounded off.
Jason continues his cultivation a little later than usual. Still though the rabbit was on his lap. The kit would not leave so after a few more minutes he opens his eyes. There it was, sitting on his lap. The kit was even looking up at him. A quick look around shows nothing except his one Energy Herb missing a few berries. Looking back down at the kit he asks out loud, “Well little fella, how in the world did you get here? You're too young to be out and about on your own.”
With little else to do Jason picks the rabbit up and puts it down to the side. Now unencumbered he packs up his camp. As he does this the kit munches on another berry off the same plant before it gets packed up. Shaking his head Jason once again asks the rabbit, “What am I to do with you? Not that you can understand me but still.”
Jason packed the last thing and looked around once more. Still no other rabbits around to take back the wayward kit. With a sigh, he decides to see what happens if he leaves. A glance at the kit shows it to have hopped up next to him. Then he dashes off into the distance. After Jason crosses a couple hills he turns back. The young rabbit is slowly hopping towards him. Minutes pass and still no other rabbits. Not hard of heart Jason only lasts so long before he heads back. With another sigh he picks up the tired kit and pets it. He then gets one of the leafed berries and fed it to the kit. This perks it up right away. Though not able to use the Energy it still helps.
“I guess you’re going to be following me? Tomorrow night there should be more rabbits for you to follow home.”, having said his piece Jason cradles the kit and jogs off with it. When he notices the kit is not surprised by the speed, he ramps up until he is traveling at his best sustainable speed. The kit is unfazed by this. Then again, last night a certain Jackalope had taken it for a much faster ride.
As the hours pass Jason is both pleased and disappointed. Pleased because nothing came to attack him while he was carrying the defenseless kit. Disappointed because it seems this close to the town the monsters stay farther in after a clear. On the other hand the rabbit is having a great time. Unlike last nights Jackalope ride today it is kept safe and warm. There is even another of those delicious berries for lunch.
Then night comes once again. Jason sets the kit down on the ground before once again setting his camp up. All the while the curious kit explores this new area. Finished with his chores Jason settles in to cultivate once again. Though before he can start the kit hops right into his lap again. A look down and a sigh is all Jason has to say. Internally he questions what he will do tomorrow if the kit is still there. He should get to town by the next night and he can’t take a wild animal in with him.
A now very cowed Jackalope is back once again. This time focusing on his job. Oh, the scolding he received. It had pinned his ears back right good. Still it would occasionally glance at a certain kit as it slept content on Jason’s lap. A few times the Jackalope even dared to quietly call out to the kit. Eventually though it can only give up. The Jackalope had brought the last few warrens over and dawn was near. Its orders were clear. If the kit stayed with the human overnight again finish early and report back. With a rabbity sigh the Jackalope goes off while it hopes to not receive another tongue lashing.
After the Jackalope has made its report a normal rabbit can be seen hopping towards Jason. At least it would seem normal if it wasn’t for how far it is moving. If what Jason does with his Desolate traversal is seen as shrinking ground then this rabbit is shrinking miles. With a final hop the rabbit is next to Jason and the kit. Then a strange event happens. For the first time since he arrived at the wasteland Jason falls asleep. On the other hand the kit wakes up with a jolt. The strange rabbit the proceeds to snoot boop the kit. This seems to daze it before once again it slips into slumber.
With a satisfied nod the strange rabbit heads off. Though she turns back one final time and says, “Goodbye young one. You don’t come from a special background but life has thrown a great boon your way. That young man has accidentally connected your lives through bounds of karma and tomorrow you will complete it. I wish you luck and a happy life!”
Queens are OP.
Yes, she is totally just a queen
Please tell me you did not have the empress of all the rabbits in the area give her blessings to the little kit now I'm wondering if she will become a new empress if so I'm scared
@Talon I think lily was given the best starting point to become a person rather than a pet.
@RhiaReader good point but still the rabbit that came to look at her got to be a empress right it just makes more sense than a queen
@Talon that depends, I think, on the scope of her influence. I'd tentatively say a Queen is an op badass faction leader of a smaller scale than an empress.
Don't forget there are many different realms and this one is level capped.
So I'd say, to be an empress, you need an empire but to be a queen you need people.
So, you can be a Queen without an empire, but not an empress without first being a queen...
So maybe the rabbit queen will evolve into an empress if she hits the right combo of prerequisites, and power level ... O.O
@RhiaReader stop scaring me, I mean in the future in the plains that place would be terrifying for people killing a single rabbit because immediately you would be killed and hunted down forever
@Talon aww... You love it. The thought of op fluffy herbivores just makes your day too doesn't it? *evil laugh*
@RhiaReader yes it does so much so that if this game was real there would be a assassins guild and the owner of it may or may not be me protecting all the floofs except man eating monster crazy floofs they are evil *humph*
@Talon I'd personally go the route of monster tamer, raiser, breeder etc and farmer. With at least 3 different spaces! One for my weird n fantastical plants (and plant monsters of course!), one for my adorable monsters to call home (a bit like an apartment complex but with fully customisable rooms/stables) and a third where the two spaces can interact like two circles which are slightly overlapping...
@RhiaReader makes sense me personally I would go for a assassin, monster tamer, summoner approach for those monsters that don't exist in the overworld just to make even more impossible for people to find out my patterns on what I would do next
@Talon ah, I see, you care about others... I'd go the - raise an army of cute monsters and build an awesome garden - route. Then natural selection determines whether my plants get enemy brand fertilizer or my monsters get a tasty snack. *grins*
Hmm, then I'd hole up somewhere hermit-ish (like a city) and run a little business as a middle man between monster tamers and farmers. Mostly for the interesting samples, for both my garden and fluffy friends, as well as industry contacts.
After all farmers grow fodder, adventures find interesting specimens and monster tamers need both *sly evil grin*
@RhiaReader nice mwahahahaha
@Talon *bows* I try *grins*
@RhiaReader you don't try you succeed
@Talon *cheerful smirk*
Speaking of, my game businesses has an interesting promotion/quest going on...
A mysterious egg. A set of scales. A specimen of your offering. A challenge and a choice.
Offer something I value or don't have and place it on the scale. A choice then pops up, trade for a mysterious egg, an item of similar value in stock or as a deposit for something of greater value in stock... Limited until mysterious eggs run out.
Fancy a job/quest?
@RhiaReader sure but I also want something to be able to see what exactly the mysterious egg is because I don't want it be a creature as weak as a little garden snake
@Talon the scales can be calerbrated to different settings such as combat strength, potential for evolution, rarity, cuteness, etc
But mystery is mystery...
Humph! A garden snake in My garden would definitely be op! Snakes are cool, spiders can take a very long hike through unpleasant terrain though.
@RhiaReader so can you if don't give me eggs for spatial ice damaging spiders and or scorpions
@Talon a challenge! I like it. Rare variants. I like it. Spiders? I'll do it and you'll love it! but you will pay extra to cover trauma fees.
@RhiaReader sure depends on whether or not the prices are in a more agreeable range
@Talon @RhiaReader Well you both had a bit of fun here
. As for rabbits? Lily and the [Empress/Queen] are on a special progression. Normal rabbits (the ones without any mystical power) have six evolutionary stages. Most of the powered rabbit lines have seven stages. Queen would be the eighth and Empress the ninth of their line. Also while it isn't true with all creatures the rabbit stages match up with the bottlenecks. In theory the world Jason is on can't have anyone who has broken through the ninth bottleneck as that would put them over level 500. 
@Akhier yup
@Akhier hehe