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[Iosha]

Time Stamp: 27th of Spring, 513AV, Morning Location: The Hydroponic Garden Who: Iosha Walking into the hydroponic garden, Iosha made her way to the eastern part of the fields. She knew it was time for planting because Syna was starting to stay up longer in the sky with each passing day. Already the other Avora and Dek were busy planting seeds in the rich dirt in the western fields. Iosha learned the western fields were most used for planting patatos, onions, and garlic. Iosha was assigned to plant pumkins and squash in the eastern fields, so the konti walked over to were the small group of Avora and Dek were gathered to start their morning routine. Iosha set her quiver, bow, and long sword on the ground. The reimancer decided to leave her double sided dagger on her side just in case. She wasn't normally paranoid, but Wind Reach had a bad tendency of trying to kill her, so she wasn't taking any chances today. When the lead Avora gardener walked over to the group, he looked at the Avora and cleared his throat, “Well, we have a busy day ahead of us my faithful gardeners!” Iosha knew the foreman loved his job because he always seemed way to eager to do his job, “We will be dividing the field into four sections. The first section will be cucumbers, the second will be squash, and the third pumpkins.” Iosha cringed slightly because the third section was closer to the fertilizer pools, so the smell in her quarter will be quite pungent. Iosha tied back her hair, and she looked up at the foreman and listened to his orders, “The fourth section will be peppers. I know you all must be excited for planting season, and Iosha, you are in for a treat since it will be your first harvest!” The konti gave the foreman a small smile and said with a hint of amusement, “It is taking a lot out of me just to hold back the excitement.” Iosha looked at the other Avora when some of them started to snicker, and she heard the foreman say, “That is the spirit, Iosha! Now I want you all to say a soft prayer to Bala to bless our crops.” Iosha bowed her head slight and closed her eyes as she said a quiet prayer to Bala in Kontinese. When the meeting was over, the foreman walked over to Iosha and said quietly, “After you plant you bag of seed, Iosha. I want you to spread the water with your reimancy in section three." Iosha nodded to her boss and immediately thought to herself, “Yay, I get water duty today again!” Iosha grabbed her bag of cucumber seeds and a shovel and made her way into the first section of the field. The konti could tell the field must had been fertilized days before because the ground smelled liked manure. The Avora looked at the Dek standing by her with a bucket of fertilizer and ladle in hand. Iosha started to dig a six inch hole with her shovel. When she nodded to the dek, and he ladled the manure into the hole. Iosha started to make a small mound of dirt over the hole. Iosha learned that vine plants like pumpkins, squash, and cucumbers need to grow in a mound because of their root system. The Konti dropped the shovel, picked up her bag of seeds, and knelt down next to the mound. Iosha started to place the four seeds into the pile of dirt. When the seeds were in the dirt, she lightly cover the exposed part of the seed with dirt. The Avora moved there six feet over to the left, and she repeated the same procedure about fifty times. The group finished planting the first selection in about two hours, and the foreman told them to move to the third section. When they were finished with the section, Iosha looked at the dek holding the almost empty manure bucket, and she said softly, “Why don't you fill up your bucket and take a ten minute break. It will take me that long to dig the hole.” Iosha grabbed the bag of pumpkin seeds and rested the shovel on her shoulder as she walked to her section of the field. When she made it to the edge, she walked twelve paces from the along the edge of the field than she pivoted towards the middle of the field and walked another twelve feet into the field. Iosha made sure, she was at least twelve feet away from the edges. Before she dropped the bag of seeds next to her and used the shovel to dig a twelve inch hole. Iosha leaned on the shovel and waited for the dek to run back with her fertilizer. When the Dek made it over to her, he quickly ladled the manure into the hole. When he was finished, Iosha started to fill the hole with dirt, but she kept going until the mound was eighteen inches high. The reimancer dug out a five inch hole into the top of the mound. When she was finished, she place five seeds into the hole and covered the hole with dirt. Iosha stood up and stretched her back. She looked over at her partner who was another twelve feet from her, and she walked left another twelve feet away from the first mound, and she started the process over again.

[Iosha]

When Iosha dropped off the satchel of pumpkin seeds, the foreman was already bring out trays of bell pepper seedlings. The Dek with the manure ran to get more, and she saw a female dek walk over to her holding a tray of seedlings. Iosha switched her larger shovel for a hand shovel. When the other Dek came over with the bucket of manure, Iosha waved them to follow her into the fourth section of the field. The konti walked to the edge of the field, and she measure twelve inches from the edge and dug her four inch whole. The male dek ladled the manure into the whole and the female dek handed her the seedling. Iosha unwrapped the paper around the dirt, and she placed the plant into the hole. When the plant was in the hole, she refilled the hole with dirt. Iosha stood up moved another twelve inches from the other seedling and started the procedure over again until she made it to the other side. When they were finished, Iosha looked at the Deks and said with a smile, “Both of you thank you for your help. I couldn't have done it with you.” Iosha decided to take a break, and she noticed another farming group was finishing up with the fourth section. The foreman told them to take it easy until the other group was finished with their section, so she pulled a empty bucket to her, flipped it over, and used it as a chair as she waited for the other groups to finished. Tired from the days work, Iosha wanted to clear her mind of all things that would and could distract her from her most important duty. The konti closed her eyes, and she envisioned complete darkness in her mind except for a single flame. The flame was burning with nothing to fuel it, but it was still intense and hot as any fire could ever be. The konti immediately started to feed her fears, anxieties, and dreams into fire. She remember learning this meditation technique before she attempted any type of magic. Iosha's grandmother told her that magic was her life, and everything else she does was just a distraction from her true destiny. Sacari, Iosha's grandmother, lived her life to perfect her family's tradition in the magical arts, and she was heart-broken when her daughter Neia decided to dedicate her life to music and story-telling. Neia's daughter Iosha decided at a young age to pursue the family's tradition in the magical arts, but Iosha let her love of healing and becoming a hunter like her father a Endal from Wind Reach distract her from the dedication it took to be a great wizard. These distractions caused many conflicts between her and grandmother until Iosha finally left Mura for Wind Reach. Iosha looked at the flame waver, but there was no wind in the darkness, so she decided to put her past regrets into the flame, and she saw the flame burn larger for a moment until it went back to normal.

[Iosha]

When she heard the sound of foreman's voice call out her name, Iosha opened her eyes slowly to let her mind adjust to her this reality. Iosha turned her head to the Inarta and gave him a look as she got to her feet. The konti knew what she was supposed to do, so she ignored his instructions when she walked past him. She walked to the water pools surrounding the fields, and she closed her eyes and used her will to gather her djed in her hand. It was slow to gather, but eventually the res started out as a small ball in her hand. Iosha willed her djed to fill the shimmering ball of res, and she saw the ball start to get larger with every tick. Eventually, the small ball of res turned from a small sphere to a large shimmering sphere of res about five feet in diameter. It was rather difficult to hold shape for the novice reimancer, but she kept her full attention on the large sphere controlling it's shape. Iosha slowly allowed the res to attract the water from the pools of water. Iosha started to notice the large ball of water was starting to become heavy, so she increased the amount of will on the ball of water to hold it just above the water. When the sphere was completely full, the konti could feel her head was starting to ache from all the mental strain. She lifted the sphere with her will, and she could feel the weight of the water pressing down on her. All of Iosha's focus was used to maintain the sphere shape and weight as she walked to the center of the field. When she made it to the center, she started to use her will to life the water into the air. The weight was unbearable when it was over her head, and she felt her concentration crumble around her and the sphere of water lost it integrity and all the water landed on top of her. Iosha stood there soaking wet, and she swore at her incompetence since she should have realized her limitations. The sphere was too large for a reimancer of her skill level to maintain. The konti could feel her heart rate start to race, and she could feel a metallic taste in her mouth. She looked over at the Foreman, and he just shook his head and told one of the Inarta reimancers to take her place watering the fields. It was a embarrassing feeling, and all she wanted to was correct her mistake and try casting the spell again. The Inarta djed-user walk up to her, and she looked at the Konti with a look of concern on her face. Iosha looked into her golden eyes and said in common, “I am fine, Nerri. I just took too much water the first time. Let me try again.” Nerri put her thick red braid behind her head, shook her head, and said in common, “Iosha..you need to rest. Your eyes are blood shot, and I doubt you can even control another spell right now.” Iosha was already walking towards the pool for another try, and she could feel in the back of her mind the need to cast more magic was going with each passing tick. Suddenly, she felt a hand grab her shoulder turned her around, and she was snapped back to reality by a quick slap to the face, and she heard Nerri's voice, “You know the Foreman doesn't care what happened to us reimancer, and you know the sweet whispers clouding your judgment right now, Iosha!” Iosha felt like she was woken up by a vary vivid dream, and she stared at her friend with a dumb look on her face, “Why am I out in the field wasn't I sitting on the bucket?”

[Iosha]

Iosha was starting to wonder if she just suffered from a trace after the meditation. It was scary not knowing she was in total control of her mind, and she looked away from Nerri's eyes and said softly, “You are right, Nerri. I think the sweet whispers were getting to me. You might have just saved my life.” Nerri smiled at her friend and patted her on the shoulder. The fellow djed-user knew the dangers of magic, so she understood what the konti was going through at the moment. Suddenly, a large white bat flew down from the ceiling, landed on Nerri's back, and bite the Inarta in the side of the neck. Iosha immediately took out her double sided dagger, and she distracted when she saw a grey bat flying towards her head. As she ducked out of the way, she took a feeble swing with her dagger at the bat, but she missed horribly. Iosha looked at people around her and the whole hydroponic garden was being attacked by vampire bats. Deks and Avora were doing everything in there power to defend themselves from the bats. She saw one Dek pick up a shovel and hit a attacking bat out of the air. Iosha looked over at Nerri, and the woman was holding her neck trying to stop the bleeding, and the white bat was no where to be seen. Out of the corner of her eye, the same grey bat took another die bomb at the konti, and Iosha turned towards the bat and thrust her dagger into the charging bat. The metal blade easily cut through the skin that made the wing of the flying rodent. The bat landed on the ground trying to get up from the severed wing. The healer knew she couldn't let the animal suffer because her promise to Rak'Keli, so she plunged the dagger into the back of the animal, and it died instantly. Iosha stood up from the corpse of the animal, and suddenly, she brought to the ground by the weight of a woman tackling her. Iosha violet eyes widened when the human woman was trying to wrestle the konti for her dagger. Looked up in horror, Iosha saw Nerri's eyes had turned blood shot and yellow. The woman was drooling uncontrollably onto the konti as she tried to grab her dagger. Iosha pushed free hand into the face of the woman, and she could tell the woman was burning up, but at the moment, Iosha needed to overpower the Inarta woman before she killed her, so Iosha took her hand out of the face of the human, and she grabbed the woman's hair and yanked as hard as she could back. Nerri screamed in pain and tried to get away from the Konti grasp. Iosha let go off her hair and threw the dagger out of reach of the frantic woman. Iosha got into the fighting stance Jhinapar show with her right foot back and her left foot forward. She protected her face with her left hand and she made a fist and placed it on her hip waiting for Nerri to attack. Iosha knew the jerking motion from pulling her hair must have opened her wound on her neck since it was bleeding slightly.

[Iosha]

Nerri got to her feet, and for a tick, Iosha thought the woman looked like a zombie. The woman screamed and charged the konti trying to strangle her, but Iosha blocked her outstretched hands with her left arm, and Iosha stepped forward with her back foot driving her fist into the Nerri's face. The punched missed horribly, but Iosha stepped back with her left foot bringing her right arm up to protect her face. Nerri rounded on her and charged with her outstretched hands. Iosha waited for the right moment, and she blocked Nerri's attack with her right arm. As she stepped forward with her back left leg, she drove her fist into a easier target, the stomach. The blow staggered the human woman back, and Iosha already assumed her stance again with her right leg back. Iosha stepped forward driving her fist into the jaw of her friend. The fist landed and the small human crumbled to the ground unconscious. Iosha rubbed her hand, and she saw the woman was still breathing. Iosha ran to location she threw the dagger, picked up the large knife, ran back to Nerri, and knelt down beside the woman. Iosha saw her neck where the bat bite her was bruised and caked with dried blood. Iosha whispered to Rak'keli to cleanse her hands of impurities, so she could treat her wounds. The konti watched her hands glow a soft blue, and she smiled when they were completely clear of dirt. Iosha put a hand over the neck wound of the fallen Avora, and she pressed as hard as she could to stop the bleeding. After about two chimes of content pressure, she felt no more blood oozing from the wound. She said another prayer to Rak'Keli out loud to her goddess in Kontinese, “Please my goddess will you please cleanse her wounds of any infection ready to fester, and I need your help to close the puncture wounds in her neck.” Iosha webbed hand started to glow a soft blue along with the neck of the victim. The konti smiled to herself when she removed her hand and seeing a completely clear neck, and a slightly closed bite marks. Iosha cut off a strip of Kerri's bryda, and she carefully lifted the woman's head and rested it on her lap. She asked her goddess once again to cleanse the cloth of impurities. When the cloth was ready, she slowly wrapped it around her neck to protect the wound from future infection. Once she tied the knot, she looked up to see the Foreman approaching her carrying a garden rake as a weapon. Iosha said to the Foreman, “I need to get this woman to the infirmary. I treated her neck wound, but Nerri is still burning up." The Foreman shook his head, and he said softly, “I will get her to infirmary, but their was five more people attacked by the white bat, so I need you to treat them first.” Iosha sheathed her dagger, and she watched two of the larger Avora pick up Nerri and take her to the infirmary. Iosha looked at the Foreman, “Please lead me to the rest of the injured.”

[Stardust]

Iosha

Skill	XP Earned
Gardening	3
Reimancy -Water	3
Weapon - Daggar	1
Unarmed Combat	1

•	Lores Earned
•	The Loss Of Concentration
•	Nerri's Concern
•	Dealing With A Bat Attack
•	Helping The Bitten Ones

Dream On

Oh my goodness! What a fun, simple, and rather terrifying thread!! It's nice seeing the Calendar of Events getting used for Thread ideas! Poor Nerri. But Quick thinking on Iosha'a part!

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