Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Eggy Give-Away

At Dragon Cave Forums, there's a trading thread called the Eggy Give-Away. The stories are usually written by a user named Stealthypugs but every so often there's a user-written story. This was my contribution to the "radioactivity" themed story:

"Yessss, Mahsssstah," Igor muttered to herself as she rummaged about in LAGIE'S KITCHEN. She knew the recipe for Lagie's infamous brownies had to be here somewhere but she didn't seem to be able to locate it. She wasn't even really supposed to be in the kitchen at all. She'd been asked to eggsit that evening while Lagie and blackdragon went off egg hunting. The four eggs, A PINK, A VINE, A CRIMSON FLARE AND AN AUTUMN SEASONAL were quietly sitting at the kitchen table watching Igor curiously.
Igor decided to give up on the recipe and started adding things to a bowl. In went some flour, in went a few stale raisins, in went a couple of regular eggs, shells and all. The eggies thought this looked like fun so they began to hand Igor things they found in the kitchen. The pink eggy gave her a vial of a clear colourless liquid. The vine eggy passed over some brown sugar. The crimson flare eggy looked on the floor and handed up a small snail that had been slowly oozing by. The autumn seasonal eggy went searching in the back of the pantry and finally handed Igor a container marked "Biohazard! Radioactive waste." Igor added everything to the bowl and began to stir.
The mixture in the bowl was lumpy and kind of dry but it began to glow as Igor stirred. The eggs watched in fascination, then ooh'd and ahh'd at themselves as they too began to glow when the mixture splattered them. Finally, Igor pronounced the mixture ready, poured it into a baking dish, and put it in the oven. She fumbled with the controls and set them as high as they would possibly go. The brownies would cook faster that way, she thought.
Igor turned away from the oven to check on the eggs. They were still admiring their glow when there was suddenly a loud BOOM! Igor found herself thrown across the room. When she was once again able to stand, Igor looked frantically for the eggs but to no avail. They were nowhere to be seen, having been thrown by the blast a much greater distance than Igor was. They were well and truly gone. The pink had landed in the home of number 60, xHiddenx, the vine in that of number 42, TheGrox, the crimson flare in that of number 50, Lalaz4, and the autumn seasonal in that of number 17, FaithSilverwolf.
How was she ever going to explain this to Lagie?

Three of my four eggs were claimed. The fourth languished on my scroll, hatched, and finally grew up. I decided to keep the unclaimed eggy and accordingly named it Unclaimed Eggy. Here is his description:

On the day that blackdragon71's Igor tried to bake brownies in Lagie's kitchen, Shylock found himself flung far from Lagie's cave and onto the doorstep of another. The owner of that cave never appeared, and Shylock finally rolled himself back to Lagie's cave. Lagie took him back in, washed the radioactive goo off him, and raised him to adulthood. Shylock was horrified when Lagie wrote his name as 'Unclaimed Eggy' on the scroll. He keeps insisting his name is Shylock, but Lagie refuses to change it.

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