Tsveta the Bloomfer's Adventure Journal
November 7, 2021
I don’t think anyone has ever taken me seriously. My family jokes that I’m so strange because Liadan the Velox dropped my egg on the way home from her hoard, which is totally something Liadan would do. Still, what’s so strange about being an optimist and wanting to be kind and helpful? It’s just my nature, but every once in a while I get the sense that others either find it suspicious or try to take advantage of me. I’ve just never let it bother me. I help where I can around the house, and don’t complain about the fact that Schnecco only ever lets me go hoarding around the winter holidays because I am the only one who can find indigo presents. It’s nice to at least have one little purpose I am recognized for.
Life had fallen into a steady routine until the portal to the Pixpet Realm opened just over a month ago. Of course Schnecco chose Alasdair to be the first one to explore it, seeing as he is our family’s founder and all. He really dragged his feet about it, though. Honestly, it was sad, seeing such a big cat be so nervous. I would have jumped at the opportunity just to try something new.
In the end, Alasdair reluctantly went through the portal, and we didn’t see him again for two weeks. With the way time works in the Pixpet Realm, four whole months had passed for him, and he was a changed Kyagrowl. Everyone could see it. He carried himself with much more confidence; his whole posture was taller and straighter, and he looked us all right in the eyes as he energetically recounted his adventures and showed off all the Vivid Pixpet eggs he had found and the new battle techniques he had learned. I had always thought of myself as a pacifist, but watching him, I really wanted to learn some new attack moves, too!
(Please note, the rest of this post contains Bloomfer Adventure spoilers and Adventure spoilers in general.)
To Adventure!
What piqued my interest the most, however, was when he mentioned that there was a particular field full of blossoms that only Bloomfers could explore further. Since it was not that far past the Entrance Gate to the Pixpet Realm, Schnecco told me I could go on the adventure next! I do not think she would have picked me otherwise. In any case, I thought I would fall over from excitement, but I got myself together and packed a bag with a few Adventure Egg, Health, Stamina and De-glitch potions that Alasdair had leftover from his own adventure. The Glitchness and Glitched Pixpets sounded a little worrisome, but if Alasdair could return in one piece, so could I. I also had the advantage of knowing what to expect, since I had listened very carefully to Alasdair’s stories.
There were a few Vivid Pixpet eggs that Alasdair had not managed to bring back because he had gotten too strong before he really knew what he was doing, and now he just knocked out those Glitched Pixpets before he had a chance to pour Adventure Egg Potions on them. My first order of business was to find those pets before I, too, got too strong. It bothered me a little that the first one was a fellow Bloomfer. Glitched Bloomfers are pathetically weak, and it was unnerving to battle what felt like my unfortunate cousins, but I turned one into an egg with little trouble.
The next one on the list was a Vivid Veemooth. I followed Alasdair’s directions to the little meadow near Unity Bridge at night, and found it without any trouble. The Veemooths were also pathetic, and I was already having a hard time not knocking them out before I could pour a potion on one. You know what isn’t pathetic, though? The Glitched Bovitaurs that come out in that meadow at Glitch Hour. Alasdair had failed to warn me about them because he had never seen one. I knew I was in over my head the moment it started charging at me. I ran as fast as I could, adrenaline pumping into my blood on overdrive, but it wasn’t enough. The Glitched Bovitaur—or rather, its horns—rammed into me full force. I’m pretty sure it sent me sailing through the air, but I don’t remember much more because I almost instantly blacked out.
I woke up a few hours later, dazed and bruised and thoroughly embarrassed. Alasdair hadn’t fainted once over the course of his entire adventure, and here I was just a couple days in already mucking things up. After a few minutes of psyching myself up through my pounding headache and pulsing pain that seemed to be everywhere, I got up and dragged myself back to the inn at the Forager’s Ferry Building to nurse my wounds and recover. It was hard to forget the look of concern and pity that Anton the Antabir gave me when I paid down the deposit for a room.
Thankfully, I healed quickly after some rest, and felt ready to face the world again. I waited until well after Glitch Hour to head back to the meadow and finally got one of the Adventure Egg Potions to work on a Vivid Veemooth. My mission complete, I was free to train to become stronger. I spent days on end battling Glitched Pixpets in the Forager Ferry’s Courtyard and the edge of the Barrow Woods, feeling much better about myself. I became good friends with Merchant Flora, a fellow Bloomfer who sold scrolls in the Courtyard, and once I became strong enough to learn the techniques from her scrolls, I felt I could take on anything and anyone. Now that I could leech the health from Glitched Pixpets through my new Drain Powder, I hardly needed to sleep!
Rude Awakenings
However, the lack of sleep started to get to me around the time I found the blossoming field Alasdair had told me about. I could see why it was meant for Bloomfers—the rainbow of flowers sprinkled all about drew me to it, and I couldn’t help but frolic around in the morning sun until drowsiness overcame me and I lay down for a nap upon the soft grass. There, I had the strangest dream that I am still not sure was entirely a dream, but it led me to a scroll with a technique that only Bloomfers could learn, passed on to me by the wistful mother of a Bloomfer who had long since disappeared and had probably become glitched. Everything really hit home at that moment. Even though I had been building my strength by battling against Glitched Pixpets for the last several days, the seriousness of the situation in the Pixpet Realm had somehow not impressed itself upon me until now. The dancing Bloomfer’s story haunted me, and I had the sense I was awakening to something like a zombie apocalypse. I shuddered, becoming more determined to help wherever I could and grow even stronger.
After finally making it into Pixpet City, my next task was to help with the situation in Haven in the Tundra Plains. Thanks to Alasdair, I was prepared for the grueling journey. He had been so terrified of Kamari only to be startled by how easy it had been to take him down. Once I made it to the obnoxious Pydeer’s secret hideout, I charged toward him, eager to do the same, but I was met with a fiercer opponent than expected. Not even my Drain Powder did much damage to him, and I’m sure I was at least double the adventure Alasdair had been when he had battled Kamari. I still managed to chip away at his health and defeat him in the end, but I had not been prepared to feel so winded afterwards.
When Glitched Alex and Goliath ambushed us only a short while later, I turned to Lin and asked if he felt he could take on the bigger one. The little canid knew some unexpected magic and seemed tougher than he looked, but he did not feel like he could handle Goliath, so I was stuck battling the Glitched Imprex in my already weakened state. After being trampled on multiple times, I was grateful for the Adventure Health Potions tucked away in my bag and just barely managed to survive the encounter.
I returned to Pixpet City triumphant but not nearly as certain of myself. It was in this state that I ran into a Vivid Kyagrowl looking for someone to duel. I had spent days training, after all, and was not one to run from a challenge, so I accepted his offer, if only to show myself that I was still a skilled fighter despite the difficult time I’d had at Scavenger’s Point. Yet, even though my adventure level was higher, the Vivid Kyagrowl was still much faster and stronger than me. I couldn’t drain his stamina faster than he could drain mine, and he wore me out, blinded me with the jewels on his head, and bested me. Head down, I gave him some of my pixcoins in defeat and ran off before he or anyone else could see me crying. Maybe adventuring wasn’t for me after all. If the battle with the Vivid Kyagrowl had taught me anything, it was that no matter how hard I trained, I would never be as strong as Alasdair.
Carrying On
I took refuge at the Pixpet Temple. Karma the Gonk found me weeping in a corner and asked if I wanted to meditate, but while it took my mind off things, I only felt even weaker afterwards. I just needed somewhere private to collect myself, so I got myself a standard room at the Pixpet City Grand Hotel even though it was a little costly even for the least expensive option there. After a couple days of moping and spending a morning helping a Shiboro paint a vandalized wall at the park, I felt ready to jump back into things. There were still lots of Pixpets I could help, and even if I would never be as strong as Alasdair, I could at least become as strong as I could possibly be.
For about a month, I wandered the realm, finding Glitched Pixpets to battle to increase my strength, often going days at a time without sleeping. At those times, I probably was acting crazy enough that others would have no trouble believing that my egg had been dropped before I hatched. Still, I really could feel myself getting stronger, and I had the presence of mind to take breaks to find places to meditate and treats to eat that would reduce my own skyrocketing glitchness. I did not want to become like these Pixpets; I wanted to help them.
I used the pixcoins I had earned from these countless battles to buy strong Adventure Health Potions and learned that even though the Pixpets who challenged me to duels were usually stronger and faster, as long as I was patient enough and had enough Health Potions, I could eventually wear them out and win. My confidence slowly returned, and during my travels I discovered new events that even Alasdair had missed.
The Final Battle!
Two and a half months in, I had found enough scrolls to learn all ten moves that I was able. I was almost at the maximum adventure level and had completed every quest except one. My last outstanding task was to defeat Briar, the Vivid Luputrix who was terrorizing the Barrow Woods. I had faced her once before. At the time, I had told Rose that I didn’t think I was strong enough, but the lonely little Canisqua insisted and led me over to the otherwise beautiful moonlit clearing where the ferocious Vivid Luputrix was waiting. My strongest attack didn’t even make a dent as she healed herself almost immediately and then pummeled me nearly unconscious with just two headbutts. I slunk away and did not return until I had trained myself to Adventure Level 93 and felt ready to face her again.
This second battle felt like it would never end. I may have gotten better in battle, but in all that time, Briar had also gotten even stronger! No matter how many times I hit her or how many Adventure Health Potions I drank, she always rejuvenated herself back to top health and I could not make any headway. After what felt like hours, she headbutted me harder than expected and I was forced to admit defeat again. Maybe I should just resign myself to this being the one battle I could not win.
To cheer myself up, I sought out the duelists around the Pixpet Realm again and won battle after draining battle until I reached Adventure Level 100. For the moment I was at the pinnacle, but it still bothered me that I had not defeated Briar, so I decided to challenge her one more time. Thinking of a way I could try to do things differently this time, I remembered an attack I had learned from Merchant Pete, a Parrogrine selling scrolls on Unity Bridge. “Chirp” sounded like a move more suited to birds, but I was able to make the high-pitched sound, too, and confuse opponents enough to reduce their accuracy. I would chirp at Briar so hard she wouldn’t know where I was and wouldn’t be able to touch me.
At first, it looked like it was working. I had drained her health down more than I had in either of my previous battles, but over 500 rounds in, my chirps were still not enough to reduce the frequency of her healing and we were at a stalemate. Worn out, I let her defeat me, finally ready to just give up and go home. We already had a Vivid Luputrix in the family now thanks to Alasdair, so there was no pressure on me to have to defeat Briar.
And yet, I still couldn’t let it go. I rested in Larry’s guest house until the next night, healing and practicing all my battle moves. There was one last one I had not tried, one that I had known innately when I had started on my adventures and then quickly replaced with newer, more exciting moves. I have always been loud and excitable, and everyone back home was constantly telling me to keep it down and speak more quietly, but yowling came naturally to me. I realized that yowling would not only increase my own attack strength, but it would decrease my opponent’s attack strength. It didn’t do any damage, but maybe it was just what I needed to get an edge over Briar.
I was right. The battle was still long and hard, but Briar’s headbutts waned in strength, and even the amount of health she regenerated when she tried to heal herself was less than before, giving me the opportunity to finally wear her down. The withering petals I tossed on her sapped her strength further, until she became as harmless as a puppy.
I had done it! I had woken her up from her rampage, and all my trouble felt worth it when I saw her reunited with Rose. Taking the bit of blue fur that had been ripped from her during our final fierce battle, I wound it around my wrist as a trophy to remind myself of what it had taken to reach this point at last. Just like the others, I had underestimated my own innate abilities. Never again. I am not the biggest or the strongest Pixpet, and I know I never will be, but I make up for it in cunning and tenacity. Like Alasdair, I have proven myself to myself, and that is what matters. I was foolhardy the first time I said it, but now I truly know that I am ready and able to take on anything.
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