[COR - Era II, Challenge I, Cat B - The fauna of Celestia] The Vengeful Tiger Spirit

[Flavius Gratian]

Since nobody actually knew where the natives of Celestia lived the mission had to head into the jungle. Edward had heard that there was a settlement near the old temple (if it existed), so he lead them in the direction the rumors pointed.

At night fall they made camp and the crew and sailors started talking about what kinds of animals they were likely to encounter.
"There must be some pretty fantastic creatures around, why else would all those explorers be here?", said one.
"I have been in port on Cascadia and over there it's crawling with tigers and jaguars and other dangerous predators", a sailor added. "The Paradise Isles are so similar that Celestia's bound to have some too."

At this talk of feline predators, Edward started telling the story of a great tiger spirit, haunting the jungles of the island. "Apparently, it used to be worshipped by the natives a long time ago. But they became pround and arrogant and stopped the sacrifaces."

"So one full moon (just like this one) the Spirit took revenge and destroyed their city. All ran to the temple for protection, and pleaded to him too spare their them. But the temple was where they had once worshipped him and then rejected him. Nobody, who entered the temple left alive and the entire city disappeared from the face of the Earth. Except for the Spirit's temple, which stands for all enternity as a reminder of what happends to those who disrespect him."

 It was all silent around the camp fire. Some glanced uncomfortably at the full moon above them. Suddenly, the silence was broken by Tom laughing. "That was really a great story Edward, but nothing more. If you old women are just gonna sit here afraid of the moon, I'll go and take a piss."

He left the camp and went into the jungle, chuckling. When he had just finished and turned to go back to camp, he heard something from the underbrush. As he nervously looked around, suddenly he saw a feline tail. Letting out a heartpiercing scream he high tailed it back to the camp rambling about spirits and predators.

Mr Barlow and Mr Higgs followed his trails to see what Tom had seen. At first they found nothing, but then they heard a mewing and a small white cat came up to them. "A terrifying spirit, indeed", Samuel said, as the cat licked his hand.

 

"To the Royal Society of Natural Philosophy

During my mission to establish relations with the natives on Celestia I have heard rumors that large feline predators stalk the island, in much the same way as on Cascadia.
As I've understood that many adventurers and government officals want accurate news regarding this issue I thought it prudent to give any help that I can. I have travelled
exstensivly through Celestia's jungle and can confirm that there are feline creatures, but that they are of a small and peaceful kind that pose no threat to any travellers. They
are white of colour and their size and fur is like that of a normal house cat. I hope that the Royal Society of Natural Philosophy can now quickly spread the information that
no adventurers, or inhabitants of Jameston for that matter, need worry themselves about feline predators.

Yours respectfully,

Samuel Barlow"

 

OOC: It's a bit funny that just after writing in the main thread about not having any ideas for categories B and C I went to bed, and as soon as I woke up I now had ideas for both. So, well, here is the first!

An overview of the set if anybody is interested.

Spoiler

 

Edited February 2, 2018 by Flavius Gratian

[Maxim I]

Excellent minifig posing!!!

I like the creative and funny take on the challenge. great job! :)

[Elostirion]

Clever idea, and great presentation, actually. Especially the first picture really conveys the feeling of a heavily dense jungle in a huge MOC (which I asumme it is not, but that does not matter). Really, really cool!

[Flavius Gratian]

On 2018-01-29 at 9:33 AM, Maxim I said:

Excellent minifig posing!!!

Thank you! I try to make the minifigs come alive in my stories, glad you liked it!

On 2018-01-29 at 9:33 AM, Maxim I said:

I like the creative and funny take on the challenge. great job! :)

Since I don't know (or care) that much about plants and animals I had to get motivated some other way!

On 2018-01-30 at 10:12 AM, Elostirion said:

Clever idea, and great presentation, actually. Especially the first picture really conveys the feeling of a heavily dense jungle in a huge MOC (which I asumme it is not, but that does not matter). Really, really cool!

Thank you very much! I found those animal pieces while sorting through some of my bricks and got the idea. I'm happy that the dense jungle came across, no it's just 32x16 (you can see it in the spoiler), so I had to use a lot of different angles for the different shots.