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🌿 Brielle Valley's Returning Beasts Ranch 🌿
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In a valley where star veins flow, the story of unborn life and an old ranch begins.
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✨ Star Veins and Returning Beasts
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\nIn this world, the earth and atmosphere are permeated by the flow of immense magical energy known as star veins.\nStar veins influence soil, water, weather, and life. Over long ages, animals that adapted to this magic have transformed into special beings called Returning Beasts.
\nReturning Beasts possess vitality and a core of magic, and can have one or more attributes such as fire, water, wind, earth, ice, lightning, light, darkness, forest, poison, illusion, healing, stars, and moon.\nEven within the same species, appearance, personality, attributes, and abilities vary depending on bloodline, diet, environment, and the influence of star veins.
\nUpon reaching adulthood, all Returning Beasts can freely transform between their original beast form and a mature humanoid form. \nIn their humanoid form, they can speak human languages while retaining the physical characteristics (ears, horns, tails, wings, scales, etc.) and attribute abilities of their original species.\n
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🥚 Eggs Containing Life and Memories
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\nReturning Beasts reproduce through eggs, independent of the reproductive methods of ordinary animals.\nWhen adult Returning Beasts with stable health and magic, or an adult Returning Beast and an adult human with magical abilities, mate, their life force, magic, and attributes combine to create the core of a new life.\nThis core is then encased in a magical shell, forming an egg. The Returning Beast does not physically lay the egg.
\nEggs record not only the parents' bloodline and attributes but also their health, emotions, diet, season, weather, surrounding star veins, and events during the mating.\nEggs formed between humans and Returning Beasts can inherit the human parent's magical aptitude and the Returning Beast parent's species characteristics.\nEven eggs from the same parents can have different appearances, attributes, abilities, and potential for mutation.
\nEggs are graded as Normal, Excellent, Rare, Special, or Fantasy, but grading alone cannot reveal all their potential and mutations.\nAs eggs of Returning Beasts are both valuable commodities and unborn lives, conflicts surrounding their trade and research are incessant.\n
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🏡 The Role of a Returning Beast Ranch
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\nA Returning Beast Ranch is a facility for protecting and raising Returning Beasts, and for producing byproducts such as eggs, magic feathers, medicinal secretions, and magic crystals.\nEach Returning Beast requires specific temperature, humidity, water, soil, and space. Improper environments can lead to illness, stress, and magical imbalance.
\nThe ranch owner must observe the Returning Beasts' individualities and conditions, manage the facilities, and be responsible for the storage and hatching of eggs.\n
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⚖️ Returning Beast Management Association
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\nTo prevent past overhunting, abuse, and the distribution of substandard eggs, various nations have established the Returning Beast Management Association.\nThe Association manages ranch permits, bloodline records, egg trading, and facility inspections, while also cracking down on illegal trade.
\nRecently, there has been an increase in abnormal phenomena, such as Returning Beasts not laying eggs, eggs hardening like stone, and conflicting attributes clashing.\nSome researchers claim that the magic of the star veins is being diverted to other regions by an unknown force.\n
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🧺 {{user}}'s Story
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\n{{user}} has come to an old Returning Beast Ranch on the outskirts of Brielle Valley for their own reasons.\nIt was once a place that produced fine eggs, but now the fences are broken, the stables are empty, and the ranch permit is about to expire.
\nOn a rainy late afternoon, {{user}} discovers a letter left by the former ranch owner in the dusty ranch office.\n
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From Brielle Valley
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To you who are reading this letter.
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\nBy the time you arrived here, the ranch must have lost most of its former appearance.\nThe fences will be broken, the stables empty,\nand the mailbox full of demand letters from the Association.\n
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\nThere is no need to make this place a ranch again.\nBecause you have no reason to bear the debts, the permit, or the problems I left behind.\n
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\nHowever, please do not carelessly discard the one egg stored in the old insulated box inside the warehouse.\n
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\nThat child has not given up yet.\n
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\nEven if the shell has hardened like stone and the light of magic has faded,\nif you listen very closely, you should be able to hear the sound of a small heart.\n
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\nExamine the dry well behind the ranch.\nIf the star veins have not completely severed,\nthere might still be a faint trace there.\n
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\nWhatever you choose, I will not resent you.\nBut if you decide to give that child one more chance to live,\nthis ranch will also begin to breathe again.\n
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May you be safe.
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From the Former Ranch Owner
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Star Vein
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🌱 The Beginning of the Story
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\nInside the old insulated box in the warehouse lies an ungradable egg, parts of its surface hardened like stone.\nPatterns resembling fire, water, and forest appear and disappear unstably, and the star veins beneath the ranch are almost severed.
\n{{user}} can choose to hatch the egg themselves, request an inspection from the Association, or investigate its origins through unofficial channels.\nWhichever choice is made, the fate of the ranch and the egg rests in {{user}}'s hands.\n
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📝 Before You Begin
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\nPlease set up the persona for {{user}}'s character, the new owner of the Returning Beast Ranch.\nThere are no set answers; feel free to create a setting that fits the world.\n
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\n✦ Specialty: Raising, Healing, Crafting, Trading, Exploration, Egg Appraisal, Magic Research, etc.
\n✦ Reason for Taking Over the Ranch: Inheritance, Livelihood, Research, Escape, Protecting Returning Beasts, etc.
\n✦ Attitude Towards Returning Beasts: Companion, Protected Subject, Research Subject, Industrial Resource, etc.
\n✦ Magical Aptitude: Fire, Water, Wind, Forest, Healing, Stars, No Attribute, etc.\n
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🌿 ✦ 🥚 ✦ 🌿
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