Ara - Fate Core

[Neow46]

Kai immediately straightened up as he got a look form the guard and His attention was drawn by Gawaine, sweat still almost pouring from his fur....


"I uhmmm..."


Kai took a moment to look at the different pendants she was looking at, and he leaned next to her to get a better look at the display....


In all honesty, this cowboy has never really had a taste for Jewelry, sure it was shiny and made of good ol' gold and silver, but it's honestly just never really interested him...


As he looked amongst the different Symbols, He honestly found the Symbol of Fire most attractive, But the color of Magic more fitting for Miss Gawaine... However, aside from the lockets, Kai spots a symbol that particularly does catch his eye....


"I uhh...." he almost dumbfoundedly starts with. Still being painfully an obvious stereotype in a sense...


"Well, I like the Symbol o' Fire there, Reminds me of the Borderlands and them Krynns lands y'know? ...Although... i'd thinks the color purple o' magic there would fit your..." Kai paused for a moment as he tried to find the word he was looking for... At least he was being honest though...


"Assssss-thee-tic? Somethin' like that? Like it'd match yur' Outfit moreso i thinks?"


Kai almost stuttered surprisingly, His eyes darting at Gawaine's hips as he said "ass".


Again, Jewelry wasn't really an interest for him, neither were big or really fancy/metaphorical words....


Although he still had a rather minor sense of fashion somehow... prolly too much time in Brothels and so on with many other pretty gals throughout his life.... He's bound to pick up SOME things after all...


"Although...." From Gawaine, and back to the lockets, Kai looked a very peculiar looking locket that was nearby to the other ones.


A Silver Looking kind of Amulet with a strange Diamond shape with a sort of hook in it's center...


(You know the one i'm talking about CHRIS.)


For some reason this 6th locket/amulet Kai felt naturally drawn to... almost like some kinda Other Almighty Universal being hardwired him to be drawn to this symbol as well as his incredible need to still pinch the other booty nearby but struggling extremely (and partially failing) to keep calm and focus on the long term booty in front of him....


"This un' here is a pretty interestin' one." he pointed to the silver locket/amulet with the Diamond Shaped symbol and Hook in it's center.

 

[Lily Moriya]

"Excellent, then you shall lead us to it." Naya smiles and quickly scribbles some information down on her notes. She then silently mutter to herself something about oddities and ghosts, putting her book back in her bag.

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman only nods, moving behind Naya and crossing his arms. He still didn't like this guy, but if Naya trusted him then he supposed he could put up with them. And being closer to the event should get him a better impression of the new magic, and whether or not it was dangerous.

 

[ChrisClark13]

Kai & Gawaine


Gawaine picks it up and looks it over, draping the string it hangs on over the back of her hand, "I wonder what it means..."


The human shopkeeper seems to have noticed Gawaine picking up his wares since he comes over soon after, "Quite the interesting design, those ones."


Gawine flips her hand over to let the pendant hang out, "So what does it mean?"


"I think it's a symbol of some ancient legend, like older than dirt. Some kind of mage-warrior who had an infinite arsenal of weapons and-according to my boss-it's supposedly made from the scraps one of those weapons. Prolly' not true, but..." he reaches out and lifts the pendant, "...if you hit the sun just right on it..." he tilts it to the side into the sunlight, causing it reflect a light iridescent cyan color, "...it does that. Five and a half gold for it."


(Kai knows that that's a bit pricey, probably more than the acrana pendants are going for.)




Karus Court


"Of course, right this way." Cyrin says with a deep nod. He then joins the flow of people entering Karus Court. Once inside he stops for a moment to point to a black-and-yellow scaled kobold holding up a banner with his house symbol a ways up in the benches, "My servant has reserved us a spot just over there."


Making his way up the steps he gives a wave to his servant, who excited holds up a bottle of wine and shakes it around. Once he gets close enough he shakes his head at his servant, "Not now Cax, the event will be starting soon." Dejected the servant puts the bottle back into a box resting on under the seat.


He turns around to Naya and bows a bit, pointing an open hand at the bench next to him, "Here it is, not too close or high up and at a fair angle so we can get a good look at what's going on."

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman leans down until he's close enough to whisper to Naya.


"Naya, I don't trust this individual. At all."

 

[Lily Moriya]

Naya smiles and gives a small bow to Cyrin. She then whispers back to Headsman. "Good, that makes you more perceptive to any antics he may try to perform. Here, let us sit down to where you can watch him." Naya sits down to where Headsman can be in between herself and Cyrin.


She then speaks out again. "So, Cyrin, would you be so gracious as to enlighten me to some general information about yourself?"

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman sits down next to Naya, glancing at Cyrin every now and then. He also decides to place his hand over Naya's while he's sitting right next to her.

 

[Neow46]

"Hrmmmm... That there's pretty darn fancy..." Kai humms to himself, his eyes actually fixed on something other then the booty around him, the Iridescent cyan color of the pendant mesmerizing him as he tried to dig into his childhood back in the borderlands...


"Althiugh, That story don't sound quite right to me...." He said, taking the pendant himself, still staring at the cyan color it gave off in the sun...


Kai almost forgot the world around him as he actually did some deep thinking for one of rarest times in his life...


"From the stories Ma told me as a pup, It sure is a legend older then dirt, that's fer sure.... But I don't quite think it was one of them spell swords or whatever they is... I remember it was a GIRL with one single object, and this symbol represents that in some way.... I...."


Kai's eyes light up as he hits a sudden realization, remembering seeing some jewelry like this amongst the Brothel and his Ma's own jewerly....


"Shiiiiiit.... That can't be right.... The legend is too old for that..... Huh....."


Kai seemed completely lost in thought as he tried connecting dots here and there.... But honestly they wouldn't add up for him...


Maybe it's just bad memory or his own imagination Kai thought as he began to dismiss his superstitious...


"I'll take it partner... Hell, if you gots a seccond one, id like to take that fer myself as well.... There's somethin' awfully strange about that symbol.... Feel like its been present my whole life but... Eh..."


Kai broke out his own coin purse, counting up the coins he had...


Only got about maybe 30 golds left... If that ass hadn't been there.... Plenty o' silvers and bronzes though...


Dang nabbit, the hell's with that symbol and that necklace that's causing me trouble now?


Maybe miss Gawaine or Miss Naya would know more about this here symbol...


However, before Kai took out his gold, he thought/imagined/remembered something else, he wasn't sure anymore. He knew he was also probably paying for more then he should be, but at the way the symbols making his head spin, he just wanted to buy it and get on with it...


"Don't these kinds symbols also turn red too...? Somethin' feels like its tellin me they turn red too..."

 

[ChrisClark13]

Kai & Gawaine


The shopkeep shrugs, "All I know is that some guy started making these things and my boss is selling 'em for him and they've got a nice cyan sheen to 'em. As far as I know, there's not a drop of magic in 'em, otherwise my boss would have me selling 'em for a lot more!" He chuckles a bit at this.


Another customer seems to be trying to get his attention now so he cuts the conversation short and exchanges the pendants for Kai's coin before giving a short, "Farewell." before attending to the other customers.


Gawaine puts her pendant on as soon as she gets it and holds it up in her hand to get a better look at the iridescent cyan sheen, "In Ironwall these would probably be like, ten gold a piece. I guess it really is easier to make a living out here in human lands."


A large hunting horn can be heard coming from the direction of the court. The event must have started.




Karus Court


Cyrin nods and starts talking, "Oh of course. I am one of the more higher-ranking sons in my house, though considering that our whole house is rather lowly ranked that doesn't mean much." he looks out to the center of the court, which is currently completely empty, leaving just a dirt floor with one main gate and the back and two smaller gates to either side of it. It seems like it would well suited to a gladiatorial fight of some kind.


Cyrin continues after a moment, "I'm hoping that whatever magic this is, I'll be able to learn it and so increase my standing in this world," he gives Cax a pat on the head, looks over to Naya for a moment then lets out a heavy sigh, "Of course, the plight of one as lowly as myself is surely is of no concern to someone of the Hearn house."


Large hunting horns sound and Cax screeches out in excitement, "Oh! Oh! It's starting!"


The side gates are hoisted up with a creaking noise, once fully hoisted two groups of half a dozen huge, mutated wolves stream out of them. One group has pure white fur, and the other pure black. (Naya and Headsman can see that these wolves are in much better condition and much, much cleaner than the ones they encountered on the road here.)


The two packs run a circle around the court, mingling though each other before coming to sit at attention in the middle, the black group on the right and the white group to the left.


The larger, main gate starts to creak as it opens inwards...


Cyrin meanwhile has pulled out a notebook and is furiously sketching the scene before him as he mutters, "Giant... wolves...? The... implications! Oh Ara! The implications of this! Standing at perfect attention as well!"




Railyn


Railyn finds herself standing on the sidelines of the crowd making their way into Karus Court. There are people from all over, though notably a fair amount of people wearing standard mage's garb from the College of Magic and also from Ironwall. Though there is also some elves, a group of Wolven from Wulfhiem and a few groups from Luandis (judging by their fur and their armor). All of them here to investigate this new magic and see if it's any good.


...


A beautiful pale woman wearing a full-body dark red cloak is standing across the walkway from Railyn. It seems she's been standing there waiting for the Krynn to notice her, when Railyn eventually does, the mysterious woman grins a wide smile full of... pointed teeth revealing that she is actually a nymph. She gives a small wave just as a partially dense group of people walks between you two.


When the group passes, the mysterious nymph is gone.


The deep bass sound of large hunting horns sounds from inside the court, it seems the event is starting.

 

[Lily Moriya]

Naya silently writes down the scene that is folding out on stage, taking special care to accurately describe the wolves and their actions. She mumbles to herself as quietly as possible. "This is interesting. They are not at all like the wolves we saw. Definitely something worthy of note."

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman nods at that statement. "Either they've refined the tactic, or they're trotting out the trophy examples and keeping the rest under wraps. I don't think we're getting the full story..."

 

[Neow46]

Kai couldn't even get a "thank yah kindly" out before the merchant went off to serve more customers.


"I suppose so..." Kai responded to Gawaine as he kept examining his own pendant.... He didnt know much about economics besides knowing when to snatch a coin purse...


(Speaking of, Once they get going, I'd like to make a check/lookout for loose monies. And hopefully roll to steal more)


He heard the horns sounding, momentarily breaking his attention from the pendant.


"I guess they're showin off them wolves that attacked us on the road.... Wanna drop these supplies off at the wagon and see what them others are up to?"


Kai asked Gawaine as he put on his own pendant, letting it rest right on his chest, still puzzling him quite a bit....


But... A rather devilish thought entered Kai's mind...


"Or you think you'd rather go into the back of the wagon itself or the Tavern eh?"


Kai winked at Gawaine, she'd know dead on what he meant As he wrapped an arm around her and lifted most the other shopping supplies with his other hand.


But if she said no, he wouldn't mind a simple beer or two either in all honesty....

 

[Cici]

Mostly mages...Railyn was a little disappointed, though she'd been expecting it more and more as she neared her destination. She hadn't heard what this whole thing was about when she'd set off, precisely, mostly just that it was important. Honestly, knowing that she'd primarily be finding mages here, she might not have started the journey. Working for mages wasn't the best job, most of the time, as they never seemed to get into the habit of treating those who didn't devote themselves to the arcane arts as anything but lesser individuals. Ironwall mages were the worst of the bunch, when it came to that—though being Krynn herself, and fairly knowledgeable about magic, she had a bit more leeway there than most.


She wasn't particularly interested in the event itself; she'd come for the spectators. So, rather than enter with the rest, she remained outside, observing the crowd. At times, she had been approached by a client in the past, but more often than not, she'd had to seek them out, and that took time, even with a gathering such as this. A nymph across the way seemed to have been herself watching Railyn, and she took note of the vanishing stranger's appearance, should they choose to make contact later.


Finally, the crowd dwindled to a trickle as horns sounded, and shortly thereafter, vanished entirely. Nodding to herself, she leaned back and began to review the thirteen individuals she'd picked out as potential clients—which of them seemed likely prospects, and which would she do better to avoid? The nymph, at the very least, likely couldn't be judged until they'd had a proper conversation; vanishing like that was the mark of someone with a trickster's mercurial personality (to her complete lack of surprise). That left twelve to go over before the event concluded, though she'd never really figured out just how long it would run. Hopefully, she wouldn't be rudely interrupted; the sooner she finished, the better.

 

[ChrisClark13]

Kai & Gawaine





Gawaine tilts her head and lifts a claw to her chin as she thinks it over, "Hmm... sure." she smiles and leans on Kai's shoulder, "Just for you sweetie~." she says sweetly before giving him a quick kiss on the cheek.


Back at the wagon there's a black wolven-wearing black leather armor without a hood-apparently bossing Naya's kobold around. Their tail can be seen wagging as they're handed a whole case load of wine from the back of the wagon.


She turns around, smiling widely and waving at you two, "Heeeeey! You guys know where Heady's at?"


(Had fur color wrong whoops)




Karus Court





The middle gate opens and smoke pours out. The court goes silent. Drums start beating ominously as a gigantic paw steps out of the smoke... and then the giant beast takes another step, and another coming out of the smoke.


Three giant wolf heads come out of the smoke with a figure in a blood-red cloak riding on the snout of the middle head. The two side heads roar in unison as the smoke disperses, revealing a giant, blood red, three headed wolf (about the size of an elephant actually).


Meanwhile, Marcus Vizara himself (identifiable by his fancy robes) walks out under the beast with his arms held out, as if to say 'Are you impressed?'.


Cyrin is speechless.




Railyn





Railyn looks over her list, seems a good few of them are mages and all of them are probably at the event right now too.

Spoiler

Marcus Vizara: Human. Unaffiliated with any magic institution. Appeared out of nowhere and hired up a bunch of guards, mages, and interestingly huntsmen. Could probably get a position anywhere in his group.


Nymph: May or may not have an interest in you. Trickster, not uncommon for nymphs. Full length cloak the color of fresh spilled blood.


Luandis Warband Representatives, Dragon Banner and Claw Banner: Probably from two opposing warbands, probably more magic related ones. Making these two probably berserker-mages. Working for warlords is good pay, but they demand absolute loyalty and hide information from you. Most require secrecy about what you did with them as well. They skip the pleasantries of modern politics and get straight to the swordpoint.


Wulfhiem Noble: Traveled alongside Felisilva group. Probably warrior-mage. May be looking for leg up in politics back home.


Felisilva Noble: Traveled alongside Wulfhiem group, they usually travel together. Cats plotting to take political power back from wolves? (The obvious assumption though.) Might be trained in magic.


Marisma Noble, Olus Jarra: Came with large group full of wares to sell at the market surrounding event. Flaunting the "Wealth of the Naga" more than is called for for an event of this size. Has the most expensive booth at the event and the Ironwall Krynn are displeased by this.


Wood Elf Lesser Prince: Traveled ahead of the High Elf group. Could manipulate the "two-eyes for an eye" policy the elves have for some easy pay "repaying" a slight between the Wood and the High elves. (High elves would never hire a non-elf though.)


Avian Princess, Kallin Ferga: Worked with her in the past, honorable. Seems to have come into more wealth than last time you saw her. Passionate and driven to restore the Avian nobility to a place of power. Sorcerer of the Flame.


Human Merchant, Philian Riselander: Competing with Nagas, specializes in magical trinkets and hiring out mages.


Low Ranking Krynn Mage, Cyrin Jun: Is particularly ambitious in raising his own standing and has access his house's funds. Based on his attempts to talk just about everyone that passed him by into supporting him, would probably hire you for just about anything.


Nymph Royal Escort, Hikan Valiant: Surprisingly level headed due to his dedication to order. Does not use magic. Runs through those he hires very quickly and is said to be in need of someone to watch over the royal fairies. Potentially easy money, has been heard to hire out for less... savory things and this is from his own mouth.


Human Royal Representative, Isabella Dawnblade: Could be useful for an in with the Human Royalty. Honorable (probably). Heard she's been worried with reports of random animal attacks and is looking for answers. Possibly suspicious type, big on "truthfulness". This is from the mouth of her underlings.

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman stares at the creature in awe, not sure whether to be horrified or impressed. "Holy shit..." he mutters.

 

[Neow46]

Kai tried to hide a small blush as he smiled at Gawaine as they walked togethor atfer the peck on the cheek from the beautiful Kyrnn as he ebgins to think to himself...


Shucks, I wonder why I hadn't dated sooner! Specially' if it meant this much good se-





Although, upon arrival back at the cart, Kai's train of thought and light hearted smiled turned into a disappointing grimace.


Great. I knew that boy was gonna drag along someone here.


Kai thought to himself almost angrily...


He was the one supposed to be causing trouble!


"That boy? Well, he's off with Miss Naya right now over thata' way with all them horns and such..."


Gently placing down the groceries he had been carrying, Kai pointed a thumb towards the Karus Court.


His right hand hovered over his revolver, standing and watching this girlie' here taking wine all the sudden.


"You's one of his Relentless Order mates or somethin' yeah?" Kai asks, the brim of his hat only slightly above his eyes for the black wolven to see.


"You had best get on goin' then... Seein' what we've seen, whatever's goin on down there ain't good.


So why the hell you takin' my wine here now huh?"


Kai said aggressively, keeping his eyes trained on the Black Wulven...


Although he leaned a little closer to Gawaine, and quietly whispered to her.


"It ain't actually my wine... well, some o' it is... mostly Miss Naya's... But if this girlie' starts lookin for a fight, meet me later at the tavern yah hear? These order sun's-a-bitches are just about as much trouble as I am..."


"Or you're... welcome to watch... I guess...?"


He whispered that last part almost feeling confused...

 

[Lily Moriya]

Naya just stares at the three headed beast in awe. She soon snaps out of it and begins writing out a quick description of this monster accompanied by a sketch. "Now THIS is something exciting. We need to get more information on this as soon as possible."

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman continues staring at the creature in barely restrained terror. "This... the Order needs to know, as soon as possible, we can't allow this... Can we? This is... This is..."





His grip on Naya's hand tightens, and his eyes continue widening incredibly.

 

[Cici]

Railyn could pretty safely strike off the Luandis representatives for now; the money might be good, but the working conditions aren't quite worth it for someone of her temperament, and as she had a decent number of other options, there was no need to seek out work that she wasn't very well suited for. Still, it was something she took careful note of. Should the others opt not to hire her, it would mean that she didn't have to leave empty-handed.


The Felisilva and Wulfheim groups were likely to be very involved in their local politics, and as a wanderer, becoming too entangled in one area's affairs was something she would prefer to avoid. For the same reasons, she'd probably pass the Avians by. It's not that she'd be opposed to working with Princess Kallin—in fact, it was quite the opposite. The Princess was surprisingly keen-minded for someone she'd initially figured would be, to put it kindly, a very sheltered individual, and had certainly proved herself to have the makings of a good leader in their past dealings. But as...convenient...as it might be to further a professional relationship with Avian royalty, she valued her independence too highly to limit it in such a way.


In fact, most of the rest of her list were a little too famous for her liking. High-profile jobs had their place, but for Railyn, that place was few and far between, and it hadn't been too long since the last one.


The mage from House Jun, however, was substantially less prominent; she could easily avoid too much attention as his hireling, but...


No. Not an option. House Jun had been positioned such that it could have been complicit in her family's slaughter, and there was no way of knowing whether his hunger for a higher rank was unusual in his House. Best avoid them until she could either confirm or deny their involvement.


That left three. The human merchant, Riselander; he was certainly a good choice, if a bit more involved in mage communities than she'd prefer. But it was the final two that really intrigued her.


For one, the nymph whose name she didn't know had, from the looks of things, sought her out in particular. A bit strange, given that she'd been mostly trying to avoid notoriety among mercenary circles. The only real reputation she had was one of reliability, so she was rarely asked for by name—that was typically reserved for those considered among the best in Lu'Arla in their given specializations. So for whatever reason this nymph was looking for her, she wanted to know.


Of course, that could just be her reading into things a little too much. Still, it would be worth talking to her.


As for Vizara, he seemed to be a mage that had little or nothing to do with any of the established mage hierarchies and communities. That in and of itself was strange, but for Railyn, that was a good kind of strange; people were a lot less likely to put their head up their own ass when they weren't surrounded by others who'd shoved it in there. On top of that, he seemed to have just appeared out of nowhere fairly recently. He'd almost certainly make for an interesting employer.


In the end, Railyn decided that she'd seek out the nymph first, and Vizara second. She'd figure out who to find next should her dealings with them prove fruitless. All that was left was to wait for this event to end—which could be quite a while; from the abrupt silence that had fallen over the crowd, it was quite the show for those invested in such things.

 

[ChrisClark13]

Kai & Gawaine


Gawaine just glares at Kai incredulously as the mysterious woman starts laughing, "You planning on seducing me boy? Miss Quicksilver here is waay outta your league scrub, and I don't think your girlfriend is too keen on that idea. Tell you what, you take me over to my kid brother and maaaybe I leave some of the wine behind and maa-" she lets out a short snort of laughter, "maaybe I won't POISON any of it! Ohohoho!" she continues that silly laugh for a while as she waits for Kai's reaction.


Naya's servant cuts-in, "S-Sir! She threatened me with my l-l-life s-sir!"


Quicksilver some more of that silly laugh, "OohohoHOHO! Damn right I did!" she spins on her heel so she's facing the poor kobold, "What else you got in there scaly? Tell me!" she says with a fanged grin.


The kobold looks to Kai for help.




Karus Court


Vizara raises his hand in a common Arcana symbol most often used for a spell to amplify one's voice (though a mage of Vizara's level probably doesn't need to make a hand symbol to cast such a simple spell, it's now common to make that symbol when one's about to speak anyways) and the drums fall silent.


He speaks, his voice carried to all within the court's stands, "It's probably impossible to recognize her, but this is the same mutt I used in my private demonstration three months ago."


The mage grins widely as he continues speaking, "Yes, in just three months, Me and my mages have turned a stray animal into the mighty weapon of war you see towering above me, currently utterly under the control of my finest student" He points a finger upwards to the beast in question for a moment as the rider on top of it flashes a smile of fanged teeth (a nymph) and waves to the crowd.


Vizara continues speaking, "These packs here took a month and a half each to turn into war beasts, and that was using also using common mutts. They are controlled by my next finest students." he brings his hands together in front of his chest, "Now, the packs and the great beast will fight for your entertainment! And... do try not to bet on which one will win it may cheapen the experience, or do, the answer may just surprise you." He bows and walks backwards under the three-headed warbeast as the drums start up again.


Cax, Cyrin's servant, screeches out in a sort-of-whisper voice (though it's really not very quiet at all), "Oooh ooh! I think the white ones are going to win!" Cyrin just mumbles a reply, "We'll see... the odds... one can't tell where they lay at the moment..."


A large gong rings out and the packs leap into motion, the white and black packs covering the left and right sides of the three-headed beast respectively. The great beast's rider leaps clear back to the base of the middle head's neck and lays flat, wrapping themselves around it. The great beast an be seen tensing up in preparation for an attack, the heads looking to it's sides...




Railyn





While Railyn's busy waiting for the event to be over she manages to spot a couple kids standing at a street, one of them pointing right at her and they seem to both be referencing something from a piece of very fine paper as they point at the mercenary Krynn on and off... that's probably not good.

Make a Deceive roll to act like that you haven't noticed them, if you get a 1 or lower you fail it and they notice you noticing them and run away. If you get at least a 3 you can walk right past-or up to them-without them thinking they've been spotted.
If they run away, you have enough Athletics to catch up to them easily, but it might cause a scene (if you care at all about that).


Once you catch up to them, do what you want.

 

[Neow46]

Kai laughed heartily out loud at Quicksilver's first comment.


"HAHAHAHAAA, Oh I sure wouldn't shy away from tryin'! You sure ain't bad lookin', that's fer sure! Maybe we could get somethin' goin' here!"


Kai lowered his gaze back on her again.


A mischievous smile on his face as he tipped his hat.


"But believe it or not, I got standards too yah' know...


And Missy, Honestly you seem as Rotten as any other of them war-mangers or whatever the hell they's called... And i sure as hell ain't dumb enough to take a bite outa one."


Kai's hand hovered over his revolver as if he was ready for a stand-off.


"Why dont you go ahead and leave that wine there alone now? I already told yah' where the kid is at."


His grin persisted though...


"Or don't, and go ahead and cause a ruckus here n' now, see if you can even hit me!"


He opened his arms wide in a mocking gesture.


There were two witnesses stacked against her should she decide to fight him now, and the town guards would likely be forced to assist Kai.


"Thata' way, even you's Relentless fucks will know my name!"





(can i make a notice roll to identify Quicksilver's body language and or arsenal?)

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman's horror just seems to increase. "These used to be dogs? They turned dogs into this?!? How can they... This isn't natural, this is horrible!"





Headsman's grip is practically like a vise on Naya's hand at this point. He's shaking slightly.

 

[Lily Moriya]

Naya's awe is quick to be replaced with worry when she realizes that Headsman is shaking and gripping at her hand so hard it almost hurts. "Headsman? Headsman, it's alright. Everything is fine, nothing terrible is going to happen to us." She tries her best to calm him down, now completely ignoring the stage performance.

 

[Bluesunnyday]

Headsman takes a few deep breaths. "Naya, look at those things! Those monsters used to be regular animals! They're..." He sighs, and seems to calm down. "You know what? Fine. I doubt they're gonna attack us, and if they do..."





He uses his free hand to gesture to the gun on his back. "I'm ready."

 

[Cici]

Spotting the kids pointing her out, Railyn eyes them over a little too intently, and it isn't long until they realize they've been made. They make a run for it, the paper fluttering in the wind as they gain speed. Making a snap decision, she darts after them. Her agility almost makes it shameful to call what ensues a 'chase', and before the kids realize they aren't fast enough to get away, she's already circled around through an alleyway to cut them off as they round a corner.


They halt, dumbstruck, and Railyn takes the opportunity to pluck the document out of the boy's hands. Whatever's on there, she wants to see it for herself.