(CLOSED) Doing Things

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Who: Zelos, Gaius, Kaede
When: After dungeon/before intro-log waves hands
Where: Caissa hills→Lasker
What: Helping the people etc etc things
Rating: Nope

The countryside around Caissa wasn't exactly looking the hottest. Because. You know. Dragons So Zelos has pieced together a little deal to help out. He brings some dragon skeletons up to Lasker. A rich fellow sends some much appreciated ongoing aid to the villages and families devastated by the sudden reemergence of dragons. Fun stuff.

Just. You know. Gotta get these dragon bones to Lasker. Which isn't as easy as it seems considering they're a) an hot commodity and b)the local wildlife So to this end the bones are loaded up into a wagon pulled by idk a liger and a bird pony (both uselessly skittish about DANGER) with Zelos and whoever he scrounged up for escort. Yepyepyep.

((feel free to start top levels for other things if there's a thing you wanna do /o/))

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THE WATERFALL

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At some point this road trip comes across this stunning scene. But also they gotta traverse this bitch. There's a road, but it's not in the best shape considering people use the railway for most conventional travel these days. Fairies, fish and crabs abound. Not all so friendly. And then there are the Rusalkis.

Beautiful humanoids that live in rivers. Opinions about them are mixed: some say they bless the fields, others curse them for claiming their sons and husbands. They look like the dead and it is inadvisable to approach.

Things might get a little Sinbad. PANTS ON PEOPLE PANTS ON.

THE MERCHANT

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It's night. Everyone's around the fire. Somebody made dinner idk was it cooked rusalki who knows. And then this guy walked up. He's not looking to stay. Just to trade. And he's got some interesting shit. He's not exactly De Beers, but recovery items, weapons, some curious books and...produce?

((Produce has bizarre side effects feel free to make them up or idk I can rng you something laughs))

BANDITS

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ALMOST. THERE. This trip actually hasn't been that bad maybe? Except a few hours from Lasker bandits show up. There's only about ten, but they've got a pack of trained wolves because welcome to JRPGs. Needless to say our heroes are easily surrounded.

"Think it's time you be about handing over those bones, yeah? Heroes help the poor and all. We're mighty poor, heheheheh."

What inspiring dialogue. Anyway they're clearly some cutthroat highwaymen who do fairly good for themselves if all the jewelry they wear says anything.

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"I already fed you, calm down already!" Kaede tugged the liger's lead gently; it seemed to be rather nervous of fish or things that looked like fish. It arched its back like a startled kitten at some silvery shapes in the water, jostling the cart alarmingly.

Naoki is also not being a very good guard dog, seeing as he's barking at a crab. Kaede did her best to shoo it off with her boot, which just resulted in it pinching the shoe. She didn't feel anything through the leather, but now had a crab attached to her foot. Which also led to a slightly comical scene with a diclonius trying to shake it off without hopping in place too much and scaring the giant cat she was leading any more than it already apparently was.

Situational awareness: only partially successful.

Shows up a month- no, wait, guess it's not as bad as I thought, without Starbucks.

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Meanwhile, he was chilling. Bird was fluttering about like an anxious shadow, but she seemed to enjoy the fact that they were out and about. Meanwhile, Gaius was grumping because he recognized that he hadn't packed enough sweets for the trip, but Kaede was good distraction.

"Need help?" The tones of a man who had no inclination to help.

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Despite the road there was a lot to be said for how easy things had been so far. Or maybe Zelos was just letting the fact he was with People He Could Actually Like get to this head. As it was he turned around, walking backwards to walk and failing to hold back a laugh. A little different form how jackass business he tended to be with Gaius, but WHATEVER.

"I can throw him into the river, if you want." Just saying. All the saying. The distraction did mean he missed the pale, veined hand that creeped up onto the bank behind him though. Or the equally creepy head with streaming black hair rising behind it. I was gonna link some fucking The Ring-esque shit, but then I found this so this is what you guys get instead.

That was definitely not the only sudden visitor though, hands soon after slapping the banks all around them. They were not alone.

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Kaede just scowled, at least initially. Mostly at Gaius.

"Fuck off." Spoiler alert: she's super friendly.

She was idly considering taking Zelos up on that offer when she managed to kick the crab off of her shoe, sending the unfortunate crustacean sailing into the water with a plop.

The water which was very, very occupied.

As a diclonius, Kaede was naturally instantaneously worried about hands. Even if they were currently visible ones.

"-shit! In the water!"

Keeping both skittish creatures from bolting now was difficult, let alone during a fight. Ugh.

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The scowl was just water rolling off of his back. The random encounter less so. “Crivens!” He’d have a more vulgar shout but the last few months of undead eroded his sense of fear, but they’re still large toothy and scaled things so they got a shout. It was just crivens.

If challenged in that moment Gaius would be unable to name them for what they were. He grew up in a feudal world and thus had a lack of access to things like the the Discovery Channel or nature documentaries, and he lacked the scholarly inclination to research animals on his own.

So he parsed the scene unfolding as water wyverns propelling themselves out of the water.

This didn’t really change much in the long run, but the more you know.

“Okay, okay-” Blade in hand he-

Wait, right, magic. He had that now. With a sharp snap of the giant fan he sent one of the creatures sailing off into the somewhat distance upon a gust of wind…which did nothing for the other however many water wyverns, but it was a thing.

I'm doing this thing if it fucking kills me gomen

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Whirling around, Zelos had an hand on his sword instantly. But he didn't draw it just yet, eyes taking stock of the situation. They were surrounded on a poorly kept road. Their options were rather...bleak. Even as one of the fabulously naked dead took a trip for distant lands courtesy of Gaius.

Well. Fuck.

"On the cart. Get on the cart." It was the only thing he said, backing up as those hands began aggressively clawing out, reaching for whatever they could grab. It was unclear what would happen once they had their prey, but Zelos didn't particularly want to find out. The animals, meanwhile, were flipping their proverbial shit as skittish animals would be wont to do and so forth. Better not let them run away. Yet.