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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 2, 2023 15:14:04 GMT -5
As Mephis stepped off of the boat that took him from The Marsh Flats to Sol City, he felt a little frustrated as a majority of the solars he got there were spent on that one voyage. He sighed as he waved off the captain and hastily made his way into the gold port, and for an instant he felt at ease hoping that his family wouldn't look for him here. That ease was suddenly replaced with of being overwhelmed as the he had arrived there at the peak hours of the day and everything around him was in constant motion, the polar opposite of where was just a couple days prior. He took a deep breath and smirked to himself knowing that with all the bustle meant an easier time hiding and an easier time pickpocketing. He skulked into a nearby crowd and set his eyes on some potential targets. Not before long he purposely bumped into someone "Oh my apologies good sir, I wasn't watching where I was going" and slipped their coin purse away from them. He then skulked further into the crowd before the person could even notice that their money was relocated into his sleeve. Mephis liked this place, he didn't stick out like sore thumb even with his flowy and colorful outfit. He could definitely see himself staying here for a while longer if no-one was directly on his tail.
Now a good distance away he started to count his easy score it wasn't too much but enough for some food. He then rounded an alley corner and found himself in a sprawling market square, the smell of smoked meats and fresh fruit filled the air as Mephis made his way closer. He then noticed a human man behind a counter that seemed to be selling reading material and other small trinkets. Well it wasn't the human that caught his attention it was what he was reading ... or struggling to read, it had a language that Mephis sort of recognized: Infernal. Then the human's eyes shot to him and some else nearby he waved them over "Hey I hate to assume this but do you two know Infernal? I just picked this up and I'm wondering if it's worth selling." Mephis side-eyed the other person, it was another teifling a purple one at that. His aura of this person honestly scared Mephis a little bit he knows he won't be able to pull any thief stuff on him. Nonetheless he steps forward with a smirk "I do not know about him. But I know a good amount of infernal, I could lend those skills to you for the right price" he said as he leaned himself against the sale counter.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 3, 2023 1:27:44 GMT -5
Javal was in his captain’s quarters aboard his trusted ship, “The Sword of Abaddon”, he was reading a couple of security jobs that Nadia and Bootsamon managed to get.
He read them as he sat on his desk. There was nothing too difficult that required the whole team’s attention, he could take these jobs and finish them quickly in maybe an hour or so. There were easy jobs after all, helping an elderly elf noble get her cat out of a tree, a vendor needing some muscle transporting a handful of his goods across town, and a library needing someone to set up some empty shelves for books.
He landed on Gold Port and hopped off his ship walking through the port with his trusted number one, Nadia, and number two, Bootsamon waving goodbye to his employees who stayed on the ship.
He waved Nadia and Bootsamon goodbye as they had been given orders to do some information gathering throughout the city to find some more jobs for the company.
Javal ran around the city at a quick pace trying to get his contracts done as fast as he could, he was right it took him a little under an hour.
He decided to rest and take in the city now that he had gotten his business done he was about to dig into a meat skewer that he had bought before he heard someone call for him.
He turns around to see a human vendor waving for him to come closer. He spotted another fellow fellblood, he smiled at both of them and walked over quickly gulping down his meat skewer stick and all.
Javal responds now standing in front of the stall, “Yes I do indeed know Infernal. May I have a look at your book? Maybe I can tell what it’s worth?”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 8, 2023 15:27:53 GMT -5
"we can discuss your fee after we figure out what this is, of course I am not doing this for free" Mephis pushed up his glasses and then quickly swiped the book away from the man. He turned the brown leather bound book around in his hands, inspecting the covers. it felt very old and weathered like the weakest of breezes could possibly turn it to dust, nonetheless Mephis searched for a title or any signifier on what this book was. Only to find the binding of the book to be just about barren except for a gold insignia of a flame on the spine. "um my good fellow? from where did this book fall into your hands, I can't seem to find anything on either cover" He asked as he continued to inspect the book, looking at the man over his glasses. "Oh some random elven man stopped by my stall earlier this morning, a shifty looking fellow if you asked me. All he said was that he didn't have a use for it anymore, even took the first sale offer I gave him. gave him just a couple of solar for whatever this was" "Uh huh, interesting indeed" Mephis nodded as he glanced back down to the first, flipping to a random page near the middle. His eyes slowly scanned the lines of text, yet he could really only pick out a few words within. He flipped to the next page hoping to gleam whatever this was, His eyes narrowed in confusion at the text. This was indeed infernal he recognized the basic structure but it seemed to be a much older version of it. Among the long blocks of unknown text he could only make out, the words he could only make out were Hidden, Treasure, Sol City, and followed. With those words his eyes widened in hope, and a wry smirk appeared on his face as he looked back up to the human.
He closed the book and tucked it under his arm, then placed his other hand on the sales counter and leaned in "oh I have a good idea of what this book entails ... However if you would like to know what it actually is, how about I raise the fee that you already owe. Then I could enlighten you on the contents and leave the book with you, and if that doesn't sound like reasonable deal to you, I will be take this book and be on my way. How does that sound." Mephis held out his other hand with a wide sharp toothed grin, the human looked at his hand with slight hesitation before glancing over to Javal. Mephis then side-eyed the purple tiefling, widening them to hopefully signal for him to go along with Mephis' negotiation. Mephis' eyes then shot back to the human and cleared his throat bringing the humans attention back to him
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 9, 2023 1:15:51 GMT -5
Javal just stood around trying to make out what was in the open book that Mephis was reading. He walked slightly behind Mephis only enough to try to make out what was on the page he couldn’t see much, only able to catch a couple of words, “Hidden, Treasure, and followed”. Javal stays quiet allowing Mephis to take control of the conversation with the merchant wanting to see what he was planning to do. Javal was about to ask the other fellblood if he could read the book himself but stopped as Mephis continued to speak to the merchant.
Javal’s expression turned from curious to confused, “Why would you charge for a translation when I can just do it for free?”, he thought to himself.
He then stayed silent awaiting Mephis’s negotiations trusting the other fellblood to make the correct decision, he would have to speak one on one with him later but for now, he is just curious to see what he has planned.
The vendor then says, “Hm, you know what? Sure I’ll pay you some more but all I ask is to know what contents are in that book and if it’s something of value that you let me know at once”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 12, 2023 14:24:12 GMT -5
Mephis smirked as he heard the confirmation of his payment "Let's say you owe me 50 solars for my services here, and if you want the book afterwards that will run another 25 solar. How does that deal sound?" he asked still holding out his hand for a shake. The human merchant groaned but reluctantly clasped his hand into the fellblood's "yeah sure, that's fine. Now enough stalling tell me what's in the book." The human then squeezed his grip on mephis' hand a little harder showing that he was starting to get tired of his negotiations. Mephis then wriggled his hand free from his grasp, rubbing it to try to soothe the pressure left by the merchant's surprisingly strong grip.
Feeling the tension start to rise he decided to just finish this as quick as he could and leaned up against counter once again, getting real close to the merchant. "Well this pretty little book here is something that is incredibly important to the fellblood culture. something that has been sought after since the creation of this, some have even died over this book." as he starts to stall a tiny bit further he has his tail reach around to the pages of the book and then rip out the pages that he thinks talk about a treasure. "I said enough stalling my patience is running thin, on with it alright!" the merchant barked at him with crossed arms. Now he would get on with it as he used his tail to stuff the pages into one of the many pockets on the inside of his long overcoat. He then placed the book onto the counter "Alright, I apologize I have making a show of my negotiations, but this book is a ... famous cookbook, one that has been around since the dawn of the fellbloods themselves. this book has kept records of every dish ever created by fellbloods, that's why your stall seemed to catch my attention before you called us over." he was 1lying out of his ass though the only thing that was truthful about his statement was that he was interested in the book. "Now was that so hard, but yes I would like to keep the book from the way you describe it it seems like it would fetch a pretty hefty price, hold on lemme get your solars really fast for your help."
as the merchant ducked under the stall to start counting the payment, Mephis could feel the purple tiefling's eyes burrowing holes into him. he could feel the confusion and hint of disapproval, yet he looked over his shoulder to him and gave a half shrug with a sharp tooth smile. As the merchant popped back up he set down a leather pouch onto the table, seeing the money Mephis slides the book across the counter and quickly swiped the pouch. "pleasure doing business with you my kind fellow, good luck with future sales" he said with an extravagant bow then turned on his heel to walk away. With his back turned to the stall he pulled out the pages he tore out and inspected them further hoping to find more answers to what ever this hidden treasure was, where in Sol city it was and who was following or being followed.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 13, 2023 0:40:21 GMT -5
Javal stood there to the side silently staring right through Mephis as he continued to scam the poor fellow out of his earned treasure. He notices that he tore pages from the book and hid them for himself Javal had never met this man before but already he could tell what type of guy he was.
He was confused as the other fellblood was regaling the merchant fellow with the story about the book being an ancient fellblood cookbook. He was beginning to doubt himself as he tried to remember what was on the pages from what he saw. Maybe it was a fellblood cookbook. Perhaps he would have to buy the book of the merchant for his dear mother back in Thorock, Dragon’s Cradle.
As Mephis walked away Javal bid the merchant farewell with a promise to himself in his mind to figure out what was going on. He walked behind the other fellblood only a couple of feet away; he was never particularly good at hiding or stealth so it would be easy to spot him at any given time. After a couple of minutes of following Mephis, Javal decides to at least speak to the other man to get his perspective.
He called him over, “Hey there mister can I have a word with you I have a couple of questions about what happened with the book”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 17, 2023 22:44:14 GMT -5
Mephis studied the pages he tore out a little bit closer he felt like he was right on the verge of cracking whatever the couple of pages said. Until he felt the eyes of someone from the crowd burrowing deep into the back of his skull, someone was following him. He couldn't tell how far away the person was or where they even were but he didn't want to tip whoever it was off that he knew they were looking for him. So he did was he does best, play it cool while trying to get them off of his tail, so as he pretended to study the pages he attempted to turn as many corners as he could to attempt to break eye contact off of him. Yet he couldn't shake his pursuer, he felt his options running out and he considered just making a break for it until a voice called out to him. This was his follower calling out to him, he just knew it and took a deep breath turning towards them.
He flinched a tiny bit when he saw who it was, it was that strong looking purple fellblood back from the stand. He had to choose his words carefully or he might be caught, he then placed his hands and grinned a sharp-toothed smile "Oh, it is you from the book stand. How pleasant it to see you again" Mephis' grin grew wider as his eyes darted around the area to look for a chance to escape. His eyes locked onto stack of boxes that would be perfect for him to climb and get to a roof, deciding that would be his plan if things went really south. His body relaxed to show that he was no threat to this man but his mind was still ready to book it at the first chance. He does an extravagant bow followed with a smirk as he responds "Dante at your service what could I possibly do for you? I'll answer any question you have as honestly and truthfully as I possibly can. you can trust me"
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 18, 2023 13:38:46 GMT -5
Javal returns Mephis’s smile with one of his own and places his hands on his waist as Mephis continued to speak he was listening earnestly and trying to understand.
“Hello there, yes I am the fellow from the book stand. It is a pleasure to see you as well once again. I was wondering if I could take a look at that book or accompany you to wherever it leads to. You seem like a very trustworthy guy but I thought you could use some help looking for what’s in the book. I couldn’t read it very well as I just looked over your shoulder but I did see mentions of treasure. I can offer you strength and intelligence to help you look for it”.
Something about Mephis was giving Javal a strange feeling he wanted to trust the other fellblood but something about him looked off. Maybe it mayhaps be the looking around the area or the nervous attitude but then again Javal wasn’t a judgmental person and perhaps this fellow was sick.
Javal decided to bring his concerns to Mephis and say, “Are you sick you seem kind of nervous and looking around I hope I’m not making you uncomfortable”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 20, 2023 22:00:43 GMT -5
Mephis' hands shot into his pockets when Javal mentioned the book and he let out a pretty fake sounding laugh. It seemed he started to catch onto him, though he couldn't quite tell if he was planning on ratting him out if was to tag along. So he cleared his through and the sharp-toothed smile returned "Oh you must be mistaken, cleary I do not possess the book on me anymore. see empty pockets." he then turned the pockets at the front of his overcoat inside out, hopefully to convince him he didn't have the pages anymore and to hide the multiple pockets on the inside of his coat. Though as Javal went on Mephis knew he was caught red ... well blue handed stealing the pages out of the book, he took another fake hearty laugh and shrugged. "I do not know why you have so much interest in a fellblood cookbook, we should have these recipes known by heart. Are you saying you don't know them? and you call yourself a fellblood-" His attempt to lie even further gets cut short as he mentions the treasure and actually seeing the words on the pages.
well shit he thought to himself and huffed an annoyed sigh "well it seems you have caught on to my actions, I appreciate your offer for help ... But I won't need it when I get to the treasure first, and so I bid you adieu" He does a quick bow and waves his arm in front of his face to attempt to disorient him with his long flowy sleeve. Then with the nimbleness of a cat scuttles through the crowd and towards the stack of boxes he eyed earlier. 1With a few graceful jumps and some well placed hand grabs he makes his way up the boxes, onto the wall behind them ands rolling onto the roof above them. Having a feeling that the man would try and chase him he continues to run further up the surrounding rooftops to try and gain more distance between the two. Then as Mephis scuttled further up something caught his overcoat and a sound followed, one that he hated most in the world: tearing fabric.
Mephis looked down at his overcoat to see that it had ripped in the worst spot imaginable, right where he was keeping the pages. His eyes then focused on the scattering of said pages as they gently floated down towards the ground, right where Javal was standing. His palm clapped against in forehead in annoyance and he heaved a heavy sigh, "Don't you dare grab those pages, they're mine!" he shouted down towards him as he stood on a nearby rooftop.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 21, 2023 15:06:55 GMT -5
Javal laughed hard as he saw Mephis laugh, “I also like laughing for no reason how did you know?”.
Javal’s face went once more into a look of confusion, “But I saw you rip those pages? Is this some sort of a trick? Or maybe you were mistaken and accidentally took them into your shoe?”.
Javal continues with his confusion as Mephis continues explain himself, “I love of fellblood cuisine but I’m pretty sure those pages you took didn't say a cookbook. I’m sure that I saw a page mentioning treasure”.
Javal was begging to get irritated at Memphis continued confusion and said, “Aha you're a thief”, this was even more proven to him as the other fellblood ran off.
He was about to give chase before seeing the man get his coat ripped and his papers flying down next to him.
Javal walked over to them and began reading them ignoring the other fellblood’s command, “I was right you are a liar”.
He places the pages into his coat pocket and says, “Come down you thief I have some words for you. I am willing to let bygones be bygones. All I ask as we retrieve this treasure together and both of us give half of our findings to the man who this belongs to".
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 23, 2023 20:34:44 GMT -5
Mephis scoffed when he was called a thief and he sat defiantly on the edge of the roof with his legs dangling down. He despised being called a thief, he knew he had been called worse during his time with his family. Although for a reason unknown to him thief stung more than the rest. He dramatically brought his hand to his chest "you are half correct my purple fellow. I am a liar and damn good at that, but I am no thief. I would call myself a collector and a borrower, you good sir could be considered a thief. Seeing that you just pocketed some of my possessions". When he gazed back down to Javal and noticed that he was ignoring him caused him to let out an exaggerated gasp hopefully to catch his attention once more "Oh my gods! Are you even listening to me!? How rude, I am trying to have a conversation with you and I was just about to return this." he reached into his pocket and pulled out Javal's coin purse that by some miracle he was able to snatch during the confrontation earlier, and proceeded to toss it between his hands with a sly grin.
Once he heard Javal's proposition he stopped tossing his coin purse and brought his other hand to his chin, tapping it as he weight the options. A couple seconds later he nodded to himself although scoffing when he was once again called a thief, begrudgingly he said "Fine I will come down, but on the condition that we give him a third instead of a half. That book by itself will sell for a good amount, why line his pockets even more with money that I ... We found fair and square. also would a thief do this" he stood back up from his perch and lightly tossed his coin purse back down to him, landing onto the cobblestoned path right at his feet. He soon gracefully jumped back down to the street the flowy parts of his outfit trailing his every move. He then walked up to Javal with his hands on his hips and grinned "Alright handsome, we've got a treasure to find"
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 24, 2023 1:19:05 GMT -5
Javal’s eyes flashed as he went into his jacket pocket to look for the missing coin purse only to feel nothing in its place.
Javal turned to face the devious man once more than a glare filled with no rage or anger, just disappointment at the other fellblood’s actions.
He yells once more at Mephis, “Bring that back to me at once unlike you who just seems to use trickery and deceit. I worked my butt off fighting monsters, saving cats from trees, and other dangerous adventurers".
Javal smiles as he hears the fellblood decide to come down and accept his terms, “That does sound like a fair deal to be fair, fine one-third sounds alright. See my righteous influence is already permeating through your mind you are welcome. Soon in no time, you shall walk the path of justice just as I, you know what I solemnly swear to teach you the great things about justice during our adventure”.
Javal then catches his coin purse with both of his hands and places it back into his jacket pocket, “Well I hope nobody else tries to steal this again or I shall be out of sandwich solars for the next couple of months”, he ponders to himself.
Javal then says, “Alright where should we begin looking for this great treasure that the book mentioned”, he then pulls out the pages that he took from the floor and holds them out for him and Mephis to look at.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 25, 2023 23:01:57 GMT -5
As Javal talked about his righteous influence Mephis rolled his eyes with a sigh. "Right Mr. hero. you have helped see the error of my ways and see that I shall indeed walk the path of justice or whatever you called it. I shall absorb your ways of life like some kind of justice sponge so that one day I will become even more justicer than you." He said sarcastically as he sauntered closer to him, making exaggerated hand movements with every rise and fall of his tone. He made sure not to get too close to him, he didn't want to be on the receiving end of that study looking blade on his hip and something within him told Mephis he certainly knew how to use it too. He stopped a couple feet away from him and his eyes locked onto where he had tucked his coin purse away, then committing that pocket to memory. he wasn't planning on taking it again ... for now; if this all goes poorly he could at least slip it away from him and run. Pushing up his glasses his attention was soon brought to the pages, he scooted a tiny bit closer as he snatched one of them from his hands. Now that he actually has time his eyes slowly lined the block of ancient infernal characters, only two more words pop out to him this time Gold Port and lighthouse. He smirked as he smacked the page with the back of his hand "well I am not too sure about the page you have, but mine has mention of the Gold Port and a lighthouse I think, gods ancient infernal is infuriating to read and here I thought Infernal by itself was complicated. Anywho we should probably investigate around there first" He stuffed the page back into Javal's hands as he turning on his heels, and started heading in the direction of the Gold Port. He soon stopped and look over his shoulder "You coming, Mr. hero?" He asked sarcastically before continuing
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 28, 2023 2:05:29 GMT -5
“Of course, thank you my friend for appreciating my influence. This is a great sign for your tutelage under me in the ways of justice. One day you shall be as much of a hero as I am and as my master and his master were but for now let us hurry on our adventure”, Javal cannot understand sarcasm at all so thinks Mephis is completely sincere, and honest and respects his decision to change a new leaf over. He honestly thinks that the other fellblood is just very enthusiastic about changing his tune and becoming filled with the spirit of justice like he is.
Javal pats his jacket pocket, storing his solars thinking of how safe and secure it is before he notices the other fellblood gazing at it, “Oh do you have a coin pouch yourself, good sir? I got mine at the local Thorock market if you are interested in it perhaps I can find you another one similar".
Javal nodded along to the other fellblood’s explanation of what the infernal said and said, “Yes of course Mr. Potential Hero, wait for me”, he then coated the bottom of his sandals with cold magic (1) increasing his speed and bolted ahead of Mephis towards the Gold Port.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 29, 2023 21:30:40 GMT -5
Mephis has to cover his mouth to keep himself from laughing at the tiefling's sincerity, but he ultimately takes a deep breath to steel himself. "oh heavens you are something else but yes let us hurray on our adventure of justice" He has to bite his cheek to keep himself from laugh even further. He shows off his best "innocent" smile as he reaches into his jacket pocket, and pulls out the coin purse he swiped before meeting, "oh don't worry your pretty head, I have got my own coin purse. I was just admiring the make and design of yours is all." He curled his tail around the purse as he stashes back into one of the many pockets inside the coat.
Before he can even turn around a blur of purple rushes past him, and once Javal was out of ear shot Mephis busts out laughing "Mr. Potential hero? there is no way this guy is for real, however I absolutely can not let him get there first." he said to himself before 1scrambling up the side of a building, he then nimbly jumps from rooftop to rooftop. This wasn't Mephis' first rooftop outing his legs carrying him like a ghost as bolted towards the tall red and white lighthouse in the distance. The sounds of seagulls and boat bells grew louder as he lowered himself back down to the streets. With his straight forward route he was able to get to the Gold Port a little bit before Javal, like before he slinked into the crowd and stealthily made his way towards the looming lighthouse.
He hummed to himself as he investigated the base of the lighthouse, he ran his hand across the stone structure until he felt a different texture. He felt something wooden hidden within the base of the tower hidden beneath some overgrown vines, He smirked as he spun his dagger from it's sheath and cut away the plants. To make sure he wasn't being followed by anyone other than the purple fellow he darted his head around, only to see said purple fellow making his way thought the crowded port.
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