10th Day of Summer 514 A.V.
Location: Zeltiva
Yuri was looking for some work, because of late his coin purse had been getting lighter and lighter until there was barely enough for him to get by over the course of the coming season, as he made his way down the various streets of Zeltiva he paused for a couple of ticks to reflect on the current status of his work life Well, there haven’t really been that many openings for mercenaries of late, but I suppose that I might not be looking hard enough either… I must find some work soon or I mightn’t be able to pay my expenses for this season After he had finished his session of meaningful thought, Yuri continued to walk around the city asking various passersby whether they required his services, most either turned him away because they claimed they wouldn’t be able to pay him, or that he was simply too young to be in the line of work he was pursuing, some even jibed that the sword he wore was for show and nothing else, it hurt his feelings as the sword he carried was his family’s sword, which had been passed down over the generations until it had ended up in his hands, Yuri refused to let the ones who jeer at him have a reaction and simply ignored them, moving on as he did so.
After a couple of chimes Yuri found himself in a relatively familiar area, one of the side streets near the World’s End Grotto, when an unknown individual pushed his way past him calling out in a rather unfriendly tone “Get out of my way, you piece of shyke.” The push had caused Yuri to lose his footing for a moment and he spun, using the momentum of the push to regain his footing, faced in the direction the man was heading, trying to take in as much information about the person as he was able, the most noticeable was that it was a Male, going by the voice, the second was that he was tall, and obviously strong, but because he hadn’t been looking up when the Man pushed past him, Yuri failed to gather any information on what the man’s face looked like, he did however get a good look at the clothes he wore, a red half cape was draped over his right shoulder, the clothes underneath were a nondescript brown and appeared to be somewhat baggy. When the figure of the Man was no longer visible to him, Yuri turned to face the direction he was originally heading, muttering a question to himself as he went “I wonder what that was all about?”
It was a short time later, however, that Yuri noticed the sound of someone crying, he picked up his pace to try to get to wherever the sound was coming from when he accidentally walked into someone, both Yuri and the other person were knocked over, picking himself up he asked the other person “Do you know where that sound would be coming from?” before he offered his hand to the other person, to help them up. After he had done this and had been told that there was a young child crying down the street the other person had just come from, Yuri set off in that direction, wondering what could have caused this disturbance. Before long Yuri was quite near to the origin of the crying, when he heard the sounds of an older, female voice, trying to comfort the child, when he rounded a corner onto something of a main street, he found himself face to face with a young girl who still had tears running down her cheeks and was blubbering slightly, and an older woman, probably the girls mother, successfully comforting her.
As he walked towards the pair he caught snippets of what was being said “Doll… back… another.” As he slowed his pace until he was standing near to the pair he cleared his voice, getting the older woman’s attention she looked at him with something like a glare on her face at him before asking in a raised voice “What do you want? Huh, haven’t you caused my poor little girl enough trouble?!” Yuri had a look of puzzlement on his face when the woman had said this and began to speak in a placating, friendly tone “I don’t know what you’re talking about ma’am, but I heard your child crying and thought I would come to investigate, could you please tell me what happened?” The woman was taken aback at Yuri’s tone, wondering if it was a trick of some sort she spoke in a lower voice, wariness dripping off of her tone “I don’t know who you are, but… it was kind of you to come here…” She paused to draw breath. “What happened was, my little Katie was happily playing on the street just over there…” She gestured towards the street Yuri had emerged from moments ago. “I looked away for a moment, happy with how she was doing, when this great hulking mountain of a man walked up to her and took her toy doll, just snatched it clean out of her hands, and began running away from here. I have no idea where he went.”
Yuri thought about what the woman had said, and wondered if it was the same man he had crossed paths with a short while ago He certainly had the right build to be when the woman began speaking again, rambling on a bit “He was as big as a house he was, I swear it, he also had a short red cape on his shoulder… I’d be willing to pay someone to get it back as well…” She trailed off when she saw the look of concentration on his face If it was the man I ran across earlier, then it would mean that he is most likely still in the area, but why steal a child’s toy? When he finished Yuri looked up at the woman and asked what she had said, and to repeat it word for word “I said, that he was as big as a house, and had a little red cape over his shoulder… and that I’d be wiling to pay someone to get it back.” Yuri nodded his head at these last few words before he spoke “Convenient then, that I happen to be a mercenary, we can discuss payment after I have completed the job, because every second we waste chatting is a second that felon could be using to escape.” The woman nodded and spoke “When you are done, go to the World’s End Grotto, I’ll pay you there.” Yuri nodded and began his pursuit of the Hulking House Man Doll Thief, or the Man, for short.
Location: Zeltiva
Yuri was looking for some work, because of late his coin purse had been getting lighter and lighter until there was barely enough for him to get by over the course of the coming season, as he made his way down the various streets of Zeltiva he paused for a couple of ticks to reflect on the current status of his work life Well, there haven’t really been that many openings for mercenaries of late, but I suppose that I might not be looking hard enough either… I must find some work soon or I mightn’t be able to pay my expenses for this season After he had finished his session of meaningful thought, Yuri continued to walk around the city asking various passersby whether they required his services, most either turned him away because they claimed they wouldn’t be able to pay him, or that he was simply too young to be in the line of work he was pursuing, some even jibed that the sword he wore was for show and nothing else, it hurt his feelings as the sword he carried was his family’s sword, which had been passed down over the generations until it had ended up in his hands, Yuri refused to let the ones who jeer at him have a reaction and simply ignored them, moving on as he did so.
After a couple of chimes Yuri found himself in a relatively familiar area, one of the side streets near the World’s End Grotto, when an unknown individual pushed his way past him calling out in a rather unfriendly tone “Get out of my way, you piece of shyke.” The push had caused Yuri to lose his footing for a moment and he spun, using the momentum of the push to regain his footing, faced in the direction the man was heading, trying to take in as much information about the person as he was able, the most noticeable was that it was a Male, going by the voice, the second was that he was tall, and obviously strong, but because he hadn’t been looking up when the Man pushed past him, Yuri failed to gather any information on what the man’s face looked like, he did however get a good look at the clothes he wore, a red half cape was draped over his right shoulder, the clothes underneath were a nondescript brown and appeared to be somewhat baggy. When the figure of the Man was no longer visible to him, Yuri turned to face the direction he was originally heading, muttering a question to himself as he went “I wonder what that was all about?”
It was a short time later, however, that Yuri noticed the sound of someone crying, he picked up his pace to try to get to wherever the sound was coming from when he accidentally walked into someone, both Yuri and the other person were knocked over, picking himself up he asked the other person “Do you know where that sound would be coming from?” before he offered his hand to the other person, to help them up. After he had done this and had been told that there was a young child crying down the street the other person had just come from, Yuri set off in that direction, wondering what could have caused this disturbance. Before long Yuri was quite near to the origin of the crying, when he heard the sounds of an older, female voice, trying to comfort the child, when he rounded a corner onto something of a main street, he found himself face to face with a young girl who still had tears running down her cheeks and was blubbering slightly, and an older woman, probably the girls mother, successfully comforting her.
As he walked towards the pair he caught snippets of what was being said “Doll… back… another.” As he slowed his pace until he was standing near to the pair he cleared his voice, getting the older woman’s attention she looked at him with something like a glare on her face at him before asking in a raised voice “What do you want? Huh, haven’t you caused my poor little girl enough trouble?!” Yuri had a look of puzzlement on his face when the woman had said this and began to speak in a placating, friendly tone “I don’t know what you’re talking about ma’am, but I heard your child crying and thought I would come to investigate, could you please tell me what happened?” The woman was taken aback at Yuri’s tone, wondering if it was a trick of some sort she spoke in a lower voice, wariness dripping off of her tone “I don’t know who you are, but… it was kind of you to come here…” She paused to draw breath. “What happened was, my little Katie was happily playing on the street just over there…” She gestured towards the street Yuri had emerged from moments ago. “I looked away for a moment, happy with how she was doing, when this great hulking mountain of a man walked up to her and took her toy doll, just snatched it clean out of her hands, and began running away from here. I have no idea where he went.”
Yuri thought about what the woman had said, and wondered if it was the same man he had crossed paths with a short while ago He certainly had the right build to be when the woman began speaking again, rambling on a bit “He was as big as a house he was, I swear it, he also had a short red cape on his shoulder… I’d be willing to pay someone to get it back as well…” She trailed off when she saw the look of concentration on his face If it was the man I ran across earlier, then it would mean that he is most likely still in the area, but why steal a child’s toy? When he finished Yuri looked up at the woman and asked what she had said, and to repeat it word for word “I said, that he was as big as a house, and had a little red cape over his shoulder… and that I’d be wiling to pay someone to get it back.” Yuri nodded his head at these last few words before he spoke “Convenient then, that I happen to be a mercenary, we can discuss payment after I have completed the job, because every second we waste chatting is a second that felon could be using to escape.” The woman nodded and spoke “When you are done, go to the World’s End Grotto, I’ll pay you there.” Yuri nodded and began his pursuit of the Hulking House Man Doll Thief, or the Man, for short.