[Riverfall Location]Kyole's Butcher Shop

[Baku]

Located on the second tier of the Riverfall city, just before the path leading to the port and ocean, sits Kyloe’s Butcher Shop. The building is a single story and wide, made of stone with a single red door at the right marking the name of the shop itself and a large pain of clear glass with trays of fresh meat in view to greet each of those who pass it by. The door often swings opened and closed often, as people are first greeted with a smell of spices and herbs, rather than an expected smell of raw meat upon first looks. Inside, the floor is a flat, smooth marble in color, clean and with a reflective sheen to it’s surface. The shop itself is somewhat cool, even in the hottest days of summer. It’s walls are colored an eggshell white, creating an almost soothing atmosphere for the clients and a large, fixed chandelier at the center of the ceiling provides adequate lighting for night time business. Trays and hooks of fresh meat of various types of animal, pork and fish line shelves with small hand written signs displaying the time of day the meat was placed along the shelves, none of which are marked from a previous day. A small counter at the back of the shop houses a glass casing of various prime cuts of meat, ranging from t-bone steaks to large ocean fish, crabs and lobsters. Other shelves in the corner carries preservation kits of various qualities, dried jerky meats, as well as herbs and spices for seasoning meats. A tall Akalak donning a black leather apron and a white cloth tied over the top of his head stand behind the counter itself, generally either busy with wrapping meats for sale, cutting away new meats for sale, or playing a weird joke on an unsuspecting customer. More often than not, Kyole’s Butcher Shop often carries smiles, good conversation and a light atmosphere despite the fact that the shop houses the butchered remains of dead animals and sea life. This is mostly due in part to the shop’s proprietor, Kyole Vastanik. Most of his customers he knows by name, and those new to his shop are often warmly greeted with a smile and welcoming offer at help. Aside from providing meats and fish to the citizens of Riverfall who can‘t obtain such with their own skill, Kyole also buys the meats and fish that hunters and fishermen bring into to Riverfall, providing a small place of employment to those who don’t permanently reside within its city walls.   Kyole Vastanik Name: Kyole Vastanik Race: Akalak DoB: 15 Winter 339AV (Age 173) PoB: Riverfall Title: Owner of Kyole's Butcher Shop Skills: Food Preservation - 82, Butchery - 90, Cooking - 29, Weapon: Cleaver - 42, Hunting - 58, Negotiation - 40, Rhetoric - 61 Gnosis: None Additional Info: Kyole Vastanik stands at 7’2” tall and has a large, athletic build. Most women would say he has a pleasing face, if it weren’t always distorted in a weird expression during his practical jokes at the shop. He has dark brown eyes, a long, narrow nose and short, thick lips. His face is clean shaven, with black hair that would fall just beyond his shoulder if it were constantly tied back into the cloth he keeps wrapped around his head when handling the food. If he’s not found at the shop in his usual attire, Kyole can normally be found wearing a casual pair of brown leather pants, shin high black leather boots, and a simple white tunic with an open front. Kyole Vastanik was one of the few children who cut up and field dressed the Glassbeak he killed during his Rite of Trial, and many of his peers and even those who supervised their hunt, found he did it much more efficiently than those who had been doing it for years before him. So it came to no surprise by any of his family when he announced his plans to prepare and sell meat, providing for Riverfall for those who had the coin, but no skill at obtaining such foods on their own. Kyole is often a warm and welcoming individual, whether to those he sees on the street or the customers who comes into his shop. If you have a question about field dressing your animals, he will be happy to answer. If there is a particular meat you are looking for, he’ll normally have it if the animal isn’t rare or out of season. Whatever the reason people approach him for, they often find Kyole one of the easiest Akalak’s to befriend in the city, it’s those who know of his mischievous Dark brother that they could do without. While some of the Dark Akalak’s are violent, others manipulative, and other’s still just a complete ass, Kyole’s dark brother is a prankster, often surfacing to come out of the back room of his shop screaming with some butchered meat hanging from the sleeve of his tunic like bloody chunks where his hand would normally be. Other times, especially if out in the street, he will slip pieces of meat to other’s waists just for the opportunity to see dogs chasing after them, or fish just to see people and the victim of his joke, react to the smell. Likely the cruelest joke Kyole’s dark brother played, was on Nevar, who generally is Kyole’s first customer of the day. Nevar one morning was found screaming for guards and sentries when he came into Kyole’s butcher shop to see Kyole laying on the floor, one of his cleavers stuck into a bloodied heave of sliced flesh along Koyle’s chest. Only when several people and guards had gathered, did Kyole’s dark half suddenly burst out laughing, pulling the cleaver and a large chunk of destroyed meat from his chest, revealing his ruse. While several had laughed, Nevar did not, and it took Kyole two years to pay off the fine he was levied with for such. In the end, his brother thought it worth it.

[Nisana Curare]

Season of Spring, Day 3, 511 AV

Nisana was quite the sight when she finally arrived at the Butcher Shop. Her hair was a mess, and soaked with the sweat the covered her from head to toe. Her face was flushed with exertion and pain, her fangs grindingly lightly against her as they had extended some time ago during her painful trudge to the location while hauling the dead boar on her sled. She wanted nothing more than to just leave the building and find somewhere to sit, but she had business to attend to.

Presenting the boar to the butcher there she waited for his assessment of the meat. She was reminded of her time out in the Unforgiving, and the human boy she had met there. Just like then it seemed sad to her how much work the other races had to go through to eat meat. Yet another way the Symenestra were superior.

She waved off any concerns offered by the man, just wanting to get the deal over with. When he finally offered 137 Gold Mizas for all the meat Nisana took it. In another situation she might have tried to barter for more, but right now she just wanted to go and see if these brutes had any semblance of a healer in this town. Taking her Mizas she offered a simple thank you to the man who ran the store before hobbling her way out and back onto the streets of Riverfall.