Genesis tries to walk Nasar over to his bed, "There going to go talk to Marissa, she might be able to use one of her divine powers to get you up to snuff. If not that then your gonna be out of commission for a couple days."
He sits down ”That sounds boring, I’m behind on work and have been procrastinating.” He looks at the cup in his hands. ”Oh sweet water!” He drinks that water down and now the cup is empty.
Genesis mumbles confused. "Procrastinating?"
She takes the cup and looks at him, "Will you be ok if I go or do you need me to stay? Your like a drunk minus the throwing up and slurred words. Your just stupid now."
”Hey i don’t go into your room and call you names, even if they might be true.” Nasar crosses his arms like a f~~%ing child about to throw a tantrum.
Genesis gives Nasar a tired look. "I'm sorry... your right, are you going to be ok if I go? Ill check on you in the morning if you'd like?"
”Yea sure go i can handle sleeping, thanks for checking in.” Nasar tucks in for the night.
Nasar hears the crew come in after quiet some while after hes fallen asleep. The troll takes Arthurs bed amd a giant creaking sound can be heard as he tucks in.
Night fades into day as a knock on the door is heard.
Nasar rolls out of bed and hits the ground with a solid thud before bouncing to his feet to answer the door.
”Hello?”
Genesis and Marissa stand at the door. Marissa in her regular commoner attire scratches her head. "Wow you look worse than I thought. You look like someone siphoned all your brain energy out."
Deract also rolls out of bed, "Brain energy thats a new one"
Marissa walks in as Genesis tails behind her. Genesis begins, "Nasar if you could lie down on your bed we can cast a spell to help you overcome some of this affliction" she gestures to his bed.
”Oh that’s cool, sure thing Marissa. I trust you.” He lies down, not fully comfortable having Marissa magic him but knows she wont f&%* him up.
Marissa walks over to him and begins speaking a holy speech while raising one hand in the air. "Ragatheil, grant me the divine strength to heal the afflictions of my ally so that I may continue to serve you through him!" and with that her hand glows incandescently. She slams it down into Nasars chest almost taking his breath away for a brief moment while his mind starts to mold together once again.
Nasar sits up with a stretch ”Yea that feels a lot more normal, thanks Marissa for helping out. I was in a bad way there.” After giving himself a moment to gather himself and go through the events that happened after he got brain pain he rises to his feet before addressing everyone else. ”And thank you to the rest of you for making sure i got back safe.”
Deract stands upright and crosses his arms and smirks, "Call it legal obligation to anyone that doesn't know were partners. They might get the wrong idea."
Lily laughs, "Wrong idea, it's obvious you guys have a bromance tighter than Jurastits undergarments."
Marissa looks around the room and sees the troll sleeping in Arthurs old bed. Slightly disgusted she exclaims, "I take a few days of beauty sleep and you get a troll to take my place?"
”No we didn’t replace you Marissa, it was an enemy that Lily did her magic things to and now it listens to her. Why would I replace you in the group when I didn’t demand you come with us?” Nasar makes his bed and checks on Bean since he was left behind to sleep for the short time they were gone.
Bean is just chilling. Marissa says, "Well I'm fully rested and your not a walking rock anymore. You have anything planned?"
Nasar pets Bean for bein a good boy and not recking the room ”Well since nothing fell into our laps concerning the shadows or anything, we don’t have anything planned just yet so we are somewhat free for now.”
Marissa bites the inside of her cheek, Well if you need a hand I'll be available, I wanna try out this whole different Marissa thing and see if I can't get a handle on it." and she starts to take her leave, along with Genesis.
”Will do Marissa” Nasar takes inventory before gathering himself. ”Either of you two hunt dragons before?”
Deract shrugs, "No but I'm always game."
Lily looks around slowly. "Never had a chance to study them before so its never too late to start."
”Good, i needed a good crew to trust come with me again for bean’s first hunt. I have a group that i worked with before so we can meet with them and see any leads they have. C’mon bean you’ve had plenty of rest its time to go to work.”
Bean scowls at Nasar as he gets up and stretches before waiting to leave. Deract also readies his things and checks his talisman, Lily refills her bandolier before readying up.
Marissa and Genesis take their leave.
As they leave, Nasar calls out to Marissa before she gets too far. "Hey I don't know if you heard what I said as you left but we are going on a hunt. Could be a good opportunity to hone your other self."
Marissa turns around now excited to he offered the chance to go. "Oh you were asking me too! I'd love to go! I'll go put on my armor and pack! I'll meet you guys outside!" and with that she runs off to go get ready.
Lily looks plainly at Nasar and points to the sleeping troll, "Do we need him anymore?"
"Do what you want with him. I wont lose sleep over him being gone. I need to send a letter to someone so I need to stop into the main building of the guild first before we head out. So that'll give you some time to sort that out." Nasar waits for her response before heading out to take care of his business.
Lily looks at the troll and throws an empty glass bottle at him and yells something in Giant. He then stands up waking from his slumber and goes to follow the mistress. She looks at him in wonder, "Should I sell you as a slave... maybe use to rough someone up for some cash... decisions..."
"I thought he was going to be your lunch?"
In retrospect I could have not reminded her about that.
She looks up at the troll who looks back at her with his massive underbite. She then slowly looks at Nasar an eye slightly twitching. "See thats where your naive. Just because I'm a succubus dosen't automatically mean I wanna drain energy from everyone I meet. I try to keep my focus on learning and my studies and gathering knowledge."
Deract smirks and eyes up Lily smugly.
It seems like the mere mention of that action made her instincts kick in, she seems to be suppressing them... badly.
Nasar nods along with what she says, somewhat realizing that bringing that up might have just done something. "Mhm mhm well selling him off sounds pretty funny, once the domination wears off he could mess up the slaver that bought him and you already made off with the cash which could go into future research."
Maybe working back to a different idea will help her out.
Lily blinks twice hard to bring her back and she smiles and snaps a finger and finger guns Nasar, "Exactly my thoughts. Even though I'm sure they'd restrain him enough. It wouldn't be my problem at that point. Ohhh or I could find a bunch of brutes at the bar that might want him as a bodyguard. Ok I'm gonna see what I can do be back in a bit. I guess I'll go meet with Marissa when I'm done!" she then elbows the troll in the side and angrily barks an order in Giant. The troll grumbles and waves a hand as if waving goodbye.
They take their leave and the room sits silent for a few seconds before Deract clears his throat and speaks quietly. "Demon racist" and just looks at Nasar for a rebuttal.
"WOah hold on I was just saying what she said I WASN't TRYN TO BE RACIST MAN." Nasar looks pretty shook that Deract just made such an accusation out of the blue.
Deract holds his hands out and moves em back and forth. "I don't know man. Succubus they eat souls yea but you don't just say it outright that's like... I don't know telling a Mwangi he dosen't need sunscreen because he obviously won't get sunburnt. We are demons we have our standard blanket reasons for existing but like that's not something you say out loud without them initiating the thought. Then it's just rude."
Nasar rubs his forehead, somewhat defeated. "S@$% I didn't even think about that, I hope she didn't take offense to what I said. That's my fault for not knowing enough about demons even though I work closely with two now."
Deract finger guns Nasar like Lily did. "Well theres your first lesson. We have feelings and personalities too. Some demons are all about that crap, how many souls they've consumed where they've taken the grandest soul from who they've corrupted. The list goes on. Others are just kinda... stuck in this, some of em aren't even their fault... I'm in that boat and from what I can tell she's feeling that too."
"Good to know, maybe I should take time to learn a bit more about you two in the future. I still need to head over to the main guild hall, you want to tag along?"
Deract puts on his hat of disguise and nods that he is ready to go. The 3 of them head off to the main guild hall where it is bustling with the early risers trying to snag the good jobs off the guild board. The Bone Brother is still there, he appears tk be cleaning out his flute.
Nasar looks to meet with the warlord to see if he could arrange to have a letter sent to Yukkabella for an item request.
Multiple people point out the merchant being the best place to send mail.
noice
Nasar goes to the merchant to do such a thing. "Excuse me I was looking to send a letter to someone in Magnimar and I was told that doing it through you would be the best way to do so."
As Nasar approaches the mercahnts counter Gloriana is leisurely propped up by her arm. She drops it and stands up straight and puts her usual smile on, "Sure is! Who is this going to? Any sorta address? Or have they mailed here before?"
Deract puts a hand up. "She mailed and item here not too long ago. Her names Yukkabella."
Gloriana nods in acknowledgement, "Sweet that makes things nice and easy. Just hand over the letter and I can get it there within the next few days. For a small fee for delivery however, sadly nothing is free. If they are in town it'll be 5 copper pieces, anything else depends on how far away they are."
Dear Yukka,
I hope this letter finds you in good health. Since out last correspondence I have come in possession of a substantial amount of wealth. I wanted to purchase a magical item to enhance my physical abilities. I have heard of an item before that might be what I'm looking for that could be what I'm looking for. I believe it was called a belt of physical might? Something that could enhance my athletic abilities and also my endurance would do the trick so If that is outside of your wheelhouse then maybe we can find something else. I'm sure I could find something like that here at the guild but I wanted to reach out to you first. I would prefer paying you to assist funding your work while possibly getting a good price for continued service. My budget on this request is about 20k gold so please let me know what you can do for that amount. If you are too busy at the moment that is alright and we can work on something else in the future.
Sincerely,
Nasar I.
Nasar hands over the sealed letter along with where it is going to and whatever fee she needs to send to the marches district of Magnimar. At this point Nasar is ready to go and heads to the main gate of the guild to meet up with the rest of the party.
Gloriana takes the letter and puts it in a box behind her desk of mail to be sent. She bids them farewell for now as they make there way out to the main gate. When they arrive Lily is holding a coin purse and counting her coins as Marissa stands there obviously wondering where she got the cash from. They notice Nasar and Deract and both say in unison, "Gunther wants you in the stables before you go."
The color drains from nasar’s face ”...ohf$%@” He then sprints like an absolute madman to the stables, leaving bean with the group as he is more focused on the new problem at hand.
Deract tails behind Nasar as Bean waits with the group. As Nasar arrives at the stables he finds Gunther rubbing his rib area amd looks to Nasar. "Hey Nasar, hi Derek" he then wheezes in pain for a moment. "Did you drop your horse off last night? I don't even remember bringing him in. But he's in stable 4 and he's not happy to see me." he then raises his short to show a giant bruise from an obvious mule kick to the ribs.
”Good question” Nasar stops over to the stable where his death awaits. He peers around the stable to keep concealment. ”Heyyyy Llamrei, good to see you are back from your vacation...how are you doing?”
Llamrei looks intently at Nasar. Eyes squinted with obvious anger in his demeanor. He lets out a huff from his nose and the serpent of spades coils out from behind him, neck frills extended and tounge protruding.
Deract looks back and forth, "Look Spade we didn't mean to leave you 2 in the Abyss it was an accident!" to which Deract is immediately met with Spade lashing out with a hiss. Deract looks at Nasar, "It seems Spade is more mad than Llamrei is."
Llamrei hits his hoof against the stable door as if to command it being opened.
Nasar opens the stable door to let them out. ”Llamrei, Spade, I’m sorry you were left behind when things got hectic. It wont happen again.”
Llamrei walks slowly out the stable as Spade retracts to just coiling around Llamrei as usual. Llamrei's butt sigil is glowing once again which usually means that a message is saved or a transmission is coming through. It emanates a low tone as it passes by Nasar.
”Oh boy, well that’s something to remember for the future once we return from this trip.” Nasar closes up the stable and makes his way back to the group.
As Nasar and Deract return with Llamrei the hum can still be heard. Deract looks at Nasar, "What is this like a message holder in his buttcheek?
Nasar sighs "Please don't suck me to the other world PLEASE DONT It's...a message for me at this point. I should probably take this." Nasar boops the ass's ass and give's the message a listen.