"By the way, Jiggs is cooking dinner, to celebrate with Niishan." Salera informs her teammates. "He makes this rabbit stew I've heard is delicious."
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Salera grunts, and then frowns a bit. "Jiggs, save her if you can." Jiggo tries to cast Stabilize. If she lives, Salera binds Suhko. "She deserves a chance to make a choice. You can't blindly listen to your mother forever." Jiggo nods and looks at the familiar. "You are free to make your own decisions. I want to bring you with us. But if you are planning to trick or betray us in anyway..." Jiggo lets the threat linger as he works on trying to save Suhko.
"My my. I'm pretty popular." She grins as enemies fall upon her. She turns to the drake. "Let's trash this thing." She looks at the drake and grins as the tail wallops her. "Was that supposed to hurt?"
...Then she trips Suhko. "Honey, you got too close. Wait a minute while I slaughter your pet here."
"We have to stop them! Quickly!" Jiggo shouts and unleashes a Concordant Choir against Suhko and the bat.
"Poor kid. Blindly following your Mother's wishes because that's what daughters do, right?" Salera pirouettes as she shakes off the debilitating magic with no ill effect.
"I know how that feels, believe me. There's nothing more proud than watching my daughter set up her own business. You could do that too, if you wanted."
Salera dances around the drake so she can flank with the adorable Princess Clover. "Jiggs, boost me." With some eidolon boost, Salera grins at the bat.
Oh well. She only has enough time for 1 claw.
But maybe it's enough.
Jiggo growls. "Let's hurry this up."
Salera peers at Hatahasi. Her usually silent demeanor drops for a moment. "My House. Er, my former House. We always skirted the line between my Mother's children and my Mother's tools in a war only she knows how to wage." "This is more than just cultural heritage. This is about us helping someone back home. I'd kill for that." She bites her lip. "Jiggs isn't too tired from the battle, so I'm good with leaving as soon as we can. But I don't tire easily. Don't know about the rest of you."
"Oh, I'm positively terrified." Salera puts her hands on her hips and stares back at the Blue creature.
She grins as she feels a glimpse of her old self. "Jiggs, boost me." Jiggo wastes little time enhancing her strength as she dances in front of the Blue tinted creature, her clawed hands streaking across its body.
"Ah, you do it for the joy of the craft." Salera keeps Jiggo back as she advances. "Makes sense. I'm always trying to blend dancing and the art of etiquette. Neither are easy, but when you get it just right, it feels great. That sense of accomplishment helps fight off boredom."
"Sure. How much will it cost us? I doubt this is a free service." Salera continues to admire Whiirii's home. "I love your sense of home decor."
"Jiggs, stay close to me." Salera holds Jiggo close and lets her Darkvision take hold. "Let's see if we can find this gunsmith. Hopefully they make good tea." Or something, anything. All of this nature stuff is boring me.
Salera shrugs. "Jiggs, give me the antidote. Stay. Here." She holds on to the potion but doesn't drink it. Sometimes mortals are too smart and not risky. "Peter, a little Guidance?"
"Thank you."
Is anyone part of the Verdant Wheel faction? If so, Salera has a +10 to Thievery and will begrudgingly try to pick the flowers. Otherwise we can just move on.
"W-what?" Salera looks confused as Princess Clover addresses her directly. "Y-yeah, I can do this..."
Jiggo hustles over and tries to help. "Just hold still, I'll try to help with those tendrils."
"Ow. Watch the wings..." Salera snaps at Jiggo. "Sorry. Sorry! That just hurt a bit. I know you're trying your best."
In case you want to speed this up:
Salera loves it. The center of attention. All of these eyes on her as they decide she's the biggest threat.
However she doesn't like how all of this is hurting herself and hurting Jiggo by proxy. He's had enough pain to last a lifetime. Jiggo enhances her strength, so off she goes, to cause more trouble. She ignores Green and decides to hold the Purple-masked foe between her claws.
"If you want me that badly, here I am." She grins despite the lasting pain.
Salera wants to inspect the rooms, for any obvious entry routes. How secure are the doors? Is there a window available? Do they have a common suite or individual rooms? Jiggo spends his time making chit chat with the other guests in the common room. He's aware that his presence isn't exactly wanted, but he has to try to be friendly. Once Salera feels safe enough and Jiggo feels friendly enough, they turn in for the evening. Salera keeps watch for a bit, but really she just wants to cuddle up next to Jiggo as he falls asleep.
Salera parries the arrow easily and sighs. Jiggo boosts Salera's strength. Taking Zhamie's advice, she aims for the Red assassin's weakpoints.
Her followup is more accurate. Jiggo raises a magical shield in front of him.
Salera yawns. "These are the slowest, clumsiest assassins I've seen in decades. Don't make 'em like they used to..." She ignores the assassin in Green and Strides over to the Red-clad foe. "Who told you to cross the line?"
After an excellent trip, Salera laughs, full of herself. "It's all yours..." Jiggo emerges from around the corner. "Oh my."
Salera remained on high alert. She wasn't stupid. "Finally, the assassins showed up. And they're bad assassins, they aren't remotely quiet." She bares her claws. "Jiggs, buff me." Jiggo yawns. "Right, right. Wait, assassins?" He peers from the back of the group. "I can't see a thing. Uh, good luck!" Salera grins and dashes into the alley way, tucks herself into the corner and faces the Green clad assassin. Her claw swings wide but her tail is much more accurate.
Salera keeps quiet but knows the team needs their beauty sleep. She's more of a night person. "Come on, Jiggs. Let's head to the inn. Keep your eyes open for trouble."
Salera grins as the spider fails to hurt her and then expires from its own wounds. Reminds her of the old days, when she was a lot stronger.
"Princess?" Salera looks at cute stuffed royalty with concern before watching her punch the spider from two places at once. "Jiggs, come on! What's the plan?" Jiggo looks about. "I'll focus on the... blue spider?" He forms a ball of fire in his hands before tossing it.
Salera watches Jiggo's flame torch the spider threatening the princess. "Good, good." Then he boosts Salera's strength long enough for her two slap the spider with her tail.
Salera relaxes a bit. But just a bit. When everyone is a secret keeper, no one is. "Huh?" Some kind of... fox bites down on her arm. "Jiggs, watch it!"
Salera simply grins as Princess Clover negotiates. Plus she's very cute with the mirror and warhammer.
"They paid for our stay? Feels like they paid for our trap." Salera steps alongside Jiggo. "How will we talk to the Council? Is there an opposing party we need to argue against?"
Salera gives Zhamie a good look. "I do remember... hmm. Nice to meet you. And I am being honest." Salera flexes her wings just a bit. "Try to keep Jiggs alive, alright?"
"That would be nice." Salera doesn't smile, but she is quite relaxed. "Jiggo has to chaperone, though. He has a surprisingly great sense of taste." She turns to Lindevaile.
"Pfft. Let them come." Salera is still focused on the name of mom's strong wine when the skeletons batter her. It's when one of them shoots Jiggo that she refocuses. "Jiggs, do that thing." Jiggo nods and raises his holy symbol. "Shelyn! Grace us with your divine magic. Heal us and allow the undead to rest!"
Salera cheers with a "Yeah! What he said!" As she steps in front of Jiggo.
Once Lindevaile begins her enchanting dance, Salera quickly downs the >Moderate Juggernaut Mutagen<. She releases Jiggo's hand as her bulk increases. "That's some... good stuff. Reminds of Mom's favorite wine. Very poisonous in even moderate doses, so just a whiff will..." Jiggo takes her hand and begins to Share Senses, dousing his torch to remove the light source. "Uh, honey? We should be quiet now. Wait for the undead to approach us." Salera nods in his direction before focusing on the bridge. What was the name of that wine, again? Whisperberry? Death Blossom? The Tangy Tart?
"Ugh. Heal Jiggs first- Or you can heal me, the effect is the same." Salera tries to steel her nerves as Lindevalie magically mends their wounds.
She does take the drink. "I'll hold onto this. Jiggs is a bit... dry." She grins. "No idea where the rabbit went. Maybe we can follow that voice."
Salera tries to get a general direction of the voice before it screamed at her.
Salera takes a step back, hoping Jiggo's words are better than hers.
"Hmm. Watch it, this spot is haunted."
"Garmon is safe. Relax. Go take a nap, huh? You deserve a break." We all deserve a break...
"Is it undead?" Salera glares at the rabbit. She'd love to circle it, but Jiggo may trip over something in the process.
Salera raises her eyebrows, curious about the elf with clashing fashion sense but without fear and hesitation. "Jiggs and I are linked." She points a finger at the human. "I can only be around here when he's around. I'm just... glad to find him again." She relaxes just a bit.
Salera remains leaning against the wall in the inn. No one bothers her here. The few who brave the approach have something to say about her tail, or the bat horns on her head, or the faintly glowing curved sigil on her forehead. She chases them off soon enough. She can feel the rage build up ever so slightly, before Jiggo tells a dumb joke. He never gave up on her. "I'm Salera." She gives a practiced curtsy. "I'm with Jiggs." She steps forward to ruffle his puffy hair. "I go where he goes. Looks like we're going to the Elderberry Cellar. You coming?"
"Oh, come on. Now you're just wasting our time." Salera runs around Nal to flank the cleric.
"Jiggs. Jiggs!" Salera finally gets Jiggo's attention. "Come on." "Whoops, sorry! Everything moved so fast. How about you help clear the field?" He casts Boost Eidolon and Salera moves into flanking against the Black-clad rogue. "And don't kill them!" Jiggo shouts, causing Salera to sigh. "Like they would give you the same mercy."
Salera's attention is consumed by the clock... but she continues anyway. She's close enough to the clock to attempt to disable it.
"Alright... I think I made some progress here..." Salera mumbles to herself.
"Something tells me we'll get better answers if we keep moving." Salera ducks and begins to Avoid Notice.
Jiggo closes the guard's eyes and falls in line behind her.
Salera grins.
But she's not as scary as she wishes she could be. Jiggo spends some time casting stabilize on the bleeding person.
Salera laughs as Nal looks at the insignia. "Devil's Claws. Oh please. They wouldn't make good Lemures, never mind climbing high enough to have claws." She wipes some of the mess off her own fingers. "Hey Jiggs, can you try to stabilize this guy?" She points to the dead one. Not because she cares about him, but she knows Jiggo will try anyway.
"Man, you're bad at this." She turns to Jiggo. "Hey, protect me ." Jiggo nods and casts >Resist Energy (Electricity)< on Salera. She grins and twists to avoid the magic ray. "You wanna try again, smartie pants?"
"If you're going to steal, do it right." Salera grumbles. "I could try to disable the orrery."
Salera stands up and gets to work.
Frustration and spite are one hell of a motivator. Jiggo pulls out his minor healing potion- Nal's going to need it if she takes another beating like that. "Nal, step back!"
Salera takes advantage to try to trip Junior.
Instead she flops with an undignified oof! Jiggo frowns, because he knows this is going to hurt. He may as well close in and prepare to heal.
Salera taps Jiggo on the shoulder and backs away from Lysandria. "Come on, give her some space." Once the kid grew up, Salera felt so alone. Jiggo was missing, her kid was busy solving other mysteries and Salera never felt satisfied. She felt a bit angry at times, like she was before she was redeemed. Always mad at something. When they found Jiggo, turned to stone, she knew what to do: smuggle a potion from the Society's stores and save him. And that felt good, even if it was technically bad. She always wonders what would have happened if Jiggo couldn't be saved. If... he was a ghost like Eloise. Would she be able to contain her rage? The next week gives Salera a chance to help Lysandria grieve. Salera actually cleans up the house while Jiggo prepares meals. To help raise funds for the burial, Jiggo and Salera perform a tantalizing tango in the town square to raise funds.
Maybe she got a bit too salacious, as they don't earn much off of it. Still, every bit helps. By the time the week is up, Jiggo and Salera return to the lodge. Jiggo is ready to seek out some antitoxin and antiplague. Salera spends her time thinking about Chileax and House Thrune. Revinus has been quite willing to speak about them. It's not over...
"Yeah... how about you go first, Nal." Covered in webs, Salera is unable to move out of the way of the pincers.
The poison works its way into her, dealing damage. Undaunted, she tries to break free.
She wriggles out of most of the mess within 3 steps, and manages to keep her dirtiest thoughts to herself. Jiggo runs in, with his tools ready.
"Stay back." Salera runs a hand through his hair. "Just heal yourself, alright?" She tries to dig her claws into the spider.
Focusing on Jiggo, Salera digs into the spider's many eyes. She doesn't want him hurt, but this spider means business.
"That thing is pretty big. We might have to slip under it." Salera keeps her eyes on the spider, giving Nal a quick nod.
Salera keeps quiet and moves next to the door while Jiggo clutches his staff at a safer distance.
Salera muses over the note while Jiggo frowns. "I think they got the wrong target. Sloppy." She waltzes ahead of Hadega. "Upstairs it is." She falls quiet again while Jiggo follows a few paces behind.
"Alright, where are we interrogating this guy?" Salera lifts him overhead and dumps him on the bed. "I made sure not to leave lasting damage, because I know someone would complain." She rolls her eyes as Jiggo nods in approval. "Anyway, I saw we search him for any notes or clues, then keep him tied here. We'll drag him to the temple if we necessary." |
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