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mercenary jobs #2 — open to all

Who: Anyone interested in taking some mercenary jobs via Aranea Highwind's offerings. She will be texting people she's made contact with in her initial mercenary network post. However, newcomers can find jobs posted in Wyver.
What: Mercenary posting!
When: N/A
Where: N/A
Warning(s): Nothing particular!

Thank you for stopping by to check out this month's job postings for Highwind Hires — a freelance mercenary group!

Aranea Highwind will ICly be contacting characters and offering them jobs based off the assumption she will receive 30% of the cut. Due to the change in settings, Aranea has waved her fee and is allowing people to keep the full cut of the payment to help them get on their feet.

JOB #1 — DRAGON RESCUE

With the infection in Wyver, a local dragon-nursery is in need of workers to help tend for sick dragons. They will need baths, feedings, and even surgery in some cases. Will you answer the call and provide the support Wyver needs in this trying time?

OUTCOMES:
- The nursery will pay you 100 silver for a day's work.

JOB #2 — REDEMPTION FOR FAMILY

An elderly woman named Vetmir has somehow got in contact with Highwind Hire, hoping to find her son's killer. Her son was murdered weeks ago by a former lover. The woman is hiding in The Old City, Alora, is often seen among the trading market near the evening making a living a drug trader.

OUTCOMES:
- Vetmir promises 140 silver with delivery of a locket her son gave Alora.
- Sparing Alora's life will earn you her side of the story, where she had to defend herself after a drunken encounter with Vetmir's son. This earns you 40 silver in appreciation and the locket, which nets you Vetmir's 140 silver if delivered back for a total of 180 silver.

JOB #3 — BONES FOR A CURE

Criny, a medicine woman is looking for a large supply of Puox bones from their camouflaged exterior. This crucial parts are needed to craft some potions to help relieve aches for the sick. While definitely not the cure, Puox is needing someone to travel to Murkwell Hollow and someone to help assist in potion making.

OUTCOMES:
- Anyone who brings her 6 bonespurs from Puox will receive 170 silver.
- People who help in potion making will receive 30 silver per potion with a maximum of 6 potions a day.

JOB #4 — SEARCH & RESCUE

Jillam, a street vendor, has not seen their fruit supplier in a few days. Worried they were lost in The Undergrowth, they are enlisting a search and rescue. Traveling to the Undergrowth will prove difficult — gather a small party for back up.

The vendor cart is abandoned with a broken axis, the fruit still good but the driver missing. Exploring further will allow the players to rescue Qun from a man-eating plant.

OUTCOMES:
- Anyone who participates in the search and rescue will receive 200 silver.
- Players can attempt repair the carriage and return the fruit back for cut of the food for free.
- Players who explore for the vendor will be able to fight a large man-eating plant similar to a venus flytrap with sentient vines. If Qun is rescued, you will receive an additional 100 silver.

Have fun! If you have any questions, feel free to PM me! These are all loosely based on your choices, so feel free to go wild with them. The outcomes only are indication of what the jobs would offer. If you're interested in having your character offer a job in the future, please let me know!

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If wildlife is going to attack them, Reinhardt will be ready. He seems to think the animals here are like ones at home. Scared of people. Surely, they'll run and hide instead of coming out and attacking whatever had made such loud noises. It's just too bad that he's been paired with someone who enjoys stealth. Someone who reminds him terribly of Blackwatch's little Genji but also of the many many omnics he had smashed during the Crisis. But that was over and this man was an ally. His hammer was for whatever might be waiting out there for them.

"Oh, you worry too much, my friend. Surely the animals aren't so desperate to go against two grown men. And the man might still be alive and hurt somewhere. If he was close, he knows help is on the way." Or he had just wasted his breath, a lot. But that's fine, because he'll wade deeper into the jungle, trying not to get caught up in vines or hit his head on low hanging branches. Being a large man in a crowded jungle was not very fun at all.

He keeps hoping to find wagon tracks, but the ground is unforgiving. "Do you think a cart would even fit through here? It seems a bit tight." As in, a lot of his body is already tangled in vines.

See, the animals where Zer0 came from are all violent and horrible. Being on guard in the wilderness was kind of necessary if you wanted to not die. But hey, maybe Reinhardt was right, maybe the animals weren't willing to come after the two of them. Maybe they were already chewing on the guy they were looking for, so there was nothing to worry about.

Aside from that guy being eaten. I guess.

"...A cart would, maybe. /"

But Reinhardt was kind of built like a literal tank. No wonder he was getting tangled up in the vines.

"Here, I'm going to take point, / Let me clear the way."

He worms his way past Reinhardt and starts chopping through some of the vines for him. It won't do this guy they're trying to find any good if they're getting slowed down by nature, now will it?

That's a huge maybe. And honest, what was some cart with fruit doing way out here in the thick of the jungle. It doesn't make much sense to Reinhardt, but he's never really lived in the wilderness. The closest he's had to 'roughing it' was in the German army or camping in the Black Forest as a very small boy. Jungles are pretty much beyond him, but he's doing his best.

It helps that he has someone with some skills ahead of him. It might not seem like much, but just having the undergrowth cleared out is extremely helpful in getting him to move a little quicker. He just tries not to think too much on how quickly things seem to grow back once they've passed. Except that it means that the cart could be completely swallowed by vines already and the owner of the cart as well. Maybe that is why he is not calling out for help.

"I will keep an eye for signs of struggle but I think this jungle might be enchanted." That, or all those vines belong to the massive man eating plants that hide deeper within. Plants that use their vines like a spider uses it's web.

"Enchanted? Like how? /"

Zer0 pauses his vine chopping long enough to look over his shoulder and glance past Reinhardt. He can't tell if the foliage is just really dense, of if everything he'd just chopped down actually is growing back, but either way their path back doesn't look too promising.

"You know what, forget I asked. / I don't want to know."

He'll just go back to clearing a path for the big guy and pretend like this jungle isn't one of the weirdest places he's ever visited.

Reinhardt isn't even going to pretend that this place isn't utterly strange and alien. He really wishes he had something more substantial to break though the vines with. And he also hopes that if they are attached to something living, then that something might think twice about messing with them. ZerO is doing a lot to damage whatever it is.

"Yes, it is probably for the best." Because the deeper they go, the more and more Reinhardt feels like they are stepping into a trap. But plants can't be that smart, right? There had been that one movie, but that was just a movie and a very old one. There's nothing to worry about.

Ahead of them, he can see some of the trees thinning out and what looks to be a fruit baring plant. This must be what the man was doing out here. Collecting that delicious looking fruit. Which means the cart, and the man should be somewhere near by. Or that delicious fruit is a trap to lure in unsuspecting animals. Bait to dangle. They do look good to eat though.

"Ahead of you. Do you see this? Should we fan out and search for the cart? Or keep going?"

Zer0 holds off on chopping through the vines for a moment while he takes a brief look around. He doesn't see any super obvious signs of the guy or his cart, but the fruit may prove to be a promising lead. It was worth a look around.

"A good place to start. / Let's keep an eye out for tracks, / He can't be too far."

He'll be a bro and chop a few more vines down for Reinhardt before approaching the plant.

He really appreciates it. Having ZerO before him really makes his slogging through this jungle so much easier. He will definitely have to find a way to thank his partner after this for all his hard work. Maybe he'll give half his pay to the man or make him dinner or...something. He'll figure it out.

But the fruit is before him. Still no sign of the cart, but he thinks he hears something muffled from behind a heavy set of vines. He reaches up for one of the fruits. He knows it's a risk, but it's one he has to take. He needs to know.

He just hopes ZerO will have his back if that dangling food happens to be bait. Which, apparently, it is. As soon as he pulls it, vines start speeding from everywhere and deeper into the jungle, just at the edge of his sight, a giant green maw opens wide on the jungle floor.

Aw Reinhardt, what a nice dude. Honestly, Zer0's satisfied with just having something interesting to do. He wouldn't turn down free dinner, though.

Assuming they survive the vine thing, that is. There are so many vines coming at them from so many different directions, that even Zer0's reflexes aren't enough to avoid all of them. He manages to shout a warning, "Incoming!" before chopping through a few of the vines.

And yeah there's totally an exclamation point popping up in front of this mask. This is a bit alarming and stuff.

He does what he can and Zer0 really is doing all the work, so he can at least do something about it. Especially seeing how he's the one that triggered the trap. However, in doing so the plant had to let go if it's current meal for a much larger bit of food.

So the man is saved, but the cost, it happens to be Reinhardt struggling against those vines trying to fight them off. The problem with his hammer is that he needs room to swing it. The vines and the jungle make that difficult.

He sees the exclamation and Reinhardt swears he's not going to let this man down. He's worked so hard!

"My arms!" He calls out. "And then try to grab the man away!" Because as soon as his arms are cut free, he's going to swinging his hammer. Swinging it so hard that fire comes from it.

Zer0 spots the man, but before he goes after him, he does stop to chop Reinhardt's arms free. By the way, fire hammer? Badass as hell. If he had time to be impressed, Zer0 would be super impressed. He's a little too focused on rushing over to the man, slicing through some vines to reach him.

He's kind of built like a twig, but he manages to heave the guy up and start moving with him. He pauses briefly and calls over his shoulder to Reinhardt,

"You good for a minute?"

ZerO is welcome to be impressed as much as he wants later on. Right now though, they have a man they need to save. The plant seems to like fire almost as little as it likes being cut by that sword that ZerO is using.

He sees the man get lifted and he sets his feet. He throws another fire strike. He needs to build up a charge, get some momentum going before he can even try and see if Earthshatter would even work in a jungle on a living plant. "Ja. I have this. I'll hold it off. You get him safe and then we'll finish this thing together!" He then yells a war cry and launches himself at the plant, hoping that ZerO will take the man far enough away that he isn't threatened again. And also hoping that he'll come back. He fights better in a team.

Hell yeah Zer0's coming back, he finally has something fun to fight and there's no way he's missing it.

Reinhardt is doing a fantastic job of distracting the plants, so Zer0 has a relatively easy time of finding a good hiding place for the poor unconscious guy. Once he's sure the guy will be safe, Zer0 makes his way back to Reinhardt, weaving through vines and chopping them down as he goes. It takes him a few minutes to navigate through the murder jungle. He doesn't really announce his return, but he does leap up onto Reinhardt's back, and from there launches himself into some incoming vines to slice through them. Sup boy?

Well, that's something that hasn't happened in a long time. It feels like ages since he's felt the familiar press of feet on his shoulders. Genji would do that sometimes when he couldn't find high ground. It makes him smile.

"We need to find the head!" Did plants have heads? Well, it had to because it had been about to eat someone. So sure, it must. Everything dies when you take the head. So that's what he's hoping this time.

"I'll keep hitting it with my fire strikes." If only because he doesn't know how an Earth Shatter would work in a jungle on a plant. He's just going to trust his sword wielding teammate.

Genji's ass is way nicer than Zer0's. But that's slightly off topic.

He's about to say something like 'do plants even have heads', but nothing else that's happened lately really makes much sense so he would totally buy this plant having some kind of head.

"I'll try to get closer. Cover me." It was a risky move even if Zer0 was good at chopping things, but they weren't going to make much progress unless they got up in this thing's grill. Reinhardt seemed to be pretty experienced in the art of watching someone's back, so Zer0 felt pretty good about his odds. As soon as he spots an opening in the mass of vines, he charges in.

When it comes to cyborgs that are there to fight at his side, any ass is a great ass. But that's beside the point too.

The point is that ZerO needs him to do what he does best. That's provide some sort of cover. And while his barrier won't do much against a bunch of angry vines of a hungry plant-thing, his hammer and his fire strike do. "On it!" He sees that hole that ZerO made and goes right on in after him, swinging away with his hammer, the fire doing much to make the vines recoil for the moment.

"If we find the head, I might be able to stun it for a second so you can finish it." He yells, voice full of laughing enjoyment. Someone clearly loves his job.

Let's hear it for butts!!!!

Reinhardt is just a delight to work with, he sounds like he's having the time of his life. It's kind of adorable, in a 'gigantic old man that could rip you in half' sort of way.

"Understood." Zer0 doesn't sound quite as amused, but he does flash a brief ' :D ' in front of his faceplate. This is probably the most fun he's had since his arrival and he is absolutely going to have to work with this guy again.

But first they have to kill a plant. Now that he's gotten closer, Zer0's able to follow the vines to their origin point, and boy howdy that sure is a bigass venus flytrap. He chops a few more vines out of Reinhardt's path and quickly ducks out of the way.

"Over there, straight ahead!"

Oh, he is indeed enjoying the hell out of this. It's probably the first time in a while that he's really gotten to let his hair down and just do what he does best. Which is smack shit very hard with a very large hammer.

He rushes behind ZerO as the way is cleared. He has a good path now and waits for the other to get the heck out of the way. He doesn't want ZerO to get caught up in the wake of what he's about to try. "As soon as it's stunned, cut right though it's...stem? Neck? Whatever that is?" Because really, what is man-eating plant anatomy.

And he's not even sure if this will work. But by god he's going to try. So he rushes in, taking a huge leap. "Hammer...DOWN!!" The huge hammer slams hard into the ground. So hard that the jungle ground actually shakes and shatters, spreading forward from the hit. It must have reaches to the roots because for a second, the plant seems to freeze, the vines all falling. "NOW!!"

Zer0's faceplate flashes a holographic " :D " when he sees just how much that bigass hammer shakes that plant up. Hot diggity shit, that was basically the coolest thing ever.

As soon as Reinhardt gives the order, Zer0 charges in, navigating the shattered ground and mess of fallen vines like a pro. He zeros in ~~heyoooo~~ on the stem-neck thing, diving in close and slicing clean through in one fluid movement. The plant makes some... kind of plant noise?? as it hits the ground.

Aaaand it looks like the plant monster has been vanquished!!! Huzzah. Zer0 pokes it with his sword, and then gives Reinhardt a thumbs up.

The ultimate does that a lot out of him. He's not as young as he used to be, after all. But he's more than happy to see ZerO doing his weed-wacker impression. He calls out a loud victorious cheer when the head...that is a head right??... hits the ground. The vines fall and the jungle is quiet again.

He wipes his bow with the back of his hand and slings his hammer over one shoulder to join the swordman. "I hope everyone back in Wyver likes salad." Because of course Reinhardt is going to see if this thing is edible. With food being as short as it is, it's not going to hurt to try. So he's just going to grad the severed trap and start dragging it back to where they left the man and his cart.

"I'll have to have you watch my hammer once we get to the cart." Because Reinhardt is going to pull it back.

"Ew."

You can eat all the jungle monster plant thingy you want, big guy. Zer0's gonna pass. He jogs ahead a bit and retrieves the poor unconscious guy out from whatever bush he'd hid him under or whatever, and like half drags/half carries him back towards the cart.

"Watching a hammer shouldn't be too hard."

It's a pretty big hammer, it'll be super easy to keep an eye on.

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Ew or not, Reinhardt is going to at least give it a hell of a try. So he's just going to pile the plant, his hammer and the dude into the cart before he goes to the front of it. The added weight of the assassin shouldn't be that much more.

"All right" He puts hands on either handle and hefts. He lifts it. There's not much strain. It's maybe slightly heavier than his armor. "I'm going to need you to shout out directions. I've got to concentrate on putting one foot in front of the other. And keep a watch for monsters too. If I put this down, I don't know if I'll be able to pick it back up again." After all, he's old and dragging this all back is going to take it's toll on his muscles.

The good news is Zer0 probably weighs a lot less than anything else in the cart. He hops his skinny butt on up there and gives Reinhardt a thumbs up.

"Just leave it to me, / I'll keep monsters off your back. / Pothole on the left."

Watch your footing, old bro, tipping this whole thing over would super suck.

That there is the best news. It means he can make good time, so long as they both do their jobs. He tries to keep his pace quick. Partly because he's worried about his dinner wilting, but more because he wants to get the unconscious man to healers and what's left of the food in the cart to the people who need it.

"Thank you my friend. Hold on to your butt! I'm picking up the pace as soon as we get back to a normal road! After though, I'm definitely going to need a beer." A beer and about a 3 day nap, but right now, he's more than happy to charge his way back to Wyver, acting as a cart horse.

Zer0 will not hold onto his butt, thank you very much, but he is absolutely having a blast riding the Reinhardt Express. This hadn't been the most challenging job ever, but it was certainly one of the more entertaining.

"Beer, sounds like a good plan."

Hell yes celebratory beers. They've totally earned it after this.

They did indeed, and even if the beers but deeply into Reinhardt's profits for this job, he's totally going to treat his new friend.

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