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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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[Duo, at first, is mistaken for something more sinister. There's a fullbody freeze, barring the ever-tightening grip he's got on his knife. With lures or not, there're still creeps out and about and Keith isn't at all familiar with this path -- obviously.

Except, he recognizes that voice -- the outfit too. The white-knuckle grip is far from easing up, however.]

Duo?

[His eyes jump from him to the treetops, back to him.]

I'm not looking for fruit.

[Stilted, because he's coming off of the idea he'd have to KILL A GUY JUST NOW.]

But thanks....

Chill, man, I'm not out to kill you. [ He laughs, sticking the fruit in his mouth one more time to adjust how his clothes are, just from getting mussed climbing and all of that good lot. He's not typically a tree climbing kind of guy, but when it comes to fresh fruit and free food? There was zero chance in hell Duo wasn't hopping on that one. Even if he was supposed to be looking for the fruit seller and not the fruit. Still, he takes the chance to talk around what he had in his mouth to give a mildly threatening : ] Yet, anyway.

[ Takes fruit back out of mouth, talks around the bite he takes with it : ]

So then you're lookin' for the fruit seller? Right? I'm supposed t'be doin' that but then I saw this fruit and couldn't help myself...

I know that.

[It's a defensive statement; he's chilling..sort of, unwinding from getting all riled up. Definitely needs to chill. His lips totally sag at the addendum, even though it's a joke.

Ri...ght? Right.]

Yeah, I don't know what he looks like. I guess it's one of those things I'll just know when I see them.

[More grim in his mind than it'll actually be, with any luck whatsoever. Anyhow, that's a terrible excuse to be up in a tree and drifting from the task.]

Did you...get paid in advance?

[ Duo, at first, only raises a brow in a way that says 'you so sure about that buddy?' - more content to much on what he's gotten his grubby hands on than worry about snarking Keith. He'll probably never admit that he had a moment of doubt, and he isn't going to wrestle that from his cold dead hands any time soon. That much he's damn sure of. Still, he's a savage who can't help himself, and follows with - ]

Whatever man just don't pleat your pants the next time a guy drops out of a tree with food. [ When Keith says it.... yeah. It'd be helpful to know who the guy in question they're looking for looks like. He probably should've asked for more of a description than just the 'fruit seller' because if he's honest h wasn't paying a lot of attention if he'd had the chance to see him before he went missing.... ]

Huh? [ Wait, his brain catches up - ] Nah. Was just hungry.

I figure if the guy was in any shit where he could yell you'd hear him a ways away, anyway, and it's been pretty dead silent, so I decided to get myself some sugar to keep going.

... And I didn't bring anything along that I'd saved up before we moved to Wyver, either, so...

[That actually sounds like a fabulous, warranted time to poop his pants, actually. Maybe Duo was raised by a gorilla colony.]

I didn't do anything in my pants.

[Just to set matters straight. He wasn't afraid! Keith's never afraid, regardless of things that may suggest otherwise ever. Duo's lack of conviction, re: THE ACTUAL MISSION is vaguely alarming -- would be more so if he hadn't explained himself..somehow. Still, stealing off a dead guy's cart isn't something he's got near his bucket list.

Or to do list. How vulturesque...]

Does that mean you're gonna start looking again?

[Re: revitalized by sugar.]

Well I ain't your mom so I'm not gonna check... [ But he's definitely laughing at the idea of Keith shitting his pants ad feeling the need to say that he hadn't. Maybe he's literal Satan for taking enjoyment in basically dealing with a brand new Heero Yuy and getting to harass him anew. This is great fun for him, even if it isn't the same for Keith, and Duo intends to carry on for as long as possible or at least until the other king makes an attempt at kicking his ass.

.... And even then he's probably dumb enough to continue.

It's not the first time he's stolen someone else's livelihood to feed his stomach and probably won't be the last. Being a shameless street kid who's stolen more bread and whatever he could get his hands on to survive kind of does that to a guy. He shrugs when asked if he's resuming his search, palms turned upward. ]

Might as well. Not sure if we'll even find the dude alive.

[LIKE HE WOULD LET DUO CHECK HIS UNDIES FOR DOO DOO, & DON'T BRING HIS MOTHER INTO THIS.

He's left with a sour expression; whatever, they're owed as much for sticking their necks out here. Dangerous territory and all of that. Be it talking spiders trying to lure them to their demise or your average ragtag serial killer, no one's gonna miss an apple or banana.

His reasoning needs some work, though.]

Don't say that out loud.

[Some flat advice.]

It's a big deal if they're hiring a bunch of people for the job. They expect us to figure something out.

What, do you think saying it's gonna make it true? [ There's a bit of a smirk on his face as he says it, as if teasing Keith about it. Of course, Duo isn't the type to shy from talk about death or anything akin to it, shrugging his shoulders as if it's entirely too casual. Still, he kicks at a clod of dirt before beginning to move on, arms crossing over his chest. ]

I don't know what the big deal is about a fruit seller, though.

Makes ya wonder if the guy's more important than they let on, huh?

[He merely sighs, arms cross at his chest. Heero Ver. 2, sans the spandex and desire to self-destru--wait.]

He doesn't have to be anymore than a fruit seller.

[It can be perceived as suspicious, as most things can, but someone fussing about not getting his fruits and wanting someone to check up on his guy--

Maybe he's stilling more than fruits? Maybe this is exactly what Duo was implying.]

...Well we gotta do is find out what's up and report back.

[Not that he's one to shy away from adventure/M. Night Shyamalan-esque adventures...]

Ah, so now we're just regular old good guys goin' in after someone? [ Now he's just being a jack ass for the sake of being a jack ass, honestly, but what else could be expected out of Duo Maxwell? Still, whatever, he's up for a little gallivant in the woods to see what they can find and what not. Duo moves his braid up on to his shoulder, a bit to keep it out of range of low hanging branches and what not and also.. just because it's easier that way.

Having a baby's worth of hair hanging off the back of your head can be a head ache. Literally. ]

Then let's go. [ If they're gonna work it out together, at least. Inedible parts of his fruit tossed aside with a bit of a careless motion - (hey, it's biodegradable) - Duo starts off, making sure to keep an eye out for anything that looks overtly man eating. ]

Been a while since I've had to wander around in a place like this, honestly...

[Weren't they always the good guys? He lifts his brows -- not gonna try to assess this again. It semi-blew up in his face last time. Either way. he's accommodating enough, and Keith's alright with stepping after him; he had managed to locate that cart ahead of him and have a snack. There's no telling how much earlier Duo started off on his search, sure, but it's whatever.]

Did you used to get stranded in the woods a lot?

[Could be a boyscouts things, but Duo's a special person with a special case; pot, kettle, etc.]

It doesn't matter, as long as you can track.

[Make some sense of the path they're treading. Thankfully, he's pretty good with that.]

[ You're lucky Keith - that's pretty much an every day question for Duo back home, but here he tries not to think about it too much or too heavily. When people start wandering in to complications and thinking too hard about it is when things got messy.

Duo can't help laughing a little as he asks about getting stranded in the woods, making a little hand weighing motion as he thinks about it. ]

I mean.. in a way. Mostly using it to go undetected. [ He did have a big ass Gundam to hide most of the time, after all. ] Not necessarily stranded, but I sure as shit wasn't moving quick.

You tellin' me low key that you can't track, or seein' if I know how?

[He's seemingly distracted as Duo innocently answers his questions -- trying to be hyper-aware of all that's around them. A daunting task, considering, but he hasn't any reason to shush him. Nothing seems out of place just yet. They would've been attacked by that wagon were that the case, but one can never be too wary under circumstances such as these.]

Seeing if you know how. [In a tone quieter than Duo'd been using.] But it's fine if you don't.

[Which might've come out more condescending than intended.]

.. Yeah I know how. Gimme a little credit here. Though my people trackin' was for different reasons than missing persons cases at the time... [ He doesn't go past that, though, not feeling the need to explain to him the ins and outs of tracking high profile people or even the movements of military groups. It's all a bit much to plop on a kid's lap like that, even if Keith is almost his age. The heavy particulars of being a kid terrorist weren't something that he wants to discuss with randos he's just met not too long ago.

Give him a couple months and some perspective on Keith's war and maybe he'll be a little more free with it. For now... ]

Hey wait... you hear that? [ There's some movement a bit off in the brush, and Duo ducks behind the nearest tree, thankfully small in this place full of fairly large foliage. It looks big enough to climb if a change in perspective is necessary, but for now Duo stays grounded. ] Doesn't sound like... distress or anything..

[A leery sidelook, but that's the extent of it on principle of something inadvertently making itself known up ahead. He'll lower behind an overgrown bush, his mask automatically activating. He's not fully hidden -- in spite of that solid veil, he's focused up ahead, though it's difficult to discern anything, visibly or otherwise.]

Might be an animal.

[Murmured, only just audible. That theory holds up for approximately two seconds as something comes sailing into their direction; only then does he duck out of view.]

Are there monkeys here along with dragons? [ Duo murmurs the sarcastic question with a bit of a brow raise, eyes darting back to where the projectile came from for a moment, then back to where it's landed. It... looks a bit like a .. seed? His head tilts, but he doesn't move any closer to it, for fear of some bonkers alien planet shit, surely.

The braided pilot can't make out too much more than some movement from whence the seed came, which is irritating, and he looks up to the branches above him, contemplating. There's the possibility that this fruit seller is the one trying to ward them off, thinking that they're something else coming to get him, but more than likely this might be someone trying to intimidate them from continuing. Looking around for options comes to a halt when he notices the seed beginning to split open, slowly but surely, which sends the braided boy scrambling. ]

Shit! Get away from that thing!

[Yeah, he's not too fond by the idea of inspecting what was thrown -- or drawing his attention away from the site of which it was launched...though nothing seems to be there? Nothing of merit. No dragon, no monkey, not a splice between the two.

And then, concentration crumbles.]

What thing?!

[Whipping his gaze around to focus on Duo, then look to the object that was thrown, back to Duo. Whatever's hatching....it's a disturbing sight just on principle, and he's more or less frozen in place watching.

So much for getting away. He wants to step on it.]

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