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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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Listen, I ain't a chemist past knowing what to mix to make things go sky high or how much water goes in a ration pack when a guy's in a pinch. [ Of course they could probably also reference the towns folk or a book or two, but that's the boring way to find out facts and information. If Wufei was around he's sure he'd be willing to look through a lot of txts to find the answer, but Duo is much too impatient for it. ] - Wonder if I could like. Reference everyone here about it. See if they've found anything out independently.. the one time I wouldn't mind having Chang around and of course he's still in time out.

[ There's a bit of a doubtful expression thrown over Duo's shoulder and the heavy weave of his braid - seems your pal here isn't buying that story, Lance. Or at least finds himself strangely wishing Heero was still around with his quiet act bullshit so that they could grunt communicate and move on - ]

All I wanna do is earn some silver and not have to knock a few heads to move around freely afterward. Hate to have to be such a bad guest to Wyver if any of that mess starts again but like hell am I gonna take a fall laying down.

I was thinking more along the lines of asking around or checking a library... [ aka the boring stuff. does lance look like some kinda science whiz to you?? duo pls... ] You're the one worried about this stuff, anyway. [ lance is usually more willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, regardless of past burns.

in any case... ]

Why don't we just focus on getting the stuff first, huh? We'll worry about what could be later, if we have to.

[ yeesh, it's like trying to have a conversation with keith... is everyone always so paranoid? ]

Asking around will only get you what the locals know so unless they're doctors or chemists or 'medicine people' - [ Yes, that includes finger quotes] - I don't know how much useful information that'll bring.

Anyways, I'm not a library kinda guy. [ He left that kind of book worming to Wufei and Heero, really. Duo tended to learn best on the fly or through instruction booklets loosely flipped through more than heavy research. It helped to be a bit of a quick learner or an idiot savant, depending on who you talked to. ]

I wasn't about to call off the hunt, anyways. Even if I got the stuff and could sell it for more to someone else it's silver in my pocket. [ So many scruples, this one, they're nearly uncountable. ]

I'd prefer to keep 'not going hungry' on the list of my life improvements.

You never know — sometimes local legend has just as much truth in it than anything you can read off of books anyway. [ which is why he'd suggested talking to people in the first place, but duo seems to have talked himself into being just fine with all this anyway... at least now his priorities are in order. ]

Either way, that looks like one of the things we're after, right? [ he points towards a small mound of bones in the distance; it wriggles just barely, and seems to freeze upon their attention.

lance advances slowly, trying to be sneaky. ]

Last time I heard a local legend about a guy they were true in the worst way. But then again, when you're raised on the space colony I was ... [ Duo makes a little hand weighing motion, then flicks his hands as if it's not really all that important. No us scaring off a guy that can't seem to handle a little marshy ground, after all, even as he yanks his own boot free from a suctioned grasp with a little grunt of distaste. ]

Shit - I would'a preferred Mars - [ He complains under his breath until Lance points out one of those little creatures, immediately sinking down slightly, trying to reduce his noise which is a little hard with boots in marsh -

So instead he looks around, trying to find a tree or something to climb up. He finds on that he hopes is enough and signals to Lance that he's moving up before he does it. At least up here he can move without that sucking sound around his boots. ]

[ lance glances from the tree to duo, nodding once to show he understands. he's paused, too, knowing it'd be pointless trying to sneak up on the puox as he is now, but he finds himself wondering about their options. they didn't have much in the way of supplies... a net would be pretty useful right now.

while it didn't look like those bones were sharpened, he doesn't doubt they'd still be pretty painful if he or duo were to land on them. hmm...

in a low whisper, ]

You think you can scare it over this way?

[ If he'd been smart he would've thought of the nest option, but Duo's first trip out to this place was a learning experience, too. If he decided to pursue this again for a little extra silver, some might have to be spent on just the thing. Right now, though, they were forced to deal with what they had going for them, and so the slight pilot carefully climbs from limb to limb. It's not an easy job, really, but it won't kill him either.

Well, hopefully.

There's a low noise of contemplation as Lance asks if they could scare it, looking around above him for, perhaps, a stick he can prod the puox with. Thankfully there's one not too far away, and soon Duo's yoinked it and is gauging length, muttering back - ]

Might as well give it a try... [ Which means the little beast is given a prod in a moment with the branch he's got in his hands. ]

[ lance watches, attentive, as the little bone-rat wiggles in response. it flinches, scampering away a few feet towards lance, but stops rather suddenly, curling up somewhat to hide itself in its surroundings. ]

That's it! [ continuing with his stage-whisper. he starts to wave his hands excitedly. ] You got it, keep going!

[ Stepping out too far on this branch seems like a delicate operation, even for someone as slight of frame as Duo, and he looks around again, checking out what he's got in the tree. There's a fallen branch not too far off, a thick piece of wood that ought to make him worry, but no, this is Duo -

Instead he picks it up and lobs it at the little creature, half striking it and half striking the ground nearby. This time the little bone rat seems more irritated than before, giving a little screech before it runs further toward Lance - seemingly intent on actually getting away from them. ]

Grab it!

[ lance definitely doesn't need to be told twice. duo's shout only makes the puox more skittish, its pace picking up, but lance has longer legs and more gutso. he lunges for the thing, hands-first, slamming both palms on either side of it, not quite missing the bones of its exterior so he grimaces at the pain that shoots up both arms, but he has it, by jove, he has it, and he rolls over onto the ground to wrestle with the thing, trying to contain it in his arms. ]

You got it! [ Duo's excitement in the moment makes him hop slightly on the branch he's standing on, and the tree gives a little bit too much of a give and a groan before it cracks out from beneath Duo as a whole. Thankfully there's not too far to fall, and Duo's used to tumbles from much taller heights (thanks, Heero) - so after a moment of surprise he sort of half-assed tumbles out from the fall, not too much worse for wear.

Thankfully he's able to pick himself up and get to Lance after only a moment to realize what the hell happened, hands out to offer any help he might need. ]

D'you need help wrestling the thing or you got it?

It's — surprisingly scrappy—!

[ and those bones definitely mean business... even if they aren't sharpened into shanks or anything, they can still poke really hard. ]

Get a few of the bones so I can let this thing go!

Dude, it's a rat thing! [ He has to give him a little shit even though he's not the one currently wrestling it, but once he's given the go ahead to grab some of those spiny bones off of the little creature he's quick - A pick pocket's hands move in a flurry over the little thing, plucking a few larger pieces off of the scrabbling puox as quickly as he can without dropping everything / anything.

He's done fairly quickly after one more sweep, nodding and slipping the pieces away in to his pocket for safe keeping - ]

Ok, let the little guy run, I've got all that would qualify I think.

[ as soon as he's given the go-ahead, lance releases any sort of hold he's got on the thing, and the puox takes off in a mad dash towards the nearest brush. lance is left on his back, breathing heavily, hands a little red and raw from holding on so tightly to the bones, but he's picking himself up before long anyway. ]

You think that'll be enough to get us our money?

[ he's wondering how easy it will be to even find another at this rate... what if that one's gone and told its friends. ]

Didn't cut you up, did it? [ It doesn't look as though there's any blood welling up, but Duo's concerned anyway. Hell, if they decided to keep up pair of gloves my be in his mind's eye for purchase next - and, well, he's at least got a field dressing version of first aid logged away in that thick head of his to at least give Lance some rudimentary help with any wounds he may or may not have. ]

I think so... [ Duo does a little rustling in his pocket to produce a few pieces, the largest ones that the puox in question had to offer, showing them to Lance. ]

Might not hurt to grab one more just to be sure? More's more, right?

[ lance glances down at the bruises in his hands. they aren't terrible, but they were hardly fun getting them, either. still, he's reluctant to go back with too listen, lest they give their benefactor any reason to shortchange them. ]

Alright, one more oughta do it...

[ he climbs back up to his feet, looking around. ]

Maybe we'll get lucky and find a sleepy one.

I'll wrangle this time, yeah? [ As much as Duo liked to work alone, there was also no denying that he knew how to work in a team situation. It was all a matter of whether he wanted to, really. Lance so far seems to be a pretty chill partner in this mess, and he's thankful for that, willing to put his hands in danger next time instead of having him do it with already tender palms. ]

Guess we better hope that it didn't run off and tell all its buddies we're out here, huh?

[ the look lance gives duo is somewhat wry. wry because he realizes it's meant to be a joke, but that's literally what lance had just been thinking.

fortunately, he's saved from having to admit as much when there's some light rustling out of the corner of his eye. he turns, and immediately points. ]

Hey, is that one?!

[ there's some little wiggling of bones... surely it is... ]

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