nysalogs | mercenary jobs #2

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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[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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