mercenary jobs #2 — open to all

[unweave]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

Comments

[maipokerface]

Komodo dragon? Never heard of them.

[She quirks a half-grin though]

Don't worry, the animals here and in everyone else's worlds sound just as weird to me as a komodo rhino does to you.

[emblazes]

[Good clarification there. He regards her oddly, not sure if it's a wordly thing or a personal thing. He'll proceed as the former, to not offend...]

Theyre big lizards -- where I come from. I think their spit makes them dangerous.

[While picking his dragon up, glancing it over...looks clean. No different than from when they began.]

[maipokerface]

[A big lizard, eh. Mai holds her own dragon in her cupped hands, letting it flap away and shed water everywhere.]

Sounds like a mongoose lizard. Besides the spitting part anyhow. They're good at tracking things though.

[emblazes]

[It'd be interesting to see a picture of one; Keith's got a highkey interest in cryptids, and a mongoose lizard inherently sounds like it'd fit the bill.

Primarily because he'd never heard or seen one before, copious as they may be at her place.]

Like a dog?

[While allowing his lizard to perch itself on his shoulder. Caring for these guys is so much easier with a proper distraction???]

[maipokerface]

[Anything is less tedious with distraction in Mai's opinion. And she's a near expert on looking for ways to make life less tedious now.]

Pretty much. Usually they're trained as mounts and can track anything - or anyone for that matter - for days without really needing to rest. Great for a chase, not so great on whoever ends up riding one.

[emblazes]

They don't need rest?

[Suspicious; maybe they're actually robots.]

Seeing dragon mounts here must not be too weird for you then?

[Sounds similarish, at least, though he still knows very little about dragons and dragons as mounts...]

Back home, people only would use horses like that. You could ride other things -- do you know what a horse is?

[Not..to sound..condescending..]

[maipokerface]

Not really. ... Well, maybe a little. All the dragons are gone in my world.

[Or as far as she knows they are. She cocks a brow up at his question.]

You mean the things that seem to be everywhere here?

[There's no small bit of sarcasm in there.]

[emblazes]

[LISTEN, JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE HORSES HERE DOESN'T MEAN SHE'S FAMILIAR WITH THEM. Just because it was their main means of travel from Olympia--


He'll just heave a sigh, look elsewhere for a moment.]

Did you have those back home?

[That sounds better in hindsight, but the damage has been done...]

[maipokerface]

Not really. We had a lot of other mounts but nothing like a horse. I suppose the closest would be an ostrich horse.

[emblazes]

An...ostrich horse?!

[People just splicing animals left and right...]

[maipokerface]

That's what they're called. They don't exactly look like what they call horses here though.

[emblazes]

Do they look like birds-?

[He'll slowly be moving to the nursery-nursery, to set his dragon down in its decided nest -- where he'd first retrieved it from.]

[maipokerface]

[He may be a little damp still but Mai makes little fuss about allowing her own dragon back onto her shoulder. Until it starts using one of her pigtails to dry it's head on. She shoos it away from that activity as she talks.]

I guess. Kind of like some of the ones I've seen here in a way. They walk on two legs, have a beak and all that.

[emblazes]

[Of course his lizardy guy is hardly sitting still and does not look prepared for a nap at all, but that's the only thing he can think of from here. Maybe it's hungry again? How often do these guys gotta eat?!

In the meantime, he's imagining a two-legged horse with a beak -- mane-less, most likely. Covered in feathers..? A horrorshow.]

You...had one?

[maipokerface]

My family did. Anyone who road in a carriage had them or at least something else to pull it.

[Mai's hatchling is restless. He bops back and forth before finally hoping from her shoulder to join Keith's dragon. He seems to be intent on starting play fighting and Mai reaches to pull him back.]

Don't bite.

[emblazes]

[Huh, no wonder why she'd find herself here, then. Accustomed to odd creatures and such. The dragon provides a good distraction, lest his face get stuck looking perplexed.]

Do you think it's because their teeth are coming in?

[Or that he wants to bite on principle of being carnivorous animal. His dragon seems indifferent, submissively lying in place. Odd.]

[maipokerface]

... That's a good question.

[Babies lose teeth but do baby dragons? Mai prods at her own, getting nipped for her efforts. She winces, just a touch but not too much.]

Well they're sharp enough anyhow.

[emblazes]

[Good theory, bad in action. At least it didn't...seem to draw blood.]

I guess it doesn't have anything to do with new teeth then...

[HE TRIED FOR YOU, LIL DRAGON.]

[maipokerface]

This one is just energetic, I think.

[Which makes sense why he's trying to rouse Keith's charge into playing. Not that Keith's dragon wants anything to do with it, of course.

Eventually Mai scoops him up, even as he wiggles and flaps and makes himself a general nuisance.]

At least yours looks ready to relax for a while. Guess I'll go find someone for this guy to play with.

[emblazes]

[Unless his little dude's sick? Maybe he did something wrong? He's concerned to..a slight degree; it should be fine. The experts around these parts would notice soon enough if something were amiss.

...Or he could give someone a head's up.]

Yeah, sounds good.

[HE DOESN'T WANT TO ADMIT HE'S ALSO GONNA BE TAKING OFF TO FIND SOMEONE TO FUSS ABOUT HIS DRAGON. He just gives a permissive nod.]