A New You, Tuesday, Period Two

[built_fjord_tough]

Today, class, you were meeting in the Danger Shop outside a large cave entrance. Fjord was there leaning against a boulder, arms crossed over his chest.

He was smirking.

"First off," he drawled, "I want to congratulate Yelden on taking initiative and becoming the new face of the party in conversation."

Really, if it had to be the fighter or the rogue, Fjord wanted the one who wasn't just acting in self-interest. Though watching this whole campaign slowly snowball into a nightmare of consequences had been fun in its own way, too.

"For the rest of you, this means you've got two homeless kobolds and a wyrmling all looking for an assist in clearing out the cave of the violent creature that shredded the wyrmling's wing and is keeping him from going back home. Remember, for the more monetarily driven of you, that there's still a handsome reward back in town for keeping the dragon from wandering too close to the outskirts, and," he nodded toward the wyrmling, whose good wing was mantled and whose tail was thrashing behind him as he peered into the cave, "dragons keep treasure troves."

Just throwing that out there for the roguish of you.

"So," he smirked at the party. "In you go."

Fjord enjoyed this entirely too much.

[OOC: Open!]

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Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

He's joining you on this expedition, mostly because he wants to see where this goes.

Hell, if you ask him nicely enough, he might even participate in the demon fight. He's bored, guys.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

Beau was waiting outside the cave after the class ended, shifting from one foot to the other and occasionally letting out a loud, exasperated sigh because waiting gracefully was for people not named Beauregard [last name redacted].

"Did you make them all go in a dark cave? You asshole."

Hi to you too, Fjord, from the human painfully aware of her own lack of darkvision!

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"It was either this or they fight the dragon," Fjord replied amiably as he meandered back out into the daylight. Smirking.

Look, he was a charismatic man. That didn't mean he was a nice one.

"The kobolds weren't terribly fond of them for some reason, after all."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

"Heh. Somebody fucked up, huh?"

Don't look smug about that, Beau. Technically they're at a higher level than you are right now, and you're going to end up part of the biggest disaster crew this side of the Lucidian Ocean, so you really can't talk at all.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord shrugged his shoulders, smiling crookedly.

"When a bunch'a little guys come to you saying, 'gnolls are eating our babies,' what do you do?"

Spoiler: Probably not what these idiots did.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

These two judging an imaginary adventuring party's questionable decisions was pretty rich, wasn't it, considering how they were eventually going to get themselves banned from an entire island less than 24 hours after arriving there?

Well, they didn't know that yet. So.

"Oh yeah." Beau grimaced. "That's -- that's, uh. Kind of thing that ends up with a whole dragon situation, I guess."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"The kobolds certainly seem to think so," Fjord mused. "Dragon seems pretty fond of them."

Even as they sat on his head and chattered like tiny little idiots.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

Well, you know, everybody had their hobbies. Like poking mysterious objects just to see what happened, Fjord.

"The students haven't all, like, eaten each other yet?" Beau had to ask. "Not literally."

You had to clarify these things.

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[built_fjord_tough]

Those would be very educational experiences, Beau.

"Not yet, no," Fjord mused, "though our fighter seems to have stepped up to keep the rogue from getting everyone killed. That's reassuring."

Jatila was a menace.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

As rogues tended to be. Too bad the concept of 'my actions have consequences and can impact other people's lives' hadn't entirely sunk in for Beau yet.

"I mean, it can't be that bad, right?"

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord blinked at Beau, and then back toward the cave.

"... You haven't met our rogue."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

Beau's pierced eyebrow went up in a slow, dramatic way.

"Like. On a scale of one to 'oh gods what the fuck are you doing,' your rogue is . . .?"

She liked to think she'd met some pretty out-there ones during her delinquent teenage years.

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[built_fjord_tough]

"Our rogue is, 'let's seal off the tunnels and let the kobolds and gnolls sort themselves out,'" Fjord supplied.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[mages_suck]

Near the end of class, Fenris showed up carrying a nylon bag that smelled of cooked seafood. With a distinct lack of class, he shoved it at Fjord. He didn't say anything. He was trying not to breathe.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

And Fjord... was blinking as the bag was shoved at him, and then opening it up and peering inside.

And then grinning. That was a good amount of choice scallops, right there.

"Aw, Fenris, you shouldn't have."

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[mages_suck]

Fenris took a step back and gasped an inhale. Bad choice, that smell lingered. He made a face and then grinned. "You're welcome. They're all over the beach. I thought you might like some for lunch."

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[built_fjord_tough]

"Well, that was mighty kind of you, Fenris," Fjord replied, closing the bag up again so that hopefully in a few moments, Fenris would be able to breathe again. "Want me to take these somewhere a little more ventilated before having a go at them?"

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[mages_suck]

"You probably want to eat them while they're still warm," Fenris shrugged, "It's just standing over the bag of them that's a little.. fragrant."

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[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord chuckled and took a few steps back. And then considered Fenris a moment. And took a few more.

"Little bit," he allowed, and opened the bag up again. "I'll sit over here."

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[mages_suck]

"That should do," Fenris agreed. As much as avoiding the smell of cooked seafood in an enclosed building ever really could. "I don't know if they're supposed to have sauce or anything," he said, "There wasn't any on the beach."

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[built_fjord_tough]

"Supposed to? Nah. They can, but hell if I've had anything fancy with mine, most of the time."

Fjord was not choosy.

So long as it didn't have sour cream, apparently.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[mages_suck]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

"There are more on the beach if those aren't enough," Fenris said, "If the seagulls haven't found them."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"I think these'll do," Fjord replied, picking one out of the bag between his nails and then popping it into his mouth.

Yup. That was definitely a scallop. A damn good one, too.

"I'm not in the mood to fight gulls for my food today, anyhow."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[mages_suck]

Fenris squinted at him a little. "Are you feeling quite alright?"

Did you just say you weren't in the mood to fight?

Who even were you?

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord blinked, and then laughed.

"C'mon, Fenris. Gulls? They're fuckin' sky rats, that's no challenge."