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A New You, Tuesday, Period Two

Today, the class would find the Danger Shop simulation set right back up in the middle of town.

"Well done," he said, grinning around at the students. "You defeated the demon, you've helped clear out the cave for the wyrmling with the tattered wing, and to top it off, now he's got some kobold roommates to help him out while his wing heals. As thanks, he let you each take a handful from his hoard."

Mmmmriches.

"And the Captain of the Guard still owes you payment for checking out the wyrmling situation, so once you catch up to her, it'll be a couple hundred gold in each of your pockets. Not half bad."

... Fjord wished he had a couple hundred gold in his pockets.

"Now you've got yourselves a bit of a reputation around here, the people who take care of problems." A glance at Jatila. "Who mostly take care of problems. Which means opportunities are starting to open up here in town. People want to give you work, if you're willing to take it. There's one in particular that seems promising- a ship's captain from a neighboring city is in port, and he's looking for some good, strong individuals to see to it that his ship and his cargo arrive safely at their destination. He's offering living quarters, food, and a solid wage to anybody who cares to join his crew. Go have a chat with him if you're interested, or make your own fun."

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Like you're being offered an OCEAN ADVENTURE.

You can listen to Fjord talk, or you can just spend this time counting your (3D20 + one random gem) treausre, secure in the knowledge that the Captain of the Guard has more on the way for you.

Captain of the Guard, Captain of the ship, both are going to meet you at the same tavern, just off the docks.

Approach one for your money and the other for a job, if a job is something you've got your hearts set on.

... It's a pretty fair guess, when you step into the tavern, that the silver dragonborn Captain of the Guard, there today with a human and a half-elf city guard at her side, is there mostly to keep an eye on the handful of rowdy sailors in port tonight, here to get their drinking in before they cast off to sea again.

At least the ship's captain should be easy enough to spot. He's the well-dressed, tall, lithe... well, you're not sure what he is, actually. He seems to be an elf or a half-elf, but his skin is blue with white stripes, his hair is a seafoam green, there are obvious gills on the sides of his neck, and his fingers are thickly webbed.

He's also putting back ale like he's paid to do it.

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He's here, drinking this in.

... It's as close to home as he gets without being on an actual ship. Let him have this.

Got distracted mid-threads by a purring kitty.

~~Prompto Argentum~~ Seros Glacium

Seros wasn't so much as counting his treasure as he was counting up the different ways he could spend all his loot when he got the chance, because what was the point of loot if you couldn't just drop it all on some bright new shinies? Although he was rather enjoying his shiny amethyst. It was so fancy! Maybe a new purple color scheme makeover was in order for broody old Seros here. He could use a little makeover...

First things first! And Seros was going to try to be quick about the money thing, too, before anything (*cough*rogues*cough*) had a chance to muck things up a bit, prancing (and then remembering he was a brooding sorcerer who did not prance) over to the Captain of the Guard, and nearly flashed her his most charming grin before catching himself because Seros didn't do that either and, instead, lifted his chin loftily, and held out a hand.

"I believe a reward is in order."

Heh. Seros, you pompous dick, all you did was fling around some magic missles, but okay. It was a little difficult trying to maintain that cool sense of entitlement, though, when all Prompto wanted to do was then go bounce over to the other Captain and see what he might have in store for them and, most importantly, when, to see if he'd have enough time to fit in that fabulous makeover.

Purple robes, baby! That amethyst so needed to be on a staff. That probably wouldn't do anything much but it would look cool as hell.

See the Captain of the Guard. See the Captain of the Guard snort and cross her silver-scaled arms in front of herself.

"I should make you back that up and try it again with manners," she rumbled, rolling her eyes toward the ceiling. "But... your lot did take care of the wyrmling."

Seros would have tossed his long beautiful hair over his shoulders, but he did put in a good roll of his eyes (fighting off internal giggles all the while) and stated, "I believe a reward is in order please."

Sorry, Captain. He was ~~not bogged down by work yet~~ in fine form today.

There was another snort, and then the Captain was reaching for a pouch at her belt. One of several, pre-counted sums of gold. She deftly plucked it up and tossed it at him.

... In a gentle underhand. Tempted though she was to bounce it off his head.

"Two-hundred gold. I trust you'll find it all in order."

~~Keyleth~~ Yelden

Right, right. Apparently she was supposed to be -- gulp -- the face of the party now? So maybe she should act like it since that was kind of what Keyleth was supposed to be learning more about anyway?

Oh boy.

Yelden took a deep breath, straightened her armor out a bit, and walked over toward the guard captain, trying to look serious and capable but maybe kind of approachable and not too intimidating at the same time.

"Is there --" A little bit high-pitched, so she cleared her throat and started over. "Is there anything else we can do to help you out? I hope the wyrmling situation has been resolved well enough, but if there's any additional cleanup that needs to be done I'd hate to leave that hanging. And I'm, uh . . . sorry about our rogue. Really."

A gentle underhanded toss that Seros was apparently not remotely dexterous enough for, because, though he tried to catch it and even managed to bounce it a little in his hands in the effort to keep it from falling, still fell to the ground with a (admittedly very satisfyingly heavy) jingle of coins. "Whoops," he said, chuckling and wondering if the disguise feature in the Danger Shop was turning his face as red as Seros as he knew it was as Prompto, before he swept down oh-so-dramatically (swirling all the robes) to pick it back up and remarked confidently, arrogantly, "I did that on purpose."

But before anyone could have the chance to argue, he turned (more flourishing robes; not enough flourishing; his new robes were going to have to have extra flourish), he tucked away the coins and moseyed his way on over to the other Captain and announced, "I have heard that perhaps you might be looking for a few good hands on your ship, my good sir. I'll admit, while I am lacking in particular strength," this, he felt, was very important to include as part of his This-Character-Is-Clearly-NOT-Prompto developement, because obviously, with those guns... "I am quite perceptive and a very good hand at magic, as you may have heard. I have a strong feeling that my companions will also be interested in helping as needed, but, if that is not the case, I assure you, I can deign to provide at the very least my own excellent services."

Seros's very un-Prompto-like confidence, apparently, was just inspired by him thinking about all the stupid dramatic shit he said to Nina half the time.

~~Lana Beniko~~ Jatila

Hey, 31 gold was nothing to sneeze at when you were a low-level adventurer! Besides, the opal she'd gotten along with it looked pretty valuable, so Yelden wasn't complaining.

. . . oooh, the opal was pretty.

~~And would make a cursed d20 later on.~~

The topaz was rather pretty. Even if Jatila had only managed to get another 19 gold after the dragon had chased her out for trying to steal something shinier.

Jatila walked up to the captain of the guard somewhat smugly. After all, they'd done the thing she'd gotten instructions for.

"The wyrmling is happy and out of your way."

Jatila gave her a haughty look. "Without me, you wouldn't even know what needed to be done."

Who'd gotten ~~you into this~~ the job from the captain in the first place?

"We might have been able to get the job done with a lot less collateral damage if you hadn't pushed for leaving the kobolds at the mercy of the gnolls," Yelden shot back, never mind that she could have done more to stand up to Jatila in the first place.

"Rogues happen," The Captain sighed, looking askance at Jatila again. "The important thing is that people can rest easily again knowing that the dragon isn't coming for them."

Thank the gods.

"Though, now that you mention it," she added, "we could use some strong hands to assist with a few repairs, if you're planning on being in town for a while longer before moving along."

The Captain looked up at Seros, regarding him with almost luminous, cobalt-blue eyes. A small smirk played at his lips as he raised his drink and took a long pull from it.

"We might have a use for a man of your particular talents," he mused, speech coming out in a lazy sort of brogue. "Let me ask you now, have you got any experience with pirates, mate?"

"Happy and out of our way?" The Captain already knew this, yes, but that wasn't stopping her from regarding Jatila with a stern eye for a moment. "And dare I ask how you managed that?"

She'd met you.

"Well, I can't speak for everyone --" have another askance look, Jatila -- "but I'd be glad to help you out with that before we go, and some of the others might, too."

Which meant she'd have to maybe talk them into it, which . . . again, might as well practice.

The Captain nodded, looking faintly grateful, now.

"I'm afraid I don't have much gold left with which to pay you for your work," she noted apologetically, even while she unclipped a small pouch of coin from her belt and held it out to her. "Everything we had to spare went into your pay for the wyrmling job."

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