The Protectorite Stones (RP topic), join, damn it!

[Metalic Warrior]

here I goes....I might need a second post to get this off the ground though.....



So the warrior we hired is here? Good. Send him here imeditaly

Jeral walks into the temple of the Order, located on the Eastern edge of the European Union. The temple stands at least 10 stories, and seems to go on beyond the clouds. Why this place? I try to avoid holy orders. Jeral thinks as he enters the opening hall of the temple. He is greated by an acolyte, telling him to go see the High Priest Zach. "Where whould I find this...Zach?" Try the library. That's where I always find him. "Thanks, kid." And Jeral is off to find the library.

Couple of hours later (shows you how big this place is), Jeral find Zach, right where the acolyte said he would be. Ah, Jeral. I've been waiting for you. Would you care for a drink? "No. Why'd you hire me, Zach?" Blunt we are. Fine, we, the Order, have hired you to find the locations of the fabled Protectorite Stones. We have divined a possible "Second Invasion", as we like to call it. The Stones were made to stop something like this from happening. So, are you willing to help us? Jeral thinks for a minute, mainly running the Great War through his head. Why didn't they just go for the Stones 10 years ago? Ah, never mind.

"Fine, Zach. But what's the catch?" Are you always this supisious, Jeral? Your right, there is a catch. You are going to have to go with Azizm, a Soldier of our Order, (a warrior, dressed in white plate mail, carring an oversized staff walks out of the bookshelves) And Thgil, whom we don't know much about, save she's with us. (at this, a woman wearing form-fitting black armour, a figure obscuring cloak, and a huge scythe comes out of the bookshelves.) "All right. Where do you want us to go?" Your choise. Here, take this list of known locations of there shrines. Let these help you chose. Zach gives Jeral a piece of paper, and them excuses himself from the room. The room goes quiet for a sec, then is alive with the sound of an airship. "What the?!?" Jeral says, whipping around. That...is an airship, Jeral. Thgil says, It will take us to Spria, then we'll make our decision there. "Fine by me." Jeral leads his compantions to the airship, and boards it.

Jeral! Wait for me!

[Raven]

damn stupid father eddy sendin me out to do this, he thought, crouched in a box in the bottom of the airship. stupid dagger hilts diggin in my ribs....

[Metalic Warrior]

Jeral gets on the airship, and when he does, he notices a famliar presence. Once before I felt this.....no it can't be. Jenn? he thinks as he boards the ship. Thgil and Azizm go off to pay the pilot, but Jeral dosen't stay on the top side. No, he goes off to find the source of his feeling. He tries a few crates in the bottom of the ship, but finds no one, or anything in them. Wierd. he thinks Usually, suplies would be in these.... He tries one more box before going back topside, finding something in this one. A female, dressed in travel clothes, but with a bag of supplies and a old staff is in it. "Hello, Jenn. Why are you hiding out in a crate in the bottom of a .... air ship?" Jeral asks her. Um...hi, Jeral. Do you have someway to talk me on to this ship? I'm....uh....kinda hiding from someone back where we first picked up supplies. "Of course. One requriement though, Jenn. You get out of that box." Jeral takes a step back, giving Jenn enough room to get out. She gets out, and to any onlooker, she stands defently shorter then Jeral. She shakes her head a little to straighten her dark brown hair, then asks So, how are going to get me to stay on? "Simple. You were with me, right? I'm gonna need help anyways." Where are we going anyways? "Home. Spira. I wish we wern't." With this Jeral and Jenn are silent, remembering what happened in Spira. Ah hell. "Let's go. We gotta get this done, proving you were with me, right?" Jeral asks quietly. Yea. she replies, just as quietly. They leave together, and without knowing, hand in hand.

Later, after 1 day of travel

The air ship lands on the outskirts of the city named Spira. Of all onboards the ship, only two are quiet. The ship lands, and the empty crates are tossed out (including yours, raven). The passangers get off, and the four of them, Jenn, Jeral, Thgil, and Azizm, figure out where to go. I say we go find the shrine now. Thgil says. "Wait. We might need one or two more. I think the Dragon's Morning is still standing. Do you think we could get a merc or two there, Jenn?" Yes. We could get one there. Jenn says. Then let us go there, and figure out what to do. "Good idea." Yes, lets. It gets us away from here. Thgil says nothing, but starts in the direction of the city. Azizm looks at Jeral and Jenn, but says nothing, and begins to catch up to Thgil. Jeral and Jenn look at each other, knowing just where they are. Right next to the ruins of the Jenn's old Inn. "May peace be given to the souls that fell here." they both whisper, then they, too, leave for the Dragon's Morning.

[Raven]

D'fame waits for them to clear out, then tries to catch up and join them, checking that his daggers are clear in the sheathes as he gets up.

[None other then DJ]

:hanging upside down, hung by his ankles has the people walk passed him with out noticing him: "ALL I WANTED WAS SOME BOOZE...DAMN IT!" : swinging back and forth, siging some random song: "BOOZE booze the wonderful booze!, hey yall someone help me down the blood is going to my head....and i'm hungry, and i BOOZE! :swings faster clawing at the air:

[Metalic Warrior]

Jeral notices the boy first, hanging upside down near the Dragon's Morning, singing a strange song. "Go on ahead, Jenn," he whispers. "I got ask this man something." All.....right, Jeral. Why? Jenn says hesintily. "He looks like a 'victim' of justice." Jeral says to her, then walks off torwards the man. As he gets closer, he hears the verses of the song, way off key. "Sir." Jeral says tartly. "What did you do? Did you piss off the town gaurd? Or step the wrong way in front of a streetgang?"

[None other then DJ]

he stopped swinging and singing, he noticed the man heard the question, while thinking of what to say he pulled himself up, so he could climb the rope. He climbed the rope and sat on what the rope was tied to. "no, no, no, I was with a carvan, when we were attacked...blah blah blah, I beat the little bastards down and ask for some money for my deed. The carvan would not pay me so i attacked them, as you can see i was total out numbered, I WOULD OF BEATED THEM if there wasn't so many...stupid hippie bastards...." He sat there in silence....Then started to chew the rope. He chewed through the rope and fell off his post.

[Metalic Warrior]

"Funny....what happens to you tends to happen to idiots who get caught by a gang," Jeral notes dryly "Since you have um....cut your self free, do you wish for a drink and a job? Only one drink, though." Jeral looks around while he waits for the man reply, noticing one stranger walk into the Dragon's Morning. Hm...must of been in a hurry.

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(remember, I've got 4 characters under my control...sort of)

Jenn, Thgil, and Azizm enter the Dragon's Morning. What I'm I doing here? thinks Jenn as she looks around the tables. I hope Jeral knows what he's doing, talking to that utter stranger.

[None other then DJ]

"One drink thats a load of bull...I need more then that to sober up!" he stagger over to the stranger and slap him on the back "while what we waiting for, time is money and I need that money to pay off some debts!" He walked over to where he was hung and pulled stick out of the ground, at the other side of it was a 3 foot big hammer head. He swung it once with one arm, and started for the tavern. "I hope a bar fight happens, nothing more fun then beating drunks!....except maybe smashing things!"

[Raven]

D'fame watched the man he was following enter the tavern, followed by the one who had been hanging outside. hearing the new one call out about wanting a barfight to happen, he stuck both daggers in the underside of the table and loosened his gun in its holster. goddamn he picked up one crazy son of a bitch. if he starts anything, he goes first thought D'fame.

[Metalic Warrior]

Jeral grunts when the...kid...slaps him on the back, gettin slightly ticked off at how he's talking. "Kid. Stop trying to pick a fight. I grew up here, and they know how to fight. Besides, Spira's just had two interplanar war start here. Not a good idea." Jeral walks into the Inn, with the kid following him hold his hammer. The bartender reconizes him, but no one else does. "Listen, kid. If you wish to work for me, here's a Spiran gold piece," he says, holding out a gold coin. "Go get the biggest drink you can with that, and don't get into a fight. Got that?"

[None other then DJ]

He gnaw on the coin. "hey it's real" He then shallowed it, and sat down."nothing better then a gold coin!" He then looked around and started to pound on the counter. "BEER BEER give me the beer NOW!" He slipped a bag off his hammer and opened it, out came a lot of gold coins, that toppled onto the counter top. "Can't eat them all, ya know" He pulled a little rock out of the pile of gold looked around and tossed it over into the cornor at someone. look at all the chicks in here.....mmmm beer.... looking thinking someone heard his thoughts, and slumed over, and drank away. "thats one...ya know i can go up to 134...thats a good number it's even..even is good!" He gulped down another. He look over at the girl who came along with the guy he was being hired by.....[bad thoughts]

[Metalic Warrior]

Jeral watchs the kid go off to drink the whole city dry, then walks torward the table Jenn and the others are at. You had to hire a drunk perv? He keeps staring at me funny. "Hey, don't worry," Jeral said to Jenn. "Think of it this way. He tries to start anything, he'll get his head knocked in. Remember you can fight, Jenn." How do you know that? "Um...." Jeral rubs his head for a quick bit Oh. Sorry. Jenn says, remembering back near the start of the Reconing. We still need one more, for he doesn't look sober enough to take on a fly, even when he's not drinking. Thgil says sharply, cutting into Jenn and Jeral's conversation. "Fine then. Any ideas?" How about him? Jenn asks, pointing to the stanger that had just entered, bearing two not so subtle knife hilts at his hip. "Hmmm....maybe....sure, what the heck. How wants the honors of seeing if he's for hire?" Jeral says to them. I got it. Jeral starts to complain a little, but Jenn stops him. Remember, I used to own a place like this, Jeral. she says as she walks off torwards the man, avoiding all that gets in her way effortlessly.

[Raven]

"stop there" D'fame said to the approaching woman. "what is it you want?"