Unguarded Guardians (IC) Part 2

[MiscChaos]

Lilia was sitting on the rooftop when her mark finally arrived. The client said that she and her group would pass through the town eventually, but the young assassin would getting bored waiting. As per usual for her, there's a period of observation to determine if there's a legitimate reason to kill her mark or if this was something petty and the client would end up dead himself. Being a petty assassin isn't the way to move up in the world and the less people who try to use her as such the better. Of course, being bored, "observation" was going to be slightly different than usual. She jumps off the rooftop and lands just barely in front of the leading man with the crossbow who she assumes is in charge.
"Hi!" she says brightly. After all, one can determine the worth of a person by the company she keeps.

[Angel_Slayer_Alcatraz]

Nyx sighs
"wow...im going to the tavern"
walks in and sits at a table
"You wouldn't happen to have Sake would you?"
she asked the bartender

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Kaz whistled as she skipped along. Tide, too, seemed to bristle with joy. It was the height of the day, and their journey was going well! She'd probably made like...a bajillion friends chatting with the girls they'd rescued, but now it seemed like it was time to part ways...!

"I think some day, there will be an artifact that if you talk into it, people with the same artifact can hear you! We'll use those to keep in touch!" she'd said to one of the girls a few days earlier. But now, she was on her lil 'ol lonesome, too easily bored by Sort's talking to not wander off into the little town. It was far more developed than the last village they'd been in, which was a relief. There was more cool stuff here.

Ooh, blacksmith! Ooh, guard station! Ooh, fletchers' shop! Ooh, a store that looked to sell magic stuff!

...

OOH, A BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION! WOWZERS!

Kaz didn't know where to start!

Buuut, she did like magic 'n all...

"I'mma hit up this shop! Be rite back!" she announced to Sort as she dashed off, almost barreling through the shop's front door with her giant staff in tow. As soon as she flew through the door, she'd skid to a halt and look around. Sniff, hear, and taste around too! She loved magic.

[daxtinator396]

Dax grumbles as they walk into town glad to be rid of the women as well if only it meant that Sort would keep teasing him with his cat jokes. He swore if he got asked to fetch another stick he was going to shove it where the sun don`t shine on Sort,"So what now? We`re here and we need food so the usual? Spilt up and find some odd jobs?"He asked wanting to know what to do before the girl ran up to them and said hi,"Hello there Miss! You are quite energetic."

[MiscChaos]

Lilia perks up when a cat person talks to her. She usually doesn't see them too often except as a rare mark, marks that are usually more trouble than they're worth but overall fun targets, so talking to one might make for some fun.
"Hi, nekoman! Energy's good, isn't it? You get more shit done with more energy." She says, swaying on the balls of her feet. Two of the mark's companions had already left by this point, one seeming sorta... spacy, she thinks the word is for her and the other headed for the tavern. She can't get a good feel for the mark just off of these two yet.

[Icaelus]

A town. At long bloody last. The past week..was as traumatizing to her as what all those damn women had just gone through.. I mean, her, a mass-murderer..having to actually try to comfort and help the victims..
Several times Mex had nearly blown her top and would've started swinging Ravenous around if not for some pointed looks from Sort. And the food. Do not even get her started on that. Dried fish. Dried fish. Bloody goddamn dried fish for the entire week. My god. Torture in it's simplest form.

The guard hailed them and while Sort explained their situation and business, Mex impatiently shifted her weight from foot to foot, waiting. That guard had better let them in..even just another day with these..ugh, annoyances was unbearable. She breathed a sigh of relief when the guard nodded and let them in. Finally. Free! Mex grinned for the first time for the week, beaming happily at Sort as she stepped up right next to him and hugged his arm.
"Ugh. Didn't you just want to dump all of them somewhere else? They were so annoying."
Mex smiled up at Sort, ignoring several dirty looks some of the women were shooting her.

[Sortaix]

Sort smiled as he walked down the street. His imminent destination to leave the mother f*** no good *** annoying as ***** moronic, little **** in the care of the guards to finally get the **** away from every last ****** one of them. Once Mex grabbed his arm, his day only got better. One of the women gave him a dirty look as he and Mex were able to show there affections once again, but all he did was give her a one finger salute, before wrapping his arm around Mex and giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"Yes, I wanted to dump them, but look at it this way. We show up in town without any food, a little bit of money, and a crap-load of scared victims with us. We look like heroes and the townspeople hear of our deeds and are more likely to help us."
He gives Mex and tight hug and uses it to whisper to her
We don't have to be heroes, for people to follow us, we just have to let them think we are, and they'll help us. All we have to do is wield this lie in the right way and it can help us greatly, or hurt us, you never know."
Halfway to the guard post a strange woman jumped down in front of him, he jerked a little for a magic blast but, was able to halt his reflexes. She spoke to Dax a little bit and Sort replied to her.
"Howdy Miss, Can I help you with something?"

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Kaz entered the magic shop and discovered it was like most magic shops. There were staffs potions and the like all over the place. It was fairly lacking in decoration, and if KAz new anything about lumber, the coor of the wood would tell he the store was relatively new. There was a young man behind the counter, no more than twenty years old. He is reading a book and looking rather bored, not even paying attention to Kaz. But, more important than anything else, in a display case on the counter beside him is a pair of gloves that looks exactly like her water mage bikini.

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As Nyx walked into the tavern she drew a few eyes from some of the patrons, most of them farmers or some other menial unimportant job, simple men. As she walked up to the bar she could feel the eyes on her. The bartender does not even hide the fact he is looking at her tits as he replies to her.
"Sake? I might have a bottle of sake, let me check."
The bartender goes into a back room and brings out a bottle of sake after several minutes. Once he gets back, he places the bottle on the bar, now looking at Nyx's neck, rather intently.

[MiscChaos]

Lilia sways her head a little, deciding what to say and then decides, since she's bored and this might be fun, to go with the truth. Or part of it at least. "For some reason, someone wants the lady on your arm dead in about 15 different pieces. I'm here to see what her personality's like. If it's bad enough, someone will come along shortly to do the deed. If not, the person who wants her dead instead gets dead in 18 different pieces." She says all this with a smile as if it's no big deal.

[daxtinator396]

"You are really cheerful for an assasin... And open." Dax says taken aback by her forwardness and honesty,"At least you have honor." Dax says standing in front of Mex.

[MiscChaos]

"No one ever sees the cheerful ones coming. They should really watch out for the happy ones more." She says around a smile still. "Still, I never said I was an assassin, only that I'm here to watch the lady and report if she's evil incarnate or something. If she's not, then there's no assassins to worry about." She continues, only speaking half-truths.

[daxtinator396]

"You also seem to have left out the part that you aren`t an assasin. She may be a little rough around the edges but she doesn`t deserve to be killed. She`s both a friend and ally to me. Now may I ask your name not-assasin? Mine is Dax Sierra."

[MiscChaos]

"Well, I'm not."
'Right now.' she thinks to herself. It's another half-truth though. While she's been in this village, she's been nothing but the serving girl at the local bar, but once she leaves that'll probably change.
"And while I doubt you would travel with her if she wasn't at least an ally to you, I'll judge any other characteristics myself. You know, biases and everything. I'm Lilia. No last name." That's a half-truth too. Even though her biological parents brought her up, they didn't go to a hospital or nothing when she was born so there's no official records of her at all. She picked up her mother's maiden name of Rogue later, it's not her actual last name. She doesn't have one. So actually, that might be the closest thing to the truth she's said all day.

[daxtinator396]

"Well it`s nice to meet you Lilia! Fair enough, if you want to get to know her best I`d speak with Sort. He seems to know the most about her. And I`m impressed with your civilty for someone who just announced they were going looking to fins out if a person was to be killed." Dax said with a small smile. He was confident that Mex would be fine no matter what.

[MiscChaos]

"Hey, just because you're the judge on whether the wetworks get called in on someone doesn't mean you have to be all gloom and doom. That gets boring quickly anyway. So, what do you think?" She asks, looking at her mark. Since the crossbow man, Sort Dax said his name was, is said to be close to her, she keeps an eye on him too for his reaction.

[daxtinator396]

"What do I think of what? Whether you should kill her? Of course you shouldn`t. She just helped save alot of people and innocent women. Why should she be killed for that?" Dax asks while explaining abit more about their recent deeds.
(Brb gotta take a shower and stuff)

[MiscChaos]

"I was asking the lady in question what she thought of the whole situation, though your opinion is noted." Lilia says. She knew just fine she'd helped a bunch of women. She was standing on the roof when they arrived after all. But even evil people will save others if it's to their benefit.

[Sortaix]

Sort looked at Mex hanging on his arm then looked at the assassin scout. He gave Mex a hug in front of the scout before stepping forward and producing a spear of light in his hands. The spear itself was rather plain, except that it was made of light, very bright light. Sort then pointed the spear at the assassin scout and spoke to her rather calmly.
"Let me put it to you this way, scout. I am Sortaix Vladius Silent, a member of the Paladin order. I have fought and killed necromancers, liches, zombies, slave traders, thieves, rapists, murderers all over the world. I fight to protect life, liberty, and freedom. I stand as a guardian of the light to drive back the darkness of the Taloran Empire. The woman you question has my full confidence, my full devotion, and my heart. I would and will stand beside her to the very end if that's what it comes to. You and your friends so much as touch her, I'll hunt you bastards down, like I was hunting those damn, undead summoning necro fucks."

[MiscChaos]

Annoyed by the spear of light now in her face, the smiles drops off Lilia's face as draws the hilt of Red Wind and points it at Sortaix in response. She doesn't funnel any magic into it yet, so it just looks like she's pointing a useless hilt at the man.
"And let me put it to you this way, Mr. Paladin. Me and mine don't appreciate being threatened for a job we haven't even taken on yet. We don't appreciate being threatened on job either, but we can put that down to barbs between two warriors and get on with our days. Now, this ISN'T a point in her favor as she captures the hearts mindlessly violent people who would rather THREATEN than talk things out. Don't make us show you what we're capable of."

[daxtinator396]

Dax puts a hand on Sort`s shoulder,"Stop. That`s no way to talk to someone being civil. Like she said she hasn`t taken the job yet and this is no way to convince her otherwise,"Sorry Miss he`s a little touchy and hasn`t had a chance to really talk to her all week becuase of the ladies. He`s been taking his stress out on me by making jokes about my appearance to try and make the ladies warm up to him but oh well. Please forgive him." He said holding his hand forward in peace to her.

[Sortaix]

Sort smiles a bit as he feels Dax's hand on his shoulder.
"Actually, I wasn't threatening her. If either of you happen to look down, you will see a small circle of light around her feet. I intend to imprison her, actually."
Sort was simply using the spear to get the scout's attention, and before she can react a barrier of light magic encircles her from the ground, imprisoning her.
"Now, you just stay there, till I get the guards to imprison you till we leave, then you can go free. I can't have you bother us on our trip to Saloran. And I certainly don't want you pestering my girlfriend."