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"Hold on just a second, Aye think introductions are in order here."
"Oh, oh, yeah. My name is Dorje."
"Dorj-"
HAHAHAH
"Dorhe?"
"Dorje."
"That sounds made up, lad."
He seems troubled by that comment, but ignores it. "I'm from Caranacha and I got separated from someone I was traveling with."
"I don't know much 'bout that place."
"It's a small place."

>Okay, come along.
>Hold it, first, you need an 'inspection'.
>Check wtih everyone to make sure his story matches up.
>"We're on a mission, stay in the bar and we'll meet up with you later."
>Other?

>>40053107
>Hold it, first, you need an 'inspection'.
>Check with everyone to make sure his story matches up.
Aligot should know if he's telling the truth, the nerd.

Also YES time to try and find out how far in the ground that knight is!

>>40053107
>Hold it, first, you need an 'inspection'.
>Check wtih everyone to make sure his story matches up.

>>40053107
>Hold it, first, you need an 'inspection'.
>Check wtih everyone to make sure his story matches up.

>Hold it, first, you need an 'inspection'.
>Check with everyone to make sure his story matches up.

Writing!

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"Hold it."
You eye him suspiciously, something definitely seems wrong with this whole thing. The way he's acting, his strange name, the fact that you can't see any ears.
Something is amiss.
"First." You edge your hand ever closer to his headband, "Aye want an inspection before ye walk with my crew. Ye okay with that?"
"Inspection?" He seems confused, "Okay, go ahead."

Immediately your hand races up to his headband and yanks it off. Then it works on finding where his ears might be located.
"H-hey, he he, hey, stop, that tickles."
"Quiet, Lad." You keep searching for his ears on his scalp as he twitches and laughs.
You don't find anything.

"CAn ye excuse me for just a moment?"
He puts his handband onto his now-messy hair. "Yeah, sure."
--
The kid waits patiently away from your group as you discuss what to do with him.
"Aye don't know 'bout this, so what do ye all think?"
"We're here on an important mission, we don't have time to mess around with some kid." Odelle crosses her arms.
"But he's as old as you are." Yuuki points out.
"THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT!"
"I think it might be nice to have him around." Tuile looks over toward him, "He's not armed, and he's not very threatening. He might make us look less dangerous. "
"His story seems a little conveinient." Aligot isn't certain. "I mean, he just happens to live in Carancha, with no ears. And I've never heard a name like that from someone who lives in the region."
"Do ye know anyone without ears, Aligot?"
"Yeah, you."

"Let's be fair, if he was lying to us, he wouldn't have given us such a weird name." Tuile nods.

"So what'll it be? He comin' with us?"
Odelle sighs, "No."
"I say yes." Tuile stretches her arms.
"I'll leave it up to you." Aligot pats your shoulder.
"I don't know." Yuuki shrugs.

>Okay. He'll come along
>No. He stays.
>Other?

>>40054407
>Okay. He'll come along
Better to know where he is than not if he is against us. Keeping an eye on him, if you would.

>Okay. He'll come along
I'm sure we can have one of the others keep an eye on him.

>>40054407
>Okay. He'll come along
but i don't really trust him

>Okay, he'll come along

Writing last post before I have to drive home.

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"Alright, aye think he'll come along."
"He has to walk near YOU though, I'm not letting him get too close to me!" Odelle pouts.

That's okay, you didn't want to let him get behind you in the first place. There's still that little part inside of you that doesn't trust all the inconsistencies with his story.
"Aye, Dor-he"
His eyes perk up.
"Yar, ye can come with us, but ye gotta walk in front."

He seems confused, but agrees.
"Yes! Show me the way!"

--
"So, uh, where we going?"
It does seem kind of weird to point a guy along like you're doing without having a gun at his back. At least it would be pretty hard for him to stab you in yours walking like this.
"There's a building on the edge of town. We gotta go have a chat with the people inside, ye probably may not want to go along with us for that."
"A Chat?"
"See, this is why this is a bad idea" Odelle interrupts. "Does he even know it's dangerous where we're going?"
"Oh!" The boy turns his head toward your group, "You want to go talk with those knights I saw in there."

Your group stops, eyeing him more suspiciously.
"Ye saw knights?"
"Yup!" He smiles and nods. "I asked them where my friend was, but they acted really angry and shut the door in my face."
"Good, show me where their door is."

>Cont.

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>>40055217

Your group goes through the streets of whispering voices and sad looking villagers trying to go about their day.
Your 'friend', appears happy and cheerful as ever. Very suspicious.
"So, why are you guys acting so paranoid?" He turns his head to talk to us.
"Why're ye think? It's a foreign land and everyone here is kidnapped."
"Yeah, that's true, but isn't acting strange just making things even worse?"
"Mind yer business, kid."
"Okay."

The building comes into view up ahead. Guards seem to be standing in a line in front of it as villagers pile outside bombarding them with questions. Occasionally they'll shove one away or onto the ground.
"That's the place!" The kid points.
"How'd ye get past the guards?"
"Oh, them? I just walked right by them, they could barely stop me at all."

Wait, what?
"Hey!" A guard seems to materialize from the crowd. "I thought I told you to not show your face here again, kid!"
"Hey! It's that guy again." The boy points at him, pulling at your sleeve. "Should I apologize for earlier or just let it go?"

>Ignore that guard
>Talk to him, see what you can learn.
>Sneak off into the crowd, re-engage stealthfully
>grab him and threaten him.
>other?

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And with that, I drive home.

Thread resume in about an hour or so.

>>40055272

>Talk to him, see what you can learn.

...We are making sure this little brat isn't gonna screw with us or anything, right?

>>40055272
>Talk to him, see what you can learn.
and if he doesn't talk enough...
>grab him and threaten him.

>>40055272
>>Talk to him, see what you can learn.

Why are we standing here?
Shouldn't we go through?
We need to capture the knight.

So I'd just like to say.
Fuck yes Cody you are the best bro ever.

Now, what we need done is get into the place so we can do horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE things to the knight.
Also, everyone, can we please make sure the kid doesn't get to in any way interact with anything?
I don't trust the little bastard.

>>40055272
>>Ignore that guard

And I forgot to vote, of course...

Also, before I forget it...
Hiya Announcer, how you doing today?

>>40055272
>Sneak off into the crowd, re-engage stealthfully

So how fast can we get inside the place?
We've got super-jumping, super-speed... it should all work out alright, shouldn't it?

But seriously, why do people want to talk to anyone?

Sorry that drive took so long.

>Try talking to him
Writing!

>>40056848
Hey, you never know.

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You hold the kid back with a smile on your face as the guard approaches. His expression stern and uneven.
"I thought I told this kid to stay the hell away and never come back."
He takes out what appears to be a whip, he snaps it between his fingers. It would be kind of cute if it wasn't so monumentally stupid.
"-or else."

"'ey, there's no need for that. The boy here was just lost and I was showin' him around. Then I realized, I don't know the way 'round myself!"

He looks less than amused.
"-So aye thought, 'ey I can ask the guards here for directions."

"Are you his father? That kid caused us a lot of trouble earlier, so take him and get out of here if you know what's best for you."
"Oh? Did you come from that building? The lad just wanted to know what was in there. Truth be told, so do I."

He frowns, snapping his whip between his hands once more. "That's where we take people to interrogate them. You want to find yourself in there?"
You smile back at him, "Why, now that you mention it, I might wanna!"

He holsters his whip and turns away, "Keep the brat away, I won't warn you again."

You put up your hand and give him the only finger worth giving him as you turn back to the boy.
"'Ey, can ye show me where they were goin' in and out of?"
"Yeah, I think I can. But didn't you just hear the guy? I'm not sure I want to make him any angrier than he is."

"You may not." You check your belt to make sure your pistol is still holstered and your swords are still secured. "But I do."

"Yuuki."
"Oh no." She slumps down, but then perks back up. "I mean, er, yes?"

>How are you going to go into this building?

>Kid stays here with everyone. Louise guards them. You and Yuuki jump over the guards and walk straight in.
>NOW'S OUR CHANCE FOR AN ALL-OUT ATTACK!
>Find a way to sneak in, maybe the kid can show you the way he got in.
>Or maybe you can impersonate some guards. Just got to get some uniforms!
>Other?

>>40057740
Just hope we don't get fucked over here.

>>40058361
>Find a way to sneak in, maybe the kid can show you the way he got in.

>>40058361
>Do what worked when helping the bears, just jump in in secret - no one ever seems to think to look up in these situations.

I'm assuming there are like windows or something we can jump into.

>>40058428
I don't trust the kid.
He's gonna fuck us over somehow.

How abgout we instead just try some long-distance jumping?
Jack's a pirate, he should know something about jumping from one place to another, and that was before he became a hero.

>>40058361
>>NOW'S OUR CHANCE FOR AN ALL-OUT ATTACK!
fuck'em

>>40058361
>Find a way to sneak in, maybe the kid can show you the way he got in.

>>40058361
Announcer, if my vote >>40058466 doesn't win, can I just give some conditional "if this doesn't win I go with this other one"?

>>40058568
I'm okay with that, but which one do you want to fall back to?

Right now Sneaking is winning by two, jump is one, all out attack is one.

>>40058361
>>Find a way to sneak in, maybe the kid can show you the way he got in.
Time to be Pirate Snake

>>40058626
Going with sneak as well, just to clinch it so we can move on

>This is a sneaking mission!

Writing!

>>40058624
Was going for all out attack but that's pointless now.

>>40058696
Sneaking could include some jumping, just saying.

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"We're gonna sneak in, kid." You look at him, this will be a good way to keep an eye on him and use what little he can offer to help.
"Really?"
"Yar, do ye know a way in?"

"Well I-" He stops himself. "I do! I do know a way in. I don't know how it looks right now, but-"
"Good 'nough for me." You turn back around to your group. "Louise, gonna give ye a special job: Keep everyone safe with that big axe of yers. Got it?"
"I got it!" She does a little cute salute.

"Are you sure about this, Jack?" Tuile seems concerned.
"No." You smile back at her. "But like most things, Aye'll figure it out as I go."

She looks around at everyone, and then shrugs.
"Forget it."
With a smooth motion, she leans upward and kisses you on the cheek.
"Try to be careful anyway, tough guy."
"Aye'll pretend that I do."

--
The kid leads the way to the other side of the street, and down an alley.
That's when he stops in front of a two-story building. The whole place looks boarded up and desolate.
"Whar we doin' here?" You look at him suspiciously, "Ye aren't tryin' anything, are ye?"
He flips his hood over his head, "No, no, just follow me!"

With a very impressive backflip, he jumps from a standing position with no momentum all the way to the top of the building.
For a scrawny little kid, he sure is springy.
"Come on!" He yells back at us, "It's safe up here!"

>Cont.

>>40059211
...Is the kid a hero?

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>>40059211
Yuuki swiftly follows him up and lands right next to him, you do the same and find yourself overlooking the compound.

The guards on the street playing interference to the mass of villagers don't even notice your presence. The kid hops from the rooftop you're standing on right to the other building in a single bound.

On the other rooftop, he walks right up to a trap door and opens it up.
"Last time I went through the front door, but they didn't like that. We'll try this way and see what they say."
He hops in, and both of you follow.

Inside, you appear to be in an attic with provisions lining the room. Downstairs you can hear the chatter of guards talking back and forth.
There's a hole cut in the floor which peers down onto them, it's clearly meant for a ladder, but a full-sized person can fit through easily.

>Listen in!
>DROP ATTACK
>Wait, wait, form a plan, then go.
>Try to find some way to scare them.
>Question the kid, now that he's alone up here with you and Yuuki.
>Other?

>>40059211
>She looks around at everyone, and then shrugs.
>"Forget it."
>With a smooth motion, she leans upward and kisses you on the cheek.
>"Try to be careful anyway, tough guy."
>"Aye'll pretend that I do."
Tuile keeps being great.

>>40059297
Looks that way. Didn't Cody mention that there used to be 6 heroes way back when?

>>40059316
>>Listen in!
>Question the kid, now that he's alone up here with you and Yuuki.

>Listen in!
We may find out something useful.

>>40059316
So my current idea is Yuuki listens in, while we interrogate the kid.

>>40059316
>Listen in!

>>Listen in!
>Question the kid, now that he's alone up here with you and Yuuki.

Writing last post of the night. apologies for the short thread. It should have been longer but I started a bit later than normal.

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"Shh." You quiet everyone down as you start listening to the conversation the guards seem involved with.

- -
Four guards total sit around a circular table. It's covered in papers and trinkets.

"How many is that?" One of them is filing through papers.
"We counted roughly twelve-hundred in the town. The barrier is growing positively. "

"Good!" One of them stands up, slamming his hands onto the table. "We can go then! I was starting to miss home."
"No no." One the others grabs him by the sleeve and pulls him down. "We aren't done yet. Until the castle says we can go, then we can go."
"Where is the castle, anyway?"

"That guy they partnered with wanted them to move up north, with us."
"I hate that guy, I think he mind controlling them somehow."
"Mind-controlling isn't real. Enough questioning the decisions of the castle or I'm putting you out-"

You let Yuuki finish listening in on this conversation. You instead look up to the boy who has seemed to have lost interest and instead started poking around in the attic.

You approach him and decide to get to know him a bit better.
"Ey kid."
"Hello?"
"I don't think I introduced myself, I'm Jack."
"I'm Dorje."
"Right, Dorte."
"No, Dorje"
"That's fine. Listen, ye seemed pretty agile back there. Anything ye want to tell me about?"
"What's so strange about that? I've seen people jump that high before."

>Cont.

>>40060394
>"Good!" One of them stands up, slamming his hands onto the table. "We can go then! I was starting to miss home."
Oh FUCK no, they're not going to just get to leave.
I want to beat some shitheads face in goddammit.

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>>40060394
"Yar, so have I. Doesn't change that it's kinda unique, yknow?"
"No no." He waves off your concerns, "I'm not hiding anything, I just want to find my friend and be off, that's all."
"What made ye look here earlier?"
"I heard from someone that there was this knight running around picking people up off the streets and bringing them here. So I though-"

"Psst! Jack!" Yuuki calls you, "They're talking about something really important!"
- -
"What? That girl?"
"Yeah. Captain says that's a princess we found. We can use her to fill the rest of the quota from that nation."
"Which nation?"
"Caran-, well, any of them really. They're all allies."

"(Hey.)" That kid takes a sudden interest. "(What was that?)"

"I kinda worry about opening her cell door. I know I have to eventually for food, but those horns make me shiver. They're far tougher than any weapon I have."

Your head snaps up, just in time to watch the kid almost throw himself down the hole.
He looks pissed off.

>Thread End

>Next thread vote!

>Hold the kid back.
>GO DOWN WITH HIM!

>>40060633
>>GO DOWN WITH HIM!
Time to commit acts of violence on those who deserve it.

Thanks for the thread everyone.

Sorry it was so short

Next time, I'll try to start earlier and hopefully it will run longer! Let me know what you thought of it, and what you think of the new kid.

>>40060633
>>GO DOWN WITH HIM!
we now know they have a way to go home no more sneaking around.

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>>40060675
I forgot my after-thread image.

Have a leo.

So, this kid's a hero and whoever this friend he's got is a princess.
Welp, FINALLY time for violence.

>Go Down with him
->Try and keep at least one conscious enough for horrible, horrible threats to work

>>40060708
Especially since they could potentially get away then, yes.

...Announcer, is there some sort of mindreading magic available?

>>40060765
Good question, you should ask Aligot.

he knows some.

>>40060633
>>GO DOWN WITH HIM!
BUST UP IN YO SPOT LIKE CJ FROM SAN ANDREAS

>>40060633
>GO DOWN WITH HIM!
Woo!

>>40060786
Alrighty then, make sure to leave at least one conscious for magical interrogation.