Destiny's Tears: Zykovian's Sidetrack

[Keia]

OOC: I would think it would have maps of the wards. Also, I thought the 'keeping the 100 if you are successful' meant I was keeping the 100 if successful. Finally, does he have enough time to copy the sketch down for each on and still make it considering the number of children sent (perhaps using a prestidigitation or other magick?)

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Yeah, I figured he did too. In fact, didn't you guys use one to traingulate Molpe?

The keeping meant keeping in the offer

If he is fast, he can indeed copy them all down. He can speed this up greatly by considering the oldest three lost causes due to the fact that they are pretty clearly unintelligible by now--they would also be the hardest to copy. Also, Zykovian's keen pattern-matching ability has enabled him to learn how to spell 'I will meet you at Nemesis's End' in Mojiin runes by observing the last sentence of each. If he assumes it always ends that way, he can save in copying it.)

 

[Keia]

OOC: Indeed we did. Plus, he's got 5 ranks in Knowledge: Eldiz for assistance if he needs it. He'll skip copying the ending each time. He'll still try and copy the earliest three however, as best as he can, not spending a great deal of time on it. Knowing the location he can come back and do a better job after the fact. Were the slaying's one a night at midnight, according to Eloquence?

Zykovian thanked the initial child, then went to work with paper, copying the writing as best as he could. He marked the location on his map (noting it first), then nodded to the next boy to get going.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Indeed they were. None of the higher-ups noticed or cared about it, though, until the Jewel incident, and this only came up because they mistakenly thought the murders were committed by the jewel thief. Then cursory investigation revealed a High Praetor as the killer, bringing the Praetorian Embassy into it)

*The child does not reply, staring blankly and then leaving into the shadows as he follows the next, continuing along a winding path and copying the writings. There are twelve in all, and Zykovian would not have had enough time to visit each one if he had to zig and zag across the entire ward each time, but fortunately, many of them are reasonably close to the one before, although a few are not. He is able to save some extra time by not copying the three he already has when he comes across them again. Eventually, he has them all copied down, with all the locations noted. They are spread out all over the place in such a way that triangulation seems utterly pointless, however.*

 

[Keia]

Zykovian looked over the locations on his map, then visualized connecting the dots in order, then looking up into the skys for cosmological references. He looked through all of the locations on the map, looking for a missing area or a trend that would indicate which location would be next.

Finally, he thought through how much time he had left, and if there was enough time to reach a translator to understand the writings.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*As soon as Zykovian takes his pencil and connects the dots in order, it immediately becomes apparent that they spell out a nearly-complete Mojiin rune. In fact, it is one of the ones from the part that Zykovian knows how to read.*

(OOC: He isn't sure of exact time to the minute, but he can't have more than ten minutes left)

 

[Keia]

Zykovian looked to the Mojiin rune for Nemesis, to find the missing location. Zykovian hustled to that location in the Labourer's Ward.

OCC: Nemesis's End?

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Zykovian heads as fast as he can towards that location. As he draws near, he moves a bit more quietly, though his training in stealth is limited. But his eyesight is better--and up on a rooftop, he spots Bajir Fraye, carefully aiming a crossbow at a target in an alley obscured from Zykovian's vision at the moment, lining up for a killing shot with his finger just over the trigger.*

(OOC: Yup. Cute, ain't it? )

 

[Keia]

OOC: Bounty hunter code . . . is there such a thing? Zykovian has no intention of making an enemy of Fraye, at least not on purpose. So he won't attack Fraye, but could he head toward the alley, and converse with the target, thereby complicating things?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: The Bounty Hunter's Code is not a code really--they're more like guidelines There isn't anything specific saying not to attack a fellow bounty hunter for the bounty head, but it does seem pretty rude, doesn't it? )