Destiny's Tears: Zykovian's Sidetrack

[Keia]

Zykovian motioned him over. Smiling he leaned down to the boy and asked, "I'm looking for the blood markings that are in this Ward and the next, the writings on the walls. Any chance you can take us to one or more, other than the one over there?" Zykovian motioned to where he had come from. "There will be payment . . . A lot more if you've happened to have seen a tall woman, possibly in scales, silver hair, and now where she is currently."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Blood scrawls? I seen one or two of em, yeah," he squeaks, "Hard to member exactly where though. How much coin you say again?"

 

[Keia]

Zykovian offers a generous but fair amount, and also asks if he's seen Bajir around (by description).

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Mebbe seen someone like that lurking about today. You want I should take you to the places wit' the blood?"

 

[Keia]

"Yeah . . . that would be fine . . . unless you've seen the woman around . . . or at least someone with silver hair," Zykovian asked. He followed along after the boy, keeping his eyes open for Bajir . . . or some others that were willing to try and take him down.

OOC: I'm heading out for f-t-f game stuff. Looking like we got a good bit farther hopefully. Feel free to carry it forward a bit if you wish. His plans are to look at as many sites as he can and do some triangle, taking into account the flow of the traffic and where she might be at.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Sure. So just getting the spots then, and not trying to translate any of the writing? Let me know how much cash / efficiency he is willing to expend to ensure completeness and/or how many he wants to get before he figures he has enough, so I can figure out how much time it takes--as you can see, Bajir didn't stop to go to dinner with his golem girlfriend )

 

[Keia]

(OOC: Sure. So just getting the spots then, and not trying to translate any of the writing? Let me know how much cash / efficiency he is willing to expend to ensure completeness and/or how many he wants to get before he figures he has enough, so I can figure out how much time it takes--as you can see, Bajir didn't stop to go to dinner with his golem girlfriend )

Zykovian followed the boy being slightly generous in his payments, and he tried to translate the symbols as best as he could. The hope is to gain whatever advantage he can in hopes for finding the woman.

OOC: And yet, Zykovian doesn't feel bad about it at all, considering his prior evening and day thus far.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Zykovian followed the boy being slightly generous in his payments, and he tried to translate the symbols as best as he could. The hope is to gain whatever advantage he can in hopes for finding the woman.

(OOC: Okay, so he's going to take the boy's two plus his one and call it a night? As for translating the symbols, the crash course taught conversational Mojiin, and it didn't get into the written language, which would have taken a significant time, as it is composed of glyphs)

OOC: And yet, Zykovian doesn't feel bad about it at all, considering his prior evening and day thus far.

(OOC: I can see why )

 

[Keia]

OOC: Zykovian's one, plus the two of the boy's . . . unless he has more, or Zykovian bumps into someone that knows of another (or the boy has someone he can check with). Can Zykovian memorize the glyphs with his INT to copy and ask about later?

As for calling it a night, Zykovian told Molpe he would pick her up at the Laughing Sail to go to the baths that night, perhaps with Lyveria.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC:

Can Zykovian memorize the glyphs with his INT to copy and ask about later?

He can try, but considering that many of them are already faded and obscured, adding the uncertainty of memory to that may wind up making them too difficult, even for a native speaker. He may be better off copying a few of them while at the scene of the crime

As for calling it a night, Zykovian told Molpe he would pick her up at the Laughing Sail to go to the baths that night, perhaps with Lyveria.

Yup, that's true--I had thought he told Lyveria that Molpe would understand if he had to cancel for the bounty, but I'm sure Molpe will be happy if he does show up )