Pathfinder 1E [IC] Pathfinder: Jade Regent

[Binder Fred]

Fastus gestured 'welcome back' to his friend, but most of his attention seemed to be firmly on the big half-orc warrior for some reason.


OOC: Past the thousand post mark Congratulations everybody!

 

[jkason]

Wireth opened his mouth to offer Fastus a retort, but while he puzzled out just what he might say to penetrate the human's unique perspective, Sachiko came running in with declarations of treasure and friendship and gods, what must that conversation with Jariah been like?

The half-orc merely shook his head, shouldered his bag and double axe, and strode for the door.

"You heard the lady," he said. "Apparently the core of companionship is at risk. We can't have that, can we?"

 

[Binder Fred]

Uh... "Should I ask him to apologize for dismissing ME?" rhetorically inquired the young, left-behind blacksmith, blinking. Then he shrugged: must not have been THAT important.

Anyways, he was now free to twirl a gallant 'after you' to Elsbeth and Sachiko before stepping after them (should they consent).

[COLOR="#F0000"]"So Jariah's cursed or something?"[/COLOR] That WOULD explain some things, right? (He'd found it was usually A LOT simpler to give priority to Sachiko's stuff first, BEFORE getting around to what really mattered to him, personally. Namely - he gave a certain red-clad figure a concerned, trailing look until she was cut from his view....)

 

[Graybeard]

Elsbeth

Elsbeth was a bit concerned with Fastus being infatuated with Ameiko. She understood that he was concerned about her but he seemed obsessive about it. She shrugged. Humans were very strange. Then again, a lot of people acted strange.

She grabbed her pack and headed towards the door. Treasure, while nice to find, was not as important as making the roads safe for travelers.

"Let us not keep Sachiko and Jariah waiting."

 

[Shayuri]

"Keep up, Fastus," Sachiko said impatiently. "The treasure is cursed, Jariah needs friends, and we need to go. Come on, chop chop!"

 

[Binder Fred]

"I'm right behind you," he calmly pointed out. Though he HADN'T been paying full attention, true enough... He fixed that now, although, "Are we SURE she wants friends? Us AS friends, I mean?"

 

[Binder Fred]

Then, despite his good intentions: "What I REALLY want to know is: what do you think's going on with Ameiko?"

If Sachiko lets him, he quickly summed up the meet, ending with: "Elli thinks she's making herself work-sick, maybe, right?" A confirmation look Elli's way. "I-" A pause as he hesitated on the edge of voicing his worst fear... "I don't think she WANTED to come adventuring. AT ALL."

 

[Shayuri]

Sachiko waved Fastus' concerns off. "Maybe she's just too proud to be our sidekick. She wants to adventure on her OWN terms. That's fine. And of COURSE Jariah wants us as friends! What else would she want us as?" She laughed at that. "You're getting full of yourself, blacksmith!"

As people started getting up and moving, she skittered to the inn door then paused and looked back like a puppy impatiently waiting on its mama before shooting ahead again.

 

[Binder Fred]

Fastus spluttered at that last bit: "That's not what I meant at all!" so he pretend-chased her to the door - in retaliation, right? - but then stopped there as if nothing had happened: that 'pride' idea was nice. VERY nice. REASSURING even... (SULDREL was in the party, granted, but maybe she needed MORE Suldrels before it became really interesting?) "So all we got to do is be better adventurers? More heroic, right?"

He could do that!

Fastus beamed. And then she'd come!

He turned to Elli to share his joy. (That seemed important for some reason).

 

[Kaodi]

"Heroism is a luxury," comments Suldrel just a bit crossly, who has been trying to ignore the conversation, unsuccessfully. "The first priority for any adventurer should be survival. If you survive long enough, maybe some folks will think you heroic. Pining after such a reputation is not where I prefer to keep foremost in my thoughts though."