rlin made his way to the elf, through the sea of tables as usual, he took a seat beside the man.
"So, how is the Mada Hartlace situation fairing?" rlin asked imdiately upon sitting down.
"Hello, nice to see you too." The elf spoke in a sarcastic tone, "It’s always imdiately to business with you..."
"Oh well. At least you’re reliable." The elf muttered while taking another sip of his alcohol, and after placing his glass back on the bar table he continued. "There have been so developnts with the Mada Hartlace case."
"What sort of developnts?" rlin asked.
"Well, we finished getting all the testimonies from all the people you had saved, and we made sure that all their stories matched up." The elf explained, "Then we leaked the story to the public, and it spread far enough for the city guards on Mada Hartlace’s payroll to pay a visit. They brought in a handful of victims to interrogate them further, but there were a couple of our spies and so neutral parties present, so they couldn’t silence the kids."
"There was enough evidence to take Mada Hartlace in for interrogation, which put a stain on her reputation and gave the rumours so validity. But unfortunately the court of public opinion isn’t going to be deciding her fate, but rather a judge on her payroll." The elf continued. "Almost everyone who will be deciding her fate today will be on her side, so legally there is nothing we can do."
"So, when can I kill her?" rlin asked.
"Well, we received word that she intends to do a public speech after the court case to try and regain so of the public’s favour." The elf explained. "The speech is planned to be outside of the temple, as it has a wide space for a large group to gather."
"A wide open space outdoors, and I take it she will be on an elevated platform, or perhaps the steps." rlin mumbled to himself. "If I kill her from a distance, would it be possible for you to retrieve the ring for ?"
"Kill her from a distance?" He asked, "Are you going to shoot her with a bow?"
"That’s the plan." rlin nodded. "Killing her with an arrow in front of a large group of people before disappearing."
"While that sounds interesting, I don’t think shooting an arrow into a crowd of people is such a good idea." The elf shook his head. "And in the case that your arrow does hit her, all that will do is cause panic."
"Her team will then work overti to clear her na and pin the mysterious killer as soone plotting against her." The elf continued, "It’ll be better if she died in her office, away from the public’s eye. Oh, and I have this for you, it may co in handy."
The elf pulled out a folded pile of clothes, placing it on the table in front of rlin. The clothes were lightly glowing, indicating that they could be stored away. And rlin couldn’t help but feel like they were sowhat familiar.
"Oh, and I almost forgot this. Since soone happened to shatter the original, this one is a replica." The elf muttered as he placed a familiar looking black mask on top of the clothes. "You can probably piece together the plan from this, you’re a smart one."
"Ghostsaw..." rlin muttered as he picked up the mask. "I liked my idea, it was simple and fast... But your idea is just evil."
"Such kind words are wasted on ." The elf chuckled, picking his drink back up and indulging in it once more. "She will likely be making her way back to her office in about an hours ti, so make your preparations now. The mask will get you inside, the blade will get you out."
rlin inspected the mask once the elf stopped talking.
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[Replica Ghostsaw Mask. (Common)]
A replica of the mask commonly worn by the late Ghostsaw, a famous assassin in Macedonia.
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rlin threw the mask and the outfit into his inventory. He asked the elf where Mada Hartlace’s office was before leaving the building.
He took his cloak off as he made his way upstairs, and after waving goodbye to Fae, he left the building. rlin stepped out into the slums, only to find that it was relatively late in the day, on the cusp of night.
"System stream." rlin muttered as he began his walk out of the slums, causing a large window to appear before him.
The system stream window was full of options, buttons and sliders. A strear could spend hours ssing around with it to get their ideal setup, but rlin just planned on setting up the basic stream for now.
He hit the initial setup button, which brought up a selection for various streaming services, alongside an option to enter a custom link instead. rlin clicked a familiar icon of a popular streaming service that he used before, and a login screen appeared before him.
Alongside the login screen was a floating keyboard that allowed him to type in the boxes. rlin started filling in his login details, eventually logging in to the site. He was given a window where he could see the website from within the ga, and even click on other streams if he wished, but he decided to type the na of the ga in the search bar.
A topic for New Genesis had already been created on the website, and although nobody had stread it yet, the topic itself had over ten thousand followers.
rlin was excited, as at least a fraction of those followers would beco his, which would boost his career. It was just a sha that he couldn’t start streaming just yet, as he didn’t want to show everyone that he was the one who killed Mada Hartlace.
rlin closed the streaming window and slipped into the crowd as he left the slums. He decided to make his way to the rcenary guild. He found that the receptionist at the desk was the sa woman he t last ti, the one that was more friendly.
"Hello there." rlin greeted her as he approached.
"Oh, good afternoon." The receptionist responded while seemingly fighting off a yawn. "Would you like to take a look at our job listings, learn about any news or rumours, or purchase alcohol?"
"I’d like to hear about local rumours. I heard so people talking about sothing and I wanted to get the full story." rlin said. "Do you have anything about the Mada Hartlace rumours?"
"Well, it hasn’t been absolutely confird, but Mada Hartlace was escorted to the city guard barracks for questioning, so there must be so truth to it." The receptionist said in a hushed voice. "Rumour has it that she was leading a child smuggling operation within her orphanage. But soone broke a group of children out during a transport and the children alerted the city guards to Mada Hartlace’s vile cris."
"There is supposed to be a court trial ongoing, but those who have seen the woman ntioned that she doesn’t seem worried at all by the trial or it’s possible results." The receptionist spoke even softer this ti around. "And the rest of this is just speculation by people who do not wish to be nad, but so people worry that the trial itself wont be fair."
"That’s all I have for you." She said, "Would you like news or rumours from other locations?"
"No I’m fine, thank you." rlin responded, "That helped understand the situation pretty well, so thank you once again."
"It is my pleasure, please take care!" The receptionist spoke as rlin turned around and left the building.
rlin made his way outside of the building and slipped back into the crowd, his target this ti was the spacious parkland that surrounded the temple.
When he arrived at the temple, he noticed that several people were waiting around, they didn’t seem to be there for the temple’s service, but rather that they were waiting around for sothing to happen.
rlin took a seat on one of the park benches situated around the parkland and enjoyed the scenery while waiting around. His attention was pretty drawn to an anxious looking hooded individual who was sitting by a tree and muttering to himself.
There seed to be other people standing around the parkland with similar feelings, mostly anxiety, which was sowhat strange. But what caught rlin’s attention more was that they each seed to be wearing rather pricey clothing that was usually seen on nobles.
rlin’s eyes locked on to a man who ca running into the parkland, he stopped for a mont to catch his breath before yelling sothing at the top of his lungs.
"The Madam was found not guilty, spread the word." The man yelled out, which caused all the anxious looking individuals to spring up from their positions and dash out into the city.
"What on earth..." rlin muttered to himself as he watched the group scatter.
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