"So features?" The thieves guild leader asked on with a curious look before imdiately dropping it. "No matter, I’ve already send so of my best to deal with the ss."
"Moving on to the next topic, I had a few things lined up for you to do, but those plans have been put on hold for now. I’ve got sothing far more interesting in the works, courtesy of this diary." The elf spoke while tapping his chest, and from the sounds of it, it seed as though the diary was being stored away in his breast pocket. "I don’t have a task for you yet, but co back in say an hour or two and I may have an important errand for you to run."
"I’ll co back in a few hours then." rlin nodded his head, said his goodbyes and made his way out of the thieves guild hideout once more.
While he was out on the street, making his way out of the slums, he stopped by where he had killed the guard. To rlin’s surprise, the guard’s corpse and all the blood were already gone, it was like nothing had happened there only minutes prior.
When rlin finally stepped out of the slums, he made his way into the crowd, following the flow of traffic further into the city.
"She knows what you did..." Once again, soone whispered directly into rlin’s ear, causing his hair to stand on end. And yet again, when he turned around, there weren’t any sketchy people leaning in or even uncomfortably close, just a handful of rchants and their carts in the general area around him. As he turned back to face the direction he was walking, the voices spoke out once more. "The oracle sees all..."
As if to confirm his suspicions, the creep was so kind as to disclose the person they were affiliated with. He had a feeling it would be this one, mostly because of what happened while he was in the middle of a dungeon, but also because she generally gave him a bad feeling.
rlin dipped out of the crowd and made his way into the rcenary guild. Eyes locked on him as he entered, but there weren’t as many hostile or wary gazes as last ti, it seed as though the guild master for the Orchonus branch was doing his best to fix rlin’s reputation.
He walked over to the front counter, where the sa woman as last ti was sitting around looking bored.
"Welco back! Job, News, or Alcohol?" The receptionist asked without any additional small talk.
"I’ll take whatever news and rumours you have, thanks." rlin responded.
"Alright, let see what we’ve got here." The woman pulled out a handful of docunts, and began flipping between them quickly after skimming the titles. "Well first up, there was a major incident in Orchonus a day ago, the undead that had been spotted roaming the nearby forest decided to attack the town, killing several civilians, town guard and specifically a noble from the Redmond house before leaving. Rumours say this undead was killed that sa night by soone the rcenaries are calling The Ghost."
"Also in Orchonus, we just received news of this a little while ago. The president of Lychester’s Provisions, Arwell Lychester, had been found within that sa forest with a handful of arrows in his body. His guards say they were attacked by wolves, but the arrows seed to be from a goblin, and those two races haven’t been seen getting along in that area." She continued. "There are rumours that Lychester was killed by soone he had a disagreent with the day before. The suspected culprit was seen escaping from the town when asked by town guards to co in for questioning."
"So far there have been no further reports from the king’s patrols into the frontier, Charisia still refuses to respond to the outside world, a handful of scouts were sent into the Tegean Marshlands, but not a single one had returned." She began reading off a few updates from older information. "And earlier today the skies above the temple of Artemis lit up once more. We are yet to receive any reports about the situation in Lycoa, but just based on the size of the light, our best guess is that yet another large group of otherworlders have appeared.
As she started shuffling through the docunts while skimming them, she found one last piece of information that rlin would possibly find interesting. "And finally, there seems to be a large amount of missing person cases appearing out of... Orchonus, yet again. What is going on with that town?..."
"Anyway, it seems it as though there have been several kidnappings of people travelling between Orchonus and Caphyae. We believe it to be a large bandit operation hiding out in the forest. It doesn’t seem as though the Orchonus town guard can spare any manpower to deal with it for now, especially due to the recent issues in town, so for now it is probably best to avoid travelling along that road." She finished explaining and placed the docunts down neatly. "Scary tis we live in."
Yet again, there was plenty of information there to dissect. It was always a good idea to listen to the local rumours and news from neighbouring towns, in most cases it would hint towards major quests, but sotis it could give hints to possible hidden questlines or other secrets.
"Thank you. Scary tis indeed." rlin thanked the lady before making his way out of the rcenary guild building.
While he had ti, he decided to see what the crazy snake lady had to say. He wasn’t particularly fond of her after hearing about the elf’s story, and having people stalk him and whisper into his ears didn’t help her case either. But a sense of curiosity grew, just what did she want with him?
After a short walk, rlin found himself at the walled off compound that the Serpent-Bearer Kilo resided in. He approached the gate that featured the strange symbol of two intertwined snakes biting each other’s tail.
A loud clank sound rang out as the gate dramatically swung open, revealing the sa young supermodel butler who guided him last ti.
"The oracle has been expecting you." The butler spoke in a seemingly emotionless voice. "Please, follow ."
The butler led him up the sa set of stone brick stairs and through the large door that he entered through last ti. As he entered the building, the first thing that happened was that his senses were overpowered by the smoke emanating from the braziers situated around the room, once again burning the snapdragon looking plant.
And as he opened his eyes and took a look around, he saw all the sa individuals he saw last ti, all dressed up like dolls. Due to his talk with the thieves guild leader, he now knew that everyone currently in this room were related to the thieves guild. They were spies that had been bewitched by the woman, or demon, calling herself Kilo.
As rlin walked to the other side of the room, he noticed the heads of everyone in the room slowly track him, it was like a scene straight out of a horror film. One of the dolls that was dressed up like a classy businesswoman stood by the door, she slowly opened it for rlin and then quickly closed it behind him as he walked through.
’This is as terrifying as always.’ rlin thought to himself as he walked into the spherical room.
He made his way towards the switch he was told to flick last ti, and he flicked it without being told, causing the skylight in the centre of the do roof to open, alongside a loud tallic screech.
"You really should oil that." rlin quipped as he made his way over to the king sized bed in the middle of the room.
There was a silhouette laying on the bed, hidden behind the white lace curtains that were draped over the bed’s canopy. rlin watched as the figure slowly rose out of bed, crawling towards the side of the bed only to push the curtains aside.
The oracle revealed herself to rlin once more, a tall pale woman, wearing nothing but a white silk robe, and her long wavy orange hair partially concealing the turquoise ball python that was still wrapped around her neck.
"I’ll take your advice under advisent." Her soft voice rung out. "My, you have been quite busy, haven’t you?"
"The hero of Orchonus, as well as the villain who stole away the life of a trusted rchant." The oracle’s voice picked up a darker tone as she accused rlin, "You are quite the scher. And for your sches an innocent man was suspected for your cris. No, it was a man you intentionally made the suspect through planted evidence."
"But I..." rlin noticed that the woman’s eyes were slightly glowing as she stared at him, but they quickly returned back to normal only a few monts later. "I caught you."
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