forum The Purple Cauldron Tavern

Started May 02, 2019 by @GameMaster group

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"Nope." Hinata leaned back, looking as if she was going to fall. She didn't, however.

The new cloaked figure moved to the counter. He spotted Tonakee and immediately walked up to her.
“Your brother’s worried about you, at least tell him that you’re safe. That Chariot Master is giving everyone with him a problem and your brother’s not looking forward for the best anymore…” he whispered to her before sitting down.
“Something zesty please” he told the barkeep.

Tonakee looked in the new figure's direction. Her hand discreetly but visibly rested on one of her daggers. Her finger tracing the pattern on the handle. "How do you know me? And how do you know my brother?" Her voice was low and threatening sounding.

“That is irrelevant. Do you want your brother to continue to stay still and do absolutely nothing but worry about you or not? Stop acting like a child and tell him that you’re safe…” the figure said to her in an ordering kind of way while keeping his voice quiet.

"That is where you are wrong," Tonakee gave a smile. "He and I have been communicating for quite some time now. And it is relevant for me to know how you know me, due to my line of work. I would also like to point out that, no I am not safe. There was a figure in here earlier that was looking for me, I assume. He came in and not a minute later I was warned by my brother. Plus with you knowing who I am is also a danger to me. I would assume that the reason for my brother not moving is cause he's waiting for a certain someone to return."

The figure giggled a little.
“I know you from your brother’s connection to the Soul Labyrinth. For both of your personal information, I have absolutely no idea who you two are on a personal level other than the fact that you’re his sister and he’s your brother. Heck, I don’t even know who’s older”

"That still doesn't mean that I'm safe," Tonakee commented. "There is still that dude that came in earlier."

“You might not believe me, but he’s scared of me…” the figure laughed the last part out.

Hinata raised an eyebrow.
"Scared? Of you?" She made a mental note of this.

Tonakee shrugged and looked back at the wall in front of her. What the hell is the Soul Labyrinth? And why are you there, Tolk?

“Surprising, isn’t it?” The figure turned to Hinata and laughed. “I just have the ability to reflect and cancel other people’s physical and magic attacks with a guarantee chance, that’s all” he added with a smile.

"That would be intimidating to someone who only relied on them. Seems that someone would have to be a master at mental or emotional attacks, and I highly doubt even that would be effective." Note to self, don't mess with this dude.

The cloaked figure smiled softly.
“My Apathy perk helps a lot with that. Though of course, I have my weaknesses…” he added.

"Oh?" Hinata started. She knew Apathy was a hard skill to earn or learn. She had only met one other with this. Now, it seems this man had it as well. To learn of two other beings with the same rare ability in just a matter of hours…
Even Hinata had to admit she didn't know everything there is.

“Why is that surprising? I know that Apathy is a rare ability but… I know like four people who had them, well, they’re dead so it doesn’t matter…” the figure seemed to just went on.

Hinata nearly fell out of her seat. Four?! She thought.

The figure started to think about something.
“Come to think of it… I think it was five…”

"Ooh, narrative tension!" Brie said deviously.

The man was tapping things on a phone like device, smiling at a text before typing out something and sending it.

Hinata blanched, and did fall out of her seat this time. She landed on her bum with a thump.

“What happened?” The figure laughed a little when she fell and went over to her. He offered her a hand up.

"It- It's nothing." Hinata shuddered, accepting the hand. She managed to keep herself from having a panic attack. Five other people?!

“Alright, just stopping rock that stool of yours, it won’t be great for your physical body if you’re gonna keep doing that…” his Apathy ability wasn’t active at the moment.

Tonakee sighed after a moment, a gave a short laugh. She looked to Baasarn. "I'm afraid I must take my leave. They need me back at camp," she sighed as she stood up and stretched. "I'm very glad I got to meet you, and I hope we can meet up sometime later." She gave a slight bow, placed a few silver coins on the table and walked towards the door.

"Hah! That's kind of funny," she said to the figure.

“Sit, we still have something to talk about I think…” he said, setting himself on the stool next to hers.

Hinata sat next to him, waiting for him to continue.

The barkeep watch this exchange with a strange expression on her face. She poured the cloaked figure his drink and looked warily at Hinata, still wobbling in her seat. "Can we get your name? It's a little tradition here."

“Name? I don’t really have one but I go by The Mystic Silencer” the cloaked figure answered, taking a gulp of his drink.

"Anyone wanna start a bar fight-" The narrator asked, taking another swig of his drink before someone entered, actually, two someones. One of them was a man with leg braces and crutches and the other was a man with the bottom half of a snake. "No, you will not be starting another bar fight, we just finished cleaning up the last one. We had to give the owner a few coins to pay for it." The Naga growled, slithering over to grab the Narrator's ear and pull him down.