forum Dragon Rider RP (Closed)

Started August 25, 2018 by @Becfromthedead group

tune

The woman opened the door and Mara walked in, it was dark except for a few cases the held unfinished weapons and it was amazing. "Wow," Mara loved all these, but there was one. A black bladed sword, shes never seen a sword like this before. There was no handle on it, but Mara knew this is the one she wanted. "I like this one."

“Yeah. I think this village has been secure for too long. People don’t even believe there’s a possibility of attack,” Aurelius said, “and they’re going to die because their lives have been too soft…”

The woman nodded. “You have an eye for the unique, now don’t you? I’ve been experimenting with a black metal found in the mountains around here, and I alloyed it with iron. However, I used dragon flames instead of a regular forge fire to temper the blade in a higher heat. I’m not entirely sure if it has much better quality than other metals, or if the dragon flame is any better than regular forging- though it’s certainly not worse- but I can assure you it won’t rust.”

“I suppose that’s out of our control. If they want to be soft, choose to be ignorant, then so be it,” Quincy huffed.

“Which is why we’re not staying around to help when they aren’t prepared for what’s to come. We actually have a chance of survival because we’re aware of everything. No reason to throw it away by sticking around,” Aurelius replied.

"It's beautiful, you're an excellent blacksmith." Mara liked this girl for some reason. "Although I would pack up all you're things, all the dragons had a dream of the end of this town." If Mara could even save one life she would. It was up to the girl if she wanted to believe her.

"So it wasn't just my girl," she responded as she went to the back to organize some of the weapons, "We may really be coming to the end of our days… No matter. If things start going downhill, I'll just return to the dragon village that I came from. After all, everyone else seems too busy carrying on their lives to worry about some sort of apocalypse, so even if I'm the only one ready, I might as well create a way out for myself." The woman paced a little bit, but then spoke again. "So, did you want to buy anything? Test out any weapons?"

"I would only want to buy this one, I'd rather wait for this one to be finished." Mara ran a hand over the glass. "Think you could put this one on hold?" Mara knew this was the sword for her. Running over to the door she peeked her head out. "Aurelius, I found the sword I want!" She wanted him to see it and give his opinion.

"I just need to put a hilt on it. If I set out to work on it tonight, it should be done in the morning, or at least sometime tomorrow," the shopkeeper said.
Aurelius turned away from Quincy and towards Mara. "You did? Great! Let's see it."

Quincy was glad they were leaving the rest of them to burn, slightly. Only because they were kind of asking for it.

A huge smile appeared on her face as she slipped back into the room. She could wait for Aurelius to see it. "What do you think?" She asked as Aurelius walked into the room. Because it's not finished she doesn't know how heavy it is, but that didn't matter to her.

"Risky, picking out an unfinished sword," he said, "But it looks very nice. Hey, Miss, what can you tell me about the sword and its properties? It it lightweight? Intended for one-handed use?"
The salesperson smiled. "With the second metal added in, it should be light, and the length, as you can see, is not that of a heavy sword. It's made for both slashing and stabbing- whatever strikes your fancy."
"How much is it?"
"Well… it's experimental, and I'm not certain on how well it works, so I imagine it'll be pretty discounted… but as part of the price, I expect to get some feedback on how the blade works for you, darling."
"Mara, we'll get you a dagger too, just in case things don't work, but if you're dead-set on this blade…"

"I'm definitely dead-set on this sword, but a dagger would be nice." Mara looked over at the store lady, "Do you have a dagger made of the same stuff?" She should really ask for her name, a blacksmith like her should be famous and Mara is going to make that happen. "What is your name by the way?"

"Lydia Sage," she replied, "I don't have any daggers with the same material at the moment. Most of mine are steel, bronze, and iron."
"Again, that material is experimental, and your dagger should be made with something that has more well-known properties. So steel is probably the best way to go," Aurelius added.

"Okay, so which ones do you think are good?" She took one last look at the black sword before walking out to go look at daggers. There were so many, it was hard to choose one. "Hm, this is difficult."

"Let's just look at these steel ones. They're all basically the same," Aurelius said, walking back out in front of Mara. He indicated a section of steel daggers. "Is that right?"
Lydia nodded. "Most of the differences between those are just stylistic."

Mara saw one that caught her eye. It had a clear handle with some gold designs on it, the blade was straight at the handle part and at the end curved a bit. "This one's pretty." She pointed to it. "What do you think Aurelius?"

Aurelius didn't say anything at first. He just smiled a little.
"Looks fine to me," he said.

Mara clapped her hands together and looked at Lydia. "I like this one." She wanted to hold it and try it out. Aurelius being here helped a lot, not just for his opinion, but just so she wasn't alone. "Thank you for coming with me." Her eyes wandered up to Aurelius, a smile on her face.

"Yeah, no problem," Aurelius said casually. He looked up at the sign above the daggers and read the price, then dug into his bag for the money and handed it to Lydia.

"I promise I'll pay you back." Riven could do some heavy lifting jobs and do it quickly as well, that would be a good job for them. I'll go looking around later today. Lydia took out the dagger and handed it to Mara. It was light, and easy to hold. She spun it around in her hand a few times. "It's easy to use and it fits well in my hand."

"Sure, whenever you get the chance," Aurelius replied, watching Mara twirl the dagger, "I'm trying to think of the other preparations we need to make… I'm drawing a blank."

"Maybe stock up on some food?" Mara saw Riven sitting outside calmly waiting for her. "Thank you Lydia for the dagger." Mara walked outside and climbed onto Riven's back. Are you done? Mara nodded. For now they needed to find a job.

"Well, I've started on that," Aurelius said, holding up his bag of provisions he had bought while Mara had been looking at jewelry, "I guess we're done for now. We can talk later. Meet me at dinner?"

"Um, yeah sure." Did everybody meet for dinner? "Yeah dinner, I'll be there." She took one more look at Aurelius, before going to find a job. Do you think- "No Riven."

"Yeah, meet me in front of the library, and I can cook something for you. I have food at my house, and I take it you haven't stocked up yet. And if anyone else wants to come, they're welcome to," Aurelius said, looking at Quincy.

Quincy nodded as she smiled, "Sounds like a plan."