I'm on my way from misery to happiness today

[itookashot]

WHO: Jesper Fahey, Ciri, Claude von Riegan, and Gideon Nav
WHAT: It's Quest Time Baby
WHERE: Throughout the journey to Solvunn's Supply Run
WHEN: September
WARNINGS: Eventual violence!



With Solvunn providing aid, the leaders of Thorne and the Free Cities have asked some of their trusted Summoned to travel to an agreed-upon meeting point to retrieve the supplies, check them, and bring everything back safely. This will take two weeks out of Cadens to do. While portals will be utilized to cut down on travel time, they will still need to cover the remaining distance of some miles to reach their final destination each way.

The Free Cities will ask the Summoned to accompany some soldiers to help guard the supply transport. They will be taking the southern trail (shown by the dotted lines) across the desert, traveling west to the forest that sits between the Solvunn and Free Cities border. While a portal will take the transport team as close as possible, characters will still need to make the rest of the journey by horse, ensuring the wagons come through the portal safely. They will also need to watch for the usual beasts and bandits, as well as take into account weather, terrain, and other hazards. To complete the assignment, they must successfully bring the supplies back to the waiting portal and into Cadens.

Comments

[frontlinetitties]

Gideon only nods - silent - in response to the talk of bandits; she's met her fair share whilst out on jobs. Despatched them when necessary, though not with the kind of vigour and abandon that Ciri has evidently been engaging in. There's still something vaguely unpleasant about it, killing actual people. Monsters and bone constructs are one thing. When it comes to the slaughter of other humans - even out of necessity or self-defence - she's left with a strange, bad feeling that can sometimes linger for days.

She says nothing of this, though. Instead encouraging Midnight Hagette to move closer in toward the others, indicating Jesper's armour with a jerk of her chin.

"I assume the armour has some kind of explanation? Because it doesn't look like it'd offer much protection in a fight."

[itookashot]

Jesper grins at her. "It's deceptively made that way. I'll tell you later if we don't have a good reason to show it off." This is his first attempt at full corecloth for himself and then the metal pieces are for his special abilities. If this all turns out well, he'll start making his friends their own. Wink wink nudge nudge.

[godshattering]

The confirmation the bandits exist in numbers enough for both Ciri and Gideon to confirm as he takes both of their responses to mean so is yet another note filed away in Claude's mind for later. One more familiarity to home where tasks included taking out bandits threatening cities, forts, or transports, so to hear others have experience with the same is reassuring.

A glance at the armor in question, however, has him raising an eyebrow even with the explanation (of sorts) following. "I was about to ask the same thing as Gideon. Possibly because I'm used to full on -" one hand waved around him in an air sketch approximating heavy armor of the thick metal variety usually seen on the knights he knows - "armor as the most common kind where I'm from. Then again, I have no room to talk since my preferred set was about the same thickness as your deceptive one seems to be, Jesper."

Claude hasn't forgotten what he was shown before when it comes to metal and the man being addressed, but even then: it's all very curious. "I'd like to see in action, if I can put a vote in with the universe for that." He's kidding with that remark more to their whole group, kind of, but it really would make their travel a bit more exciting. "Mostly because we'll prevail over whatever it is, and we can show off some skills."