SIDE QUEST: Gotta Have a Rat Extermination.

[1_eyed_dadass]

*He needed something to take his mind off things, so he'd started poking around on this weird book thingy finally. He's still not entirely sure how the thing works, but he's somehow managed to stumble his way into what looks like some sort of place where people put up work, like some sort of message board. A few of the jobs looked very much in his usual purview.

Though he can't help but feel this work feels kind of low level, for some reason.

Either way, he's on his way over to the Docks to help some guys get some rats out of their warehouse. You might not know where he's going, but he sure is taking a lot of heavy weaponry with him whereever it is.*

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[1_eyed_dadass]

I guess. I don't really think about it too hard. Hey, here we go.

*He turns it on -- oh God, look at them scatter.*

That... sure is a rat problem, all right.

[numberofthefiend100]

[[And a bear trap goes off. It only manages to catch one tiny little rat.]]

I... I caught one! [[She means annihilated and splattered one!]]

[1_eyed_dadass]

*Nier jumps and rolls, pulling his sword out and facing... a splat rat.*

Did that rat just EXPLODE? Wait, where the hell did that trap come from?

[numberofthefiend100]

[[Allura holds the head of the draconic gauntlet over her arm.]] That... that was me... That's... my power...

I should have told you...

[1_eyed_dadass]

*He stares at her. Judging. Clearly he's beginning to wonder what sort of demon he's me --*

I, uh, don't suppose you got more of those where that came from, do you?

*...or he could have just been mulling it in his head. Really, the guy hung out with a sarcastic book, a horrible skull monster and a Shade-possessed perpetually angry swordswoman. This is just sort of... something.*

[numberofthefiend100]

Just those... I only have the one but... I can reset it where ever you think I need to.

And... I have others... Weapons like that... [[She's clearly ashamed of her power, for now.]]

[1_eyed_dadass]

*He looks at her for a bit. Shame. It's an emotion he's learned to recognize well. He shouldn't get too close; he's a dead man walking, after all. But...

He walks over and puts a hand on her shoulder.*

Hey. Don't feel bad. You got it. There's no sense in feeling bad about it. I don't know all the details, and frankly I don't wanna know. But I don't judge you or anything, so don't worry about it. Let's focus on the job at hand, okay?

[numberofthefiend100]

[[That is... awkwardly comforting. But the shame is from having a power given by the devil, meant to kill.

But maybe rats souls won't amount to anything]]

Right... I'll focus. Maybe I should use something less... Well, something that might get more than one? I can summon a vacuum...

And... ah... thank you. For not asking about it...

[1_eyed_dadass]

A vacuum could work. Set it up next to one of the holes, we don't have to worry so much about the ones hiding in the woodwork.

And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that there are times to ask questions and times not to, and this is one of the latter. Don't worry about it.

[numberofthefiend100]

[[She nods in agreement.]]

I hope I'm not taking your job away from you? [[She asks, while wandering off on her own to find one of these rat holes he mentioned.]]

[1_eyed_dadass]

Nah. They're providing a lot of the good stuff on the side, so this is more a force of habit than anything. Used to do a lot of this sorta work back home.

[numberofthefiend100]

Do you mean... mercenary work?

[1_eyed_dadass]

If you wanna call it that. Had to make ends meet somehow. Used to matter a little more, mind.

*He peers behind a box.*

Hey, think I found one of the holes over here.

[numberofthefiend100]

Ahh... alright. You might want to stand a ways away. And... Well no, I think the box will be okay.

[[After a bit... SUCTION! LOTS OF UNGLODLY POWERFUL SUCTION!

Roll 2d20+10 for rats! Haha!]]

[1_eyed_dadass]

Holy CRAP that thing packs a punch!

*Twenty-eight rats go flying in. Goodness.*

[numberofthefiend100]

[[Unfortunately, there's nothing in the center to kill them.

What did you think this was? Deception 3? No!]]

I... Suppose it's up to you now, perhaps?

[1_eyed_dadass]

*He mulls this.*

Well, they're alive... I guess there's no real sense in killing them outright. We'll take 'em out a ways from the city, let 'em go. Come back and see if we can round up a few more in the process.

[numberofthefiend100]

A-alive? [[Wow... if only that were an option more often.]]

I... I like that idea...

[1_eyed_dadass]

Got plenty of time to think about death these days anyway. No sense in spreading it around more than necessary. Might as well do that now.

*He begins to head out.*

[numberofthefiend100]

You've killed a lot of people too, haven't you...

[[Of course, she's going to tag along. No sense in letting the temptation of splattering rats get to her!]]

[1_eyed_dadass]

*He stops a bit. He wants to say no. He really does. All those things he killed? They were just shades. Monsters. He was protecting people.

That's what he wants to say. But deep down, he knows he can't anymore. Not with what he knows.*

...something like that.

*He continues moving.*

[numberofthefiend100]

[[Alicia doesn't push it. She's just as guilty for killing dozens of people in the name of self defense... Not counting that the devil is taking their souls as well, just so she can stay alive and... keep up the cycle.]]

...I see...