Was this some sort of nightmare? Was this hazing? Was the guildmaster hazing her so she would move out of the Guild’s living quarters?!
After a nice brisk stressful walk. They finally arrived to the Adventuring Guild.
“We have arrived this is the adventurer’s guild. It is a little well into the afternoon, so most adventurers should be already out. Depending on your needs, it might be a good time to come!” She said, with the most formal and business like speech she was able to muster torwards the threatening visage the Dragon nonchalantly provided.
The Dragon sat on his hindlegs, and took a look at the large building. A stout building indeed, stone brick walls, wood supports for the ceiling, large enough to work as a shelter if the need arised. Among the humanoid races seemed to be quite a popular shape for safety. He was quite pleased to see a wide and sturdy metal-reinforced wooden door onto a large and tall entryway. He wasn’t able to enter many buildings because of humanoid design, so it was a nice change he was quite grateful for. Only one problem remained.
{“Why are we here?”}
Congratulations!
By your
Interactions you have raised your Monster Empathy skill! by +0.2
“eh? W-what do you mean we are here because you…” She stammered trying her best to ignoring the magic-bait in front of her, then tried her hardest to remember what had happened at the gate… She then tried her hardest to remember things differently, having just realized the good-for-nothing guards had just outwitted her. Then she proceeded to try and come up with a valid reason on to why she had escorted a Dragon to the adventurer’s guild. Definitly not because some meatbuns-for-brains guards had outsmarted her. She had a valid and reasonable reason! She just wasn’t sure what that reason was, yet.
“er… Is not the Adventurer’s guild the best place to find a solution to your problems and or preocupations?... maybe?...” Denial. She picked, denial. The Adventurer’s guild was full of resourceful people. If you had needs, they could provide assistance. Assistance even for a conundrum as simple as “how can I save face right now?!”. They did deliver.
{“Mmmmm… A solution for my problems?... Mmmph! Yes, perhaps this is the right place to have brought me to. I am grateful to you, human pup”}
Congratulations!
By your
Interactions you have raised your Monster Empathy skill by +0.3!
Monster Empathy
skill has reached level 2!
By your actions
you have adquired Mediator skill!
By your actions
you have raised your Mediator skill by +0.1!
Monster Empathy
and Mediator have merged to create Monster Talk!
Monster Talk is
now Level 2!
By your
services to the noble Dragon Feugan you have been awarded a New title!
“Dragon
Deliverer”
When she opened her eyes, the Dragon was looking at her with his head tilted to the side. She didn’t need to be a professional monster tamer to see the doubt look on his face.
“ah!! S-some dust got in my eye! A-anyway, this way please!” She lead him the rest of the way, she opened the reinforced doors wide open for the Dragon to pass through. To her surprise, the Guildmaster was standing in the middle of the hall. Arms crossed over his chest, a fierce look on his eyes as he stared at the Dragon.
“M-Master!! This Dragon came to the guild for help…” She froze. A scene she had already witnessed today was taking place again.
The Stout Guildmaster was locked on a stare stand-off with the Dragon. Two fearsome creatures now locked in a duel. All the patrons present at the hall turned their gazes at the two of them, silence befell the hall, interrupted only by soft murmurs of adventurers apprehensive and afraid of what was taking place.
“Are they measuring each other?”, “Are they going to fight?!”, “They both look like monsters!”, “Did Mimiru bring a monster to finally off the old man?!”
“OI WHO SAID THAT!!, I was asked to help him out! Was it you Bannon?! Oi! don’t run away!!” Mimiru’s voice reverberated as the still fairly quiet hall felt the previous dramatic tension just melt away onto jokes and cutlery chattering as people lost interest and deemed their food more important.
“Mmm… He passes!” Said the weatherworn guildmaster.
{“You are not bad at all yourself”} Replied the dragon.
They both nodded knowingly as they stared at each other with a newfound respect and a feeling of trust developed out of nowhere. It was basically folly, every adventurer present agreed on this. You can’t just look at someone meaningfully and pretend you have understood their intentions. At least both of them were similar on this matter.
“Marx is the name! I run this fine establishment and help shape up this lot of whelps into proper adventurers” He then motioned to one of the barmaids to come.
“Meat and wine alright for you?”
{“Meat and water shall suffice, red apples if you got some, please.”}
The guildmaster stared at the dragon. The barmaid stared at him too. They both stared at him for a few seconds until the stout old man turned his face torwards Mimiru who had remained besides the Dragon unsure of what to do or when to leave.
“It doesn’t talk?...” He said. Breaking the fragile deluded illusions of the younger adventurers.
“So he is not a monster after all”, “I thought they reached mutual understanding by looking at each other”, “I think I need another drink”
Were the faint rumors going around the hall.
“H-He! It’s a He! I mean, He is a him!... well yeah what else… I mean! He accepts the meat but he wants water and apples!” Replied the young confused and obviously soon to be overworked Monster Tamer (to be).
“Aha! I see, I can respect that! Come girlie, we will obviously need you for this!” The guildmaster Signaled to the barmaid to fetch the refreshments and then signaled to the Dragon and Mimiru to follow him.
Now at a more secluded corner within the hall with a wooden table between them, their refreshments in place just as they were ready to start their conversation. The guildmaster took seat and signaled torwards some big pillow-like bags, obviously in place to receive some of the enlightened races that didn’t had the lower body of a human. The huge pillow-bags were a huge success towards beings such as the Centaurs, Lamia, Arachnoid and the many with multiple limbs. The Dragon pulled one of the bags, he seemed to knead on it for a brief moment before settling comfortably on it. A brief moment in which Mimiru couldn’t help to think he seemed like a huge kitten. A Huge scaled lethal red winged kitten.
“Tell me then, how can we of the adventurer guild be of assistance to you? It’s rare to receive a quest from a Dragon. OH! I don’t think you have introducted yourself!”
The Dragon nodded, a serious look on his face as he remained with the comfy bag under his forelegs, his tail curled around him. “He does resemble a cat…” Mimiru thought to herself.
{“My name is Feugan’Naa. Thank you for receiving me. You can call me Feugan”} “H-his name is Feugan’Naa, he gives his thanks for receiving him, He says just Feugan is ok” Translated Mimiru.
“Oh? Feugan’Naa you said? That sounds like an old naming convention, it sounds from the Kingdom actually”
{“It is”} “It is”.
“Interesting, I wont ask for details if they are unnecessary”
{“mmm, You are very prudent, that is quite alright”} “er… he says that’s prudent and alright”
“So how can we of the adventurer guild be of assistance to you?”
{“I don’t know”} “w-what?!... He-he doesn’t know” She replied with surprise and a tinge of guild, although this sense of guilt was lost to the other two.
“Ok… let me rephrase the question, you are free to answer it or not, no strings attached. Even the food is a courtesy from me to you, think nothing of it but of an old man trying to humor a guest and nothing more.” With this said, Mimiru couldn’t help but to feel nervous. This was an obvious invitation to something more, it was obvious the guildmaster had deemed this to be some sort of secret.
“What is your business in the kingdom?” {“…”}
The simple question changed the entire feeling of the room. This would be a total fantasy’esque statement if Mimiru herself wasn’t able to feel the mood of the two creatures she was interacting with. “No, wait! The guildmaster is a human not a monster!... surely!... maybe?” She was very glad no one with mindreading skills was present.
{“I am looking for my master”} “He is looking for his master”
“mmm… is he lost? Was he captured by someone?”
{“She! My master is a female. Captured is unlikely, she is a peerless fighter. As for lost… I don’t know”} “Er… His master is a Female and he… doesn’t know if she is lost. But he says she is an extraordinary fighter so it’s not likely she is being held captive”
“You don’t know?. This is troublesome…” The old man leaned back on his chair, he took a long go at his mug of Ale almost chugged down half of it.
“Oh might I might have taken much more alcohol than this poor body of mine can take, please excuse me if I go and start spouting nonsense. It will surely be the alcohol talking”
This confused Mimiru, she had seen plenty a drinking contest the guildmaster had won. She had even witnessed how the guildmaster would invite drinking rowdy young bad drinkers and made them regret ever thinking of drinking as something fun. He would take them on and then he would even drag their sorry poisoned bodies to the closest apothecary. Most of his victims wouldn’t drink again in months, it was said a few didn’t drink alcohol again at all.
“Would you and or your master be a hero from a different world?... hiccup…” He did go and said “hiccup” outloud!! With a straight face! It was the worst acting she had ever witnessed. And with the most outlandish question to boot. Was this ol- er… the Guildmaster trying to make a fool of himself in front of an enlightened beast?
“Oi! Master, there is a limit to how far you can take a joke in front of a guest! Those fantasy books sure can be popular among the youngsters! But there is a moment when you cant bring it up!”
Mimiru had seen her share of young new adventurers coming to the guild, claiming to be summoned heroes from a different world. Of course all of them had been still kids coming from close-by villages. The adventuring proffesion sure brought a lot of people in the need of money. But there were a few here and there, with their heads filled with stories from popular novels and bard songs. They came with dreams of turning into a hero of legend capable of defeating the Demon Lord, some even changing their background and pretending they didn’t come from an impoverished village.
{“Mph! You sly human!”} “eh?… wait what?” Mimiru stared at Feugan, confused, while he took and apple with his right foreleg, carefully holding it between his claws. He took a long meaningful look at the red juicy looking apple and in one single bite it was gone. His tail lifted a little and slamed against the floor, yet he didn’t seem to be angry. Mimiru realized it was most likely some sort of gesture just like someone would be rapping his fingers while thinking. She was actually quite sure of this, she could feel him being pensive.
{“What if we are?”} Said Feugan, his eyes seemed to close as if still pondering on his choice and looking straigh to the old Guildmaster.
“ah?! He says… ‘what if we are?’ ” She replied a little unsure if she was translating or conveying the meaning properly as the conversation was turning way off for her to follow.
And distractions on top of her confusion now!
“Tsk” The guildmaster clicked his tongue giving Mimiru a very welcome distraction. Taking his mug again he gulped it down in a single movement. Slaming it down, he grabbed some jerky stripe and started gnawing on it, almost as if it helped him to gnaw at his thoughts as well.
“Eat!” He commanded them in a tone of voice a little higher than he intended. Startling Mimiru, she just knew somehow she was included, she could feel it.
“Sorry… I am just… please eat some of this.” He gestured for another drink torward one of the barmaids that couldn’t hide as well as the rest.
“Feugan. We will somehow register you tomorrow as an ‘enlightened beast adventurer’. Mimiru here will accompany you and introduce you to the shops, merchants and people who might be of interest to you serving as a voice for you. There are not many monster tamers in the city so it was probably fate that you two…”
He stopped midsentence, his eyes grew wide just as he seemed to turn pale all of a sudden. In swift motion he turned his face towards Mimiru, that startled the already exceedingly confused Monster Tamer (to be).
“Mimiru, has anything out of the ordinary happened to you?!”
“Well yeah?” She said while motioning with one hand torwards Feugan. Who took the eating invitation to heart and was well started with a big piece of roasted Giant Lizard leg.
“Asides from him, has anything out of the ordinary happened to you since you met him?!”
“I…” She started fidgeting, she didn’t want to admit it, but lying to the old man she owed so much just wouldn’t do it.
“I might have been getting some sort of glowing blue square magical announces… B-but I haven’t read ‘em! Im not interested in buying anything!”
That quieted down the old man. Mimiru was really concerned as she saw on his face a sudden mixture of emotions. First he seemed angry, confused, then concerned and for a brief moment he even seemed proud while his eyes fixated on her. He didn’t say a thing until the barmaid came back with more drinks and food. She scurried away without breaking the mood, a true barmaid pro. The towering old man chugged another mug with ease.
“Oi Feugan! Ya philandering hatchling! here is your first quest. Please, take responsibility and teach this daughter of mine how to use her menus!”
{“Tsk, I will overlook your attitude this time only because it is my fault! It shall be done, this I vow”}
“Wa wa wa whats? going on! When did you two start being able to talk to each other? And whats this about me being your daughter now?! What’s gotten to you Old man?!”
“Tsk. Y’all adventurer whelps are my sons and daughters, git it?! ‘Whats wrong with me’ you say?! An overgrown lizard shows to steal one o’ my daughters and suddenly you even drop the formalities an’ respect with me?”
The rest of the night was a very familial drink and eat between the 3 of them. Spicied up with constant yelling about adventuring, the loneliness of office and unreasonable demands for Dowry
“H-He! It’s a He! I mean, He is a him!... well yeah what else… I mean! He accepts the meat but he wants water and apples!” Replied the young confused and obviously soon to be overworked Monster Tamer (to be).
“Aha! I see, I can respect that! Come girlie, we will obviously need you for this!” The guildmaster Signaled to the barmaid to fetch the refreshments and then signaled to the Dragon and Mimiru to follow him.
Now at a more secluded corner within the hall with a wooden table between them, their refreshments in place just as they were ready to start their conversation. The guildmaster took seat and signaled torwards some big pillow-like bags, obviously in place to receive some of the enlightened races that didn’t had the lower body of a human. The huge pillow-bags were a huge success towards beings such as the Centaurs, Lamia, Arachnoid and the many with multiple limbs. The Dragon pulled one of the bags, he seemed to knead on it for a brief moment before settling comfortably on it. A brief moment in which Mimiru couldn’t help to think he seemed like a huge kitten. A Huge scaled lethal red winged kitten.
“Tell me then, how can we of the adventurer guild be of assistance to you? It’s rare to receive a quest from a Dragon. OH! I don’t think you have introducted yourself!”
The Dragon nodded, a serious look on his face as he remained with the comfy bag under his forelegs, his tail curled around him. “He does resemble a cat…” Mimiru thought to herself.
{“My name is Feugan’Naa. Thank you for receiving me. You can call me Feugan”} “H-his name is Feugan’Naa, he gives his thanks for receiving him, He says just Feugan is ok” Translated Mimiru.
Congratulations!
By your
Interactions you have raised your Monster Talk skill by +0.1!
“Oh? Feugan’Naa you said? That sounds like an old naming convention, it sounds from the Kingdom actually”
{“It is”} “It is”.
“Interesting, I wont ask for details if they are unnecessary”
{“mmm, You are very prudent, that is quite alright”} “er… he says that’s prudent and alright”
“So how can we of the adventurer guild be of assistance to you?”
{“I don’t know”} “w-what?!... He-he doesn’t know” She replied with surprise and a tinge of guild, although this sense of guilt was lost to the other two.
“Ok… let me rephrase the question, you are free to answer it or not, no strings attached. Even the food is a courtesy from me to you, think nothing of it but of an old man trying to humor a guest and nothing more.” With this said, Mimiru couldn’t help but to feel nervous. This was an obvious invitation to something more, it was obvious the guildmaster had deemed this to be some sort of secret.
“What is your business in the kingdom?” {“…”}
The simple question changed the entire feeling of the room. This would be a total fantasy’esque statement if Mimiru herself wasn’t able to feel the mood of the two creatures she was interacting with. “No, wait! The guildmaster is a human not a monster!... surely!... maybe?” She was very glad no one with mindreading skills was present.
{“I am looking for my master”} “He is looking for his master”
“mmm… is he lost? Was he captured by someone?”
{“She! My master is a female. Captured is unlikely, she is a peerless fighter. As for lost… I don’t know”} “Er… His master is a Female and he… doesn’t know if she is lost. But he says she is an extraordinary fighter so it’s not likely she is being held captive”
“You don’t know?. This is troublesome…” The old man leaned back on his chair, he took a long go at his mug of Ale almost chugged down half of it.
“Oh might I might have taken much more alcohol than this poor body of mine can take, please excuse me if I go and start spouting nonsense. It will surely be the alcohol talking”
This confused Mimiru, she had seen plenty a drinking contest the guildmaster had won. She had even witnessed how the guildmaster would invite drinking rowdy young bad drinkers and made them regret ever thinking of drinking as something fun. He would take them on and then he would even drag their sorry poisoned bodies to the closest apothecary. Most of his victims wouldn’t drink again in months, it was said a few didn’t drink alcohol again at all.
“Would you and or your master be a hero from a different world?... hiccup…” He did go and said “hiccup” outloud!! With a straight face! It was the worst acting she had ever witnessed. And with the most outlandish question to boot. Was this ol- er… the Guildmaster trying to make a fool of himself in front of an enlightened beast?
“Oi! Master, there is a limit to how far you can take a joke in front of a guest! Those fantasy books sure can be popular among the youngsters! But there is a moment when you cant bring it up!”
Mimiru had seen her share of young new adventurers coming to the guild, claiming to be summoned heroes from a different world. Of course all of them had been still kids coming from close-by villages. The adventuring proffesion sure brought a lot of people in the need of money. But there were a few here and there, with their heads filled with stories from popular novels and bard songs. They came with dreams of turning into a hero of legend capable of defeating the Demon Lord, some even changing their background and pretending they didn’t come from an impoverished village.
{“Mph! You sly human!”} “eh?… wait what?” Mimiru stared at Feugan, confused, while he took and apple with his right foreleg, carefully holding it between his claws. He took a long meaningful look at the red juicy looking apple and in one single bite it was gone. His tail lifted a little and slamed against the floor, yet he didn’t seem to be angry. Mimiru realized it was most likely some sort of gesture just like someone would be rapping his fingers while thinking. She was actually quite sure of this, she could feel him being pensive.
{“What if we are?”} Said Feugan, his eyes seemed to close as if still pondering on his choice and looking straigh to the old Guildmaster.
“ah?! He says… ‘what if we are?’ ” She replied a little unsure if she was translating or conveying the meaning properly as the conversation was turning way off for her to follow.
Congratulations!
By your
Interactions you have raised your Monster Talk skill by +0.3!
“Tsk” The guildmaster clicked his tongue giving Mimiru a very welcome distraction. Taking his mug again he gulped it down in a single movement. Slaming it down, he grabbed some jerky stripe and started gnawing on it, almost as if it helped him to gnaw at his thoughts as well.
“Eat!” He commanded them in a tone of voice a little higher than he intended. Startling Mimiru, she just knew somehow she was included, she could feel it.
“Sorry… I am just… please eat some of this.” He gestured for another drink torward one of the barmaids that couldn’t hide as well as the rest.
“Feugan. We will somehow register you tomorrow as an ‘enlightened beast adventurer’. Mimiru here will accompany you and introduce you to the shops, merchants and people who might be of interest to you serving as a voice for you. There are not many monster tamers in the city so it was probably fate that you two…”
He stopped midsentence, his eyes grew wide just as he seemed to turn pale all of a sudden. In swift motion he turned his face towards Mimiru, that startled the already exceedingly confused Monster Tamer (to be).
“Mimiru, has anything out of the ordinary happened to you?!”
“Well yeah?” She said while motioning with one hand torwards Feugan. Who took the eating invitation to heart and was well started with a big piece of roasted Giant Lizard leg.
“Asides from him, has anything out of the ordinary happened to you since you met him?!”
“I…” She started fidgeting, she didn’t want to admit it, but lying to the old man she owed so much just wouldn’t do it.
“I might have been getting some sort of glowing blue square magical announces… B-but I haven’t read ‘em! Im not interested in buying anything!”
That quieted down the old man. Mimiru was really concerned as she saw on his face a sudden mixture of emotions. First he seemed angry, confused, then concerned and for a brief moment he even seemed proud while his eyes fixated on her. He didn’t say a thing until the barmaid came back with more drinks and food. She scurried away without breaking the mood, a true barmaid pro. The towering old man chugged another mug with ease.
“Oi Feugan! Ya philandering hatchling! here is your first quest. Please, take responsibility and teach this daughter of mine how to use her menus!”
{“Tsk, I will overlook your attitude this time only because it is my fault! It shall be done, this I vow”}
“Wa wa wa whats? going on! When did you two start being able to talk to each other? And whats this about me being your daughter now?! What’s gotten to you Old man?!”
“Tsk. Y’all adventurer whelps are my sons and daughters, git it?! ‘Whats wrong with me’ you say?! An overgrown lizard shows to steal one o’ my daughters and suddenly you even drop the formalities an’ respect with me?”
The rest of the night was a very familial drink and eat between the 3 of them. Spicied up with constant yelling about adventuring, the loneliness of office and unreasonable demands for Dowry
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