RPG event - Quest NPC Contact

[thalassino]

◣ Quest NPC Contact ◢

Below is a place to thread out quick little conversations with the NPCs that aren't worth an entire log. Vatheon's staple NPCs will have postings here, and all the other new quest NPCs will simply be listed under the "Quest NPCs" comment header. Please put in the subject line which quest you're talking with an NPC about!

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Librarian

[thalassino]

Librarian

[devwocean]

[A bard stumps into the library, holding his harp like a shield and his pipe like an axe, his codpiece leading the way.]

Wwell? I heard you havve a bunch a somethin' to kill.

[thalassino]

Hush! Don't stomp around, this is a library!!

[The librarian turns from adjusting the boards on the windows, putting her hands on her hips. Is that a... is he excited to see her?

...huh.]

I do. Those harpies on the roof just won't be quiet. I don't care how you get rid of them, just do it!

[devwocean]

Oh. [He frowns and quiets his voice a little] Don't look at me like that, either. I didn't pick this foolish outfit. But I'll get rid a the harpies.

[He might try to beat them with the pipe]

[thalassino]

[She kind of can't help it, Dualscar. The codpiece just... sticks out there. She clears her throat.]

The roof access is this way.

[The librarian leads him back to a utility room with a tall set of stairs. The library is large, so there are plenty of stairs anyway - but these are the only ones that go all the way up.

If she has to come back for his corpse, she won't be happy.]

[devwocean]

[Welp, he heads up to the roof to do battle with the harpies.

He's probably not going to die. Uh. Probably.]

[thalassino]

[He better not make any noise either! For now the librarian heads back into the library proper, handing out earplugs. She expects a lot of screeching harpy during this fight.]

[devwocean]

[Unfortunately, there is indeed a lot of screeching harpy, not to mention yelling and swearing troll. And a sort of twanging sound like someone beating a harpy to death with a lute]

[thalassino]

[Dualscar won't get gratitude when he heads back downstairs. Instead he'll get a sassy librarian shoving soap in his mouth.

Well, that could have gone better.]

[devwocean]

[replicatedcourage]

Um, excuse me, but what are they gossiping about?

[An odd question, but maybe they just don't know they can't be that loud in the library?]

[thalassino]

I don't know - the latest shiny thing they stole? I don't care, I just want them off my roof!

[Sola would be able to hear their screeching now.]

[replicatedcourage]

[Yeah, he needs some special equipment before he can get up there.]

Do you have some ear plugs I can borrow so I can talk to them?

[thalassino]

[Does she have some earplugs? Please. The librarian walks over to a whole BOWL of earplugs and holds it out to Sola. Looks like everyone's wearing a pair!]

[replicatedcourage]

[Excellent! He takes a pair and pops them right in. With a wave to the librarian, up he goes to talk to the harpies! Just gonna go climb the walls now.

When he finally gets up there he doesn't take the sword from his back or look menacing in the slightest.]

Umm, excuse me, miss harpies?

[They can't hear him over the sound of their own squawking so he tries again.]

Excuse me!

[Not a one even bats and eyelash. Sola takes a deep breath, and...]

EXCUSE ME!!!

[Whoops, the sudden holler puts the harpies on the immediate defensive! The noise downstairs gets worse as the creatures shriek and flap their wings, scraping claws on roof tiles while Sola tries desperately to keep his footing and draw his weapons at the same time. Getting mauled by crazy bird ladies is not on his list of things to do today!

His feet pound across the roof, showering dust from the ceiling into the reference section as he tries to find a more defensible position between chimneys, dodging and slashing his way through the horde. The thumps of the scuffle increase exponentially for several minutes, even dislodging a ceiling tile or two below, before the noise suddenly tapers off, including the previously running footsteps.

Five minutes later Sola limps back into the library, chugging a health potion. His face is scratched and his armor dented in places, but mostly he's intact. Thank goodness he'd mowed down the weeds this morning and gotten an extra potion or he'd have been a goner.]

Sorry about the noise but they shouldn't bother you anymore.

[thalassino]

[That noise was AWFUL. The librarian sniffs indignantly.]

Yes, well, I should HOPE not after that racket. Good day, adventurer.

[unconchonable]

I heard you got yourself a freakish flapbeast problem, I guess you can assure yourself on the fact I'm here to help an' am rather skilled in takin' out flyin' adwersaries.

[Eridan looks oh so proud of himself!]

So point me towards the menace, and I'll get rid a 'em in a fuckin' beat a the ol' pumpbiscuit.

[thalassino]

LANGUAGE, young man!

[She'll shove soap in his mouth, don't think she won't!]

They're up on the roof.

[unconchonable]

What of language? I'm speakin' English ain't I?

[He is just staring at her.]

You got a means to get up there, or am I gonna hawe to scale the bloody outside wall?

[thalassino]

[This finface is as irritating as the last one. The librarian heads for the roof access.]

Please tell me YOU at least won't be trying to fight them off with instruments.