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!

Comments

Baker

[thalassino]

Re: Baker

[mysterious_groper]

You look like you could use a little help!

Baker

[thalassino]

[Pascal looks a little like one of those hooligans if you ask the baker. He scowls at her for a moment before recognizing her as an ~adventurer~.]

Yeah, I could. I've got my hands so full cleaning up this mess I can't even start baking!

Re: Baker

[mysterious_groper]

Well, get to baking! I'll have this done up like a whippersnapper in no time!

*As usual, she totally mangled the key phrase there...*

[thalassino]

[Like a what? Oh, well. The baker salutes Pascal and heads in to start work on his new line of pet cookies while she cleans up.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Its the purple-and-grey rock-like creature that floats up first, bobbing like it found something interesting-

Then it floats back a ways, clinking like crystals hitting each other, returning with Duke.

Duke eyes the mess, then the man. ]

... Need help?

[thalassino]

Do I ever! I haven't been able to get to baking at all today with this unsanitary mess! You're an adventurer, right?

[Have the expectant eyes of an NPC on trained on you starting right... now.]

[radiantwingedone]

Currently accurate.

[ Okay, he can stare back.

At least until Lumen starts bobbing around again. ]

... We can clean for you.

[thalassino]

I'd really appreciate it, thanks! I'll go get to baking right away.

[And with that, the Baker leaves Duke with the entire mess and immediately starts doing his thing in the kitchen. It looks like he didn't even TRY cleaning the mess up himself.]

[replicatedcourage]

[This is the second day in a row that Sola's walked by and noticed the storefront in a shambles. Without any hesitation, Sola gets right to picking up all the trash. He even goes so far as to bundle it all up and take it to the dumpster behind the store so this can't happen again! At least, not today.]

[thalassino]

Thanks, kid!

[The baker saw him doing it. He didn't even ask for a reward first! How nice.]

Hey, you want these cookies? They're for pets, but maybe you know a beast master or two.

[replicatedcourage]

Sure! I'm sure Arty would love them! Thanks a lot.

[Yaaay rewards~]

[replicatedcourage]

[Another day and Sola finds himself wandering past the bakery. Another mess? Well that sucks! Better help out again.

Pretty soon the front of the bakery is spotless once more.]

[replicatedcourage]

[More mess? This is ridiculous! Gonna clean that right up again.. then actually go in the bakery to get something for breakfast. Don't worry, he washed his hands first.]

How come people keep knocking over your trash?

[terribubbly]

[ Feferi makes a great deal of grouching and fussing as she cleans up the shop for the second time in a row. It's all very bizarre and dramatic, fishgirl flapping around in cleric robes and neatening things up is just a bit of weirdness.

She'll pop her head in the shop when she's done, calling out: ]

Glub glub, heyyy, I fixed it up for you!

[thalassino]

Hey, thanks little lady! Say, do you want some of these?

[He holds out a bag of clearly marked... pet cookies.]

...well, uhh, maybe you know a beast master who needs them?

[terribubbly]

I'm sure I can find somefin to do with them.

[ She looks rather downtrodden, though. ]

You don't have anything tasty, like fish candy?

[thalassino]

Fish candy?

[Does he ever! Everyone hated the Valentine's chocolates! The baker hauls out a whole BAG of the stuff. Unfortunately it's not enchanted like the cookies or the chocolates she got from the inn keeper, but still. Fishy-flavored chocolates!]

[coolerthansora]

[Didn't he just see this place messed up the other day, too? This time Roxas decides to stop and pick up.]

What a bunch of jerks...

[thalassino]

[The baker's trying to get on with his job anyway, so he doesn't notice Roxas cleaning initially. It's not until he steps out for a moment that he takes notice.]

Hey, thanks kid!

[coolerthansora]

Sure thing...

Why do they keep messing up your place?

[thalassino]

I sure wish I knew! People seem stuck doing the same things over and over lately. It's weird.

[...wait, didn't he say this to someone else recently? The baker shakes his head, then holds out a bag of pet cookies for Roxas.]

Here, you can have these! They're good for pets.

[aim_exorable]

[Darkleer and Arty are beacons of adult parental disapproval as they look over the mess. This has been happening multiple times now. Normally Darkleer wouldn't be interested in such a menial task, but the second time it happened...
And now the fourth! That was spitting on all his hard work and he won't stand for it!]

[Leaving Arty to clean up everything- musclebeasts are the best butlers- Darkleer goes to find the Baker.]

Have you thought about a more permanent solution to your hooligan problem?

[With his size and his serious face, and sharp teeth, and pointy horns, it sounds a lot worse than what he actually means.]

[thalassino]

More... permanent?

[He waves his hands frantically.]

Hey, I don't want to hurt the kids, I just want them to stop messing up the store!

[aim_exorable]

Hurt them? What made you think I was talking about that?

[Besides the tone. And the fact that he looks like he can bench press a bus.]

I was simply thinking of a way to trap them and give them a punishment of some sort, perhaps something to humiliate them so that they're shamed into behaving properly.