[ i hate to say it but perhaps what shu will see is lucien having like. the most fun he's had since he's arrived here? he is ... enjoying himself? perhaps he just enjoys petty crime for petty's sake. ]
[ hikari is also stupid. this is a fact of life. he also trusts his new friends implicitly, so when lucien just scooches on over and pickpockets him? zero trouble. you feel like someone, somewhere is judging hikari for how easy this was.
anyway for his pickpocketing lucien now has
✨ 10 leaves (hikari is broke.) ✨ A small round shield (enables you or whomever equips it to use the skill COVER one time ) ✨ An adorable charm handmade by a woman from Ku... perhaps by his mother? That woman is dead. You stole that from him. You did that. ✨ The sense that you have robbed the nicest boy in the entire world.]
[ bullying partikari aside, we return to castti and eunhyuk. she listens to this explanation, thoughtful...
and after a moment, she nods. ] Alpates...I recall Temenos was searching for her, too.
[ she looks back to the others - partitio grins and waves his hand. Y'all go ahead now, don't worry bout us! Me and Hikari can hold down the fort.
hikari nods. "Yes... Rai Mei will surely just want to talk. I think we can handle it, Castti... if not, we shall return."
she looks over these two boys, frowning - clearly very worried about what is absolutely going to be a garbage plan, but eventually nods, turning her attention back to eunhyuk. castti bows her head, polite. ] Thank you for having me. I will do everything I can to help you out. Shall we proceed?
[ (victory fanfare)! castti florenz has (temporarily) joined your party! castti is an apothecary, aka a harmacist. she not only has the ability to heal with her medicinal concoctions, but she can poison enemies as well. additionally, she can swing an axe really fucking hard! her path actions are “inquire” which allows her to ask nicely for information instead of beating people up in their mind palace about it and requires no rolls, and “soothe” which will probably be irrelevant but if its not ill let you know.
you also get to instinctively know that she is on a journey for memory. whatever that means. but congrats your team has TWO HEALERS now. yall are so prepared.
[IS HIKARI COMMITTING A TERRIBLE DECISION WITHOUT TEMENOS AND CASTTI HELP ME WE STOLE HIS ONLY OTHER HEALER
But anyway Eunhyuk is very grateful, unaware that Lucien has robbed both of Castti's friends blind. TIME TO HEAD TO THE SACRED GUARD HQ!!!!!
The nice thing about Eunhyuk is that since he emotes close to never, he will look like it's totally normal for him and his merry band to just stroll right up to the gates and attempt to enter like they all belong here.]
[ the spirit of homophonic shu is unimpressed but this isn't homophonic!shu, it's spacecoast!shu, so he just hopes that hikari doesn't need to buy more grapes any time soon. at least lucien is having a good time. ]
Alpates seems like a popular lady. Might not hurt to double up in finding her then.
Thanks.
[ listen.
hikari's with partitio, and partitio ain't broke he's just down 100 leaves. go stock up boys, and don't do anything stupid. stupider than usual.
onwards into the sacred guard hq to cause some chaos. ]
[i hope we've badended octopath because we stole their only other healer. well that's fine. but yeah, they'll all sweep off towards the sacred guard headquarters but lucien will make sure he goes last as they all turn away - and as he does he'll flick the handmade charm back towards hikari with his thumb, give him a wink and a salute off of his forehead and then jog off to catch up.
[ hikari is instantly endeared to lucien. in fact. his ears are a little pink as he catches the charm...? as a man with canonically bad taste he finds this move very attractive but he doesn't realize that's the emotion he's having.
anyhoo.
as the three - no as the FOUR of you make your way up the stairs of the sanctum knights headquarters, you receive no strange looks or anything like it. at least…not at first.
one of the knights wearing a maroon tabard gives you sort of an odd look as you come up the stairs. she’s tan, tall, white haired, walking with her head held high, a captain’s brooch affixed to her chest. however...one sweep over the four of you and she shakes her head, and then continues walking.
eunhyuk puffs up his chest, walks to the gate, and says We're on urgent business. with all the confidence of…
… a man who rolled a 9 on his alpha check. the guard at the gate looks at him, unimpressed, but the woman with the captain badge snorts without even turning around and waves her hand. “Let them in.”
the guard says, “Yes, Captain Kaldena! and moves aside to open the door to the headquarters.
the interior of the sacred guard’s headquarters is a massive cathedral. the entire back wall is made of stained glass, and it throws beautiful rainbow patterns from the slowly setting sun outside across stone pews and stone floors. it’s the second most beautiful stained glass in all of solistia - second only to the cathedral of the sacred flame itself, deep (at home) in the heart of flamechurch.
as you make your way inside, you find that it’s empty. it must be getting close to the changing of the guard - that, or the figures who live here may have headed off for the evening. there’s one person sitting at the front desk, a cleric, but she has her head down and appears to be reading a book.
you might feel the urge to stop. to talk to the cleric, to. well, maybe to rob her. however, as you make your way in, it’s like there’s a whisper of a voice that says “keep walking”. when the four of you look ahead of you, you swear you see a figure wreathed in blue flame standing a few steps ahead. it looks a little like the knight crick - his eyes are beseeching, briefly, and he keeps walking to the stained glass panel at the very back of the room.
he then walks straight through it.
in fact, the more you look at it, the more you realize that panel seems to be…shimmering. the four of you are drawn to the stained glass panel by force (me) and the closer you get, you realize you can simply push the stained glass and there’s a hidden door that opens with a click.
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anyway for his pickpocketing lucien now has
✨ 10 leaves (hikari is broke.)
✨ A small round shield (enables you or whomever equips it to use the skill COVER one time )
✨ An adorable charm handmade by a woman from Ku... perhaps by his mother? That woman is dead. You stole that from him. You did that.
✨ The sense that you have robbed the nicest boy in the entire world.]
and after a moment, she nods. ] Alpates...I recall Temenos was searching for her, too.
[ she looks back to the others - partitio grins and waves his hand. Y'all go ahead now, don't worry bout us! Me and Hikari can hold down the fort.
hikari nods. "Yes... Rai Mei will surely just want to talk. I think we can handle it, Castti... if not, we shall return."
she looks over these two boys, frowning - clearly very worried about what is absolutely going to be a garbage plan, but eventually nods, turning her attention back to eunhyuk. castti bows her head, polite. ] Thank you for having me. I will do everything I can to help you out. Shall we proceed?
[ (victory fanfare)! castti florenz has (temporarily) joined your party! castti is an apothecary, aka a harmacist. she not only has the ability to heal with her medicinal concoctions, but she can poison enemies as well. additionally, she can swing an axe really fucking hard! her path actions are “inquire” which allows her to ask nicely for information instead of beating people up in their mind palace about it and requires no rolls, and “soothe” which will probably be irrelevant but if its not ill let you know.
you also get to instinctively know that she is on a journey for memory. whatever that means. but congrats your team has TWO HEALERS now. yall are so prepared.
aight where to! ]
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But anyway Eunhyuk is very grateful, unaware that Lucien has robbed both of Castti's friends blind. TIME TO HEAD TO THE SACRED GUARD HQ!!!!!
The nice thing about Eunhyuk is that since he emotes close to never, he will look like it's totally normal for him and his merry band to just stroll right up to the gates and attempt to enter like they all belong here.]
We're on urgent business.
[the urgent church kind]
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Alpates seems like a popular lady. Might not hurt to double up in finding her then.
Thanks.
[ listen.
hikari's with partitio, and partitio ain't broke he's just down 100 leaves. go stock up boys, and don't do anything stupid. stupider than usual.
onwards into the sacred guard hq to cause some chaos. ]
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fuckin' like. bye or whatever. ]
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anyhoo.
as the three - no as the FOUR of you make your way up the stairs of the sanctum knights headquarters, you receive no strange looks or anything like it. at least…not at first.
one of the knights wearing a maroon tabard gives you sort of an odd look as you come up the stairs. she’s tan, tall, white haired, walking with her head held high, a captain’s brooch affixed to her chest. however...one sweep over the four of you and she shakes her head, and then continues walking.
eunhyuk puffs up his chest, walks to the gate, and says We're on urgent business. with all the confidence of…
… a man who rolled a 9 on his alpha check. the guard at the gate looks at him, unimpressed, but the woman with the captain badge snorts without even turning around and waves her hand. “Let them in.”
the guard says, “Yes, Captain Kaldena! and moves aside to open the door to the headquarters.
the interior of the sacred guard’s headquarters is a massive cathedral. the entire back wall is made of stained glass, and it throws beautiful rainbow patterns from the slowly setting sun outside across stone pews and stone floors. it’s the second most beautiful stained glass in all of solistia - second only to the cathedral of the sacred flame itself, deep (at home) in the heart of flamechurch.
as you make your way inside, you find that it’s empty. it must be getting close to the changing of the guard - that, or the figures who live here may have headed off for the evening. there’s one person sitting at the front desk, a cleric, but she has her head down and appears to be reading a book.
you might feel the urge to stop. to talk to the cleric, to. well, maybe to rob her. however, as you make your way in, it’s like there’s a whisper of a voice that says “keep walking”. when the four of you look ahead of you, you swear you see a figure wreathed in blue flame standing a few steps ahead. it looks a little like the knight crick - his eyes are beseeching, briefly, and he keeps walking to the stained glass panel at the very back of the room.
he then walks straight through it.
in fact, the more you look at it, the more you realize that panel seems to be…shimmering. the four of you are drawn to the stained glass panel by force (me) and the closer you get, you realize you can simply push the stained glass and there’s a hidden door that opens with a click.
on the other side, it’s… a dark room -
no. wait...?]