The Warped (2nd Party)

[Goblin Cat 😸]

We're so gonna die. Mortis thought as she looked down to moon and started to run in the direction she was pulling her. The rain was slowly but surely pulling her out of the haze of sleep, but she still wasn't fully functioning on a high level. When she noticed the carriage, she didn't think much about it, she just hopped inside, hoping it wasn't something set up for them to get killed. At this point she almost didn't care. If she got killed, she just got killed and that was that.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance was relieved when the others made it out. She heard the voice behind them and turned to it not expecting to see a waiting carriage. She noticed Moon was getting Mortis to move. She had also realized it was raining, unaware of it before. "Looks like we had a ride." She said before making her way to the carriage, doing her best to keep her robes dry by holding them to her chest as she went. Once in the carriage she set her bag down and sat in a corner waiting for the rest of the group. She saw Mortis already in it, noticing Moon not in. She hoped she could get in on her own accord, if she can climb a tree she could get into this.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid quickly turned around at the sound of the voice telling him to hurry. He saw a covered carriage waiting for them in the rain. "Wait, its raining? And is it still nighttime? How long did we sleep?" As Mortis and Constance got inside the carriage, he hesitated as a thought crossed his mind. "This could be a trap. That carriage could take us to that cat lady, or someone worse. But if we stay here we'd get killed anyway. Damit, they're already inside." With a groan, he jogged towards the waiting carriage, letting his head get damp with the rain. He got inside as best he could and sat down next to Constance, shaking his head to get the water off and splashing her slightly. "We're gonna die here anyway, might as well be dry when it happens."

[serpington]

max heard the voice and turned around, throwing his new robe over himself to try and keep warm enough to stay awake. he saw the carriage the others wereheading towards and ran over, quickly jumping in after macid. "why does it have to be raining? i wonder if the other group is having this much trouble." he looked at the others quietly before putting ramsey's holsters on properly and putting the robe over him losely, not bothering with the sleaves. he didn't like how it sat over ramsey so he used the smallest part of ramsey to cut a slit into the robe for his handle to protude through, makeing it easy to draw him and throw off the robe incase of a fight whilst still hiding the shape of the blade. "so who's supposed to be driving this thing?

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The man in the front of the carriage that wasn't under the canvas turned and waved, "The name's Lincoln Pavo. My family owns the only carriaging chain in the land! The Masons in this town hired me to get you kids out of here. From what I'm told, you folks aren't very combat savvy yet, so they wanted me to transport you all and fast. Hang on, because the carriage likes to wobble from side to side in this weather!" Lincoln popped the reigns, and off they went.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis held her head, squinting her eyes shut. "Thank you." She muttered to Lincoln. She gripped her belongings tight, finally mustering the effort to speak. "I don't know. I wonder if we'll ever meet up with them again, honestly. As it stands, we're at this guy's mercy, and he knows that we suck at fighting." she whispered to Max. The chameleon was merely preparing for the worst. Despite the fact that Lincoln had not done anything compromising so far, she was still suspicious of him. "I wonder how much money is on our head." she thought aloud.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid was far too grumpy, having being woken up so suddenly, to respond to the others comments about the carriage driver. He checked his bag to see if the rain had damaged his book at all. The bag had protected it from most of the rain, but the cover was a little wet. Opening the book, he tried to write something to see if the pages were still usable. Luckily for him, they were. The ink flowed from his pen as easily as it did the other times, and faded as quickly. He smiled slightly as he closed the book. He rubbed his eyes as he bobbed in the carriage, the many bumps causing him to poke himself in the eye. He winced back as he put his hand to the wall to steady himself.

[serpington]

max listened to the drivers explination and sighed. "well, at least we should be able to trust him. max sat back, sliding down a little in his seat. "feel free to wake me up if anything happens." he tried to fall asleep but each time he would get close the carriage would rock and the wooden wall nearest him would conect with part of his head, waking him up again. "you know what....nevermind. i'll just sleep next time we stoop."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Upon Mortis' question, Lincoln laughed aloud, shouting back at her, "If you want an exact number, your heads are worth over 500,000 Zeny a piece! That brings it to a total of 3,500,000 Zeny for your whole group! But don't worry! My family's carriaging brings in more than that in a year! That money doesn't mean anything to us. We may be rich, but we're not corrupted." Meanwhile, Moon had been left behind, and she had to spread her wings and fly to catch up, landing heavily next to the driver, taking up most of the driving bench, and gave the driver a mean look.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

"I guess that's good to know." Mortis said. It finally struck her to check her things. As she looked down she inspected everything that mattered. Thankfully because of her bag, her things had not gotten wet. Shifting herself, she figured that she might bug the driver a little more. "So Zenny. What's a Zenny? Is it one of these?" As she said that a thud made her jump seeing that it was Moon. She reached into her bag and picked out the small bag of whatever it was she had managed to take from the soldier and looked inside to see the bars of various metals. She jingled the bag. "Is Zenny the currency or what?"

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance was going to say something about Moon being left behind, however she took it into her own hands and got onto the carriage herself. She was still a little skeptical about the driver, which gave her an idea. She leaned her head on Macid's shoulder to try to be inconspicuous about whispering something in his ear. "You should try your book out on him...I'm not too sure about this guy..." she whispered. She continued to lean her head on his shoulder so he could return the whisper.

[Ares the Ram]

When Constance leaned her head on his shoulder, Macid went beet red with embarrassment. "You should try your book out on him...I'm not too sure about this guy..." His ears drooped as he realized she was just trying to look inconspicuous and got out Anon from his bag. He wasn't sure how well it would write with all the bumps from the carriage but figured he'd might as well try. Pointing the finger pen at the driver he said aloud, "What's your name? Pelvis?" He remembered full well that he mentioned his name was Lincoln Pavo, but also remembered he needed his full name to work, and besides he wouldn't have put it past him for lying about his name and how much money he makes. He looked down at his book, waiting to see what would be written.

[serpington]

(i'm posting from a friends phone so i'm sorry if it's a bit short.)

max looked around quietly, not really caring about the bounty on their heads and just  ignoring the talk about currency. He heard moon land with the driver and realised that he had forgoten that she was with the group and was thankfull she had caught up. he just looked blankly out the window, ignoring macid pulling out anon after growing bored of everything in the carriage and started watching the scenery roll by, letting his mind drift into another world where everything was normal again and he was still in his nice warm, messy bed.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The pen on Macid's finger wrote the name in the air, glowing for a good amount of time "Lincoln Pavo" for Macid to read. Lincoln turn around quickly and grabbed the little metal stick from Mortis' hand and then tossed it backwards back to her. "Yea! Copper ones are worth one Zeny, silver is 20, and the golden ones are worth 100." Meanwhile, the ride was long and rough, until finally, in the late afternoon, the clouds finally dispersed, and the sun was shown. Lincoln turned around in his seat, "Okay, folks. It's the end of the line. I can't take you any closer without arousing suspicion since there's checkpoints up ahead. Tread lightly, it's not even a kilometer north of here."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

"Thanks." She said, looking at the little change pouch. She counted how many she had on the ride, careful not to drop them whenever they hit bumps. When she was finished, she closed the pouch and placed it into her bag again where it belonged. When he stopped to let them off, Mortis looked at him. "Well, which direction should we go..? We've been going North this whole time, we can't exactly keep going north if there's a checkpoint ahead. Where are we right now?" She scratched her chin, running her fingers along the spines on her neck.