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[impavid]

Pop quiz, hot shots.

What do we know about shamans and dragons?

This is definitely a leading question. Most interesting or unusual fact gets a drink out of it at the end.

[ooc; Sheppard had an NPC thread for group B, he'll be cautious but the information can be dragged out of him! ]

Comments

[impavid]

But you did it first. Doesn't that make it fashionable? I'm just trying to keep up with the trends here.

[flashystyle]

Oh, yes, the very fashionable "let's drink blood to become incredibly powerful but also slightly more insane" trend. I can see the appeal. I can show you one of the altars, but I cannot, in good conscious, let you run off alone. There's a drink on the line.

[impavid]

I admit, I mostly want to see the place. I have a vested interest in knowing more about these folk. One of their buddies stabbed me and it hurt my feelings.

[flashystyle]

I'd say that isn't reasonable, but that's a rather common motivator for the pursuit of knowledge these days. Where are you now?

[impavid]

I'm Wyver already, eating questionable food in the old city and calculating how soon someone is going to try and rob me.

[flashystyle]

If you could stand to wait another hour, I should be able to accompany you. That is, if you don't get robbed. I'd rather not arrive only to have to pay for your room and board.

[impavid]

Sure, I can hold out another hour. Look for a guy in a short sleeve black t-shirt wearing a fashionable bandage on his left arm. Probably being harassed by miniature pickpockets still. They start young.

[ Also -- ]

The J is for John if you just want to yell something and see how many people respond.

[flashystyle]

It usually takes a man longer than that to tell me what he's wearing. [Sorry John, you had it coming.] Dorian Pavus. Consider the best looking man around, then look for someone even better. That'll be me.

[Perhaps a little over an hour later (it's rather easy to get lost in the old city, give him a break), Dorian arrives looking irritable. How many times has he called for a John, only to be in the wrong place? An unspeakable amount.]

If John Sheppard isn't here, [he starts, in a raised voice,] I am packing up and going home.

[impavid]

[ Cool, most of Wyver probably knows his name by now then.

John is sitting at a ramshackle table with his back in the direction of Dorian, but turns slightly at the sound of his name. He is indeed wearing a black t-shirt, as advertised, with a clean white bandaged looped around his upper left arm. His sunglasses are pushed up into his hair, his tactical vest is hanging unzipped and mostly he seems to be discouraging two children from hanging around near his table. ]

Thought you might have changed your mind.

[ John waves off the kids from tormenting him any further and pushes to his feet, pulling up the bag and jacket he's been hiding in his lap from tiny fingers. ]

Figured maybe I was too forward with the hot black t-shirt talk. We walking first or drinking? I'm easy on the order, assuming we make it back safely to drink anything and it's not spiced blood all the way down.