Hot and spicy solacious part 3 - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
11/5/477
Log
The former fox wheels around and stares at the group, then his kin, before he says "I don't know this man. He is impersonating a noble, guards, arrest him!" The guards look completely done with the sitution, grumbling, a few of them moving off from the area. The accused solacious shakes his head. "Forgive him, please, lete us go." he says as he attempts to lead him off, the fox fighting it the whole way.
Cedric apparently sees no problem with this, and gives a slight shrug. "Well, that was odd..." he remarks to the weasel and alligator with him, casting a glance to them. "Well, I guess now we can try some of that food, huh?" he grins, rubbing at his belly.
Chance eyes the second fox, noticing, despite their efforts at hiding it. He blinks and gaspes. "Wait he's telling the truth!!, that's not a fox!" Chance shouts, "That's a Kitsune walking him off, he's hiding his tail there!"
Rusty notices the same thing as he frowns, taking a step forward. "I think ya might want to let that one go, and have the Kitsune explain themself." He mutters, his hand drifting to the mace at his side.
The guards look at eachother confusedly, one of the moving to stop the duo, who, does not stop moving or fighting eachother.
"Kitsune? Really?" The badger says, taking another look. He still doesn't notice any hidden tails, and he'd thought he saw nobles who were kitsunes at some point. But still, it was suspicious so he gives chase after the being to stop them.
Chance grumbles, and grabs hold of the redwood staff he had been walking with. He briskly crosses to the pair of them "HEY!" he frowns and snarls as he nears them, "Oy! unhand the fox, Kitsune!"
Rusty blinks as everyone seems to rush towards both foxes, causing him to frown as he just takes a step up to them and lashes out with both hands, trying to snag them both by their collars to stop the fighting. "Oi! All this for some food?"
The kitsune and the fox grabbed by the croc, the kitsune turns and taps Rusty on the nose. "Hey now, I'm just taking my relative home. Let go and we'll be on our way." The flailing intensifies as two grips grasp the solacious, a small sword coming free and brandishing the area wildly. "UNHAND ME! GUARDS!" he cries before a few of the guards finally come over, seemingly more alert by a clear danger. "Now now, let's get the battered noble out of here before he causes a scene."
Cedric steps up, drawing a wheelock pistol from its holster and aiming at the kitsune. "This Solacious fox is possibly being abducted by a kitsune." he says to the guards as they approach, not lowering the weapon before he shouts to the kitsune. "Unhand the fox and assume your original form, and then turn yourself over to the city guard for questioning!" he's a bit on edge after all the recent murders, and if someone's about to try something similar... he's not really fond of that idea.
Chance snarls as he grips his stave tighter. Making his way past the guards the small weasel will walk up to the one he knows is playing the part of an imposter. "Alright, I think it's time you gave up the act." He stride to where he can reach the kitsune's tails. Taking a deep breath as he prepares to do something that is likely very risky, but easily the best way to bring things to a swift close should it work. Chance reaches out and attempts to force them to show their second tail
Rusty pauses as his nose is tapped, drawing his head back a bit in confusion as his grip tight grip falters, not exactly letting the foxes go, but loosening his grip as he trys to filter what he was just told. "er, um." He does react when the short sword is pulled, making him drop the poor fox faster then a lit parchment!
The kitsunes second tail is exposed, leaving them to chuckle slightly. "Aah.... well..." they say as they barely avoid a swing from the newly released solacious, who is then restrained by the guards. "Hold still little guy!" a large one says as he tries to comfort him. "I've gotcha noble, let the guard handle this." he adds to coax the sword away. Another guard swiftly approaches the Kitsune, giving him a look, before she says "Come with me sir, we need to sort this out." just before turning to look briefly at the banded crew and Rusty... only to turn back to a face full of some powder, causing them to cough and rub their eyes as they drop to their knees, the kitsune trying to to free themselves as the flung powder lingers in the air around Rustys face.
The badger starts to put his weapon away as the guards seem to be going to take the kitsune into custody and nods, somewhat relieved. That is until the crafty little bastard tries to escape with what... appears to be sleeping powder? Now he's just angry, and instead of returning the pistol, he raises it again and takes aim at the kitsune... though he really doesn't want to kill another being, so he takes aim at what... might be the trickster's leg, but through all the powder it's hard to tell. Either way, Cedric pulls the trigger and lets loose his shot!
Chance smirks in a pleased way once he's exposed the kitsune, the smirk soon dissolving into yet another snarl. The Weasel takes hold of his stave in both hands, frowning as the powder lingers in the air. Hearing Cedric's gun ring out through the air he dashes towards the kitsune, or at least, where they had been. Swinging wildly he tries to bring his weapon down on the foe. Squinting his eyes and gritting his teeth.
Rusty nods a bit as it seems the situation is over, turning to ask Cedric if he could go back to the boat now. Before Powder is thrown his way, making him cough and stagger as his one good eye is blinded.
The kitsune is clocked good, groaning as they slow a bit to catch their bearings, "You uh... yeah okay you got me. Kitsune, my real name is uh... umm... Kessel Rickum. Yeah." The released noble stomps once more, shaking their head. "Now SEE HERE! I'm not crazy you scoundrel I remember you! The free drinks at the tavern, you rascal." The shot appears to have been a miss at first, but, upon further inspection the keeled guard is nursing a wound to their thigh, their armor not quite covering this spot. The guard with the noble rushes forward, other guards flocking to the sound of gunfire in the city walls. Soon the group is all but surrounded.
As the badger sees what happens there's not really much he can do so he just drops the gun, raising his arms guiltily.
Chance blinks as he realizes he actually made contact. The weasel levels his bludgeon towards the Kitsune. "This Kitsune was attempting to kidnap that solacious you just unhanded." Looking back at the kitsune chance will speak "S-so no funny business..."
Rusty continues rubbing at his eye, stumbling a bit more as he drops to one knee, unable to realize that they are surrounded at the moment as he tries to clear his eye so he can actually see.
The group is surrounded, and taken in for questioning, all of them. As time goes on the solacious seems to be more and more regal, his temperment and bad judgement fading away. The shrimp is let free early in the questioning, but the others remain for the duration for a full recap of what happens. They are each given a chance to go over the story once more before everything is said and done. "I would like to personally appologize for any shortcomings on my behalf, to you, the guard, and my house. I feel I was not myself. I will make it up to you somehow, but, this man is a crook. There was something funny in those drinks, I'm sure of it. He attempted to abduct me, and impersonated a noble! I call for death, yes I do." The guards take notes and look to the crew for their final statements before it all is decided upon. "So... you attempted to defend a shrimp, and then... you." one of them says as they point to Cedric. "You shot a member of the city guard?"
"Yes." Cedric says. "By accident trying to stop the kitsune from abducting someone." he admits freely, just resigned to it. He deserves it, anyhow. "Please arrest me, I don't intend to resist." he says, reaching down his shirt and pulling up his soul pendant before placing it on a table and sliding it over as his eyes go black.
Chance sighs and shakes his head "It is not really as simple as that. The noble did not seem to be...in his best temperment with the shrimp." The weasel goes on, "The shot, as my compatriot said, was purely accidental, the kitsune had used some sort of powdered irritant, the cloud must've made aiming hard." The weasel remains calmly seated.
Rusty frowns as he puts a hand on Cedric's shoulder. "Ai, it was an accident. Caused by that Kitsune one that tried to get away, he threw powder in my eye and the guard that snagged him. If ya want to blaim someone for the shot, blame the kit not this one." He nods to Cedric before eyeing the guards once more.
The guard who was shot, says "No, go ahead and release him I drop the charges." to her companions, who, reluctantly oblige. The kitsune is taken away for trial, and the solacious approaches the group with a bow. "Now, thank you for helping with that rascal and keeping me from looking like a complete fool. Not a perfect job, but I can't thank you enough. Here, take this." he says as he pushes a couple bags at the group with a smile.
Cedric sighs quietly, and nods a little bit to the guard unable to look at him as he apologizes in a small voice, "The powder looked like the sleeping powder used in the blackback murders, and I paniced. Sorry..." before retrieving his pendant and pulling it back over his head, hollow black eyes filled with light brown again not long after. He looks like he has something to add, but shakes his head. "Y-yeah... let's just go." he says, eyeing one of the bags that appears to be meant for him, but pushes it over to Chance and Rusty instead as he stands up to leave.
Chance smiles as he rises, bowing graciously to the guard, and even the noble, spoild fox-kit that they had been all that while. He heartily claps a paw on one of Cedric's arms and grins widely. "I'd say we deserve to go grab a drink, but with what happened over wanting to try some food out, going for a drink might have us walk into a bar fight."
Rusty standing up he eyes the noble as he is given a bag, looking it over before he thumps Cedric on the back. "Come on lets head back to the Aurora, if ya still want to try new things I still have a case of some Isharan drinks you can try?" He offers, giving a rather thin smile.
The guards, the noble, and the kitsune go about their seperate ways, leaving our heros and their prize to be spent on a night of drinking or other fun filled activities.
