Re: The everyday life of a Neko Miko
Sorry about my absence, life gets in the way sometimes.
Hopefully I can return to a semi-regular update schedule, but we will have to see.
@RealKorra, really it's just a culmonations of ideas I've formed reading other peopels works, playing games and watching anime, I'd considered making this story into an RPG maker game but I lack the drawing skills to make the CGs, and thats before I try to learn how to code. So I made it in the format I'm most familair with.
Before I start their is somthing I relisied.
This event was supposed to happen a few days later in the script from what Eve said a few updates ago. As such rather than just assume they took a few days off, is their anything people would have wanted the girls to do back at the shrine?
If not I'll assume they trained in teamwork or something of that calibur.
The pair choose to take a break in the guild before anything else and recuperate after the bandits.
Inside they find Raven and Cecil discussing something, they hail the two over to let them know what's going on too.
“Ah ladies, I think you should here this, for two reasons. Being the guilds top three operatives we go to the more dangerous missions and well... how to say this...” Raven fumbles on his words and sips his drink
“The monsters are taking a page out of the patricians book” Cecil blurts out causing Raven to splutter on his drink.
Between coughs raven turns to Cecil and asks “His reputations not really that bad is it?”
“Well you're new here so you wouldn't know. He regularly tries to pressure someone less than half his age into marring him, and rumours say that some of his maids that have left his service abruptly are due to bearing his children. I can't confirm that rumour though, you know what people are like for gossiping.”
“. . . right. That explains why people can be on edge when he's involved. But to clarify, there is talk of lust filled monsters in the wilds, and not the usual ones known for it, I meant regular monsters that are only known for hungering for flesh in the literal sense, whether these rumours have basis or not I don't know but women have been going missing, especially from the poorer areas, so be careful. And discreet too, this is under investigation and isn't public knowledge yet as to not cause a panic.”
After that the group chattered about day to day things, Mariko was mostly silent but Milleen's over familiarity with everyone and general friendliness proved to be quite a hit at the guild dispelling Mariko's fears that Milleen would be ostracised. If only the townsfolk were as open minded as adventurers seem to be.
After a couple of hours Mariko took the the job for the Shaugan sightings, the map given by Max leads directly south to the cliffs and then west towards the beach rather than following the road.
“It halves the journey and will avoid anywhere where there is a lot of open space to avoid them seeing you coming. Of course as you are cutting through the wilds you will want to keep your wits about you.”
“Alright, I will be back with my report as soon as possible. Milleen, stop arm-wrestling the swordsmen and gear up, it's time to go.”
“Already? Aww. See you all another time.”
The pair head straight to the outskirts of town and head south.
“Glad to see you're making friends.”
“One of us has too, did you even talk to anyone?”
“No, and it's going to stay that way until.. well the foreseeable future I guess.”
“Why?”
Mariko hesitates and listens, “Shh”
“Don't be mean.”
Random encounter: yes
Spot: Mariko passed but Milleen fails.
Mariko hears rustling in the distance
“We are under attack, ready yourself!” Mariko says as she gets ready, Milleen turns as she does too see the ogre burst from the treeline
Mileen ducks to the side as the ogre swings it's greatclub at her just in the nick of time thanks to the Mariko's warning.
Mariko takes the chance to dart around the back and flank the ogre while it's distracted slashing her Naganata deep into it's calf causing it to fall to one knee in pain, Milleen wastes no time taking advantage of this and brings her axes down into it's right shoulder before rolling out of the way of the ogre swinging it''s club up wildly at her.
Following it leaning forwards Marikos takes the chance to run up it's back before thrusting her Naganata downwards through it's neck causing it to bleed out in moments.
The ogre falls face first into the dirt as Mariko gracefully steps off it's back onto the ground as it does whilse flicking the blood off her blade with a flick of her wrist.
“I'll admit, I was a little worried for a moment upon seeing an ogre considering the last few days we have had trouble with small fry”
“Non can stand before team Okami-Neko”
“we are not calling ourselves that”
The rest of the journey was uneventful as a relief to the girls, after a few hours they arrived at a cliff that overlooked the cove where the shaugan were sighted, it only took a glance over to see them, their were eleven of then and they seemed to be building some kind of camp.
“That's odd”
“Them building a war camp? They do hate surface dwellers do they not?”
“So I hear but those are normally in underwater caves are they not, it prevents counter attacks after all.”
“Maybe their aren't any nearby”
"Perhaps, it still seems odd”
Vote time, what should the girls do.
1) That's a war-camp, attack and drive them away, gives the element of surprise
2) Confront them, will cost the element of surprise, risky if they prove hostile
3) Nothing, we have confirmed their presence, time to return.
4) Something else, this can be adding something to a b or c
