Glayp'neir

The militia attendant raises an eyebrow. "Homocide?" he questions in surprise as he listens to Sharpe. "Well if that's the case we will have some people investigate." he says. There seems to be a hint of sarcasm or maybe even distrust in the mans voice, but neither Sharpe nor Richard pick any of it up.


"You mentioned your contract was voided, did you bring the paper back with the signature and your Token?" the man asks and leans against the low desk in front of him. "Tch. Bloody murder. People these days trying to waste the militias precious time with false postings. You'd think the fee would be enough to deterr them, right? But instead, now, I gotta do a bunch of paper work." the man complains casually.



Jian and the girl walk past one another. Jian greets her but she simply ignores him and moves on.
The walk continues. Jian now realizes just how wide the city is, something he hadn't really considered before. He seemed to be about halfway there, despite that healthy bit of jogging and a good bit of walking thereafter.




Mitsuki either ignored or hadn't hat the time, mentally, to answer Doc's question. The two arrive at the door and she ponders at his question. "Hmm. I can't say I recall such a thing. I don't believe I had to use one the only time I've ever been here before. But then... I was in company, and not quite myself." she says. She nods and then decides to knock at the door, after taking a step backwards. Atrium watches the door for a moment and then directs his attention back to Mitsuki- Who is suddenly gone. Until he looks down and finds a little white cat sitting on the ground, grooming itself.

Nothing happens.

"Try knocking again-" Mitsuki suggests, but then the door opens, just enough for a man to look through. He's unshaven and stinks of alcohol and dirt, not the first thing one wants to notice when starting a conversation. He frowns at the Doctor and looks up and down the guy, trying to analyze him. "The hell' you supposed to be?" he asks in a rude and loud tone. "Whats yer' business, how'd ya find this place?" he ask and opens the door a bit more to look past Atrium into the hallway. "You a new guy? Or Tosh sent'cha?" he asks, seeming all to protective of the entrance. With good reason, given the kind of place this is.

Dr. Atrium looks at the man for a moment, trying to decide what to say. The man seem to be over protective, then again he would be too if he lived in the middle of a labyrinth that has monsters and demons living in it. Doc then holds his hands up to show that he his unarmed.

"I could lie and tell you that Tosh sent me and you would more then likely let me in, but I am an honest man. You shouldn't give people the chance to lie there way in like you did...Don't want people in your place under false reasonings. My name is Atrium, I am a doctor. I have traveled here looking for a man that could help me fix this." Doc then pulls the Soultrap from under his shirts to show the man. "It's cracked and I need help fixing it...And I also need help moving the soul that is in here into a new Soultrap. I give you my word that I mean no harm. If I need to do any sort of task or test so you may let me in, I would gladly do it. I just cannot leave this place without my task getting done. A life of a little girl is on the line and if I fail...she will die..."

When Doc is done talking, he looks down and picks up Mitsuki. He wished that she didn't just leave him alone in this but there is nothing he can do about it now. He looks the man in front of him in the eyes to show that he is not lying about anything he has said.

Sharpe lowers his brow, crossing his arms and pushing the paper forward.

"Doesn't look like my apparent client signed at all. I have the token however, but no signature to my knowledge, I don't believe the paper had one. At least, I was not given a signature. Of course, that might be to prevent you guys from getting a lead. If I can't get a refund, don't worry about it. I'll make up the difference." He says, disappointed. He crosses his arms and awaits the Attendant's verdict.

"Sorry if your time was wasted also, I used to work in Teyness, did a lot of military and mercenary work, so I know what it's like to have folks cry wolf or think they can just do shit and get away with it." Sharpe explains to the man, hoping maybe he'll find some common ground with him.

RD acknowledges the fact that an investigation would be performed and thought he heard a bit of sarcasm in the man's tone concerning their innocence, but doesn't catch it. Feeling a bit cautious though, he doesn't add anything to Point-man's story.

Instead he allows him to do the talking and casually walks over to the board, turning his attention not only to the bounties still remaining, but also to the people around it; listening in for any information, about anything really. The state of affairs, the city itself, strange happenings,other bounties in progress, maybe even a bit of info on the location of the other group members. Richard doesn't know much about the city or its inhabitants so collecting info on it was essential, especially in their current situation.

Jack had finally regained all of his strength as he reached the door to the house. There was a faint thought itching in his head. Would he have disobeyed his brother's voice if it didn't sound so intimidating, so serious? He walked inside the house...empty. Not even the cat was around to give him some company. Jack was normally used to the loneliness, but something about the baron house gave him a slight chill. Eventually however, Jack discovered Hitomi napping on one of the beds. He sat down beside her, petting her head

"Let's see here. Sharpe and Richard are off on some bounty if I'm right. Everyone else is heaven knows where doing heaven knows what. And that girl...not sure if it's safe for her to be on her own with whatever problems she's having....meh, even if she won't 'waste her time with things that don't affect [her] future', she'll have to find her way back here unless she somehow finds another roof to put overhead."

Inventory

1 military grade dagger, 1 protraction crystal, 1 protraction gun, 17 medium caliber bullets, 1 wrench, 1 screw driver, 1 flask filled with lemonade

Jian finally made it to the house. Having jogged the whole length of the city, alongside the incredibly flat and boring wall. The guards didn't stop him on the way in, and there weren't so many people here so there wasn't exactly anything to get distracted by. To his surprise, as he gets closer to the house, notices Jack has already arrived, somehow. As Jack steps through the house, Jian is still quite some distance away so he makes his way to the house himself. Jack is upstairs, petting hitomi. She is vastly asleep and doesn't wake up from the contact.



Meanwhile, Atrium converses with the defensive man. The man simply looks at him with a frown, clearly unable to keep track of anything the Doc is throwing at him. "Ya wha- now? Yous came HERE to get some dinky jewelry fixed? Are you insane, man?" the guy asks and sighs an annoyed sigh. "Hol up will ya." the man says and closes the door, rather abruptly.

A little while passes, about five minutes or so, and the door opens again. This time not just a tiny but, but a good bit, giving Doc the view inside. There are some people sitting around some boxes and tables in dim torch lighting, and a fireplace in the back alongside some open doors. A bit of chatting can be heard past the man who is standing in the doorway. A new guy, in fact, as he looks nothing like the last guy who was at the door. This man is also unshaven, but doesn't seem to grow much hair in the first place. He's wearing a plain training tunic, and a jacket on top, as well as a pair of plain wide pants. The man has a face that once could have been handsome but has grown older since, and his crooked stance helps drive the point home. He simply looks at the doctor, and his cat. Eyeing both down. When he sees the Soul Trap he nods to himself. "Whats your business, some kind of repair?" he asks. The man from earlier butts in and explains the situation, from somewhere out of view, likely behind or next to the door. "Ah, I see. Yeah, we can fix it, but it will come at a hefty price." the man says and leans forward to take a closer look. "It's in pretty bad shape, so it might take a while. And something so delicate as this, would cost you somewhat near a hundred gold. But we understand how things go and you made all this venturing here just for fixing this ol' thing, we can go with 80 or 70."
Still standing in the door, the man awaits Doc's answer.




"No signature?" the man asks Sharpe. "How do you know its void then... you said you talked to the person?" the man asks again, and raises his eyebrows."
He reaches under the short desk and pulls out a notepad and hands it to Sharpe. "If you can please take note here of your situation and describe your run ins with the client, we'll evaluate it after the Homicide has been looked into." the man says and sighs in annoyance, clearly not happy with his job. He hands Sharpe a pencil and waits.
RD meanwhile takes a look at the boards postings.

Doctor Atrium frowns. He has no money on him, it was all taken by the street kids when he pasted out. He holds Mitsuki with one hand and digs through his pockets and sighs. He looks the man in the eyes.

"I don't have any money on me...I did but I passed out do to fighting a monster and it was taken by some kids and since they were kids, I just let them have it. But I can come back later and give you the money or repay you in some other way. As I have stated, I am a doctor. If you have any sick or injured, I would more then gladly heal them for free. Or maybe you can use my fighting skills. I am a member of the Solis et Umbra clan witch means I am a trained assassin. But please, just don't turn me away. There is a girl that is deathly ill right now and she needs this Soultrap fixed so I can return it to her. There is also a very powerful demon soul inside of this that I need transferred into another Soultrap. I know I am asking a lot...a real lot, but I can't leave until you say yes. If you don't think you can trust me to pay when your done, have one of your men fallow me back to my house and I will hand them the money."

When Doc is done talking, he sighs. He can't think of anything else to say to them. He pets Mitsuki while he awaits their answer to his pleads.

Sharpe looks at the man, starting to become annoyed as well but he resolved that the man has to put up with shit like this everyday, perhaps even worse.

"I just assumed the contract would be voided if there was a homicide involved. Yes, I did talk to someone but she seemed really in a hurry. Anyway, I'll stop bothering you for now."

Sharpe looks down at the pencil and notepad and neatly writes down his situation, describing how he came back later and found the man dead, as well as the man's cause of death. He stops when he thinks about physically describing him and he motions to RD to come a bit closer. Once he's within a safe distance, he whispers to RD.

"Do you think I should say the man was of eastern descent? It might help them out but it also might make it harder on us if they're also trying to round them up."

Sharpe taps the eraser of the pencil on the notepad a bit while waiting for an answer. He can't help but remark also on how clean and presentable the paper and pencil look, as well as the desk in general, such a tidy and well-kept office.

Richard doesn't hear anything of interest from the people around the bounty board, and begins to concentrate more on the actual bounties, trying to see if any may be tied to the happenings around the city or perhaps their allies. A few catch his interest, mainly the one about/for Jenniver Colen, an investigation could yield some new info on the area, but then again it was unofficial so RD had his doubts on the actual relevance. 'White Claw' and 'Cultist of the Bloodmoon' might yield some good info as well, more about the city's underbelly that is, but they were a bit on the more difficult side, he'd like a team of three or more if he were to take them on.

Around that time Sharpe motioned to RD looking for his input on their description of the homicide they recently witnessed. "Hm. Good question. Honestly i'm not too sure about this man's validity as well. Yanno what?  Tell him. You may also want to describe the person you talked to before we found the body as well. She's obviously important in this investigation. Worst comes to worst, we handle whatever is thrown our way, and we then know not to let this man know too much, added he has no idea we have one [an easterner] in our group so it should be fine. Right now all we need to do is get the eye off of us, we don't need all this spotlight while we're trying to locate the others." He says it rather curtly and matter-of-fact, it would be MUCH harder trying to locate their comrades if the authorities warrant their attention as well.

Jian finally arrives at the door of the house, opening it with his surprise of not needing a key to do so. He comes in deeply panting in exhaustion, going into the kitches first to get something to drink. Grabbing a glass to fill it with water he can clearly feel his heartbeat. It's pounding away quite strong and it's been quite some time since he jogged such a distance. He takes bigger gulps, emptying the first glass in quite a haste, refilling it. He looks around, then seeing his blade still being there. He sighs in relief, as he thought it might be lost somewhere of the sorts.

He calms down a bit and then remembers why he originally came here, forgetting that Jack also is in the building at the given moment. He looks for something to write with and some paper to write it on, unfortunately, he never thinks of taking any kind of equip for that with him, so he neither has paper or ink.

Looking around in the house he can't find anything, then kind of storming into the room where Jack and Hitomi are located at. He looks at Jack, a bit shocked, as his intrusion was a bit rude at the moment. He bows out of reflex, apologizing for his sudden entry afterwards.

"S-sorry about that, I am a bit in a hurry, trying to find something to write with.", he says, sighing.

Jack hears a creek coming from the door. He is instantly relieved to see it is just Jian.

Jack whispered to avoid waking up Hitomi
"Don't worry what so ever. There's nothing much going on here for you to interrupt."

"What does he need a writing utensil for. Does it have something to do with those men? No no no...I shouldn't get involved in Jian's business...unless he's ok with that...can't hurt to ask about it"

"I'm almost certain you'll find what your looking for in the study. Would you mind me asking why you'd need it?"

Inventory

1 military grade dagger, 1 protraction crystal, 1 protraction gun, 17 medium caliber bullets, 1 wrench, 1 screw driver, 1 flask filled with lemonade

The man conversing with Atrium nods as Atrium explains his situation, sort of absently, just focusing on him. "I see. I see..." he says and nods again. "Well... given you know about this location, you know this isn't exactly the kind of place for warmhearted business." the man says and then looks over at the other guy from earlier and shoos him away. "If you are sure you can retrieve the money we can see to it that it gets fixed by the time you return. Shouldn't take more than a week or so I reckon. Maybe just a few days." the man says and nods again. He analyzes the item curiously and nods once more. "Yes, it shouldn't take too long. I'll have it handed to our smith right away, if you are interested." he says and extends his hand to Atrium.

Sharpe nods, seeing a lot of sense in RD's counsel. It shows how much he still trusts the man after such a long time.

Sharpe looks back down at the paper and starts writing about how the deceased man was eastern in appearance, and he then thought back to the appearance of the young woman who answered the door in such a haste. As he was writing it, he starting to consider that perhaps it may not have even been a homicide, it might have been one of those things from Central for all he knows, maybe it found a way out and got to the man, or perhaps she was infected.

He snaps his attention up at the attendee.

"Hey uh, I just kind of thought a bit more about the situation. It may not actually be a homicide, that's more really just what it looked like at first. I wouldn't rule it out but there definitely could be other explanations for the incident. Just figured I'd throw that out there so you have a broader array." Sharpe says, running his hand along his chin thereafter with his one arm tucked under the other.

He neatly slides the notepad with the pencil diagonally cross over it forward, indicating he is finished with his description of the scenario.

"Sorry for the bull, guys." He remarks additionally.

Doctor Atrium listens to the man. He doesn't like the idea of leaving a very important item alone with people he doesn't know but he can't stay in this hideout for a few days either, the others will know something is up. He looks down at the Soultrap. "I am going to have to part from you for a little bit Dahaka. Please don't do anything to these people. I promise you that I will be back. Hopefully when I return, your will speak to me. I would enjoy that. Good bye for now. I will be back as soon as I can. Doc then takes the Soultrap off and hands it to the man.

"Remember, not only do I need this Soultrap fixed I also need the soul in this one to go into a new Soultrap. I don't care if it will cost me extra. So when I come back, I will have two Soultraps. The one I am handing you fixed but empty with the soul in a freshly made Soultrap."

Doc then writes down the address to where he is living and hands it to the man.

"This is where I am staying at. Thank you for your kindness. It seems like it is getting harder and harder to find it." He bows, turns and walks off. He heard the door slam behind him after a few steps. He puts Mitsuki down on the ground and they walk. After about five minutes of walking, he turns and looks down at the snow white cat.

"Why did you leave me to talk to them alone? I could of said something wrong and gotten us either killed or them to not help me? Also, how are we going to be back without running into that demon again?"

"I need it for... well things. I gotta take care of business.", he says, then bowing again, leaving the room carefully and quietly to not wake up Hitomi. Having searched the whole house by now he can't seem to find anything to write with, so he has a different idea.

He grabs his a container with tea powder and fills some of it into a bowl, then adding water to dilute it. The substance slowly turns into a green, rather watery texture. But instead of drinking it, he will use it to write with it using the tip of one of his chopsticks. He also pulls out the book he has in his backpack once he sat back down at the table in the kitchen, there are a few pages that have close to no text, which also are rather unrelated to what he cares for. He begins ripping out those pages, having something to write on now aswell.

He dips the tip of the chopstick into the substance and tests how well it writes. It's not that good, but it works, so he begins to write his actual text.

"Brother,
once you read this, consider this letter to be a promise of me hunting you down soon. I am tired of your attempts to kill me. Long enough have I watched men ,that you probably hinted my way, chase me through this town. I am very sure of you being the one pulling the strings behind it, not just the emperor himself. So I got no other choice. At one point it pains me... We were part of one family. But with that circumstance, I do not consider you a part of our honoroable family anymore, at least of what's left.

Mark my words brother, your time will come."

He signs that letter with his name, then walking into his room with it, pinning it against the wall with his knife, he'll have to deliver that message to his brother once he can make out his location. The most recent encounter just filled him with too much hatred, he can't let it slide any longer. Jian then sighs, sitting down on his bed, putting away the book but not the picture of his family that was in it. He misses his family, a lot even. Jian and his brother, they're the only ones, neither of them have any offspring either to carry on the family's name...

"Art is hard to explain, philosophy is hard to explain, quantum physics would take a bit of time, but business is not one of those things. Guess that means he doesn't want me involved. Damn, I hope he's not involved in anything serious right now."

Suddenly, Jack heard a noise from Jian's room, as if the wall had been punctured

"Guess I should ask what that was."

Jack looked at his hand. Was he concerning himself with everyone else because he was truely worried for their safety or was it all just a distraction for his own, with no answers in sight?


1 military grade dagger, 1 protraction crystal, 1 protraction gun, 17 medium caliber bullets, 1 wrench, 1 screw driver, 1 flask filled with lemonade

"I forgot my hat", Mitsuki says, still in cat form as the Doc and her depart from that hideout. "I'm not used to being seen, and when I'm on business, I tend to wear my hat to... conceal my identity- if you can even call it that. You understand..." She lets the doc carry her a bit further as she thinks about his remaining question. "Oh..." she then exclaims and hops off him. "I suppose we could simply take an alternate route and hope it brings us to the surface again." she says and walks around a corner. Atrium follows her, and by the time he rounded the corner, she is already back in human form with her white cat ears poking out of her slightly messy hair. "This used to be a sewage system after all. Perhaps we don't even need to use the crypt to access this place. And besides, they would have had to come down here somehow without getting caught by anything that might lurking in that crypt." she says and continues down a seemingly random hallway. Everything looks pretty much the same, to Atrium. The walls are filthy and the ground wet and muddy. The stones and metals down here are corroded and weak, and its rather dark, though not enough to prohibit sight. They end up coming to a little fork, going in two different directions with rusted metal signs pointing to each side respectively. Mitsuki pulls two fingers over the metal and small faint blue symbols appear over the metal, sinking into it and giving it an eerie glow. "It should be easier to read now..." she says and looks about, waiting for the Doc to catch up. He reads the signs... one saying "Drainage." and pointing to the right, and the other saying "Maintenence access." to the left.

"Well then?" she asks him, with a playful smirk on her face.





The man at the militia tent eyes sharpe down a little. He then nods and says, "Might be, might not, we'll see. The militia will have to handle it from here."
He takes the notepad and skimms over it, and then casually puts it back under the shallow desk. "Anything else you need?" he asks, his annoyance and lack of motivation seeping through his words.

Sharpe shrugs.

"Alright then. I'll be on my way then." He says, and with that leaves the tent, straightening his hat so he can get a good look at RD.

"Welp, I didn't get a refund, so I guess we'll just cover the cost with another job. I'm not letting this go, no, but at this point there's not much we can do. We're kind of out of the loop now as well." he says to the stalwart man. He shifts his weight to his other leg in the process.

"I know I already took a second job, but is there anything that interests you on the board or does it seem to below your skill level?" He says, looking at the board himself actually. There seem to now be more than just odd jobs, but bounties as well, one for a pack of wolves, another for a bear, and then one about... a cult. Great, now they have to worry about these guys. Though, since the last stint they were in was said to have been a cult - even if it turned out not to be - it was still quite sinister in it's intentions.

"Hey, take note of that one about the cult, our last mission we had started with rumors of one in Castle Vikuur. 'Course we found out it wasn't a cult, but maybe that's the new trend these days." He laughs a bit at the prospect that all the important stuff will begin with "cult this" or "cult that". He hopes it doesn't go that way, variety is good.

He feels the urge to check himself over again, he doesn't know why he does it, just a slight uncomfort that he forgot something. He checks his inner pockets of his coat and finds a bulge, and he pulls out, to his surprise, the radar device they had found in the castle. He stares at it and his eyes begin to narrow and his vision intensifies.

"Why the feth didn't I think of using this before... Why the feth didn't I remember this even existed?!" He says, staring in disbelief at the device.

"I could have used this to track Doc, would have saved us way more time!"

Richard silently sits by and listen's to the militia attendant's response to Point-man's suggestion, and wasn't a big fan of the way he brushed off his friend's advice or the attitude with which he conducted business."Prick. If he doesn't like his job why does he continue to work it? He acts like he's the only one put off by this, WE just lost money on a job we never even had a chance to complete, AND may even be investigated later on as suspects, as well as taking a possible hit to our reputation as reliable bounty hunters just because WE got stuck with a bad job, and HE'S annoyed?"

Although RD couldn't quite deny feeling this way himself, he drowns it out, the intruding voice is a selfish one, one he couldn't afford to lend an ear to. Instead he responds to Sharpe's Question: "I may grab one soon enough; Jenniver Colen, The White Claw, and the one relating to a Cult do interest me, but i would feel more comfortable if we did those last two with another member of our crew just in case. As for the others, i'd assume you and I could take the wolves together, or hell, even alone, but the bear... We'd have to check. If that thing is wanted back alive, i'm not too fit for it; i could subdue it, sure, but i don't have a solid means of getting it back to them in one piece, never-mind alive... We'd need someway to capture it... Either way i'm hoping we could locate the others before..." He says, mulling over the pros and cons of the jobs he was interested in, trailing off as he notices that Point-man had been checking himself and begins to pull out a strange device, one Richard himself is not too familiar with.

"Eh? You can track people with that thing? Wha? How-" He stops himself from asking Point-man anything else, seeing as the man looks about as confused about the presence of the device as Richard himself is. "Never-mind. If it does what you say, lets hurry up and find who we can and make sure they're safe, so we can plan our next objective." He says confidently, the path they should take seemingly cleared with the re-discovery of this useful trinket.

Doctor Atrium shrugs when Mitsuki why she changed into a cat. It was a fair enough reason,if he was suddenly changing, he wouldn't want to be seen. He follows her and nods at what she is saying. He can't help but smile as she speaks in while in her cat form. Her voice is much higher pitch and he is just not used to seeing a talking. When he turns the corner and sees that she is human form, he is shocked. It still amazes him how fast she can change. He shakes his head and walks over to the fork in the road. Mitsuki said that they are in an old sewage system, the thought of them going into it's drainage isn't the best place he would want to go. He sighs and looks at Mitsuki.

"Well, I would like to go to the maintenance access. I know for a fact that the drainage way would lead to a way out so lets save that. The maintenance access could give us some information about these old tunnels and maybe other ways in and out."

He walks down the path a bit but soon a stabbing pain hits his stomach and he drops to the ground.
He tries to look ahead but he is so dizzy that he can't even lift his head. He knows these symptoms.

"M-Mitsuki...Food...I-I need...Food."

Mitsuki stop and gasps in surprise as Atrium collapses. "Oh my." she says, sounding calm but with that unmistakable hint of distress. She looks around the dark corridors. Not exactly the best place to break down from hunger, but then... she has her ideas of why this is happening, anyway. Soon enough the doc faints, with his last view being Mitsuki looking rather worried and Conjuring up a bag of sorts.

Atrium wakes a little later, not sure how much time has passed, or what happened. In fact, it takes him a while to realize he's still in the sewers, though it seems he's in a different area. A small room with a few moldy wooden boxes and him propped up against the wall. There is a knapsack on a box, with a small white light hovering next to it- The only thing illuminating the otherwise dark small room. Across from Doc is a rusting metal sheet door. There is no way to look outside, but its very likely the door is unlocked. Directing his attention back to the knapsack, he notices the flap to keep it closed is laid open, and some food is sticking out of it. Some bread and cheese, but nothing much else. Both the bread and the cheese are cut up into bits and slices, with some of the parts seemingly missing. Likely consumed. On that note, Atrium is starting to feel a bit better, but he is still  very hungry, and there is no sight of Mitsuki anywhere.




After sharpe's dealings with the disgruntled attendant, he takes a look at the radar. It shows what seem to be a very basic mapping of the area. Some of the parts don't seem properly aligned, as it suggests he is standing inside of the building  across from him. But all in all it gives a general idea of their location, albeit difficult to make out. On the screen are seven dots. A blue one, indicating sharpe's location. Most curious is a blue skull at the edge of the display, suggesting it may be out of reach. The skull is blinking faintly. Next to it, also on the border, are two yellow dots, and next to that a purple one. On the very left of the screen is a white dot- or... no. It's gone.
It seems to Sharpe, from what he can make out, that most of the notices are up north, perhaps in central or further up. The range on this radar seems to be odd... as it displays the dots well out of its visual range, but perhaps that could be altered in a way.

Sharpe's look of surprise and shock gives way to a wide grin from ear to ear as he realizes they actually in fact did have a decent way to gauge their positions. He looks up at RD with said grin.

"Well, at least it seems things have taken a better turn for us, eh pal? We should probably go back to the house and check to see if anyone returned, some decent time seems to have passed. If that's over with, I'd like to see which one of these dots is who, I can't recall who had which crystals. See, we found this in Castle Vikuur, and it had these crystals that acted as beacons for it. If you had a crystal on you, you could be tracked, but you had to know which person had which color crystal. In any case, there seems to be a lot of activity to the north, so we might just need to skirt around the city perimeter, or sneak through central. Though if Central is still what it is, then skirting the edge might be safer, no telling what might still linger, waiting to pounce at us."

He looks at the bounty board, and nods to RD.

"Go ahead and pick something, just make sure it's not something that'll go under!" He says, trying to suppress a laugh.

"Remember though I have one other job on my plate! Don't want to disappoint those folks too!"

Richard can't help but show his glee as well now that they had a locator of sorts, "In that case, lets get moving, I can grab a few bounties later after we locate our missing members." The sudden separation of the group had been bothering him for awhile so gathering them again or at least confirming their status, would be preferable to pursuing anything at the moment.

He moved towards the exit of the facility before giving his opinion on their method of transit, wanting to be on their way and not just standing around the board chatting about unrelated business. "As for which way we go... Hm... Although i'm curious as to what exactly is going down in central, i'd like to avoid conflict if possible. It'd look pretty bad for us, first we're seen at the site of a recent murder, then we're infiltrating a restricted area? Even if we could get through without getting caught, its still a bit risky. Might as well just run the perimeter. Unless... Are any of the blips on the tracker indicating someone being at central? While you're at it, what does the skull mean? Does everyone in the group have one of the 'location' crystals? Can more of the crystals be created, or the device modified to do anything else?" Such a device had a myriad of possible uses to be discovered, and RD being unfamiliar with the new tech presented to him, had plenty of questions for the man who wielded it.

Doctor Atrium slowly gets up, shaking off the little bit of dizziness that he still has. He grabs some of the cheese bits and eats some. He is feels that he has eaten a bit but he is still starving. He eats the rest of the cheese bits and looks around. He takes the small bag and he walks over to the door, it takes a bit but he is able to open it. The room is shallow but wide, Doc figures that this is the maintenance room. The room is barely taller than the door itself. He looks around and sees that there is a bunch of broken machinery and clogged sewage. After looking at all the stuff, he notices that this is another door on the other side of the room. Before he walks out, he takes some of the old papers and puts them in the small bag, he will read them over later. He walks over to the other door and opens it. He sees that there is a long dark hallway.

"You around here Mitsuki?!" He calls out, hearing the slight echo of his call.

Jian snaps out of his kind of spaced out state. He looks around, then looking at the pinned note. He shakes his head, not now, he will wait. He puts everything aside, stretching. He still needs to do a few things for today, but he also is rather tired from his jog. He might need to lay down a bit before carrying on with what he had in mind.

What made Jack be faster than him in the first place? He still can't wrap his head around that. He was just there, after Jian jogging around the whole city himself! He didn't see him on the way either. Being still quite confused, he falls back onto the bed, looking at the ceiling. He can't understand what exactly is going on anymore in the first place. People just seem to do things, the context is kind of lost for Jian. They just happen as he goes, but, what will it do for him in the future? Another thing he can't really get a solution for.

He sighs, and before he realizes it, he falls asleep, taking a nap on his bed in a rather awkward position.