FRAN TEST DRIVE

[solitarycompanion]

This one's easy. YOU HAVE

• Fran, a viera

who is currently

• existing
  
• doing some kind of powerful magick
  
• shooting something with an arrow that explodes
  
• shooting something with bullets that explode
  
• shooting something by throwing an axe at its head
  
• people-watching (she looks curious)
  
• people-listening (her ears swivel periodically)
  
• sensing Mist and looking agitated or concerned

in

• an aerodrome
  
• a forest
  
• a jungle
  
• the desert
  
• the city
  
• literally anywhere

YOU

• approach her or get her attention somehow
  
• that's it

PROFIT??????????????

Comments

[nohybriddadno]

[A VIERA PEOPLE-WATCHING, I GUESS. And this guy who looks hume but super isn't approaching her]

Hey there.

[solitarycompanion]

[glances at him in acknowledgment, though her eyes are sharp]

[nohybriddadno]

Looking for someone in particular?

[solitarycompanion]

Not looking. Waiting.

[nohybriddadno]

Must be a lucky person.

[solitarycompanion]

Lucky enough, to be afforded patience.

[nohybriddadno]

And kind of dumb to make you wait.

[tip_the_scales]

[Viera look a lot like taguel with different coloration (and a bit taller) (What is it with bunny people?)]

[Anyway, Robin looks like she's wandered into a fight between Fran and monsters(?), and is trying to figure out what's going on.]

Hey, hang on!

[She's more useful than she looks right now.]

[solitarycompanion]

[bunny solidarity, i like it.]

[Fran glances at her with a sharp look, neither warning nor grateful--just keeping an eye on her. but that's all she spares before firing her incendiary arrows at the monster, her aim hitting it right on the head. another monster is starting to creep up from behind her, however.]

[tip_the_scales]

[sadly Robin is not one, but she'd gladly introduce Panne]

[An archer... Robin thought to what archers in her own world were like and drew her sword. Most archers needed space to keep enemies from trying to close.]

[... like the monster was doing]

Hang on!

[she slashed at the monster. She was a stronger mage than a swordswoman, but she had a Levin sword with her that could take some of her magical strength and shock the opponent.]

[It was enough to discourage the monster form a back attack]

[solitarycompanion]

[once the beast Fran has in her sights is felled, she spins on her heel to fire another two shots at the one Robin is focused on, and between the two of them they quickly take out it and any other creatures nearby. Fran slides her bow onto her back, glancing at Robin]

...

Thank you.

[tip_the_scales]

You're welcome. Most people I know wouldn't welcome a fight in open ground without someone to watch their backs.

[solitarycompanion]

I was not alone.

[meaning you, young lady]

[withswagger]

I fail to see how they've managed to accumulate so much treasure beyond pilfering travelers. That's where we come in.

[solitarycompanion]

We'll soon wear out our welcome.

[withswagger]

No sense never breaking something in for fear of wear and tear.

[solitarycompanion]

[nods, and takes a step back to kick open the door to the room where the innkeeper--boasting of blood ties to Archadian nobility, overcharging on rooms with leaks and creaking beds, pilfering items from even the most harried and poor travelers while they sleep--has supposedly kept their stash of treasure and other stolen goods.

spoilers: that door is flying off the hinges.]

[withswagger]

[hohoh. saunters in, skimming the room, and grins.]

Well well well. Look what we have here. Perhaps he is nobility in true, if he loves taxing his people so.

[solitarycompanion]

[giving the room a lookover as well, both in a proprietary sense and also to scope out escape routes and places people could be listening in]

Not so, if he'll not display such wealth. Surely others would be envious.

[midgardener]

[ WHY THE FUCK IS THAT FOG NOISY?? hmmmm play it cool and hit on the bunny. ]


Hmm? You look worried!

[solitarycompanion]

[she doesn't turn her head to acknowledge Aeris, eyes fixated sharply on the dense Mist ahead--but her ear does move slightly in her direction]

I am.

[midgardener]

Oh?

[solitarycompanion]

[points]

It simmers, near to boiling. A beast might drink it whole, and destroy the forest.

[midgardener]

[ ttttips her head ]


Huh!

[solitarycompanion]

[finally looks at her]

Can you not hear it?