North approached the docks of Hargeon as a salty breeze caressed his exposed skin. People were hurriedly bustling about as they went about their business. There were fish vendors shouting out about how fresh their catch was, burly men carrying heavy crates and packages on and off of the various ships, but among the wide variety of people that could be found there, the one that stood out the most was the rather staggering amount of guards for such a small portion of the docks. North must have spotted nearly twenty or so of them all posted around the area. He could see why someone would need to contract him for a distraction, but he honestly hadn't been anticipating security to actually be this tight. "I've got to plan this puppy out, or they'll get me caught real quick." North thought to himself as he scanned the area from a discreet vantage point near one of the vendor's stalls. He was getting a few funny looks from his lack of attire, but none of the guards seemed to be paying him much attention.

North could see the ship that he was supposed to be causing a distraction for and, though he was rather far away, North could tell that the captain was walking around in an impatient manner. It seemed that time was growing short, and that he ought to move fast. North spotted a building about twelve feet tall and haphazardly formed a plan in his head. Without worrying about consequences should he fail at this point, North stepped out boldly from behind the stall and strode over to the nearest guard to him. He was a tall and burly man in a light set of armor, holding a large halberd that must have been two heads taller than the man himself. The guard looked at North with a menacing glare, looking up the entirely nude man and opening his mouth to say something. North too opened his mouth, but not to say something, instead he cast a spell that launched a spore right onto the guard's nose. Instantly, a large bushel of mushrooms exploded off of the man's face and started sucking out bits of his blood. Another guard saw this and came to assist, but North was entirely ready for him. He pointed his finger towards the approaching guard and sent out a small cluster of spores that shot forward toward the burly man. North started sprinting off in the other direction as the other man gave chase, right in the path of the spore cluster he'd just shot off. A few feet before he made contact with it, the cluster instantly grew into a large Shiitake mushroom and slammed into his torso, knocking the wind out of the man. At this point, all of the guards had taken notice that some sort of disturbance was going on at the docks, and the cause of it was certainly the sprinting naked man.

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North continued his full spring as a dozen and a half guards chased after him, halberds raised. North didn't dare look back, but instead ran straight towards the building he had seen earlier. The guards were ganging on him a bit, but North wasn't worried in the slightest. As he kept on pushing himself forward stride by stride he extended a palm forward and released his third cluster of spores. They shot out in front of him and landed on the ground at the base of the building. Once North approached the portabello mushroom that had sprouted there instantly he leaped up out of his sprint and landed hard on the massive fungus. The bouncy surface shot him upwards into the air and up towards the roof of the building. He grabbed onto the ledge as he started to fall, and quickly scrambled up onto the straw thatched roof. From there, he got up on his feet and looked down at all the guards angrily searching for a way to get up there. "Let's see ya get up here, you goons!" North shouted, doing a bit of a jig as he continued to draw their attention. A couple of the guards had run off to go get a ladder from their storehouse, while the rest of them had surrounded the building with their halberds pointed at an angle towards the roof, preventing any notion of escape. "We've got you surrounded. Get down here and give up!" One of the guards shouted, obviously frustrated at their inability to pursue him. North certainly wasn't going to be listening to any of them however, and instead was keeping a close eye on the docks as he watched the ship he had been contracted by begin sailing away. That was North's cue, and it was time for him to make his exit.

North broke into a full sprint and ran for the edge of the building closest to another rooftop. There was no way he would be able to make such a jump normally, but as a mage he had plenty of secrets up his non-existent sleeves. After he leaped off the building, he extended his right fist and a long vine of moss shot out and latched onto a rooftop some few meters away. North instantly began retracting the vine to bring him up to the nearby roof and just narrowly avoided being pierced in the buttocks by one of the guard's halberds. He soared through the air up towards the next roof and from there he was above the residential district and had ample room to maneuver. He ran across a few more rooftops until he was sure that the guards had lost sight of them, and then he carefully dropped into a deserted alleyway where he waited for about half an hour for the heat to die down. He hadn't done all that much, after all; only assaulted two guards and made a fool of the rest. Once North felt comfortable walking around again, he dashed off to the docks where a lone fisherman was sitting next to a suspicious bag. North had already been informed that he was to pick up this bag with no questions and head off without a word, and that was precisely what he did; happy to be paid for another job well done.


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