Yumi arrived at the destined point to meet up with her client Gaud. A bar in the middle of a darkened back alley that was out of sight of the Rune knights. It was a small bar and allowed for those who wished to perform less than scrupulous deeds to conduct said deeds here, The Black Owl. Yumi had long since heard of the bar years ago when she had been travelling Fiore as a young woman. There was not a place in Fiore Yumi had not visited in her many years it would have been pointless and a waste to remain in one location for seventy-five years of her life never seeing the world. So she had made it a rule, once she started travelling to never stay in one place longer than two years. If she was working a scheme or conducting certain evil tasks she could stretch it to a maximum of five.
Yumi pushed the doors of the bar open and strolled on in, her hair flowing behind her freely let loose. She was dressed in her common lancer armour, the hat on her head, but her hair was not bound up under it. Yumi scanned the bar looking for her client, a photo had been placed with the quest so she knew who to look for. By the corner of the bar was a large brunette man with a bushy mustache and beard, her client Gaud. Yumi made her approach and sat down opposite the Gaud a raised eyebrow in confusion as he looked at her form, no doubt wondering about her age. Yumi did look quite young and often those who looked her age would not be taken seriously. As an elderly woman, she had command quite a bit of respect, but now she appeared as nothing but a pre-teen girl.
Gaud coughed into his hand, "Thank you for coming so quickly. As in the quest I was recently swindled by a bandit named Jarjar who took my high valued item and left me with fake jewels. I want a little revenge. Please find him and retrieve my money, feel free to use force. In order to find Jarjar all you need is an item and to allow rumours of it to spread around town and he will come running to collect it. This I have no doubts. Please retrieve my money and return it to me, I will pay you generously for it." Spoke the large brunette man with a bushy moustache and beard. Yumi didn't say anything about the pay, but calling a C rank payment generous was hardly worth the time. Yumi would rather be doing B rank quests but they had been so scarce lately so she had been forced to participate in D and C rank quests, far below her status.
Yumi stood up from the table and left leaving Gaud behind in order to get to work. As she was leaving the bar she removed the Icy sword from her hip and began to spread rumours by talking to the patrons of the bar. She would tell them about her sword and its abilities, a sword of the frost element imbued with a single spell. She would make it out like the item was the greatest thing in the world, but in truth, it was only an uncommon weapon so it wasn't all that powerful. Once she had spoken to the members in the bar she would watch them leave in order to spread the news like wildfire around the town of Era.
Yumi did not stop there she would find orphans and streets urchins paying them a small number of jewels, no more than one fifth of the total she would earn from the quest in order to spread the rumour across town. She had hired a total of fifteen kids paying them no more than five hundred jewels each and watched them run off to spread the rumours around town. Yumi would move to the market district and as she conversed with the merchants would bring up her little sword not only spreading the rumour by mentioning it but by claiming she had heard it from others to help it spread. In only three hours time the rumour of the high valued item she was carrying for sale and spread all over town reaching the ears of Jarjar.
Once it got back to her that he had heard through messengers sent by the bandit they conversed on where to meet up. The meeting point for exchanged would be at six o clock at night in a deserted alley where the rune knights could see what was happening. Yumi accepted and would wait patiently for time to pass by returning to her room at the inn and sharpen her blade. She would make sure her weapon was in perfect condition, shining it up to make it look as high valued as possible in order for this to work. If Jarjar suspected at all from seeing the weapon that its value wasn't high he would probably suspect something was off and try to run. YUmi was not in the mood for anyone to run she wanted to get the quest over and done with to receive her money.
The young woman rose off her bed checking over her sword before sheathing it into its scabbard and left for the meeting point.
WC: 908
TWC: 1436