Given his choice of attire — well it probably was not his choice, but still — it was hard not to attract stares even though Joan was trying her best not to attract stares. She took a deep breath and offered him a smile, shaking the hand that he held out for her. She felt as though she had just run her hands over sandpaper or something. After sharing her name with the client, she kept quiet so that he could give her the details of the request as fast as possible so she could leave soon. Guard Captain Devon did not have much to say and for the most part, Joan was supposed to come up with her own plan to find out whether or not there was some cult stuff going on in Magnolia Town. Funny how she had just escaped the hot mess in Dahlia that involved cults, and here she was in the next town, having to look for cults. When was she going to be free from this cult business? Maybe this was some sort of sign. Guard Captain Devon confirmed that he had nothing more to add when Joan asked, and wished her good luck. The vampyress nodded and gave him a smile once again before she spun on her heels and started walking in the opposite direction. The way she was dressed now was perfect for this job. Everyone thought she was a witch or something dark.
Cult Spy [Joan]
Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:01 pm
Given his choice of attire — well it probably was not his choice, but still — it was hard not to attract stares even though Joan was trying her best not to attract stares. She took a deep breath and offered him a smile, shaking the hand that he held out for her. She felt as though she had just run her hands over sandpaper or something. After sharing her name with the client, she kept quiet so that he could give her the details of the request as fast as possible so she could leave soon. Guard Captain Devon did not have much to say and for the most part, Joan was supposed to come up with her own plan to find out whether or not there was some cult stuff going on in Magnolia Town. Funny how she had just escaped the hot mess in Dahlia that involved cults, and here she was in the next town, having to look for cults. When was she going to be free from this cult business? Maybe this was some sort of sign. Guard Captain Devon confirmed that he had nothing more to add when Joan asked, and wished her good luck. The vampyress nodded and gave him a smile once again before she spun on her heels and started walking in the opposite direction. The way she was dressed now was perfect for this job. Everyone thought she was a witch or something dark.
Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:17 pm
Joan kept walking, but slowly, watching everyone who passed by her. It was harder than she thought, to be honest. The Guard Captain made it seem so easy. Folding her arms over her chest, she thought of a way to find out about the cult. Maybe if she showed her fangs, it might work? She shook her head as she thought of this. While she was starting to doubt everything about this damn job, she noticed something as she passed an alleyway. Two men were exchanging something in broad daylight, in an alleyway where anyone could see them just passing by, just like how Joan could right now. They did not even notice her arrival. The vampyress slipped into the alleyway, approaching the two men as naturally as she could although she could not help that they could not hear her until she coughed to catch their attention. They were pretty spooked but also pissed at the same time, asking her what she was doing here and threatening to kill her or something. Joan neglected the threats and simply asked them what they were doing, trying to appear interested. The two men started making fun of her, which after a while started to piss her off, so she figured these guys did not have the information she wanted. Without a word, she simply turned and left the alleyway, leaving the two men confused and puzzled.
Fri Apr 27, 2018 11:33 am
The small girl was less frightened when Joan started speaking in this fake ass voice that made her sound less scary, apparently. She took a few seconds to think about it, giving Joan false hopes, but in the end she too did not know of the cult that Guard Captain Devon wanted to find out about. This was the third person she approached to ask about cults. Well, technically she was the fourth since she found two men in the alleyway, but this was her third time asking. If she was not going to find any information in the streets, she was going to go out of her way to do something crazy to dig up the info using other methods. She was a hundred percent sure that cults were a thing and especially because Magnolia Town was so close to Dahlia Town. Of course there had to be cults here too. There had to be a reason Guard Captain Devon got a tip. The only other reason he could have received that tip could have been because someone wanted him to be distracted from something else more important? Joan was overthinking things now. Shaking her head a little to bring her focus back to the task at hand, she turned around again, and then started walking. She was kind of clueless, but she knew that she would find out in the end, because she had this strong feeling that she would not going to fail Guard Captain Devon.
Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:30 pm
So after asking the little girl who was returning home from school, Joan really was at a loss for ideas which was why she was walking around the center of Magnolia Town as if she was a robot programmed to just walk around aimlessly, and she almost even bumped into several people who were walking past her on the sidewalk but thank god she did not actually hurt anyone because that meant bad impressions and she was not going to ruin her image here since her mission at the time being was to pretend to be one of those good mages even though she felt like it was wrong it do so given how she was from Phantom Lord and still felt loyal to said guild although she had started taking requests from legal clients and it felt so damn wrong to do that, to be quite honest, and all of this was part of her preparations for what seemed like a huge project that required the help of her vampyress friend who would be traveling to Fiore all the way from a different country since she was out there for some reason that Joan could not really say because she did not really know herself, and she had no reason to find out what it was but too bad she did not know that her vampyress friend was not really going to be much help for the ‘project’ and instead would actually become the cause of her nemesis.
Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:04 pm
At some point after her long explanation, Joan was able to convince the girl to show her to the cult. The girl told Joan to come by a nearby store later that night and the vampyress nodded. Before she left, the girl whispered into Joan’s ears, telling her that she was not a girl. This caught Joan off guard, but the trap had left when Joan realised what he meant. Shaking her head and exhaling deeply, the vampyress headed back to her inn. She was supposed to go to the store at night time so she had some time to waste. Because it was not a lot of time, she decided she would not pay the local hospital a visit to get more blood bags. What she had would suffice for the time she had. She walked back to her inn from the center of Magnolia Town where she was previously at and took off her clothes to relax for a bit. She had some time to watch something on the TV while she waited. She grabbed some blood bags from her fridge and sat down on the sofa in front of the television set in her inn room, then turned on the lacrima screen. She picked a random channel and just started watching whatever was on the screen as she sipped through the tube connected to the blood bag. It was like a straw so she could just suck.
Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:16 pm
After a little while, a man approached her, one that she had never seen before and began asking her questions like the ones she was asking in the streets earlier that day. Of course Joan kept her cool and answered everything he asked so that he was convinced. He seemed convinced for a moment, and Joan kept up her act the whole time. But at one point he decided that he was not buying her story and started calling her a spy. Joan of course argued with him, but since she was outnumbered here and the other cult members started to chase her, she ran through the tunnel so that she was out of the cavern. Once she was outside of the store, there was no way for them to catch her anymore as her vampyre abilities helped her escape even more easily. She used the alleyways to escape and after a while of running, they lost sight of her and gave up on chasing her. Once she was sure that they were no longer after her, she returned back to where Guard Captain Devon was waiting and presented the information that she had gathered to him. He seemed very pleased with the information she brought and asked her a few questions before he handed her her reward in a pouch and thanked her. Joan nodded and gave him the fakest smile before returning back to her inn to take that nap.
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