Steel was walking along in the Oak streets. A skip in his feet and a happy smile on his face. This was the season of nightmare and the season of madness and scares. Steel had received a notice to meet with Frankie Marino, a local gangster and the right hand man of one of the most powerful people in Oak’s criminal world. He had been told to meet Frankie at a bar downtown in Oak. And so he was making his way there.

When he finally got there he noticed many things. It seemed this Frankie was a smart man. You could not get around the house without climbing over it due to the closeness of other buildings around it. Also there was only one entrance that Steel knew of. Hidden exits and back exits was not anything Steel knew. So Steel felt a respect for this Frankie Marino as he could understand Frankie was a man who played it cautiously.

He did not know Steel and so Steel could be just as much of an enemy as he could be a friend. A line Steel was going to cross very soon whether it was beneficial or not. Steel put his hand on the doorknob.

Past

Earlier that morning Steel had woken up in a room at the Swineherds pub. A place where he had been staying the last couple of days. Weeks even. In any case when this day began Steel had woken up, taken a bath and gotten dressed. And by dress it was obvious for Steel to put on something comfortable such as underwear and pants but also a nice gambeson. He had then tied it all together and put his chainmail on.

When the chainmail was finally on he put on his breastplate and plackart. He had then promptly strapped the rest of the pieces of armor on that he would need to get into his full plate armor.

Present

Steel twisted the doorknob and walked inside of the bar. When inside he walked over to the table that he had been told to go to in the notice he had gotten about meeting with Frank Marino. And there he was. Frank Marino. The man Steel had been told to meet with. Steel sat down across from Frank and they both introduced themselves. The conversation following the introduction was short but what needed to come across did. Steel was told to go to a certain shop and make the man who owned the shop understand that he had to pay his protection money or else. He was not allowed to critically or fatally injure the owner of the shop but otherwise he was allowed to intimidate him in any manner he wanted.

After Steel had received the information on what he was supposed to do he left the bar and walked over to where the shop was. He calmly introduced himself to the shop owner and told them that they needed to pay the money that they owed Vincenze Tessio for the shop's protection.

The man promptly refused saying he had no problem and that he did not need to pay for protection. This made Steel angry. The man did not understand that he was talking to Steel and that the reason he paid protection money to Tessio’s gang was because otherwise people like Steel could come at any time and destroy the shop and take whatever they wanted. Steel explained this but the old man who owned the shop still refused to pay.

It was time to get rough. Steel started knocking things over and destroying the shop owners property. The shop owner screamed at Steel to stop but also realized that they themselves were too weak to stop Steel. Steel easily replied to the man. “Pay your protection money and I will stop.”

The shop owner answered that he had no money but that he would sign a written agreement to pay Tessio for the protection that Tessio had given. After writing up the paper and handing it to Steel, Steel left. He went back to the bar and handed the agreement over to Frank. The mission was done.

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