The day before.
It was in the early morning when Steel woke up at the swineherds pub. Like most mornings he had spent here it all began with drawing a bath. After all he had negotiated to have a tub of his own in the room. Something most people wouldn’t be able to have. The water entered the room and into the tub through a connection of strange metal pipes. It was mixed with water that had been heated in a strange contraption downstairs. And as it entered the tub due to the mixing of hot and cold water what came out was lukewarm but still on the hotter side. A respectably nice temperature. Steel removed his garments and slowly stepped inside the tub. Feeling the heat wash over him as the water slowly rose. And as he lowered himself down into a sitting position some of the water even spilled on the floor due to the added volume of Steel's body.
He stayed in the water for a while taking care to put soap on himself and scrub himself. Washing behind his ears and everywhere else Steel slowly stood up after having washed everywhere. He then raised a leg above the water's surface and above the walls of the tub, took a step outside of the tub and grabbed a nearby towel.
After having dried himself off with the towel Steel started dressing which of course began by putting his underwear and socks on. He then put on a pair of pants and a tunic. Then after putting on the pants and the tunic he equipped his haste ring and his pyaar earrings.
Now came the true hurdle of dressing. First Steel put on a pair of leather ankle boots. Then he started equipping the sabatons, greaves, poleyns and cuisses. Then Steel put on a gambeson and a chainmail. Then he started equipping the rest of the armor. Starting with the breastplate and plackart. Then moving on to put on the vambrace, couter and rerebrace. And the pauldrons. Finally strapping on the gorget and ending the session by equipping his gauntlets.
And so he had finished equipping his armor. Picking up Mjolnir from the floor next to his bed. He made his way to the door of his room and exited. Walking through a corridor and down a flight of stairs he found himself in the main room of the swineherds pub. Now some would think that since he had spent a lot of time in the pub with it as his temporary base of operations that he would have met Odin. But no. He had tried to hide himself as good he could and therefore he had more or less only met the housekeeper and the barmaid(s).
And so as he walked up to the bar the girl who was standing there serving the people looked to him. She said
“Hello mister.” She blushed.
“How was your bath?” She had been the one to pump the water for him and that is why she knew he had bathed. Steel smiled back.
“It was good. I noticed there was a new soap for me. Thank you for that.” She seemed to have a hard time looking Steel in his eyes. Was she truly that enamoured with him or was she afraid of him? After all Steel had a reputation as a member of the most hideously evil guild in all of Fiore.
“Did you like the smell of the soap?” she asked and Steel nodded. But he could not idly pass time here and so he asked
“Any news for me?”He noticed a visual anguish on the face of the girl. He looked her dead in the eyes
“Anything wrong?” At which point she could not keep quiet
“Some men in blue came and took a letter that was meant for you. I tried to stop them but they flashed the insignia of the Rune knights.” Steel knew that something like this could happen and he could not blame her for caving to authority. After all this was a respected establishment.
“In what direction did they go?” She looked up and looked him in the eyes. “They did not say but I noticed them moving for the Wistechian Spire.
Steel understood that the time had finally come for him and his guildmates to claim their rightful place. Zagan had told them all to meet up at the Wistechian spire and so he assumed that the letter had been the call to get there.
He promptly made his way out of the tavern.
Quickly he moved to take a shortcut to the Wistechian spire after all he had a wyvern and with it he could fly and therefore probably move faster than the Rune knights.
Finding himself perched atop a ridge that overlooked the road to the spire. Below. A company of Rune knights waited. There were a lot of them surely twenty at the least. He sighed. This would very surely make him late to whatever meeting he was supposed to attend. He jumped down into the fray of Rune knights. Time to kill.
As he neared the ground it seemed some of them had noticed his presence. One shouted for them to get at the ready but before he had finished his sentence his skull was squashed by gentle greeting from Mjolnir. And over head swing. Steel now stood there on the ground blood had squirted all over him. He sighed. He had just cleaned himself for Illumins sake.
Picking up the body before it had time to fall to the ground Steel raised it in front of himself like a human shield and just as he did he saw a fireball heading his way. He placed the body between himself and the ball of fire. And the body “ate” the fireball. Flames scattered everywhere. Steel moved to be on the next person as quickly as he could, throwing the body of the headless knight on one of his compatriots knocking them over he would swing his hammer to crush the one standing next to the knocked over knight.
He threw the hammer at the next one and it pierced straight through them but with bludgeoning damage. It still looked like the hammer had no resistance in its movement. The moment it made its way through the body Steel called it back into his right hand.
The rest of the fight continued in a similar manner until the ravine passage was covered crimson and the moon was high in the sky. Only then could Steel rest for it had taken him a whole day to kill all of the Rune knights and he was sure that they would send reinforcements the moment that they did not report back. He hid the bodies and took their insignias.
He decided to go into hiding as he slept for the night. Finding a small cave he called the wyvern to join him. Dressing out of his armor he hid it all under the wyvern and hid himself behind one of its wings. It would be so dark that even if someone found them they would not see them.
The day of the meeting.
Steel woke up once again. Wiped his armor down with some clothing he had taken off the Rune knights from the day before and once again equipped the armor but before doing so he stretched and did some morning yoga.
Then he moved out of the cave and called the wyvern to join him. He climbed on top of the wyvern and had it climb out of the ravine for him. He then flew the rest of the way to the Wistechian spire. By the time he arrived he was already an hour late. The wyvern landed in front of the spire twenty meters away from the nearest person who was not Steel.
Steel then got off the wyvern and moved forward. The wyvern quickly left the area when Steel got off it. Flying away into the distance. It was probably gonna go hunt for dinner.
Steel looked towards Odin and spoke
“Sorry I am late.” He threw the twenty some Rune knight insignias on the ground in front of the guilds leader before continuing speaking
“I had to deal with some unsavory company.” He then stood there and greeted any member of the guild that greeted him.
He then looked back to Odin
“Should we get this party started then?”