Video | 01

[kings_thief]

[The video showed a young man sitting outside and, if the background was anything to go on, he was on a roof somewhere. It was familiar for him, he'd grown used to sitting on the roofs to gather his thoughts in the last city he'd been in.

He'd done his exploring, he'd gotten acclimated to how this network device worked, and now it was time to use it.

He didn't expect to find anyone here who knew him, there hadn't been anyone last time, and even if there was someone here he knew, there was no guarantee they'd know him. He knew how this worked.]

Hey, is there any call for defense agents in this town? Um..something like a police officer mixed with a soldier would be my best way of explaining it.

[There was never much call for treasure hunters in the places he went to, and publicly offering reconnaissance defeated the purpose, so he had to fall back on his more recently learned skills.]

I'm looking for a job. Oh...my name. Sorry, I'm Locke Cole. Pleased to meet you all.

[He needed to keep himself busy or he was going to loose it.]

Comments

[greyerrant]

There is always a call for warriors.

[kings_thief]

Well...dunno if I'd call myself a warrior, but I'm willing to do what I can.

[greyerrant]

Find the Swords then.

[kings_thief]

'The Swords?' Sorry, but, what is that?

[greyerrant]

A security organization of sorts, I believe.

[kings_thief]

Okay, sounds good to me. Any idea where I should look?

[greyerrant]

Keep your eyes open on the COMP, I'm sure someone will mention them shortly.

[kings_thief]

Alright. Thanks.

[greyerrant]

You are welcome.

[Text - Filtered - Anon]

[getoutclaus]

Just curious so I thought I'd ask;

Say somebody needed some extra muscle to, I dunno, guard something, crack some heads, do some heavy lifting, stuff like that.

Could they hire you?

[Text - Filtered ]

[kings_thief]

If that was the job, I could do any of that, sure.

[text - not anon this time - still filtered forever]

[getoutclaus]

Sweet.

Just thought I'd make sure; can't be too careful in the big city, especially when you don't have any experience with this whole magic and demons bullshit. You understand that much, right?

I'm Santa, nice to meetcha.

[text]

[kings_thief]

I understand. It's nice to meet you, Santa

Is there something you wanted me to do specifically, or was this a 'for future reference' thing?

[text]

[getoutclaus]

For future reference only, so no need to worry just yet.

If I do ask you for help then you can start to worry.

Kidding. It wont be anything crazy or way out there haha!

[Half truths everywhere.]

[text]

[kings_thief]

No worries about that, I'm pretty used to the crazy and out there.

[You know, as long as it wasn't killing someone for no reason..]

[text]

[getoutclaus]

It's not like I'm gonna ask you to cut someones head off or some crazy shit like that, right?

...Gotta ask since you mentioned it, though, what kinda crazy shit are you used to?

[text]

[kings_thief]

Well, that's a relief.

Monsters, magic, the supernatural, crime...a lot of things.

This is not the first 'world' I've been to, so I've seen quite a lot.

[text]

[getoutclaus]

Well I got experience with the latter two and almost experience with the first two. Almost. Figurativley speaking, though.

Santa's seen some shit, Cole.

[annnnd he just made the connection of Santa and coalin his head]

[text]

[kings_thief]

Figuratively speaking?

[How does that even work?

Luckily, Locke will miss all of these connections ever.]

[text]

[getoutclaus]

Don't think about it too hard; it's just the attempts of a punk ass kid trying to wax lyrical on his boring past.

There were people, they were assholes, almost monster like in their nature.

Probably not what you meant, right?

[Though he leaves that magic mumbo jumbo thing up in the air.]

[text]

[kings_thief]

No, but I know what you mean and, sometimes, those types are worse.

[Kefka was 100x worse than a lot of the monsters he'd faced.]