> Dezias & Eresna: Encounter cursed item
RT: u godda help me- my kismesis is gon & i can’d fint dem
Dezias should have asked for more information when he responded to the fern-green text contacting him about a job. Sure, the greenblood gave him enough information to find their missing blueblood quadmate, but the details on why exactly the blueblood was missing were...lacking. Technically, Dezias didn’t need to know about that for his psionics to work, but there had been some weird gossip of late on the city streets...
The gangly troll consulted the crinkled map of high-town. He himself stood on the border between where the lowbloods mingled and the mid and high bloods cavorted. It wasn’t any sort of physical barrier, but he knew the city enough to see the subtle cues. The pavement was a little flatter, a little neater- most stains scrubbed away and nearly unnoticeable if not for the rusts and golds stuck in the cracks. Gaudy banners draped swooping archways and he could hear some seadweller splashing noisily in the fountain around the corner. Supposedly the missing blueblood had a favorite haunt here, marked handily on the map in his hand. The map in his head, though, showed the lost troll elsewhere.
“What ‘re yu doin’ by th cliffs?” he muttered between two thick jutting fangs. In his mind’s eye, a blip wandered towards the east, which put him near the bluffs on the edge of the city. It was a bit of a trek, but Dezias knew a way with minimal fuss. The yellow-blood shoved the map back into the pocket of his much patched pants and began to scale the building nearest to him, hands finding holds and arms pulling him up until he reached the rooftop.
From there he began running, hopping across gaps and speeding up and over outcroppings and sculptures, following the pull of his powers. Unfortunately, those same powers did not account for the actual landscape, and instead of a solid path of rooftops, there was a heap of rubble. Dezias lingered on the edge before shrugging, climbing down from the roof, and taking a seat in front of the rubble in bemusement.
“Huh.”
