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Dear Krait,
Can you read? because as a Scribe I’d like to introduce you to books.
Books are of course the best thing in the world and you definatly need to read some.
The last couple of days I’ve been searching for more leads about Bubbles, but no results at all. The Quaggans didn’t know anything, the Lionguard didn’t know anything and because of that I don’t know anything.
However I did find someone that new Storyteller’s adress and I was able to send the files I promised Sophiere to send him. I hope he likes it.
I’ll hand in the story to Muriseer in a couple of days, but for now I’ll take a break in Two Ters.
“One apple cider please”
((I hope this isn’t the end of this story. even though Bubbles’ story is done now, it still hasn’t ended yet for everyone.
I really enjoy doing this, but if it does end here I will round up my part too.
though if it does continue (even if it’s in another thread) I will continue too. I know I’m not the best writer, but I just like doing it too much.))
I’m in a bar in LA, I sigh. I told Sophiera I would give Storyteller a copy of the translation, but forgot I don’t know where he lives. Fortunatly the Lionguard have put a request wall in Lions Arch. They had enough of people putting posters everywhere and decided to make a general place to place request stuff. I put this short note over there:
I’m looking for Captain Storyteller.
If anyone has any clues as of where he might be, please contact me at Yerol.9546.
Still, it’s stupid that I promise something that I can’t do, sigh. After taking another drink I go to Rata Sum to find Chief Gliptr. I walk to the Asura gates and enter Rata Sum. I don’t really like this city: too many noisy golems and too much other technology around here. I prefer places that are somewhat calmer.
After asking around for a bit, I manage to find Chief Gliptr. I ask him how he met Bubbles.
“Who wants to know and why?” he asks. I tell him my name, that I’m a Scribe, and that I’m writing a book about her.
“Well, fine”, he says, “I don’t see why not.” He tells me how he and Bubbles met each other.
“hmm..” I say, “and how does, I mean did she look like?”
“Why do you want to know? you’re not one of those people who still thinks she’s allive, are you?”
“No, I want some pictures in my book. Some mermaid pictures, that’s why I need to know what she looked like.”
“You know, I liked that mermaid. If she were alive, I wouldn’t tell her – for her safety of course. But now she’s dead, it doesn’t matter anymore.”
Just what I thought: now that she’s dead, people don’t have to keep Bubbles secret anymore. I’m not going to tell anyone she’s alive. It’s a lot easier this way
He tells me what Bubbles looks like, but is unable to give me a lot of details.
“Can’t you be more specific?” I ask him.
“Do I look like I’ve got a lot of time to stare at peoples faces? No. As a peacemaker I’m always busy.”
“Thank you for your time.” I say and walk away.
After I found a quiet place I start drawing a picture of Bubbles using Gliptr’s information.
The drawing isn’t as helpfull as I hoped it would be. With the little information that Gliptr gave me, I’m only able to get a general idee of how she looks like. Well… at least it’s a good picture for the book, I guess. I won’t be able to identify her with only Gliptr’s info, that’s for sure.
((I actually drew a picture of Bubbles based on the picture based of this post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Warning-Buoy/page/2#post3201090.))
((my story continues a couple hours after I send Muriseer my letter)
I’m sitting in a room with Sophiera and her translator when someone knocks on the door. It’s a messenger from Muriseer, finally. He took his time to get here, it’s not that far. I walk to him and he gives me a package with a note attached to it:
Yerol Star,
here are the documents you asked for.
Muriseer.
I take the package and walk to a room where I can be alone, I wouldn’t want Sophiera or someone else finding out what’s in here. I want to open the package, but then I notice something. The seal stamp on the package is of. Normally we put our signature on the seal when we send something, but it’s missing here. I just hope that noone has opened it, it would do me no good if someone found out about my criminal activities.
I tell myself that Muriseer probably just forgot signing it and there should be no worries.
I open the package, pull out the files and start reading them, but stop quite fast. It’s late and I can never remember stuff when I’m tired. I put the Dossiers in my bag and start looking for a place to sleep. I find a Priory who guides me to the visitor rooms and go to bed.
I wake up, it’s quite late. I was planning on waking up early, but apparently I overslept.
I go to the translator’s room to see if they are done. When I walk into the room I see Sophiera reading something, the translator isn’t here anymore.
“Has the translator finished?”
She tells me he’s done and immediatly continues reading. It seems like she finds it very interesting.
I tell her I’m gonna get some breakfast and I would love to read it after. She nods vaguely but doesn’t stop reading. I don’t think she really heard what I said.
After I ate, I suddenly remember that yersterday I forgot to ask Sophiera how to repay her for her help. I buy her some hot choco and go back to Sophiera. She likes the hot choco, though she tells me she doesn’t want anything in return for her help. After that she gives me two copies of the translations and asks me if I want to give on to Captain Storyteller. I tell her I’ll do it and she leaves.
After reading the translation I realise I don’t have a clue what the mermaid looks like. How am I gonna find someone when I don’t even know what she looks like? After all mermaids look like ordinary humans if they want to. I get the Ash legion Dossiers from my bag and start reading them. Let’s see, who are or were are contacts. hmm.. ah this is usefull. Apparently she’s got a contact in Rata Sum called Chief Gliptr. He has met Bubbles, he knows what she looks like. I’ll go find him but first I will bring Storyteller his copy of the translation. I pack my stuff and leave the Priory, to Lions Arch.
WHAT’S THIS THREAD DOING, NOT ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE FORUMS?!
kicks it back in its proper place
Sorry Ma’am, working on it.
Give me a sec to make a drawing of Bubbles.
*edit I’ll release it tommorow, I’m a bit tired right now
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A letter to my leader Muriseer:
Hey Muriseer,
First here’s a quick summary of what has happend since I left to blast Midnight’s jail to pieces
I explain to my leader what has happend since I left the HQ.
The thing is, Bubbles could be alive! Could you send someone to bring me the stolen Dossiers? I want to look at Bubbles contacts to find out where she could be if she’s allive. I can’t pick them because Sophiera’s translator is working on some more books that could be really helpfull, though I don’t know how long it will take to translate them and I want to be here when he’s done.
Best wishes,
Yerol Star.
I think, ‘I should thank Sophiera for helping me so much,’ while walking to the store. ‘I wonder if I can do anything in return for her. You know what? I’ll ask her what I can do for her after I get a drink.’
I always like going to the Durmand Priory not only because everyone over there is really friendly, but mostly because it remainds me of previous adventures in de Priory. The Priory is the number one source of old history: if I want to know something about the past, you ask or steal info from them.
Ah, there it is already. I arrive at the Priory and start looking for Sophiera. I wonder what’s in that old text. I guess I will find out soon.
You need to message me for this stuff! Jaric and I had been discussing the escape via PMs before you even got explosives.
((Yeah, err… maybe I will do that next time. Problem was, I’ve never logged in my acount on the forum so I had to wait a few days before I can send private messages. (That’s also why I ‘ignored’ your private message.) And also it’s true I didn’t think of doing that.
And thx for the compliments, but fact is it’s still really hard for me.))
((Curse you for breaking her out, I wanted to do that
))
After Muriseer gave me some of Magg’s inventions and told me how to use it I went home to sleep. The next morning I was all excited and stuff about that day. Yay!! I can blow up a jail. I haven’t done that in a while, this will be a great day. Or so I thought.
I rushed to the asura gate to LA, carefully dodging all the sylvari in my way. (for some reason they never like it when you crash into them)
Once in LA I started looking for a good place to place my distractions. (“bombs” that release a poisenous-looking green smoke upon detonation.) I marked good places with little green flags put in the ground.
Ok, done. Now let’s go to Midnights cell to prepare her escape plan, though when I get to her cell I find out she’s not there anymore. Has she been moved? I quickly find out that she has escaped. The Vigil are keeping it secret to either prevent more panic or for their honour (I couldn’t find out which one), which is why I didn’t hear it before.
Dissapointed. Again. Why can I never have some luck.
I went to two-ters to eat lunch and about half-way trhough I got a message from Sophiera:
“Found some Old Krytan text referring to a mermaid. Meet me at the Priory HQ.”
So I sent a message back saying I was going there ASAP and left to go meet her
((note: sometimes I wish English was my native language, I spend more time looking for the right words then actually writing stuff))
Yerol…..your eyes are scary…..
o.o;;
Lol, they aren’t meant to be scary.
No one cared about me. Not the Lionguard, not ‘so-called’ friends, and certainly not any one of the many heroic, adventuring, good-hearted souls that frequented Lion’s Arch in its time of need. I was alone.
I hate being alone.
AWW, you’re story is so sad.
Chin up, it could be worse. At least you’re not underwater as a krait-slave.
oh.. wait wrong example.
anyhow does anyone know how to get rid off angry chickens?
I’m at the Scribes HQ, I just read the stolen Dossiers for the thirt time now, why are there no kitten new leads in here. Even though i know now all about the kraits share in the story, and I don’t think Noir the potion seller will be a lot of help. These files point me in the direction of Midnight, or Anakyshia as she’s apperantly called.
Midnight again, it seems like she has a big share in this tale, It’s a shame she’s in prison though.
I guess I have to-
Suddenly the door to my room opens disturbing my toughts, it’s the guild leader Muriseer. She seems a bit agitated.
“I want to have a report on your mermaid project please” The charr smiles, “don’t lie, you know I’m a living lie-detector”.
I tell her about my recent activities, after a while she interupts me.
“how many times I have to tell you to NOT use other Scribes for your research,” she talks really calm, but everyone could see she’s dead serious. “Only in emergencies you’re allowed to ask help from a diffrent Scribe. Continue your story”
I continue my story, when I get to the part where I destroy my Potion, she suddenly looks angred. I stop talking, nervously waiting for Muriseer to say something but she signs to me continue my story.
I finish talking, and look at Muriseer. OH CRAP she’s angry, that’s bad. It’s really bad.
“YOU DESTROYED THE SECRET CAT POTION?” she shouts.
“But I had to, to keep it secret,” I defended.
“NO, you did not. You could have PRETENDED to destroy it.”
“Don’t forget how much it cost you to get the recipe, it’s not something you can just throw away”
I sigh, “how could I ever forget that.”
She seems somewhat calmer now.
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. I will go collect some materials for you if you want, but I guarantee your purse will be a lot lighter when I’m done.”
I tell her I would love it if she did that for me. It’s a really time-consuming task and I just don’t like collecting.
“Now about Midnight. You said you wanted to speak to her, didn’t you?”
I start smilling, I know where this is going: our usually aproach when someone’s in prison. thankfull people == informative people
Muriseer starts thinking: “The vigil outpost in LA. hmm…. that’s hard.”
I ask, “Do you think you haven’t got the right equipment?”
“No, I learned from the best. Follow me I’ve got one of Magg’s special tricks that’s perfect for this task.”
I follow her to our explosive stockpile………..
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((The following part is backstory about the Scribes and about myself ))
The Scribes
The Scribal Crew is the biggest organisation of scribes in Tyria. It was founded around the same time as the Durmand Priory in 1105 AE. The Scribal Crew is well known for their fantastic, well detailed stories about heroïc deeds and adventures.
At first the founders wanted to give everyone free acces to their books, though they quickly got money trouble and decided to sell the books instead.
It was a great decison: they sold books faster then the Scribes could write/copy them.
The main reason the books were and still are such a succes is because everything in the books has really happend. The Scribes check all stories and gather their information themself; most people don’t know how they get their information…
At first glance it seems like a ‘normal’ orginazation, but not all is what it seems. The list of all illegal things the Scribes have done is too big to enumerate, Scribes aren’t affraid of breaking the law to get the information they want. Scribes rarely get caught, but if they do they are on their own.
About me
I’m a male sylavari called Yerol Star, I was ‘born’ in 1310 AE. When I was a young sylvari I read a lot of books. books about heroïc adventures. I wanted that too, I wanted adventures of my own. If I want to have adventures, I thought, then I need to learn how to fight. It didn’t went well. learning how to fight on your own doesn’t work.
I found a mentor called Thyoblak, who learned me how to attune to the different elements. He tought me how te rain deadly fire on enemies and heal allies using water.
When I was ready to go on an adventure I kept hesitating to actually go. I never wanted to go as I had no clue what to do. I needed a purpose.
One day an asuran Scribe got to the Grove to do some research. He also asked me some questions, I couldn’t help him but was interested in what he did. I invited him for a drink and talked with him for while. I decided I wanted to join the Scribes to find my Wyld Hunt through the stories and deeds of others.
It was even better then I thought and some things I was “allowed” to do were even better then the story I worked on.
Now I’m one of the best Scribes there are. I’ve found my adventure, though I still haven’t found my wyld hunt.
I’m Yerol Star,
And this is my story.
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After the drink with Titan I went home too give the Dossiers a closer look. When I open my door, I find a note:
Yerol Star,
Midnight is in LA she’s in vigil holding, you wanted to see her right?
Best whishes,
Duma.
I rushed to LA to try convince the vigil warmaster, but he wouldn’t let me.
If only I still had my Mystery Potion, I could sneak past everyone, but I just had too destroy it.
I’ll try again tommorow, now I’m going back home to read the Dossiers.
((Redekitten tried to “copy” you for a bit, 1. make a short post and 2. put some text on the images. Tell me how do you do it? I improvised a bit
))
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I just made a few small adjustments to my last posts. and added a screenshot.
I didn’t say everything the way I meant it.
“you want to do what!?,” shouted the charr, “I hope I didn’t hear that right.”
“Yes Chris Titan, you heard me. I want to infiltrate the Ash legion.”
“But how?,” he asked, “they will see you’re a sylvari.”
“Let me worry about that, you just go get your permission to see the ‘mermaid’ reports,” I said. He left and told me that it he would be back in two hours.
Titan, the charr who still owes me one, is highly trusted in the char ranks. He’s one of the few people who can acces those files.
I hope my plan will work like I planned.
2 hours is a long time to wait, espacially when you’re about to do something illegal. It’s a long time to think. The longer you think, the more nervous you get. And I already was really nervous. Not because I think my plan won’t work, not because I’m going to do something illegal.
I’m nervous because I am going to use my secret potion. I’ve used it before and it’s absolutely safe, that’s not it. I never had to show it to anybody before. there are only two other people who know about it.
I can’t stand the wait, how long has he been gone 1 hour?, 30 minutes? I don’t know.
I can’t stop thinking about the risks of someone finding out about my secret potion. What if he tells anyone? What if the Whisperers find out? The Whispers won’t hesitate to steal it from me. I can’t let that happen!
I get an idea, if the truth is too dangerous, lies are your best friends.
After an agonizing wait Titan finally gets back, he asks me how I plan to get in. I reach in my pocket and grab my Secret potion. I tell him that it has been made by powerfull magic a powerfull mesmer, and can only be used twice before it becomes a powerfull poison. Unfortunatly the mesmer can’t make it again, because she was killed because of this potion.
“but what does it do?,” he asks. I open the bottle and drink a little bit. I quickly close the bottle again and put it in my pocket. after a few seconds I transform into.. a cat. An ordinary cat.
It’s a powerfull potion that makes me miauw like a cat (even though I still don’t know what it means), look like a cat, and even smell like a cat. It’s almost undetectable. Almost. But ash won’t expect it, it will be fine.
Titan immediatly understands what I want. As a cat… No, as HIS cat, I can follow him to the Vault where Ash keeps their dossiers and copy them.
As we arrive at the Vault we sea a charr guarding the door. Titan shows his papers and we go in. An Blood legion soldier brings us to a magic-shielded door, the Blood soldier opens it for us, and brings the Dossiers I wanted to see. He then leaves the room and locks us in.
I transform back in my sylvari form and take a look at the Dossiers infront of me. I see that two diffrent agents are involved: Kyra Nightspark and Kraag Deadsoul. I’m surprised to see that last name, I met him once. We worked on a story together, though he never told me he was Ash legion. I didn’t expect that from him.
Anyway, I need to do something; I quickly start copying the Dossiers, writing down the most important information. When I’m done I drink a bit Secret potion again to become a cat again. Titan knocks on the door three times, that means we want to leave, and the Blood soldier opens the door. YES, I did it. I infiltrated the Charr, now lets leave quick.
Back at titans home I become transform back to normal. “Titan, can I use a powerfull incinerator?” I ask, “I need to destroy my Secret potion, its undrinkable now and very dangerous.”
“Sure”
He brings me to a powerfull iron legion destroyer-thiny (I couldn’t hear correct how he called it). I throw my secret potion in the destroyer. “CRAP”, whoops did I just shoot that?
“What’s up?” Titan asks.
I think: ‘it is because I just threw away a powerfull potion. I have the recipe, but the ingredients to make are as rare as they get. Now I can’t use it anymore. WHY didn’t I think of that before I did this’
But I tell him: “it’s nothing.”
“Let’s go celebrate our succesfull mission, you want some apple cider?’
“You pay, saladface”
((EDIT I changed a few things that I didn’t say how I meant it. + added a screenshot))
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((I love this topic!!
I hope you like what I write, because i’ve never done something like this. I just thought: you never know if you like something/ are good at something if you don’t try it. and that’s why I started writing here.
Further: eventhough my character sorta likes it that Bubbles is dead (for the books at least), I’m sitting here hoping that Bubbles is still alive somhowe. (I make up stuff like mermaids might have regen powers underwater, but i know it’s probably not true)
I’m just gonna make some screenshots and then write something.))
As expected my investigation in LA didn’t went well. Nobody had a clue where Bubbles body was. One person recognized me from my first investigation and told me he had seen captain Storyteller recently. He didn’t know much, though it’s nice to hear that he hasn’t vanished.
I went back to the headquaters to see what my investigators found out. Stan was unfortunatly onsuccesfull. The only connection Stan could find out was that the Asura wanted to catch Bubbles. I knew that already. Duma told me that the priory wanted Bubbles body too, but wasn’t really involved a lot. The vigil didn’t seem to care about the mermaid, (ofcourse they don’t, it’s a military organisation. I still wanted to know for sure anyway)
Only Anivia could get me some good info. She had found out that Ash legion has got some agents on it, but she couldn’t acces the files as the clearence level was too high for her.
I have to know what’s in those files! I guess it’s time to call in a favor. I walk to my desk and open secret drawer with a key. The only thing in the drawer is a mysterious potion. I put it in my pocket and reseal the drawer.
It’s time to go to the Black Citadel. I smile, even the Order of Whispers doesn’t know about my secret potion.
((the following events take place immediatly after i sent my letter to sophiera))
I left my house in the grove and went to the headquarters of my guild. On the way over there I heard some people talk about the mermaid, I couldn’t really hear what they were saying because i was on a hurry. It had something to do with someone dying. had she killed someone? I thought. well, it’s not important right now.
Anyhow, I got to my guildhal really soon. I wanted to sent some people to find Storyteller, but then I rememberd what Berno told me: “it’s more complicated then you think. First try to find out how many people have connection with Bubbles, before you can continue your story.”
I decided to follow up on that hint and gathered some lower-ranked investigators:
-“Duma, you’ve got connection with the vigil and the priory. go look what they know,” I told her.
-“Stan, you’ve got some asura, norn and human friends, right? can you ask them for info?”
-“Anivia, you’re ash legion. Anything charr know, ash knows too. Go look for connection with ash.”
After explaining a bit more about their tasks they went out to start investigate.
If only I could get agents in the Order of Whispers too, but they are too carefull. Stupid
Whisperers. They have to be involved! I just wish I knew how to infiltrate it and steal their information.
Not long after I sent my investigators, I got a reply from Sophiera.
Hmm… it’s a shame that Bubbles is dead, I was hoping to get a chance to talk with her. On the other hand, it does make the story a lot better. People love reading tragedy’s and now that’s it over the information gathering will be a lot easier because there is no longer a need to keep it secret.
I’m going to LA to try and find out were the mermaid’s body is and find some witnessess of the murder. I hope I’m lucky today.
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I wake up, it’s a great morning to investigate: not a lot of sun, it might go rain. The perfect conditions, as most people will stay home or go to bars and talk.
I read Sophiera’s letter, where she explains to me about her connection with midnight and Bubbles. Onfortunatly I’m still missing some information. As a scribe I want to write each story as good as possible so i start writing my letter.
Dear Sophiera,
Thank you for your information about Midnight, Bubbles and other events. I’m writing you because I want to know some more about your thoughts. First, What do you think about the mermaid. Evil or Good? Second, how do you know midnight and why did you want to find her? What is your opinion about all these events?
I hope to hear form you soon.
Best wishes,
Yerol Star.
I got a message from Sophiera really fast after I asked here for more information. It was really helpfull.
I am sending a message to my leader now, showing Sophiera’s and my own info, now she really can’t disallow continuation on this story.
Tomorrow I will read the info from Sophiera again, because right now i’m too tired too remember anything. (note to self: contact my netwerk for info tomorow morning, I HAVE to now where Captain Storyteller and the mermaid are.)
((i’m a sylvary ;D))
Sometimes I hate it to be a scribe, why did i ever become one. I could have been an explorer, but no I chose to be a scribe. It’s not that I don’t like being one, I just hate it when my research gives me almost no results:
The first person says that the mermaid is evil, and tries to destroy all ships,
the second person explains how the mermaid only tries to help, and that she’s innocent,
then the next person tells me she’s an evil witch that tries to destroy ships with meteors.
And don’t ask her what she looks like: everyone claims to have seen her, though nobody gives me the same answer (one person even said it was a man with a beard).
The only information I have right now is:
- her name is Bubbles
- nobody knows where she is and everyone claims to have seen her
- it seems like Storyteller’s wife: Laura Joy is now after the mermaid too, witnessess reported a discusion between Storyteller and Laura Joy
- something about a singing karka? (what the hell do they mean with that?)
I’m a scribe; I don’t give up easilly and inventiually I find someone called Berno that has some information.
Berno tells me about the guild [FISH] and how they are all trying to help Bubbles. After chatting some more, I learn that:
Captain Storyteller isn’t hunting Bubbles anymore (why haven’t i heard this yet?), there have been sightings of asuran engineers that were probably after the mermaid and that a lot of people are in the hospital because of fake mermaid potions.
I thank him for his information and ask him to mail me if he has any more info. “Maybe I will,” he answers. I ask him where he got his info, he smiles, he walks away and tells me: “it’s more complicated then you think. First try to find out how many people have connection with Bubbles, before you can continue your story.”
I wonder, why is it so complicated? and who else is searching for Bubbles?
hmm… Sophiera wants a genuine mermaid potion, right? I will contact her; she must know something.
I do hope she will help me; I don’t want to use my netwerk, at least, not until I am 100% sure it’s not a hoax.
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I arrived at Two-Ters really quick, and decided to wait for Captain Storyteller.
After waiting several hours, he still didn’t show up. I asked the barman if he knew where captain Storyteller went. He told me that he heard that Storyteller went to investigate the broken ligthhouse lamp. He hasn’t been seen since. He also told me that there are rumours about a connection between the krait and the mermaid.
-this story gets better and better, my leader will HAVE to allow me to continue this story.-
I will continue my investigation in LA, to find new leads about the location of Storyteller and the mermaid, the involvement of the krait, and find other connected people I can interview.
Pfff, being a scribe can be boring sometimes. It’s nice to record heroic deeds and write books about them, but the information gathering can be really, really boring.
I have been been in the grove for four hours now, but still no leads.
It’s a stupid story anyway: a sylvari who fought some nightmare court to get her man back. Who is interrested in such a uneventfull story anyway? but my guild leader, the leader of the Scribal Crew [Crew], insisted that I HAD to check this story.
sigh let’s try in LA, maybe i can get some clues over there.
Not long after I enter LA, i see some posters: “Will pay 5 gold to the first person who sells me a genuine ‘Mermaid Potion’ " and “Evil mermaid wanted, bring her alive”.
I suddenly get really excited, I start thinking can the rumours be true?, I know everyone in LA has been talking about it for a while, tough I never believed it. It has been going on for a while now, and even if it’s not true it will be a great story.
I have to find the mermaid and everyone else involved! I’m not going to pick a side, that never works so well when trying to write a story. No I have to interview everyone to get their own opinions and storys.
After asking around for a bit, I find out that Captain Storyteller was the first one to notice the mermaid, and he can often be found in a inn called “Two-Ters”. I start running, hoping to find him there.
This will be a great story, let’s just hope my guild leader doesn’t find out i disbanded my other story.
((note: I became a scribe in this story because i am a member of [CREW] and that guild has excisted already before this story already ))
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