Meandering the streets, lost and confused (open, social)

Reku Yukita · September 23, 2008, 06:29 PM

Timestamp: Early morning on the 25th of Cryxatum PF Era XV

Reku had lost his brother to the crowd. No, he had lost everything. He was meandering the streets of this colossal city, free from his oppressors, but caged by his anxiety.

His light brown eyes continuously looked at the ground, looking for the tracks among the dozens that were his brothers, the brother who had run ahead. He had fallen hard when he lost his brothers support, both at the gate litterially, and when he couldn't catch up, figuratively.

No we was meandering along, cursing himself for having such crude tracking skills, wishing he had milked the orcs who taught him for more information before he killed them.

And so he walked on and on, eyes cast down, mumering to himself. To timid to ask someone for help.

Lyssoryl · September 23, 2008, 06:55 PM

"Did you lose something?" A voice interupted Reku's concentration, and looking up he noticed a very small blonde girl with masses of golden curly hair and large gray eyes watching him. She stood exactly 3 feet tall, and wore no shoes, obviously a Cether.

"If you've lost something, I would gladly help you find it. As you can see I am closer to the ground than you human folks, and my eyesight is keen."

Deln · September 23, 2008, 06:57 PM

Deln had absolutely no idea what he was doing.

The young feline looked down into his notebook as he went along, wondering what he told himself to do.

Find a job.

Oh, wonderful. Where was good for the lone tiger?

Possibilities:
Book-keeping
Manual labor (Ugh)

He smiled at his side note as he walked along, his focus down on his notebook leaving little sense available to notice his path wandering into a potential collision course with the two nearby - possibly straight into the back of Reku.

Reku Yukita · September 23, 2008, 07:07 PM

Reku continued looking down at the tracks and grunted in surprise as a small full grown looking child blocked his view of the ground, locking eyes with him. One of the reasons he preferred looking at the ground, was that he never had to look at anyone else, never had to really interact. It usually was enough of a sign to have them leave him alone.

He could spend more time looking at tracks as well, which was the one thing he truely enjoyed doing.

He had no more than a moment to be surprised by the little woman, than when a nother surprise hit him, litterally. A rather large furball had knocked him over.

He lay background on the ground dazed, waiting for the beating he would normally recieve, eyes closed. After a few moments he opened them to see the cethar still there, along with the furbal.

He gave them a confused look, but stayed silent. Where he came from making unsesisary noises resulted in beatings... or worse. He just continued to look up at them for several moments, before looking down again.

Maybe if he ignored them, they would go away, afterwhich he would get up and get back to what he was doing. He had completely forgoten what the cethar had said, and hadn't even paid much attention. Perhaps if she repeated herself, she would have been heard.

Sima Esaka · September 23, 2008, 08:03 PM

Sima was busy trawling the streets for sights of interest and opportunity, something that came best with a practiced eye. And such an eye only came with practice, so that is what he was doing.

He came across the commotion and his curiosity was instantly peaked, it almost sounded like a joke. A kemite, a katta and a cether bump into each other on the street...

Walking up to them, hands on hips, he grinned at them all. "Well, what do we have here? Are these two bothering you my clumsy friend?" He addressed as if to Reku and Deln, if only to add confusion to the day.

Reku Yukita · September 23, 2008, 08:15 PM

Reku cocked his head at the new Kermite who entered the mix. So much attention focused on him was not what he wanted. He slowly picked himself up, and dusted off his knees. He then bent down and looked at the tracks. He saw they were his brothers, bouncing around as always.

He quickly forgot the others and did one of the things he did best, track. He held up his finger to see which way the wind blew, the began slowly following the trampled on tracks. They were extremely hard to read, with all the foot trafic, but there was a mark on his brother shoe, so he would always know what to follow.

He began slowly moving forward ignoreing the people around him, beging to mumble to himself again. If the others cared to follow he wouldn't notice, if they inturupted his concentration... now that would be interesting.

Deln · September 23, 2008, 08:27 PM

Deln had uttered an 'oof!' when he ran into Reku. Fortunately, he had not lost his balance; blessed be his Katta blood and tail.

"Erm..." Was the next thing that came out of his mouth when he stared at the human on the ground, quickly closing his notebook and setting the lock in place. He held it up underneath his chin, not sure what to say to the man, a glance spared towards the halfling as he finally noticed her presence, but nothing said to her.

When the Kermite came along, he looked up and blinked, wondering why he was addressed in such a manner. Since he did not know the man, he assumed he was talking to the person he had just knocked over. "...sorry?" Was finally said quietly as Reku stood himself up.

The Katta made no move to go on his way, just watching the human start off on his tracking and weird finger licking.

Jin Yukita · September 23, 2008, 08:35 PM

Jin after wondering around a few hours he lost his brother and he wouldn't forgive himself he dishonored him again. He muttered a Silent curse as he looked at the ground for tracks of his brother. He silently cursed himself for not listening to the tracker Orc. Though he did learn Climbing from it and that is how he killed the Orc. The rope supposedly 'snapped' under the weight of the Orc. He put his full concetration on his tracking skills which was almost none. He continued asking around when he decided to ask someone if they have seen him. He found an older Kemite and asked in Kemite "Have you seen someone that looks exactly like me but longer hair?" The kemite looked puzzled and said in Kemite "I have not young one." Jin bowed respectfully and continued his search.

Sima Esaka · September 23, 2008, 08:52 PM

The situation only grew in it's total lack of manners and social propriety as it went on. A man sucked on his finger, a katta stumbled clumsily through his words and the Cether... well, Cether's were short. Surely she should apologise for her height at some point? It hurt his neck to always looked down in such a way.

Sima pulled a face to the other two as if to say 'why not' before dancing his way infront of Reku and scowling. "What is this all about, did you have knock on the head?"

Reku Yukita · September 23, 2008, 09:03 PM

Reku smiling, had gone a few yards forward over the several minutes of differentiating footprint from footprint. This smile quickly turned to a frown when all his work was for not. He had two footprints that looked like his brothers going in two different directions. He was almost done choosing one when a pair of feet danced infront of him and threw the dirt that kept them in form in the air, making both of the prints indicernable. It would now take atleast 50 minutes to go up both paths to decern which one was which.

A low growl and a small roar rippled from the Kermites mouth as he pulled himself up and swung widely at the other kermit. "Why would you do that you freakish orcish scum!!!" he knew he would miss but that was not the point.

"I Have LOST MY BROTHER AND AM TRYING TO FIND HIM!!!" he bellowed at his opponent. "You ruined the tracks!!!" he pointed down at the set of displaced footprints. He looked around mid day would come soon which meant more foot traffic and too many different tracks to use. The tracks he had followed so far seemed to glow about them to him, but only him. To the normal eye, it would just look like dirt.

He threw another punch, then pulled his long hair, stamping on the ground. The fools! He needed his brother, needed him! He needed to show that he could make up for bringing the orcs to his family, he needed to prove himself and these fools were ruiing it.

He spat at the ground and turned accusingly at the other people following him. "And what are you fools doing! Care to jump us when we ruinite! I have no money, no visa, no family!" he turned out his empty pockets. "By the clan of my father what the underworld do you want!"

He threw a punch at the furball who knocked him over. In his mind these three were starting to look like orcs.... and he hates orcs.

He would then intend to go back to the tracks, unless something stopped him.

Sima Esaka · September 23, 2008, 09:21 PM

Sima starred, surprised by the sudden outburst. The man was attempting to find his brother in the dirt, of all places. He would have no luck there, Sima began to say so but the man seemed especially enraged as he let out a scream and came at Sima with a wild punch.

Sima was certainly not freakish Orcish scum, and just to prove his point he moved immediately into a combat set. Torso pivoting to avoid the blow as his hands snaked out to grab at Reku's flying limb and pull foward just as his knee came up and attempted to welcome the soft belly of this mad man. And to finish it off, if he crumpled as Sima expected to happen, he would strike an elbow into the back of the man's head.

If succesful, Sima would probably say something witty. Like "If your brothers in the dirt, don't be so hasty to join him."

Deln · September 23, 2008, 09:28 PM

Deln was taken aback at the reactions that took place, having absolutely no idea what the established Kemite was going to do before he did it - and cause an angry outburst.

The Katta's eye's widened when Reku yelled, a grown man screaming being quite intimidating for the short feline, stepping back warily and holding his book over his mouth.

He felt fortunate to have stepped back, wondering that if he had been closer when the first punch was thrown... would he have been victim as well?

Such a thought was only a split second, when the other man reacted accordingly.

A cringe took over the Katta's features, one eye half closed and head turned to the left slightly, teeth clenched and lips parted open slightly. "Oooo... ouch..."

As for why the cat even stayed where he was for those few minutes of silence, he had nothing better to do...

Reku Yukita · September 23, 2008, 09:42 PM

If Reku had one skill above all others he could take a hit. There were a few benefits of being a slave for an Orc, and that is you get tough. Really tough.

Regardless there was a lot of force in that knee to the stomach. As the hit came instead of crumpling forward, he went backwards, away from the pain, the fists, the kicks.

He rooled backwards into a ball, and growled again as he stood up, holding his gut, and using his other hand to ward off any more attacks, on it showed a brand, burnt on his skin like one would cattle. "Ignorant fool!" he spat at the other mans feet, then laughed, a bit of fire in his eyes. These people were looking more and more like orcs. "You don't even know what a track is! even the orcs that held me knew that."

He moved forward toward the tracks again cursing under his breath many different types of profanity. He bent down toward one again and realized how lucky he was, it was the symbole on the shoe. He moved forward again, blocking the pain, thinking only of his mission. Caring not for the others words, they were ignorant fools, who knew nothing of importance, Scum who picked on the weak.

Sima Esaka · September 23, 2008, 09:52 PM

Sima raised his eyebrow at the man, as if scolding a child. He followed along Reku's side, keeping a slight distance and shooting glances to the poor Katta who seemed more shocked than anything else.

"I know what a track is, but I'm not the fool. You're in a city of thousands of people. You'll never find him looking in the dirt. Ask one of the Vermillion to put the word out you're looking for your lost brother your crazy fool."

Sima understood now, the man wasn't crazy. Just an ignorant savage. He rubbed at his chin, thinking. If he had no visa, he wasn't a citizen. Which meant he could quite easily subdue the fellow and sell him into slavery. Would his father approve such a thing?

Jin Yukita · September 23, 2008, 09:57 PM

Just as Jin heard a scream of rage a crowd came out of now where blocking his view. Jin became angry as he recognized his brother's voice. He started pushing people aside trying to get to the scene and see what was happening. Once he got there he seen another kemite standing over his brother. He walked forward with his fist balled and tapped the kemite on the shoulder and if he looked he would throw a punch at his face then throw kick at him. Once he was done he would tap his brother on the shoulder and wait for him to look.