ROLEPLAY HQ - a-journey-into-the-desert

TW: language, sexual themes, volenice, more wil be add as they come up!

The world that this story is one that god and goddess exists. They are not out in the open and just walking around but they are real. Our story starts in the city of Adora. This city was one of great size and stature. It was a multilevel, stacked city. The different levels showed the status that the people who lived on those levels had. The lowest being the most pours and the highest being the king and queen of the city. The lowest part is where our main character will start. Character A is a thief and seller of unknown, unquie artifacts. They are waiting in their small shop stale in the 2nd tire of the city. The market was alittle slow at the moment. Suddenly there was a women that stood infront of the stall. She was cloaked in a dark hood and long cloak. The 2nd tier was one of the hottest tiers due to the heat that was created from the many different factories around the area. It would be very uncommon to have someone where this thick, hot, black cloak. She speaks in a calm but strong voice. “Hello…are you Valerie? I need your assistance…I am needing to have someone help me find a artifact that has been lost from me..” she says. She never looked up at the person in the stall. “I hear you are the best for this job..” she pulls out a sack of gold coins. “This is just a little taste of what you can get if you help me..” the coin would be worth the same as a year of work or more at the factories. “Will you help me?” She asks softly as she waits for a answer.

06:01

@ivette

Valerie has been an orphan and a delinquent since she could understand the world and the cards handed to her. From the beginning Valerie knew she was going to have to fight tooth and nail everyday for her basic needs. The hot middle level was unforgiving on her and her work. Though the misery of those around her made them easier to steal from, she had mastered the art of pickpocketing. Now that she had grown up in this cruel environment, it made her hard to the world. Trusting no one ever. Only herself could she really trust. This carried her to be able to have a store front in which she sold thing for pure profit, being that she didnt pay a dime to Acquire the things she had on display. she lived a mostly on her own barely speaking to anyone in a way that wasn’t strictly business. Her childhood friends had either betrayed her, been killed, or moved in station by marriage. Those friend suffered a different kind of hell that Valerie swore to never be apart of. After loosing her friends to the world she has to call home, she stayed only to herself, that all changed one day with a cloaked figure. Just like every other day Valerie was in her shop keeping things in order, her blond hair is tied back in a braid but there is a spike stripe braided into it. Her attention was pulled as a customer enters the room, immediately the stranger speaks Valerie’s name and her hair stands on edge. Though she is a hardened criminal so she gives no information to the stranger. The stranger speaks of a job and flashes a bag of gold that could help her more than a years worth of stealing and selling. “Where is the artifact you seek and how perilous is this task? Will you be accompanying on said task for this retrieval of your artifact?” Valerie’s voice is calm like she was asking about the weather. Her body language is also relaxed and leaned up against the front counter. Picture of calm, giving nothing away to the stranger in front of her. @💕Blue💕

(Poke @💕Blue💕 )

iuna looks at the women and smiles. She speaks in a hush tone as she says “the artifact is with a man that I use to trust. He stole it from me. The task should be simple as you just need to get the artifact back with or without him alive. I will be accompanying you as I can tell what is real and fake for my artifact.” Her voice was also calm and she leans in and lifts her head. Her golden eyes almost glow against her darker skin. “Now will you help me?” She says as she sets the coin bag down. She smiles at the women. Valerie would see that the women under her cloak, that is very warm, she is dressed in a white and gold outfit. Her skin had what looked to be gold flakes in it. The flakes are across her shoulders and high points of her body. Her eyes were glowing gold and they seemed almost out of place ok her darker skin. Her hair falling almost too perfectly against her face and down her back. She had gold in her hair as a ringlet was worn across her head. She had bands of gold on her wrist and even a plain simple gold necklace that seemed to stand out as..simple. @ivette

The cloaked figure reveals themselves to be a woman, this for some reason helps Valerie relax a small amount. Starting to believe that this isn’t a trap. Though the thing that throws her off is how well dressed the woman is. She has gold adorning her body all over, even in her hair and her skin. This woman was obviously rich, which begged the question of why she came to Valerie for such a task so important to obviously an upper level woman. This then informs Valerie that the upper levels have heard of her and the things she does to live. Meaning enforcers could arrive at anytime and take her to work in one of the foundries, that’s not an option for her.

07:15

“How do I know that you aren’t going to trick me? Or rob me? Why does someone with a class such as yours need a middy like me to get you this artifact? Don’t you have guards and people you could send?” Valerie needs these questions answered before she can give the answer whether or not to help the upper level woman. Though she will only ever admit to herself that she is slightly allured to the woman. Her beauty is unmatched on a level such as the one she’s lived on all of her miserable life. No she is everything you hate. She’s an upper level woman. You can’t think anything other than business so knock it off. After Valeries little pep talk to herself, she turns her eyes back to the woman waiting for an answer. @💕Blue💕

Iuna considered their words very purposefully.* “Yes, I am a woman of quite some means. And you are correct… I do have ‘people’… guards and such. But my business is my own, and this business doesn’t need to be privy to anyone else, is that clear? If I were to use ‘MY people’, as per your terms… well then that would mean individuals who I have an existing relationship of some kind would know about my needs and desires on the matter, and that won’t do. Do you know what will happen if you go and tell people what you have done for me? How you have managed to acquire this artifact, bested immense perils, all on the behalf of a wealthy and opulent member of the highest reaches of society? You will be laughed at, to your face. You could show them the fortune I will have paid you even. They will sooner assume you’d robbed a lending house or betting parlor, than had someone of my circumstance be engaged in business dealings with you. But we don’t have to worry about that do we? Because that’s another positive about this proposed scenario isn’t it? I am not just paying for you to risk life and limb… I am paying for your discretion. The additional insurance that even should you be successful, nobody would ever believe it, well that’s just bonus value to the package from my perspective. Look at it this way. You are right now having the most fortunate moment of your mediocre existence. Even if I were to kill you where you stood right now, it would still have been the most interesting thing that’s ever happened to you. So let’s no longer pretend that finding me in this state of immense need is not incredibly fortunate for you.”

@ivette

As the woman explains the situation Valerie is in, she considers her options and eventually figures out that going with woman on the adventure to find her stolen artifact is prosperous for both parties involved. No matter how much Valerie dislikes the woman’s kind, this one feels a little different to her. maybe she different…. I still don’t trust her. “Alright if I’m doing on this I need your name and where we are going. If I am to trust you and you me, then we need to be honest with one another. Does that make sense?” @💕Blue💕