[After early morning recruitment of banging (likely cheap, decoy) pans together outside Juza's room, Soren and his bonded are out doing shopping. Now that Soren was steady in his work with the Wilders, he wanted the house kept at full stock. No expense spared! Good food, snacks, drinks, everything! That's how the palace of Katolis was, so that's how his kingdom should be]
Check this out, Juza, [as they're walking between shops, Soren produces an impressive pearl from his satchel of cunes]got this from a quest last month. Was a total pain in the butt to get a hold of, decided I'd just keep it. You know, instead of turning it in. Pretty sweet, right?
Oh, nothing special! Just boated out into some remote lake, fought with a ghost, got this as loot. The usual. [difficult to tell if he's be facetious or not, but the answer is yes. He's being very flippant on the point of how, in his mind, not important!]
Skip over that part. What do you think I should do with it? Selling it didn't seem worth the trouble. Probably like wicked magic, huh?
It's just gotta be magic! [said a bit too loud for the grocery store they enter. Soren quiets down just a little.]
Why would it be worth protecting if it's just a pretty rock thing? Seems awful lame. It must do something or have a, a purpose to it. I don't know much about this stuff...
Yeah, yeah... all people do that, right? But that's because it's like valuable. What would a ghost care about that? Dead people don't need money. [soooo, magic! Gotta be magic. He's already long convinced]
I've mostly kept it in this bag... haven't noticed anything with it in there. Maybe we could ask someone. Who would know about magic pearls?
[chime in, some nearby Fae, with a twitch of attentive antennae! "A pearl? Oh, pearls are bad luck! You should give that to someone right away!" And so... the pearl begins to glow, quite vibrantly at that! The Fae's eyes bulging, "See! Curse thing, that is, probably cursed by that ghost! Give it to me, I'll get rid of it for you-"]
I already have bad luck, pal. [Soren scolds the Fae, as if that's somehow something that should be abundantly clear to a stranger]
Beat it, I'm not falling for something like that. [he'll fall for other things, but not that! The Fae attempts to interject again but Soren talks over him with a "Buh-buh-buh-!" and the monster rolls their eyes before fluttering off in huff.
The pearl, mysteriously, not glowing anymore...]
What do you think that means, huh? Bad luck... talking to that guy was bad luck!
Yeah, no way. Probably just hoping to get something for free... [and Soren is aware he looks like (and is) a (sometimes) thoughtless frat boy. At least Juza is around to have some better sense from time to time. Reminds him of traveling with Claudia. Sibling solidarity!]
Urg, that annoyed me. I want something good to eat! This place has a bakery, let's get something.
Why? The bakery is right here. [it's in the market they walked into! There's a counter and it smells delicious and there's soooo many pastries lined up for the morning rush. Perfect for breakfast!]
Right!? I'm glad I didn't sell it off, how cool is this? [now people can't take him to for a sucker- well... not without outsmarting this rock. Which may or may not be difficult, Soren doesn't know. Still, it's better than his sense of lying, he's an all too trusting guy in most cases.]
Oh, man, I could like, get it embedded into a sword hilt! Then if I strike someone down, it's all righteous. [Soren, no, roll it back a bit- too intense!]
In a... [That's too much, Soren.] Won't it be easier if you just have it on a bracelet or somethin'? Ain't it rude to have a weapon sometimes? Nobody's gonna be worried about a bracelet.
A bra- That's so much less cool! There's gotta be something better than that for it. [and knowing Soren's bad luck, it could probably just get stolen off his wrist... or he'd misplace it himself]
I'd put it on a ring, but it would look like I got married! Bleh.
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Early Sept
Check this out, Juza, [as they're walking between shops, Soren produces an impressive pearl from his satchel of cunes]got this from a quest last month. Was a total pain in the butt to get a hold of, decided I'd just keep it. You know, instead of turning it in. Pretty sweet, right?
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But he likes Soren enough he'll roll out of bed for him.]
A pearl? That's the kinda thing they put in jewelry. How'd you get it from a quest?
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Skip over that part. What do you think I should do with it? Selling it didn't seem worth the trouble. Probably like wicked magic, huh?
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[Juza's learned absolutely nothing about spells or how magic works around this place.]
Think it does something?
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Why would it be worth protecting if it's just a pretty rock thing? Seems awful lame. It must do something or have a, a purpose to it. I don't know much about this stuff...
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Has it, uh, done anything? [It just looks like a pretty pearl to him.]
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I've mostly kept it in this bag... haven't noticed anything with it in there. Maybe we could ask someone. Who would know about magic pearls?
[chime in, some nearby Fae, with a twitch of attentive antennae! "A pearl? Oh, pearls are bad luck! You should give that to someone right away!" And so... the pearl begins to glow, quite vibrantly at that! The Fae's eyes bulging, "See! Curse thing, that is, probably cursed by that ghost! Give it to me, I'll get rid of it for you-"]
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Juza turns slightly towards the fae and hm. That doesn't seem right to him.]
Probably not cursed. Ain't like he's been having a huge amount of bad luck or whatever.
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Beat it, I'm not falling for something like that. [he'll fall for other things, but not that! The Fae attempts to interject again but Soren talks over him with a "Buh-buh-buh-!" and the monster rolls their eyes before fluttering off in huff.
The pearl, mysteriously, not glowing anymore...]
What do you think that means, huh? Bad luck... talking to that guy was bad luck!
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Probably shouldn't trust somebody who's trying to take your stuff, man.
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Urg, that annoyed me. I want something good to eat! This place has a bakery, let's get something.
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Uh... we could go somewhere else for breakfast.
[His stomach betrays him almost as soon as he says it.]
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You don't want anything?
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[He looks so longingly at the sweets. It's obvious enough, even without the pearl glowing.]
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His eyes flick back and forth from it, before he holds it up and asks]
Hey, Juza... aren't you a bear? [this is a test, will it stop glowing if he says 'yes'?]
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Yeah. Did you forget?
[Bro... his ears have been here the whole time. Bro.]
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Not glowing.
Yeah, he's onto this thing!]
Bears need to eat! It's almost winter, right? So, do you want something from the bakery?
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... Should eat more meat...
[While he makes eyes at the cinnamon rolls.]
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[Sounding as teasing as possible because Jusy really should deny it, for science!!]
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[What a miserable liar.]
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Soren feels smart for solving this (exceedingly simple) mystery, alright]
Dude! This thing glows when people are lying, that's the magic!
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Huh... That could come in handy.
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Oh, man, I could like, get it embedded into a sword hilt! Then if I strike someone down, it's all righteous. [Soren, no, roll it back a bit- too intense!]
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I'd put it on a ring, but it would look like I got married! Bleh.
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