Bladecrest

[Gobbo]

"Yeah, time will tell." he said, leaning back in his seat a bit. He thought for a few moments, eating the last of his dumplings.


"I find it interesting that someone like you would be interested in my line of work. Most of the time rich girls hate people like me."

 

[Shura]

Iris closed her eyes leaning back slightly against the building behind them. "Probably because I never liked being rich." she muttered softly "Bunch of stuck up people showing off their money. Never understood why they needed to spend so much on trinkets and clothing." She shrugged. "Save for a few genuinely nice people the rich are selfish, arrogant, self centered and have a warped sense of how the world should be." She grumbled. "People thought I was lucky because if who my family was... where I lived and what not but it was just a pretty cage. And I would have just moved from one pretty cage to another with no say as to what I wanted."

 

[Gobbo]

"I see. At least we agree on something." he said with a little smile. When she mentioned being moved from one cage to another he frowned a bit, putting some of the pieces together. "You didn't want to leave just because you were tired of being caged up, huh? What was so bad that you had to get a thief's help with leaving?

 

[Shura]

Iris sighed softly knowing he wasn't going to just leave the topic alone. "Erickson V. Harren." She muttered "Heir to the Hareen trade company, frequent visitor to the red light district and collector of rare 'treasures'. Married four times, two of which ended in death, One divorce and one still standing but the law doesn't see much of a problem with that." She growled softly under her breath.

 

[Gobbo]

Elias watched her for a moment, frowning a bit. "I see. You were set to marry the sleaze next?" he asked, already knowing the answer. "Everything makes a lot more sense now. I actually know how his first two wives ended up dying." he explained with a shiver. He hated the man, and knew more of his dirty secrets than he would have liked.

 

[Shura]

Iris nodded slightly before looking over to Silver. "Yeah... I have a pretty good idea as well... the one he divorced only happened because she was of higher rank and her father saw who he really is. Current wife is in a mental ward due to a recent break down." She shook her head. "There was no way I was going to let my self be traded off in some agreement." She muttered ears folding back slightly remembering the few times the man had actually stopped by to try and woo her. They were never pleasant. She shivered slightly before pushing the thought away.

 

[Gobbo]

Eli nodded, his eyes drifting between her and the guard station. "If you were going to be married to him, I don't blame you for leaving." he said, jotting down a few notes in his notebook. His stomach let out another low growl, surprising him. He stood with a little smirk and stretched.


"So long as we're careful, you won't have to worry about going back there."

 

[Shura]

Iris smiled slightly and nodded glade that he understood why she left and never wanted to go back. "Trying to be as careful as possible with out shutting my self in an Inn all night and day." She smirked when she heard his stomach. "Hungry still?"

 

[Gobbo]

"You've been shut in enough, I think." It was strange, seeing how relaxed he was around her now. He knew part of it was an act, but he didn't know how much of it was. The thought scared him a little, so he made sure to put up another wall of indifference. "I could use some more food..." he said plainly, his tone shifting slightly.

 

[Shura]

Iris's ears twitched slightly catching the shift in his tone but wasn't sure if it was a good or bad thing. "Hm'k... I'll be right back then." She smirked slightly before getting up and heading over to one of the other stalls wondering what the sudden shift was about.

 

[Gobbo]

Elias sat back down, sighing heavily as she walked off. He was letting himself get too familiar with her. He needed to keep himself in check, even though it had been so long since he even just sat and talked with someone like this. He couldn't let himself get complacent. Placing his head in his hands he sighed, staring at the ground for a moment.

 

[Shura]

Iris sighed softly as she stopped at another stall and got two orders off festival rolls, thin bread wrapped around a mix of meat and vegetables there were six in each set so it would prove to be a more filling meal. Thinking about the reason she left her home made her realize how much her family had gotten fed up with her. They knew his record, and didnt like him to start. But the money he was bringing in was worth more than her life. The thought made her angry and sad. But also made her realize that she was probably going to start getting on Silvers nerves at some point as well. Hopefully he wouldn't try to sell her off as well. He had no right too, and she didn't see him as the type to do such a thing but fear stayed. Iris made her way back to the bench noticing his pensive look before holding out the small tray of rolls. "Figuring out how to get in?"

 

[Gobbo]

Elias looked over at her, forcing a small smile. "Yeah. I've figured out three ways so far, hopefully we'll be able to get in and out without anyone noticing." he said, taking the rolls with a nod. He put one in his mouth and sighed happily. Festival food was always a weakness for him.


"The easiest would be to go in through the back. The vault's in the basement, so it would make more sense to enter where there's less distance to cover. However, there's going to be guards posted there, and a rather complex alarm system covering the doors." he explained, thinking.


"Now, if we go in through the roof, it would be the easiest, but it would take the longest amount of time. Thirdly, we could try to get in through the sewers, but we would need some kind of detonation to get through the basement."

 

[Shura]

Iris scrunched her nose at the thought of sewers hating the idea immediately. "Hm possibly the roof? We could possibly exit through the back? They wouldn't expect us from the inside...." she suggested


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[Gobbo]

Elias shrugged a bit. "I don't know if that's such a good idea... We'll trip the alarms on the way out. It would be safer to go out the way we came in." he said, thinking. "The roof might be our best bet, but it would take much longer to get to the basement and out again. I think the sewers might be the best course of action, despite the smell."

 

[Shura]

Iris cringed slightly knowing she was probably going to get sick from the smell alone. "Won't the explosions tip someone off though? "


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[Gobbo]

Elias racked his brain for a solution, scratching his head. "Well... Yes. If we go with explosives. However... I might be able to make something else work. We don't have to use explosives... Though it'll be a hard pull on my magic." he said with a frown.


"There's a spell I could use, but it won't be easy. I could make a portal for us to go through."

 

[Shura]

Iris tilted her head slightly "A portal?" she mutter remember hearing rumors about it. "Would you be able to do it twice though? Keeping it open the whole time we're there would be too much of a strain but we also don't want to be stuck in there..." she muttered."

 

[Gobbo]

"I could do it twice. I'd be drained for a few days, but I could do it." he said with a small, unsure grin. "That might be our best choice. When we get back to the room I'll figure out guard rotations and the best path for us to take."

 

[Shura]

Iris nodded slightly "Alright... I'll just follow your lead then." She muttered softly not really having much of an argument aside from the smell. She was never good with strong smells good or bad. but it was something it seemed she would have to manage going forward.

 

[Gobbo]

It had taken a couple of days to plan out, but the night before the last day of the festival they were ready.


Eli had been practicing the incantations he would need for the job, opening small portals to make sure he would be able to do it. After his practice he got everything together that he would need, including making a few small trinkets for the both of them.


"Any questions about what we're going to do?"

 

[Shura]

Iris shook her head as she tied her mask around her face. She had put some of her lavender scent on it to ease what would be in the sewer hoping it would work to some extent. "Nope, whole thing seems pretty straight forward to me honestly..." She muttered softly. Thankfully the relic is something light..." she muttered softly

 

[Gobbo]

"Yeah, luckily." he said, glancing outside of their room. The city was packed with people, the night before the final festival day was usually the rowdiest. He gathered up what he would need and went downstairs with her, leading her into the street. He held onto her hand to make it look less conspicuous, heading through the crowd to an alleyway near the museum. He ducked down it, pulling his mask and hood on as he crouched near an entry to the sewers.


"Well, let's get this over with." he said, glad that he put peppermint oil on his mask before opening the lid. He hopped down quickly, waiting for her to follow before putting the lid back on over them.

 

[Shura]

Iris grit her teeth as the sewer was opened the scented cloth only helped slightly. She forced down her nausea and went down eyes watering up. "Sooner the better." She grumbled under her breath quickly following after the thief as they moved the short distance between the entrance and the wall to the basement.

 

[Gobbo]

Eli tried not to choke on the smell, the sewer's stench eating through the peppermint oil he put on his mask. "Yeah..." he groaned quietly, quickly moving toward the museum's basement wall. He pulled out a small stone from his pocket, looking through a tiny, perfect hole in it as he walked quickly. Suddenly he stopped, staring at the wall. "This is it. There's nobody downstairs, the guard just left to patrol the rest of the building." he explained, quickly drawing a large circle in the stone. He placed his hand in the center of it and started muttering an incantation that caused the inside of the circle to glow for a few short moments, before the stone gave way to sand as it opened up. He hopped through quickly, waiting for her to follow before closing the portal and ducking into the shadows across from the safe.


"Alright, we're going to wait here and see how long it takes for him to make a round of the building."