(Loyalty Is,) The Source

[Circe]

Circe shows she has good reflexes and trigger discipline as the, probably Summer, furry doesn't get shot. Instead she gets, "Oh ho ho ho ho! Delightful!"


She gets Circe being Circe. And how does Circe diplomacy the wolf girl, "Knew that ass was feminine and ya really can't expect me not ta admire such a fine angry ass now can cutie?" Wink. Yes she was flirting. With another Summer.


"And this is the Hedge girl. Ya can't fault me for worrying something was looking fer a meal," the gun is pointed down and towards Circe's right as the elfin Fairest finally lets go of the barrel. "And now we be cool, right? C'mon no need to not be friends." Not slung on her shoulder but much less of a threat.


2 successes Friendly Wolfy

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2020-02-12 15:44:53		Circe rolls 5 to Manip Persuasion lets be friends (10 Again)		7, 8, 8, 3, 1		2 successes

"I can tell fer sure," she points at the wolf girl with her free hand, "I'm gonna like ya. And you," she points at chef hog with a tone of approval, "Great choice in motley mates! She seems awesome."

[Seraphina]

Looking over her shoulder, she nods solemnly to Rhodes, she was in agreement. Completely.

An eyebrow was raised at Circe, “Yes, really.” Between the Italian and the Summer point her gun at whatever, she had to ask.

Then everything began to click. Circe had been pointing her gun at someone. Well, someones butt.
“Whoa, easy.” Replies the Nix, a hand held up, at least, it appears to be hand, “I always figured someone saying you had a nice ass was a good thing, I guess not.” A Summer maybe? If the scent was anything to go by. Oh, a Motley. Interesting.

“To be fair, she had lowered it earlier from him, once we started talking.” She points out, “But clearly he’s the friendly one.” Or the more sensible one. Or both.

Was Circe…flirting? Sapphires look to Rhodes, then back to the elf.

“Think she’ll know anything?” she asks Circe. Cause they were at a dead end with the other one. Unless he just wasn’t sharing. Which was a possibility.

[Anatole]

Anatole adjusts his posture, switches the axe from one hand / shoulder, to the other.

He grunts tersely, the cynical smile still snaking through his beard.

And waited for the Fairest to continue...

He was busy absorbing the information - for later.

[Rhodes]

Rhodes rolls his eyes at Circe's flirting. There was a time and a place, and this was neither.

"I think we're getting off-track here," he says tersely. "Perhaps either of you might be able to tell us somehting about this." He reaches into his satchel and pulls out the bottle taken from the motel. "We're very interested in finding the bastards using it in our Freehold. Perhaps you can tell us it you know of anone suing it or Jamryn Fruit, and we can be on our way, all happy familys, hmm?"

The Dread Lord's mantle twists impatiently.

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2020-02-14 10:21:30		Rhodes rolls 6 to Manipulation + Persuade (9-again from Fairest) (9 Again)		4, 5, 4, 7, 5, 5		failure

Well, fuck.

[Saber Sloth]

"My ass is the finest thing you losers have ever seen." She says, smirk fierce, shoulders loosening under the elf's words. "Least one of ya has sense!" she barks. "I'm Huff, that's Bricks." She introduces, sliding closer to the Summer Queen, rolling her shoulders. "Straw and Sticks are headin' this way." she says, luminous eyes flicking towards the other Lost. Message clear, they had back up coming.


"Shoulda fuckin' lead with that." Huff grumbles, while Bricks, the hogman, snuffles, "We don't need to fight. We're here for one thing, and you're here for another. We can share a meal, talk." He says, pulling the thoroughly cooked meat off the fire, and offing plates if the others wanted.

Huff, garbs the meat and starts to chow down. Planting her fine ass near the gutted briar wolf.

"You haven't had luck finding Sal's, or have heard of it." Bricks continues around the flesh in his mouth. "But I've heard of an orchard west of here. Jarmyn Fruit, like you said. Didn't get close. Just heard some things. Big operation. They bottle it there too. S'why I thought there'd be a Market near here. Too be a place to not have buyers."

  Huff

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2020-02-14 11:48:59		Wolf Girl rolls 3 to happy is the fam (10 Again)		1, 3, 3		failure
2020-02-14 11:47:42		Wolf Girl rolls 3 to Friends? (10 Again)		2, 2, 4		failure

  2 successes to sit, eat and talk

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2020-02-14 11:55:41		hogman rolls 3 to fam? (10 Again)		8, 9, 4		2 successes

[Seraphina]

Well, Rhodes did have a point. But sometimes one needed to talk to establish a relationship of sorts. Though this was the Hedge, and the quicker they got what they needed and left, the better.

As she felt his Mantle, she resisted the urge to reach out and touch his arm. That could be dangerous in here. Used against them. Instead, she offers a small nod, she understood.

Then a perfectly styled eyebrow quirks, and there was a small chuckle. If anyone had the finest ass in this Hedge, it was her. Obviously. Thankfully, she wasn’t like most Fairest and didn’t have the need to correct the girl.

Huff and Bricks? Seriously? Ok then. The eyes were met with her own sapphires, the Nix wasn’t concerned. “The more the merrier.” It would take more than miss attitude to worry her.

Shrugging, “Never wanted to fight. I’m all about being civilized if we can.” She’d fight if pushed, but wasn’t about to pick a fight. Especially not in the Hedge.

“To the west? Sounds like a good direction to head then. Why didn’t you get close? Is it guarded or something?” cause that changes things, makes it a bit more complicated. “And that makes sense, why bottle it if there isn’t a Market close by.” Unless it’s being moved out the Gate and used on mundanes.

[Circe]

"Thank you Lady Huff, and ya the finest piece of tail I've seen. Collectively though I have," Circe looks to her companions, "seen finer things. Like Matrix's gun room scene," was Circe's reply to Huff's taunt. She looks to Brick but doesn't comment on the theme names. Her first motley had done the same. "Golden girl is right, and I find ya all so likeable! And thanks Brick that is what will be a big help." Circe is talking with her free hand constantly in motion. "Tell ya what, I don't have product today but if yer motley ever wants ta buy some guns I'll throw in a free reload each fer it. Even try ta find specials fer ya. And while I prefer Iron Side riches from yer team I'll take Hedgespinning ingredients too at this point. Pelts, claws, teeth."

Because why make lemonade like Seraphina when Circe could make hard lemonade? Though she does look to Seraphina with her own answers, "Animosity with the Market. Paranoia over thieves. Easier ta transport as liquid, or slip ta somebody. Just my thoughts."

[Rhodes]

"Seen finer," Rhodes says under his breath, smirking.

With the girls seemingly happy in coversation, he looks over to the West, sinc ethat seemed like their next step. And as the tendrils of Fear crept up his spine a tthe warning, it may be best to be there long before their new acquaintences' assosciates arrived.

He pulls back, moving over towards the way to the West. As far as he was concerned, they were done here.

[Anatole]

Anatole simply grunts, keeping up the gruff act.

OK. Maybe not quite an act.

But he doesn't immediately follow Rhodes when the Autumn King makes his move. Rather, the wizened dwarf stays put with Circe and Seraphina. He's still playing protector, see - even if the two Fairest don't exactly need protection - and he has to earn his credibility keep somehow; and right now his axe is all he's got.

So he stays put until the Fairest duo leave the Hedge Hunters be.

[Saber Sloth]

If it's possible to frown around tusk pierced lips, then this hog is. Lowering his offered plate, the wolf girl snorts, and mutters, "More for us." her mouth full of fangs, stained yellow and pink, buts of flesh and sinew caught between them.

"Civilized? Haw!" comes a snort, small bits of meat spew out of her mouth.

"Anything that big, has resources behind it." Says the hog, Bricks. The squealing noise carrying around his words, while his eating is more careful. Using his utensils, and swallowing before he speaks. "Anything that big isn't going to have nothing guarding it. It takes to much effort to carve the Hedge, and even more to plant and tend to a orchard. Never mind the bottery." the great shoulders shrug.

"We ca' work somefing out ya." comes Huff, around another bite, "I ca' get your number and we could talk." she wipes her hand on her thigh, before offering it to Circe for a shake.