Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26130256-20151030063516/@comment-26362067-20151103232708

Zzzt, zzzt.

"AH!" Hirsch jumped at the sudden sound while behind him, Kaili facepalmed. Seriously? Just when she was about to give her teammate the scare of his life?

"Are you seriously scared of a buzzing scroll, Hirsch?" Tsubaki, another one of Kaili's teammates, asked.

"Why now?" Kaili complained simultaneously, taking out the culprit of the sudden noise--her scroll.

"Ah!" Hirsch yelped again as he turned to find his teammate almost right behind him. Tsubaki snorted at him in what seemed like amusement.

"And no, I'm not scared of a scroll, Tsu. The sound just surprised me..." Hirsch said.

Nile, their leader, sighed and muttered something inaudible to Kaili's ears. Kaili smirked in response, knowing she'd accomplished her job: Scaring Hirsch and annoying Nile. Then she frowned. Though it was a bit annoying that both had been caused by her scroll, and not herself.

"I believe you're supposed to answer that?" Tsubaki commented, pointing to the scroll in Kaili's hand, making the prankster grit her teeth.

"Shut up," the pirate replied savagely as she opened her scroll and checked her texts. Hm... Her eyebrows raised as she read the message. And invite to lunch at the Melange a Trois? Only one way to find out what this is about...

Kaili moved over to the window and opened it. Before any of her teammates realized what she was about to do, Kaili said, "See ya later!" and jumped out from the second story.

Most would think this reckless--and it was--but Kaili had a penchant for memorizing landmarks, including the tree just outside the team's dorm. Grabbing the lowest branch with her arms, she swung down from there, hitting the ground running.

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(Know I said I wouldn't do Ravelyn till she was accepted, but I figured I'd do this just to show her character to you guys.)

In the darker side of Vale, Ravelyn Rouge answered her own scroll.

"What flies in the night, throwing back the shadows?" she asked, using her codephrase and wondering who could be calling her.

"A three-legged raven, invisible to all," a man's voice answered--a voice the thief didn't recognize. "Hello, Ravelyn Rouge."

At that, Ravelyn started inside. "Who are you? How do you know my name?"

"Brine. Maybe you've heard of me?"

Ravelyn indeed had heard that name. It was a name well-known in the criminal world. The handler of the Harlequins, Brine was a very mysterious man.

"That doesn't answer my other question," she retorted.

"Oh, I have a lot of contacts. It wasn't that hard," Brine replied.

"I doubt that." If there was one thing Ravelyn did well, it was cover her tracks. No one knew of her identity as the Yatagarasu other than a few criminal aquaintances, not even her teammates back at Haven. And those few contacts knew nothing of the life she led at Haven.

"Whatever you say," Brine said, whom had apparently decided not to argue with her. "Anyway, I want you to do a job for me. There's a code in the possession of a group called Master's Realm--a code that could render most encryptions useless. I want you, along with a few others, to get it back."

"Since it seems you've done your research, I would think you'd know that the Yatagarasu likes to work alone," Ravelyn replied. "And let me guess, you can't get in touch with the other Harlequins? Also, what's in it for me?"

"Yes, that's true, but I think you and I can both agree that stealing from Master's Realm is going to take more than just a Yatagarasu's skills. And only one left me a valid number," Brine answered. "He's the one heading this operation. As for what's in it for you... let's see... I do believe I have a little info on a certain Byrne Rouge?"

At the sound of her father's name being said by one of the most infamous criminals, Ravelyn's face, normally emotionless, became the image of complete surprise. "Where is he?! What do you know?!" she demanded.

"Calm down. You help me, I help you," Brine responded.

Ravelyn thought over that for a few moments, her face returning to it's emotionless expression. She didn't like the idea of working with a group, but if it meant getting information on her father... "Fine. I'm in," the thief told him. "So who else is in this group?" Ravelyn asked.

"An ex-con, a few Beacon students, several criminals, two of Flagg's Eliminators, and one of the Cardamoms," Brine replied. Anyone watching Ravleyn would have seen no visible reaction to this. Yet she was certainly having one.

"And one of your Harlequins," Ravelyn added, deciding not to act on her feelings of how this was going to turn out.

"Actually, he's included in that list," Brine said.

"What does that mean?"

"I believe you'll have to find that out for yourself, Miss Rouge," Brine told her. "You all will be meeting for lunch at Melange a Trois."

"How do I know you're not going to use the code yourself?"

"You don't," was the answer. And with that, the line went dead, leaving Ravelyn with several choice curses running through her head.

Guess I have no choice... With that, Ravelyn started making her way to Melange a Trois, sending a text to her teammates back at Haven that the "mission" she was on was going to take a bit longer, and wondering how a group of criminals, mercenaries, and Beacon students were going to work together.

(Well, I think this is now one of my longest posts. Also, I hope I did okay with Brine.)