Petrok 'Rookie' Laidir | 🪙&🏆

Look, Quiz, you got that steadfast, settled vibe that'll get me climbing walls in about a week, but hey, I could be wayyy off base.

So if I can convince you to try something new and wild to go alongside that jawline?

Would.

Was hoping you'd say that.

One big boom coming right up!

/There is a big boom, it came right up. Rocks tumble, completely sealing the entrance. He loads the horse with gold./

Let's get this back for you. /salutes/

/Petrok wipes the ichor off his sword, wide-eyed at the glittering pile before them./

What a haul! Might need Mistress to take it all back- and your man.

We got options. I'll help you board up so you can go deeper later, or we blow the entrance.

/He pats his bag fill of mini gaatlok bombs./

/Over millenia water has seeped through, stalagmites and stalactites joining, geometric carvings and runes visible through the natural columns/

/Petrok spoke in a hushed whisper/

Oh yeah, yeah - Dwarven, the writing's directing towards -something- nearby...

((Do you have a plan for the scream 👀))

Ah shoot! Got a couple of Crows on my tail. Contract taken out by Abril or the Casino we just rinsed?

Heh heh

(But seriously got four rounds of twenty one in before they spotted our Gold and we were turfed. Prejudiced - wasn't cheating! Got enough coin for fancy dinner, though.)

/Petrok hops off his horse and ties him to a nearby post, pulling a satchel over his head./

Sure thing. What's in the -

/He hears the scream, and fast draws his broadsword./

Never a dull day on the job, huh?

/He's wary, venturing only a short way in on his own, grabbing a torch from the wall. /

At that fussy age, huh? I've got some dog biscuits if that'll keep 'im going? 😉

Otherwise, all good. I've brought some, ah, fast solutions, if you need to get back.

/he catches himself, turning back to Natalie/

Just, don't light a fire around the horse, kay?

Lead the way!

Definite darkspawn, yeouch! Sounding Deep Roady for sure. And no sweat on keeping it on the down low - fancy armour's for off the job. No one needs to know the Lords are here until I'm on my way out.

Nice you've got a small army. You interested in getting a blade stuck in again?

First things first, though - find an inn and shave four days scrub to feel clean again. Can't trust myself with a straight razor on a ship, even in fair sailing.

Abril pouting we were mean. Haze done, I'm positive she'll get us good soon enough. I'll buy her one of those gelatos to say sorry😬

Salleeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

We're in Antiva way too early to meet the client so the team can sightsee here then slowly move inland. I got one of the many casinos on the cards for petty cash extension but otherwise - any reccs?

Oh man, I know the feeling

Lovely to meet you, too! I'm just happy to be in such esteemed company these days!

Greetings! Yes Ma'am - me and my Deep Roads kit ready to see what you've got. And as a curtesy, Isabela's footing my bill. Anything we find is yours.

What's the sitch? Old Farmer Tim kept his mouth shut, or will we have an audience?

/He approaches a gate with ornate owl and lion sigil and, with a jovial word to the guards, passes through to approach the Estate./

Hello, there! Anyone home?!

/A human man clad in fur and leather rides a tired, well-packed though not overladen horse. As the horse walks, gold flashes around his neck and from the hilts of a broadsword and rapier, but he's otherwise outwardly plain, short bow in easy reach./

Great! I enjoy not being skewered ;)

((Ah, I did a longform one on tumblr a few years back so let's just make it up 🤣 Am I alright to manoeuvre your guards?Unless you want that chat at the gate? ))

On a horse to the estate as we speak, I've brought treats for the hound o7

((Are you okay with a smattering of prose? I can do/have back either, just not familiar with the etiquette for shortform RP!))

No, haha is she usually?

I was the mean one. But I was stuck south for most of the two years the inquisiton were active, trailing after a Lord who would not believe the Inquisitor was a treasure hunter too

... you're That Veiljumper they call Rook right?

Damn, meeting all the celebrities today.

She's a fantastic recruit and honestly feeling a liiittle guilty playing tricks, but we'll tell her at Salle.

Natalie reedged this rapier for me - saves Thedas AND this guy, what a star. Have a job with her on the cards

How'd you guys meet?

Haha don't think the bay's deep enough honestly, but someone always has a story in the alehouse so you never know

Maybe Abril will save our asses afterall

Ok so some clichés are true, Lords will jump on a good haze.

Abril admitted she was scared of the kraken (in Rialto Bay?!) so we've got her doing Very Important nonsense wards around the ship every dawn at EXACTLY sunrise.

Probably given a porpoise a headache, and I guess no kraken so it works 🤭

Come up to Rivain and I'll hook you up with a sunbed, parasol and a fruity drink of your choice - alcoholic content up to you

The rumors are true, I'll eat anything with Llomerryn Red sauce for a bet.

So - bring it: give me a food and I'll rate it outta ten with and without Red.

the world belongs to neve gallus and we’re just living in it

What bullshit's he done now? I don't know how you wardens cope.

Then we have the kid, Abril, late teens, human. She has zero sea legs apparently. Hiked her way from the border with Antiva to try her luck with the Lords. She's got a knack for time magic and healing with and without spirits, no combat experience so far.

We don't yet know her opinion on puzzles.

I'm the one who's been stealing pages out of Lucanis' diary.

Could be a Junior-Senior Lord like myself but he can't be assed making decisions. You point, he swings. You wait too long to think, he swings. That double headed ax may blunt quick but the sheer force behind it cracks anything anyway. Best guy to have alongside you in the Deep Roads.

Coming between us to smash down the door instead is Dax. I've known Dax for over ten years - he's the biggest elf I've ever seen, taller and wider than some Qunari. Pretty sure he grew in an alchemist's vat in Antiva. Great sense of humour, too.

For those, we've got Gert. Elven Junior Lord with half of Arlathan forest committed to memory. Her favourite magic is Fire, and lots of it. That's why she's not around the woods anymore. She loves solving wards and puzzles so we have polite debates as to which she solves and which I "deactivate".

Bosses say I'm a charming puppy, a gabby shit and all combinations thereof so the hard part is vibing professionally with the client heh

I'm also the expert on historical mechanisms, specifically the breaking thereof. For that reason me and thaigs get on, me and the old magic elves? Not so much.