Morning had come, and the Exterminators Guild was still mostly asleep, except for a few very hard workers with very unfortunate hours. They were slow to begin moving, and the sun had been shining outside for hours before any noticeable activity occurred.
The outer doors opened, and in came a pair of men. "Tilda, got anything good?", Mael called to the receptionist.
"They're up there on the board, look for yourself!"
Snyl went to check the quest board, but Mael seemed interested in something else. He stood at the board, staring.
Mael took notice and joined his partner. "Well at least she put it up. I'm surprised no one took it."
"Mind if we take this quest card?" Snyl asked loudly, not looking at anyone as he did so.
"You might as well. It's been up for a whole day now. It's from your report?" Tilda asked.
"Yeah", a voice called, but Tilda was looking at something else and didn't see who it was that said it. She hadn't memorized their voices yet.
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"Oh, thank you so much", the old woman said.
"Any time at all", Melisande replied with a short bow. "If you need anything, please let us know."
"Oh, you check up on little old me often enough that I don't think I'll need to."
A voice came from the other side of the short fence separating the two residences. "Isn't that the Exterminators job?", he neighbor man asked.
"It is, but we work together often enough", Melisande said with a courteous smile. "Sometimes they ask us for help directly."
"Oh, can they afford that?" the old woman asked. with a mild shock.
"We are barred from mercenary work, so they don't have to split their rewards with us."
"Well, how do you like that?" the neighbor said as he went back inside his own home.
The old lady gave a gentle nod and smile, and took her freshly filled bread basket indoors with her while it was still warm, as she closed the door.
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Leldro yawned, and tried to roll onto his side. But, since he was sitting on a large tuft of dry grass with his back and head against the rock he had been sitting on earlier, he only rolled into the wet mud.
"Pffth!", he exclaimed as he got the mud out from between his lips. He looked around, trying to get his bearings. He had fallen asleep! He was just trying to rest for just a few minutes!
He started to brush himself off to make himself as presentable as he could for a man who just slept outdoors in a peat bog.
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He hadn't bathed in... he didn't know. If it began to rain when he couldn't find a cave or ruin or rock outcropping or a log or something, then that counted, didn't it? No one built anything out here. Their fault. They should have known he'd be coming by. All of the others were bastards, anyway. Bastards and liars and thieves. That's why he had to leave the city at the edge of the forest.
"Their idiot city doesn't even deserve its name", he began muttering to himself with randomly yelled words. "Screw you, city. Think you can tell me what to do. When I gotta go, I gotta go. Waah, waah, waah, food's rotten, make you sick. Make YOU sick, not me. I didn't need those pants anyway. Pants betrayed me and made me sick. I gotta go when I gotta go. It's your shop, you clean it. Get out of the trash, huh? You threw it away, mine now." The man continued rambling angrily as he wandered the wilds.
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It wasn't like the dungeon had much of anything to do besides chase rats all night. There were still things to touch around here to see what might happen, but six hours was a really long wait with nothing to do.
As soon as the timer was up, he walked around a little bit. That guy hadn't started back up again, which could only be a good thing. The rats that he hadn't already chased off ran away on their own after the Core manifested itself where he put it, but this time the rodents didn't seem interested in coming back.
'Okay well, fine then. Stay away. Not like I wanted you to be my friends or anything, right? Anyone to screw with would be nice, honestly.'
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Leldro stood back where he had been the previous afternoon, now that he'd rested, unintentionally, and had a morning meal, very intentionally. "Okay then dungeon, it's time for you to go. We don't want you here." He thumbed through his book, getting back to where he had marked with his bookmark previously. He had a few bookmarks in there, which wasn't as helpful as it seemed.
As he began praying from the beginning of the passages, he started pacing slowly back and forth the length of the church wall, trying to make the dungeon's territory distort more severely.
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'Ow! Damn it! It's that guy again, isn't it?' Walking out of the smith shop and looking down the road, he didn't see anything. But then, the man appeared, and disappeared again. He was walking around back and forth behind the church's far wall.
'Alright then, sell room!'
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'Okay! That's enough of that! Yes say I have stuff too big to fit in the right room, but don't list every freakin' thing every fuckin' time! I'll get to it when I get to it! And buy another room, that way! There's gold in them thar hills! Even if there isn't, I don't know what else to do!'
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Snyl and Mael had made good time, though they really weren't particularly interested in rushing off to see the monster and giant. Once was quite enough, but they didn't join the Exterminators just because they got a salary from it and their lodging fees were waived.
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Leldro felt pleased. The Ministry was winning against this threat! "Now's a good time for a break", he thought to himself as the church collapsed.