Finally getting to the dilapidated bar, with not a moment to spare, Aku briskly walks through the worn wooden doors briefly illuminating the drab interior and local patronage loitering about the place, who momentarily glance in Aku’s direction before returning to their own conversations and drinks. The whole place screamed wretched hive of scum and villainy; Aku would rather not have anything to do with the place but he thought he may as well finish the quest whilst he was here; it’s never wise pissing off a Guard especially at level 1.
Checking the content of the quest, Aku realizes that he doesn’t even know who to deliver the envelope to. Unsure of what to do, he walks up to the bar taking a seat at the end of the counter, two spaces over is a hunched old man wearing a blindfold who smells like bourbon and regret. Not knowing how important the envelope was Aku mad sure that he kept some distance between himself and this old man.
“Barkeep, your finest ale,” Aku said tying his hardest to act like a normal customer, failing miserably in the process, garnering a couple of odd looks from some of the people in the bar.
“Right… coming right up.” The bartender said with a un interested look on his face.
“Oh and one more thing, I have this letter.” Aku says sheepishly, flashing the top of the envelope to the barkeep making sure the other customers couldn’t see the envelope.
“Not a clue,” the bartender says before turning away to get Aku his ale.
Unsure of what to do Aku just stares at the the tinkered of ale the bartender had brought him.
“Young man, I believe you have my letter,” says the blind old man on the other stool, his old and decrepit voice waking Aku from his stupor.
“Ah yeah right away,” Aku says handing over the letter, unsure of what a blind man would need a letter for, Aku watches the old man open the letter only find its written in brail, watching the man’s face fluctuate between elation and worry as he traced his finger along the bumps as he reached the end of the letter the Oldman lets out a sigh filled with complexity.
“Now then um?”
“Aku.”
“Now then Aku, come with me, to many people in here to talk business.” The old man says as he picking up his staff and hobbles away from the bar, somehow dodging the tables of people making his way to the back of the room and stopping just before the steps waiting for Aku to catch up.
As the two walk up the steps, the Oldman says, “When Red told me an outsider had the letter I feared one of our enemies had gotten a hold of it… Ah, what am I doing? I shouldn’t be telling this to an outsider.”
“Red you mean that scary guy I say scaring little kids in the slums?” Aku spits
“He’s a good kid, really. It’s just his personality that lets him down sometimes,” the old man says as he leads Aku into one of the rooms upstairs.
“So then Aku, how would you like to join the red cloaks?”
“Depends what do you the red cloaks do?”
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“I’d tell you but if you refuse I’d probably kill you ku ku ku,” the old man chuckles.
Something about the way the old man said that made Aku realise that he wasn’t joking and it would probably be wise to not ask too many questions, not being the first time Aku has been in this sort of situation Aku knowing that his only real choice is to join this mysterious organisation.
“Sure ill join, now can you sell me what you guys do?”
Quest complete: Deliver the envelope
due to freak circumstances out of your control you've somehow managed to become a member of the red cloaks... despite only being level 1. whether that's a good thing is yet to be seen.
Rewards Membership in the Red cloaks
Wisdom +1
Luck+1
New title: Red Cloak a new member of the red cloaks, work hard and the title will change and you may gain some perks.
New title: luck magnet Due to the impressive feat of gaining 5 or more luck in a single day, you have been rewarded a title. lucky you. The effects of the luck stat are increased by 10%
“not so fast there sonny jim, your only an in name member, you have to prove yourself first but all you need to know is we escort the merchants and help out during some wars.”
“so mercenaries?”
“You could say that, but for the most part our ranks aren’t that close-knit.” The old man says as he fiddles with 2 silver coins, throwing them to Aku he says “you can have these for your troubles, you can leave now.”
Pausing for a moment, awkwardly Aku says, “How am I supposed to know when it needed?”
“Don’t worry about that lad, well find you.” The Oldman says nonchalantly.
“Anything else?” he asks.
A little unnerved by what the old man said Aku asks, “A couple of things actually, what do I call you?”
“Easily answered, the names Kendo, anything else?”
“Alright Kendo, the reason I got caught up in all this is because I was going to ask Gibbs where I can find a training centre and equipment, I’m only level one you see,” unsure of how to ask the next question Aku fumbles over his words, “who runs th… what is the…”
“Spit it out lad I don’t judge.”
“Who’s responsible for the blue boxes?”
“I’ll first address the problem of your level, I’ll put a word in at one of the centres just pick what type of weapon you want and I’ll sort it for you, you can just have one of the empty rooms in the bar. And for your second question, that would be the system god, one of the most prevalent gods there is, right up there with order and chaos but nobody worships the system as the perks are non-existent.”
Quest complete
Yes, it is I the great and all-powerful, omnipresent, handsome, super cool, omnipotent god of the system.
get rekt scrub.
rewards knowledge is power Wizdom+1
Giving what Kendo said some thought Aku decided what he wanted to wield.
“I’d like to learn how to use a spear, but I also need to train my spell.”
“Don’t you worry ladi old kendo will sort it, now that we're done I have matters to attend to, see yourself out.”
A little excused by the day’s events Aku retired into one of the other rooms for the night.