[Log] A sort of magic... do you want it?

[thequestgiver]

Characters: The Magic Peddler
Open? Yes~
Where: Everywhere~
When: All day the 15th of Rebirth's Decline.
What: The Magic Peddler is out selling his wares. What plot significant magical and cursed little doodad will your character acquire?

He's a slightly wizened old man; the large pack on his back has bent him over the years and his long grey beard looks to have not seen much of a comb in years. Yet he is clean, his brown tunic studded with light green tile that look like faded lily pads drifting in a muddied swamp, washed out from sun and wash. The charms hanging from the gold bands adorning his arms glitter, polished white and smooth as they clink together with every step.

There's something about him that draws the curiosity. The hopeful, the unguarded, the ambitious, those who have much to gain, those who have little to lose. He has something for them all, hidden treasures none have ever unearthed before. What is waiting for you, inside his pack?


[[OoC: All items from the Magic Peddler are two fold in nature, often cursed as well as blessed, and can often be lurking plot devices. If you have a specific sort of object you'd like your character to get, PM or stick it in your reply!]]

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[thequestgiver]

"Ghosts are a tricky thing; souls with no place to go and wills with no flesh to move, attached to the living who can't bear to let them go, or to the non living that they couldn't stand to see touched by other hands," the man chuckled. "Are you so full of hate that you would become one yourself?"

[bondsoflove]

His eyes narrowed. The urge to hit the old man was growing under the surface of Sasuke's skin--his fingers twitched.

"I don't really care what happens after I die as long as I achieve my purpose first," he said, flatly. "But I can't do that from here. The next step is to escape. I don't suppose you have any suggestions."

[thequestgiver]

"Tell me, young man, what is it that you wish escape from?"

[bondsoflove]

Great. Like so many others, the old man was going to imply something about Sasuke needing to escape from his own head, or from his revenge. He wouldn't give him the satisfaction.

"From this shithole."

[thequestgiver]

The man nodded as if thinking something over. "There is a shrine off in the mountains, near where the Sisters fight. It's behind a gateway which I myself am unable to pass. What lies beyond may help you in what you seek."

[bondsoflove]

That got his attention.

He kept his face blank, but paid rapt attention. "Do you have a map?"

He'll get his class change later, it seems :)

[thequestgiver]

"I have many maps," the man smiled, shifting to reach into his pack to pull out a rolled up scroll. "Sadly, most of them are far too simplistic and will only act as the barest of a guide," he explained, unrolling the map so that Sasuke could see it. "That peak there," he nodded, resting a gnarled finger at a spot in the middle of the mountain range. "The series of caves that will lead you to the shrine there."

No problem.

[bondsoflove]

The map looked more like a conceptual scribble than a reliable guide to the terrain. With an irritated exhale, he crossed his arms over his chest and gave the old man a penetrating glare. "I just take you at your word and follow the river to the mountains? Then what?"

[thequestgiver]

The man's smile held a touch of amusement. "Then you find what there is to find. You wanted to be gone from this place, did you not?"

[bondsoflove]

Sasuke realized the literal implications of that statement. His blood always ran hot, but now he could almost feel it steaming.

Growling through gritted teeth, he grabbed the man by the collar of his shirt and yanked him close to snarl in his face.

"I mean back to my world, not off on some wild fucking goose chase."

[thequestgiver]

The old man just continued to look calmly at the raging Knight. "And you're so sure there's no connection between the two?"

[bondsoflove]

"I'm not going to waste time running off on some old fart's rumors," Sasuke spat, fist clenching for a minute before he forcefully dropped his hand. He didn't care if the old man fell. Let him fall--let him flail around like an upended beetle, for all Sasuke cared. He turned to go.

[thequestgiver]

"The first step to becoming unstuck is to start to move in anyway you can..."

But if Sasuke turned to glare back at the old man, he would find him vanished as if he had never been.

[bondsoflove]

"Stop being so goddamn--"

Cryptic, he was going to say, but when he turned the man was gone.

The sounds of frustrated snarling and kicking of rocks, along with a small fire burst into existence uncalled, could be heard from the area surrounding him.