[Rama] Devil of Newtown

Jul 30, 2020 2:45 pm
When Rama regains consciousness he found himself lying on the floor in a dimly lit area. The place smells musty and the air is stale. Looking around, Rama finds himself in a prison cell. Metal bars, this prison's not too different from the usual cells back on the world where he was from. Light enters from a small barred rectangular hole in the wall. It's still day, but Rama has no idea what time it is.

"Slept well?" A voice asks.

It was from a man in ragged clothes from the cell beside him. Rama can see that there are other prisoners too but they are either asleep or not in the mood to talk. Rama couldn't see them clearly.
Jul 30, 2020 3:06 pm
Rama mutters, "Captured by a slave gang, must be back in Madurai."

He gets up and looks around. "What is this? Organ harvesting? Sex trafficking? Indentured servitude to the Saudis?"

He checks his skin in the pale light. Still blue.
Aug 3, 2020 8:44 am
"I don't really know how you got here, devil." The man yawns.

It didn't take long before someone from outside the prison cells came to check on you.

"I see, you're awake." Says a man in green uniform. "The world's full of monsters and we're just being cautious." He speaks in a kind tone.

"Tell us, what were you doing at Bezelbebe forest?" He asks.
Aug 3, 2020 2:10 pm
Rama looks at the guard. He'd been thinking about how to explain some of this. "I was somewhere else, a different land, and was cursed to wear this body. A giant threw me over the horizon. I don't know how I survived."
Aug 3, 2020 2:30 pm
"A different land and a giant you say. That's odd indeed." The man says. You hear the other prisoners try to hold their laugh.

"You were brought here by adventurers who dealt with the goblin captain. They thought you were related to the blue goblins." The man asks.
Aug 3, 2020 4:20 pm
Rama shrugs, his tail swishing. "Goblins, you say." He fingers his horn. "If these creatures look like me, other than being blue, then I'd be interested in meeting them. When will I be freed from imprisonment for this heinous crime of being found unconscious in the woods?"
Aug 4, 2020 12:31 pm
"We thought you know more about them than we do. The goblins have slain seven of Newtown's adventurers during the last expedition." The guard pauses, arms folded, fingers brushing his goatee. He looks at Shaitaan for a second then he looks away.

"I do not have reason to hold you in this cell so you may go, Mr.Shaitaan." The man says before unlocking Rama's cell.
Aug 4, 2020 12:40 pm
Rama exits, and says, "Dhanyavaad. Thank you."

He stretches. He had seen shows, even acted in some, where the noble beast protagonist ends up in a strange land and has to survive. Of course, they never just ask to be taught, there would be no comedy of errors in that.

"Newtown you said? I am new here, as I said. Is there someone I could talk to abbot learning the customs? I may need to work for my keep, and I'd rather not blunder about causing mischief solely from my ignorance in your local ways."
Aug 4, 2020 1:14 pm
"You're in the Guardian's building, we're in charge of law and order in this place, I don't know if we can help you about customs but we're short staffed. Go check with the people upstairs if you're interested. If not, you can also check out the Adventurer's guild, they've always got jobs for people like you." The guard replies before locking the prison cell you got out of.

Exit from the prison's ahead. There's stairs going up.
Aug 4, 2020 1:23 pm
A Guardian? That doesn't seem my speed. And a devil in defense of order? Surely not.

Rama touches a hand to his chest, throat and then forehead in a practiced gesture to the guard, with a smile. "I will try this adventures' guild. Peace."

He goes up the stairs out of the prison.
Aug 5, 2020 12:40 pm
The guard ignores Rama.

Upstairs, the devil saw desks and other people.

You see a man in uniform interviewing a muscular anthropomorphic boar.
You see a man and a woman in uniform chatting and drinking what seems to be coffee.
You see a lady in uniform with pointed ears, an elf, working on something in her desk.

Exit from the Guardian's building is on the left.
Aug 5, 2020 12:46 pm
I'm not the only odd looking one, it seems, he thinks, with mild disappointment. He thinks about talking to them, but heads for the door. Then he changes his mind and approaches the coffee drinkers. "Some weather we're having," he says lamely when they turn their attention to him.
Aug 5, 2020 1:44 pm
The two were laughing when Rama butt in on their conversation. They raised an eyebrow.

"It's always sunny in Newtown." Says the red haired man with a goatee.

"What do you want, devil?" Asks the dark skinned lady with long straight black hair tied in a ponytail.
Aug 5, 2020 2:27 pm
Feeling waves of acrimony, real or imagined, he decides friendliness wasn't the village way in this hole. "Whoa, whoa, nothing I suppose, no problem here." He backs away and leaves through the exit.
Aug 6, 2020 8:42 am
Outside, the scene is that of a renaissance village except this place doesn't only include humans, it has other races too such as elves and beast men. There are no other devils outside the guardian building though. The highest building's only around three stories tall. You can see stalls on the side of stone paved streets. There are no cars but you can see carts pulled by some beast of burden that looked like an ox only that it has red skin and has a third eye.

To the right there are more side street stalls.
To the left the path goes down and you can see a harbor for small fishing vessels.
OOC:
If you want to make routine checks to find your way around town: you can roll INT or CHA or any skill that's applicable.
Aug 6, 2020 12:09 pm
Rama wanders the village, getting the lay out. First he checks out the area near the Guardian prison, including the side street stalls. Then he moves down to the harbor.

He's looking for either a playactor's theatre or stage, the adventurers building, or any sign of what is going on.

Rolls

INT 1 - (1d20+1)

(19) + 1 = 20

Aug 6, 2020 12:24 pm
Rama easily found the adventurer's building from investigating around town. It's a place where there's a lot of traffic since adventurers are abundant due to the goblin hunt. Rama saw the three story tall building in the market area and the adventurers going in and out of the building. He can be certain it was what he was looking for since the sign, spelled in [COMMON], says it.
OOC:
You know two languages [COMMON] the common language of this world and [TRAVELER] which is all languages spoken on earth.
As for the other buildings he's looking for, there are no stages but he heard of the Sunrise Tavern where the bards go sometimes to perform. What he was looking for might be in another town.

The stalls sell all sorts of goods from food, to apparel, to weapons and armor. The fishermen's boats just got back from the sea. As for other things going on around town, he learns about what happened in Bezelbebe's forest from the gossip mongers. The expedition to exterminate the goblin menace did not go as perfect as planned. Four adventurers died, and many are wounded. Even with a certain high-ranking adventurer's participation, the adventurers still suffered a big casualty.
Aug 6, 2020 12:37 pm
Uncertain what constitutes an adventurer, whether he is one, or what they do, he enters the adventurers' building. His tail flicks with impatience and curiosity.
Aug 6, 2020 1:03 pm
The devil enters the building and found people from different races in the large hall.

On the left side, there's a bar manned by a burly tiger like bartender, a catkin. Groups of people gather around round tables, chatting about their quests, drinking, or are waiting for someone or something.

On the right side, are people looking at a board with different sizes of parchments on it. The top of the board says 'Quests'.

The front area has three counters. There's a person behind each counter: an elf lady, a man wearing glasses, and a dog like person.

The crowd inside the adventurer's guild are lively but when Rama entered some of them stopped talking.
Aug 6, 2020 1:13 pm
"If you think I'm a goblin, then that explains why despite so many adventurers, there remains a goblin problem in this town," he laughs, trying to be funny, but to his shock, the laugh comes out haunting and evil.

Oh, right, devil.

He moves to the "Quest" board. "Anything here in the vein of musicals?"
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