No Solicitors [M-D]
Sept 7, 2012 5:37:52 GMT -8
Post by Lang on Sept 7, 2012 5:37:52 GMT -8
No Solicitors
Rank: D
Minimum Participants: 1
Mission Info: For some time we’ve allowed a troupe of salesmen to walk up and down the paths leading to our village hawking their wares. This was a decent arrangement for awhile, netting us a bit of money on the side. Recently, however, we’ve been getting complaints that they're more of a nuisance than we originally thought. We’re tasking you with going down there and making sure they leave our land entirely.
Special: This mission can be repeated indefinitely.
Hiraiyomi Rael was never known for having a glib tongue, nor did he think such a need would ever arise; leave it to the petty merchants and politicians. He preferred to settle issues through action, not prattling on with the other party until one side relented because if they didn't, a dishonorable suicide via seppuku would have been preferable to listening to them for another minute. And while he was fairly certain the higher-ups would be understanding if a few irrelevant vendors were to mysteriously disappear outside Kirigakure, as required by the mission scroll he now held in his palm, it was better to have a bloodless conclusion in this chapter of his life. The last thing he needed was for word to get out that the Mist village started having a tendency to cheerfully slaughter anyone who so much as looked at them funny. No, this latest assignment would require a bit more tact.
According to eyewitnesses that just passed into town, the troupe was stationed not far from the harbor, just seven miles outside the guarded borders of Kirigakure. They were originally an agreeable lot, content to sell their lesser-quality wares at reasonable prices. However, whether it was because they soon grew dissatisfied with the meager amount they made per sale, or the number of passersby with even a remote interest in their goods declined, the merchant troupe soon became much more aggressive in their vending tactics. They were not above tailing frightened civilians practically to the village gates, circling them like vultures over a carcass. Their already-inferior products dropped further in quality, little more than scraps temporarily pieced together being sold at outrageous prices. At this rate, it wouldn't have been a stretch to say the merchant troupe was dissolving into a band of crooks, soon to be robbers.
Ryōga-sensei always said I needed to work on my people skills.
Tenmu was the first to see a large cloud of dust barreling towards their group, prompting some to wonder if Suna's natural sandstorms had somehow managed to cross an entire country and ocean to reach them all the way here in Mizu no Kuni. Of course, the more sensible of the bunch recognized it was nothing more than a boy coming their way, albeit at breakneck speeds. Collapsing in the center of their makeshift camp, the brown-haired youth heaved with desperate panting as the merchants crowded around him, someone yelling for them to grab a water canteen. Flailing wildly at their attempts to help him up, he only calmed down as the cool drink was thrust into his hands, managing a hurried thanks before downing the entire bottle, a good third of it going over his head. As he drank deeply, Temnu had a chance to assess this stranger that dropped into their camp out from nowhere. He couldn't have been more than fifteen or sixteen winters, with rumpled clothing that looked like he'd been dragged through a muddy ditch. As he drew closer to their unexpected guest, the caravan leader's nose wrinkled in disgust.
Smelled like it too.
"Easy there lad. What's this all about?" He didn't get the chance to string anything else out of the adolescent before the young man all but threw himself down at Tenmu's feet, practically grovelling amid wide-eyed stares from the rest of the troupe. Odd looks were shared between the other members before they collectively glanced towards their unofficial leader for an explanation, though the subject himself looked just as bewildered, if not more so.
"Please forgive me Tenmu-sama!"
