No, no. I'm not gonna make you pay for a favour you're doing for someone else. Just give me a second.
[ Claude offers Kotetsu a quick wink, then ducks inside of the shop. If Kotetsu cares to follow - or to listen in - he'll hear a brief conversation between the two. ]
Hey, Clarence! I hear you've got that guy out there doing repairs all by his lonesome, which I know you know isn't safe. Tell you what -- throw in an extra thirty arrows on top of a pack of fourty-eight and I'll go out there and give him a hand.
Thirty? That's robbery! Ten.
Make it twenty, or I'll just let him break his neck out there.
[ Clarence's expression sours, but he seems unswayed by the prospect of Kotetsu falling on his ass. ]
Or you can give me forty extra arrows, and I'll help patch up the roof and I'll drop off half my kill during my next hunt, provided that you're the one to skin and gut it.
[ The shopkeep lights up, evidently convinced by the prospect of game that he doesn't have to go out and kill himself. ] That's a deal, Riegan.
[ Claude makes sure to shake on it before popping back out to where the repairs still need to be done, looking as though he's in a much merrier mood now that he's got something out of the whole thing. ]
There. You probably should have asked for something in return, you know... but now that it's worth my time, I'll give you a hand.
[ Would Claude have helped out regardless? Yeah. Probably. But arrows are expensive, and he'll take any win he can get. ]
[Kotetsu mostly idles around outside as Claude heads in to do his negotiating, though he does overhear the conversation.
Ask for things in return?? Instructions unclear, you mean he shouldn't just bend over backwards for every person in any kind of need to the point of personal and familial detriment? Haha wild.]
Ah...there's not much I need, really. I mean, I'd like to get home, obviously, but it's not like these guys have any control over that. [...Probably.] Besides, their whole town just got all messed up and now there's all this fuss about a possible war....I don't mind helping out to make things a little easier to deal with.
Which is exactly why I asked for payment. Even if we weren't born here, we live here too -- anything that affects them will affect us just as much. And I can't very well help protect the people here if I've run out of arrows in the middle of battle. Those get expensive, you know!
[ He doesn't always ask for payment -- but he does if they have something substantial enough to offer him. Claude likes to think of himself as a generally helpful person, as a rule, but he has a hard time anchoring himself in the moment; he's always thinking ahead to what the best use of his time is. ]
Anyway, I think it's time for you to take a little break from heights. You hold the ladder, and I'll help with the roof. Oh, but before that...
[ He grins at Kotetsu, giving him a half-bow with a cheeky little flourish. ] Claude von Riegan, at your service. Nice to meet you.
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Date: 2024-02-28 02:06 am (UTC)[Usually from Barnaby, who is tragically absent. He scratches at his cheek a little sheepishly, before tilting his head at that latter part.]
Mutually beneficial? You mean like, buying you lunch or something? ...But yeah, that's the guy.
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Date: 2024-02-29 06:41 am (UTC)[ Claude offers Kotetsu a quick wink, then ducks inside of the shop. If Kotetsu cares to follow - or to listen in - he'll hear a brief conversation between the two. ]
Hey, Clarence! I hear you've got that guy out there doing repairs all by his lonesome, which I know you know isn't safe. Tell you what -- throw in an extra thirty arrows on top of a pack of fourty-eight and I'll go out there and give him a hand.
Thirty? That's robbery! Ten.
Make it twenty, or I'll just let him break his neck out there.
[ Clarence's expression sours, but he seems unswayed by the prospect of Kotetsu falling on his ass. ]
Or you can give me forty extra arrows, and I'll help patch up the roof and I'll drop off half my kill during my next hunt, provided that you're the one to skin and gut it.
[ The shopkeep lights up, evidently convinced by the prospect of game that he doesn't have to go out and kill himself. ] That's a deal, Riegan.
[ Claude makes sure to shake on it before popping back out to where the repairs still need to be done, looking as though he's in a much merrier mood now that he's got something out of the whole thing. ]
There. You probably should have asked for something in return, you know... but now that it's worth my time, I'll give you a hand.
[ Would Claude have helped out regardless? Yeah. Probably. But arrows are expensive, and he'll take any win he can get. ]
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Date: 2024-02-29 12:10 pm (UTC)Ask for things in return?? Instructions unclear, you mean he shouldn't just bend over backwards for every person in any kind of need to the point of personal and familial detriment? Haha wild.]
Ah...there's not much I need, really. I mean, I'd like to get home, obviously, but it's not like these guys have any control over that. [...Probably.] Besides, their whole town just got all messed up and now there's all this fuss about a possible war....I don't mind helping out to make things a little easier to deal with.
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Date: 2024-02-29 10:14 pm (UTC)[ He doesn't always ask for payment -- but he does if they have something substantial enough to offer him. Claude likes to think of himself as a generally helpful person, as a rule, but he has a hard time anchoring himself in the moment; he's always thinking ahead to what the best use of his time is. ]
Anyway, I think it's time for you to take a little break from heights. You hold the ladder, and I'll help with the roof. Oh, but before that...
[ He grins at Kotetsu, giving him a half-bow with a cheeky little flourish. ] Claude von Riegan, at your service. Nice to meet you.