egypt ♔ is this called living or something else

[lissatrinall]

♬ amsterdam - daughter

WHO || Lis'sa, Riddick, Phineas, Ella, Dimitri, Raegos, the Mithril Scarab, and more [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights head to Egypt to try and ascertain the location of a lost pyramid
WHERE || Cairo, Egypt
WHEN || Jan 21st, mid-day[forwarddated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The party arrives in the bustling city of Cairo around mid-day, where it's a beautiful 70 degrees outside compared to the cold London January they came from. Along with whatever gear they brought individually for tomb raiding*, Wynn has also sent them with a chest of 2,000 gold pieces - because the woman who has promised to take them to meet Raegos (the only living man who can claim to have seen the lost tomb) plans to meet them at an antiquities auction.

Wynn has pre-arranged with the woman, who goes by the name of the Mithral Scarab, to recognize the party by the fact that they will cast several bids at the auction - and all of their opening bids will always be exactly ten gold more than the starting price. Once she has recognized them, she will find a way to show them a symbol of the Knights of the Silver Dragon discreetly to identify herself, and they are to follow her away from the crowd. Raegos' rumored paranoia concerning anyone else learning his location seems well demonstrated by the levels of security embedded in Scarab's directions.

The auction itself is a direct result of the recent elemental-driven storm that has unearthed a number of structures long buried in the desert. Some industrious tomb raiders have already taken to looting the lesser pyramids, and this underground sale promises to deliver some of the discovered goods into the hands of eager collectors. Wynn's generous supply of furnished gold was delivered to them with explicit instructions to purchase anything that they thought might be an item of actual valuable historical or magical significance, to become the property of the Knighthood.

* Don't forget to make a list of all items your character is carrying in an entry in their journal before tagging into this post! Please try to stick close to your character's maximum carrying capacity.

Comments

[notafraidofthedark]

[he barks a laugh, one arm coming to rest on the back of the seat in front of his so he can lean a bit closer towards her.]

I've been called worse [he rumbles, humor coloring his voice.]

Nope, plain old boring 100 percent human. [he waggles his brows at her mischievously. Yes, he is going to make her ask.]

[lissatrinall]

Well, they aren't cataracts.

[lightblindbadass]

Nope. [such a big shit-eating grin going on right here.]

[lissatrinall]

Well? [ c'mon man ]

[lightblindbadass]

They're called 'shines'. I had them done in one of the Slams I was in. Paid some guy who said he was a surgeon 20 cigs to put them in. [he won't go into how the guy had done that, in a prison, with no sterile instruments to speak of.]

[lissatrinall]

But what's the purpose?

[notafraidofthedark]

[he leans back in his seat once more, breaking eye contact]

With as many prisons I've been in, as much time in total darkness I've spent, it was all about survival. It's given me an edge over most others that has saved my life more times than I can count.

[lissatrinall]

Darkvision, then?

[notafraidofthedark]

I guess you could liken it to that, though it's not entirely accurate. From what I know people with darkvision can still see the entire color spectrum, but I can't.

[lissatrinall]

More like nightvision, then.

[notafraidofthedark]

That's pretty accurate, sure.

[lissatrinall]

Let's hope it comes in handy.

[notafraidofthedark]

It always does, sooner or later.