audio | username: saviour of a hundred nights
Good day, good day. My friends, the friends of my friend, my travellers. We have journeyed together days and a nights, days! And nights.
And though many would say, Mazyar, how do you steal! Steal, like babes from the mother's teat, how do you take a convoy, dozens of men and women, beautiful, beautiful women, and the men are strapping, and the goats are good! They give us milk. And the horses are pleasing. And how do you thieve all this great offering, Mazyar, and you carry it on your feeble back, all through the customs, past the officers, past the paper-men, past the checks, past the dead! How do you do all this, Mazyar, how great is your wisdom, you, who are industrious like a god and cunning like a fox? Mazyar! Mazyar! You are a hero of stories, a thief of a thousand and one nights!
( He finally... remembers to breathe. ) But do not applaud me! Friends. Friends. I only do my duty. With greatness and ability and skill, but I only do my humble, humble duty. I take you to Taravast. But you must help me, yes? In this small thing, small, small thing, you will not notice. Just... a few guidelines, as we cross the Stairs of Sighs. For all our safety, yes? Small... small things. I ask so little! You will not notice.
A few rules — no, we are friends. A few... encouragements.
The first: you may have noticed, the... company. Of Lord Arha, who joins us in his... chivalry to escort us. Very kind! Very wonderful. Very... but you know already. Do not speak it, or else your tongue ties and your words fail a day and a night. And you upset him. There is talk... it is good, never make Lord Arha upset. Why? He is a prince, why upset princes. Royal blood, ah? Their tempers.
The second: do not make noise or sudden movement, if you can help it. There are snakes, and snakes here are vicious. And there are other creatures from the sky, and I know! I know. 'Mazyar, you! You cannot be afraid!' And I am not... but we have fowl, we have animals, and they steal. Disgusting things, they are. Careful with their claws and their beaks and their dark flesh-blood. It pools, and sometimes it burns the touch. In fact... if you are without work, and you want some coin... and I have it! I am a generous man.
Collect the tar from infected pools we pass by, in our great water barrels. We take it with us, and the schools of Taravast pay well after. The same for snakes, for exotics. The venom sells well. And if you capture a harpy... o-hoooo. My friends, gold as you cannot imagine. Not to mention, the many treasures they say lie buried in lost temple grounds.
The third ru — encouragement: mind the road down the old canyon. It is stone, yes? Only stone. But stone crumbles, the cliff-side erodes, you slip. And the walls... do not travel by them alone. Dozens of men disappeared inside the walls, never to be seen, and they say! They say. It is only a pathway to the realm of Death herself!
The fourth: our other companions. Some are from Sa-Hareth. Some... you do not ask. We are private people. I have a reputation, 'Mazyar the Humble,' 'Mazyar the Discreet.' We are not inconvenient. Some of them who left Sa-Hareth, besides... did it because Anurr was — an unfortunate development. And who helped depose their little friend, Unhalad? Aaaaaaahhhhhhh. Shhh, better we do not talk about politics, see?
The fifth: ...whoever shared the feeding before? The one that turned stomachs? You do not cook again. I! I, of course, being a man of great strength suffered nothing. But others... there were complaints. Even Lord Arha... as I said. Noble temperaments.
The sixth: the Lady Hatisse. I speak her name once, and that will be all. I do not want talk of witches in my caravan. No politics, no witches.
It is good to have you, all of you. And we will make such memories together. Please, do not thank me. I am humbled to have saved you.

un: deft hand of little deaths [Voice]
But if you don't want me to help with that, I won't. I can catch snakes instead.
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But what should I do for food then? I mean, I can cook only for myself if it's a problem for others.....
Or I guess I can just not eat if it's too much trouble.
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[ ... listen... he will heed the warnings, but the snakes didn't ask for people to go into their territory and capture them! ]
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Though I suppose I can ask if some of them are curious about going, since they will likely be kept warm at the very least.
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un: lady love of a thousand poets; voice
Also, just how hard is it to catch a harpy? Asking for a friend.
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The harpies... I do not advise you do it alone, although, a man like Mazyar, in his youth, he would have — I would have easily.
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un: minstrel of precious purred trills
Oh, and you tell us that now?
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un: lady love of a thousand poets; voice
Anyone wanna hunt some snakes and harpies with me? We can split the gold.
un: fishcious rumors; voice
un: azure stream
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[Since he's... not allowed to cook anymore, let him be helpful in other ways.]
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You mention snakes and other creatures from the sky attacking the livestock. You also mention coin and then mention tar and snakes. Surely it would be easier to cut them down to save both the livestock and the people that are travelling?
[He's a knight, forgive the simple thinking here.]
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How does one use a snake's venom to cure anything or become useful?
[Medicine, snakes. These things were beyond him at the moment.]
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un: sect leader jiang
Lan Wangji, if you're alive, speak up.
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username: absterge
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Sounds like there's hunting to do. Same as usual?
[ 老规矩?He's just trying to sound cool, asking Wangji out for a night of fun like back during the war. And by fun we mean fun for these two, which means being dutiful and responsible while having really excellent hair. ]
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1/2 un: wei laozu
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