[open] april influence jobs

[thedarkbond]

Who: Ren Suzugamori and you!
When: Early April
Where: The ports and wherever food distribution is happening
What: Influence jobs (Sharing is Caring and Rumour Has It) + catchall if anyone wants to plot anything else
Warnings: None right now, will update if they become relevant


[a: sharing is caring]

[Ren might have been there to save the guild's workers when the power plant exploded, but he's noticed a very disappointing shift in the attitudes of the landens this month, and it's making him very reluctant to be taking their side on anything right now. Particularly when the situation of the Blood in the city's slums is well-known at this point, and people are still turning a blind eye.

Diplomacy has always been a strong point of his, though, as has been identifying the weakest links. As such, in one of the food distribution areas where guildworkers are offering food out primarily to landens while harangued-looking Blood lurk in the background in hopes of getting a chance at it, he might be caught in the midst of sweet-talking them around to his side of things.]

...there wouldn't even be this much to offer around without that gift from last month, would there? To just keep that all for yourself seems like it's just taking while giving nothing back...

[And congratulations, random Stranger, you're getting dragged into this conversation too once Ren turns his head to offer you a smile and a prompt:] Isn't that right?

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[b: rumour has it]

[While heavy lifting is definitely not Ren's strong point, the whole "dawn training" business that's been insisted on while he lives with the court has definitely done a little bit for his strength and stamina by this point. As such, while he still doesn't like hard work, the offer of information from the sailors is a little too hard to resist.

That said, lifting crates by himself is not quite as easy as he expected it to be, and as soon as he spots any other Strangers hanging around the port area, he'll lean his crate against something briefly to wave a hand.] Hey, hey, sorry to ask, but could you help me with this? It's kind of awkward to carry when I can't see where I'm going...

[It's definitely big enough to be obscuring his sight, and there's a lot of rope and net and such like here to potentially trip over.]

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[c: wildcard]

[[If you want to plot something else (potentially with dawn training or Ren trying to train his craft up a little bit before something else nasty happens), feel free to hit me up by PM or at reviseleviathan!]]

Comments

[arrogator]

Don't be getting the wrong idea. I don't carry crap like this all the time.

[Which he probably wasn't since he clarified, but Mordred's mouth beat her brain to the punch there.]

But a knight's got to be able to do some heavy lifting though.

[thedarkbond]

Oh, you're a knight? That's pretty interesting... [Ren has a lot of reason to like knights, honestly, so he looks pretty pleased with the revelation that Mordred is one.]

Doesn't armour sort of count as heavy stuff to lift, though? And swords and shields, if they're big enough...

[arrogator]

Yeah, but that's different. And you usually wear armor, you don't have to carry it and walk around with it like this.

[..it's still heavy and not really different, but there's apparently a distinction between that and lugging a crate around in Mordred's mind.]

[thedarkbond]

Still, it's heavy and you have to walk around with it, right? That's similar even if it's not totally the same.

[They're getting close to where the sailors are stacking up their crates by now, and Ren leans around the box a bit to try and see it more clearly.] I hope we don't have to lift this too high...

[arrogator]

Nah, trust me. You spend all your time in armor and you're not going to think of it this way.

[Most knights probably don't spend all their time in armor, but Mordred's situation was a little different.]

If we do, I can manage it.

[She's peeking around the side of the crate looking over at it. She's pretty sure she can do it. Maybe like 80% sure, but she's going to act like she's more certain about it.]

[thedarkbond]

Mmm, I guess I'll have to take your word for it... [Ren actually has worn armour, technically, but he's usually using someone else's body when he does it. And also a lot of the armour weight is in the slightly overdramatic accoutrements to it, like the shoulder pads.

In any case, he does not at all have a problem with Mordred's suggestion, even if he frowns a little in thought just for appearance's sake.] Are you sure...? I can help if you want...

[arrogator]

Yeah, it's fine.

[She'll tug the crate away, showing she can carry it by herself. One of the perks of being a servant and mostly using her jewel for offense.]

Just guide me on this one, all right? I don't want to trip and drop this everywhere.

[She doesn't want to make an idiot out of herself. Or drop the crate on Ren, that'd be bad.]

[thedarkbond]

[Ren happily lifts his hands from the crate when she pulls it away. He's definitely not used to this kind of hard work, so the less he has to do, the better as far as he's concerned.]

That's fine, hang on... [He goes around to the side a bit so he can see where she needs to go.] If you rotate like this-- [He makes a gesture with his arm to indicate the direction she needs to be facing, a bit to the left.] --and then go straight forward, you should be okay. The crates there are just a tiny bit higher than where you're holding it.

[arrogator]

All right.

[She'll turn it, move forward and place it. It's not perfect, but easy enough for them to nudge into place. And Mordred seems oblivious to the fact that she just said she'd help carry but ended up being the one putting it into place.]

There we go. Perfect.

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