Located under Mercury Avenue's bridge.

Consisting of a makeshift tent with all his scarce worldly belongings, some notorious items were his survival knife, a stove made out of scraps, some cooking utensils, some warm clothes for the cold, a medkit, his binoculars, and his small stash of canned food. Surrounded and somewhat camouflaged by vegetation.

There is another Beggar who lives really close to this tent, his name is named Rahab. Dalion has an unspoken agreement with him about watching each other, whenever one leaves, the other stays and watches over both their belongings.

Although not even Rahab knew about a secret box that Dalion had buried under a bush close to his tent. The box contained the belongings that connected him to his past life from before being Dalion the Beggar.

"RAHAB!!" Dalion shouted as he jumped to get under the bridge, startling the other resident of their semi-hidden home. "WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM!? WHY ARE YOU SCARING ME LIKE THAT YOU PRICK!" answered the angry beggar.

-"Hey! keep it down, you're going to bother the neighbors"

-"The nei... wha... what... what the hell are you talking about you dimwit!? and why the hell you jump and scream instead of just walking in like a normal person?"

Dalion sat down close to Rahab's small fireplace and ignoring Rahab's questions he started talking:

-"Today was very interesting, I met a really nice girl who offered me a meal after I got caught stealing some food, then I met a fae boy who was really shy, like, really really shy." -"what the hell are you talking about?" - "Then left and walked around and saw a midget wearing the hugest hat you've ever seen"  -"why are you telling me this? you know I don't care" - "I tried to take her hat to try it on but she held to it as if her life depended on it and almost fell to the ground" -"You prick!"- "Hehe! It's funny because she is undead, oh! and she also had cat eyes, and then she sucker punched me" -"oh? I like where this is going" - "and called the police saying I was assaulting her" -"WHAT!?" - "so I came to rest while things calm down a bit." -"You idiot! I'm warning you, I am NOT going to take heat from the cops because of your bullshit."

While Rahab kept ranting Dalion started to meditate, he felt it was an eventful night but none of it got him any closer to any of his objectives. He then remembered that there was a man with a mysterious air in the bookstore, there was something about him that was different, probably something to do with magic, perhaps the kind of person who could point him in the right direction to find out more about the strange item he has under his jacket.

Something drew him out of his meditative state, he looked up to the sky intently, Dalion acted as if Rahab didn't exist (angering Rahab even more) and said in a monotone voice -"something is happening right now" and looked towards the sky, in the direction of the park.

-"You fucking maniac! what are you on about now! you think is cute to ignore people? I swear that one of these days I'm gonna bla bla bla bla bla was all that Dalion heard from Rahab as he prepared to rest that night and hope for better luck the next day.

As Dalion sat there, contemplating the sky overhead, something caught his attention. While the night held many familiar sounds, to him, this was not one of them. It was an odd sound, a whirring and rhythmic ticking..

whiiiir-tick-tick-tick-tick-whiiir-tick-tick-tick...

Despite that, it was still a soft, subtle sound. Had he not been under the bridge where echoes tended to get caught, he surely would've missed it.

Dalion suddenly straightened his back and looked Rahab into his eyes, the sudden moves caught Rahab by surprise, he felt he was looking at a cat that was about to be thrown into the water "What now-" but he was cut short by Dalion who quickly jumped from his sit and covered Rahab's mouth with his left hand, making him even more nervous, Rahab though that maybe Dalion had finally lost it and that he was going to murder him, but Dalion wasn't even looking at him, he was looking up-"MMMMmmmmhhhmmmmmmMMMMMmmm" was Rahab pathetic attempt of speaking but Dalion finally faced him to gesture him to stay quiet as he removed his hand from his face, he slowly walked to his tent, took off his jacket, picked up his survival knife, and put it in the backside of his pant's belt making the least noise possible. After listening for another moment Dalion got closer to the side of the bridge, kick jumped from the wall to reach the side of the bridge with his hands, he assumed a hanging position pulled his head up to see what was above the bridge.

[Dalion Looks around, rolled 1D6, result: 5]

Peeking over the edge of the bridge, Dalion is, at first, greeted with nothing but the usual pavement and weeds, bits of gravel and a discarded shoe. Hearing the whiiir-click-click-click-whiiir again drew his attention to a patch towards the opposite side of the bridge, where it finally met back up with the earth. There, in the gloom, he saw... something. He couldn't quite make out what it was. But, there was a glint of bright, brass-like metal and flash of spindly legs. Though he couldn't see clearly, it gave him the impression of either a large crab or the most gawd-awful monstrous spider he could imagine.

Dalion blinked, and it was gone. Though, he thought that maybe, maybe he could still hear the click-click-whiiir. But, it was hard to tell. The shadow had been moving off of the bridge and towards the ground.

"What the..." This was another weird thing to add to the list of weird things Dalion has seen during his lifetime. He decided to climb up and get slowly closer to the strange shadow, checking the ground to see what kind of prints it left on the ground.

Dalion made his way over to where he thought he saw the shadow disappear into the weeds beyond the bridge. The grass there had, indeed, been disturbed by something. Some of the leaves were pushed to the side or crushed. It was unclear what had done it, though. Whatever it was left multiple, tiny holes in the ground. It looked almost like someone had come through and poked at the dirt with an icepick.

It was, at that point, that everything stopped. The air in the around the bridge seemed to still, the sounds became muted. And then, there was a clap and rumble. An invisible shockwave that was both physical and magical rolled across the land, sending car alarms blaring and any light debris or trash flying. To the south, the sound of breaking concrete could be heard and cloud of dust rose into the air.

-"This is definitively new and quite heavy too... mechanical by the sound of it" He said to himself while checking the prints on the ground.

The soundwave caught him completely by surprise as he was trying to figure out what was that he just saw. -"weeeeeeeeellp, that's not good, RAHAB!. Dalion jumped back down under the bridge and started to quickly change into his "comfortable" get up, wore down sports shoes that used to be white, grey sweat pants, a dark blue sweater, and a red beanie. He sheathed his knife in his concealed sheat that was strapped to his lower back.

While doing all this Rahab started to nervously question him -"what the hell was that sound? was that an explosion? and what the hell was making those whirring sounds? did you see it?" .

Dalion's response was -Rahab, I'm going to take a niiiiice night walk around the south side of town, you in the other hand will try to find out who makes arachnid mechanical automatons or vehicles. MMMmmmm you once told me you worked as a deep-sea fisherman for years right? maybe your knowledge of crabs will be useful here "-WHAT!  Are you mad!? you should stay away from whatever happened there, it's none of our business, especially when some creepy shit is happening so close to our tents". replied Rahab.

Dalion just kept preparing while Rahab kept asking questions for which he had no answers, after grabbing a small backpack with his medical supplies and a few small bottles of water he started walking towards the South. -"I'm off to work honey! what? no goodbye kiss? well okay then, just make sure to have dinner ready for when I come back home" .

"Wha...?" was the only thing Rahab was able to say as he saw Dalion jog to the south side of the city.

[Dalion leaves his home]
This message was last edited by the player at 20:07, Thu 04 Feb 2021.

[Dalion enters from Pirate's Galley Steakhouse]

"MMmmm? Oh, You're alive" was Rahab's greeting towards Dalion. Rahab observed how Dalion quietly sat down next to his campfire and stayed there for what must have been ten minutes without moving. "Thank god he's being quiet now" he thought.

Dalion proceeded to get up and get some items from his tent, then he came back and sat next to the fire, he took a stone quern that he had made himself, a small pan and a dropper. Rahab saw how Dalion took a blue flower that he had in his pocket, picked every petal from it and ground them in the quern until they turned into a paste, then he bit the upper part of the flower's stem and threw away the rest, he chewed on it but never swallowed it. After that he took the petal paste and mixed them with some strange salts that Dalion had with him, they were in a queer multicolored flask, after that he poured a small amount of water in the pan.

"Dalion..." said Rahab, but he didn't say anything else, he already knew what he was doing and didn't really feel he had any right to say anything about it.

Dalion waited for fo the water to boil as he kept chewing, and when it was bubbling he poured in the blue paste along with the flower stem that he was chewing, Dalion stirred the boiling mixture with his left little finger as if it was a wooden spoon. All the nerves from the left side of his hand must be dead, either that or he's self-inflicting some serious pain right now Rahab thought.

After a few moments Dalion took the pan away from the fire and let it cool down completely, then he picked the dropper and filled it with the unknown substance that Dalion had prepared. He saw Dalion look at the dropper, now filled with the light blue substance, Dalion stared and stared at the dropper. Rahab knew what he was waiting for, this was not the first time observing Dalion prepare his poison. After what must have felt like an eternity for Dalion the dropper started to glow faintly, very very faintly, the concoction was ready.

Dalion looked up to the sky and raised the dropper above his eyes, after a deep breath he started to pour the glowing blue liquid on his eyes, drop drop drop drop drop he poured them on his eyes until they ran down the sides of his face.

"He looks as if he was crying that blue crap" Rahab thought. "At least I know that I will have a peaceful night of sleep" he said to himself as he retreated to his tent, leaving Dalion alone.

As predicted, Rahab had a good night of sleep, when he walked out of his tent he looked around to see if Dalion was around, he wasn't, he then approached Dalion's tent to see if he was there, he didn't get in nor he got too close, he and Dalion had an unspoken agreement where they didn't mess with each other's stuff unless it was laying around the campfire. Everything was in order, just as it usually was.

[Dalion leaves Dalion's home, goes to the St. Olivia General hospital]
This message was last edited by the player at 18:28, Wed 17 Feb 2021.