[Yar.  It's a bright new day amongst our crew after spending the night in the 
Maltan town Forthswith.  The town takes on a bit of new light in the sunlight.  
It seems slow to be active this morning though.  Some people can't believe the 
attacks are over.  But still, people aren't living in fear of their brains being 
chewed on anymore.  Which is a good thing.]
[Some people stayed at the inn.  Some pansies stayed on the boat.  Shame, 
because those who stayed at the inn got there FREE OF CHARGE!  Ah the rewards of 
happy townfolk.]
[So, yeah.  Sunny day, town's taking its toll but looking better.  People 
(supposedly) waking up.]
<Naiya> ( Who ya callin a pansy? >_> )
[Session start!]
<Rowyn> (You're right.  You're more of a daffodil.)
[Apparently the crew's all late sleepers.]
* Naiya isn't! She comes knocking on the inns door!
* Nasira is juuuust waking up right about now, doing the stretching and yawning 
thing. She looks across the room to see if Shan's up and about yet.
* Naiya knocks on doors! "Hello...? Shan, Virgil...? Filis?"
<Nasira> (Virgil and Filis can share a room!  Whoo!)
* Virgil yawns, a book over his face as he doesn't bother getting up.
* Shan is! ... Not up.
* Nasira stands, stretches, checks to make sure everything's around, and goes 
about going to the bathroom and washing up for the first time in forever. If 
Naiya knocks with her clangy armor, she ignores it.
[A middle-aged gentleman answers the inn door for Naiya.  His hair is scruffy 
and, while he doesn't look particularly ugly, lines on his face are starting to 
show his age.  He pulls out a pipe and blows a puff of smoke out. "Awfully early 
to be looking for an inn, aren'tya?"]
* Enzo is just waking up.  Scratches his head.  Checks all limbs for 
intactitude.
* Nasira takes a bath! GO PLUMBING!
* Naiya nods, looking like all the world that she hasn't gotten enough sleep. 
"The rest of my group is here... I missed the call to come."
[Filis is already up and about and out apparently.  Whoever she's rooming with 
notices she's not there.]
<Enzo> (She snores.   No-one roomed with her.  <.< )
<Rowyn> (>.>)
[The man lets out a little nod. "Wait...say...you're with that strange group 
that came in earlier, aren'tya?"  He points with the stem of his pipe.]
* Naiya frowns, looking a little moody, then goes back to a sad smile. 
"Strange...? Yes, that would be them."
[The man pushes the door back a little and props it with his back. "Come in 
then.  We're serving breakfast if you're interested."]
* Shan stirs in her bed, muttering to herself. Then she starts screaming and 
thrashing around. She howls something in Chu-Linese as she rolls out of bed onto 
the ground, banding her head and sending sparks flying about, thankfully not 
setting anything on fire.
* Virgil gets up after Shan's outburst. "Geeze, why can't that woman be quiet?"
* Naiya gives an attempt at a decidedly Maltan gesture of thanks, and walks in.
<Shan> ( Banding should be banging. )
* Nasira comes running out of the bathroom, dripping wet and with a towel in one 
hand and her knife in the other. She took a knife into the bathroom with her? 
Apparently. She's, uh... naked, but whatever.
[Inside the lower floor of the inn is a small gathering of rough and tumble 
sailors.  Some of them are eating a hearty meal.  If Naiya were awake, she'd 
recognize some of them as the crew from Kidd's ship.  But she wasn't, so she 
doesn't.  Ha!]
* Enzo rolls out of bed and out the door to knock on Shan and Nasira's door.  
Fortunately or un-, he's dressed (or was so sleepy last night he never got 
undressed, but whatever).
<Enzo> Uhh... is everything all right in there?
* Shan rubs the back of her head, now fully awake. She's swating somewhat. She's 
wearing a white cloth robe and - hey! Her hair is longer! Maybe she hides it 
under her hat.
* Nasira is also missing the eyepatch, so there's just an empty socket. Eew. But 
no real scarring around that socket, oddly enough. She slows as she nears Shan, 
pulling the towel around herself. "Boss?"
* Virgil gets up grumpily and fumbles for his glasses, eventually peeking out 
and squinting. "What's going on?"
* Enzo glances back at Virgil, shrugs, and knocks again. "Shan?  Nasira?"
* Shan rubs a hand over her forehead and glances at the sweat on it. She doesn't 
seem to process Nasira's words for several seconds, but then finally turns her 
head towards the other woman. "I... It's nothing. A bit of a bad dream."
* Nasira nods, studying Shan with one good eye. "Must've been a hell of a bad 
dream." She pulls her towel tight around herself and raises her voice, "It's 
nothing!"
* Shan calls towards the door. "Everything's fine, Enzo!" She slowly pulls 
herself to her feet.
* Virgil grumbles. "Hope you're right!" He closes his door and goes back to 
sleep.
<Enzo> Okay!
* Enzo turns, blinks to see the door to his room closed, shrugs, and heads down 
for FOOD.
[Enzo almost bumps into the innkeeper.  He give Enzo a concerned eye. 
"Everything alright?"]
[A few people in the downstairs room look up at the commotion but Naiya is 
OBLIVIOUS.]
* Enzo shrugs.  "Sure!"
* Nasira still looks concerned, but she says, "There's hot water in the bath."
[He eyes Enzo a little longer. "Sure you sure?  Sounded like a scream up 
there..."]
* Shan nods. "I see. Thank you." She shuffles off that direction towards the 
used water.
<Nasira> Yeah, uh... you might wanna drain it!  It's awfully dirty by now.  All 
those rocks, you know.
[Shan goes off to use used water.  Ewww.  Doesn't she know that's unhygenic?  
Especially considering where Nasira's been.]
<Enzo> Someone was having bad dreams.
<Enzo> I guess.
<Enzo> Or they stubbed their toe.
<Enzo> Or banged their elbow against the wall.
* Shan doesn't actually use the used water. "I know that," she calls from the 
bathroom. Of course she does. She's a doctor.
<Enzo> Or fell out of the bed.
["Which is it?"]
<Enzo> I think the official word is "fine".
* Virgil makes a thud as he falls out of bed. "Ooof."
* Nasira looks down at the remaining burns, cuts, and bruises on her body, 
shrugs, and goes about drying off and getting dressed.
[The innkeeper eyes Enzo one more time, then looks up the stairs, then shrugs. 
"If you're sure..."  He didn't look like he wanted to get involved anyhow.]
* Virgil groggily gets up and starts changing.
[Enzo goes down to where there's food!  Of course you have to pay to eat, but it 
looks like a good meal with lots of fruit.  Prevents scurvy, don'tcha know?]
* Naiya waits, sleepily, at the breakfast table. Shan's probably not the only 
one who had bad dreams.
* Shan emerges shortly after, holding a cord in her mouth as she bunches up her 
hair at the top of her head. Guess she really does put it under her hat.
[It's only about 5 drachs though.  Nothing unreasonable.]
* Nasira has dried off! Including her eye socket. She's put on her eyepatch and, 
with that towel wrapped around her hair, is sitting naked on her bed and looking 
through her clothes for something wearable. The slippers are fine, but this has 
holes on it, that's burned clear through, this is slashed a number of places, 
that has a nice pattern of rips across the back...
<Nasira> Guess it's to the tailors.  Even my underwear's destroyed.
* Shan holds the hair in place with one hand and takes the cord from her mouth 
with the other. "If you like, I can accompany you," she offers as she ties it in 
a bun.
* Enzo pays and eats.
* Nasira snickers. "Sure. I've never had to shop for clothes in Malta. They've 
got some weird fashions here."
* Naiya vaguely waves at Enzo. She thinks. Or did? She's too tired to be sure.
* Virgil walks into the bathing area and starts washing himself. Wow, he takes 
care of his own hygiene? Amazing!
* Nasira pulls out some mostly intact underwear and picks out a pair of loose, 
white pants with just two slashes around the right knee and a shirt that just 
has a few burn marks on it and puts them on. This is followed by her tying her 
sash around her waist and tucking her weapons in it.
* Shan gets changed, today wearing a leaf-patterned green robe over a white one, 
and a sharkfin-shaped hat. "Nor have I."
* Nasira bundles up the rest of the clothes to be dropped back at the ship 
and... er, slips on her slippers.
* Enzo is eating fruit!  Maybe he acknowledges Naiya with a clearing of his 
throat, or maybe he swallowed a bit too fast.  ANOTHER MYSTERY!
* Nasira eyes that. "Nice hat. Reminds me of fish." She finishes drying off her 
hair, roughly combs it out, and ties it into her multi-sectioned ponytail.
* Shan also has white pants! She wears these under the robe. That's... a lot of 
clothing. But since most of it's silk, it's not so heavy.
* Nasira is wearing light cotton! Hooray for cotton!
<Rowyn> (It's weight training.  The robe's really leaden.  She takes it off and 
she moves like Rock Lee.)
* Shan glances up at her hat. "You think?" She stretches a bit, and goes through 
a morning kata that involves bending her limbs at odd angles.
* Nasira grabs her money pouch and ties that to the inside of her sash, too, 
before stretching and watching Shan curiously.
* Virgil comes down, all clean and ready to eat. And considerably awake. Looking 
over the tables, he finds the one with Naiya and Enzo, and has a seat. "Good 
morning."
* Naiya starts slowly eating. Even sleepy and not-that-awake, food has this 
strange attraction...
<Naiya> Hello, Virgil. *blink*
* Shan catches Nasira's gaze. "Is something the matter?" she asks without 
halting.
* Virgil sniffs, then gets up and goes to get food. "I'll be, um, right back."
<Nasira> Nah, it's just interesting.  Looks handy for loosening up.
* Shan nods. "Quite. I can teach you sometime, if you like."
* Nasira grins. "Sure. Some variety's always good."
* Shan nods. "Very well." She finishes a few minutes later. "Then, shall we go?"
[All of you downstairs who made it hear some pounding from outside, like a 
hammer and nail.]
* Enzo cocks his head curiously while eating, but with superior reflexes manages 
not to drop food as he does so.
[Virgil hears something too!  It's... the growling of his own stomach.  Geez 
it's loud.]
* Naiya looks up. "Is someone stealing a sign... no... putting one up?"
<Nasira> Yeah.  I'm starving.
* Virgil goes about getting food! After paying, yes. But food! :9
<Enzo> Maybe?
* Nasira leads the way downstairs!
* Shan follows, her hands folded into the sleeves of her robe.
* Naiya gets up, a piece of cheese held in her mouth, and goes to see what the 
noise is.
* Nasira 's sleeves aren't in her robe. She doesn't *have* sleeves. Or a robe.
[There are a couple of scattered windows but the table you're at is fairly 
distant to see out of them.]
* Virgil comes back with a plate full of food. Mmm, food.
* Lynn is now known as Jex
* Nasira goes and pays the five drach for the buffet, then grabs some food, 
because Caladeem madwoman needs food badly.
* Enzo goes to window and checks.
* Jex is now known as Naiya
* Virgil blinks and looks at Enzo and Naiya. "What's going on?"
<Virgil> (Err, What's)
* Naiya makes a snarly sound. "Noise."
<Virgil> Oh, sorry.  I must be hungrier than I thought. ^^;
<Enzo> Someone's pounding something into something.
[There are some people hanging up signs outside, yes.  Mostly look like crewmen 
from the night before, although Kidd's hanging up some himself.]
* Enzo cocks his head, decides food is more important, and goes back to the 
table.
* Shan follows Nasira to the food, because she's probably hungry.
* Nasira grabs herself sausage and eggs. Sausage is probably the spiciest thing 
on the menu, so she gets a few of those. Ooh, and some fruit. Yes.
* Shan gathers food! Mostly fruit and bread. She's not a heavy meat eater.
* Nasira grabs a cup of Maltan tea, glances out the windows over the gawkers, 
doesn't find anything worth stabbing, and has a seat at the now empty table.
<Enzo> ( You see an Enzo there. )
* Naiya blinks at the signs, reading them.
* Enzo waves a good morning wave at Nasira.
* Nasira sees an Enzo at the !empty table! "Morning," she says cheerfully.
* Naiya shakes her head, and goes back inside. She freezes for a moment when she 
sees Nasira again.
* Virgil chomps away at his plate of FOOD.
[Naiya finds her eyes aren't QUITE that good.  On a few of them, she sees 
drawings though.  Some of cannons, some with a face on it.  The ones with a face 
look like a wanted poster.]
* Nasira ignores Naiya, slicing up her sausage into little sausage bits before 
spearing that plus some egg and chewing on it.
* Shan heads over as well. "Good day," she offers before taking a seat and 
eating.
<Zap> [The ones with the cannons have the word "SMITHSON" in large print at the 
top though.  The rest is in finer print.]
* Naiya clanks back in, and takes a seat, resuming eating, much more subdued, 
now.
<Virgil> 'morning Nasira and Shan.  Sure you're okay?
* Shan nods.
* Nasira grins. "I'm fine. See?" She waves her arm, which has kindasorta healed 
up gashes all over it. "Mostly better!"
<Nasira> The bleeding stopped.
<Virgil> Yes, that's good.  I'm glad for you.
* Enzo smiles at Shan, while eating.
* Virgil smiles half-heartedly, not even trying to hide it's false. "Look at how 
glad I am for you."
* Nasira keeps grinning. "Yup. And hey, I'm gonna get new clothes today so I can 
jump off a cliff and destroy those, too. You can come with."
<Virgil> No, you go right ahead.
<Nasira> Aw, are you sure?  It's the fastest way down.
<Enzo> To the clothes place or the cliff?
* Nasira blinks at Enzo. "The cliff. Virgil doesn't need new clothes."
* Shan eats calmly, not offering any comments. She eats the fruit... there's a 
lot of fruit. It's a fruitalicious breakfast.
<Enzo> Oh, that's good then.
<Virgil> How about I just float down, and you jump?
* Enzo eats.  Fruit!  Meat!  Bread!  Go Malta.
<Nasira> Oh, if you want to be a spoilsport about it.
<Virgil> I'm sorry, but I don't enjoy pain.
* Nasira has some more sausage and egg. "I don't, either." She chews and 
swallows, then looks down at her plate. "Maltan food is so *boring*."
* Naiya murmers something.
<Naiya> ... enjoy others pain...?
<Virgil> At least it's better than Zaxon.
* Nasira ignores Naiya's comment. "Really? I've never been to Zaxon." She has a 
sip of tea before going back to her breakfast.
* Enzo blinks.  "Well, at least it's land food."
* Shan nods and says between fruits. "That's quite true, Enzo." She doesn't talk 
with her mouth full.
<Naiya> ... where's Filis?
<Virgil> It's all boiled and fried.
* Naiya shakes off some of her grogginess, and looks around for her.
* Virgil eats some fruit. "Good with the fish and potatoes, though."
* Nasira huhs. "Potatoes." She goes back to eating. "The one thing I really miss 
about my country is the food."
<Enzo> Caladeem food is good!
* Enzo continues eating.
<Nasira> You've had it, Enzo?  Most foreigners I saw stuck to the plain stuff.
[Filis doesn't seem to be down here.]
* Virgil raises his hand. "That's what I usually do when I have to eat Caladeem 
food. It's amazing, but... wow, it's strong."
* Shan shrugs. "I do not mind Caladeem food."
* Enzo nods, half-paying attention to talk, mostly eating.  "Tatya would make it 
when we could order stuff in.  She was good at it."
<Virgil> Anyways, have any of you seen Filis?
* Naiya perks up for a moment. "I can make some caladeem recipes."
* Nasira eyes Naiya. She looks skeptical. Like she wouldn't be.
* Enzo shakes his head, whether at Virgil or Naiya, whichever.
* Shan takes Enzo up on his generously offered prompt. "Tatya?"
* Nasira looks to Virgil. "Nope." She keeps eating.
* Enzo nods at Shan.  "Yup!"  He chomps into a pile of food.
<Naiya> ... I'll try and gather some ingredients to make something tonight, 
Fiona willing that no new excitement happens in between then and now.
<Naiya> ... but for now, I'm worried about Filis.
<Shan> An acquaintance?
* Naiya takes a last bite. "I am going to look for her."
<Enzo> Sorta.
* Shan eats, allowing Enzo to elaborate if he chooses. Or if not.... not.
* Enzo glances at Naiya.  "I hope you don't use up all the supplies I bought 
yesterday.  I spent a lot for them."
* Nasira mrfs, then swallows her eggs and says, "Need me to cover for some of 
that, Enzo?"
<Naiya> I don't think that you brought the right type of supplies to make a 
proper dish, Enzo. ^_~
<Virgil> I'll help cover my share of it.  Thanks for looking for supplies, about 
time someone did.
<Enzo> Well, food is good.
<Enzo> Uh, if you want to, I guess.
<Nasira> Sure.  I'm gonna be eating some of the food, and I ride the boat, too.
* Nasira starts on the fruit, eating it with gusto. Dessert! And it tastes like 
she expects fruit to taste.
<Naiya> I'll pick up some more supplies... I have enough to get food that has 
flavor in mind.
<Naiya> Virgil, will you help me find Filis?
[It tastes a little fruity.  But what's to be expected.]
* Nasira eats fruity fruit!
<Enzo> Well, okay then.
* Virgil nods. "Do we have any idea where she went?"
<Enzo> (To the paying back thing. )
* Naiya shakes her head. "I do not."
* Nasira finishes quickly and drinks the rest of her tea. "Lemme know how much I 
owe you," she says to Enzo, before turning to Shan. "Ready, boss?"
* Naiya starts a 'walkin out the inn.
* Shan nods. She finishes off an apple and dabs her mouth with a napkin, and 
rises. "I will, of course, pay for my share as well," she says to Enzo. "Please 
remind me about it later.
<Virgil> Okay, well, first place to look is her room then.
* Nasira grabs a napkin, wiping her own mouth and hands with it as she stands. 
She's considerably less dainty about it, and she lets it fall next to her plate.
* Virgil heads up to her room after he's done devouring his plate of food.
<Enzo> I will.
* Enzo wipes his hands and gets up for another cup of tea, then jogs up to his 
room to get his satchel before leaving.
* Nasira grabs the pack of clothing she came downstairs with before walking out, 
probably with Shan.
* Enzo walks outside and blinks.  He has nowhere to go, really.
* Shan leaves with Nasira. On the way she looks over her shoulder at Enzo. 
"Would you like to come with us?"
* Enzo shrugs.  "Okay!"
* Nasira snickers. "Hey, if there's a fight in a clothes shop, I want to be 
there."
* Nasira looks around to get her bearings, then heads down the street. She seems 
to know where she's going.
* Shan follows. She seems to know where she's going too, although really she 
doesn't.
* Enzo follows.  Not like he's been here before, either.
* Nasira stretches as she walks. "Days like these make me think it's good to be 
alive."
* Shan tilts her head at Nasira, curiously.
<Nasira> It's a nice day!  And I had a bath.
[Nasira and Shan head towards the clothing shop.  Go them!  It's quite a nice 
walk.  People seem to be coming out more, now that the zomboids are gone.]
<Nasira> (And Enzo!)
<Shan> Perhaps you should take a bath more often, then.
<Nasira> Oh, yeah.  As soon as we get fresh water pumped into the ship 
regularly, I'll take you up on that.
<Enzo> If that happens, I think we'd be in trouble.
<Enzo> Clean, though!
* Nasira grins. "Not a bad way to die."
[And Enzo!]
[Some of the posters are more visible since you're already outside.  Some of 
them are wanted posters for the notorious pirate Drake Finning.  The others are 
advertising another show and sale by Smithson family cannoneers by the shoreline 
today.]
* Shan walks by them. She glances at one or two, but doesn't comment.
* Enzo glances at them, glances away, keeps walking.
<Nasira> Man, her boyfriend's everywhere.
<Enzo> He's a boyfriend?
* Nasira blinks at Enzo once. "Lilith has a crush on him."
<Enzo> Ohhh.
<Enzo> That's silly.
* Nasira grins. "Well, yeah."
<Nasira> But that doesn't stop some people.
<Enzo> I guess so.
[They reach the clothing shop!  Well, actually it has quite an assortment of 
accessories.  It seems they do custom work too.  At REASONABLE PRICES!  Or so 
the sign says.]
<Shan> Love has brought many wise people to ruin.
* Shan pauses, and adds. "And unwise too, of course."
* Nasira laughs. "I guess the unwise just get ruined faster. Here we are." She 
opens the door and holds it for the other two.
<Enzo> It's a good thing it's fair, then.
<Nasira> I think it's a good thing I'm not in love.
<Enzo> That's good, too!
<Nasira> Too right.
* Nasira waits for everyone else to... uh, go in?
* Enzo goes in!
<Enzo> Thanks, Nasira!
<Nasira> No problem, kid.
* Shan heads on in!
* Nasira goes in last, since she was holding the door open! And now that she 
isn't, it closes behind her.
[Everyone heads in the store of clothing.  And it has...lots of clothing!  All 
in Maltese style.  Some are plain, some are extravagant.  Some are fancy.  To 
Shan and Nasira, they're probably ALL weird.  Dress for Mediterranean weather. 
(con)]
[At the counter is a man in a sharp tan vest and white puffy shirt and tailored, 
but loose-fitting pants.  Around his neck is a measuring tape.  He has glasses 
and a swept wavy hairstyle.  And he seems to be with a customer who is admiring 
some of the jewelry up front.  By her attire and hairstyle, you recognize her as 
Filis.]
* Zap is now known as Filis
<Nasira> Looks like the lady beat us to the punch.
<Shan> Looks like.
<Enzo> Go figure.
* Filis seems to be in a happy state, talking quietly with the clerk. The 
necklace she has has a large aquamarine round stone in the middle of a silver 
frame.
[The clerk waves you in, glancing up with a smile. "Come in, come in.  Welcome!]
* Enzo waves.  "Hello!"
* Filis blinks and turns around towards the sound, looking directly at Enzo. 
"Where'd you come from?"
<Enzo> Dutain.
* Nasira grins at the clerk. "Hi." She goes to the clothes and starts looking at 
them. Crazy Maltan fashion and, more specifically, female Maltan clothes which 
are all dresses, more likely than not. And probably generally too small for her.
* Shan follows in, examining at all the clothes.
[Yes, there are lots of generally too-small dresses.  But they look nice!]
* Filis smiles at that. "Pleasure to see you too, Enzo." She sighs a little. "I 
just couldn't sleep."
* Enzo gives Filis a weird look, since he was waving at the clerk.
* Enzo automatically wanders around the men's fashions to look for stuff for 
Nasira.
* Nasira picks up a corner of one of the dresses, looks at it, and says quietly 
to Shan, "What's with all the ruffles?"
* Shan gives Nasira a helpless shrug.
* Enzo holds up a nice-looking black bolero-ish vest.  "Hey, how about this 
one?"
* Nasira looks up at that. "Maybe. I don't know if I really need a vest, and 
black..." She pauses, thinking that over. "Why do you people wear black?"
<Enzo> Ummm... it takes longer to notice when it's getting dirty?
<Nasira> Oh, like my eyepatch, but doesn't it get hot?
<Enzo> I guess?  That's why it's a vest!
* Filis just shakes her head and goes back to talking with the clerk. Enzo's 
just a strange strange boy.
* Shan shrugs again. "I am personally fond of lighter tones."
* Nasira nods. "But if you want to stay warm, why don't you get something with 
sleeves?"
<Enzo> Huh?  Oh.  No, I meant, it's a vest, so if you get too hot, you can take 
it off.
* Nasira nods again. She clearly doesn't get it.
<Shan> That would leave her rather indecent.
<Nasira> Hey!  I work hard at being indecent.
* Filis ends up thanking the clerk and setting down the jewelry, walking back 
towards the group. Well, at least Nasira and Shan.
<Naiya> ( And your enzo, too! )
* Nasira grins at Filis as she wanders over. "Didja get anything?"
<Enzo> Well, you can wear a shirt underneath too.
* Filis sighs and smiles slightly. "I wish. Some of these items are so 
captivating but I fear I haven't the money. I'm not sure what draws me..."
<Nasira> Pretty stuff.
<Enzo> It's sorta shiny, isn't it?
<Filis> It's not the shine, really...
<Nasira> How much did he say it was?
<Naiya> ( 1 hand. *chosp off his hand holding it* That's not too expensive, now 
is it? )
<Filis> Oh...mmm...I believe he said 320 drachs?
* Nasira whistles lowly. She looks back at the dresses. "Well, I can't fight 
that well in any of *those*."
* Nasira walks over to the counter, the guy, and the jewelry, taking a look at 
the necklace Filis was oggling.
* Shan nods. "I would imagine."
* Filis watches Nasira oddly. "What is she doing?"
<Nasira> (Challenging him to mortal combat.)
<Rowyn> (<Nasira> "You have offended my honor!" <Clerk> "What'd I do?" <Nasira> 
Nothing.  But this clothing selection is TACKY!)
<Shan> Perhaps she is interested in jewelry.
<Naiya> ( <Clerk> As long as I get to set a condition of the challenge. Wear 
dresses. )
<Filis> I honestly never thought of *her* being the type.  No offense, but she 
seemed not to bother with that sort of thing.
* Shan shrugs.
<Shan> Perhaps you do not know her very well.
<Enzo> Haven't you only known us for less than a week?
* Shan idly looks around the shop again for anyting eye-catching.
* Filis smiles. "Yes, I suppose so..."
* Filis keeps watching Nasira with a curious eye.
<Enzo> I never knew "never" was such a short amount of time.
* Nasira points out the necklace. "That's pretty. How much are you letting it go 
for?"
[The clerk looks up from dusting the counter. "Hmm?  Oh, you're the second one 
interested today.  Fine craftsmanship isn't it?"]
* Filis frowns at Enzo. "Really...I only meant..." She sighs. "Oh never mind."
* Nasira folds her arms. "Yeah, well. I'm mostly looking at it 'cause someone I 
know was interested. Is there a history behind it?"
* Shan takes a few steps forward. This interests her, as well, apparently.
[The clerk raises an eyebrow. "Oh?  Well...aquamarines aren't easy to come 
by...even harder to cut.  They say some of them have magical properties to them 
too."  He clears his throat and looks back up. "Of course, I'm not one to buy 
that kind of stuff, mind you..."
* Nasira grins, and her eye gleams. "Of course not, but would you be above 
telling that kind of stuff to sell it to your audience? Maybe they'll buy it."
[The clerk shrugs. "It's not that big of a matter.  I can always find another 
buyer on looks alone."
<Nasira> So you won't tell us about it?  Guess I'm not interested.
* Nasira gestures at the clothes. "Do you have anything my size that actually 
makes sense?"
[The clerk actually blinks at that. "Makes...sense?"]
<Nasira> Makes sense!  All these dresses and frills- how are you supposed to do 
anything in them?  What's the point behind lace, and doesn't it itch?
* Shan makes a mental note. Lace = itchy.
<Filis> [The clerk actually laughs at that. "I'm afraid I wouldn't know, miss.  
All my dresses sell, and I'm not the type to wear them myself."]
* Nasira nods. "I see. Then I want something that makes sense. Can you do that 
for me?"
* Filis half snickers at Nasira's comment and goes to sift through dresses 
herself, trying to look inconspicuous.
* Naiya is now known as Jexlsss
[The clerk blinks. "I... well, I suppose... you want something custom fitted?"]
<Nasira> It's not my fault.  All this nonsensical and tiny clothing might be 
fine for anyone who doesn't need to climb cliffs or something.
* Shan glances outside. She's about lost interest, ayup.
<Rowyn> (<Shan> I own the world... the world is boring... I think I'll give it 
back.)
[The clerk fidgets a little. "Yes... well... it will take some time..."]
<Nasira> I see.  You're not interested.  That's okay; I'll take my business 
elsewhere.
* Nasira grins. "I'm sure there's another tailor in this town willing to help me 
out." She picks up her pack and starts to walk out.
[The clerk sighs and puts a hand on her shoulder. "Okay...okay..."]
<Enzo> He just thinks you can't pay.
* Virgil is now known as Syzix
<Filis> The nerve of the man, treating you like a pauper.
* Nasira stops, yes, and looks down at the clerk. "Okay?"
[The clerk all but glares at Enzo and Filis, then turns to Nasira. "Look, I 
didn't mean... we can... do the measurements right away."
* Nasira smiles. "Good! It's not like you were busy, sweeping that counter all 
by your lonesome. That's always the last thing anyone does."
* Enzo is oblivious to glares!  For he is Enzo.
<Clerk> Right...
[He nods his head. "Come to the back."
* Nasira does, then. She waves to the others briefly before disappearing behind 
the curtain/door/whatever.
* Filis snickers. "Impressive."
* Enzo waves back.
* Shan watches Nasira disappear, then looks outside again. "Perhaps I'll go 
shopping."
<Enzo> Do you need new hats?
* Shan glances at Enzo with a look of surprise. "'New'...? No, I daresay I do 
not."
<Enzo> Oh, okay.
<Filis> Perhaps I'll be able to treat you to one.  It's the least I could do for 
you taking me aboard.
* Shan smiles. "I appreciate the gesture, but I have no desire to wear a new hat 
unless it comes with a new rank."
<Enzo> So what are you shopping for, then?
* Filis tilts her head. "Hats are affiliated with rank where you come from?"
* Shan shrugs. "Who knows? Perhaps something will appeal to me."
<Enzo> That works.
* Shan nods to Filis. "They are a status symbol, yes. Along with jewelry and 
such. I've never cared for such things, but nevertheless they are important to 
have for formal functions."
[End, Session, End!]