Rise Of The Planet Of The Skaldi

[Devin]

Unfortunately for the pair Helkorth hadn't been nearly as exciting as they'd hoped, in fact it had been positively boring. The city didn't even have a decent market, how were they supposed to do what they were good at without a market, it was the most stereotypical and in fact easiest place for them to earn some coin. But there wasn't one, and the streets weren't nearly busy enough for them to risk it, nor was there anywhere else particularly that showed promise.

So it was that the two had travelled north, eventually arriving in what they'd thought was Rosterford. Upon arriving however they found Lizards, lots of Lizards, Rosterford had been taken by the Skaldi it seemed. Devin of course was quite excited by the prospect of so many lizards, the one they'd met before had disappeared before he had any chance to talk to it much so his mood had been a bit sour since. But luckily now he was surrounded by the lizards, it was difficult for Podrick to stop him just randomly poking the Skaldi and touching them or trying to converse with them, Podrick was pretty much relegated to the role of child minder in the face of Devin's mood. 

From the information they gathered it seemed that anywhere north of New Skaldira was a no go, the SKC had decided that all other races needed to be put out of their misery, or just stamped out entirely. This sobered Devin up considerably, it'd be much harder to arrange his network of informants if he had to cut out anyone that wasn't human, there'd be far less possibilities. War had been declared though and he just had to roll with it, he'd find a way around the problem easily enough if he put his mind to it he was sure. 

Unfortunately they quickly found once again that while New Skaldira was a safe place for them, and was in itself quite an interesting city to the pair, once again it had no market. The market was still under construction, it was in fact awaiting a rather large amount of Ritz and material to build currently, and there was no date set on the deliveries.

[Devin]

Once again they were out of luck on this, it seemed as if the odds were against them for the start up, but no matter they'd find a way, while there was no market here the relative ruinous state of the city and near enough to central location would mean that it'd serve as a good focal point, a base of sorts if they could find a way to gain ownership of a building. Unfortunately there seemed to be no office or anything where they could purchase rights to a building, nor did either of them have any money at all to purchase a building should such an office exist. 

That didn't bring them down though, New Skaldira was decided on as a base of some sorts despite their being near enough to nothing there. Once they had some Ritz they could see about acquiring accomodation, surely all of the houses in the city couldn't be occupied, and the Skaldi would give them a home if they were given sufficient motivation. All that was certain really was that if this was to be their base of operations then they would certainly need to get a physical base, because working on the streets was all well and good but a house or some other structure was needed for storage and all the rest.

Devin and Podrick really needed a market or some sort of trader more than anything, they were potential gold mines. Even if you just went by legal channels you could make some money on markets, it was simple enough, a lot would hire labourers for a day or two to fetch and carry. Some would hire you for more and longer if the job was there, but for now they had zilch. Neither of them really had any skills that could legally be put to use to earn them money, nor any way to use the skills that they did have currently, but they'd manage, they always did.

[Devin]

For now they thought that exploring was probably the best idea, neither knew the terrain around this city particularly well, the inside of the city hadn't taken long to remember but the lands around they didn't know. From what they'd seen on the way in New Skaldira was on plains surrounded on all sides by forest. Forest usually meant there was a chance for them to work, or at the very least they could hunt and gather things to sell in the town, neither was great at either of those things but they'd gotten by on it before.

Podrick however decided to stay in the city, he contented himself at looking at the scraps of machinery and weaponry as well as trying to figure out the infrastructure of the city. Such things held no interest for Devin however so he resolved to simply go on his exploration by himself, warning Podrick that he likely wouldn't be back for a few days. 

Their provisions were quite scarce so the lion's share was left with Podrick, Devin could forage for whatever he needed easily enough, and if he struggled with it he wouldn't die from a day or two without food, he didn't plan on going that much further from the city so he could be back if his foraging failed particularly spectacularly. So it was that the two split ways, Podrick staying about the town to satisfy his craftsman related interests while Devin went out into the relative unknown to do exactly what he was good at, doing whatever he wanted.