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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 19:17:51 GMT -5
Ulric perused the small market of the small village he had currently found his way to, they seemed to not have much to sell other than the meagre amount of vegetables that they could grow themselves, those not looking particularly appetizing to him, he feared that some of them were either dug up to early or to late. From the size of the market either the people here weren't used to eating particularly well, either that or they had had a particularly poor harvest this season, either one could well be the reason for the lack of what vegetables and plants they did have.
Ulric himself was just strolling through, thinking of maybe getting a place here for the night, assuming that this rather small vilalge had an inn, he couldn't see it as having one personally in which case any farmers barn would do, assuming the farmer didn't mind. And if the farmer did mind, well he was sure he would manage somehow to get in there anyway, and he could be quiet enough to make sure he wasn't found out if he tried hard enough.
For now though the sun was still bright in the sky and so he wasn't so worried about his sleeping arrangements, or rather his lack of them, for now he was just seeing if there was anything to do in such a small and unknown place. There didn't seem to be an inn, nor anywhere he could buy any sort of drink unless he wanted water. There wasn't really a blacksmith for him to get supplies from nor a decent shop in the lot, what did people do with their lives in villages like these.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 11:38:06 GMT -5
Yumi opened an eye, and then another. Of course this was the other eye, it wasn't like it'd be the same eye otherwise her eye would be really widely open and that'd just be a little bit weird. No; both eyes were open and seeking adventure. Rolling over a little she realised that she was laid on top of some weird sort of cloth, which confused her quite the amount. Trying to stand up she realised she couldn't, as it just moved too much, which led her to falling back onto her front and crawling to the edge, to then look down at stuff.
Below her was a group of people walking around who didn't really seem to spot her. Quickly pulling herself off the edge she dropped down as nimbly as she could, falling almost flat on her face before pushing herself off the floor and looking about at the confused people around her. A small paused was followed by the complaint of the person that owned the tent type thing she had been lying on top off, it seemed to be a market stool thing. How she'd ended up somewhere like that she wasn't sure, but it was so common these days that she didn't care.
Walking away from the commotion, she walked around for a little bit before deciding to yell a little bit:
"I'm bored!"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 13:18:47 GMT -5
Ulric continued his slow walk through the market, noting that a lot of the stalls really weren't in a good state, little more in fact than a cloth covering over a wooden desk of sorts with their wares on top of the desk. It was interesting to see how something that people took for granted like having a decent market didn't exist here. They really were poor.
One of the stalls looked as if it was a bout to fall down, the clothe over the top of it was hanging dangerously low and a shape could be seen through it, Ulric just assumed that it had caught a large amount of rain water in the cloth and was sorely tempted to go and push it up and empty the cloth of water for the stall owner.
Just then though, it moved. The cloth moved and out of it plopped a woman, a woman who seemingly hit the floor rather har after falling off the makeshift roof of the stall, even though she wasn't bothered by it it seemed as she just got herself up and walked away as if nothing had actually happened at all.
Ulric followed her, walking with the flow of the people walking along not to seem to suspicious, but he followed her none the less. She seemed as if she could provide some sort of fun or entertainment in a place that for him was otherwise bare of any chance at fun or even anything at all to do to pass the time. She didn't walk long though it seemed, stopping fairly soon and yelling out about her boredom to anyone with ears around her. She certainly was a rather interesting person, and one that Ulric felt like he should try and talk to, even if only to lift his own boredom with her unusual way of thinking.
"I'm bored also, know anything a guy can do out here? Haven't seen much myself." He said with a grin as he approached her, hoping and praying to every aspect of the light and the dark that she wasn't completely mad and wouldn't just suddenly leap on him with teeth exposed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 14:14:04 GMT -5
Yumi spun on the spot for a little bit, not really caring about anything around her, that was until she heard a strong voice behind her. Her first thought was a monster twice her height trying to give her a hug, but when her vision cleared from the spinning she found that it was in fact a man who stood before her. There wasn't much special to him but he told her that he was also bored which was probably good enough to become friends, at least in her books. Not that she had any books, they were illegal after all, which she felt was completely silly, but didn't argue.
"I have no idea where here is, so no. However I do think that running around a little could be a little fun, if you're interested"
Her youthful mind hadn't aged a bit, and she still enjoyed running around and pushing people off rooftops like those little scallywags tended to like to do. But, she knew nothing about the man, so for all she knew he was actually a monster transformed into a human, still wanting to give her a hug, or better. Leaning a little bit towards him she inspected his face, noticing that it wasn't an ugly one. Smiling a little she wondered what kind of person he was, whether friendly, mysterious or a butthead. She'd met a few of those in her time, although she'd been helped learning how to gather stuff by one so she didn't mind too much.
"So who're you anyways? Not a space monster right?"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 14:50:44 GMT -5
Ulric laughed heartily at the young woman's speech, she seemed rather disorientated and out of it, if he didn't know better he would say that she had probably drunk far more than would be recommended for someone such as her, from the sounds of things she would be well into her cups yet when she leant into him he could not smell the normal stench of alcohol that would usually hang around someone who had drunk as much as he suspected this woman had.
"No I'm not a space monster by any stretch of that word, the name's Ulric. And you?" He said back to her in a rather amiable tone, as he had first guessed she was quite an interesting person, someone he thought he could probably talk to without becoming to bored. Then again there wasn't exactly much else in this village to interest him, and compared to all the other boring people around she seemed rather fun.
"Running is good by me, nothing wrong with a bit of exercise. What do you normally do for fun? Hide and seek?" He said, laughing at the thought of playing hide and seek at his age, and with a random stranger at that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 1:33:53 GMT -5
Yumi blinked a few times over, was he really not a space monster? Pouting for a moment she realised she wouldn't be getting any hugs from him, but instead more questions. He seemed to like the idea of hide and seek though, which half tempted her if it weren't for the fact that people tend to get vicious when she jumped across their roofs. Nevertheless the man was considering the idea, which was good enough for her to know he had at least some sort of interesting aspect to him. She wouldn't lose concentration yet.
"The name's Yumi, but my friends call me Yumi"
She smiled in an airheaded way and considered some things. Exercise wasn't the reason she exactly ran about, it was more because she found it fun or she occasionally saw a cat or something. She liked cats, and most other animals too for that matter. Apart from spiders, they were a little bit weird, or was that lizards? She couldn't recall. So what did she do for fun, that was the real question, which in all honest she didn't know how to respond.
"I enjoy hide and seek, that sounds like something fun. But I'm not the greatest at hiding, but I have the keenest eyes in the land!"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 1:51:52 GMT -5
Yumi had taken him seriously, after introducing herself she had then gone on to actually take him seriously about hide and seek, she must have really been into her cups if she was taking him seriously on things like that, but for Ulric it just made him laugh more.
"The keenest eyes in the land? Well will you be wanting to seek first then I'd assume." Ulric said to her, still not quite believing that people of their age were going to play hide and seek, although the idea of it did sound rather appealing and there were lots of places he could already think of hiding in around this small village.
Hooking his thumbs into the waistband of his trousers Ulric already began scanning the surrounding area for hiding places even as he waited for Yumi's reply, rocking slightly on his heels, this was far more interesting than anything else in this small village, there wasn't much else to do so there was no reason he shouldn't play hide and seek with Yumi. After all, he wasn't in a rush anywhere and had been looking for something fun to do, for all he knew this might turn out to be rather fun. Stamina: 16/20
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 11:31:29 GMT -5
Ulric actually wanted to join in with her game of hide and seek it seemed. The main problem was probably that she in fact didn't have the greatest of eyes when spotting people, but she'd keep that a secret for now. Instead her plan was quite simple, observe how he did it and then improve her own hiding skills at the same time. Of course this wasn't quite how things worked but surely she'd gain some sort of knowledge about it from trying.
"Sounds like a plan. Under one condition though..."
Her condition was simple, and something quite typical of her. Of course the usual person could presume that she might try turn it into kiss chase, or maybe you had to punch the person when you found them, but no, this was Yumi so it wasn't quite the norm to begin with. Raising a finger and smiling she stated:
"Once you have a spot you cannot move from it, so it doesn't make it unfair. And, when you find the person you must hug them to claim victory. I hope to learn a little more from you, but..."
A pause followed before she shut her eyes:
"Sixty, fifty nine, fifty eight..."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 2:35:34 GMT -5
Ulric stood by and listened to her condition for the game, it was unusual one on the second count, although the first seemed fairly simple, if you kept moving then it would be impossible for someone to find you, and the hug was to signify fully you had been caught instead of you just hanging around an area going caught you in order to trick the person hiding out of cover.
And then straight away, she began, already counting down from sixty as Ulric scanned the area around him for a place to hide. There were buildings galore, but he wondered if he could actually make it up one of them and into a decent spot on the roof to hide before she stopped counting, he figured that at his current level of skill he couldn't so instead began looking along the ground for a place to hide.
Ulric ran for several metres, coming to a skidding stop before turning a corner and then another, ending up in a small alleyway that connected two of the streets, the alleyway contained only a large crate piled with scraps of cloth but to him it was like a haven. Ulric tipped out all of the cloth next to the crate and then tipped it upside down over himself, covering himself in the crate. He hoped that his hiding place would be good enough.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 11:25:07 GMT -5
"Three, two, ONE! Ready or not here I come!"
Spinning around she ignored the confused looks on the faces of most people in front of her, and began to walk around a little. All she really needed to do was look in kind of obvious places in order to find him. Firstly she walked up to the nearby stool and leant over it, hoping he'd have gone for somewhere obvious, but no such luck. Maybe he'd gone a little further? Walking a little bit more she pouted and tried to think, she hadn't spotted him yet and it wasn't going to get easier on its own.
"Hmm..."
Walking alone the side of a stand, she noticed a little place which he might have gone, and thought about it for a moment to see if he would have. On a consideration, she decided he wasn't down there and kept walking, blissfully oblivious to pretty much everything around her. She wasn't as observant as she'd said.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 8:07:34 GMT -5
Ulric kept himself absolutely still in his spot, straining his ears for sounds of her approach yet unable to hear anything specific through the bustle of sounds that were normal in a village, especially the market of a village.
He just kept his head down, wondering if she would ever actually find him or if her boasting earlier about how good her sight was had been a bluff, he resolved that if she took to long to actually find him he may have to come out and just reveal himself to prevent her loosing interest and himself from just dying of boredom hidden under a crate as he was.
He could feel his leg muscles begin to cramp but still he kept himself in place, a key skill in his line of work was hiding and right here was a good chance to work on it, even if the person looking for him right now was considerably less skilled than those that had done it before and would do in the future.
Moving a leg slightly Ulric pulled firmly down on the crate, keeping it down on the floor and ensuring that it didn't lift at all where his shoulders or head were touching the top, if that happened the crate would lift and his hiding place would be obvious.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 10:37:50 GMT -5
This was getting annoying, she couldn't find him and she'd already checked one or two obvious places. Was he really that good at hiding? Walking along, she started poking around at random people wondering if they had any idea where he was or they were hiding him. A few grunts and shouts proved that in fact he wasn't there. Sticking her tongue out she went back to try and see if she'd seen him anywhere before. It made sense that she might have just been oblivious.
"Sneaky..."
After checking the stool again she went back to the alley, wondering if perhaps she hadn't seen something. She actually walked down it a little, checking for any sort of odd places. Being the airhead she was she returned to a daydreaming state and continued to walk until she bumped into the other end of the place and fell onto her backside. Pouting a little she looked around a little confused and tried to stand a little whilst patting herself down.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 17:56:18 GMT -5
Due to the crate lifting up before he felt as if the whole world had seen him and of course Yumi must have seen him, he waited with bated breath for a moment waiting for her to lift up the crate fully and hug him to signify her win. Instead though he heard some snuffling from around the crate, figuring that he couldn't be any more obvious than he already had, he lifted it up more and saw that someone had found him, even if they weren't human or someone who had actually been looking for him.
A mangy dog in fact was sniffing around the crate he was in, a particularly scraggly one with matted fur that was covered in dirt, dust and debris and looked as if it hadn't eaten for a while if you judged from the fact that you could practically see it's ribs through it's skin.
Ulric felt bad for it, it was practically like him from the looks of things, a stray that had very little to it's name and was going hungry, the only difference was that he had slightly more coin to his name, even if the amount he had currently wasn't really much. Unfortunately that sense of feeling bad didn't extend so far as him helping the dog, at least not in the middle of this game, maybe once the round was over, if she ever actually found him, he would go and get the dog something, but the likelihood of it staying much longer was slim.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 12:37:42 GMT -5
Yumi didn't know where she was any more, a typical thing for her to do, but she knew she still needed to look for the man. Walking over to a nearby bin she suspected he could be in. Lifting the top she found a middle aged man laid in there, looking all sad about something or other.
"You're not Ulric"
She shut the lid and kept on walking, suddenly noticed a dog stood next to a box. She made a "hmm" noise and approached. Patting the dog on the head she kicked the box full pelt to send it off the back of the man hidden underneath, before flopping down onto his back awkwardly and embracing him in a hug.
"FOUND YOU!"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 14:36:34 GMT -5
"Bloody hell." Ulric exlclaimed as the crate went flying off of his head, the damn thing whacking him on the shoulder as it went flying away and Yumi practically dived on the young rogue. "It took you long enough" He said, pulling her off of his body and standing himself up, stretching out the muscles that had begun to cramp from being in his hiding place for so long.
Ulric rolled his shoulders and twisted his torso, hearing a pleasing pop of his spine and shoulders, stretching each bit out for several seconds to rid himself of the pain that had begun to form in his bones at being immobile in a highly uncomfortable position for so long. "Congrats though on finding me. My turn now though." He said with a wicked smile at Yumi before shutting his eyes as she had and beginning to count.
"Sixty, Fifty-nine, Fifty-eight..."
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