avaricious | Nine To Go

[Well, someone is getting married. Here, of all places! Ling thinks it's a bit reckless, but there's no harm in a little fun. So he devises a filter and doesn't even bother disguising his voice.]

[Filtered To Males Only]

Hello! My name is Ling Yao. I'm sure most of you heard about the recent wedding about to happen. I've been thinking about marriage myself. After all, I do have to eventually pick out fifty wives when I return home. But it wouldn't hurt to find someone here as well. I could be here for a very long time and Luceti does happen to have an exceptionally stunning population of women. So, what do you say that some of you suggest your top five most beautiful women for consideration. Feel free to elaborate on what makes them an excellent candidate for marriage.

And please, let's not get into the matters of Xingese politics. It's really just the way things are, so I'd rather not talk about it much.

[It would ruin the fun!]

(ooc: Please, please, please go all out with the thread jacking! I'm not even kidding. I want to see shit hijacked all over the place up in here. Hell, Ling himself might not even reply to some of these threads unless they interest him personally. Go wild, please! It'll be fun, honest.)

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Like I said. You're a terrible leader.

Really? I think a leader that isn't easy to trick into doing stupid things is pretty all right, myself.

A leader that sends one of his own to the wolves is terrible, though.

So's a guild mate who'd send his leader to the same fate. [ ... ] Actually, I'm pretty sure that's even worse ... It'd probably even land you a pretty hefty punishment, back where I'm from.

Hey. I gotta work my way up the ranks somehow. Hard work and loyalty hasn't gotten me anywhere.

Sure it has! I've just been ... y'know, quiet about it. [Or something. Whatever.] Besides, do you really think getting me beat up is going to earn you any extra points with me?

I was assuming you'd just quit. Or go back home again.

I'm pretty sure getting a little roughed up doesn't mean you get to go home.

I can dream, can't I?

No.

Again I reiterate: terrible.

Your dreams are terrible. You should be glad you've got such a good guild leader around to deny them.

Join Brave Vesperia. We build houses and destroy dreams. Catchy.

You think so? Maybe we should get it engraved somewhere.

We can ask Brave Vesperia to do it. I hear they do that kind of stuff.

Nah, those guys just build things all day. I can't imagine them doing any engravings.

We could ask. I hear their leader doesn't have anything better to do anyway.

[Oh, so that's the way you want to play, huh ...]

I don't know ... I think he might just send us to the smithy for that.

Edited (I CAN TAG ...) 2012-08-10 03:53 (UTC)

The people at the smithy are too busy for that kind of thing. And far too respectable.

So, the smithy can't bring themselves to do a little engraving, huh? I didn't realize they thought so highly of themselves. [a pause while he shrugs to himself] I guess we'll have to ask around and hope we find some metalworker here that hasn't put themselves up on the highest pedestal they could find.

Good luck finding one of those. I heard Brave Vesperia has a really good one, but with the way he's mistreated and ill used, I wouldn't be surprised if he turned it down.

Oh yeah? I heard that guy complains a lot and keeps trying to get the guild's name changed. I'm not surprised he gets mistreated so often.

Well with the blatant favoritism of who gets picked for what, not to mention a terrible name, I can't really blame the guy.

I never heard about any favoritism. You sure that's not just all in his head?

[... He'll leave the name thing alone for now, though. He doesn't really care about anyone's opinions on the guild's name, anyway.]

It could be. Or it could be their leader is trying to cover his tracks.

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