The human city was a strange place compared to my town, but it was an agreeable change from the monotony of my usual life. Beep enjoyed the trip as well. He even went on his own little bar crawl to the two taverns here and to the one in the guild. I was sitting in a nice little park in the center of town playing some songs on my guitar, when some ruffians started antagonizing me for no reason.
I couldn't do anything to them or else the guards would try to kill me and beep, but I didn't care. They started this encounter by throwing rocks at me from behind a tree. At first I didn't let it bother me, but it got old fast. They then snuck up behind me and hit me with a stick. It hurt, and I popped a string on my brand new guitar. I figured the best way to nip this in the bud was to draw my pistol and fire a few rounds near, but not at their feet. So I did, and they ran like hell its self was running behind them.
And then the town guards descended upon me like flies to cow shit. The worst part about it was they didn't care about me not resisting. They immediately tried to beat my skull in with metal studded clubs. Their strikes were so weak that it only hurt and it made me mad. But I played along with what they were tying to do and pretended to pass out.
They dragged me through the town and to the center. They pulled me into a large building, which I discovered was a jail. The guards taunted me by saying things like.
"Yeah, bet you thought you could get away with it, didn't you freak?"
One of them even had my gun and said to me
"Not so tough without this little toy now, are you?"
"Oh, go fuck yourself! Better yet, come in here with me and see just how tough I really am. BITCH!"
Since the guards were taunting me, I figured I'd return the favor and taunt back a little. I even grabbed the bars and rattled them, causing dust to fall from the ceiling. They just laughed at me, though they stayed an extra step back from the bars on my cell .
After a while, who I assumed was the guards captain, came running out of his back office after a guard talked to him. He ran over to my cell and started to franticly talk to me.
"Are you the leader of the town on the plains? Were these drunk idiots too rough with you? I am deeply sorry for what those hoodlums in the park did to you!"
It seemed like this human knew who I was, and it frightened them that they had angered me. I wasn't vindictive, but what happened it pissed me off. I just talked to the human like normal.
"Hell, it ain't no big deal your little farm hands here. Even if they tried their damned best, they didn't hurt me none"
"I'm still sorry they shouldn't have reacted that way to what was essentially a very tame encounter!"
The human let me out from the cell and led me to the front desk, where I saw beep with his bag of coins throwing the coins at the person behind the desk while shouting angrily with a drunken slur to his voice
"YOU TAKE MONEY FOR BAIL AND LET QUEEN OUT OF CELL BEEP DEMANDS IT"
"Sir, please calm down, and stop throwing things please, your friends bail hasn't even had an amount set yet."
"IT'S NOT ENOUGH OK, BEEP GIVE MORE BEEP HAS PLENTY!"
I'm almost doubled over in laughter. And also beep noticed me being released from the cell he shouted in his drunken slur about how he finally gave enough and how this didn't need to be so hard. He then stumbled out the door, probably to another bar.
I walked to the store where I got my guitar and bought some more strings for it. I also picked up something special for bellator, a set of war drums and the drumsticks to play them. The person at the shop said they would take a while to make and they would be ready tomorrow. The other thing I did was to go to the shop that sold magic related items. I got there and behind the counter I saw a woman with tanned skin and long, pointed ears. Her eyes were two different colours.
She looked at me and sighed, stood up from her chair, dusted herself off, and then spoke to me
"Hey... How are you today... What can I get for you..."
Her voice was enchanting and smooth to listen to I asked her about the items that were in the shop and some seemed somewhat, useful others very such as scrolls made of a magic parchment that could have a spell inscribed upon them and then that spell could be cast at least once at the cost of no mana, depending upon the grade of scroll purchased.
I bought three rank two scrolls that could cast a spell two times after a while. I figured out how to inscribe the spells on them. The spells I chose were the three variations of the summon hiver spell. I didn't use them yet, but I was going to when we left the town to help us haul back the goods we had bought, such as the war drums, the shipment of metal and the books we bought for the humans.
The highlight of my day was when a man from the guild ran up to me while I was playing my guitar in the park. He tapped me on the shoulder blade and spoke
"Hey skeleton, man, you need to come to the bar and get your friend. He's making one hell of a scene"
We walked over to the bar in the guild and there I saw beep with his bag of coins looking noticeably lighter. He was screaming at the bartender while shaking the bag in his face.
"What do you mean beep' is cut off? Beep still has money left so you give beep drinks! That's your job. Take beeps money and give beep drinks NOW!"
I walked over behind beep and put a hand on his shoulder
"Beep, I think youse had enough to drink for today, so just come on back to the inn and sleep it off. "
and like magic beep appeared to sober up a little and walked off with me to the inn to sleep.