• Nate, Vincent, Marissa and Nita walk among a crowd.
  • A playing card is placed on the floor, alongside other cards. “Hey, Vincent..” says Nate as he places down the card. “Can we actually go out and do something today?” Beside him are Nita and Vincent, playing a game of poker against each other. “One more round and we’ll call it off, Nate” says Vincent. “Maybe we can find some work at the market’s bulletin board” says Nita. “Yeah, something easy that pays good.” says Vincent. He instructs Nate: “Now put the next card on the floor”. Nate is bored out of his mind. Marissa walks in, surprised to see them. “Hey, there you are, guys!” she says as she approaches. “W-wait, are you gambling right here? Inside of the building? We are going to get in trouble!” she whispers, trying to not draw more attention to the situation.
  • Nita turns around to Marissa. “It’s fine, we’re in a blindspot where Faulkner can’t see us” she says. Nita turns around to Vincent. “Raise you 20” she says as she places down her bet. Vincent thinks about it for a few seconds, nervously deciding what action to take. He finally gives up and folds his hand, throwing them up in the air. Nita happily picks up the coins they were playing with and stacks them up on her palm. “So, what do you say we go buy something nice?” she asks. “Actually, Mister Faulkner just asked us to do something for him…” says Marissa. “Awesome! Are we going on an expedition!” says Nate with excitement. “Nope, just going shopping for some provisions!” says Marissa, as she holds up a shopping list with a few simple items.
  • Marissa and everyone else walk across the hallways of an outdoors market. It’s busy. “Whew… now we have to find a stand to buy from…” says Marissa, leading the group. Nate looks around with excitement while Vincent and Nita walk alongside them uninterested. “Wait for me right here!” says Marissa before heading out. It’s not too long before Vincent and Nita decide to have their own plans. “I’m talking a look around if you don’t mind” says Nita. “Me too” says Vincent”. “Catch you guys later”. “Yeah, whatever”.
  • Nate looks how Vincent and Nita walk away, turning his head back and forth. He decides to tag along Vincent. “So, where are we hanging out, Vincent?” says Nate. “The good ol’ adventure duo?”. Vincent doesn’t pay much attention to him. He sits down at a bench and takes out a book from his bag. “Nowhere, really. I’m just going to sit here” he says. “That’s so boring though! C’mon, let’s go check a stand!” pleads Nate. “Knock yourself out, the world is yours! Or this whole market, at least” says Vincent, in an effort to get Nate off his back. “The whole world…” Nate looks back, thinking to himself of the endless possibilities. “Okay, see you later Vincent!” he says as he heads out, waving Vincent away.
  • Marissa walks among a crowd in the market. “Let’s see…” she says, as she reads her list. Paying little attention to her surroundings, she bumps into another person, knocking both of them to the floor. The other person drops all the items she was carrying on the floor. Marissa reacts quickly and apologizes. “Oh my gosh!! I’m so, so sorry!” she exclaims. She quickly picks up the stranger’s belongings and continues to apologize to them. “I’m sorry for breaking your stuff!” she continues. The other person reassures her “Don’t worry, happens to me sometimes too!” they say. “Is there anything I could do to make up for it?” asks Marissa. “Maybe you’d like to buy something?” the other person suggested.
  • “I got goods from all places in the region! Special drinks, souvenirs, anything you’d ever need!” said the stranger Marissa bumped into. She wore a chullo hat and had her hair styled with braids, carrying a large sack on her back with a multitude of miscellaneous items. She looked like she didn’t have a care in the world. “You look like you are a good cook!” she said to Marissa, making her blush. “Heh… can you tell?” said Marissa, flattered. “Perhaps you would be interested in this chef’s knife?” the merchant said as she held an enormous double-handed sword. “Why would you need that for cooking?” said Marissa while she looked at her reflection on the shiny blade. “A big knife for a big hunger!” said the merchant with a smile on her face. “Don’t you have something more… portable” asked Marissa, nervously. Perhaps she regretted asking this person to sell her one of her goods. The merchant pulled up a much smaller version of that same sword, probably more suited to actually cut vegetables. “Sure, I’ll take it…” said Marissa, reluctantly, as she held the knife pondering over her odd purchase.
  • Nate walked around the streets of the market, glancing at the stalls behind him. A trail of discarded, eaten apples caught his attention. He followed it and found a boy sitting atop of a stack of crates, eating the apples without any shame. “Hey, are those yours?” asked Nate innocently. “What are you, a pathfinder? Go away” said the surly kid with impatience. His hair was scruffy and unkempt, and he wore a large red scarf around his neck. “How did you know!?” said Nate with excitement, honoured at being addressed as such.
  • Nate hurried to climb the stack of crates. He had something very important to say to this kid he just met. “I don’t mean to brag, but…” he said as he reached the top of the stack. “Once, I beat a condor this big!” he bragged, opening his arms wide to emphasize the greatness of his feat. The other kid looked at him with indifference. “Meh…” he said, unimpressed by what Nate just said. “Hey, what about you then?” complained Nate. “Have you heard of the lost caravan?” said the other kid. “Huh? What is it?” asked Nate. “Years ago, a merchant went missing in the mountains with all of their gold left in their carriage. It’s been a mystery where it could be found” said the kid. “That was… until the Red Scarves found it!” he said as he stood up heroically. “Huh? Do you know anyone” asked Nate. The kid points at himself with pride. “No way, you did it? That’s amazing!” said Nate with excitement.
  • Marissa walked around carrying two heavy bags. Tired, she looked around for her friends to help her. “Gosh, where are Nita and the rest? I should’ve told one of them to help me with these…” she said to herself. As she walked, she finally found one of her friends. Unfortunately for her, they were fast asleep on a bench. Marissa approached Vincent, to politely ask him what he was doing. She yells at him “Vincent, wake up!! What are you doing?”. Vincent jumped and shrieked in terror. Soon as he saw Marissa, relaxed and asked her calmly “Oh, it’s just you, Marissa”.
  • “Wasn’t Nate hanging out with you?” asked Marissa, flustered. “Yeah, he was…” answered Vincent. “Probably telling some poor guy how cool is to be a Pathfinder.” Marissa asked him back: “Aren’t you worried about him?”. “ Nate can do by himself just fine.” said Vincent, confident on the situation. “He’s friendly and he will follow anyone who…” he continued before stopping himself, thinking over what he just said. He got up and looked back at Marissa: “Okay, I guess you have a point”. He said. Marissa dragged him by his arm in a hurry, “Let’s go find him then! And Nita, too!”
  • Next update will be uploaded next Saturday!