>>5301460Once the exterminators are defeated, the denizens of the sewers spread out to their hiding places. This battle has been a lesson in teamwork for them. Perhaps they'll manage to fend the cleansers off without your help in the future. For now, you lurk in the slum underground part of the sewers, as previously, biding your time while the hunters rampage. It is here that you meet an interesting fellow.
<span class="mu-i">"Watch your step, little rat."</span> -- says a... frogman? tapping the wet sewer floor with his staff, activating an alchemical trap. -- <span class="mu-i">"Lots of traps here. Damn alchemists trying to catch any lab rat they can... Wait a second. Haven't I seen you already? You ever went to the Tsuraidzu dojo?"</span>
You nod. You actually don't know, but that time when you joined another rat squad must've been it, right?
<span class="mu-i">"Ahh, I see, I see. A fellow fighter, it seems."</span>
You point at him, then spread your arms. Who is he?
<span class="mu-i">"Ah, I'm just going somewhere, picking up moves they do in the fighting pits along the way. Fights there are mostly clumsy, but there's some diamonds in the rough occasionally, y'know?.. Ha, what am I doing, telling a rat about my business. But you... I see a spark of intelligence in those eyes. Well, I'm a magimechanist myself, if you happen upon some curious goods, drop by Moonseeker Street, 67, we may strike a deal. Though it'll be troublesome without speech... Well, whatever. Never hurts to spread word of the trade. See you."</span>
The frogman quickly waves you goodbye and walks away, flappy feet slapping against the sewer floor, leaving you in the dark illuminated only by the discharged trap.
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This will be the end of the thread. Thanks for playing with me so far, hope you enjoyed it, if there's any criticism I'm here to listen. The next thread won't arrive for a while, because I want to run a Civ and I've got another quest (Living Armour) to continue, so it's at least two threads' time before Reincarnated Monster Reincarnation returns. I'm not the best at giving concise descriptions, so I'm asking one of you anons to archive the thread. If no one does, I'll so it myself once it falls of the board.
