>>5841532While the atmosphere of this place was one which you were certain would lead towards being ambushed. Your eyes darting about as the sloshing of blood and liquified organs echoes through, circuits burning as the chanting gets louder and louder. You are surprisingly left unmolested as you soon come upon the scene.
A pair of individuals are squirming on the table with a burlap sack over each to hide their faces. "O Cosmic Insurrectionary! O Firey Prince of Destruction!" Exclaimed the man in ecstacy, dressed akin to some metrosexual Londoner Fancylad: Red overcoat, top hat, the whole works. "May all of these sacrifices please and grant my heart Re-" he stops mid chant as he finally notices you, face scrunching into a displeased and confused sneer with an eyebrow cocked. "And just who are you supposed to be?" He asks snidely, a haughty arrogance that comes so naturally to those 'Noble' fellows which gives a taste of bile in your mouth.
"Me? Nobody really, you can just think of me as the talking air." You shoot back with a dark grin tugging at your cheeks, "Because clearly you don't have a conscience." At that the man lets out a shrill, annoying laugh that causes pain in your ears to listen to.
"Fine jest! But it's quite rude to break into a fellow Magus' home. Is it not?" He sharply asks back to which you shrug
"I'd say turning individuals into the kinda meat that comes from an Industrial Farm is uh, more than just rude compared to me Breaking and Entering." You dryly retort
The little blonde sadist giggles a bit at that, "Touché, but I have my good reasons for this! Surely you can understand that when the Clocktower Abandons one of their own, then they do deserve whatever they may get." He holds up an item in one of his gloved hands, a Stake which appears so pitch black that if not for him holding it you'd have no doubt about not being able to see it. "Now, seeing as I can sense a rather...kindred spirit in you, I propose an offer." His tone shifts to a serious and non-plused sort.
"In exchange for this here." He shakes the Stake in his hand for emphasis, "You are to leave me to my own devices. Forget you ever saw me and you ever saw this place. Forget this whole night ever even happened."
You mull it over. While you would be getting what you have come here for, a Catalyst without much compare and avoiding a fight with a vicious Magus who despite the flamboyance holds a great deal of power to him. You'd be leaving that girl here with Him still, and all of these people will have died for nothing bur slaking some Vague Vengance.
"Personally? I wanna pull his insides out each orifice...but you're the one with the Body." The Voice growls out in your mind, practically feeling the bloodlust from the being of unconciousness>No Way(Fire off a Spell to cancel the offer and get a first blow in, Roll for hitting him if you choose this)>A Faustian Bargain? May as well take it(Be like Any Other Magus) 