>>6221517Passing through some offices, you see Kiikoinen and Eugen, in the middle of drafting a mission. You had intended to give a simple greeting, but Lalli didn't stop looking at you as you walked by with your rather pain filled gait.
"Jarnafeldt," the Finn says in that short bold voice. "Did you get hurt?"
You stop and spin on your heels, not able to turn down talking to them. It would be suspicious or rude to dismiss it and walk on by; Kiikoinen can tell a lot about a girl by how they walk, you bet. Dirty hound like him has definitely-no no no, that's the henbane, shut up.
"Y-yeah, I slipped. Yesterday. It was still hurting when I woke up, so I got it checked out, but they said it was fine," lying feels a lot better when you approach the part where you put something truthful on top. Kiikoinen doesn't seem to like that answer, though. If there was anyone who could see through your fib, it was Eugen.
She, however, didn't care for the truth there. "We were planning our next missions. This hold on operations is terrible for our luck against the squatters. When we finally get the all-clear from whatever it is causing the hold, we can go forward with one of these jobs as soon as possible."
"I talked with somebody, and it should be lifting tomorrow," you throw out.
"They'd tell you before me. Tch." Sigrun spits, mildly annoyed. "But, good news all the same."
You were about to leave, but the manhuntress continues. "Say, I want your opinion. Do you think we should stop them from getting good meals, or bait a feral jotunn into their settlement? The latter has obvious consequences of softening up their defenses and definitely killing a few people trying to take it down, but they want to toughen up their diet with rich meat for the coming pogrom, and they don't get lobster and steak like we do. So, they've turned to kidnapping and cannibalism."
>A jotunn in the middle of their town would cost them precious fighters, saving you in the future...>Kidnapping AND cannibalism? Forget denying them protein, that's completely unacceptable!>Can we try... (write in a mission suggestion!)