Jane
The bandit stood there, unblinking. It seemed everything had gone to plan with Gaige's clone piercing the behemoth and getting the information he needed. With the others following Kuo, it made sense that Gaige wanted to get out of there - What with Alois putting an 'on-sight' order on the hero before his untimely demise. Kuouo tilted his head, the dying knight's words to Gaige replaying. The only sense he could make of it were two things: the name ***'Aazkue'*** And an expansion of the knowledge Gaige gained on *His* Journey so far.

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"If Gaige can do this shit, then so can I dammit..."```

Kuouo, in search of any boons that Gaige left behind, ignored the others behind him and dashed up to the dead knight in front of him. He patted around their armor, seeing if there's anything he could take - although doubting he'd find anything. He glanced to the halberd on the side, discarding the thought of taking it. Although he could certainly stick it into his *Inventory* Or his *Dimensional box storage*, he didn't find much worth in it - Unless it were to be made of pure gold... But he doubted that.

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"It'd really suck if I accidentally tipped this dead dude over while doin' that, too."```
Victor
The spoils are to the victor... Or, well, at least the one who is there to take what would rightfully be the victor's. As Gaige had not taken to searching and looting Kaaze's body, Kuouo would be granted the opportunity to *Loot.*

...But, in reality, there was nothing truly of value on Kaaze's person. While his armor did *Seem* To be made out of gold, it appeared that the interior of the armor was made more of a traditional metal — a shiny steel, of some sort, and overlayed with a thin layer of gold. It likely wouldn't be of any value to him, and would only serve to be a further encumbrance, being made to fit a man quite a bit larger than Kuouo, himself. Further, within or around the armor, there were no loose goods or valuables to pilfer — save for a standard, brass-bladed dagger, positioned within a holster at Kaaze's left hip.

While Kaaze's body, itself, did not have any valuable goods on it, a further analysis of the halberd would reveal something a bit more interesting. Indeed, it was not made *Entirely* Out of gold, rather being forged of what appeared to be a hardened brass, but *Part* Of it was made out of gold. A strange, spiked pommel, fashioned **Entirely out of gold,** Was affixed to the opposite end of the halberd's shaft. Its shape was rather strange; it was spiked, yet not the type to use as an attacking edge, but rather to fit into a slot, of some sort. Nonetheless, it appeared as though the pommel could be **Unscrewed safely from the halberd**, and even if he didn't find a place to fit its spiked edge, it would still have value on its own. The golden pommel would weigh about 3-6 ounces, and could likely be sold off later on.
Jane
That golden shimmer...

The way it twinkled in the corner of his eye...

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"Ain't no doubt about that, daheh! I mighta scored a bit of Gold, daheheh!"```

Kuouo looked at the strangely-shaped pommel attached to the ground, rubbing chin and racking his brain to ensure the guy didn't tip over. ``Maybe if I just..`` He grabbed the shaft of the halbard tightly and yanked it out of his grip. Once released, he'd quickly backdash, making sure he was clear of the knight's radius if he were to fall over. The bandit threw the weapon onto the ground, inspecting the golden pommel and contemplating whether or not he should snap it off before catching the ringed-thread at the top of the boon, indicating it could simply be screwed off. ``Lefty-loosy and righty-tighty,`` he reminded himself, yoinking Gaige's forgotten treasure and pocketing it.

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"Alright, now where t' go from here..."```

Are you guys going to say anything

Just wanna know before I make decisions
Tamra
"Are you just here for valuables or what?" Josh yelled from behind.

"Listen, in a situation like this splitting up is stupid, you should've told the rest of us before you went off!" Josh said as he jumped down from the stairs, morphed into a ball and essentially spin-dashed over to Kuo.
"Now, listen. Staying together is important, if we run off and one (or more) of us gets killed, we'll have less of a chance of survival out here."
Jane
Kuouo's eyebrow twitched in annoyance to the mercenary's criticism of his lifestyle. Of *Course* He was here for valuables. The bandit turned around, facing the monster and taking a step back for some distance.

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"And who the hell are you t' tell me what I can and can't do?"```

He growled, withdrawing Infernium and pointing it at Josh, enhancing his words with a sharper, more threatening tone.

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"I took on two of those knights basically by myself, I can handle things just fine. Now if you wanna get in my way, then yer free t' go ahead. But I'll tell ya this,"```

Kuouo looked down at Josh with a grimace, tapping the monster on the chest with the handle of his dagger and shoving past him.

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If you do, I'll make sure t' personally introduce you to the ground and trust me, yer relationship will be intimate."```

Only asking cuz I'm on Amazon Prime shipping today
Owen
Give me like a couple minutes
Tanya
He had decided the best course of action for the fight would be to stand back and wait for it to end. With the guardian fallen he began to make his way down the steps towards Kuouo.
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- "And just w-" -
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He was interrupted as Gaige ran up the stairs past him, and as Kuouo made his way down, he sighed he walked down the stairs just far enough that he was in view and could speak to the bandit.
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- "I understand if you want to be a lone wolf but the truth of the matter is simple, there is only ONE VARET, whoever has the VARET can get out of this place, whoever dosnt is stuck here FOREVER. So unless youre content to stay here forever then we should stay together, now i plan to go back and find the others before we all die. I heavily suggest that once you are done with that you follow." -
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Elroy
The drone did not follow immediately, instead it seemed for more interested in the felled guardian, it floated down and began to scan it, as well as the rest of the room, making sure to take note of anything and everything.
Jane
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"You mean this device?"```

As Kuouo pushed past Josh, he took his VARET out of his inventory. He raised an eyebrow, thinking it was strange for Cumhall to think he was the only person that had the device. After all, in a super-structure like this, it would be pretty easy to be seperated and trapped somewhere.

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"Well either I heard wrong and yoinked an extra VARET or yer stupid... Thinkabout it, they'd only give us one if the company wanted t' explicity trap and/or kill us. Which... I wouldn't put them past that, but whatever. Now, same goes for you too, no offense. Just don't get in my way and we'll all be fine and dandy, got it?"```

Kuouo brushed past Cumhall a little bit more politely, slowly ascending up the stairs in hopes that the two would lay off his tail.

And so begun the bandit's ascent, speeding up from a mere walking pace to a blistering blur that left fiery embers in his trail. Now all he had to do was make sure the other two don't even get a chance to see him like those two did.
Tamra
"Damnit, this is why I don't like working with people.." Josh sighed, approaching the corpse of the knight.

"Now, to figure out what these things are.." Josh said, pulling out a small device, kneeling down and scanning the corpse.
Sarah
The body appears to be dead.