<div class="floatleft">(http://orig09.deviantart.net/0a81/f/2009/301/4/5/a_drop_of_green_by_heise.jpg)</div><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">AZUMI 'RYUJIN' KASEGAWA</span></span></strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iy6vBKUuFfJyOCy1VWp5s7tUXSnkyNp-7LjEMhMX27k/edit?usp=sharing)<br/><strong>Items:</strong>leather armour (wearing), monk's outfit (wearing), mwk backpack (wearing), shortbow (equipped), wakizashi (belt)<br/><hr/><br/>Azumi gave a slight smile when Shalelu offered to use Minkan honorifics; chiefly because she wasn't used to hearing it outside of her family, and even then, that was rare.  She knew a lot of tales about Minkai that she had been told, but then little else, but it was heart-warming to see someone else acquainted with some of it, though it did raise the question of how the elf knew of these things.  Still that was a question for later; for now it appeared that another was to join them – Katsumi by all appearances.<br/><br/>She had seen the young woman often, though often at a distance and there was often little in the way of reason, indeed time, to strike up a conversation, though perhaps now might have been a time to remedy that.  Katsumi's own attention to the elf brought back to mind what Azumi herself had been trying to politely pretend not to see, and it was impossible not to follow where the girl was looking at.<br/><br/>She was again reminded of her amazement at Shalelu's lustful... proportions, and wouldn't have been amazed if the owner of the Pixie's Kitten had tried to offer her a job.  Still, was it easy for the ranger to spend so much time in the wilds all alone?<em>Well, perhaps this isn't the time to have such questions answered,</em>she thought ruefully.  In Katsumi's own defence, even she actually rated fairly highly now that she had the chance to look closely, though her appeal was different from Shalelu.  Still, now wasn't the time to be thinking about these sort of things – they had goblin bounties to collect!  With a slump in business at the Kitten, the gods knew she had to find some other way to make a living.<hr/><br/>Looking down on Brinestump Marsh, made Azumi realise two things – how little she had actually travelled in the places around Sandpoint and exactly<em>why</em>she didn't tend to do so.  A marsh was one of the last places she'd normally wanted to be, but whilst she was under Shalelu's eye, she composed her alter ego to present a calm face, feigning a modicum of interest in the drab surroundings.  "I suppose we should get to it," he sighed, before asking off-handedly; "How many do you figure we might bag?"<br/><br/>He considered the trees for a vantage point, but didn't really trust his ability to scale them – all he could probably expect were a couple of bruises for trouble of attempting it.  So, instead, he put his mind to use at trying to figure out what he knew about this sort of place, and his eyes at trying to spot anything that would give him a clue, thankful that Shalelu was there to give some pointers.<br/><br/>Eventually, when they wandered upon a Halfling hermit, he thought he'd ask for a few directions and goings on in the swamp as the short man must surely have seen a few things in his time here.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC: Azumi/Ryujin's Actions</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Diplomacy:</strong> Result 15 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=84924) (Success)<br/><br/><strong>Knowledge (local):</strong> Result 14 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=84925) (Failure)<br/><br/><strong>Perception:</strong> Result 12 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=84926) (Failure)<br/><br/><strong>Perception:</strong> Result 9 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=84927) (Failure)<br/><br/>As expected, Azumi is more of a social character, lol.</div></div>