<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315225.msg15234336#msg15234336">Quote from: Vergil Tanner on 10-01-2020, 13:32:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I like all of the above! Maybe they were in the same Mercenary company for a while, where Valerie kind of attached herself to Lyssiah as the only other girl, and Lyssiah was like "Uuuuuuuuuuuugh fine I gueeeeeeesssssssssss." And then things went bad at that company - maybe the Merc group were planning on stabbing Valerie in the back for some reason, maybe selling her out to a rival record company that was using underhanded methods to get ahead - and so she shot the people sent to "grab" her, burst into Lyssiah's room, was like "THERE'S NO TIME TO EXPLAIN" and suddenly Lyssiah is shooting up her old employers because they saw them together and assumed that Lyssiah was helping Valerie escape. SO BEGINS THE BUDDY COP ESCAPADES! <br/><br/>Whether they end up separated after that or if they continue to travel together is up to you. Assuming the above is cool with you :P<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I like this idea. I am thinking that perhaps the Merc company wanted to sell both Valerie and Lyssiah for different reasons (In Lyssiah's line of work you will sooner or later have enemies!) - perhaps Valerie accidentally overheard the merc company leader speaking with his lieutenants. Then they stayed together for a while, first escaping together from angry mercs then laying low in one of Lyssiah's hideouts for a week or so.<br/>After that, I think they separated for a while - they are too different to work together and Lyssiah doesn't trust her fully (or anyone else), but shortly before this mission Valerie comes to Lyssiah asking whether she'd join.<br/>Lyssiah can't help but feel she owes a debt to Valerie for alerting on merc intentions, so she agrees to help<em>just this time</em>, conveniently "forgetting" to tell Valerie that it is also a great opportunity to escape some gambling debts and bounty hunters that are looking for her.<br/>