<div class="floatright"><strong>Elias Balthazar</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=309005.msg15016342#msg15016342)<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/58H7CY1.png)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Info</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>HP:</strong> 17/22 <br/><strong>AC:</strong> 11<br/><strong>Effects:</strong><br/><strong>XP and GP</strong> 330xp, 8GP <br/><strong>IC post counter:</strong> 12<br/></div></div></div><br/><em>So cool. So hot... so scary.</em>Elias had to take a step back from Keiyurikyuu, she looked hungry for more than just bites of fried doughballs or normal sexual appetites. "I would appreciate keeping my intimate pieces right where they are, Keiyuri." He puffed up his chest and straightened his back, no or never to break the old ways. "I think you would like them right where they are as well." Elias didn't have Ja'rok's or Gazra's physiques. Some things were unattainable, even with an atemporal elder god's blessing, but his body was better than his old body, and his mind was brimming with knowledge and new ways of thinking. He could effortlessly change his look, so while it may not be rippling with metric tons of muscle, he could look lean, svelte, and chiseled. It would do for Elias. Elias shifted his form again, briefly in an uncharacteristic show of bravado (https://img00.deviantart.net/30e6/i/2015/163/d/a/comm__muscle_growth_challenge_by_kuroshinki-d8wzrkn.png), before turning back into the slim mage he had settled on. "I can be anything you are looking for, Keiyuri... within reason..." Mask of Many Faces used twice. Settling back on post image.<br/><br/>Ja'rok and Gazra revealed themselves as opportunistic thieves taking a number of takoyaki balls from Elias's platter as Keiyurikyuu teased and enticed him, "Its fine, Ja'rok. I bought way too many, and sharing with all of you is a good thing. These are just a delightful and familiar vice from the old world." Besides, everyone had taken one or two from the heaping platter, and Elias still had plenty to himself. Vera was quiet and collected, though. Maybe she was just a bit introverted? or still getting used to the group? Elias didn't pry, though he had held up a takoyaki ball for her, "Its fine, I have plenty..." she didn't take him up on the offer.<br/><br/>****<br/><br/>As they walked through the gothic fortress, Elias couldn't help but whistle at being impressed. This place was old, and it was grand, plucked out of a fantasy novel, except it was real. The vampiric maid had Elias immediately on edge, and wondering if every girl in this world was not some kind of blood-letting fiend. Lord Grimjaw was just impressive, a massive man with an iron jaw.<em>Do you think Grimjaw likes his drinks 'shaken, not stirred?'</em>Awakened Mind with Gazra It was an esoteric joke, but Gazra looked like a man that had seen quite a few movies in his previous life, if his powers and new form in this world were any indication of that.<br/><br/>"It would be absolutely bold to come into the city, Vera, and I concur. I can see the alpha doing just that if it is able to shift. What better way to pick up intel and rumors of enemy troop movements? Its food for thought." Elias barely caught up to the discussion of the dire wolf alpha, he was marveling at the amount of gold, that Lord Grimjaw was offering. Judging by most of the things in the marketplace, they could hold up pretty well for a week with their current funds, or slum it for a month. Five thousand didn't quite split six ways, but it was a sizable chunk of money, on top of the bounty of other wolves they would kill along the way, and personal rewards! "Knowledge. A tutor that knows magic or scrolls of spells. The sooner I know the rules of magic, the better.<em>And the sooner I can break the rules...</em><br/>