Mashyuu: Wanted, Jacob Goodnight!

Job Description:

Previously:

The morning had already came and went for the world as Mashyuu entered the city proper of Hargeon town. Gently he reached down to pat Rocky on the top of it's stone head. He thought that Magnolia Town was large but the port city of Hargeon had at least twice the amount of people rushing in and out of it...

It took some time but eventually the pair found a large bank. Without a moments thought, Mashyuu entered to register his new pet and guardian and deposited his earnings from helping the men and women of Beanstalk Village. As Mashyuu and Rocky went to leave the crowded but silent bank they came across a massive cork wood board. Upon it sat a series of needed jobs but one in particular stuck out to Mashyuu, a wanted poster asking for someone to find a killer named Jacob Goodnight. There was a large sketch of the man's face under the details and Mashyuu got the feeling that the drawing didn't do the man justice to his size.

"What do you think Rocky? Should we do the job while were here?" He asked, only to get softly nudged before Rocky ran around Mashyuu's legs while yelping. Mashyuu couldn't help but smile down at Rocky and take the wanted poster. "Then consider it done. Lets go Rocky..."

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Mashyuu walked through town, using his ability to sense movement around him to evade walking into people while he continued to read the wanted poster. It seemed that the captain of the guard had sent some men to the docks to find this Jacob Goodnight but they never came back. Mashyuu narrowed his eyes and considered the fact that they were probably dead. Who in their right mind would simply go on a killing spree?

"Rocky, this guy's no better than a Dark Wizard. He has to be stopped." Rocky looked up at the man and barked softly. It was then that Mashyuu noticed that there was no longer ground under his feet. In a flurry of rolls, Mashyuu tumbled down a flight of steps to the lower docks of Hargeon Town.

When he hit the ground, Mashyuu held the wanted poster to his head while trying to rub the pain away. Rocky happily barked and ran down the steps after the Wizard. Once it got to it's masters feet it looked around and started to growl. Mashyuu looked around until he saw what Rocky was growling at. A long dark tunnel that had a few workers strolling inside of. It looked like they were headed down steps as they vanished from view. "Alright...Lets check it out..."

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After pulling himself up off the ground, Mashyuu walked with Rocky at his side to a long dark hall. The platform was made of cobbled stone and Mashyuu tapped his foot on it lightly. "Not much in the way of using spells down here boy. Looks like it's going to be stone staff only... I need to invest in some sort of weapon." Mashyuu quipped with a half hearted smile. Mashyuu walked forward some twenty feet when light from the bottom of a stair case caught his eye. Together with Rocky the pair proceeded.

Even moving softly, the pair made an echo with each step they took. The wooden walls around them absorbed and bounced sound around until the wood ended and stone walls began. Mashyuu came to the bottom of the steps and looked on as two halls sprouted, one had the men Mashyuu had seen before moving down the narrow pass. The other hall was much wider but had bits of cluttered boxes and tools all over the place. Light chunks of gravel covered the floor and the halls were lit by torches stuck into the walls.



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Mashyuu wasn't sure where to go but Rocky had started to wander to the left, down the hall with nobody in it and it didn't take long for Mashyuu to catch up to Rocky. The two stalked down the wide hall cautiously, taking in all the details of the area so they didn't miss anything. As they continued on Mashyuu noticed ladders that led up to large manhole covers, using them someone could easily access most parts of the town... "I'll bet that Jacob uses these to get around and slip away..." He said to himself.

Before Mashyuu and Rocky had time to really consider the idea any further, something gripped the back of Mashyuu's head hard and slammed his face into a near by wall four times in a row. Each strike caused Mashyuu to grunt with pain until he felt cuts well up over his features. When the hand let him go, Mashyuu turned around on shaky legs and glared at the massive figure holding a carving knife in one hand and his other was going to a belt that held a hook on a chain.

"Oh hell no...." Mashyuu muttered then raced forward and slammed his elbow into the large man, causing him to drop his chain and stumble back. He wouldn't have fallen over if Rocky hadn't bit the mans calf and tugged hard, dragging the large man down into a pile of boxes.



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Boxes sprang up around the large man who matched the description of Jacob Goodnight and tumbled at his side. The large man had been silent up until this point and Mashyuu wasn't even sure if the combined attacks had done anything to the thug. "Hey! Hey Jacob.... get up." Mashyuu ordered but the man never moved. Rocky whimpered and looked up at Mashyuu until Mashyuu kicked the downed mans leg. Still the man didn't move.

"That was easy..." Mashyuu said and turned his back on the man to see if there was anything near by to help Mashyuu bind the large man. From behind the man sat up straight and grabbed the hook on a chain in one hand while he used his other hand to silently stand up.

Mashyuu had found a long rope and turned to bind Jacob, only to be grabbed by the throat and tossed down the hall. Mashyuu twisted through the air until he hit a stone support beam and crumpled to the ground in a sore heap. Rocky in the mean time ran in front of Mashyuu and fired a spew of stones at the large man. Jacob was slow to move and took the brunt of the attack but continued to come at the pair, raising his hooked chain and swinging it over head to ready an attack.



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Jacob was blank faced as he swung the chain high over head. It cut through the moldy air like a hot knife through butter. The whistling sound of the chain drew Rocky's attention but not Mashyuu's. He pushed himself to his knee and a foot while his hand grasped at the stone ground under them. "Stone Staff!" He shouted and pulled up a solid stone weapon. It was as tall as Mashyuu and left a fair sized hole in the ground.

The chain swung out and grabbed up Rocky by the neck tight. Jacob tugged hard on the hook chain and tossed Rocky behind the killer until Rocky came to a sudden stop, striking a metal box of tools. A simple flick of the wrist had the chain coming off Rocky but kept Jacob distracted long enough for Mashyuu to slam his staff into the back of Jacob's neck hard.



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Being struck in the head caused Jacob to lumber forward with a low groan. He swung his massive arm back to try and swat Mashyuu away but the range of his staff gave him a slight edge in melee combat against bigger, slower foes. A simple move of his staff had Mashyuu tricking Jacob's attack. Jacob spun around and for his troubles was hit in the nose with Mashyuu's staff. The loud crack broke Jacob's nose and caused blood to spew from the open wound.

Mashyuu grinned to hide his slight fear of the large killer. It was getting easier and easier to tell why this man was so good at killing others. Mashyuu cracked his neck and raised his staff to intercept a straight kick delivered by Jacob but the blow still caused Mashyuu to stumble back a few feet and caused him to hit the support beam once again.




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The range used by Mashyuu was the edge he needed, the hook chain, as effective as the weapon was, couldn't get past Mashyuu's staff. The young mage dropped low for a moment then swang his staff up into Jacob's groin as hard as Mashyuu's arms would allow. The strike resounded in the wide hall and made Jacob's knees buckle. He started to slump down when Rocky had recovered and slammed it's head into the back of Jacob's, knocking the man to the floor in a clearly unconscious state.

Mashyuu swallowed a ball of spit then smiled warmly. he reached out and pet Rocky on the top of the head while picking up Jacob's chain and binding the big man's arms behind his back with the chain. Mashyuu used the hook to fasten Jacob's hands to his pants.

It took a moment or so for Mashyuu to tie the man's legs together but eventually Mashyuu started to drag the man out of the tunnels and up the stairs. After what seemed like hours Mashyuu found the captain of the guard and turned Jacob in for holding before Mashyuu returned to the cave to search for the bodies of the soldiers killed.




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Mashyuu and Rocky returned to the scene of the fight they had just survived and collected Jacob's left over weapons then started to shift through the killers belongings. He had many tools and it was clear that at one point he was a miner... "Man... what drove this guy to start killing?" Mashyuu asked while going through the killers belongings. After a bit Mashyuu found a photo of Jacob and what he assumed was his father, holding the same hooked chain that Jacob had had...

...Some time had passed and Mashyuu and Rocky eventually made their way to a rounded hall where Jacob kept a bed and a heap of something that smelled awful.



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The smell was overwhelming, it's odor stung Mashyuu's nose and for the first time he was envious of the fact that Rocky had no sense of smell. Mashyuu turned on his heels and threw up for a good two minutes before he managed to look back at the heap... It was a pile of bodies! Most of them had been half eaten by something, was Jacob eating human flesh?

Mashyuu started to hesitantly sift through the bodies until he was able to identify some of them as the soldiers who went missing by the insignia on their armor and the quality of the weapons that had been discarded...

Once again Mashyuu returned to the Captain of the guard and reported his findings. "Thank you Mashyuu, you have done this town a great service and we are in your debt. If you are ever looking for work, don't hesitate to seek me out."

Mashyuu shook the Captain of the Guards hand and walked away, ready to get his travel visa and be on his way...

(Job End)

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