A Chance Encounter [Social - Open]

"Oh I get it~" she said looking at her "like after fighting a beast or surviving a natural disaster... you are hungry hurt and most likely dirty as hell... but through all that when you think "I survived" comes a great sense of accomplishment though I find that a little too primal really the warm feeling of helping others just feels better to me in general "

Emilia shrugged, "It's not really that feeling for me. Just more that I won. I like winning. Fighting is just the best thing to win at, and is generally fun, especially if its a challenging fight." She chuckled. "As for helping people, I don't really get any nice feelings from helping someone. I still do it if someone asks for help, though, especially if they offer to pay me." She grinned at the last part. It was especially true when they paid her to do something fun.

Adelheid frowned a little "well everyone their own I suppose " she said getting up and looking for a soda or juice or something without alcohol "I mean the reward is a big part of our business I suppose but I would say that helping others and seeing how...you made something... from bad to good or just bettered someone's life to be a small reward on it own.." she said getting back with a bottle of soda in her hand "well I'm probably the strange one in this matter"

Emilia chuckled. "Around here? I doubt it. I'm pretty sure most of the people in this guild follow their whole 'selflessness, faith, and conviction' thing. I don't really. I'm a mercenary. I joined for money." She sighed. "I do find it a bit annoying that there are all these 'mercenary' guilds that seem more like orders of knights or some bull like that. The only ones that aren't like it are the dark guilds, but a lot of those are filled with psychos and sadists. There really should be one where your average mercenary can join up, have a place to rest and people to back him up without having to deal with any of the knight order crap."

Adelheid took a /deep/ breath and calmed herself trying not to snap or jump into defense against what she felt where insults at her ideals after all she /tried/ to hold into tolerance of others and the woman while crude meant no harm "while most of these... guilds are build using certain... values as pillars so people can feel mutual thrust and that they belong to something plus as a way to find others that share your ideals... it is a little too... idealist I can see that... but on who would you thrust more in one of these uselessly idealist knights or in a run of the mile mercenary?" she said before drinking some of her soda.

Emilia shrugged. "I'd trust a merc just fine. Only stupid ones betray their allies or employers. When you aren't loyal, word spreads, and when word spreads, you're out of a job. Any merc worth his salt won't betray you." She didn't really notice that Adelheid was bothered over what she had said. "You don't need idealist values in order to trust people, you just need to spend time with them and get to know them well."

Adelheid let out a sigh "a part of it is true but I have only meet three types of mercenaries " she said putting up three fingers "scum that would betray anybody in half a second " she lowered the finger as she added "they usually die like how they live with a dagger in the back and another in the south " she then said "brave mercenaries that fight like warriors and die by the steel honoring any contract they forge..." she said leaving one last finger "and old mercenaries that know how and when to go back on their word without creating many enemies... those usually die poor... except for very few remarkably exceptions that knew when to risk their long life for a comfortable one"

Emilia chuckled at Adelheid, leaning back in her chair nonchalantly. "Oh really? And how many mercs have you known? Less than me I'd bet. I was born to, raised by, and grew up around mercs. Yeah, you get all three of those types, but also countless others. You get the guys who just want adventure. They're always loyal and take little pay. The worst they'll do is get scared and ditch, but you don't even have to worry that much when it happens, since you hardly paid 'em anything. You get the business types who are loyal within reason. They'll honor whatever contracts you give 'em, but only go so far as the contract states, the only time they leave if is a job escalates to be a lot more than what was stated in the contract. You've also got the real professional hardasses, too. Might as well be Rune Knights when it comes to discipline. They take any job, get it done with machine-like efficiency. Most mercs are professionals, and won't betray an employer. The first two that you mentioned are bandits and idiots, the third one you talk about are pretty rare, since most people that smart are professionals. My guess is that you've met a good deal of mercs, you just don't know." She winked at Adel with the last statement. "So, what type of mercenary do you think I am?"

"you seem the type that will most likely make it to old age with a healthy amount of success" she said with a smile "thought from the other ones you mentioned I could guess that the type that is loyal to a good/pro degree and that looks for profit in a job also you seem to put a decent price to your blood and sweat...also sorry for being a little... close minded about mercenaries but I have had bad luck with those"

Emi waved a hand dismissively. "Don't worry about it. Lots of mercs are still dirtbags, despite being loyal when hired. It's easy to have bad experiences with them, too, since it's easy to find the bad ones. If you want to hire a good merc, you have to know what you're doing. And be willing to pay." She chuckled. Good mercs can certainly be expensive, but you knew when you hired a good one.

"I suppose so" she said looking at her a little drunk "you don't seem like the bad type one gets to know you " she chuckled a little " and I think that I will like knowing you a little better" she said drinking some of her soda "this might be the wine talking...but I imagine that you look pretty good without the armor... interested in making some easy quick cash as a model for a job? "

"Ask Eli what it's like to know me. He'll show you the bruises." She said with a chuckle. "Then again, that's mostly just because it's Eli." She cracked up a bit when Adel mentioned her modeling. "I'm all for making money, but I could not be a model. I doubt they're big fans of short girls with small breasts, scars, a crooked nose, and in no way having an hourglass figure. Beauty was never my strong suit, or important to me."

"well you would be surprised to hear but" she said smiling and trying to pretend to whisper "as long as its decent looking semi naked and gynomorph AKA female looking enough it sells" she said patting her shoulder "don't worry you are good looking enough to break a couple of hearts before breakfast each day" she said with a chuckle

Emilia raised her eyebrow at Adel. "You really think so, then? Huh. Well I might give it a try sometime, though that sort of job doesn't sound very entertaining. I'm more into the combat type jobs." She chuckled. "And I prefer breaking skulls to breaking hearts. I've yet to find a guy into scars, though."

"doesn't have to be a guy" she said in a low voice shrugging "well I was trying to convince you for some quick money the safe way is not like wrestling a Vulcan or a bear just a couple of pictures and a bag of cash" she dismissing that part of the conversation "then let me ask you what is Eli? a boyfriend a friend a cousin?" She said expecting an interesting reaction

"Quick money is all well and good, but I can make quick money in much more fun ways." Emi said with a smile. She didn't hesitate to answer Adel's question about Eli, not really caring who knew. "Eli? He's a friend. Well more than that I guess. He's basically a little brother to me, but we aren't actually related. I was like 14 when I met him. He was 9 and living on the streets. We would hang out together, and when my pop thought I was ready to go out on my own, I took him with me to go on adventures and stuff. Been partners in crime ever since." She grinned, thinking of the various times that phrase could be meant literally.

"uh sounds cool" she said said drinking some Cola then stopping "wait partners in crime? wh...you know what I'm not one to judge the past of others but if easier not to judge if I don't know " she said smiling and stopping herself from asking "oh yeah wanna see a nice trick? "

Emi waved her hand at Adel dismissively. "Figure of speech... mostly. We did occasionally have some money issues between jobs." She smiled at Adel's offer of showing her a trick, curious as to what it was. She knew, or at least had seen quite a few from Eli, so she wondered if it would be something she had seen before. "Sure, go ahead."

Adelheid stood up and took some steps behind "ok this is a type of magic that you won't see quite often " she said taking a deep breath before chanting "first I need to cast a spell k? "
She said smiling and casting "From the fogs of history and legends, hail to the pact spirit lance of the heroes pierce and burn through the enemy" 
She said the spear starting to manifest "ok wait a second this thing takes a while to form"

Emilia nodded. "Sure, that's fine." So it wasn't going to be anything like Eli's then, this was just showing off her magic. Still, it would probably be pretty cool. She watched as Adel formed the fire lance. "If most of your spells take this long to work, you're probably going to want some support in fights. Maybe you could join my and Eli's team."

"yeah that's why this trick was developed " she said taking a deep breath as the lance was fully formed "stop" she said as the flames seemed to calm "compressed! " she said and the lance and flames started to compress into a small reddish ball in Adelheid's palm then she said "store" and the ball became transparent entering her palm "that's half the trick for the other half you will need to come with me outside " she said smiling.

Emilia nodded in acknowledgement as Adel stored the spell. "Impressive, and useful. So before battles and during times when you're not fighting, you can store spells to prepare for other battles, then release them when needed." She smiled. "That's a really cool idea. So what's the second part?" She would follow Adel outside when she started to walk out.