[b]"Oh, right. I'll just... Be in the foyer. Or something."[/b]

After dropping Lillian off at Maria's place, Donny waited in the lobby of her large house. Though honestly it seemed more like a tavern, albeit without any patrons. If he remembered correctly, Maria said that she would be willing to let the other hunters use her house to lodge in, and that she took care of forging around here. Or was it gunsmithing? Donny doesn't quite remember, but it'll be something he could ask her later. In the meantime Donny took out his guitar and began to strum the strings to [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRL_4IE3V6Y]songs[/url] he was barely remembering. It was all muscle memory so it didn't quite sound right, but surely if he kept playing he'd figure it out soon enough.

As he waited Maria soon came out with a map and compass, but seemed to have left to give them to the other hunters who follow her to her mansion. He guessed they were for the hunters interested in the mayor's hunt, but Donny wasn't one of those people. Though he was mildly disappointed that Maria was not, in fact, interested in having sex with him. [b]"Oh well. But that's not what I'm here for, actually. It's actually about hunting. The mayor gave us a job to hunt monsters out in the ravine or whatever, but frankly I don't think I'm quite... Well, armed for that. Everything Bag-o-Rags offered to us has been picked clean, so short of stealing from my fellow hunters I'm a bit light on equipment. I was wondering if perhaps you had anything you could offer us, be it equipment or even information."[/b] As strange as a request as it was, Donny would be fine if he could get some more intel on this place. Maria surely knew more about the World of Waking Dreams then he did, so she might have insight on somethings he could work with.

[b]"The mayor said that we're the last community in this world, or something to that effect. But surely that would also imply there was once others. I don't expect to trot outside the village and run into another thriving, possible better place then Iredele, but maybe ruins or fort made by other hunters? Maybe they left something behind for us to use. Weapons, books, supplies. If I could convince some other hunters to come with me, we could probably secure the cache and even reclaim the place for ourselves."[/b] Wishful thinking, but it was something for Donny to do at least. And it wasn't as if he didn't want to hunt; Donny was bound to fight monsters while he and whoever came with him looked for these locations and such. He'd just collect a bounty from them and come back to Iredele with both proof of his hunt as well as whatever loot he can snatch during these raids.

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[color=ed1c24]"Raaaaah!? Wot's dis, fresh meat?!"[/color]

When Kenji knocked on the door, it burst open, revealing a strange [url=http://img10.deviantart.net/0317/i/2015/026/9/9/maneater_mildred_by_anotherdamian-d8fk0sw.jpg]woman[/url]. She wore a purlap sack over her head and wear nothing but a bra and thong made of a similar material. She had large breasts and an even larger butcher's knife, which at this point was more like a sword. Her other hand held a cutting board which seemed to also double as a shield. The woman was also big, almost unnaturally so. While proportionally human, she stood eight feet tall and had glowing red eyes. [i]Something[/i] wasn't normal about this woman. But then again was anything in this crazy town?

[color=ed1c24]"Nygh. Too skinny. Ye need more meat on dem rookers o' yours! An 'ere I thought hunters were s'ppose ta be [i]bolshy[/i]!!"[/color] The large woman walked up to Kenji and slapped his arms lightly, yet with enough force that if he didn't try to balance himself, he'd be knocked over. The woman was unimpressed with him and hefted her large knife onto her shoulder, looking down at Kenji as if she was debating if she should butcher him or not. [color=ed1c24]"Well? Wot izzit?? Unless ye got meat, we don't got business! An' no you git, I don't got a job fer yer neither. Go talk to da fore and aft guv or dat grazzy baboochka."[/color] The woman turned to leave, assuming Kenji didn't have anything else to ask her.