[h2][center]Dragon Fang Guild Hall, Shirotsume Town[/center][/h2]

The sun shone down on the guild hall for Dragon Fang as it always did, brightly and happily. The traffic in and out of the building was high as usual, with clients coming in to drop off job requests and guild members leaving for and coming back from various jobs. Nowadays, most jobs required the guild move in and take care of various monsters that were cropping up more commonly. Vulcans were an especially common, but challenging task, but other monsters were common enough that the newer members and lower powered members could still make a living. This day saw a group of mages returning from yet another strange request for someone to deal with a monster that had never been seen before. This particular monster had been described as a large red skinned [url=https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/942ce2bb-8da9-4f12-8365-725863a8059e.png]canine[/url] that had originally been spotted carrying what had appeared to be carrion meat, but when the Rune Knights had moved in to investigate, the monster became incredibly territorial and attacked. No one was seriously injured, but it led to a request being sent directly to Dragon Fang Guild Master Jack. Before he left for the Guild Master’s summit, he dispatched a handpicked team of veterans to investigate the sighting.

Joslyn, sighing heavily as she led the small group back from an unsuccessful search for the beast, had been put in charge of the four man team. It consisted of herself, her longtime partner Zen, and a pair of requip mages who specialized in defensive techniques against larger, more troublesome monsters, which the Rune Knights had recommended having after their own encounter. However, by the time Dragon Fang’s mages had arrived, the monster had either moved on to a new hunting ground after finding out that the other was heavily traveled or was a master at disappearing from sight when it wanted to. Despite the signs that it had been in the area, the team of veterans couldn’t find the beast and so returned to Dragon Fang’s hall in Shirotsume without new information. The Water-Make mage had started somewhat depressed, but after the sight of the guild in all its usual hustle and bustle grandeur, she found her energy again and rushed Zen in after bidding their guildmates thanks and a farewell. Inside, Hunter was, amazingly, having a more controlled boxing match with Jake in the corner of the guild hall that had been reserved for that after the rambunctious Dragon Slayer had started numerous guild encompassing brawls over the years.

Ammy was, as always, manning the bar, handing out orders and servings as they came as their resident cook knocked them out. Most of the orders belonged to clients who were waiting on a chance to submit their request or speak with specific members who had done good work for them before. Usually there’d also be clients and visitors for Guild Master Jack Goran, but he was away on a Guild Master’s Summit, an important event where the guild masters from across the country got together to discuss events and such that had happened. Finishing the match with a draw with his fellow S-Class, Jake left the boxing ring and joined his girlfriend Pyrrha nearby, laughing about one of the trades the two had had while Hunter went to the Bar, where Ammy had a bowl of imported Jade waiting for him to snack on. While the cost of bringing something like that to the guild was normally fairly high, Ammy had personally assisted the trader who supplied it and this was his thank you to the guild. As it was, the Jade Dragon Slayer never complained about it, and had, in fact, expressed his appreciation for it on more than one occasion and, as he did so now as he chowed down. [color=DarkGreen]”Remind me again to meet with this guy personally some day! You’re amazing, Ammy, and I appreciate finally having a reliable source of this rare and amazing delicacy.”[/color] Despite being a Dragon Slayer of an Earth based element, only the rare stone could provide him with the power boost and recharge that other Dragon Slayers got from their element. And as mages who specialized specifically in Jade for an earth magic was exceedingly rare, he didn’t have anyone to buy the stone off of personally. Still, Ammy had been happy to oblige with the request, especially since she’d also been able to convince him to supply the kitchen with ingredients she normally had difficulty getting at a lower discount than he was initially going to offer in exchange for the free Jade. His other endeavors were profitable enough he hardly noticed the missing Jewel. Spotting some of the newer members after securing Zen and herself a booth, Joslyn danced over to them, humming happily.

[color=Blue]”Hello my fellows! Enjoyin’ life in Dragon Fang?”[/color]