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[center]Location: Dogfalls Outskirts

Assignment: Parlay with the insect queen before she "bug"gers off. [@Tsunmene][/center]

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[color=AABAC5]"Rude?"[/color] Colt scoffed. [color=AABAC5]"My finger slipped! Then your-"[/color] He shifted in to a mock noble accent. [color=AABAC5]"-Associate bore down on me with such frightful tenacity that I had little choice but to defend myself!"[/color] He responded theatrically, hand on his chest as he gave her a playful smirk. [color=AABAC5]"Myself, I'd say the lute's my calling, honestly. See, there's your so-called crime against the arts, you're lacking instrumentals!"[/color] He knocked a short beat on the chitinous exterior of the dead centipede. [color=AABAC5]"Then again, the acoustics out here are probably a little questionable."[/color]

His expression darkened slightly as he watched her grotesque spawning display, the writhing, wriggling creatues emerging from beneath the keratin. [color=AABAC5]"Some band invitation..."[/color] He muttered as the creatures' bodies popped, creaked, and pulsed, leaking bodily fluids that made his stomach turn slightly. They began to circle him and he lowered his stance, right hand crawling to the handle of his sword. [color=AABAC5]"Your 'darlings' are making me a little skittish too, not gonna lie."[/color]

Her proposal however, made him raise an eyebrow. [color=AABAC5]"You're kidding. You [i]happen[/i] to just be out here while the Scourge is ten minutes away laying siege to Dogfalls. On a walk."[/color] He reiterates, tone completely deadpan as his expression shifts to something between curiousity and bemusement.

A sudden skitter from behind him snapped him from that line of thought as he whirled, a throwing knife punching through its eye as two more rushed him down. Colt snarled, staggering back a couple paces as he slid the sword from his hip and swatted at one, whipping his leg away from the other nipping at the back of his leg as he kicked it like a small misbehaving dog. [color=AABAC5]"Gotta say, the reception isn't really leaving any points in your favor!"[/color] He shouted at Kohi, still preoccupied as the locust dove in for a chunk of his shoulder - only managing to sink a pair of pincers into the flesh before an electrified punch boiled its insides to burst with a sharp CRACK.

Colt hissed through his teeth, working his shoulder tenderly, as he stared down the small legion of insectoid Grim standing before him. [color=AABAC5]"Happy you think I'm cute, but before we plan the brunch date, just clear something up for me."[/color]

His eyes glinted in the moonlight, and a small ripple of lightning danced across his hair. He wasn't smiling this time. [color=AABAC5]"If you're not Algrimar's backup, then surely you had nothing to do with the bodies I just passed, right?"[/color]