You’re in this all the way now. You’ve decided that you can’t live life as you have been. You have to take this chance, regardless of the consequences. You’re just wondering how the hell you’re going to go about killing Big Red. He’s not going to be a push over and is probably more than a match for most college students, let alone one who can barely cast spells competently in first place.
Still, you must try. You get one of your oversized back packs and begin stuffing it with rocks. The only plan you have is when he asks to see the money, you’ll tell him you got it in gemstones, throw it at him to catch it and then unleash a blast of lightning in his face.
After that you’re going to hope for the best.
You head down to the location given to you by Big Red. Even though Nuro is a prosperous city, it still has its “bad parts” and right now you’re walking in one of them. You half expect to get mugged by orcs at any moment; you almost wish your sister was with you.
Eventually you get to the location, you’re already nervous about all this and walking through this neighborhood just made you more so. However, this dilapidated house that you’re currently standing in front of looks like its shown signs of battle recently. The door is smashed open and there’s a whiff of charred flesh coming from the broken windows.
“Heeeeeey….(hic!) youz ain’t goin’ in dere is ya?” some drunken goblin lying by some trash cans nearby utters.
“This is Big Red’s house isn’t it?”
“(hic!) Nope, his girlfriend lives here, well one of ‘em anyway.”
“What happened here?”
“Shit. (hic!) Fuck if I know. I was passed out for most of it, but I heard some screams a couple of magic blasts and well…(hic!) a whole buncha shit really.”
“Is Big Red in there?”
“Dunno, I think I heard his voice…didn’t sound good either. (hic!) Guess it all caught up to him. Here’s to Red! Demon Bastard! (hic!) Hope dey didn’t kill his pretty little girlfrien’ doh. She was swee-eet!” the goblin says and takes another drink out of his pocket.
“Nobody’s come out here, to investigate?”
“Har har! Datsh a good one boy! Come out here? Man those mage guards like us poor folks killing each other. Ain’t nobody gonna show up here probably for like a few days. (hic!) fuckin…no good (mumble mumble)”
As the goblin wino lapses back into an alcoholic coma, you cautiously enter the house.
The house is a wreck. Though you get the impression it wasn’t a palace to begin with. You look on the floor and see Big Red. You also see him on the walls and even the ceiling. Whoever wanted him dead, made sure of it.
Of course this doesn’t exactly help you get what you wanted to get from him. Not knowing what else to do, you begin to search the house, but you’re not finding too much, but for some reason you sense you aren’t completely alone in this house. Someone is still here.
You stand completely silent and listen carefully, then you see a blood trail leading to the bedroom closet…
“Alright, I know someone is in the closet, I can hear the stifled cries. Just come out, and I won’t hurt you. I just want to know what happened to Big Red and some information.” You shout.
The closet slowly opens and you see a young human woman crawl out, she’s hurt badly and you don’t think you can help her in time. She looks up at you with tears in her eyes.
“I’ve nothing more to give…they’ve taken everything…I am dead…I have nothing else…” she sobs.
“Who came? What’s going on?”
“That damn college professor and his Dark Order that’s who! Mr. Demar! He and Big Red have had dealings for years in forbidden tomes and the dark arts. Well Mr. Demar said since their business was nearly at an end he demanded that Big Red just hand over all the rest of his collection. Violence soon followed. It was horrible what they did… I only lived this long by playing dead (sob)…but then I just wanted to crawl into a dark place and die.”
This bit of information is very interesting, but you still have to figure out how it can serve you.
“What does Mr. Demar have planned?”
“I don’t know! Something about restoring the rightful place of those who practice the dark arts. I don’t care! They took my whole life away! Maybe it wasn’t much, and maybe Big Red was a demon asshole…but I loved him and in his way, he loved me! I’ll never know!” the girl cries.
You feel slightly bad about coming here to try to kill Big Red now. This girl’s feelings while most likely misguided seem to be genuine. Just proving that even the lowliest of scoundrels can be loved. Your mind briefly thinks about Serena before addressing this situation again.
“Okay, look shhhh. I’m sure Big Red probably did love you. He was a demon though, you know he had to put on a show and act tough.” You say.
“…(sniff) yeah…You’re absolutely right. You are right….mmm I’m sleepy…” She says as her eyes begin to start closing.
“Hold on, before you go to sleep, I need to know something. Big Red was holding a book for me too, a book on necromancy. I was coming to pay him and pick it up here. It sounds like Mr. Demar was trying to rip the both of us off and that ain’t no way of doing business. I mean to get revenge on the lot of them that killed Big Red, but I’ll need the help of that book, you don’t happen to know where it is, do you?”
“…oh…yeah, you must be the one that Big Red briefly mentioned before they came…I dunno, they searched the house, maybe they got it, but it would be in a small hidden floor safe behind the toilet. Ha ha…nobody searches behind a toilet Red used to say…I love you Big Red…” The girl says and then closes her eyes and stops breathing.
Poor girl, you think as you leave her to search the bathroom. You curse as soon as you look behind the toilet and see a small panel open. You’re so frustrated you nearly miss the false bottom of the safe…
Jackpot. You pry up the false bottom and greedily grab the tome you were looking for, in fact there are a few other books there too, but you only keep the necromantic ones, and destroy the rest as you have no interest in demon summoning. (And not going to let anyone else use them either!)
You pour out the rocks in your backpack and place the books inside; you’re now ready to go back home. Or are you?
In your last minute peruse you search the remains of Big Red, and as luck would have it, you find his infamous pad and paper still somewhat intact. You briefly glance through it and make out one other address, not too far from here. It could be his real home or maybe just another place where he stashed stuff. Either way it could be lucrative.
- ID: 46943
- Nickname: killbigred
- Hits: 438
