a tavern in the grass, open

[Rose]

a tavern in the grass field

open for non-ninjas and missing ninjas (and else with invite)

What would one expect to see in a tavern somewhere in the grass field? Crazy people? People desperate need of alcohol that are willing to go down to the middle of nowhere just to have a drink? Well, your suspicions couldn't be any wronger, especially if they spoke about the tavern in the forests of the land of grass. Inside that tavern exists something one does not see in every beverage selling institution. There is a community. A system and laws that have to be obeyed. One does not simply break the rules as they know that they will be punished for doing so and their punishment would be their returning to their misery, loneliness, suffering.

The tavern part of the building isn't all that big, actually, as it is only a sixth of the whole building and only one of the rooms. The building has three levels. The first level is the tavern level and the kitchen as well as the owners' apartment. The second level of the building has three bathrooms and six apartments, each of which has its own toilet. Most of the rooms on the second level are occupied by the daily visitors of the tavern that are more like homeless people who found shelter in the institution known as the tavern. Men and women live in equality under the same roof, under the same rules and are give the opportunity to not only survive but contribute to the institution by running errands for it, living there, helping others and to have fun.

The tavern has one more level and that level is most often empty. It is the same as the previous one with three bathrooms and six apartments, each with a toilet of its own, however, the reason why these rooms are empty is because they are for visitors of the tavern. People that are dropping by. People that are searching for a place to spend the night. People, village-less, homeless the fate of who, merciless.

Rank of Quest	Financial Reward	Days of Shelter	Special Meal
"D"	16,000 Ryo	One Night	✰
"C"	33,500 Ryo	Three Nights	✰✰
"B"	65,500 Ryo	One Week	✰✰✰
"A"	130,000 Ryo	One Month	✰✰✰✰
"S"	250,000 Ryo	Six Months	✰✰✰✰✰

Upon taking a quest one would also be given the chance to rest in one of the tavern's apartments for a certain amount of time. During their stay there, they will also be treated by the tavern's owners with special meals, depending on the difficulty of the quest they have taken. The higher the difficulty, the more time they get to spend in the tavern's hospitality and the tastier their meals become as a one-star meal is a nicely cooked steak, fast food of some sort, sandwiches and such and a five-star meal can be a delicious lobster, other types of expensive sea food, food  that can be served in the fanciest of restaurants can also be served in the tavern as the owner used to be a respected and experienced cook back in his age.

As one would enter the tavern, they would see a large board on the wall to the left - a board taking up the entire wall. On that board, there are papers of different colors, each color representing a difficulty class for a quest. Green sheets of paper represent "D" class quests. These are the easiest to take and are normally taken by people who just want to spend a single night in the tavern. Green-Yellow sheets of paper represent "C" class quests. These are somewhat harder than the "D" class requests but are still not as hard as the rest. Yellow sheets of paper represent "B" class quests. These are harder than the previous two types and can also prove to be quite dangerous. Orange sheets of paper represent "A" class quests. These are truly dangerous and thus, a whole month of hospitality is offered to these who take the quests. Red sheets of paper represent "S" class quests. These are dangerous. Very, very dangerous. Half an year of hospitality is offered to these who take these insanely difficult quests.

[Rose]

Enter

"I demand beef from your most tortured cow!" Rose demanded as she entered and made her way to the reception desk, still undoubtedly peeved by the cow fiasco that delayed her arrival by a significant half of a day. Of course her efforts for a dynamic and dramatic entry were in vain as she still needed to introduce herself after utterly confusing the receptionist as to who she was, what she wanted and even putting her on edge enough to have her jump in her seat, trigger her flight or flight response and have her take a combat stance. After Rose introduced herself, however, and handed the slip of paper she took from The Land of Fire's Forest Tavern, the conversation went in an entirely different direction. For one, as per rules of the tavern, all who completed a task were rewarded in correspondence to the task. In Rose's case, the task were simple so that warranted a small monetary compensation, a night's worth of shelter and a low-class meal which she could select from the menu.

Needless to say the rose-bud haired girl chose beef and as she ate, the receptionist made his way to her, carrying a folder of files. He pulled a chair from the table and engaged in a conversation with her. "So, here's the deal," he started, noticing he captured her attention, "I don't know what things were like in the land of fire those years ago but here - things are bad. Very, very bad, in fact. Seventeen kilometers north-east from here, you will find a large open area, half of which is home to no vegetation whatsoever. This area is what once used to be catacombs - burial grounds for the grass folks. It is now a spawn of undeath. Although it is fenced around, a far too significant number of them have managed to breach out and make it to the common folks in the village nearby. We have sent any manpower at our disposal to guard the perimeter, although, I am afraid that is not enough."

"What more is needed?" Rose asked as she took a sip of her water glass.

"We need somebody to investigate these creatures - somebody skilled. Your first task would be to use these," the man stated as he pulled a thin stack of paper notes from the folder. Before Rose could ask what the papers were, her question was answered by the man. "These are chakra sealing tags. The way you use them is you press them against the target and infuse your own chakra into them. It creates a siphon that draws a small sample of chakra into the paper. Albeit the tags can contain a significant amount of chakra, the siphon's speed is too slow to want anything but the basic essentials - after all, we are grasping at straws and will use whatever we can get."

"I understand. How many of these tags do you require me to return full?" Rose asked.

"Preferably, the whole lot of them." The man explained.

"I understand," Rose stated, "I am ready to leave as soon as I receive my rewards for my last task. Also, if I don't return by tomorrow dawn, I would expect that this night's stay of mine is added on top of my reward for the new task as well."

"Of course."

Expecting Rewards For

[/b] Assistance Request - The Tavern of Grass
Rank: "D"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Easy
Objective: Travel to the land of grass and report to the local hidden tavern; stay to take and complete any and all further objectives; willingly cooperate with the local teams for the sake of the mission's completion.
Description: An outbreak of undeath had been occurring through the widths of the land of grass; one eerily similar to the one six years ago in the land of fire, albeit, in a much larger apparent scale. The tavern of grass has required the assistance of any and all free and capable combatants to at least attempt to investigate or at best, stop the spread.
Reward: 7,500 Ryo[/ul]

Taking New Quest

[/b] The Undeath Pit - Chakra Siphon Tags
Rank: "C"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Moderate
Objective: Travel to the undeath pit - a former grass country cemetery and collect chakra from the roaming undeath. Exterminating them upon collection of chakra is preferable to allowing them to roam.
Description: The center of the undeath outbreak had been located and recognized as a formal grass country cemetery. The folk from the tavern of grass had requested assistance to investigate and potentially, eventually, stop the outbreak. For the time being, however, the task is to simply gather chakra samples from the rising corpses to determine if, first, they have any and second, what its nature is. That is in hopes to determine the causation of the outbreak and fight its roots rather than the mindless undeath hordes.
Reward: 33,500 Ryo[/ul]

exit (if all is approved)

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[Deleted]

Approved.

7,500 Ryo added.

[neko bo beko]

It was no more than a few hours past since the bird had come to the keep in search of assistance. Harue dismounts her pink steed outside the extravagant inn complex and shrugs through the front doors of the tavern level, Ōmo at her heels. They received a few weary looks but Harue was not unused to it. When you were a woman with a pink lion towering over most, you often got gawked at. Before the receptionist, Harue bows her head politely but her red eyes are hooded and flecked with disinterest. "We received this in the Keep," Harue explains, placing the plea for assistance between them. Harue continues. "I am Lady Kusakage's assistant, Harue. What's the status?"

While business talk had been foreign to her before, Harue could no longer shed the gentle authority in her voice anymore. Although they offered her a meal and rest, Harue declined, insistent on beginning. After receiving her payment for reporting in the first place, a man shuffles to her with a folder in his hands and offers her a sit. As he lays out the details, Harue only looks over his shoulder. Ōmo rests his giant head on the table to gander at the sealing tags as the man lays those out as well, and Harue nods affirmatively. "Alright," she chimes, plucking the slips from the table. She'd had some experience with the undead before. "I'll head out right now then. I'd appreciate that hot meal and warm bed upon my return, if you don't mind."

On her way out, she was stopped almost as an afterthought. The man who'd explained to her their needs took a moment to warn her. "There's already a woman seeing to it. You'll most likely come across her. We hope that you two can do us this kindness without turmoil or delay."

Harue had to urge herself not to roll her eyes until after she's already mounted her beast again outside, headed northeast to the undead site. I'll take as long as I need.

[ exit once paid & accepted ]

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Accepting Rewards For 

Name: Assistance Request - The Tavern of Grass
Rank: "D"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Easy
Objective: Travel to the land of grass and report to the local hidden tavern; stay to take and complete any and all further objectives; willingly cooperate with the local teams for the sake of the mission's completion.
Description: An outbreak of undeath had been occurring through the widths of the land of grass; one eerily similar to the one six years ago in the land of fire, albeit, in a much larger apparent scale. The tavern of grass has required the assistance of any and all free and capable combatants to at least attempt to investigate or at best, stop the spread.
Reward: 7,500 Ryo

Taking New Mission

Name: The Undeath Pit - Chakra Siphon Tags
Rank: "C"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Moderate
Objective: Travel to the undeath pit - a former grass country cemetery and collect chakra from the roaming undeath. Exterminating them upon collection of chakra is preferable to allowing them to roam.
Description: The center of the undeath outbreak had been located and recognized as a formal grass country cemetery. The folk from the tavern of grass had requested assistance to investigate and potentially, eventually, stop the outbreak. For the time being, however, the task is to simply gather chakra samples from the rising corpses to determine if, first, they have any and second, what its nature is. That is in hopes to determine the causation of the outbreak and fight its roots rather than the mindless undeath hordes.
Reward: 33,500 Ryo

[Deleted]

paid

accepted

[Rose]

Enter

Rose entered the tavern, clearly tired and disappointed, as could be read from the expression in her face. She needed a drink more so than money, so she decided to order one of those before even attempting to pursue the tavern's receptionist who just saw her walk past him and towards the bar area. Once she had sat down to have her beverage, he approached her and attempted conversation with her, albeit, to no avail as all he received was the stack of chakra siphon tags that were the objective of her and her pink-haired companion's mission, along with the sentence: "You will receive the rest of the info tomorrow - I need rest." Seeing the seriousness in her face as well as the tire in her eyes, he decided to leave it at that and just hand her an envelope with the mission rewards which he had prepared before parting from his reception.

With all this occurring within the span of less than a minute, Rose was still clearly shaken up by the difficulty of the task and her own helplessness, for she acknowledged that she would likely be caught unprepared and dead hadn't it been for her pink haired companion, which she now recalled was also on the quest and should be on the way to the tavern as well. With Rose's table clearly viewing towards the tavern's main entrance, had she seen the other pinkette, she'd immediately wave her down and invite her to drink with her, for she had much to tell her - from gratitude, to her own personal interpretation of exactly what happened in... that place.

Expecting Rewards For

[/b] The Undeath Pit - Chakra Siphon Tags
Rank: "C"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Moderate
Objective: Travel to the undeath pit - a former grass country cemetery and collect chakra from the roaming undeath. Exterminating them upon collection of chakra is preferable to allowing them to roam.
Description: The center of the undeath outbreak had been located and recognized as a formal grass country cemetery. The folk from the tavern of grass had requested assistance to investigate and potentially, eventually, stop the outbreak. For the time being, however, the task is to simply gather chakra samples from the rising corpses to determine if, first, they have any and second, what its nature is. That is in hopes to determine the causation of the outbreak and fight its roots rather than the mindless undeath hordes.
Reward: 33,500 Ryo[/ul]

O.O.C.:

Took me far too long to make this... Hectic work changes are hectic. Hope I'm not slowing you down with any other plots you may have in mind. Feel free to shout bail if you wanna!
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[neko bo beko]

Lagging behind to catch up with the other half of her soul and fuse once again into her whole self, Harue arrived a short time after the other pinkette had returned herself. Entering the unsmall inn with Ōmo at her heels, it was hard to miss the pink haired counterpart as she waved Harue over. Scanning the room as she strode across the floor to take the offered seat, Harue remained weary of the man who might bother her about the tags. "Hello," Harue started, sitting down at the stool and flashing a polite smile. Her pink beast sat on the floor beside her stool, dropping his head in Harue's lap as she orders her drink. Curious about what the woman wanted to talk about, she remained relatively silent. Her crimson eyes shone curiously as she looked to the older pinkette, wondering really for the first time what her name was and who she happened to be.

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Accepting Rewards For...

Name: The Undeath Pit - Chakra Siphon Tags
Rank: "C"
IIC Length: ---
Difficulty: Moderate
Objective: Travel to the undeath pit - a former grass country cemetery and collect chakra from the roaming undeath. Exterminating them upon collection of chakra is preferable to allowing them to roam.
Description: The center of the undeath outbreak had been located and recognized as a formal grass country cemetery. The folk from the tavern of grass had requested assistance to investigate and potentially, eventually, stop the outbreak. For the time being, however, the task is to simply gather chakra samples from the rising corpses to determine if, first, they have any and second, what its nature is. That is in hopes to determine the causation of the outbreak and fight its roots rather than the mindless undeath hordes.
Reward: 33,500 Ryo

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OOC//not at all... your pace is perfect for me LOL ♥

[Rose]

First and foremost, a loud and audible: "thank you," was in order, as Rose bowed her head down once the other female had sat in-front of her. Albeit momentarily repulsed by the sight of the drooling beast in the other lady's lap, Rose decided not to be judgmental towards the person who saved her life and her akin hair-colored companion. Rather, she decided to take the polite route with introducing herself to the other woman. "My name is Yakimi Rose, although, I don't think the name will strike you as familiar. I am from the land of fire but hold no allegiance to any ninja village and am here for personal reasons, more so than anything. Years ago, these undeath took the life of my mentor before my very eyes and turned her to among their ranks. When fire's tavern brought word of an outbreak occurring in the land of grass as well, I had to side from my oath not to put myself in any harm and investigate." Rose swallowed as the thought of her dying, leaving her child for dead, crossed her mind. "I haven't been an active combatant for nearly seven years and whatever skills I used to have seemed to have decayed, as you've possibly witnessed. So for that moment of a fear driven paralysis, I thank you kindly, stranger." Rose thought for a moment: "Or rather, what is your name and story?"

[Flower]

Approved~

[neko bo beko]

With one hand on top of her beast's head and the other holding the glass of booze against her lips, Harue blinks and slides her red eyes over to Rose mid-sip. She smiles and swallows thickly, setting the glass down. "Oh," she says right away, her voice gentle with sudden understanding. "You're welcome."

As twin pink goes into a sudden confessional speech, Harue eyes the liquor in her glass and touches the cup thoughtfully, thumb moving over the condensation to wet her skin as she listens. She turns her eyes to Rose compassionately but her gut twists, her skin crawling. She swallows a mouthful of her liquor to steady herself - this kind of emotional garble was ridiculous to her, or at the very least uncomfortable. Still. She appreciated the gesture. She had no idea what part the undead could play in someone's life, going so far as to completely dismantle a poor woman and strip her of... whatever it was she'd lost. Pride? Confidence? A mentor at the very least. Harue couldn't imagine it.

But because she couldn't imagine it, she was distanced from it. From a place of privilege she says, "I'm sorry to hear someone close to you was turned into an animated corpse."

Polishing off her drink probably too quickly, Harue raises her hand and flags down another fruity liquor. She had a problem saying no to a good time. Ōmo picks up his head and sniffs the air before standing up wholly, walking around the back of Harue's stool and coming to sit between the two. He looks pointedly up at Rose, his brown eyes trained on her. His wet nose threatens to touch her. Harue's freed hand comes to rest on the counter top with her other. 

"I'm Harue. I live here in Grass, as my Lady Kusakage's assistant." Her top eyelids suddenly grow heavy as she thinks of her lady, but she continues on and eventually her lashes even out again. "I can't say I have much of a story. Nothing quite like that, at least," she lets out a short trill, feeling a bit looser by the second drink's start. In the back of her mind she reminds herself of her long lost sister or the dad trying to fuck a nation into Onigami power. Truthfully, Harue could spill a hundred things to Rose, but it would make no difference. They'd inevitably separate at the end of all this, wouldn't they? Harue's eyelashes flutter and she forgets about all that. "There's no need to thank me," she says, addressing the second thank you. With glittering red eyes she looks to Rose and smiles. "But... You're welcome, Rose." Ōmo's ears perk up when Harue throws back the last of her drink and slams the empty cup down. She was forever a lightweight it seemed. "Let's have fun before the next round of zombie slaughter, yeah?"