1 Lost Artifacts pt 2 [C rank mission, private] Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:47 pm
Yamada Kegare
D-rank
- mission briefing:
Mission name: The lost artifacts 2
Mission rank: C
Objective: To follow the map of the thief in hopes of finding the stolen artifacts
Location: Underground tunnels
Reward: 150 ryo
Mission description: The next day of adventuring to find the artifacts. Continue to follow the map wherever it leads you in the Underground tunnels.
Mission details: You will have trouble finding your way in the tunnels and get lost at some point. At the end of the thread you will find another map that leads to the third part.
It seemed that getting to the thief's stash of stolen artifacts wasn't as simple and as easy as Kegare had initially thought, as at the end of the first map's travelling directions, reaching the goal of the map did not end up the masked man at a load of riches and artifacts, but at a lousy small room which held a second map, leading kegare a long way further than he had imagine travelling.
However, he didn't mind, given that this simple second map would show that he had done more than what was asked and could very well ask more ryo for his efforts. After all, masked or not and having a grudge towards others or not, Kegare's taste of clothes was kind of expensive, so some extra cash would never be a bad thing for him.
The second map was forcing the masked Yamada to walk around again, travelling through the earth country's desolate plains and mountains, until he finally managed to reach what he thought to be the real resting place of the old, deceased thief's haul of treasures and precious ancient stolen artifacts.
Alas, to reach what the map pointed out to be the hiding place, Kegare had to traverse the underground tunnels near the village hidden in the rock, something which he had not done ever since his youth.
The stories about the tunnels were already bad enough, but with their endless reaches, getting lost within the network of corridors and narrow spaces simply frightened the man when he was still but a young child, especially with the stories about lost travellers and shinobi still wandering the tunnels until their death and even after it.
It wasbecause of this that Kegare found himself with a distinct fear in the back of his mind when he stood in front one of the underground tunnels' many entrances.
However, he knew that he could not back down or turn around, he had taken this mission and would see it to the end, even if it was more motivated by his own greed than actual loyalty. swallowing his fear and taking a deep breath, the Iwagakure genin made his way into the tunnels, quickly overwhelmed by the multitude of sounds and darkness all around him.
"Damned, I knew I had to take a torch, I can barely see anything in this godforsaken place," A sigh escaped the man's torn lips and seemed to pauze a bit between his mouth and his mask. The echoes of his own voice spooked Kegare and in a fit of paranoid delusions, he started to see dancing shadows all around him and aided by bad memories, he could hear the distinct barking of dogs, forcing him to let out a yell and run wildly into the unknown of the darkness of the tunnels.
The barking of dogs haunted the older man, raising memories from a past he always tried so hard to bury, the mission was truly starting to become a pain in his ass.
wc: 509/1000