Original - Dead Men Tell

"Tell you what - I don't like charging the new folk around here. Tell me a story, then you can have your gin."

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A would-be tattoo design. Because, apparently, this is all I draw lately. As I explained here, I am part of a Gaia Roleplay where I've been playing Rivek after he dies in his own story.

Basically, he is a happy-go-lucky bartender who trades stories with people, trying to 'help' them out (usually in ways they don't think they want). But a particularly evil character belonging to *Draggyness, Devaena, finds out through some eavesdropping that he hast these three talismans. As evil folk are wont to do, she decides she has to have these items. Clearly, this is not something Rivek wants to happen.

So, he muses over the possible threat with Lurp (player by ~TheLadyFox), and she decides to shape-shift into a giant spider and attack Devaena. However, since Devaena is a Yugoloth in disguise, she uses her magic powers to trap Lurp in a sphere-spell.

Devaena goes off looking for more trouble, leaving the Lurp-sphere in her room at Dead Man's Meet, the inn where Rivek works as a bartender. She weaves a spell so no one can come into the room. Rivek... doesn't actually go into the room. He jimmies open the window and slips a wood ramp in, letting the sphere roll outside on its own. But since she weighs significantly more than he does, he grabs the window ledge as he falls, spreading his normally hidden wings to cushion himself. He hides Lurp in the kitchen and goes back to work.

This means Devaena is out to get him for good. So, after the sphere-spell wears out, he asks Lurp to shift into himself, so the pair can fake his death. It takes a few replicas of his talismans and a lot of tortute (death by a thousand cuts, anyone?), but the pair is successful. And bonus, Rivek manages to set Devaena on edge by alerting the Peace to her.

Now, he is hiding out, running opium between different dens.

Hence, 'dead men tell no tales.'

Rivek drinks gin and dances blues because he's secretly an old man from the Prohibition.

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