Vigilante

Koku · Vigilante

Approaching the newly opened bank, new security measures see to be initiated. A slightly intimidating guy wearing warrior's fur, now watches as people enter and exit. Soon the manager of the bank walks out and stands next to him looking outside, as if expecting to meet with someone soon.

Beanbaker

After signing a loan deal, I walk out of the bank and stand next to the manager, within site so it didn't seem I snuck up on him. "I'm sorry my previous appointment took too long. Now, let's just get straight to business. What do you recall from the day of the robbery?"

Koku

"I was not there personally but I have read the documentations on what happened." As he finishes saying that he gets out a few folders and leads beanbaker to his office where he lays them out for beanbaker to see. " A witness saw the man leaving with blood dripping from his hands. He was wearing a dark armor, but besides that his physical characteristics were a mystery. He was very fast, and the witness felt a sense of gloom while looking at him. He headed south, the people down that direction may have more information about him, he seemed well acquainted with the streets as he vanished from the main street a little way down. He may have taken a side street that connects to one of the busier roads to escape.
His weapon was definately a blade, and by the look of the cuts on the poor men, it was not heavily curved, but it was slightly, and the blade appeared to be very sharp, as the cuts were very clean. We have yet to identify the blade itself, it does not match any we could get our hands on." With that the man looks down and grabs his right hand with his left. Both hands seemed to be trembling as the man's face starts to turn pale.
"There is a rumor he will strike again, I can not blame him. Even though we now have a guard, he is not meant to take on people of a high caliber as this thief was, and it would be another easy grab without further assistance." The man looks up to beanbaker to see what beanbaker has to say.

Beanbaker

"Although I have been sent here by one with a vendetta, I ensure you he will be stopped. Although I will take to the southern roads, if he does happen to stop by here, I suggest giving in to his demands and get out of the building. I do not want to see any more innocent lives taken."

I give my regards and walk outside the bank. Going down the south main road, I look for a person who is a normal to the area, such as a store owner or some other worker, hoping they may have information.

Koku

Looking around there are a few business that are open (selling nothing of importance). There are a lot of busy shoppers, but none of them see to be from around this neighborhood, and probably were not around during the event.

Beanbaker

It looked as thought it was too busy to really get anything credible. I walk down the road, dodging shoppers. I look around for any form of passageways and suspicious people. Seeing the swarms of people, there might not have been much of a chance that the shop owners could have seen the culprit, especially if they were not customers.

I stop to jump on top of a kiosk. Around there are....

Koku

there are many people around. No one seems suspicious from who you can see. From behind you a large commotion can be heard with people running towards you. It appears that there is a small fight going on from where you came from.

Beanbaker

"*sigh*, a small deterrence. Better settle this now rather than when its an angry mob...."

I jump off the side of the building before the shop owner notices my heavy-weighted armor is causing too much stress to the roof. Making my way through the crowd of onlookers, I pull out my jutte.

"Break it up people. If fighting is really necessary, take it to the arena..."

Koku

By the time beanbaker gets there the fight is over, and the security guard is already dead. The owner's door is shut, and does not seem to be touched. Blood from the teller's can be seen on panels. Noise is heard from the vault.

Beanbaker

"Whoever is in the vault, state your presence and get out on your knees."

I stand behind the vault door with my jutte ready to block and grab any weapon. I wait for the person inside to make some sort of noise.

Koku

The person makes it out of the vault with a bag full of gc. He is wearing dark plated armor that shows sign of scratches and rust, along with stains of blood on it from its victims. His face is badly scarred from old injuries that at one time would be deep enough where the bone may have been cut. "Hm, fool! What makes you think you can stop me! You are just another pest in my way. Die with the other bugs." With that the guy unleashes his weapon, a shining katana with a shining gold dragon hilt. Blood still on the fine blade, it makes its way closer to beanbaker until it makes contact. The blade dents in the armor causing extreme discomfort to beanbaker. The man prepares to square of with beanbaker.

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Beanbaker

"Put your weapon on the ground and yadda yadda yadda you're not going to listen anyways..."

After some slight rubbing, I aim for a sucker-punch right to the nose. Once knocked back just a little, I aim again for the face, to jam my jutte close to the neck, then ax kick that, to hammer the jutte and cause some "discomfort".

Koku

Beanbaker lands a solid hit on the face of the person, who was able to move his nose out of the hit. Knocking hm back a foot, beanbaker then unleashes a strong hit with the jutte into side of the slaughterer's neck. The person fends off beanbaker's future attacks to get in a quick slash across beanbaker's chest. The dent is rather large and causes a cut on beanbaker's chest. This knocks beanbaker down to the ground.
"You are just a thorn in my side right now, you will die!"

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Beanbaker

I eat an afro plant whole, not realizing chewing was necessary.

"You are quite stubborn my friend. You seem like you're in some sort of a rush. Surrender now or I will have to kill you." I think how he would be much better off if I killed him anyways...

Gripping the jutte prongs between my fingers, I wind up to punch him repeatedly in the face with both my jutte and spare hand.

Koku

The afro plant taking its toll on beanbaker makes him stronger, and allows him to unleash more powerful strikes on the thief. After a barrage of attacks, the thief gets pushed back and gets time to recover. When beanbaker goes to attack he is brought down with a powerful liver kick that dents in his armor.
"so you want me to resist yet you continue to beat me up. That is why this place is so evil, your corruptness and excess violence makes you all scum! Tch, I have no time to waste on you." With that he unleashes one more attack, cutting into the back of beanbaker denting the armor in and opening it up slightly, causing two painful cuts in beanbaker's back from the metal of the iron digging into him. With that he starts to make his leave. Beanbaker is able to get up in time to see where he is going.

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Beanbaker

"No I want you to stop resisting and give up! You moron, you're the one killing innocents, so even if I was evil, you insist on using evil to stop me? How contradictory of you... Just what exactly is the meaning of the robberies in the first place?!?"

I force my jutte down, to hook onto his wrist and attempt to wrench him onto the ground by taking control of his arm.

Koku

trying to attempt to hit the thief the thief is still running. He seems to be more focused on escaping then on hearing beanbaker's insults. He quickly turns into an alleyway.

Beanbaker

I put away my jutte and give full chase into the alley. He seems too focused on something else, and I am going to get to the bottom of it.

Koku

when you get to the alleyway the person is gone, a clunk can be hear from above, and looking up, you can see that there are marks on the walls that look new.

Beanbaker

"Fast... too fast maybe..."

I attempt to find a way to climb the wall. If that doesn't work, I would continue down the alley to find some other way up or a way out in general.

Koku

attempting to climb the walls seems fruitless. Continuing to follow the noise, beanbaker looks up to see the figure running from roof to roof. He appears to be chewing something, and as he does so, he seems to be getting more energy.

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Beanbaker

I continue down the alley, looking up to make sure I stay on the thief's tail. Hopefully there could be a low roof that I can easily access and ambush him there. If not, I may need to find something to throw at him to knock him off balance and send him down to my level.

Koku

Soon the line of buildings end, but this does not hinder the thief's movements. He soon heads out of the town and into the rural area. He looks to see beanbaker still following him. As such he jumps into trees to try to lose beanbaker.

Beanbaker

"Geez man we can talk this out, but running just makes you more of a criminal!"

I try to jump onto a couple of thick branches to make chase in the trees. Hopefully if I cannot catch him, he'll lead me to where he is going, or to some sort of trail.

Koku

"you fool!" Without more warning the thief makes his way out of the tree tops to slash at beanbaker. However, beanbaker seen it coming and was able to block it from hitting hard by putting up both arms. As the blade slams down into the arms of beanbaker, the armor gets highly contorted on the arms, but not much more is done. they both fall to the ground as the scrap resumes.

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Beanbaker

"Seriously, why are you stealing from the bank? You seem to be more focused on something rather than your own personal gain. If you are being extorted or someone is being held ransom, we can help!"

I hold my jutte between my fingers and in the air, and raise my other arm in defence. If he decides to strike again, I plan on countering with a swift blow to the chest.

Koku

"Why would I tell a fool like you anything? You are not worthy to know anything about me, or my reasoning."
He quickly goes in for a powerful kick to the stomach but his foot is caught and he is dragged inwards before being pounded hard in the stomach by the jutte. Coughing up a lot of saliva and a tiny bit of blood, it is clear his body is under immense stress. Without much of a pause though he retaliates with a fast diagonal upwards slash onto beanbaker that lifts him off the ground and causes beanbaker to bleed out as the armor could no longer hold up to the injury.

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The thief does not wait around much longer as he goes to make his retreat yet again.

Beanbaker

I give chase again, hoping this time to drive him into the ground with a tackle or to kick him out by his feet. "This is getting stupid. Just give up. Better you deal with me than my superiors."

Koku

Trying to catch up seems useless until the thief stops for a second, just to pull out a bottle that he unplugs. He splashes the contents into beanbaker's eyes before starting to run away again. Beanbaker now poisoned manages to get a glimpse of the man running towards validus. A couple minutes back beanbaker can not fully catch up, but at least knows the general direction of the man.

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Beanbaker

I sit down and pull out a fortis bulb left over from the adventures up north and rub it on my eyes.

"Validus. This isn't good. Without Schmall around and the Dragons hanging out in their tower there is just no telling what may happen. Oh well."

With the man (I assume) out of site, I walk casually into the town. I look for the nearest person that may have seen the man run by.

Koku

Walking into validus it is mostly empty. Three are a few fishermen, and a familiar person wielding two stomp blades is resting with an orange-eyed wass, showing signs that he does not want to be bothered.

Beanbaker

"Nice to see you too." I hated to admit it, but he had to be at the Dragon place. I walk over to the building and look for anyone outside. If there was, I would approach them and ask if they saw anybody with black armor.

I hide my jutte under some cloth to conceal my guard status.

Koku

The people know who beanbaker is and push him away from the door. However, from that action, a noise is heard from one of the buildings. The fishermen catch a few fish and start to yell as the wass steals one away. The tavern seems to be empty, as does Schmall's house. A ruckus is also heard coming from the dragon's den, too bad the guards know better than to let beanbaker in.

Beanbaker

I walk away from the guards in expected frustration. I make my way to the tavern to see if the bartender is in, perhaps he knows of something, owning one of the few social places here in Validus. Walking in and approaching the bar, I lean over to see if he is anywhere.

Koku

the bartender is there but seems to be asleep. The lack of business left him a lot of time to sleep. There is no chance that he seen anything within the past hour or two. By the amount of drool that collected on the counter, he was sleeping for a while.

Beanbaker

Best let sleeping dogs lie. I walk out of the bar and keep out of earshot of the dragon guards. I walk nonchalantly around the building, looking for some sort of window to listen through, for if I am seen I am a dead man.

Koku

The guards see that beanbaker is trying to sneak in and is thrown away from the building again. This time when beanbaker is getting up, he can see the thief start to leave the house the noise was coming from before.

Beanbaker

"Just my luck." I look to the guards. "Sorry for the inconvenience!"

I knock on the door of the house he just left. If nobody answers, I'll come back later and chase the thief.

Koku

no repsonse, As bean walks away from the house, he is eventually out of sight from the guards. Looking around he sees no one. Abruptly a voice disturbs the silence. "You have been following me for quite a while. A guard I presume? Well, with that being said, you will have to be silenced!"
With that the thief lands an axe kick into the shoulder of beanbaker, and then followed up with a strong cut into the same shoulder, cutting into the flesh and drawing blood from the injury down the inside of the armor.

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Beanbaker

"Have to be silenced? What does everyone have against guards?!? I am going to take this as further resistance of arrest, and I'm warning you now that I will kill you if you do not surrender."

I duck down to try and grab his leg, flip him into the air, then quickly draw my jutte without unwrapping it and slam the jutte and the thief into the ground simultaneously.

Koku

Trying to grab his leg, the thief backs away slightly, but it does not stop beanbaker from uppercutting the thief with the jutte, knocking him back.
The thief gets up and kicks beanbaker back before slashing him again across the chest quickly unleashing a lot more blood from the chest now further exposed from the very powerful attack.

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Beanbaker

I grip my wound, soaking my hand in blood, and with a palmful, I throw some of my blood at the thief as a sort of feint to throw him off guard, then try to grapple him by the back of the next with my jutte and start slamming him into the walls of the adjacent buildings.

Koku

beanbaker slams the thief against the wall a couple times, leaving him hurt and with a new gash on his head, but it does not stop the battered warrior from retaliating with a quick thrust of the blade digging in slightly into the chest of beanbaker before getting stuck. To free it, the thief palm thrusts beanbaker in the collar, loosening the blade for him to pull out.

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Beanbaker

"Just drop the weapon and give up, I have more tricks up my sleeve, as I can expect you do too, so this battle will go on for a while... A battle of endurance."

I ready my jutte to block the next sword swipe between the prongs as best as I can, then pull the blade away (a disarm if the odds allow ) and punch him right in the abdomen, followed by a jab to the sternum.

Koku

The thief strikes again by first kicking beanbaker in the arm, making beanbaker drop his gaurd, as well as leaving the arm highly damaged, to the point where it is almost broken. He then slashes at beanbaker's sides and one quick slash in beanbaker's back, leaving moderate dents and openings in the armor. Beanbaker no longer able to disarm the thief makes his attack, which is now weakened due to his condition.
"Hm, you are not half bad, but I shall not let you live. I...I can't allow that!"

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Beanbaker

I stand up and look the man in the eye. Slowly asking, "Why did you stutter?" I put my jutte away, and pull out a quasin petal to eat. Before I eat it, I look into his eyes again.

"Who are you?"

(ooc: I'm not attacking, just for the record)

Koku

The man quickly runs back inside in desperation to escape and to try to evade dying. He knows beanbaker has too large of an advantage and that he does not stand a chance in winning now.

Beanbaker

With new energy I charge for the man, my heavy armor clanging with every step I take. I try to run my foot into the door before he can close it all the way.

"Stop this foolishness! I will not kill you if you just surrender and give back the stolen items! I know you do not want to die! And I can spare you from the one who sent me in the first place!"

I await for the man's response, foot in door or not.

Koku

There is no response, as it seems the guy is already making his way up to the second floor. About to die, the thief must be trying to hide any evidence.

Beanbaker

I walk through house, and up the stairs. "Calm down, please. I am a patron of the law, not a murderer, I would've liked to have avoided this whole fiasco in the first place..."

When I make it up the stairs, I stand and analyze what he is doing in front of me.

Koku

Forget you, I will not let you out of here, I can't. I must fight till the end. One day you will end up like me, just you wait. When the time comes there won't be anyone to save you." The thief starts to smile as his pupils start to contract. He goes in to slice at beanbaker but misses in his blind rage. As such he just swings the sword again, cutting beanbaker only slightly.

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Beanbaker

"I refuse to fight you now. You talk as though you know who I am, without me knowing exactly who are."

I attempt to grab his non-weapon arm firmly to keep him from wobbling all over the room. "Who - who are you? And why do you choose to die in such a pitiful manner, at your last breath you continue to fight when there is a possibility of life?"

I let go of his arm. Letting him get some room between us. I hold out my hand. "If you answer these questions and take my hand, I can spare your life and help you justify your causes, if they can be. I can help you."

Koku

"You think you can help me. What a fool you are. You can not help me, noone can help me. You must die, or else I must die!" The man goes to attack again but beanbaker easily dodges the attacks. The man now swinging wildly has lost all his senses.

Beanbaker

"Well I know I can help you with something if you at least tell me what the matter is. The only fool here, my friend, is you."

I push him slightly out of the way to look around the room for anything that could possibly be stolen or hold/hide stolen goods. As I look, "...and what do you mean, when you said I would end up like this?"

Koku

The thief starts to laugh menacingly. "You are doomed to die on this pathetic world like everyone else, and no doubt you will be killed with fear. You are doomed, if you think I will tell you anything you are wrong. I will take what I know with me to my grave." Without warning the thief takes off the top to his armor to reveal a very scarred body, with two deep gashes in particular with one going vertically and the other horizontally from one end to the other end of the chest. The new bruises cover some of the scars, but these two large scars are unable to cover. Soon the thief impales himself with his own sword, cutting deep. He then pulls the sword up, than to the other side of his body. Still alive he pulls out his insides while laughing in a terrified, psychotic fashion. "You...will...die..." with those words the thief falls forward, dead.

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Beanbaker

"It didn't have to end like this. Such optimism a world like this has. Since he is dead, I can collect what Koku wanted. Not proud of it though."

I take his sword and cut off his own head, saying nothing. I cover his body with a blanket, and take the head, sword, and stolen objects with me as I leave the building.

I leave thinking about how mad he went.

Koku

Beanbaker makes his way towards the lake where the Captain of the Imperial Guard was relaxing. HE appears to be in a better mood now as he plays with the wass.

Beanbaker

I place the stolen goods down first, then the sword, then the head. I sit down.

"He was the strangest crook I ever saw. He wouldn't tell me anything, not a motive, or even a name... kind of sad. True, he killed and deserves punishment, but he seemed too desperate and distracted for a criminal."

Koku

"Who knows if he deserved this punishment or not. He only killed humans and there are plenty to go around. He stole from me which angered me, but really it was just GC. He is guilty of greed but that is about it. For your efforts to maintain the peace I reward you with this medal. This money will be returned to the bank, and surely this incident will be forgotten quickly. Go get some rest, it looks like you need some." With that the commander goes back to watching his wass run around happily.

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