A bunch of misfits and a surprise visit

A few days later i accompanied Syrus, Arthom and Gurval to a tavern in the Emerald district, Lucid and Zyanya met us at the tavern about an hour after we had arrived there. During my conversation with Zyanya i found out she had stopped performing at the Velvet Lotus, the owners kicked her out because of her association with us. I felt bad this had happened to her, although she said she was okay. She striked me as someone who knew how to use her charms to her advantage and to help increase her chances of survival. I also had a feeling that beneath that swagger of hers was a compassionate side that only a few people got to see.
 
I spoke with Lucid and told him briefly about my drug induced spiritual journey along with the divine blessing i received from Skipan. I appreciated that he was willing to listen to me talk about my experience. Lucid then told us the sad news that his father had been killed by Morvor cultists. He had been alienated from his father for most of his life and they had only recently connected. I was sorry to hear he had lost a loved one and expressed my condolences to him. I could sense that he was very sad they did not have more time together.
 
I couldn't help but notice that Gurval had left the tavern shortly after we had arrived. He returned later with a slender female Mokuna, and to my surprise Ko Rava, i was curious how he had gotten the message to Ko to come tonight. He told us his Mokuna companion was called Yifeng and that Ko Rava needed our help to take down the Triad. Yifeng then informed us that she is part of the Triad and wanted to use to her connections to assist Ko Rava. She wished for us to find a diplomatic way to dismantle the gang that did not include violence. We usually tried to avoid a violent outcome and alot of the times the other party attacked us first, which i mentioned to Yifeng. My first impresssion of Yifeng was that she seemed like a nice person, however it complicated matters that her mum was one of the Triad leaders.
 
I was glad we had the chance to talk to Ko Rava in detail about our efforts to find her, and the bad things we had heard about the Yakuza during our search. Plus i made it clear to her that we would nevertheless intentionally hurt someone she cared about. I also asked her why she wanted to destroy the Triad and she explained it was because her brother was in trouble with the Yakuza leaders. She planned to take credit for the Triad's downfall, which should then give her a good reputation within the Yakuza. She hoped this good reputation would be enough to save her brother. I told her i would gladly help her and it was the least i could do after what had happened with her sister. She appreciated this and i was happy that we were speaking again. She had experienced sorrow at such a young age and i prayed she would not experiance any more loss in her lifetime.
 
It then crossed my mind that Arthom seemed to be in higher spirits tonight, despite the fact that Ko Rava still appeared to annoy him. Arthom has not talked to me about his life before he joined our group of misfits, which made me wonder if he used his grumpy nature to mask his feelings. Maybe he has experienced tragedies in his life, and this mask was his way of hiding the sadness he still felt from those painful memories.
 
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Zyanya later announced that she had a reliable contact that could help us, this contact turned out to be Prince Liuni from Diomeda, talk about unexpected. I could not help but blurt out it was the prince the minute he lowered his hood. He looked slightly annoyed when i did, im assuming its because i unintentionally spoiled his grand reveal. In my defence he was the last person i expected to see walk into the tavern that night. I was amazed that he had escaped Diomeda considering there had been a volcanic eruption there. I was astonished to hear that Diomeda was not completely destroyed, unfortunatley the Enkelados cult has since invaded the place and its currently under marshal law.
 
He came to Zyniii hoping to find someone who could help him defeat the Enekelados cult, they wanted to conquer other lands and would not just stop at Diomeda, he also felt the other cults had the same idea. This prompted Lucid to request our help with stopping the Morvor cultist from leaving Zyniii. My head was still reeling from all the information when Syrus revealed that he had previously joined a gang in his homeland. He wanted to leave the gang and his brother was also in trouble with the gang. He had come to Zyniii with Saib to get rid of the other gangs, which would leave a power vacum for his gang to fill, then hopefully he could leave it.
 
Just when i though the night could not get any more intense Kyra turned up with Toes, whose torso was saddled on the back of Gurval's cow. Even though we had stopped him dying he still looked pretty catatonic on top of that cow. I was slightly peeved that Gurval's cow was allowed in the Tavern but Gallant had to sit ouside. Kyra asked Lucid to come back to the Black Skulls, she also asked me again if i wanted to Join them. Lucid was able to convience her to wait till he dealt with his current problems and i told her i wanted to help my friends with their problems. I had thought a lot about her offer and she seemed to geniunely respect me. But the idea of being a pirate that hurt innocent people and stole from them did not still well with me.
 
The prince departed not long after telling us Zyanya knew how to reach him, i did not expect tonight to be so full of revelations. We continued to discuss the various issues we now faced and Lucid stressed the importance of staying together, because every time we spread apart people died, I agreed with him. In the end myself and my fellow misfits decided that we would first help Lucid deal with the Morvor cultist, then afterwards we would deal with Ko Rava and Yifeng's with Triad problem.