A small time gang and their crystal vehicles

About a week had passed and we were no closer to locating Ko Rava. I had barely slept these past few days cause i kept having nightmares involving Fingers mutilated body, and being paralyzed whilst a shadowy figure stood over me with a knife. I hated that feeing of not being in control and of my body being trapped. I was also mad at myself for being so stupid, i drunk that Victri's concoction without any thought of the potential danger i could be putting myself in. I had been raised to be smarter, but in that moment i became a silly wolf from the forest who did not know any better. Well that was going to change and i was determined to never make a fool of myself like that again.
 
After the week had passed i went with Lucid, Syrus and Saib to look for Gurval and Arthom. We ended up at a dingy tavern called Ramfauna which was in the Emerald district. Once inside we scanned the tavern for any sign of them and Syrus eventually spotted Arthom sitting at a table in the corner of the tavern. I went and sat beside Arthom, I could tell he was heavily intoxicated and he had a dejected look to him. He did not seem pleased to see me but at least did not tell me to leave. I tried to convienance him to join again in the search for Ko Rava but he responded that there was no point, and for all we knew she was probably dead. I urged him to not give up hope and that we just needed to look for more leads, but my words did not seem to be cheering him up. Seeing that i was not making any progress i told him that in the end i hoped he would join myself and the others and left it at that. I was about to get up and walk away when a female elf with thick red hair, and wearing a black leather jacket, sat at the table.
 
She introduced herself as Rider and then asked what had brought us to Zyniii. I gave her a brief rundown of our search for Ko Rava and what we knew so far about the Yakuza. I then asked if she happened to know any thing about the Yakuza in Zyniii, to which she responded that she did not wish to talk about them. She then went to sit at a nearby table that was occupied with an older elf who was analyzing some small crystals, and an elf whose hair was the colour of silver. She appeared to know both of them.
 
I suggested to Arthom that he go and strike up a conversation with them because i had a feeling that this Rider knew something about the Yakuza, and my attempt to get any information had failed. He relunctatly agreed and sat at their table, and was able to strike up a conversation. A few seconds later i sat with them followed by Lucid and Saib.
 
Rider was telling Arthom about a new style of racing that used a vehicle called a gleam pod. It sounded interesting and i was eager to see what these vehicles looked like. Then Saib started flirting with Rider and from what i could tell she seemed to liked it, and was flirting back. Syrus had now joined us and Lucid began a conversation with the older elf who then told us his name was Forge. We asked him about the Yakuza and all he told us was that he knew they were dangerous and it was unlikely our friend was alive. At the mention of the Yakuza the silver haired dwarf left the table and went to the bar. We continued to inquire with Forge about the Yakuza but then he uttered to go speak with Chatter and pointed to that same silver haired elf. Chatter did not have any further information to provide but assured us that she would be on the lookout for any new information about Ko Rava.
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I was intrigued by this new racing style that Rider had told us about and asked Forge if i could see a race. Forge was happy to oblige and had convinced Arthom to participate in one. We went outside and i saw four very large crystals that were floating just above the ground. These ended up being the gleam pods that Rider had mentioned earlier. Forge then approached one of the crystals and a few minutes later one side of the crystal disappeared. Forge then mentioned to Arthom that you needed to connect with the gleam pod mentally to be able to race it, and instructed him on how to connect to it. Chatter entered one of the other gleam pods and Arthom jumped into the one Forge had interacted with. It looked like Arthom got the hang of how to control the gleam pod cause a minute later the pod he was in zoomed off and a second later Chatter zoomed off in the other pod. Some time later they arrived back at the tavern and it turned out Arthom had won the race. They did not stick around long though and rode away from the tavern shortly after.
 
Myself, Syrus, Saib and Lucid had eventually gone back to the hideout and hours later Arthom turned up. He told us he ended up making a deal which Chatter which involved us to going to another Yakuza warehouse and stealing some crystals that they needed for the gleam pods. If successful Chatter would then reward us and potentially give us information. Arthom also believed that we could find something in the warehouse to help with our search for Ko Rava.
 
Since we had no new leads i agreed to help Arthom and so did Lucid and Saib. Syrus also agreed to help and then unexpectadly he started telliing off Arthom. He essentially told him to stop being a grump and to be a bit nicer to everyone. I half expected Arthom to punch Syrus, but luckily a fight did not break out. Now we just needed to figure out how we were going to steal these crystals, and not get hurt in the process.