Divine Guardian {OPEN}

[Arratar Tsagarae]

The woman shrugged and hopped off Cupcake. She snapped her fingers and the spider would, upon Tekkan's dismount, follow her to the temple. "They can all kiss my ass, or wish for the privalige to do so, they would have better luck praying for that than naything else." she huffed as she pulled out her her desert eagle XIX and strode right up to the door, but she stopped and looked back at the tanned man. "Kick down the door, I want a dramatic entrance!"

[Tekkan Homus]

"Nah, don't think so." He replied, climbing down off of the giant spider. "As much as I despise the people in there, this place is STILL a holy place for my God. I'm not about to deface it by assaulting it." Rather than kicking the door down, he opened it normally, if a little firmer than was required. The resulting BANG! from the door hitting the wall of the foyer caused the people inside to jump, quickly turning around to see who had caused the sound.

There were about five people of different races, not the least of which being a Vishkanya, wearing the robes of a higher ranking member of the church. He was the first to walk hurriedly up to Tekkan after realizing who it was. Despite his dry, bronze-colored scales, the snake-like man always looked greasy to Tekkan. "We were concerned when you didn't arrive with the package, and we were beginning to assume the worst." Tekkan sighed before he addressed the man. "Yeah, I'm sure you were. Listen, I was sorting out some business after I fell behind the package. I'm just here to make sure that it got here, which it did, which means my job is done."

He started to turn to walk away, but the Vishkanya interrupted him. "Where are you going? And who is this woman?" Once again, Tekkan sighed and turned to address the scaley man. "Firstly, your hypocrisy is an assault on my senses, and I don't want to lose my sense of smell from the stench of festering wisdom in here. Secondly, she's a new business associate of mine. Take up the finer points with her." Despite further objections, Tekkan walked out of the temple, rounding the corner and waiting for when Arratar left the building. The Vishkanya was obviously unnerved by the gun toting Drow, but still invited her in to speak.

[Arratar Tsagarae]

The drowess was not amused, she wanted to knock down drag out and have a generally good time, and he had to open the danged door normal-like. But she still strode in and right up to the vishkanya, her expression rather nonchalant.  "So, dear, I hear from my associate that youre all pathetic hypocritical psychophants and not really worthy of that scaley prude, so um.." she pointed the gun at the snakeman. "Lemme see whats in the box, will you?"

[Tekkan Homus]

As Arratar pointed her gun in his face, the Vishkanya looked to have almost crapped himself right then and there. "O-o-o-OPEN THE CRATE!" He shouted at the others before turning his back and running to assist the others, tripping over himself and otherwise moving in a way most unbecoming of a race known for dexterity.

The box was rectangular, and was almost three foot long, but only two foot tall and wide. After some prying and frantic digging out of packing peanuts, the contents of the box were in full view. It appeared to be the first two rows of armor from a samurai's shoulder. It couldn't have been worn by anything that needed it, as the plates were made of sapphires, and were trimmed by gold, although the gold was incredibly dirty, and only shimmers could be seen from behind the years of black, grimy buildup. "This is supposedly part of our Lord Shizukesa's armor, before he ascended to godhood. If you had any respect, you would allow us to keep it." He huffed, but quickly deflated when he remembered that she was the one with the gun.

[Arratar Tsagarae]

The drow studied the bit of armor. "Huh, touche its definitely authentic. I remember seeing him wear that around. He was a prude but he had style." Arratar shrugged and fired a shot at the Vish's feet. "But a few sapphire pieces are hardly worth my time. Show me where you keep your bloody funds or Cupcake says hello.." she leaned in closer and suddenly shouted. "and you DO NOT want cupcake to say hello. Do you UNDERSTAND??" the little pirate roared, clearly one with her profession and background more than a lot of people were.

[Tekkan Homus]

The snake man jumped with almost comedically exaggerated movements when she shot at his feet. After getting yelled at, the five rushed down a hallway deeper into the temple. It was partially an attempt to lose her so she hopefully lost interest, but they did indeed go to where the vault where all the tithes of people who believed in Shizu but either couldn't provide the time to the temple or felt that spending money on his temple was enough to satisfy. The door was decidedly old fashioned, so that the lock couldn't be unlocked by a technopath. When she arrived where they were, they would instantly set to work to opening the door. The large door required all five of them to open, and it was no reason why such drastic measures were taken to protect it. Stacks of bills, piles of gold bars, innumerable baubles of varying quality littered the floor and hanged from the walls.

"Take a dollar over half and I'll be forced to stop you." Tekkan had come up behind them with surprising silence, most likely because of his ability to fly. "Oh, thank Shizukesa! Where did you go? Your 'business associate is insane!!" The Vishkanya blurted out towards Tekkan. "I let her do this so that I could teach you a lesson. You are far too content to live your lives up here, doing nothing to spread the words that you were taught and told to spread. Perhaps if you had garnered more favor with the surrounding people, there might've been more people here to protect this place. You claim to know of balance, but even if you truly understood it, NONE of you go out and actually TEACH it. All the more you do is sit here in your ivory tower, waiting for everything to be done for you." Tekkan felt rather justified about his rant, while the supposed priests merely stood there, mouths agape at his reaction to their plight.

[Arratar Tsagarae]

The criminally insane sky pirate started to hum, waving Tekkan off as she started loading up sweet sweet booty into the packs that Cupcake carried. she was an experienced drow, a furious creature undoubtedly, but for money, she still became downright giddy. there was never a more accurate representation of a pirate. she emerged after several minutes with her own person and her spiders brimming with pillaged goods. "I took my share, are you done chewing them out? I could offer a freebie and shoot him in the face."

[Tekkan Homus]

"Don't waste your bullets on pests." He replied coldly. "I'll be back in a month's time. If things haven't changed, I'll PERSONALLY take over, and you'll HAVE to share the words of Shizukesa, or you'll face my wrath. Got it?" The priests nodded silently, now as afraid of their once pupil as they were of the Drow piratess. "Good. Let's get going, we still have some business to attend to and I'd just as son get that done as soon as we can." He turned around and started to walk out, his heavy armor intentionally clanking to punctuate his point, more to the priests than to Arratar.

[Arratar Tsagarae]

Ever saucy Arratar cackled as she exited packed with treasure, and climbed back onto Cupcake. "well ive had my fun, i suppose I can take you back to my ship, send you somewhere and get you out of my hair, since you DID prove profitable.."she paused, eyeing the bronzed man carefully. "Where do i send you anyway?'

[Tekkan Homus]

"We still have some business, remember? Deal's a deal, after all." He said, following the woman and her spider, enjoying the view but trying to be not too obvious with it. "Despite what happened afterwards, you DID help me get the package to the temple and I, as a man of my word, promised to pay you for your efforts, as well as the damage to your ship. I have a stache not that far North of here. I started it not that long after I started my little home brewed business."

[Arratar Tsagarae]

The tiny terror nodded, seemingly satiated now that she was packed with shiny shiny treasure. "It works forme i usppose, and good job. You managed to stay alive in my presence, that by itself is an impressive feat." she explained. "Ill take you back to whereve i nthe nine hells youre from, but if i have use for you again i WILL call upon you." the drowess snorted. "So, be prepared."

Regardless of what Tekkan decided at th end of the day they both survived in one piece and poor Shizukesa learned a vital lesson in keeping a close eye on his temples..