Tavern Wench... Or Something More? ((Open))

[Xiao Hua]

(Any number of people can join this!)

Xiao Hua bustled around working at the tavern. She wore a beat up dress and some high leather boots. Her dressed revealed her assests and when she walked by some of the men were wooping and whistling.

"Oh yea baby. Come over here and sit in my lap." One patron said. And she did. She smiled but thought in disgust, what I'm sitting on better not be what I think it is, she thought about a small lump underneath her. Little did he know she slipped his coin purse off his belt and hid it within her dress.

Xiao Hua smiled. It was going to be a good haul tonight. And her eyes were enough to get any man spellbound, add in her body, and most men were around her pretty little finger. Most men... not all. She took the order of a few men and pretended to be nice. On the inside she screamed, this is not what I should be doing. I should be searching for a lord, not ripping small timers off.

[Ryu Yin]

Ryu Yin gave a great big yawn to express his exhaustion. After 3 days of tracking through the wilderness his target ended up dead, beaten to death by a group of thugs. He was practically broke now since the client wanted the target captured alive. What money he had left on him was now being used to pay for his drinks. But something peculiar caught his eye, one of the waitresses. Either he was seeing things or she just pickpocketed one of the Tavern Patrons. He would have to keep an eye on her.

Taking another chug from his drink he sighed with delight. It was nice to drink something other than warm water in a cantine. Leaning back in his chair Ryu took his Crossbow off his back from under his cloak and placed it on the table. He wanted to relax a bit before he left to head back to the army back up north and finish his plan to take it over. It was going to be one long walk though. He took another glance at the waitress before taking another gulp from his drink. Other than the pickpocketing all he could think of was that she was one fine babe.

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Cheng Du.

¡°Might as well drop by at the tavern,¡± Ma Chao muttered as he pushed the wooden door open upon its creaking hinges.

The tavern smelled like, well, a tavern. As if one like him really cared. Ma Chao wasn't a heavy drinker, but he knew when he wanted a bit of a refreshing cup of spirits. He was still on his way toward his destination, and a drop by Cheng Du was always nice in the region of Ba Shu. The small bell tied to the top of the door tingled as everyone looked his way. For most of the customers, they would simply have turned their eyes back again to attend to their own businesses, not interested in just another old and ragged drunkard.

But this man was different.

Ma Chao strode in with his usual pride, his long and sturdy spear strapped tight onto his back while his polished armor and helmet gleamed in even the dim candlelight that barely illuminated the rest of the tavern. The wind that he brought in for only a few seconds caught onto the white strands of hair attached to the rear of his helmet, breezing it to one side as he walked in without a word. Ignoring the numerous glares that he received, Ma Chao pulled a chair out and sat in it, leaning his spear against the wall to his back.

As usual, hopeless men, various drinks, and of course the women. The workers who basically acted as entertainers for the desperate fools known to them as men.

"Get me a cup of warmed wine."

And then he noticed out of the corner of his eye, two figures. One, a waitress, the common job they did, soothing the drunk men before taking off with their money. It was the usual routine, but the men were too ignorant to even care anymore. But nonetheless, what a beauty. Ma Chao was cold-hearted, but that didn't make him any less interested in the other sex than other men his age.

The second figure was more of a casually dressed, yet sharp-looking young fellow. Hmm. But the more conspicuous thing was the crossbow lying in front of him. It wasn't really unusual for another warrior, but nonetheless, it wasn't a sight that he saw everyday.

[Hiro]

Hiroshi enters the scene sitting down at a table with an old man playing a nice game of shogi outside a crowded tavern. H wore his casual white outfit and his eyes remained closed to hide his red eyes as he always did. It was peaceful and relaxing, he pulled out a pipe and began to smoke from it. "There aren't alot of youngsters like you any more." the old man stated with a laugh. Hiroshi returned the laugh and says, "Well there aren't nice old people like you, old man Xiang." They laughed once more and continued their peaceful game. After losing to the old man in the game once again, he lowered his head and rubbed the back of his head. "I lost again!?" He shouted as old man Xiang laughed after drinking his tea.

"I am done for the night. Thank you for playing with this old bag of bones again in a game of shogi." Old man Xiang said giving Hiroshi a short bow of the head. Hiroshi quickly bows his in a sign of respect. "You know there is a lovely waitress here. You need to forgive yourself and try something new." The old man continued, Hiroshi gave him a light grin. And stood up helping the old man clean up the board of Shogi. "We'll see what happens, if it does, it does, if doesn't, it doesn't." He said soundly handing the piece to the old man. In return the old man smiled and nodded his head and began to walk way. "Don't gamble to much now!" The old man said and Hiroshi jaw dropped refusing such an act.

moments later

"Eheheheh. I got this!" He shouted with a short but a content laugh. In this night he felt like putting everything aside for once and just have some fun. With a growing group of people surrounding him and laughing they were gambling on a game with dice and a hint of deception. A fun game for a warm night like this. There were three players inculding himself each had a cup and five dice. They raised the cup and shook it using a hand to cover the bottom, the slam the cups to the ground and began to look at what they got. "I bet three 7's!" A sailor yelled to start things off. A farmer raises his cup enough for only him to look at his own dice. "I bet six 7's!" Hiroshi looks at his and grins. "I call you a liar!" He took the two cup reveal only three seven's.

Everyone screams with laughter watching the farm frown and lose handing Hiroshi some money. He sees the waitress and calls out for her. "Hey miss! I just won! How about a round for everyone eh?! You'll get a generous tip!" He said with a laugh, with the support with the players. He keeps his focus on his own game and the people around him not caring about much else at the very moment.

[Xiao Hua]

Out of Xiao Hua's eyes she saw a man enter at and she smiled. She brushed off her dress and walked over to the one who firsted entered and asked, "Excuse me, do you need anything?" She asked softly in a calm seductive voice.

Out of the corner of her eye she saw another man, definitely of better standings by looks of a man carrying a spear. She made a mental note to go to him next and focused back on the man in front of her.

When another man yelled a round for everyone and a big tip she rushed. She ordered a few of the women to help do so and they soon quickly passed out the wine. She personally delievered the wine to the man who spoke. She bowed her head slowly and said, "That is a kind thing of you Lord..." she said trying to catch his name.

[Ryu Yin]

Ryu was about to ask for another drink from the woman when the bastard playing his game yelled buying a round for everyone. It pissed him off he didn't need his kindness. But might as well not to let the drink go to waste so he took it from the different waitress that served him. Ryu chugged it down fast for he about to cause a little commotion that would probably get him slapped across the face and or thrown out. But that's happened to him hundreds of times so he couldn't care less.

Ryu picked up his crossbow back from atop the table and placed it back on his back under his cloak. Stumbling from behind the waitress and pickpocket he smiled acting drunk and happy.

"Hey baby why did you leave I wasn't done talking to you. How about I meet the twins." Ryu grinned happily.

Ryu raised his hands drool coming out on one of sides of his mouth and with a perverted expression on his face his right hand came over and covered the girl's chest. And with a flash of his left hand he took the coin purse that she got from the drunk. Placing it in his own pocket.

[Xiao Hua]

As he grabbed her breasts and took out the coin purse she retaliated pulling out a knife secretly and putting it to the man's throat, "Give that back..." She pulls out another and lowers it to his crotch and she whispers in his ear, "If you wanna be a man. And never... Never touch me." Her eyes we burning with anger. Not one person could see. However as people started to get up and see what happened she then put up the knives and stared at the man and shrieked, "He touched me!"

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Ma Chao watched in silence from under his helmet, which had been tilted down so as to cover the majority of his face. Quietly observing both the beauty and the less likely than beast, the former attending to the latter in the casual yet seductive entertaining ways. Yet this time it wasn't the man that fell victim to the pickpocketing. It was the female. His sharp eyes saw everything, especially from a third-person's view, when he chose to do so. The drunkard's hands, one after the other, crime after crime.

Injustice would never prevail while he kept his eye on it.

Some called it foolishness, some called it childish and blinded by very strange perspectives. But the firm foundation upon which Ma Chao stood, known as justice, was something that he strongly believed in, whether anyone else thought otherwise or not. It was his views, his choice, and he would stay firm in what he pursued in life. Of course, his actions would show the same.

The moment he sprang up from his seat in the rear wall, Ma Chao's hand flicked for only a short second before the cheap cup sitting before him immediately flew out of its place on the table, heading toward the drunkard's head. It wouldn't break or anything, just give impact. And as the cup left his hand, Ma Chao reached out to pick up his long spear lying beside him, using the butt end of the polearm to punt several chairs out of the way as he stepped toward the duo, the rest of the crowd suddenly stopping in silence and watching them.

"Drop the girl and the money and step back. How about I get you another drink?"

[Zhang Liao]

Zhang Liao came walking in, but as he got in he could tell that something bad had happened, so he minded his own business and went to find a spot to drink in peace.

He did find a spot but it was close to the guys who were gambling, he stops one of the waitresses and says, excuse me can you get me a bottle of sake please?

the waitress replied, One moment sir, she said as she went to go get him abottle, she came back and put it on his table.

Thank you, I replied as i started to take a drink of it, carefully trying not to get drunk quickly cause he has firsthand experience on what the waitresses do when you are drunk

[Hiro]

A rather fun night thus far, wining streak in his gambling, able to talk to quite a woman. So far things were going good for him, so he thought his happy thoughts. "That is a kind thing of you Lord..." She stated. He lightly touched her chin with a light grin, he spoke in a soft and kind tone. "I am no lord but my name is...." Before he could finish, she was swept away by a passing drunkard, her breasts grabbed by the man. Another day, another drunkard molesting a woman. Then he spotted her put a knife to his neck mumbling something, seeing he was right next to them, it would seem that the man also pickpocket her and got a good hand full. Being a man he had to admit that he was somewhat envious of the other man's touch. But he couldn't say that he was jealous of of it since she wasn't his woman. And yet, he could take the time to help her accordingly. "He touched me!" She shouted.

Then a man with his spear in armor came to a dramatic rescue. The man took to a heroic pose that made the group of people go silent in his wake. All he need now was to say something cool, and so he waited hoping he could swept the girl off her feet. But instead he sees the man throw a cup at the head of the drunkard with the girl still near him, bad move. He grabbed a piece of her clothing gently, and gave her a light tug as a safety measure so the cup wouldn't hit her. "Drop the girl and the money and step back. How about I get you another drink?" The man sprouted. The image of the hero saving the damsel he saw dissipated rapidly. Despite his words of helping the woman, he seemed more focused on helping the drunkard. He blink casually making sure he hid the colors of his eyes.

He casually watched the two as he smoked his pipe quietly then shook his head from a far. Then took the girl by her hand and pulled her next to him. "That was quite rude, we were talking." He said casually and cooly then letting out a soft sigh. He gave her the payment for the wine and 100 coins from his gambling winnings. "Can we continue this night in peace?" He looked at the girl with a grin. "So what's your name?" He asked. But before she could answer a couple men who were drunk scream with laughter of what was going on. One threw a crab at the man in armor, while the other laughed.

[Ryu Yin]

Ryu Yin stood their quietly looking at the knives. But that didn't stop his smile. He knew she would have to put them away once the other patrons got close. And surely enough she put them away. He had an evil grin on his face now. He got close and whispered in her ear this time.

"It seems you have a sharper eye than I thought. If people knew that the waitresses here pickpocketed their patrons you wouldn't have a moments rest. Everyone would be coming here looking for their money and if you can't pay they'll find someway to get something just as good. How about we finish this outside ba..."

At the end of his sentence he was interrupted for some prick through a cup at him. Not only that but the bastard who bought him a drink tugged her away from him while he was figuring out what had happened. Looking behind him he saw a spear pointed at him. He smirked now some small fry in armour was getting in his way probably the prick who threw the cup. He observed the room more and saw other drunken patrons laughing and causing a ruckas. A brawl was about to begin he might as well start it.

Ryu Yin wasted no time he ran over and grabbed one of the laughing drunks, punched his lights out and threw him knocking over a table.

"I'll tell you all this once. If you try to take me down. You're going to die." Ryu grinned his eyes full of fire punching his fists together.

[Xiao Hua]

As everyone got up to defend her, Xiao Hua was yanked down into the man's lap. She smiled seductively and said, "My name is Xiao Hua" She smiled and leaned in to his ear, "Oh tell me... What is your name lord."

As everything got heated a man stood up in the corner. He was originally resting his head on the table. He was dressed in plate mail armor from the waist down and the rest of it was on the ground. He was around seven feet tall and towered over everyone else. He pulled out at sword that was about four and a half feet long and said, "Why dares interrupt my sleeping?"

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The brawl began.

Ma Chao cared for justice, but if justice was to be carried out, sometime a bit of unfairness would be brought in. He wouldn't kill unless necessary, and this wasn't really necessary. It all started on his part as a random... crab? Started flying toward him. Easily grabbing the creature in midair, taking advantage of a drunkard's poor aim, and he immediately flung himself upon the man, the butt end of his spear driving straight into his stomach. Ma Chao sidestepped onto the table before him just in time to avoid a hail of whatever had been residing in the man's stomach two seconds ago.

Numerous cups, jugs, and moreover, steaming pots were flung toward him. "Scumbags." Using his spear to collide with an oncoming whatever it was, he shattered the numerous drinking utensils as the remnants of the porcelain fell to the floor in a messed heap. Those who even dared to come in close combat met the ferocity of Stallion Fury as they stumbled back with broken noses and bloody mouths. Eventually deciding that this horde of zombies would never end, Ma Chao leapt down and lifted the wooden table off of the ground, only to ram it into a line of drunkards. A light object, if it was easy for him to lift, it wouldn't be too much of a task for a bunch of drunkards, but it would work for now.

Now where was he...? Oh yes.

Looking over his shoulder at the waitress sitting on some random man's lap, Ma Chao frowned as he asked, "Are you alright, my lady?"

[Zhang Liao]

Zhang Liao saw that the fight had began, so he picked up his sake went to a corner and watch the chaos start in the tavern.

He saw that a few bottles and jugs were being through across the room, and decide that a corner was not the best place to be. so he got up and tried to walk through the fighting but he was punched square in the face.

Zhang Liao not one to lose his temper simple just bunched back at the man, with his still armored had, and continued to walk. He some how found his way to the tall man with the big sword, Crap, I said as he punched me and I went flying. I landed somewhere near the front dorr, and decided just to stay there

[Hiro]

Such chaos, such splendor, havoc ensued as the original 'drunkard' began to bas heads with the others. It became apparent with his current abilities that he was not drunk at all. He rubbed his chin thinking about it, then realized something, he didn't really care. When he pulled the women by his side, she ends up in her lap, it was something he didn't mean to do, right when he was about to apologize to her. She spoke with quite the seductive tone as as well, telling him, her name, so why not play along? "A little rose huh?" He said sweetly to her. "A rose doesn't befit you, you are after all much more beautiful." He said with a flirty tone and a grin. "My name is Hiroshi. He said whispering into her ear. Before her could make another move the seemingly respectable man in armor interrupted him, checking if she was ok.