Deal

"Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll?" The Whiterun guard asked in a sassy tone.

"Yes! That's exactly what happened!" the blonde spoke with annoyance.

Earlier today, Gold had been minding his own business baking a sweet roll for the first time since he was in Skyrim. He had taken the rolls out fresh and left them to cool off at the window. By the time he returned, they had disappeared!

"Look, I cannot just simply go off on a hunt every time someone had their sweet roll stolen."

"Fine, I'll handle this myself!" he decided as he turned to return to his house.

"They took my sweetroll, I'll show them what happens when you mess with Gold Aversis. HAAHHAHAHAHAHA!" Gold muttered darkly until he bursted into maniacal laughter

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"Mud crab extract, crushed nightshade, ancient mothwings."

It's been about month since I've been in skyrim. I'm not too worried about heading back to DXD at the moment. My truck hasn't appeared yet, which means it hasn't been 24 hours in DXD yet.

"Spriggan's wood, boar tusk, human heart."

Time moves differently from world to world. Although I can choose the timing of return when driving my truck, it's different if I let time flow naturally. The truck is set to automatically seek out it's designated driver when it isn't in the same world after 24 hours.

"I have returned with the mud crab shells you asked for my thane."

"Good work Lydia, take a break."

Melting down the crab shells for JUSTICE! I added it in with the rest of the ingredients. What am I doing at the moment? Just some alchemy and JUSTICE! At the end of it all, a small vial with yellow liquid was the result.

"It's done AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I laughed maniacally while raising the concoction of questionable substance.

"You're doing the laugh again my thane." I hear Lydia remind me

"*Cough* Bring me the sweet rolls!" I say while ignoring the comment.

Drizzling the liquid over the batch of fresh sweetrolls, I watch as it disappeared into the rolls. Yes, this looks absolutely irresistible. I went to open the window wide, then left the rolls there to cool.

"Jee, I hope my sweet rolls aren't stolen again!~" I say a bit loudly.

I turned to give Lydia a look for a moment until she understood what I wanted.

"Oh, yes! It would be quite a shame if the thief were to take them while we were not monitoring them!" Lydia, you are a terrible actor. But good enough I guess.

"AAAARRRRRRHHHHH!" a miserable cry sounded out from outside.

"Oh look, we have our thief." I notice the sweet rolls disappeared from the window.

Exiting the house, I turn the corner to see the dropped plate of scattered sweetrolls littering the ground. Next to that is a tiny little mud crub with a flower poking out of it's head.

"Was it worth it?" I asked kneeling down to the thief turned mud crab.

"My thane, don't you think this is going a bit overboard?" She asked with some concern.

"Relax Lydia, he'll turn back in a month. For now I have a nice spot in a fish tank for him." I'll feed him, nothing for humans though. What do mud crabs eat?

"What's going on over here?" a few guards rushed over. Most likely the noise alerted them.

"It's nothing, my housecarl was simply startled at the out of place mud crab here." I pointed to Lydia who seemed to give me a look. Woman, you are sworn to carry my burdens. Can't have people thinking the Dragonborn got freaked out by a mud crab

"Is that so?" he turned to the female housecarl.

"....Yes, I was not expecting to see one here." It's good to be a thane sometimes.

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So I've noticed something odd. Whenever I take out my Dragonslayer Swordspear. Dragons tend to fly off in the opposite direction whenever it notices the spear. I don't know whether it's because they are afraid of Rhongomyniad's light or they can feel the amount of dragons this spear has slain while it was used by the Nameless King.

"Roar!" Oh look, it noticed the spear.... and it's turning around. See? It's weird.

As it continued flying off in the distance, I think it's a shame that I can't just let it go. But I really want those bones, who needs dragon armor? The materials from a dragon have much more interesting effects when used in alchemy.

Sparks of light crackled along the spear. With a single thrust towards the sky, lightning descended, bombarding the unfortunate dragon. I can use the innate lightning abilities of the spear fine, but using Rhongomyniad's light tires me out. Well it's nice to have in case of emergencies I guess.

"Damn, it landed on a mountain." I miss my truck and it's all-terrain movement. Funny enough I still can't find Vimana in the gate. I've been looking for awhile but it is surprisingly well hidden.

"Perfect time to test out a potion." Supposedly this potion should give me the stamina needed to sprint my way there, or at least that was my intention when I made it.

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"Woah, what happened to you?" A whiterun guard asked as he spotted the Dragonborn head back to town. His eyes were wide open and his hair was all over the place. He seemed to be twitching a bit on one side.

Gold's neck snapped to the guard as his eyes seemed to stare into his soul. Raising a finger, he took out a bucket of liquid and poured it over his head.

"Nothing, just potion mix ups." he responded as he ignored the liquid dripping off him.

"...Right...." the guard slowly backed away from him.

Before heading into the city, two gold portals opened up. One above and one in front of him. He breathed flames into the portal in front of him, then the same flames showered him from above.

"I love fire resist enchantments." Gold said as he patted his now dry clothes.

"You there, were looking for someone in Whiterun and will pay good money for information." Gold turned to a couple of redguard warriors with scimitars.

"Who are ya lookin for?" he asked. He remembered this quest in game, but it never came up until now.

"A woman, a foreigner in these lands. Redguard, like us. She's likely not using her real name." The leader of the two said. Gold remembered his name was Kematu or something.

"I'll keep my eye out if I see someone like that then." he said but in reality he was gonna warn the girl despite knowing she was guilty. Reason being, she was a waitress that served at the bar he frequented at when he wanted to get hammered so he didn't have anything against her.

"Thankyou, we'll be in Rorikstead if you have any information." Gold watched them walk out of town.

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"Hey Saadia, you know you got Alik'r warriors lookin for you right?" I informed her from the side after entering the Bannered Mare. I planned on just warning her and having a drink right after.

"Are you sure? Oh no, they found me? I need your help!" She seemed incredibly panicked and concerned of the information

"Well actually I was just gonna get a drink-" and she immediately started pulling my arm towards the back, okay then.

"Please, come with me. I need to speak with you privately." I am honestly tired, and in need of some booze. I honestly don't feel like dealing with this.

She eventually let my wrist go as she led me upstairs to what I assume is her room. I don't respond as she immediately pulled out a dagger from her dress.

"So, are you working with them? You think you can take me? You so much as touch me and you are going to lose fingers."

"Well now that just sounds like a double standard considering you dragged me here by the arm." I respond smugly. I dunno, I'm back to smug and sarcastic remarks when I get tired of shit.

"I mean it. I'll... I'll cut you in half!" She threatened as I noticed the hesitation in her voice.

"You? Cut me in half? I don't know if you've heard but I'm sort of the guy who killed Alduin the Eater of Worlds about a week ago." I honestly chuckled because it just sounded funny to me. I mean, if she had a super powerful knife then maybe I'd be intimidated but that's obviously just an iron dagger.

I watched as Saadia lunged at me from her position. I didn't carry any weapons on me, I keep them in the gate. The knife came closer to my neck while I stood there still.

*CLANG* the knife snapped in half. She stared at her broken weapon in horror, oh there was poison on the knife. It would have worked if I didn't reinforce my skin beforehand.

"You know, I wasn't gonna hurt you." I honestly tell her. "I was just going to warn you and grab a drink while I was down there." She seemed to calm her nerves a bit.

"Then I need your help and there isn't anyone else I can trust in the city." she picked herself up and dropped the broken dagger.

"No." I just gave her a deadpan look.

"But, I need-" I immediately cut her off

"I honestly do not care what you need. From what I can see, you're some noble from Hammerfell who probably betrayed her house and ran off so Hammerfell ordered some men to take you back for punishment or something right?"

"Those... those men are assassins sent by Thal-"

"Assassins generally don't work in large groups and they wouldn't be armed as warriors." I give her a look that practically said 'Are you stupid?'.

"Then what can I do?" she dropped down to the bed crestfallen

"I don't know, but you should be more concerned about what I might do." I say without any warmth as she turned to me when she heard my words.

"What's stopping me from turning you in right now? I don't think Kematu got far." I could literally catch up to him within 20 minutes I think if I pushed it.

"But, you said you weren't going to hurt me." Oh, now she's afraid.

"I said I WASN'T going to hurt you. That was before you dragged me from my chill time and tried to kill me with a poison dagger. I can ignore the attempt at manipulation because that actually takes some smarts which I can respect, but the other crap? I'm not that good of a person to just let it go." The attempt at manipulation I can ignore, but the actual attempt on my life piled on with messing with my chill time. NOT COOL! It's one thing if I get knocked out by a friend because I deserved it, but I draw the line when someone actually tries to go for the kill.

"..What do you want from me?" Saadia asked when she realized I was completely serious..

"I don't know, what will you give me so I don't have to make the effort of dragging you to Kematu?" Taking her there is a lot of work that I just don't want to do. But I'll do it if I have to.

"I... I can offer you my body." she began to slowly loosen her blouse.

"Deal." was my immediate reply. What? You think I'm some guy who's going to get all embarrassed and refuse? Man my first time was to a prostitute in my last life so I'm fine with this.