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Tobias walked outside of the large library doors and into the city where he lived. It was the city of Cabal, a place where many like him were exiled. Anyone who was deemed "unworty" or "incappable" of living in an "average society" was dumped and left to figure things out. There was no government, no orginization, just a town full of the insane. They all seemed to get a long fine though, and odly enough there wasnt much violence. The library from which he had just left was a gift from a neighboring city to the east. It contained little outside of the occult and grim, but nobody really minded. Tobias was friends with a few individuals in high places, and they owed him a few favors. He figured his best move would be to get out of the city. Although he had friends here, he also had enemies who sought intrest in all he did. If he was to be rid of these stalkers he would have to firecly guard the book now on his person and make sure to speak any crucial information through smoke, which was a way of speaking between the insane.
Tobias walked for minutes in the empty streets of the city. He was surprised it was even considered a city, it was after all fairly barren. The few who lived here shared thier homes and belongins with eachother, seeing as nobody else would. A few more minutes of walking resulted in a large building appearing before him. The black building which was sagging slightly to the right and falling apart was the home of his friend Ralph. He entered the house and looked around.
"Hey Ralphy boy... you home?"
Searching some more, Tobias crept through the house and searched every room. The last room he visited, Ralph's bedroom held a grim sene. Ralph swung from a noose that was tied to the cieling rafters and had began to decay. The stench was horrible and flies had begun to eat away at the corpse. Tobias giggled.
"Oh Ralph, you son of a b***h. Oh well, no use in letting all that precious life essence go to waste."
Tobias summoned his chain, and opened his palm up toward the cieling. The chain wrapped around Ralph's body, growing as needed in order to wrap around his whole body in a cacoon. A purple stream flowed into the gaps in the links of the chain and into Tobais' palm. The purple energy formed into a ball and grew as more poured into it. After a few moments the stream stopped and tobias closed his palm, the ball of energy hissing as it entered his body. With a snap of his fingers the cacoon shattered and the links all set ablaze on the floor, burning away into nothing in a puff of black smoke. The truely dead corpse had stopped swinging and it's facial expression was sad.
"Now now, you should have seen this comming my old friend."
He turned to leave when he spotted a book and some paper on Ralph's bed. With a small laugh he approached it and picked the papers up and read them. He read them to himself and laughed again.
"A suicide note, how quaint. At least he says here that I can take whatever I want. I was the only one who ever cared about him anyway."
Next he examined the book which was actualy a book full of naked pictures of girls. Tobias lifted his goggles up and placed them on his forehead. This was one of those rare moments where his whole face was visible. His eyes were grey and bloodshot, he was never sure why. He looked at the book, thumbing through the pictures and then looked around the room. He whistled slightly and then found a patch on his belt for the book.
He scowered the rest of the room for anything useful, finding only some gold in a pillow case, a ring made of silver and a necklace with a small creature's skull for a pendant. He took the trinkets and exsited the house, looking around the street to decide what he should do next. Resting his hands on his hips he thought to himself and tryed to figure out what his next step should be.

The book mentioned a place far to the north, and such a journey would be difficult to go through alone... he would need a companion... or maybe two to aide him in his quest.
"Yessss.....yes.... yess..... I should find someone who can help me.... maybe a woman... yes... a woman would be nice.....I'd settle for a guy though, he'd have to be strong though.... yesss, so very strong. Someone's gotta dot he heavy lifting.... and that ISNT GOING TO BE ME!"
He laughed to himself and strapped his goggles back on his face.
"TO THE BAR!"
*continued in pub*

Contrath smirked, he had successfully retrieved the signature from one of the members and was currently leaning back on his hands while riding the summoned beast. He head turned towards the deranged man shouting at him before he finally voiced a reply. "The name's Contrath. Now it's my turn, who are you and what's this I hear about stones?"

Contrath's eyebrows raised by the actions of the man in front of him. However all the those thoughts disappeared as he began to imagine what benefits awaited him. Had Contrath been wrong when assuming this mans wealth was next to nothing? Was Contrath going to be coming into money sooner than he thought? No matter what the outcome, Contrath was intrigued and proceeded to question further.
"When you say 'treasure', are we talking gold, silver or any other sort of actual treasure? Or are we talking these stones? If so, how valuable do you reckon they are?"
His eyes wandered to the book that Tobias had now began reading and shook his head slightly, from the little time Contrath had spent with this man he had found him to be a strange one. But clients were clients, so he reverted his attention back to the mans face to wait for a response.