[OOC] Let Me Steal Your Heart [BuzzingBee + Dagger]

[BuzzingBee]

I am too xD
Olivia joined the party! very eagerly too lol

[Rogue Sloth]

Crow knows how to make an entrance xD
Honestly, he's even more of a show off when knights are around, since he knows they look down on criminals

[BuzzingBee]

Nice xD

Penelope has yet to figure out just how annoying both Gavin and Crow are going to be with each other lol

[Rogue Sloth]

Sorry, I had a class this morning ^^;
I wasn't planning to go today, but my professor told us we had to turn in a hard copy of our project, so I had to show up lol

I'll get started on my reply in a few minutes!

[BuzzingBee]

No worries lol

Ok!

[Rogue Sloth]

Got one done cx

Crow still doesn't trust Gavin in the slightest lol

[BuzzingBee]

The feeling is mutual xD

[Rogue Sloth]

Gavin is trying so hard to make Crow into the bad guy xD

[BuzzingBee]

He's going to basically going to be the boy who cried wolf when the time comes for him to find out about Crow trying to throw them off xD

[Rogue Sloth]

For real xD

Crow isn't having any of it lol

[BuzzingBee]

Penelope still feels bad about accusing Crow cx

[Rogue Sloth]

Sorry that took a while. Some people stopped by looking for a guy who went missing

Crow doesn't want her to be sad xc

[BuzzingBee]

No worries!

Awww cx she still feels a little bad but that helped xD

[Rogue Sloth]

Crow doesn't like talking about his past with Jaxon, even if he barely mentioned it ^^;

[BuzzingBee]

Unfortunately for him Penelope got curious xD

[Rogue Sloth]

He decided she needed to know the truth anyway.
He's honestly a little afraid of Jaxon, and thinks she needs to know how dangerous he is

[BuzzingBee]

His story just gave her more of a drive to go after Jaxon xD
Crow's a little afraid and Penelope's a little confident for once cx only because she's sure of their combined skills but still lol

[Rogue Sloth]

Ironically, Crow is probably more right to worry in this case, since Jaxon is going to manipulate him later xD

Also, I'm thinking the way Jaxon will find Crow is by paying his friends a visit while he's away (since he's trying to kill him for the bounty right now). He would question them to find out where Crow is and end up being misled to Wheldrake initially. This would piss him off, so he would go back and either attack them all or kill one of them as a warning for lying to him before going to search Myrefall, since it's the closest village and Simon mentioned that Crow frequently visited there.

I'm thinking when he gets there, Crow and Penelope would be at the house to sneak in some alone time, or Jaxon would find a way to track him down from there to wherever he and the knights are at the time.

[BuzzingBee]

Honestly xD

That sounds good to me. so much drama and action I'm excited lol
Penelope's going to go into rage mode when she finds out about Jaxon manipulating Crow on top of everything else he's done xD

I also love that we actually have like a main antagonist for this part cx

EDIT: So I just randomly had an idea but I'm not sure how well it would work depending on what you're planning with Jaxon xD

So I was thinking that maybe Jaxon and his crew are camping either near the border or even slightly on the Younisian side, since that would keep them rather protected from being discovered easily by the Brerratics.

My idea is to sorta bring Hartley back into the story for a little. Here's how:

Over the two year skip, I imagine that Hartley and Kip ended up getting married, though not without some resistance from her family after they learned he was a thief. They probably ended up moving to avoid them and tried to make a living for themselves elsewhere. It's difficult though and Hartley probably has a few close run ins that make him second guess his career choice. Then the war starts up and he sees it as a chance to make a different name for himself.
I'm not sure what you had in mind but I was thinking maybe the reason the commoners of Younis are able to fight decently is because they're like a small militia on their own so when war occurs they help protect their homes and even fight alongside the knights if the battles stray close enough. I was also thinking that this gives peasant men a chance to elevate in social status if they make a name for themselves while defending their home, maybe even becoming unofficial members of the battalion if the higher ups of the battalion deem them as worthy enough.

So Hartley would run off to try and to make a name for himself, leaving Kip behind with her family despite the bad blood. He would have come into the war a little late and hesitantly since I imagine he'd probably have to take some time before hand to improve his fighting skills. As the war rages on, he continues to defend alongside the other peasant men and tries to show off a bit but fails to get much recognition. He's starting to get a bit desperate when he hears word that one of his kingdom's spies has hired a group of thieves to sabatoge the enemy.

Hartley would realize that he might be able to use his thieving skills in order to gain the attention he needs in order to rise up so he'd decide to go track down the group of thieves to both learn from them and possibly try to take a bit of credit.

I could see this either causing him to accidentally run into Crow and Penelope's group or perhaps he already found Jaxon and managed to get accepted as a new member but doesn't realize how cruel they are yet like Crow since he's too blinded by a possible shot to excel.

Again I'm not sure if it would fit for what we have going but I thought it could be fun to bring him back in xD I also had an idea that the thief Penelope let get away from her and Gavin could be among them too but I might just save running into him for a different time cx

[Rogue Sloth]

I like it ^^ Especially if he gets accepted into Jaxon's group, because that would cause some urgency on Crow and Penelope's side to try and get him out before the thieves are eventually captured/killed by the knights. Also, I feel like part of Jaxon's requirements for Crow when he blackmails him would be to report back to their camp every few days to let them know where the knights are searching for them, so he might run into Hartley alone then. Of course, he wouldn't openly tell Hartley that he was only working with Jaxon because he was being blackmailed, so when he and Penelope try to convince Hartley to get out of Jaxon's group later on, Hartley would probably be like "But you're with him too" and be hesitant to listen to them.

Speaking of the reports, I imagine this would be how Gavin would figure Crow out. I could see him catching him sneaking off if they're all camping together one night. Either that, or he would eventually convince Penelope to go out with him late at night to prove that Crow had turned traitor and show her that he was meeting with Jaxon (maybe they'd hide somewhere along the route that Gavin suspected Crow was taking or even follow him to his meeting place with Jaxon and eavesdrop?). Let me know what you think cx

As for the militia part, I could see the local knights training the peasants in basic fighting, since they're all on the same side, unlike the people in Brerra. I don't think it would make sense for them to jump up to knighthood or a position in the battalion from there, since the world we built operates on a feudal system where class changing would be super uncommon (Crow's case would likely be unheard of when his father makes him an ambassador, but even then he's only half peasant anyway). They could have some other kind of recognition that Hartley is after though :) Maybe they would get a title that's specifically for them, even though it wouldn't necessarily make them part of the battalion.

Also, I'll get started on my reply in like 10-20 minutes ^^