10 Oix 4385: I Hate Investigating

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Still More Questions

Flowering Beauty was easy to spot: it had a fresh-cast sign of a lilrose bud that would open enough to reveal eight-ninths of an impeccably groomed Cani boy, before folding modestly back up around him. Scarletbloom wasn't in the front room but Blushvine was there with a customer. Her hands were busy styling the tail of a Rassimel, but she waved her antenna merrily to me when she spotted me. "Dee! I'll be free in a third of an hour if you want to wait."

So I waited until Blushvine was done with her customer. She gave me a big four-armed hug (Herethroy give the best hugs apart from Khtsoyis).

"How've you been, Dee? I haven't seen you in months! Did you get your license reinstated?"

"I spent alllllll Chirreb on an endless neverending adventure which FINALLY ended in Surprise but now I have lots of money and don't need to work so it was worth it."

"Aww, so you're not here to ask for a job?"

"Nooooo I don't want a job I already turned down Abssers. Did you know that the guild invited me to stand for master?"

Blushvine's truehands flew to her mouth. "Seven and twelve! Oh Dee, did they truly? How exciting! Are you going to start your own shop?"

"Noooooooo I don't even know that I'm going to stand the test."

Blushvine's mandibles clicked in amazement. "But -- after they invited you? How could you not?"

"By not making an appointment and doing it? Why does everyone keep asking me that?"

"But, Dee, it's such a great honor! You must want to be a master!"

I wrinkled my nose at her. "Not really? It seems like a lot of work and politics and trouble the way Sythyrs talks about it and zie should know zie's THREE masters."

She clicked at me a few more times, speechless, then giggled. "It sure would show Chenthery if you were master, though. After the way she treated you!"

"I guess it would show Abbsers too but I'm not sure why I'd want to and I'm not sure why the guild is doing this just after suspending me and it all seems kinda ... weird. Doesn't it? Do you know what's going on?"

Blushvine shrugged with all four arms. "Not really. I did hear some of Absweth's customers were upset that you weren't working there. Even a noble! Maybe that's why she wanted to hire you back?"

"Ohhhhh which noble?"

She curled her antenna in thought. "Lady ... Vina de la Grasse, I think."

"VINSY? But she HATES me! She was my last customer!"

"She was? But I heard she loved your work. It was just what she asked for. Didn't you get fired for not doing what the customer wanted?"

"Yesssssssss are we talking about the same Lady Vina who told you this?"

"Scarletbloom?"

"Is she here?"

"No, she's talking to a supplier. She'll be in tomorrow, though."

So I have to go back tomorrow blaaaaah investigating is ANNOYING. No one's ever around when you want them. I'm going back to swimming it's too hot for this.

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

You really can't do good investigative work in hot Surprise. Your information keeps melting.

Oops! I mean, you can't make good sculpted chocolates in hot Surprise! I get those confused a lot.

This is entirely and utterly suspicious, but I have no idea of what.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Me either and I'm really tired of trying to find out and my information may not be melting but *I* am. Stupid stupid Surprise.

[zeeth_kyrah]

I think I see what's going on. The Lady got something big she wanted after complaining about possibly showing up someone more important with an independent look. Like compliments and other ladies wanting what she had.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

I think this seems very, very likely -- because of what you did, something VERY favorable to the Noblewoman happened, and this set a series of interesting events in motion...

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Does that mean I'm really not in trouble?

[zeeth_kyrah]

It could mean anything. People aren't usually asked to stand for Master in a guild if they're in political trouble unless the guild wants to make a particular political statement. I doubt that's the case with your furstylists, though.

But you might end up with a noble who thinks you owe her for helping you, and that might be plenty of trouble indeed. I hope you have a good business assistant on hand if you ever do stand for your test and get your own shop, so if she comes in wanting favors you can consult with your assistant and get some quick advice before answering.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Noooo I don't want a shop!

Which does mean I'm safe from people expecting favors from my shop since I won't ever EVER have one and also all this politics stuff sounds awful I don't know how I got messed up with it.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Could be worse, could be a frozen Surprise, then it would be far too cold to go outdoors and no one else would be out either! Since it's hot, no one wants to stay indoors and bake.

It sounds like Lady Vina de la Grasse decided she really liked your work after she got over the shock of not getting exactly what she asked for!

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

And she's trying to pretend that it was what she wanted all along but you being punished for it would ruin her pretense so she's having them reward you instead.

So, um, yeah. That's not all that sinister really.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Delight, be very very careful in how you state what happened -- don't imply that she was initially upset if you can't help it! Just stick to some of the most basic 'what happened' facts in your investigation...

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

But everyone already knows she was upset I mean CHENTHERY knew and she doesn't even work at the same SHOP. I don't see how it can possibly be a secret.

[zeeth_kyrah]

... the Orren says to the Cani-looking fellow.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

There is such a thing as a polite fiction that people tell one another to save face. They are fragile things, though!

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

That makes it sound pretty good? Are you extra-dimensional people allowed to be this optimistic? Because you hardly ever are.

[zeeth_kyrah]

If you stand for Master and get it, you'd be a master wherever you were, so if you did get in trouble you could run off to another city maybe, or out in the countryside. They might not be able to pay as much, but you could style all sorts of folk who don't want to come to the city, and adventuring is at least as lucrative as running a business and you could have an assistant who gives you an allowance so you don't have to worry about your shop closing because you aren't rich any more and....

:)

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

I agree, being a Master is a route to having MORE RESOURCES that are inherent to you as a person!

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Told you so.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

I did think that Vinsy would like the style but I thought she'd like it once she SAW it, not DAYS later so I'm still confused I guess someone else talked her into liking it? Maybe?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

The approval of one's peers is EXTREMELY important, especially if you are a socialite or a member of the Aristocracy!