» Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:23 am
Part the Fifth
(Thieves Guild, Skeevers, diseases)
You must forgive J'ziir as he sips his wine; yes, please give J'ziir his blanket. He still does not feel so well; J'ziir's first week in Riften has been not so good.
J'ziir came to Riften because he likes shiny things, but you knew this about J'ziir. Riften does not have so many shiny things, it is true, but there are people who will give J'ziir gold for shiny things; and gold is also shiny, no? So J'ziir thinks he will like Riften though it is dirty, smelly, and not so shiny.
J'ziir wakes up at the inn run by the very scary Argonian lady, and he is not well rested because he has been having nightmares about the lady eating J'ziir. Please do not think J'ziir a coward because he snuck out of the Bee and Barb; he sees you smiling - then you go and see scary Argonian lady! Maybe she will eat you and J'ziir will take your coin purse. No, J'ziir is sorry. Please give J'ziir some soup, it will help him feel better.
Already J'ziir has heard that the Thieves Guild is the power in Riften though there are rumors they are not so powerful as before. J'ziir knows this is not so - it is a ruse to lure the silly egg-helmet-head guards into a feeling of safety. So J'ziir goes to the market to find a beggar so he may join the Thieves Guild. J'ziir is not so successful; he thinks it is because he cannot tell if people like him or not, but the beggars, they just stare at J'ziir when he asks them. J'ziir is not worried, he will find them.
J'ziir must not tell you how he joined the Thieves Guild; he is not so sure the leaders would want him to say. The first thing J'ziir finds out about the Thieves Guild in Riften is that they are very, very grumpy; yes, like Khajiit with a cold. J'ziir walks into the place where they stay and he is threatened by a big stupid-name Nord named Dirge who tells J'ziir that if he is not a good Khajiit, Dirge will beat him up. J'ziir nods to big stupid-Nord with very stupid name; if Khajiit was bad you would not know, even when you wake up with smelly rotten fish in your pocket. J'ziir decides at this point that he will take over the Thieves Guild just so he can make stupid-name Nord scrub his chamber pot. Maybe J'ziir will change his name to Scrubber. Yes, J'ziir can hear it now - "I am Scrubber and you better be good thief or cunning Khajiit guildmaster will make you scrub chamber pots and change your name to Scrubber." Hee, hee J'ziir likes this idea very much...
...Oh. J'ziir bids you welcome, Dirge (of the stupid-name). No, J'ziir was not speaking about you - he was telling story about a boy at the College of Winterhold. There is no need to raise your fists Dirge, J'ziir is very sick and you would not want his cold. Okay, Dirge, J'ziir will not speak so loud. (Do you see what J'ziir means? Very grumpy.)
So J'ziir joins the Thieves Guild and before he can settle in they have a job for him. Of course they have a job for him - J'ziir was a legend in Cyrodiil and certainly his reputation has proceeded him. Yes, they want J'ziir to break into an estate, steal everything...you know these things, yes? Even the poor Vex, who also has a stupid-name, could not do this. J'ziir goes to speak to Vex because the leaders think J'ziir could learn from her. So J'ziir goes to speak to lady with stupid-name.
J'ziir speaks to Vex. She tries so hard to not be nice, but J'ziir can see through her ruffled fur. Oh it is true, little Vex, you cannot fool J'ziir. Protest all you want, J'ziir knows your heart beats loudly when J'ziir is near. The Khajiit, we are most mysterious, no? All the ladies see us and desire to play with our fur. J’ziir knows you feel this way, do not try to deny. J’ziir thinks you are pretty though you have a stupid-name. Do not worry, J'ziir will not fire you when he is Guildmaster. J’ziir knows exactly what job he will have for you…
…No, no Vex! J’ziir was not speaking to you! J’ziir was recounting the story of a Khajiit lady in Bravil, how she could not resist the dangerous charm of J’ziir. (Do you see the way she squints her nose? J’ziir knows she is trying to look like Khajiit lady for him. It is okay – J’ziir likes even the not-Khajiit ladies. See how she tries to roll her eyes when J’ziir smiles at her. She is very smitten, no?)
So J’ziir goes to this estate to steal everything; J’ziir will not tell you the whole story – he is getting tired and he must soon go back to bed. While J’ziir is sneaking through the tunnels beneath the house he is attacked. No, not by the guards – J’ziir is too sneaky for the dumb guards, they are even more dumb than the egg-helmet-heads of Riften. J’ziir is attacked by SKEEVERS. J’ziir shudders as he thinks of it. J’ziir is a great warrior and has fought many creatures but he HATES the skeevers. They are rats, no? But they are EVIL rats, like they are Daedra-rats from the hunting grounds of Hircine. J’ziir does not like them one bit and shows them who is the better Khajiit with his two swords. But when J’ziir comes back to the Guild the people say he looks pale. J’ziir does not understand this because he has fur. But soon J’ziir knows that he is sick; he begins to sniffle and feel weak. So J’ziir goes to bed and sleeps a long time. But when he wakes up he feels no better and it is then that J’ziir knows he has no medicine. J’ziir lays in his bed and asks the kindly thieves to bring him medicine. But they do not! J’ziir cannot believe this. Khajiit always care for the sickly and give them sugar, but not the thieves. J’ziir becomes very grumpy because he must leave his warm bed and trudge through the graveyard to the nasty merchant who gives him potion that tastes like…well, J’ziir will not say what. It is only later that J’ziir knows this is the merchant he had to talk to for the Guild, and he wonders if his potion was not only medicine. J’ziir is not so happy, then.
So J’ziir has been sleeping and he is beginning to feel better, but he still needs his wine and his rest. You will forgive J’ziir if he goes to bed now. No, Vex, J’ziir cannot have you visit now. Do not fear: when Khajiit is better he will teach you what he means by Two-moons. Yes, J’ziir is a good teacher.
J’ziir hopes that you walk always on warm sands.
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D'nalo, J'ziir would love to share some Elsweyr fondue. But you must bring it to J'ziir because he does not feel well. J'ziir will share many stories with you, and tell you how the lady Vex cannot resist Khajiit. He thinks she is grumpy because there are so few Khajiit in Skyrim, yes? :foodndrink: