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"We finally caught up to you!" the man said between pants as he grasped his knees, sweat pouring off his brow. "No where to run now!"
"Gosh, a bunch of big, burly men like yourselves, cornering a couple of innocent, pretty girls like us in a dark alley? People are gonna get the wrong idea,"
FORTUNE chided, her own chest heaving from the mad dash she'd suddenly found herself in.

The first group of men, who no doubt were now mingled in with the mass of bodies blocking their one and only exit, FORTUNE had recognized. A few men she'd cheated out of a few hefty bags of gold in a game of cards. They're fault for paying more attention to her assets rather than her hands. Typical. But the other four that had been chasing the two women? FORTUNE had no clue who they were. And she hadn't exactly had the time to ask her new friend.

FORTUNE had just been walking down Finweald's streets when she'd found her path blocked by a spindly blonde women facing off with four big brutes. Turning around, she'd found the four from the night before staring her down. Both sides had said the same canned spiel of 'we've got you now, time to pay up,' and the FORTUNE had looked over at the other woman, wondering if she was in just as much trouble as she was, and one moment later they were both taking off down a side street together.

Ah, no better way to make friends than being chased by an angry mob.

"What do you think?" FORTUNE asked the other woman, turning towards her, tilting her head slightly and casting a wry smile towards her. "If we started screaming, do you think the guards would believe them?"

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“Erm~ you mean The LIONS right, ahahaha~”

Glamdark somehow made this face ^_^;; as she tittered in falsetto then looked down as a shadow palled her glamdarkourous features.

“...Let’s not. Let’s just say they’re NOT going to be acceptable targets once they wind up chasing ME too…”

Glamdark thought back, how the hell had this all happened? Easy, it had happened easily, but like a 92 car pile-up, one big application of easy force can set off one hell of a tangle of a chain reaction. Yes, Glamdark had gone flat broke in a scheme that she was sure would double her money. So then, she had the obvious excellent idea of borrowing money from another group to pay off her debt. That other group, we can call them Mafia B had signed the deal but were unable to provide her money they promised for some reason (-->FORTUNE). So, Glamdark had taken off after them to liquidate them, personally. All the while, the original Mafia A had been chasing Glamdark herself. If none of that made sense, it’s because it truly didn’t, and it hardly mattered now.

Her escape to Tertoria was on hold too.

“GIVE IT UP GIRL!”

“WHICH ONE DAMMIT! AND HOLD THE HELL ON! I’M HAVING A CONVERSATION HERE! THOSE GUYS ACROSS FROM ME HAVE YOUR MONEY! SO, BOTHER THEM!”

“THE HELL WE DO! THE GIRL HAS -OUR- MONEY! NOW HAND IT OVER!”

“HOW CAN I HAVE YOUR MONEY WHEN YOU HAVEN’T GIVEN IT TO ME, AND IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE -MY- MONEY YOU DINGUS, -YOU- SIGNED THE CONTRACT!”

“NOT YOU!”

“YES ME, I HAVE IT RIGHT HERE!”

“IF YOU HAVE IT, THEN JUST GIVE US OUR DAMN MONEY!”

“NOT YOU!”

“YES, US, YOU’VE GOT BILLS AND WE’VE GOT INTEREST!”

“I JUST TOLD YOU! THEY HAVE -YOUR- MONEY WHICH -IS- MY MONEY!”

“NO WE DON’T! SHE TOOK OUR MONEY!”

“DON’T TRY TO PIN THIS ON ME! IF I TOOK YOUR MONEY THEN IT’D BE MY MONEY, BECAUSE I’M SUPPOSED TO HAVE YOUR DAMN MONEY BECAUSE YOU SIGNED THE FREAKING CONTRACT!”

“””JUST GIVE (US/ME) (OUR/MY) MONEY!!!”””

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Glamdark let out a primordial groan as she felt a migraine coming on and turned back toward Fortune.

“Sorry, but you wouldn’t happen to have a grappling hook, do you? You look like you’d have a grappling hook, in a cool way. Otherwise grab onto my shoulder, I have a spell to get us out of here.”

If Fortune had a grappling hook, they’d likely be taking off up and out of the alley onto the rooftops like a pair of Batwomen.

If she didn’t, it’d be the Mary Poppins method, as Glamdark would float them both up there as dark wings floated around their boots in Perseus - Mercury Fashion.

“You know I’d feel bad, but their customer service is just the worst.”

““WHOSE?!””

“BOTH OF YALLS YOU IDIOTS NOW STOP CHASING ME AND LET ME CATCH YOU!”

“”GIVE US OUR MONEY!!””

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!”


So began the chase scene.

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FORTUNE's eyes flicked back and forth between the three parties as they each barked out their own set of accusations, counters, and who knew what else. The woman was quickly losing track of who wanted what, from who and who had it. Did she have the woman's money, gang one's money, or gang two's? At this point FORTUNE had no idea, but she sure as hell wasn't about to say anything that was going to incriminate herself.

"Sorry, but you wouldn't happen to have a grappling hook, do you?"
"I-I'm sorry?"
"You look like you'd have a grappling hook, in a cool way. Otherwise grab onto my shoulder, I have a spell to get us out of here."
"Wait, what are you t-"

Wings suddenly sprouted from woman's back, and soon enough, she was taking off towards the sky.
"Hey! Wait for me!" FORTUNE shouted, leaping up and grabbing the other woman's ankle as she rose into the air.

"People can do this in this game!?" she shouted in both wonder and fear as they rose higher and higher into the air, and the idiots below got smaller and smaller. "Oh god, this is high..."

As they began to fly further from their take off point, the tall buildings of Finweald came into view beneath her feet. With some level of safety (and something solid maybe a dozen feet below) FORTUNE let go. She landed on the roof with a clatter, stumbling a couple of terrifying steps before she found her footing. "Keep going!" she shouted to the winged woman above her head while below her she could hear the shouting of those chasing them, "Get back here and give us our money!"

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"Of course we can! Magic's the best! And my magic is even better!"

Glamdark beamed as she helped pull Fortune up from her ankle and steadied her as they drifted upward. The pursued and the pursuers and the other pursuers shouted after them. Then, they touched down on the roof, Fortune touched down first, and Glamdark didn't question her great advice for them to keep moving.

"Oh, were you new round these parts? Crap. Now I feel bad. Well anyway, I'll find a way to make it up to you as thanks for helping get me out this mess."

They were running across the rooftops now, but unfortunately like a wuxia martial arts movie, more and more men were making their way up and coming after them.

"Flying takes a lot of energy, so let's save it as a last resort, instead, why don't we try being a little proactive and thinning their numbers as we go?"

Glamdark smiled the gentlest of smiles as she glanced over her shoulder with an evil sounding 'heh heh' as they continued to try and make ground.

"Hmmm. You know, I am mature enough to recognize that maybe like 10 no, 5 percent (if we're being generous) of this situation miiiight be my fault, so let's try and teach them a lesson they can walk away from. Oh, this'll be a cool chance for you to see more of my awesome dark magic too! Check it out! Name's Glamdark by the way!"

Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.

Glamdark and Fortune's shoes made a nice sound on the rooftop tiles. As they went, a pair of dark runic circles began to coalesce and form around Glamdark, it was a pair of spells.

"Okay, here we go! Let's beef you guys up a bit!"

Shoom. The first rune-spell burst in an outward cone, only, it did no damage. In fact, Glamdark had cast an aoe shielding spell on them. The first unfortunate pack in line had flinched for a moment, stumbled, and continued on in confusion. Only then...

"That should do it, you can make this night up to me by being target practice!"

Vhoom. The second dark-rune gathered around Glamdark's right wrist, and a moment later there was a dark flash, and then a great, dark beam.

"DARK CANNON!!!"

Glamdark swept the beam horizontally hosing who she could before it dissipated. Those who weren't lucky enough to duck or take a substantial amount of cover were quickly sent flying... off the roof. Lucky for them, Glamdark had shielded them. They'd survive the fall. Probably. Wasting no time, Glamdark began to prepare the first spell again. The shielding one.

"Damn. I do love me a Dark Cannon, but it takes a bit out of me. I'll keep shielding them as we go, so feel free to just send those idiots flying. Aren't rooftop battles just the best? Collaterals' at a minimum because there's not a lot up here. Man, I should do this more often!"

Glamdark was practically sparkling in the night, true to her name. Looking over at Forune, she suddenly remembered something.

"Oh yeah! By the by, I'm like totally lost here, so my plan was just to run them around in circles, take them out eventually, and maybe ask the last one for directions, unless you've got a better idea? Is that cool? I'm pretty free tonight, I was supposed to be fleeing the country but maybe that's on hold for now."


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"Uhm, kinda?" FORTUNE replied to the woman as she leapt over the gap between two buildings. "I just started playing a couple weeks ago." And most of that time had ben spent wandering the goddamn forest of a region FORTUNE had since learn was called Eastern Brisshal. Fuck Easter Brisshal, all of FORTUNE's homies (exactly none) hated Eastern Brisshal.

"Oh c'mon, the more the merrier," FORTUNE joked as she peered over the edge of the rooftops for just a moment, counting how many goons were climbing up however they could after the pair. A lot. There were a lot of them. For all of FORTUNE's bravado she was actually incredibly inexperienced and doubted she could handle that many of the idiots on her own with any of her many skills.

Thank god for Dark Cannon.

The beam blasted a cluster of their pursuers right off the rooftops, and FORTUNE couldn't help but pumping a fist into the air, performing a little jumping skip as she cheered the mage on. "Wooh! Nice, get 'em girl!"

Ahead of them, FORTUNE spotted a couple of the goons scrambling onto the rooftop, their hands grasping whatever they could for purchase as they clambered up. "Watch what you're grabbing boys!" FORTUNE advised as she cast a small illusion. The tiles of the roofs morphed into hard spiny red shells, pincers sprouting from them to snap at fingers that dared to get too close. Fear and surprise sent the goons plummeting down below, the sound of the crashing through some market stalls (mostly unharmed) resounding from down below. "Sorry!"

"My name's FORTUNE,"
the woman finally introduced herself, smiling at the woman as they continued their mad dash over Finweald. "I've got all night. What do you say to some drinks when we're done here? I'm taking the day off tomorrow anyways!"

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"Good timing on starting, there was a big friggen robot that we had to squash not too long before you joined, real headache... you'd think it'd do something about the property values but noooooo~"

Glamdark casually unloaded as she was following after Fortune. Her eyebrows shot up at the lady of mystery's illusions. Illusions were something Glamdark couldn't do, they were too tricky, and she'd quickly lose her patience. She shielded the doofs as they fell.

"Neat trick, don't suppose you can conjure up any money, could you? Your offer sounds like a million bucks but it also sounds like... a million bucks, and right now the only drink I think I could afford is some river water and some odd looks."

Glamdark sighed, casting another shield spell. A Dark Cannon soon followed. For a more wizardly wizard, Glamdark seemed pretty darn adept at running away...

"Actually, you know what? Since they declared war, doesn't that make my debt invalid if I win? I mean, it wasn't exactly legal anyway. Hmmm."

Squinting out into the night she thought she spotted it.

"Well, I think their base was over there."

Glamdark turned away from Fortune and called over her shoulder.

"HEY IS YOUR BASE OVER THERE OR WHAT?"

"YEAH IT IS!"

"COOL THANKS!"

Glamdark gave a thumbs up.

"Alright. That text didn't have that colorful feeling, so I'm not sure which group it was, but either way, I have business with both so let's head that way and liquidate them first. DARK SHEILD AND DARK CANNON!"

Scwhoop and Vhoom.

The air was a little clearer now.

Reaching out and breathing a little more heavily now, Glamdark gently grasped Fortune's left wrist and the black glittering wings appeared on both sides of their shoes once more. Pushing off like a swimmer on whatever the edge of a pool is called, the two ladies soared through the air in the direction of a delivery deport for large wagon trains. There were a lot of warehouses here, and quite a few of them weren't quite up to the level on their legality. Smuggling sure, but a lot of people just didn't want to pay Astor his taxes.

"Gaaaah I'm tired. I want a drinkkkk. Margarita my kingdom for a margarita..."

Glamdark wheezed as they gently touched down.

It was ironically pretty quiet as most of the commotion was now following them back from elsewhere to here.

The two were walking, as walking was about all Glamdark could manage at the moment as she slowly caught her breath.

"So what other cool things can you do?"

She asked as her hand rose and slowly pointed to a warehouse which still had its lights on. It was now getting into the later hours, and if this went on for too long (as Glamdark still figured she had to chase down the other bunch) then their drinks would be over the illustrious and mysterious ritual known only as brunch.

Approaching the warehouse however Fortune devised, Glamdark quickly decided on something and promptly voiced it out loud.

"Okay, nevermind they have way too much stuff. Let's just grab the most expensive looking things that won't get us in trouble with anyone else and I'll call it good for now."

Glamdark nodded.

It had been quiet outside, but in here were a bunch of strangely new-york-fantasy-trenchcoat-but-guildstyle looking gangsters scrambling about. They were trading messages with a few with long pointy ears. Some kind of messaging network probably.

Glamdark thought she saw some fancy paintings. One of the late, not so late, late again, nope not so late Ceciline seemed especially fun. Her eyes then wandered to some very fine jewelry, and finally to a boring but still beautiful in the draconic-hoard-making-eyes of Glamdark, sack of gold. A Glamdark in a candy shop, she wiped her drool.

"If I blast them, and mind you I've caught my breath now and probably can, we're just gonna restart the circus. That's fine. I like circuses (when I'm not the clown). But if we want this portion of our lives to get on with it, then I'm open to 'just as good but different' ideas. Any thoughts? Or is it gonna be Glamdark Whamdark?"

The Sorceress Supreme tilted her head.

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"A...a big friggen robot?" Had FORTUNE accidently stepped into Pacific Rim? Why were there giant robots? The woman knew that Magia were a thing, but those were mostly human looking. And how in the hell would she even seduce a robot if she had to fight one? Robots didn't usually have the same 'issues' as everyone else so what could she do then? It wasn't like illusions would work either.

Ah, but that was a problem for another day. Right now, the more pressing issue was the apparent lack of money that they both (ok, really only Glamdark, because FORTUNE stole the gangs' money), and whether or not that was one of the gangs' bases in the distance. "Money, no, but I think those idiots just volunteered theirs," FORTUNE replied. Now just how to get over there?

Well, Glamdark had a solution for that. Flying.

"Margarita? Girl, we're drinking a lot more than margaritas tonight! And something a lot stronger too!" Running and flying around town being chased by criminals seemed like the perfect excuse to get absolutely wasted on someone else's dime later.

The pair touched down, and FORTUNE could only smile as when Glamdark asked what else FORTUNE could do. "Let me show you," the woman replied before suddenly sinking into the ground. Only a shadow remained. A shadow with no source, and peculiarly in the shape of FORTUNE. A shadow that was also moving on it's own, behind Glamdark, before FORTUNE popped back up again. "But, since there's two of us, I'll just cast a little Illusion over us. Don't worry, no one will see," FORTUNE said as she lifted a small dice in her hand that began to glow blue and spin rapidly in the air before settling back into her palm. "Just don't touch anyone on accident."

Under the cover of FORTUNE's illusion, the pair had an easy time making it over to the warehouse, which so chockful of random shit, FORTUNE's eyes practically bulged out of her skull. "Man they must own half the town's wealth in here..." the woman murmured before turning towards Glam. "I say we just grab whatever the hell we can fit in our pockets and sneak our way back out. As long as it's not too big, I should be able to maintain our illusions."

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Watching the magic dice swirl, Glamdark couldn't help but think one thing: Gee, people who conjure magic dice sure are cool.

And so they arrived in an exceedingly un-glamdark-like fashion. And to be honest? Glamdark could get used to this. Glamdark was proud, but she was also kind of scummy. If she could get it the easy way she'd often go and say: hey make it even easier. Things were going so easy, in fact, that lifting the nice portrait of Ceciline de Falder (or something), Glamdark, of course, bumped into something... which bumped into something... which bumped into something... which bumped into someones...

"THE HECK?! WHOSE THERE, YA BETTA SHOW YOHSELF OR SO HELP ME..."

Glamdark screamed, internally, wondering why oh why this always happened. It wasn't her fault, clearly. She NEVER let a good thing up and go blow up in her face. Slowly, raising a shadowy and vaguley invisible hand up from the portrait, Glamdark gave FORTUNE a shaky thumbs up. It was a thumbs up that seemed to say...

"whoops, my bad." And. "I think I'd rather die than ask for help right now, it'd be too embarrassing, in fact, if you could just kill me and get it over with, that would be great, glamthanks."

Our scene returns to some yelling goons squinting into the gloom as Glamdark cleared her voice badly to try and regather herself. Then, came her answer:

"HO HO HO MERRY WINTERSHOLIDAYS!"

"..."

And, nobody said anything.

"DAYS!"
"DAYS!"
"DAYS!"
"DAYS!"


As Glamdark's voice echoed through the not-so-empty warehouse. Until, somebody did.

"Holy cripes Mikey friggen santas came to us!"

"Finny, my brother from a seperate maternal source, I love ya' but I gots two things to say. Ones it's the dead of November, and Twos, the only thing we'd freaking get is a bunch of stinkin coal."

"Wait, Mikey, are we the baddies?"

"Finny, what is it that you think we do day afters day, and on manys a night such as this one as well?"

"Wells, we rob from the rich don'we? And give to the... well I don't think we give much. No wait don'ts we give money to peoples who needs it? Aint that pretty fine, Mikey?"

"Finny, then we asks for that moneys back when we knows they can't pay."

"Well, that don't sound very smart of us Mikey."

"Finny, what I'm tryin to tell ya is that aint the claus."


And then, outside, the wintersholidays bells rang...

The two speaking goons looked outside the warehouse.

"Finny, holy hells it might actuallys be the claus."

"See Mikey? Nows we can get some coal to put in socks to make new blackjacks!"

""YO'S SANTA'S WE GETTINS SOME COAL OR WHATS?""


"..."

For the first time in her life, for as long as she could remember anyway, Glamdark had drawn an utter and complete and fully materialized blank. She literally had no idea what to do.

In the distance, everyone else was coming, a whole patter of goons from all sorts of factions that Glamdark had been absolutely sure she was never going to see again.


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(I'm so sorry this took so long, but I'm finally out of the event chain. Merry Winterholidays)
 
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There was no feasible way for FORTUNE's writer to summarize the events that had just transpired, whilst doing them justice, so perhaps its better to simply explain how it was that FORTUNE reacted. Her mouth slowly opening more and more into a perfect, slack-jawed 'O' of disbelief.

"D-did you do that?" FORTUNE whispered to Glamdark as she continued to gather up everything her grabby little hands could find, knowing that the first Christmas holler had indeed been her, but jingle bells that followed?

Whatever the case was (which might have very well been a bout of insanity) FORTUNE thought it best to take advantage of the goons' momentary lapse in attention to try and sneak away. Gently tugging on the woman's sleeve, FORTUNE pointed towards the exit and began to quietly tip toe (like Tom Cat) towards the exit.

Tip toe, tip toe, tip toe.

Clang!

FORTUNE froze, one leg still in the air, wincing as the sound of a golden chalice striking the ground (was that the Holy Grail?) echoed noisily throughout the entire space. Slowly, Mikey and Finny turned to look towards the two thieves, caught red-handed in the middle of their stealthy escape.

"RUN! EVERY WOMAN FOR HERSELF!"

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"I didnnnnnn't"

Glamdark hissed as she semi-invisibly shrugged in exasperation as she turned her hand over and just, kind of, gestured outside as though she were placing the entire world which bewildered her on a platter for @FORTUNE to see.

Then, FORTUNE had made the wise call to cheese it.

"I'll meetcha at the place I think you might of maybe mentioned for drinks later!"

Glamdark shouted back as FORTUNE and herself cheesed it in opposite directions.

""THOSES SANTAS DIDNT GIVE US ANYTHINS!""

The two goons shouted as the remainder of both gangs arrived, alive, somewhat beaten, but mostly well.

"Nah you twos..."

It was one of the other guys, you know, those ones.

"...them invisible santas gave us the greatest gift of alls."

"You means, like by bringing us togethers...?"


"Yeah, to kill them two broads. Now whaddya say we talk business and finally end all this squabbling so we can throw those slippery fishes under some goddamn water?!"

"""YEAH!!!"""

"First drink's on me gentlemen!"

"""YEAH!!!"""

"AND THE NEXT ONE'S ON ME!"

"""YEA
H!!!"""

And so, that was how two rival crime families came to be one rival crime family in a Wintersday Miracle. The fighting in the streets at long last ended and the protection money was now so expensive it made everyone's lives worse. The end.

Except...

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Sunrise.
That one bar the two probably mentioned as a meet up. I wanna say it's cabo-themed


"Well that was a lot, and I forgot why we were dealing with it, but I got the painting and I think that's probably a mission accomplished. Look, I even ordered it a drink and put these little arcanamancy sunglasses on it, it's kinda funny."

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Glamdark said as she sipped from a large glass with one of those twirly straws.

"What'd you call this drink again? I'm something of a barhand myself, sometimes, and I gotta say, I kind of like it. Cheers."

Glamdark raised her glass and winked through her own pair of shades.


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"I didnnnnnn't." The quiet denial had FORTUNE's mouth slightly agape as she stared out into the cold, frosty holiday air. Holy shit. Santa was fucking real! Or at least he was in TerraSphere, which, all in all, was still astounding to some degree.

But, of course, the women didn't have long to stand and stare in awe and wonderment. The two made themselves scarce like the unconditional love of FORTUNE's parents and disappeared into the night.


"Well, I'd say we made off pretty well tonight," FORTUNE said, taking the seat beside Glamdark, having arrived a bit after her.

"What'd you call this drink again? I'm something of a barhand myself, sometimes, and I gotta say, I kind of like it. Cheers."

"Adios motherfucker,"
the gruff sounding bartender said, cleaning a glass with a decidedly annoyed look at the woman as FORTUNE clinked glasses with Glamdark. The woman paused halfway through though, looking at the bartender with a look of both surprise and potential horror. Was he one of the goons they just ran from? "Or AMF," the man went on to say, his resting bitch face remaining just that. Bitchy. "But where's the fun in calling it that?"
FORTUNE couldn't help but let out a little snort of amusement. "You got that right," she said, before taking a sip of her own identical drink, complete with it's own little twirly straw.

"So," the woman then said, turning in her seat with a slight smile. "What should we do with all that loot? I'm pretty new around her, soooo..." FORTUNE trailed off, implying she didn't really know anyone who could sell it all.

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