FFXIV: A Stranger Stumbles In [Raimy]

Raimondaux was out talking to refugees. He's not sure why, but lately he just can't shake the feeling that he should be doing more to help those that can't help themselves. He tells himself not to worry, it's probably just guilt about not saving the captain and Jhak getting mad at him for it. Also, some of these people could be Jhak's missing family. He was asking again, but no one knew anything. He should have asked all those years ago instead of just taking the boy away. But they had a prize to chase so Raimy instead took the lost boy with him and taught him to be a pirate.

Now here he is back in the city playing courier again. It's very different than piracy, but gives him an excuse to be anywhere at anytime. It's very handy when someone with the law demands to know why you're there. You can say you’re just delivering a package. Low level help is often immediately overlooked and dismissed as well. Very handy.

He was looking up at the gathering clouds, distracted by something blowing in the wind. It was a mistake. If he'd been watching where he was going he might have seen the fist before it hit his face. He blacks out for a second, the fist having been about the size of his face. When he snaps out of it, he's being held by two very large thugs. There is a little lalafell woman staring at him. “Where's my shipment?” She demands.

“Your wha..?” Raimy looks at her confused and tries to get a look at the ones holding him. Did he fail to deliver something? Courier is supposed to be a safe job, not a get beat up job. “You have the wrong courier.”

The lalafell girl sighs, pursing her lips tight in disappointment. One of the thugs responds by punching Raimy in the kidney. Pain courses through Raimy. Does she really need such big thugs? “I paid half in advance. I want my shipment. Where is my shipment?”

The rest of the night is mostly a blur to Raimy. The conversation with the Lalafell went from bad to worse and ended when she stabbed him. Which was after she had her goons rough him up and break a few bones.

He managed to pick himself up, or maybe he was helped up. He's not sure. He can't remember a lot of it. His vision was blurred but some things kept coming in clear. People were gathering in The Goblet near some run down building. He knew they would help him, so he made his way toward them.

The rain was pouring good when he stumbled through the doors to the host club for the first time. The building suddenly didn't look as bad as he thought, and some of the people were different. The ones that were the same were dressed a little different. It wouldn't be until later that he'd learn it was a vision that drove him there that night.

The vision goes away and reality is all there is. His reality wasn't good, and he realized he didn't know those people after all so he turned to leave, but there was suddenly a Roegadyn wall blocking the door. Raimy was dripping wet with both rain and blood and barely standing. One eye was swollen shut, and the other only partly open. His broken right arm hung loosly by his side. His good hand was trying in vain to stop the blood from seeping out of the stab wound. He blacked out again.

This time when he awoke he found himself in a bed. There was a strange man trying to touch him and his shirt seemed to be missing. Raimy is a little more than just shy and doesn’t like being touched by random strangers that hover over him while he's in a bed.

After waking up there were a lot of questions. People asking him who attacked him and why. Raimy wanted those answers too, and not having them he was less inclined to give his name to anyone. They kept asking, but if someone out there decided he crossed them, then these people trying to help him could get into trouble with him. He wanted to know what that trouble might be before dragging them into it. They were insistent.

Gwen was the most insistent and pulled a knife on Raimy which ended up cutting his throat. Raimy woke up a little more at that, and with the help of all the healing he was getting and became rather annoyed rather quickly. He then saw the mark which he didn't have before. It appeared on his way there, but that wasn't the assumption Raimy jumped to. He went the more logical route and asked the doctor why the doctor drew on him. It'd be a couple of days before Raimy finally acquiesced and gave up thinking the doctor drew on him.

The doctor sewing Raimy up and told him to change the bandages oven. He offered to come back and change them, but Raimy was still thinking he was a crazy doctor that drew on him at the time and decided he'd take his chances on his own.

A lalafell male came running down the stairs and hid under the other bed. He stuck his head out to greet the doctor and ask who the stranger was then went back to hiding, declaring that they didn't see him. Raimy didn't think that was completely crazy at the time, but maybe a little off.

If you look close you can see Riz's legs where he's hiding under the other bed.

Doctor Titor Jaraba, suggested Raimy stay in the building. Raimy wasn't even sure what it was or where he was. It felt safe, but logic told him to ignore the feelings and run. Logic also told him he couldn’t run very far with those injuries. Most the minor ones were healed, but the stabbing was poisoned and rejected healing magic. He's just lucky she missed his vital organs.

The pink/lilac/lavender haired Miqo'te came back. There was something about her. She was the one he was coming to. The one he saw outside and knew she'd help. He instantly knew she needed him to protect her as well, but he wasn't sure from what. Raimy knew she was blind and again his logic fought his heart and the result told him they were all crazy. Had to be them.

Raimondaux commented to Maia that he'd been mugged and had not money and no shirt. He couldn't leave without a shirt, but he also felt like he needed to pay them for their services. Their constant insisting he freeload is a good part of why he thought they were crazy. A pirate can't wrap his mind around things being given so freely. D'ranmaia went and got a spare uniform shirt out of the club's chest and brought it to him. Raimy was very happy to be clothed again and a little less exposed to those around him.

The doctor made tea and brought a cup to each of them, even the lalafell under the bed. Raimy felt it a bit crazy to offer tea to anyone hiding under a bed and just as strange to take your tea there. It didn't help their claim that they were not crazy. He thought the girl that stabbed him was the only sane one of the bunch, and she was right to question him. He just didn't know the answers. He wouldn't have given them anyway, even if he did.

The rest of the night is mostly a blur to him as well. The Wall came back and tormented the lalafell. Raimy didn't wait to see if one would kill the other, but stumbled off to go find a more silent and private place to sleep. He now considers one of the little rooms in the back of the basement as his room. It had a sofa large enough for someone as tall as himself to sleep on.

The Wall followed him and informed him that his name was not 'Wall' but was Crim. He demanded Raimy's name, and Raimy told him, “Maybe later.” He followed by asking for a moment to think of a good one, but then suggested they just call him Stranger, as that is what the little lalafell in the harem outfit under the bed called him. Crim refused and said he'd call Raimy, Maybe Later. Raimy didn't care either way and just wanted sleep.

He slept that night and most the next day. The hard sleep of someone trying to heal. Nothing woke him. When he did finally stir he found a cub of tea on a warming plate and some sandwiches under glass. The club was empty when he woke up so while everyone else was having fun at the beach, Raimy was going through all their things to try and figure out who exactly they were and why he was there. He found nothing incriminating and so he remained, finding it safer still inside the club than outside where crazy lalafell mistakenly thought he could produce lost shipments.