CR Cragsand S2E19: Business is Booming

===Chapter 19: Business is Booming===
Moving to the smithy the newly hired Torok The Gleeful is up early, already smelting ingots. Lacking a much needed quenching bucket he keeps waving them to cool them down while snacking on some of them. While he may not be able to digest them his stomach is supposedly fine with swallowing such, and he cant help himself not to. Sten ponders to himself that it must come out the back end of him eventually. The giant turtle seems to have a terrible memory while telling stories of working for his circus, a macabre spectacle reveling in torture and horrors which he supposedly was a part of for hundreds of years. Asking to end early to go find some drugs and wondering how much he is telling is actual truth, Sten starts to wonder if maybe he made a mistake hiring this one but still pays him.
While working suddenly the ground begins to shift as a moderate earthquake rocks the whole town with plates falling off the buildings. The sound of a loud engine coming towards the volcano pulls everyone's eyes towards it. In the distance a large amount of smoke can be seen from the previously dormant entity. Checking around town it seems everyone is alright and Sean begins planning for the worst with his fellow council-members.
Sten is sent for to meet with someone at the clinic who wishes to remain secretive. In the hospital Sten comes face to face with the short orc from before, spotted with Charles from yesterday aiming a gun at him. Carrying a loaded shotgun, an SMG and two revolvers he looks like hes packing some serious heat. Putting his gun down hesitantly he looks worse for wear and orders a large amount of ammunition, double the usual price but with urgency being a priority.
Returning to get to work as if on cue an old man named Willie Walker walks by the entrance after seeing Torok wave around an ingot in the air to cool it. He tells of how he used to work as a blacksmith before enlisting to join the war. Knowing guns and ammunition and being an ex-soldier in The Union he sounds like the perfect addition to the shop and is offered a job with pay up front if he can start right away, seeing as there is demand. Initially just passing through he accepts and is shown the shop and compliments the craftsmanship. 
Anna places an order to recreate a flower into a metal replica, having a queue of orders it will have less priority upsetting her. Sir Polka asks to borrow some tools to fix his armor and is welcomed to do so. He has mysteriously grown taller but insisted on there not being any magic involved, one can never tell anything for sure with him.
Speaking to Prowler and Mercury Sten learns what that Patches returned to his creators, Quixote and in return tells them he learned of Trey Hunter being from Atlantis. Prowler also suggests a project to put armor on Sheilas friend "Crabby", and mounting a gun on him.
Handing over ammunition the caravan with the short orc heads out intending to investigate the volcano.
Jimothy settling in as a local in Scrap Town still appears to be heavily under the influence of some drug and is pushed around while made fun of, gets his shirt torn and body painted. Telling him the truth Sten outright says that he looks like shit, while Shiloh whispers the opposite in his ear. Torok angered at his paint, accuses him of posing as a fake clown, insulting his profession.
"Morningstar" the courier asks about coming up to the Row and spend some time selling firearms working with someone named "Loch", there as seeing as their smith Clarke is missing. Apologizing to be the bearer off ill news he informs her that Clarke sadly is dead. Sten considers it but seeing enough business down here keeping up with the demand being higher than supply is going to be difficult. Needing new materials Sten purchases quality parts for more guns from McCuldger for 16k credits, steeper than usual but very manageable.
At first not recognizing him C3 wearing a new shiny white chassis approaches Sten asking about plasma weapons and with Wit learns the expedition didn't find out anything about the volcano but encountered a digsite with a giant drill. Another polished synth walking in out of the blue is Patches - but he's changed... denying his old name with a new designation and retainer, someone from Quixote named "Captain Kyler Haven" being in charge of him. His memory erased and a new directive to "provide security" to the town, whatever that entails it seems he will no longer be smithing. Sten by himself reflects over the the loss off his old colleague.WIPTwitch VOD: Callous Row RP S2 E19 - Business is Booming YouTube
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