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Winko now has to sooth his shoulder again from Menomica’s second punch. As they step into the tavern, Menomica says “Hey Kaj.” As she walks pass the bar, and towards the bead shrouded door in the back of the place. Kaj is the tavern’s owner, and the barkeeper. He’s a bald middle-aged man, somewhat pudgy, and stands 6 ft.5. His bar tending outfit just a white garment, with a black apron, and a brown sash so he can hold his payment easier, the sash also carries fomoca leaves in case any body wants to take a smoke in his bar. Fomoca leaves give off flavorful taste and aroma when burned, is builds up like a habit for some people. The tavern itself in old and secluded, its bar that not everybody knows about, it’s not too popular and it’s a little confusing to find. The place is decrepit, made of stone, and with it’s dull and faded sign “ The K. Tavern” almost completely fallen off, as it swings from its bars above. The inside of the tavern is compact, with very little bright light; the easiest thing to see in the bar is your drink in its green colored glass. The sources of light in the bar were cup-sized candles in red jars hung on the walls around the walls of the room, which gave the bar it’s dark light feeling. The wall also had black drapes on the walls to cover the stony walls. There were few tables around, most of the people that came in usually sat at the bar. The tables were there if anyone wanted a bite to eat, or if there were a lot of customers, an event that rarely happens. Kaj just nods his head a Menomica while he cleans a glass with a dishrag. 2 of the 8 men sitting at the bar turn their head slightly to see whom Kaj was nodding to.
Winko and Menomica continue to walk toward back. They move aside a curtain and it reveals a door. Beads hang from the top of the door’s border. They don’t move and stand like stone. The beads are black and have no gleam. The beads are the lock to the door; only thieves that have been accepted into the T.U may enter. Menomica touches the beads and recites a code word. Every thief has a different word that does with thieving, money, the T.U, or valuables. Menomica says her word “glimmer” and the door is now unlocked and she can move on. Winko is left behind and he recites his word “life” and he enters.

A strand of beads goes through the door and on the other side. The end of the strand is encased in a small light green statue. The statue is what knows if you are a member of the T.U. or not. When a person is recognized as a true thief, the person must wright their assigned code word on paper with their blood and put it into liquid that contains powder that is made of the same stuff, the same exact rock as the statue with the bead strand in it. There is something mystical about that certain rock, no one knows what it is, but it’s a good security plan. When that person’s blood enters the liquid along with the code word, the stone powder knows who is truthful and who isn’t. The beads around the door act as a conductor, the person touches the beads, and recites their password, it is transmitted form the beads to the statue, which then the powder picks up and knows who it is. The beads loosen on top of the door, the door opens by itself and the people can enter.

The two of them enter a small room, like the size of a tiny closet. Menomica touches the wall, a green glow illuminates beneath her hand. Now the wall moves to the left side like a door on hinges. Now the two must walk down a flight of steps illuminated by candles on the stair walls. As they walk further down, the number of candles decreases and they see the light at the bottom grow. As they get closer the light fades away the darkness. Winko moves the veil in front of him and Menomica, when they enter; they see their home, The Thief Union. Thieves walk up and down the corridors. Some with loot on their backs, some getting ready to go out and collect money from victims. Some thieves are big thugs, ones who steal by force. Others have bony limbs and are skinny, and agile for stealing quietly. Winko and Menomica entered the main room, an orb that illuminates light, stands on a stone pedestal in the middle of the room. The walls of the room aren’t flat, but round. The main room is shaped like a dome, made of a muddy red stone. Directions to what is down the three corridors are carved into the stone. Between the middle and right corridors, is the money keeper of the T.U. Boma is the keeper’s name, she takes the money that the thieves collect and takes the amount that is required for thieves to have in order to stay in the T.U. If you are ever by any chance kicked out, to re-enter you must pay five times the regular amount it is to stay in the first place. The two go up to Boma and give her their daily payment. Boma is a middle-aged woman with light- brown hair. She wears a cloth around the top of her head. The cloth is raggedy with dark colors like purple, blue, green and black dyed into it. She wears a lot of things like Menomica because she’s Menomica mother, they love each other very much, even though they never express it in front of a lot of people. They act towards each other as friends. Boma is the one who turned Menomica into what she is today.
“What you got for me today kiddies?” Boma says
“Hey mom, here.” Menomica replies
“Hey Boma, how yah doing?” Winko replies too.
They lay out there take for the today on the counter in front of her. Boma lays her hands over Menomica’s money and takes what’s required to give. Menomica gets 50 palons out of her collection of 200.
Winko gives Boma a collection of 175 palons, and he receives 25 palons.
Winko and Menomica grab their money and put into their wallet sacks.
“Anything special happen today?” Boma ask the two while taking the required money and put it into a slot on the right side of her.
“If getting punched twice in the same shoulder by your daughter is special, yeah.” Winko says while nodding his head left at Menomica as he looks at Boma telling her his story.
“ I saved Winko’s sorry a** from some loser.” Menomica tells her mom while put away her cash.
“Heh, that’s my girl, hey, I saw Unombran a little earlier, he was looking for you, I told him that you guys were still out getting your T.U share.” Boma responses.
“How long ago was that?” Menomica questions Boma.
“I don’t know, I figure an hour, hour and a half ago?” she replies.
“Where do think he is now?” Menomica questions her mother again
“Maybe in you guy’s room, or the retire room?” Boma answers
“ Thanks ma, come on Winko, see yah” Menomica replies as she turns her back to go off looking for Unombran.
“Winko, you go down to our room, I’ll head down for the retire room.” Menomica commands winko. They both go down different corridors as the search begins. Menomica heads to the middle corridor, and Winko goes to the left corridor. We follow Winko as he heads down the corridor to his room in search of his friend. He walks down the hall, looking around, peering into other rooms to see if Unombran would be in sight.
“Man Unombran, why you got to be so hard to find?” Winko thinks to himself. He walks down the hall looking left and right into open rooms to see if Unombran might be ant one of them. He questions some of the thieves he sees and asks if they know the whereabouts of his friend. But none of them know, not a clue.
“Why doesn’t anyone know, sheesh.” Winko thinks to himself. He then reaches his destination, his’ and his friends friend’s bunk room. The room is adequately sized, enough room for three hammocks. The room is made out of the same clay like rock as the rest of the T.U. On the north wall was an indent with a highly polished piece of brass in it. It could reflect images that were above; Winko’s bunk was next to it. There is not much to the room so all Winko has to do is takes a quick glance and conclude that Unombran was not in the room.
“Pogy isn’t here either, he must be with him.”
“Hey you guys seen Unombran?” Winko questions other thieves
One of the thieves believes that he has seen Unombran; he says that Unombran was down this hall earlier and that he was walking in the other direction. Winko thanks them for the tip; he starts walking in the opposite direction continuing his search. We find Menomica on her way to find Unombran, who is now most likely in the retire room after we heard the information the thieves have given Winko. While Menomica walks to her destination, She bumps into a man she notices someone that has never been seen in T.U. He was of normal stature, not over weight or under weight. He wore smooth looking garments with many rings of precious stones on his fists. But what really caught her eye was that he was wearing a necklace with a stone marked with weird symbols. The necklace looked like it was apiece to something else, but she couldn’t figure out what.
“Excuse me, my apologies.”
He looked at Menomica with a gentle smile and continued walking.
“Who? Where would he be going?” Menomica shrugs and continues her search.
She looks back over her shoulder to see the man again as he just walks down the hall. She walks, seeing the T.U, the way it’s always been.
“Ha, this move will end you!” Menomica hears the loud yell coming from around the corner. She walks toward the room that is around the corner. She automatically processes in head that Unombran must be in the retire room around the corner.
“NO, aww come on!” the man shouts again “I won’t lose this game!”
She slowly lurks toward the open door. She reaches the door’s edge and looks in to the room. The room is again the same stone like clay like the rest of the T.U. there is a illuminating orb in the room like the one in the lobby. There are tables and chairs around the room. She leans on the wall and sees that Unombran and another thief of broad stature are playing a game Havzo. Havzo is a game play with cards and marbles. Each card and marble has a different color. Red, yellow, green, and blue are colors for the cards. Black, white, purple, and brown are colors for the marbles. Each color can cancel out another color. Red cancels out blue, yellow cancels out red, green cancels out yellow, and blue can cancel out green. For the marbles, black cancels out white, white cancels out purple, purple cancels put brown, and brown cancels out black. The game is played with two players having 5 points to begin with, they play until one of them loses all five points, if they have lost all their points in 14 turns, the person with the most points win.
The marbles and card are set aside in a sac, and a card sac. In each turn, the use of either the card or marble alternates. The person must close their eyes when choosing a marble. If the players happen to get the same color they must re-pick the color. If the game ends in a tie, each person must pick a card from the deck till one of them beats the other.

They are playing in the card turn currently, Unombran picks a green, and the opponent picks a blue. Unombran looks at the other player in the eyes, when the other play looks down at his card, it turned yellow.
“What? I could of sworn.”
“Aww what’s wrong? Get the wrong card…Again?”
The opponent sees the card as yellow, but it in real life is still blue. This is how Unombran works, he trick other into believing something that is not the truth.
“Looks like you’re down to your last point”
“ I m not loosing this match! Give me that marble!”
He picks out a marble from the bag; he slams the marble on the table. As he lifts his palm, he sees that it’s a black marble. He feels confident that he’ll win this since there are not many white marbles in the game. Unombran takes a marble, luckily takes out a white marble. “Sorry, but that’s game.” Unombran speaks as he gets up from his chair.
“NO WAY! BEST TWO OUT OF THREE!”
“We already played two games, and you lost, any way, come on Pogy.”
He walks with his head down whispering
“When will he ever learn?”
“Hey, how long you been here?” Menomica questions Unombran.
“Hmmm, oh hey, you never play fair with those guys. I mean seriously, were thieves, but I still play fair.”
“That’s cause you don’t know how to use illusionary magic like me.”
“Doesn’t mean that you can’t play fair. Oh, hey there Pogy, how you doing, you cute little thing?”
Pogy is Winko, Unombran, and Menomica’s pet Pogamanomamanomany. Pogy is really Winko’s pet, and when he heard what Pogy’s species is called he thought that he just call him Pogy. Pogy’s a little red light weight creature with only back legs to walk on. He (at least they think that Pogy’s a HE) has two little antennas that glow at the ends, and his tail has a ring at the end of it. Also his legs are striped in a pale yellow. The two walk out of the room into hallway, heading toward their room.
“Hey, Unombran, did you happen to see a guy on your way to the retire room? He was portly like, ad had some weird necklace on.”
“Umm no, I didn’t. Why you ask?”
“I’m just wondering…. it was like some weird feeling, but I’m sure it’s nothing.”
“You always get weird feelings.”
“Yeah, but this one was different. I just had a abnormal feeling this time, but any way, when did you get back?”
“ I got back maybe high sun, maybe a little over, I guess.”
“Danm man, you work quick, what you do to get your money so quick anyway?”
“ I actually went out to the woods to find some people, this time, I heard from someone that usually travelers carry a lot of goods. So I figured that I try my luck at robbing one them guys.”
“Did they carry a lot of cash?”
“Yeah, I got my due in one strike.”
“Holy crap! One guy carried 150 galoms?”
“Actually the guy was carrying 250 galoms.”
“How you get it off him?”
“I made him think that a Malok was attacking him, he was so freaking scared, you should have been there he screamed like such a prissy girl, geeze you would be cracking up if you saw it.”
“Hey I’d be scared if a Malok was attacking me too.”
“I know, so would I, but he way he reacted was so funny.”
“Any way, so what else did you do when you got back?”
“What else? I was screwing around some the guys in the retire room, you just saw me a little earlier. Oh hey where’s Winko anyway?”
“He was looking for you, he might be around the bunkroom still.”
The two continue to converse while on their way to their bunkroom.

Like the game you made up there biggrin

well, take ur time. there's no rush

with some aspects of the story, yes. with others, ur doing fine