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"Heeeey! Lindow!" Reinaan's voice called from his left. With little warning to the other shoppers who had been walking in the same direction, Lindow suddenly pivoted his entire body midstep so that he was facing the young Draken with smile. But as he watched the boy approach with Pyrrha in tow, his eyes narrowed in discomfort. "Oh. That's.... really something." He mumbled whilst shifting to the side so that light reflecting from Reinaan's scales wasn't capable of blinding him any further. "Well met, friends. Only one of you is sparkling, so I'm gonna go out on a limb say that Reinaan did his own shopping..." Nodding towards Pyrrha whilst Reinaan eyeballed his new leather armor, Lindow leaned against the side of the closest building and yawned lazily in the shade with his extra equipment resting at his feet. "I cant wait to see what else you guys got." "I thought you'd have more new swords." Was the young Draken's much anticipated assessment of the new gear that Lindow had acquired. "I only really needed replacements for my old set..." Lindow couldn't help but snicker at the boy's expression. "The scimitars that the folk used back in the desert definitely got the job done, but they really only shine when you're on a mount." He spoke thoughtfully for a moment. "Honestly, it would suit your fighting style way better. Where as in my case, I think it would be a lot more convenient to be able to run the other guy through when possible..." An air of childish enthusiasm appeared from nowhere whilst Lindow reached back and pulled on the handle the Bandit's Cleaver to reveal it's cutting edge. "besides, I bet any weapons that are really worth acquiring will be found in the hands of their wielder, like this was!" Lindow's eye twinkled as his mind flashed to Damien with his mysterious blade, and then to the battle with the Bandit Berserker. "I know it sounds like bard song, but truly believe that a weapon is made great long after it's forged, and I can just tell when I see a good one~" The man flapped his hand and chirped on for a bit before realizing that he was being a tad overly chatty. "-anyway," Lindow's cheeks were slightly flushed as coughed before changing the subject. "I managed to gather a little bit of information by the way..." He took the next few minutes to fill in the other two chosen about what happened at the pub. Skipping over what he had been told about Hannah's activities, he informed them about the cases of missing people in the grasslands, and how there was word of man claiming to be Chosen somewhere in town. He was also sure to mention the old women in his tale, but before he could finish explaining, the very women appeared before them. "Excuse me...I heard you talking before and...When you find this Chosen you're looking for could you give him a request from me?" Her gaze went downward. Lindow listened to her speak with his usual smile. His time spent dealing with witches had left him with a slight skepticism when it came to this kind of conversation, and so when she offered to mark the farm on the map he simply nodded helpfully. "Rude? No I think you're very brave for trying to help your husband." Shooting Reinaan and Pyrrha a look, he motioned for one of them to produce a map. "Go ahead and mark it here, and I promise I'll pass it on to the Chosen. Surely if they're anything like what people are saying, they'll be glad to help..." He could only hope that the other two would pick up on him not wanting to reveal their identity to this person. Though he had his doubts about Reinaan's capacity for picking up on such vibes, Pyrrha seemed like a smart girl and maybe that would be enough. "How will he contact you?"

"Heeeey! Lindow!" And just like that, they'd found Lindow! It was a bit easier than Pyrrha had expected. The two went on about swords for a bit as Pyrrha glanced around at some of the other shops and establishments nearby, making sure to keep an ear on what the boys were saying though, in case she had to bring some input as well. No such thing really happened though. It was just Lindow filling Reinaan in on how scimitars didn't suit him, and then telling the pair about his experience in a nearby pub. The idea of somebody going around posing as a Chosen.... something struck her as fishy about the whole thing. Were they just after attention? Trying to defame the actual Chosen? Or was there something else to it all? The group was then approached by a woman, who had a request, which she also explained. It was a request that really resonated with Pyrrha. She couldn't help but feel sorry for this woman. Even if she had to do it by herself, Pyrrha wanted to at least make sure her missing husband was okay. Ideally though, she'd be able to bring the others with her. "Rude? No I think you're very brave for trying to help your husband. Go ahead and mark it here, and I promise I'll pass it on to the Chosen. Surely if they're anything like what people are saying, they'll be glad to help... How will he contact you?" "But couldn't we handle it? I mean we're the- W-we're the best adventures out there." That was a close call. This was one of those things where they didn't want this lady to know who they really were. For some reason. Luckily, Reinaan had picked up on it. "B-but maybe you're right. The Chosen should probably look into stuff like this." "If we see this Chosen, we'll let him know," Pyrrha promised. She'd heard stories of minotaurs once, but never got to see one for herself. It was a shame her first encounter with one would be under these circumstances. Assuming it was a minotaur at all that caused this lady's husband to go missing. "We should really get going though. Gotta find the rest of our group, and this Chosen too." With the boys (aside from Damien, anyway) and Pyrrha reunited, that just meant finding the rest of the girls. And also Damien. With any luck, they wouldn't be much harder to stumble upon than Lindow was.

Fire and Thunder Chosen alike seemed less impressed with the appearance of the other than they had been anticipating. Where Pyrrha appreciated his scales, Lindow seemed not to like it. Or maybe the particular angle was just enough to blind him with sunlight. Still, Reinaan mostly understood the man's ideas about not having bought more weapons. He preferred to take weapons that had been tried and proved in the heat of battle over purchasing freshly made ones. The Draken himself didn't quite resonate with the sentiment but it jived perfectly with what he knew about Lindow as a person. Though the man seemed a bit looser with his lips than usual. Normally he would have had some small comments to make to explain himself then likely turned it back on the boy with a question. "Another Chosen?" Reinaan began thinking as Lindow explained what he'd learned at the pub. "Probably the council doing something stupid to mess with us some more." his thoughts continued. He was going to be blaming the council for a lot of anything that happened as a first response for a while yet. Before this could spiral into blaming the council for the last time he stubbed his toe, Reinaan shifted attention to the woman who interrupted Lindow and explained that her husband was among those who had disappeared. She wanted this man claiming to be a Chosen to help her if at all possible. Lindow seemed to be looking for a map from either Pyrrha or Reinaan and the boy managed to produce one from one of Kloqah's bags for the marking to take place. Lindow sounded like he was really intent on passing this request off to the fake Chosen which confused the Draken for a moment. "But couldn't we handle it?" he asked. "I mean we're the-" he started before realizing what Lindow had been trying to do. For whatever reason he didn't trust the woman enough to reveal their identities as the actual Chosen. This left him mid-sentence saying they were the Chosen and very little time to try and recover. "W-we're the best adventurers out there." came the the first lie he could think of without any of his usual energy for such a bold statement. "B-but maybe you're right. The Chosen should probably look into stuff like this." Reinaan said a bit sheepishly and hoping that he hadn't raised suspicion. He really didn't want to frustrate Lindow by messing with his plans even if he hadn't been informed of them.

Cannot shake off the vibe that it is a bit too flexible. First, targeting face-up cards is deceptively good, because now Volcanics could handle monsters through Scattershot, and Spell/Traps, albeit face-up ones, with this. Seems that it could be a bit too oppressive to me, from a balance perspective of course because nowadays' meta opens with at least 3 negations/disruptions. But if it could only target monsters, then it would give the opponent the chance to fall back on its Spell/Traps when facing Volcanics, and in a way it could be seen more flavorful in a "Volcanics play around destroying monsters and burning" approach. Then, there is the ability of using the effect from the hand. Feels a bit off-theme and overkill-ish when Volcanics are more about GY effects, and ideally you will be discarding your Homingshots with the drawing effect of Reload, anyway. On the other hand, it could be better as Level4 for Rank4 plays with Rocket and Firestorm Guards. I get the Level3 is to stay in flavor with the different Levels of Volcanics, but if you wanna get picky, there already is a Level 3 in Volcanic Counter, while there are 2 Level4s, so you may as well make this 4 as well.