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WHO: Mado and you!
WHAT: Just a weird asshole causing disturbances in the Gallows and surrounding area, explicitly here to make friends!!
WHEN: Kingsway!
WHERE: Around and about!
NOTES: Possible NSFW depending on who shows up and what their intentions are!

I. The Gallows Courtyard

He hasn't been kicked out yet, so Mado has to make the most of the time he has left. He's not overtly panhandling, but he is busking, with a floppy old hat put out to collect coins while he alternates between doing acrobatic feats and magic tricks, taking breaks to simply shake a tambourine and sing beautiful, plaintive Antivan love songs.
He plays to passersby, strolling alongside them and, at times, offering them opportunities to join.

"A song for you, ser!" he calls, and Maker have mercy on the victim.

II. Lowtown

Hightown being far out of his budget when it comes to entertainment, Mado can be found in some of the slummier taverns, offering services similar to his street busking but with hope of receiving drinks rather than money.

He sits on a table, crooning a drinking song while several of the local boozehounds sway and slosh their mugs around, at least one of them weeping with passion.

His eye is easily caught by a face either familiar or interesting, and it isn't long before he slips over with a bow and a brilliant smile.

III. The Ferry

Periodically, a little brown-and-white spotted dog will hop onto the ferry right behind someone, sitting close and casually looking around as if it belongs to them.
It's the very same dog that been seen wandering around the Gallows, begging and doing tricks for scraps, but the owner, if it has one, has not yet been identified.

Comments

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"Oh, how kind of you!"

The answer is enthusiastic, but slightly evasive.

"But truthfully, amico, I find walls rather restricting. I have everything I need out in the streets, after all." He gestures around with a smile, no doubt oblivious to the fact that, unlike in Antiva, it gets truly cold here in the winter months.

[keenly]

That stirs Colin even more. Definitely not here just to get something.

"You wouldn't have to stay in the flat all the time," he points out. "But you'd have a bed, food, a bath...and it's about to start getting cold. I don't want you wind up in Darktown."

[lumelume]

"Then perhaps I shall take you up on it," Mado says, tapping his chin, "you said it was in Hightown? I expect that's the highest tier of the city?"

[keenly]

"Yes. Um." A one-shoulder shrug. "Want to come with me? I'm about to go there now. You don't have to stay if you don't like it, but you'll know where it is."

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"Oh! No, I mustn't, there's still so much daylight and coins to be made!"
He pauses, bouncing on his heels.

"I can meet with you later, if you like!"

[keenly]

"Of course! I...can you read?"

[lumelume]

He beams. "Not at all!"