{ SAHARA MISSION } Salvaging the Remains THE END P.27

[Toshihiko Two]

Oh good. Jerry was okay.

B0nez's complaining settled down with an electronic sound that Harrison equated to sighing. We can pull the boss later. Don't forget my handles.

Harrison waited as he buffed, expecting Rep to finish the word. Rep didn't. "...Ta what?"  

[Baneful]

The redhead blinked mid bite of his apple, finishing it off before stating. "Ta. Short for thanks a lot." He made to speak and found his throat ridiculously dry. He coughed again and frowned. "******** this sand, seriously. Driving me ******** crazy."

He somehow reoriented himself due the topic at hand. "Just saying thanks. For like, the apple. And like you know, out there." he inclined his head in the direction of the desert. "You make some ******** mean backup." There was a quiet regret though that he likely hadn't even come close to doing as well as an intermediate might have. "I'm just sorry we couldn't ******** up more of the bastards."

 

[bipolar bee]

Sasha slipped into the tent, promptly delivering the two tablets she'd discovered to the pile where everyone else had been stacking theirs. She was parched and the sand on her scalp made her skin itch - it coated her thick swathe of hair in a fine layer of sandy dust; clouds of it billowed outwards as she moved deeper into the tent, quickly unraveling her braid so that she could tend to it.

"Is everyone okay?"

Her voice was quiet, but she wanted to be able to tend to any injuries that might have occurred while out on the salvage mission; after that, Sasha would do her best to help with sorting everything out.  

[prolixity]

The quiet of the tent was unnerving. There should be more noise, not just the quiet conversations of the trainee group. Apparently the fight was going badly; Jordan supposed he could have expected that, but it was chilling. He'd been optimistic about their chances, but he was starting to wonder, now.

The swarms had tired him out; he probably had a bunch of nasty little bites, and he could feel some of them starting to itch. Mostly he just hoped the swarms hadn't been poisonous. He found a clear spot and sat down, leaning his elbows on his knees; he'd just rest a little while.  

[Toshihiko Two]

"Oh. Uh, right, well," Harrison focused on sword polishing. "Clarice packed the apple. ...We did pretty good. Out there. Next time I'll ask about bringing a few barrels full of Raid."

He held up B0nez's blade to examine it in the dim tent lighting, then went back to wiping it down.

"Wouldn't say no to nuking said bastards," he grumbled, "only thing out here is a bunch of bugs."
 

[WE ARE HALLOWEEN]

The tent canvas opened again, but it wasn't Allan or Simon. Instead, it was a smaller, more petite figure, moving with a sort of slow deliberation.

Before anyone could ask why she still had her weapon summoned, or even more importantly about what had happened, her weapon flickered and-

- Something shifted in the sand, thousand of tiny insects, squirming, moving into the tent. The bodies on the beds began to wriggle in thousands of deformed chunks, clusters of flesh, as insects crawled out of their ears and mouth, joining the swarm in the center of the room. A strange rotting smell began to permeate, a putrid, sickly stench.

The Hunters in the hospital tent were long dead.

MINI BOSS FIGHT ROUND 1

JULIE: HP 60/60

- Julie is a defensive boss. She will simply stand there and let the swam of insects do their job.
- The swarms of insects have a cumulative 100/100 HP.
- if you are targeting the swarm you need to post its remaining HP.
- Damage done is by swarm AMOUNT. At 100 HP, it will do 10 damage PER ATTACK. At 90 HP it will do 9 damage. Round UP.
- EXAMPLE: I am player no 5 and I select SWARM (HP 78/100). I roll my 2d8 and I get 1, 8. I do 3 damage. Their HP remaining is 75/100. I TAKE 8 damage.
- If your trainee decides that the problem is probably Julie you can try to attack her she does not respond to speech and her barrier around her prevents you from approaching her without a weapon. Roll your attack as necessary, but you must subtract 19 from your total damage instead of 6. You still need to get past the SWARM damage: every time you attack you take the damage of the swarm HP remaining/10 (round up, see above)
- If you hit her, then ROUND 2 will begin shortly (PLEASE STOP ATTACKING ONCE THIS PHASE IS OVER, KEEP REACTIONS/ROLEPLAYS TO A MINIMUM UNTIL NEXT GM ROUND).
- Charged attacks do not work on Julie, they do work on the swarms though!
- All HP is recovered at this point!

 

[Bittiface]

Otto didn't pay any mind to the chatter around him, tuning it all out in favour of feeling nothing. He concentrated on his fingers, on his feet. So far this mission had been a total joke. He'd seen nothing he hadn't before.

Until Julie walked in.

Otto stared at the girl, thinking she must have gone through Hell, waiting for a life hunter to go to her aid. But things began to seem odd. Bugs. They were eating the dead. He didn't make the connection between them and Julie right away, the concept of living dead lost on the boy. To him, she was just badly injured. She'd be fine. Right?

Otto summoned the giant boomerrang Tenya and swatted at the pests around him, hissing as they attacked him back.

HP: 40/50
DMG: 8
Charge: 1/3

Swarm HP: 92/100  

[kuropeco]

It was not Julie.

The statement was repeated in Gale's head over and over again as he fired off shots at the swarm. The sound filled his ears, a heavy buzzing noise that made his head spin and his heart ache.

It's not Julie, he thought again, and kept shooting.


[ HP: 42/50
Damage: 7
Swarm: 86/100 ]  

[Baneful]

Quiet was always sinister, and he really should have known. When things were quiet, it generally meant something was just waiting.

He could have cried as the bugs swarmed into view, reliving a ******** nightmare he wished he'd never ever have to. The urge to just close his eyes and just give up became almost overwhelming for a moment.

It snapped him out of it and he got up feebly, hefting the axe which still felt much too heavy.

They'd gotten Julie, they'd ******** gotten Julie. Was she like the children? Puppeted by the ******** bugs. He couldn't think, he couldn't think about it. He just had to attack, attack and not stop for a moment. He glanced back to Harrison fleetingly, he was still wearing that ******** t-shirt. He'd known her more than him.

He did his best to keep the things back from both of them.

HP: 31
DMG: 5
Target: Swarm
SWARM HP: 81
Charge: 1/3

 

[[ X_Bleeding Roses_X ]]

Michael had been calmly shaking out sand from his clothes when Julie entered. He'd initially glanced up expecting to see Allan-taichou again but instead found himself doing an alarmed double take. "Ma'am are you alright!?! Someone grab some bandag-" his words where choked off as the swarm took that moment to reveal themselves.

They were everywhere. In everyone. Oh God. Michael felt sick.

He swallowed, steeled himself and began to attack the swarm.

HP: 32/40
DMG: 6
Traget: Swarm
Swarm HP: 74/100  

[Pepzilla]

Mercedes can't shoot little girls.
HADJOC WOULD
But not Mercedes.

TI TOOHS REH TOOHS REH TOOHS LUOHG YHSELF EHT TNAW I LUOHG EHT TOOHS LUOHG EHT TOOHS!

As Hadjoc so pleasantly SCREAMED in her ears, Mercedes did everything she could to ignore it and fired at the bugs.

Mercedes HP: 34/40
SWARM HP: 69/100
Charge: 1/3
Targeting swarm  

[chiickadee]

Ami (who had totally been there the entire time), ran out of the tent to find Julie insectified. Ami just stood there, gaping at the carnage that was before her. There was blood, blood and bugs everywhere. Her hand flew over her mouth in the disgust and horror of it all.

Despite all of Julie's ... quirks, the lady had still been the moon assistant. Her division. She'd taken them on that god awful mission, but they'd survived it. In an odd way, Ami SORT of guess that Julie provided help.

All things considered, Julie was a human. Ami hated a LOT of people, but she didn't wish what was happening in front of her on anyone. Not even- ... Well it didn't matter.

HP: 34/40
DMG: 0
Target: Swarm
Swarm HP: 67
Charge: 0/3  

[its me debz]

Clerise stared blankly at the reanimated Julie, paralysed.

She stood rooted to her spot, quavering.

Julie. Oh, Julie.

HP: 40 - 6 = 34
DMG: 0
Charge: 0/3

Swarm HP: 67/100  

[prolixity]

Jordan looked up, and his half-formed smile disappeared as he realized Julie was covered in blood - and then the swarm rose all around them, out of the dead, at her command. He scrambled to his feet, dread coiling in the pit of his stomach. If she was controlling the insects, they should attack her, take her down.

No. Julie. He lashed out at the insects instead, furious at himself for the lapse; if Julie had become - become something else, she wasn't Julie any more. But he was going to have to talk himself into it, and he couldn't afford to freeze up.

Targeting: Swarm
Swarm HP: 60/100
HP: 43/50
Damage: 7
Charge: 1/3