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 Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:35 pm
Tobias stared blankly at Oz. "Who, my roommates or everyone else on the island? Or -" The door closed on him. A scowl crossed his face as he tried to ignore the snickering presence in his mind. He turned his attention to Oz when the other opened the door, throwing his hands up in the air. "Great." Tobias exclaimed, "I wake up out of a see-through casket only to be told that I'll be going into another one later. This is just swell. I hope this time I'll have eaten by a bear on my tombstone."
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:33 pm
Oz began to pull out strange little cages one by one, miniature ones that sort of looked like pet carriers, but glowing blue. "Yeah," he said matter-of-factly as he handed Tobias a couple, "you could die any second. The very air around you contains a slow poison that slowly seeps into your brain and kills you. It depends on a few factors, the food you've been eating, who you've been talking to and your spiritual alignment." He tried to hand the other a third cage while sizing Tobias up and down. "I'd say you have a least a good week before you're forced in a meeting to write your will."
The shorter Hunter took out four cages himself before closing the door again. "Did they tell you the part with the mass slaughterings?
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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 8:30 pm
News of poisonous gas gave Tobias pause as he sniffed the air, then squinted suspiciously at Oz. "Why would they do that?" He questioned, "This place has enough tech that poisonous gas is downright silly. We're on a secluded island, right? I bet this place has crazy defenses not to mention those giant shadowy things lurching around." Tobias juggled the third carrier, nearly dropping it. "Those things are part of this place's natural features right? Right? And the food's bad enough to poison you anyway. I've only had breakfast but --" He stopped. If his hands weren't full he would have raised his hands up for a time-out. "You know what? It just occurred -- go on. Tell me about these mass slaughterings. Is it a giant battle royale where the last one standing gets to stay on the island and everyone else gets chucked into the ocean to feed the guardian monster-sharkmaids protecting the island in their chain bikinis?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:34 pm
"No." and here, Oz looked even more glum as he tried to pile a third cage on Tobias, "those poor mermaids are misunderstood. Every day they approach the island to be understood, only they're not. Understood I mean. Everyone is terrible to them and you're a terrible person."
He pulled two carriers out himself and closed the door shut. "This way, and don't drop anything, terrible best friend. Anyway, as I was saying, mass slaughters. Every single day, Hunters go out and mass slaughter hundreds of tiny, innocent, helpless - don't drop the cage we need those - minipets and I, Oz, and you I guess, will save and rehome them to people who appreciate them. And me. I only wish to be understood, only I don't." He said all of this dramatically and angrily.
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:15 am
A sense of dread starting in the pits of Tobias' stomach grew a hand and clenched his shoulder. Quietly, and regrettably, he asked: "What's a minipet?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:58 pm
"Where do I begin, wait, hang on," Oz put down one of the carriers to pull out the biggest binder known to mankind which seemed to come from God Knows Where. Because he was in relative height terms pretty short, and the binder was in relative height terms, pretty big, it just made the proportion seem even more ridiculous. He opened it to the very first page. "This is the New Gospel for Understanding The Sacred Spiritual Creatures, also known as minipets. This is what you need to get started. Page one." He glared at Tobias to see if the other was leaving, but thankfully they weren't, so he continued. "Page one, part one, section one. Understanding the dichotomy of Fear and minipets. Once there was one, but now there are many. The sacred spiritual beasts of Halloween consist of a new life and order. They persist despite hardships. They-"
And he just continued like this for a while all about the internal struggling and social justice of minipets (spiritual sacred creatures). If Tobias wasn't going to stop him, he was going to continue like this.
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:47 am
The initial awe and surprise at the binder Oz was able to pull out (Where did he hide it? How could he carry something that large around?!) wore off quickly as soon as he realized the lecture he was in for. No, not just a lecture. This was something more, something that Tobias couldn't help but to start chafing under as Oz went on. It didn't help that he didn't understand half of what Oz was talking about either. "Basically," Tobias interrupted with obvious hesitation, "A minipet is a resilient creature that you think highly of. I'm guessing these carriers are for them then?" He hefted the carriers carefully and shook them, jangling them of Oz's attention. "If they are then shouldn't we, I dunno, move and get them in there?" He could see other hunters out of the corners of his eyes, receiving the occasional dirty look as hunters were forced around them as well as the occasional snicker from a hunter who knew what sort of trap Tobias got himself caught in.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:23 am
"They aren't resilient - ugh, weren't you listening at all - I said they were sensitive tortured souls." Oz placed the book on top of the cage, only because he liked looking at the dark black upon darkness cover he put on the binder. "These cages aren't for the sensitive creatures, bless their dark souls, it's a test. A trial. A trial of darkness. We're masters of baiting the non-believers and giving them a false sense of security and then unleashing creatures of darkness and destroying them!" He clenched his free black-nail polished hand in a fist as they walked.
"Anyway we're here, thanks, I guess." He dropped his set of cages under the table. "You are released from your shackles, new best but no longer friend."
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:20 pm
Tobias nearly dropped the cages he was holding as Oz added the book to them, stumbling forward to keep everything balanced. What Oz was saying didn't make any sense and left the fresh-faced trainee with even more questions than answers. "Wait," He struggled for a moment as he placed the cages on the table, hand held up for emphasis. "Hold it. You're using these to lure people in before unleashing something on them? Like a bear?" A hint of excitement crept into Tobias' voice at the possibilities. "Like an actual bear you can give to someone then rele-" Slowbias cut himself off, adding, "What do you mean best but no longer friend? Come on, I carried three cages and a book for you!"
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:51 pm
"A manual," Oz corrected, "but it's yours now, you have been given the burden of understanding captivity and cruelty at work and the manual is outdated anyway because someone wouldn't update it." He shook a fist at the ceiling, probably mad at his internal Emo Caelius or something.
When he finished fist shaking Tobias was still there. He sort of made shooing motions and a look of disgust. "Stop doing that." Marushii Tobias now has +1 manual that contains a lot about minipet social justice but also has a great minipedia'
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:26 pm
Tobias opened his mouth to make a comment, then closed it again. "Uh, thanks? I guess?" He tried to hide the disappointment from his face as Oz essentially assigned him homework, picking up the oversized binder. "Fine, fiiine, whatever." He replied as he was being shooed away, hand raised to wave. "Later then, Oz man. Keep fighting the good fight and freeing the minis from captivity or whatever."
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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:22 am
Oz stared at Tobias angrily until he was pretty sure the trainee was out of sight and then popped open a bag of chips.
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