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 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:13 pm
Well that didn't go as planned. Hell he just made it worse, judging by the tone of the kid's voice. "E-er...w-well most hunters...Actually we don't.....well it isn't that bad...I mean, we don't have free reign to go a-anytime we w-want. We're kinda stuck here...N-not that w'were imprisoned or a-anything..." He had no idea what to say. He wasn't selling the hunter life at all. But then why would he want to sell it This was a kid! Dammit Mark where were you?!.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:47 pm
Where indeed was Mark - it seemed almost like the Death Assistant had gotten distracted on the way, but he surely wouldn't have just forgotten about Jason... right?
About five more minutes passed where there was literally no conversation between either of them and the ticking on the clock above was getting slightly annoying. Mark's desk was also looking a little worse for wear, covered in paperwork, to the point where even the base of his desk had just piles and piles of print.
"Okay," the trainee suddenly stood up, seemingly having made up their mind. "I'm going to go now."
And just like that, he walked to the doorway.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:28 pm
Jason had taken to reading over the various reports littered on Mark's desk when his charge had announced he was leaving the office room. The next few seconds were spent with a agonizing debate of weather Jason should stop him and keep him here against his will or just let him go and face the consequences' of Mark making him debt for the next hundred years, or just firing him outright. But could he morally hold a child here and keep him miserable? There was no point in telling him Mark would be back soon, he had been gone way to long; it shouldn't of taken him that long to get the supplies. There was the chance he had been held up somewhere but then...
His weapon was right. No point in staying here for the next hour until Caelius returned and threw him out the window. "Okay" He responded to the kid. "But I'm coming with you." That way he could let the kid wander around and keep a eye on him. Then he come could back later and fix the window. There, everyone happy.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:48 pm
Text from Mark Almost got the stuff bro this trader from Tatooine is really haggling me see you in 5 min
"Where does this go to?" He pointed to the general direction of where the towns were.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:35 pm
The buzzing in his coat pocket caught his attention, and Jason checked his phone and stared at it for approximately 30 seconds and tried to convey his increasing annoyance through the screen. Mark seriously had the worst timing ever. He opened up the reply button and thought about what to text back. Nothing came to mind. The moment he texted a response he was screwed. SIGH"Those lead to the abandoned towns, and I can assure you theres nothing there but b-broken down houses and junk everywhere." He called out to the kid as he exited the building, "Seriously you do not want to go there it's really scary and bad. Like, giant fog monster bad. How about we go...anywhere else." He held up his phone. "Mark said he'll be back in 5 minutes. How about we meet up with him, and after we're done I promise you I'll take you wherever it is you want to go! Within reason."
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:45 pm
"Mark also said he was going to cage me in using you to build windows," yelled the trainee back with air quotes, unconvinced. He began to pick up his pace, probably because he was rebellious and a teenager but probably also more because Jason was turning out to be a huge pushover.Text from Mark Hang on Jedi booty call, give me 5 Text from Mark Tell him a bedtime story he likes those
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 10:57 pm
" He was going to what?!" Jason stopped in his tracks, shocked he was going to be used for such nefarious means. How could Mark do that to a child?! That was so cruel! The phoned called for his attention, the moon opening up the device and almost crying with relief. Thank the gods Mark was so easily distracted. He put the phone away and blanched at his charge getting further and further away. "W-wait up!" His long legs making great strikes to catch up with the kid, offering quick apologies to the two mist hunters then rushing past them. "It's dangerous out there!"
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:14 pm
They weren't paying attention and was already scooting down the half-built stairs along the side. It seemed like several people had had the great idea to work on reconstructing all the stairs leading down to the towns, and then had given up because stairs.
It would be pretty easy for Jason to catch up, the trainee finally pausing for a second to pull out from his coat an extremely overcomplicated map of the Island that had way too many places hand-marked in the tiniest print possible. "So we're around here I guess?" He flipped the map over, checking the other side. "Or is it here?"
As he tried to figure out where, despite the sunny, bright, weather, the fog around them began to thicken and curl into a very obvious ten-foot and growing shape of some strange grey-black horse, mouth splitting into two distinct heads that began to breathe a grey flame.
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poke mattix rolled 2 10-sided dice:
4, 4
Total: 8 (2-20)
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:18 pm
Seeing the state of the half built stairs was aggravating, because of all the things to stop building halfway it had to be stairs. At least they didn't end halfway, allowing him to reach his destination, catching his breath as the kid looked at a overly complex map. "I have...no idea." He puffed, checking their surroundings to get his bearings when the fog began to change and - FIRE BREATHING HORSE SIGHTED WHY?! While his charge was figuring out where he was, Jason shrieked, sword materializing in hand, and franticly rushed horse thing before it could get close to the kid. "Nonononono Go away!. His hitting power was still s**t however. HP: 50 Damage: 2 Charge: 1/3
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 11:51 pm
The kid was still pouring over the map, and had set said map down, pressing against the creases to flatten it more. "If I was here," he began, trailing his finger along any of the various coloured lines, "and I'm here now, and then this sign means..."
This was going to take him a while.
The first head of the horse-thing managed to take a good bite out of Jason's coat, while the second continued to breathe grey fire around them, causing some tree branches to wither and fall in charred grey pieces. poke mattix HP 8/10 Damage done to Jason: 5
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poke mattix rolled 2 10-sided dice:
10, 2
Total: 12 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:14 am
It came as no surprise that the kid was too absorbed in his map to noticed the giant horse thing, as if some cosmic gag was being played out. But hey at least he wasn't being targeted, or frightened out of his wits. Unlike Jason, who was running around with half his coat missing and dodging the grey flames. "Stupid, stupid thing-!" He dived for the ground as more fire spewed out, rolling underneath and sticking his blade upwards, towards one of it's necks. "Do you know how much a coat costs?!" Everything was out to rob him blind, it seemed. HP: 45 Damage: 6 Charge: 2/3
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:18 am
"A-6 is here..." continued Jason's escortee, still trying to figure out how grids worked, "so this is G-7..."
The second horse head was just about to swallow about five hundred dollars worth problem right up when Jason's weapon hit it square in the nose and it reared and nearly tramped Jason with its hooves. The first head grabbed a hold of his coat again and was now running, dragging him up and down the stairs.
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poke mattix rolled 2 10-sided dice:
6, 9
Total: 15 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:34 am
And thus Jason was left to flail like a squealing buffoon and dragged along the ground, and of course up the stairs his voice hitching on every edge he passed by. This lasted for approximately five minutes until he realized he still had Zanthvos in his hands. He struggled, twisting his body until he was facing the ground itself (and smacking his face on the stairs in the process), and threw his sword into the horses flank. HP: 40 Damage: 9 Charge: 3/3
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:39 am
Because apparently nobody, not even the narrator, thought Jason deserved a good time, just as the horse-fog-thing disappeared in one final shriek, the trainee looked up and shouted a very triumphant, "Found it!"
He pointed to some vague, tiny spot in the enormous map as if this was the most important discovery of the century. "We are currently standing here."
The fog around them was also growing much, much thicker.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:25 am
Jason looked like a wreck as he leaned against the wall, huffing and puffing and just wanting to go back to his room okay, but the kid had other ideas. "F-found what?" He wearily descended the stairs and looked over his shoulder. "O-oh. T-thats...great" Even though it didn't mean much, he knew how to get back from here, and the mist hunters weren't too far away. It was then he could see the fog was starting to grow incredibly thick, and Jason felt like he was about to have a bad time. "...W-we need t-to go back." He reached out for the kids arm. " Now."
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