"Hnnnn makes sense then. Next time we're on leave Ah'll check inta gettin' some an' bring ya couple'a 'em back." Ofelia said, deciding to do it even though she had no idea who the hell this person was. Obviously a hunter and obviously someone that Stormy knew so that made two things that were totally okay.
And then there was a pony over near Mark and Ofelia had to sigh. Everyone was working to getting something fixed, she was talking about food with someone knew, and a pony still had to be d**k enough to go and act out. "Ah should probably make a grocery list too once we get back'a all this." Ofelia started a list in her mind, clearly showing how little fear she felt at the moment. People, as she had said, were already working on things and she was just a Sun hunter. Sun hunters hit things, not thought them through. "Anythin' ya wanna eat?" She asked the sort-stranger again.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:19 pm
This could not be happening.
Except it was, and the real problem was that this might eventually not be happening, as everyone continued to try and destroy the CTC. Mimsy wasted no time summoning Svensyl and immediately turning to look from Lucky to Dakota.
"I am fine, and will be fine. Do not touch me," she addressed them respectively, moving to kneel on the sand. Explaining why this was not working was getting them absolutely nowhere - though Robert had vowed to fight a concept for her - so she would selfishly use the potentially infinite loops to learn what she could.
She nudged her glasses off of her nose and popped one lens out, stacking it atop the remaining lens to make the most miserable excuse of a magnifying device that someone could create in a desert. Setting her weapon flat across her lap, she held the lenses a couple of feet above the blade, hoping to get a magnified view of the sun. Understanding all evidence and variables would be important if she planned on avoiding that 'blinking out of existence' thing.
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"As much anything else," Lucky shrugged, still staring intently at the covered pedestal. He took a few steps back, for good measure. He hadn't yet realized it was a horseman talking to him.
"After all, twelve of these, and moving shadow. Almost like it is a-" He readjusted his glasses before looking up, and realized he was practically face to face with a horseman. "KURWA!"
(It was not a prostitute.)
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:22 pm
Tick.
Wash put a hand over his eyes, exasperated and emotionally drained.
"Next time, I'd like t' opt for food poisoning."
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:26 pm
She didn't have the energy to argue with him and was plucked off the ground almost happily: once again off her feet meant not worrying about tripping over. The trainee was still mostly numb within, so she thought nothing about being carried to and fro like a doll, clutching at Gale as she had wanted to clutch at someone since Lifen had burrowed into her psyche.
Overall, whil physically Stormy looked fine, she was hot, tired, and most of all still with a panicked expression as they finally reached Candace. "Please don't touch it," she whimpered. "Don't touch the shadow, don't cast a light, p-please leave it alone . . ." She couldn't begin to articulate why.
Thane, however, was intrigued at the structure's connection to a dial, and silently approved their meddling; Stormy had simply done it wrong as usual.
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:29 pm
"I think it's safe to say in this one rare time, we are in agreement." She said quietly, to the Huntress' answer. As she tried to put things together, she could only make a soft hmming sound, trying to understand everything, before the other Hunter chipped in, ultimately yelling a strange word at the top of his voice, which made dark eyebrows pin upwards.
"K-kur?" She could only start, before squinting a little. "Like a clock?" She finally chipped in a little, feeling . . . giving to these stupid humans, before looking away. "Lord Invictus said that too, last reset. . . I think" she trailed a bit, hoping for some reprieve.
Melvin saw everyone else decorate the runes with hunter jackets and walked over to throw his own over there. As fond as he was of it, if someone had any idea to stop this deja vu from happening again, he was willing to test out someone's theory on how to do just that.
He then went and shot at another spike.
Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:30 pm
He gave Candace a look that clearly said don't go there.
"I'm fine," he told her, his arms tightening a little beneath Stormy's legs to keep her in place. "And Stormy's fine." Physically, at least. "She just needs a bit of rest." A lot of rest, and some hot cocoa and a vacation.
His eyes flickered towards the dais.
"This is getting really old really fast," he mumbled. "Why can't we get the hell out of this loop?"
With his coat covering the pedestal, he crossed his arms, staring at it, as if expecting something immediate to happen, when he was suddenly tackled and had the wind knocked out of him, tumbling to the ground.
"NEVADA, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU-" He shot a look at Sherry before turning back to the mist trainee. "I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm not a basic trainee anymore." he huffed, pointing at his coat. "That means I rank higher than you, which means I don't need your help."
Before Sherry could reasonably think of anything to do, the ground was going out from beneath them again and the teeth were--
Sand. It was in her face and her clothes and she really hated sand. Not for the first time, the wind stopped and Sherry saw things beginning again. At least there had been less blood last time.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Sherry replied to Nevada's query. Clearly Nevada was, or else she wouldn't be asking, right? Sherry started looking for the girl and for the others before Nevada even asked.
She found the pair shortly after there had been an apparent tackle, and Sherry didn't have time to question it before she saw Nevada draping her coat over things. "What are..." No. She wasn't even going to ask. Today was weird enough. Sherry just walked away, took off her coat, and tossed it over an open pedestal.
Then she wandered back to Jake and Nevada. "Ok. Nobody is dying this time, right?" She gave Jake a very worried look.
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:45 pm
And Candace gave Gale a look that said too late I already have.
She heard Jake yell at Nevada and say something about outranking her. Candace rolled her eyes. "Nevada, you're fine. Keep doing whatever you're doing."Said Candace, the fully ranked Mist Hunter who outranked Jake.
Happy, Jake? Have fun with Nevada.
She turned back to Gale with a little sigh. "I don't know. I think every time Mark dies," Candace shot a look to the horseman beside her, "there's a reset. We're all obviously doing something wrong..." And yes, she did mean everyone. Horsemen and Hunters. She reached out to pet Stormy's head and then moved her hand down to gently cup her chin in her hand. "Shh, don't worry. Everything'll be fine. Do you want me to carry you and give Gale a break?"
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:45 pm
Nevada smiled as Sherry joined them, losing the coat to cover the runes as well before whipping her head at Jake and smiling lazily at him.
"I tackled you, obviously you need more training if you can get tackled by a girl. That being said, I'm pretty close to being due for a promotion as well. Then I'll be the same level as you." She sighed and shielded her eyes looking at the sun and then to the horseman that had joined the hunters at the sundial. Candace even got a raised eyebrow and Nevada smirked at Jake "Don't you huff at me youngster...Candace said I could do what I wanted." Nevada said, eyeing the horseman carefully. When Lifen didn't make a charge to Stormy she let her gaze wander back to Sherry and Jake.
"There has to be something more we need to do. What happened the last two times we did this? Last time, the spikes were killed off, Mark's laptop was destroyed and a door way had appeared...or the beginning of one." Nevada was more mumbling to herself as she came to stand closer to Sherry. Usually she would invade Jake's personal bubble for amusement but...wasn't really feeling like it now.
"Sam said the horseman and us hunters were led here. For what? What could possibly want all of us here together?"
Several seconds passed and the horsemen had still not chopped his head off, or pulled his insides out, or any of the other very colorful methods of execution that he'd seen documented and illustrated back in the library. He relaxed, ever so slightly.
He still looked a little bit ruffled, rolling with the correction as best he could. "Yyyes. A clock."
"But," he toyed with the lucky rabbit's foot keychain that was his weapon, eyes darting carefully between the horsewoman and the covered pedestal in front of him. He pointed as he spoke, to the sky, the triangle, and finally the ground below them: "Does it measure by sun, shadow, or mechanism?"
"Because, if by shadow..." Well, if by shadow, then by covering as many as possible they had probably just set off a whole lot of runes.
It was probably best if he didn't say that out loud or anything.
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 10:48 pm
Dakota would like everyone to know that he hit the triangle thing. Nothing was happening...yet.
"Well if I die Candace, We'll get a second chance to do this all over again!" Sarcasm ran so heavy that Dakota squinted.
Also he was admiring a certain horseman's rack from his perch. yes very nice. A+.
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