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naggeela rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:45 pm
"I would think it would be the Horsemen since I remember Conquest calling us cattle and I also do remember a failed test being mentioned too, to what I have no idea," Tori answered as she picked up more of the papers to put into the folders that they belong to.
"Who know, but any information we can get might just help us later on. Since its rarely do any of the higher up give us a straight answer," she answered while still picking up more papers.
((Tori's paper count - 34 / 1 folder
Total (everyone's) - 152 Papers / 7 Folders))
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:16 am
A small slip of paper dropped out from the paper-clipped sheet that Tori had picked up. On it, was simply a folded, sealed envelope reading "The Spire labyrinth navigation project". On it bore a signature, though the writing was faded and-
-"Sir? I have the papers you wanted from the- holy crap." The Hunter - Death Division judging from her coat emblem - who walked into the room, an entirely unfamiliar face to the trainees, nearly dropped all the files she was carrying. It didn't take long for her to piece together their status and then the state of disarray on the ground, though thankfully she had missed in theory, the worst of it. The papers the trainees had stuck back into the folders looked a little less than stellar, however.
She did the only thing she could think of, quickly glancing down the hallway on both ends, and then closing the door behind her. "Um," her voice was hushed, bordering on slightly alarmed as she made a few frantic gestures with her hands that might have meant 'PLEASE STOP TOUCHING THINGS', "What are you guys doing here?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:22 am
"Yeah. Yeah, I think we are," Jordan said, and then jumped as an unfamiliar voice spoke. Ohshit. He composed his face before turning around. "Jerry was delivering a note to Caelius," he told the senior hunter, "and he bumped the table." While he didn't know if that was what had actually happened, it was close enough. "We're helping him pick things up - we're hoping to get it done before Caelius gets back so we can get out of here before he flips on us. Could you help?"
He put on an earnest-slightly-worried expression and hoped that Jerry, Rin, and Tori would go along with his lightly edited version of what was going on. And that the new arrival wouldn't call bullshit on them, because it was true; he'd just left the part about reading some of the files out.
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:41 am
Rin bobbed her head along. Yes yes that's totally what happened. That's all that happened. Nothing more.
After a bit of nodding she smiled at the strange woman but uttered to no one specific of their group, "Is that Kill-us? They don't look psycho."
She clutched the files and papers she had slightly tighter to her chest as she eyed the strange woman. She didn't look familiar at all. She almost wanted to turn to someone and ask - but others seemed equally unsure of her identity.
Still, she was clearly someone in a position of power and she wasn't about to cause a scene by demanding her name. Simply.... quietly wondered it.
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:53 am
Tori jumped a little when she heard an unfamillar voice and stopped what she was doing OHSHIT, but the felt a little better that it wasn't Caelius. She had been nodding yes to what Jordan was saying as it was the truth. "Just helping Jerry out by picking up before Caelus gets back," she said a little sheepishly and agreed with what Jordan total.
Slightly nervous as she was total not going to say that she had looked at some of the documents and from the last bit of information she would have to tell the others later on after they had left.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:19 am
"IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT ANYTHING I'M SORRY I DON'T WANT ANY MORE TROUBLE!" Jerry nearly dropped his own files he had been quietly reading, his face going green at the unfamiliar sounds of the Death Hunter. "P-p-please don't tell Mr. Caelius, please please please I'm in enough hot water I'm so sorry!" The grown man looked close to messy tears, clutching the collected file to his chest before suddenly holding it out to the superior hunter with a look of panic. "We... we saw nothing!" He added a little too pointedly.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:20 pm
She stared at them with the most incredulous look, somewhere between the lines of 'Do you have a death wish?' and 'Are you for real?' Upon seeing Jerry nearly break down while holding a document that was very possibly worth more than the trainee himself, she put both her hands up, "Okay, okay calm down, look, just put whatever else you find back on the table and I'll deal with the rest." She looked pretty much close to hysterics herself as she assessed the state of the files. "Just- just hang on a second."
In a placating sort of motion, the Hunter held up one finger, slowly, and then took out her cellphone, brushing back a little bit of her bushy brown hair. "Mark, its Sandy, I- I got a little problem." A pause. "Okaaaaay, that's nice, that really is, you should probably go see the Life Labs about your little problem um, down there, but look, I need to know where Princes- where Caelius is." Another pause, and then aloud sigh of relief. "Oh good, keep him occupied, do whatever it takes. No, no, not like that you- yes, just for another thirty minutes tops. I dunno, talk about the next mission or something. Use really long sentences."
Sandy rolled her eyes. "You guys owe me one, seriously, you are either very lucky that this office does not have a security camera installed, or very stupid. Currency of this realm is work IOU's so I hope you trainees like pod duty." As she took a photo of them with her cell phone to remember their faces, the more experienced trainees might have realized she was letting them off really, really easy.
There was a moment where noone moved and simply stared at each other. Sandy raised both her eyebrows, and very pointedly gestured towards the door, in a sort of shooing motion. "By the way, please don't mention any of this to anyone else, or at least not the details. The Four Clans - the horsemen - don't play nice like the rest of Halloween. The more you see, the less you will wish you were here, and well-" A change in her expression, a brief glimpse of grief -"It's really... just best not to know." OOC - Trainees can choose to ask 1-2 more questions or hastily make an exit post from this point on. Make sure to rp out the exit post as well as well as any IC reactions before claiming 2 rp bonus and +1 for posting over 800 words
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:14 pm
Holy s**t, they'd been so lucky. The smart thing to do would be to get the hell out of here right now, do whatever Sandy called on them for later cheerfully and without complaint, and try to forget they'd seen anything. "Come on, guys," Jordan said, and put the folder he was holding back on the table before he headed for the door. ... He wasn't going to forget any of it. He wanted to know more. He paused beside the door and half-turned back towards Sandy, eyes sharpening with purpose. "Is this the kind of better not to know that's more or less likely to get us killed? Or is it a moot point?" You're probably going to get yourself in trouble if you try to find anything else out, Ferros said. I'm probably going to get myself in trouble anyway, Jordan pointed out. Either I'm occupying myself with interesting things, or I'm bored and looking for something to do.You do have a point.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:54 pm
Rin simply frowned, stood and shrugged. She had no idea how much trouble they were in. She carefully sat the folders and papers she had on the table and turned back around to face what she now realized was a strange woman named Sandy.
Her frown deepened at the woman. Why the hell did she take their picture with her cell... pod duty? Fffff... no more newbies like Rep please. She simply couldn't handle it.
Still, back on the topic of what they read - well, Rin honestly didn't want to know so when Jordan pressed for specific detail, she was out. Refusing to hear the answer.
She was nothing but a blur of green, white, and gold zooming out the office door.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:50 pm
Sandy gave Jordan a thin smile, recognizing his look for what it was: curiousity, well placed for a reason. "I would say equal chances. But most people don't really enjoy tragic endings, you know, for their own mental health."
She opened her mouth to say something else, closed it just as fast, blinking suddenly before looking away. It only took a second longer for her to compose herself. "Besides, it would do a Sun Hunter no good to run away scared." The words were easy enough to understand.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:34 pm
Jordan watched Sandy's reaction; his eyes narrowed slightly, and he stared at her a few more moments. "You've lost someone to them," he said, not quite a question. His eyes darted to the maps, the table, the files Sandy held. "You've seen what they can do." Then he recollected himself and shook his head. "Sorry," he said. His eyes widened fractionally, and he paused. "You guys go on ahead," he said to the other trainees. "Dropped my phone, I think."
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:01 am
Tori let out a mental sigh as they were so total lucky as could have been in a lot more trouble than having to do pod duty, like being on the wrong side of a person weapon for one. She didn't think that pod duty wasn't too bad since she had done it once already so she was cool with it for payment for Sandy helping them out. Gleeing to herself that she had been right about The Clans being the horsemen but she still wasn't going to admit that she had read any of the papers but she was torn between leaving and wanted to know a little more about the horsemen, especially after her encounter with the full fledged Conquest. "So why don't the Horsemen don't like to play nice? Is it because they want to rule everything?" she asked of Sandy and she was sorry Jordan, Tori wants to learn a little more and then she was total out of there once if Sandy would answer her question.
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:45 pm
"Thank you, ma'am," Jerry breathed with relief, when it seemed he *wasn't* going to be flayed alive. Jordan's continued interest kept him anchored, though. He'd be happier following his fellow Sun out of the fire, so to speak... but now that the panic had subsided, he pursed his lips, gingerly motioning up to the make-shift map of events and articles up on the wall, specifically at the New York center. "Er... what... what *did* happen in New York? It looks... er... bad..." He was going to regret asking, he was sure. But maybe he'd be lucky and the answer would be a sly smile and a 'get the hell out of here, trainee.' That would have been nice. Maybe he did see a bit more than he had let on through the heat of panic. Regardless... it was their job to blow up the things- they might as well know how big those explosions would have to be.
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:25 pm
The blunt comment from Jordan was enough for Sandy to falter again, the Hunter nearly dropping several files she was re-compiling on the desk. It was strange for her, having the casualty conversation with a trainee, she had forgotten what it was like to be one. They actually cared, some part of them was still concerned and bothered to ask questions. Most others, most Hunters like her simply followed the motions, if not from personal experience, then from fear of slipping up the next time. An inevitable fear of the abyss, of the gnawing question in everyone's mind: when would it be their turn?
"I-" She began, eyes clouded, exhaling to try to calm her nerves, "It was- it was my fault anyway. I knew the risks, I-I faltered, and it was because I hesitated that he-"
The Hunter herself seemed surprised when droplets, tears, fell onto the desk she was leaning over. A moment passed where she simply sobbed quietly, chest heaving, using the back of her hand to rub her eyes, not daring to make eye contact now. On her free left hand, the one she had been hiding, was a ring, the jewel glittering a thousand facets in the florescent light. "God, I'm- I'm so sorry I didn't mean to just-" and yet, she wouldn't stop crying- "I just, I need some time by myself. Sorry. Please."
Perhaps the trainees had pressed just a little too far.
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:35 pm
s**t. "I'm sorry," Jordan said, a sudden heavy weight of guilt dropping into the pit of his stomach. He should know better than to ask. He bowed his head briefly and was out the door, swallowing the bitter knot in his throat. Nothing he said would be enough to apologize; the best apology he could make was to get the hell out and let Sandy reclaim some of her dignity and her defenses. A few days later, the Death hunter would find a small box of good chocolate in a bag on the handle of her door, left without comment or note, a silent apology for overstepping.
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