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 Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:16 pm
"I need Jerry to come in for artifact testing. I don't think he'd come in if he knew it was me, and I don't think he'd stay if he saw me doing the testing. Any way you can think that I could keep him from walking out if I manage to get him in here?" Seeing as Rep used to be his friend.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:41 pm
Rep raised a brow at Melvin, still admittedly impressed that anyone could actually scare Jerry away from anything, in his experience getting Jerry not to meddle things or at the very least play music at them was a real feat. He wasn't sure if his artifact was worth reversing that.
"Well he's Jerry. You could like. Get a disguise right? And be all in disguise and s**t. And lure him in like with a big pile of musical instruments, booze and maybe some ******** hideous shirts. Tell him its a reward for his contributions to society. Get a sexy lady to rob him."
He shrugged.
"Or failing that, tell him I want to talk and I'll headlock the b*****d."
He liked the first idea better.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:19 pm
Melvin just looked at Rep. "I'm not James Bond. I don't have a chest of wigs and voice boxes to go luring anyone here. Even if I just sent him a text and didn't say it was me, I could get him here probably unless someone tipped him off that I'm doing the artifact testing. It's keeping him here and answering that I need him to do." He breathed out and leaned back. "And I can't waste my budget to buy musical instruments for him. The techs charge a arm and a leg just to get some things from their department that I can't otherwise sneak in and steal. Not that I even have leave."
And then he frowned. "Really don't want to give him any of my booze either." It was his whiskey after all, and lately he'd been liking it a lot more.
Looking back at Rep, he smiled. "What do I have to do to bribe you to headlock him and then guard the door until he finished the testing?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:45 pm
"Shame, I always thought you looked the kind of guy who liked to do a bit of dressing up.", he couldn't keep the grin out of his voice. "And giving him more instruments would just increase his capacity for ******** torture, plus aye, I think all of us are a bit poor lately."
Rep smirked toothily "Well. I can help. It'll cost you nothing apart from chipping in if he goes ******** mental. I doubt he will though, even he's no that ******** stupid."
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:20 pm
"Your image of me continues to keep getting better." He replied, not liking that Rep thought, among other things, that he was a cross-dresser.
Smiling, he breathed out in relief. "I like that price a lot better. I'll make sure you're here when I send Jerry the text for his appointment. I'll even use another phone so he doesn't notice my number." Considering Melvin called Jerry from jail, he was sure the man might be aware of what his number looked like.
"Thanks."
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:24 pm
"You just have really good hair is all." he purred with a smirk. "But aye, nae bother. No really like I've got much else to do around the labs. I'm mostly like, dabbling and s**t, it's probably better to have like, an actual project I'm helping with - showing willingness and all that." Even if he did think that artifact testing sounded like a very long and arduous process.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:30 pm
Melvin frowned. "It's just clean." He grumbled, not thinking his hair was all that great. It curled too much.
"Well then I'll make a remark that you've been helping me out if anyone mentions you and put in a good word. Also, if you ever want to just duck in here for a breather, that's fine too. I'm not always working in this lab to be honest." Sometimes he was just reading because he just wanted to take a day off.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:38 pm
Rep gave Melvin a very sceptical look for his comment about his hair, the cleanliness didn't even factor in. For Rep it was all about the blonde, the length, the curl. He appreciated good hair the same way he appreciated good fur, except you couldn't touch it without permission or skin it from its owner."That's no all it is." he said, with absolute seriousness.
"And ta. That'd be helpful, I'm trying to keep my head down and do what I'm told after that ******** debacle before. I just want to be ******** useful to someone."
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:48 am
"You were useful, Rep. You just...keep having problems with control. I would think that Sun would be used to powerful hunters, but I think they might be stumped by the far extremes in how you work. You're not being podded, Rep. It just shows that you are useful enough that they don't want to keep you off the field." He shrugged. "Glad you're still around and it wasn't because of some incident other than Sasha being nuts and wanting to rip your lower jaw off."
He smiled. "It would be hard to talk to you if you were a mute missing half your face." To which Melvin tapped his own goggle frames. "Even glasses can't fix that look."
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 1:19 pm
"They are used to powerful hunters. I'm no a powerful hunter. Most of my spars, I've ******** lost since I got here. I just wanted to beat Jerry in a spar or even just to be able to put up a decent fight, he's thrashed me every time since the day I arrived. I was no good for Sun and all I caused them was trouble and hassle. I don't know why they didn't pod me, unless they'd just rather watch me go downhill on my own. " Melvin did get a weak smile though that he was at least glad he was still around, lately the support of the people around him was all he had, the old division pride that gave him momentum just a hollow void that threatened to overwhelm him.
He pushed it away and raised his brows at Melvin. "Don't eve remind me about glasses man." He took his own off and polished them on his shirt. "******** dangerous, someone punches you in the face you get a bit of metal right in the eyes."
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 3:13 pm
"Dangerous is working with hazardous and often times untested materials not to mention temperamental minipets and not have eyewear. I'd rather wear glasses for protection than get some poisoned claw in my eye and having them melt shut." He took off his goggles to show them. "That and I'm a bit blind." He tapped the glass. "The glass is designed not to shatter into my eyes."
He looked over at Rep's glasses to see how thick they were. "You probably didn't win because you worry about hurting people. When you do go full force, things end messy. You can't judge your performance in spars when I've seen an entire army support you during missions. You wouldn't have a whole support team unless people think you were worth protecting and making a difference during a fight. You clear monsters out, Rep. There are also plenty of people here that are destroying themselves. You wouldn't' be the only source of entertainment if the assistants were wanting to watch." Melvin knew a few people who were gossiped a lot about. "But you aren't pristine either. You know your faults at least. Only uphill from here." He hoped. Podding was still on the table.
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:42 pm
Rep winced at the idea of getting poisonous talons in his eyes. He'd already had to deal with the idea of losing his vision and he really didn't want to deal with it again ever. "I don't have any like, special goggle specs. I got mine out of like, one of the storage closets on the island." One of these days he figured he should go to an optician, but in the meantime the reading glasses did the trick. "I'm no blind though, little writing is just kind of ******** blurry and gives me a headache."
Melvin's comment about people backing him up though was something he hadn't really considered, and it both reassured him and made him worry about what he was supposed to do on the battlefield now. Life healed and backed people up, but he was good at neither, all his instincts sung to be there on the very front line, giving it his all.
"Still no going to be easy. I don't know the first thing about Life." At least H's words had been reassuring.
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 8:14 pm
"We support. You like to protect, but you seem to have only done that with direct fighting. We're usually around to provide healing, throw barriers, and to provide runic bandages. You support to keep everyone going, fighting, and alive. We also research to make all the hunters have better equipment, no complications with their runic devices or weapons, and to give more hunters a weapon in their hand. Nothing would work on this island without the Life department providing portal technical support, watching life lines during golem missions, adding runics to devices and just producing more runic devices. There is a long list of what Life does as each wing handles different departments which, depending on complexity, handles sub departments. I know the techs can sort of blur in the background, but maybe glance at who is around when you're sent on a mission and checking the various stations before you're sent off fighting."
He had a found appreciation for Life and couldn't help but smile to be in the department. "Considering it a chance of pace and a different way to go about things. You might like it. Can't hurt in the end. You could protect alongside Harrison and support Jordan."
He continued to look at the glasses. "You should really check on getting a proper eye exam. It does wonders. Mine were special order when I thought I'd be working on more traditional labs back home. It was, I admit, a sort of funny novelty I wanted." He felt professional when he first got them, as stupid as some people called him.
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 8:30 pm
Rep listened intently, he did deeply want to find a place to belong on the island, but the thought of maintaining lifelines and computer systems while other people set their necks on the line scared him. Not because he didn't think they were absolutely ******** critical tasks, but because he was very much invested on the other side of that situation. He couldn't really choose any more what he did, he would simply have to find something to do and somewhere he could help.
"I'll do what I can." It was all he could do, even the idea of supporting Jordan and Harrison was different when he considered himself in another role, Tracey would be simply impractical.
the fallen angel said wistfully.
"I should get my eyes checked too but I'm kind of leery about just..walking into an optician like my eyes are kind of s**t, help."
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Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:33 pm
Melvin looked over at Rep and sighed. "I need to go over to see about my glasses anyways. I'll probably need a new pair soon. If you want, we can go together." Because it seemed like the ex-Sun needed someone to hold his hand. "They're usually quick with the exams. All you have to say is Better. Worse, and say a few letters. I say 30 minutes tops." Though that wasn't usually the case. It was the damn dilating eyelids that were the worse.
"Maybe they'll let you even pick some frames sometime or you could take a small moment off of leave and custom order a pair to a prescription and then pick them up on another leave day." Then maybe Rep wouldn't be so upset every time he had to wear his glasses.
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