Welcome to Gaia! ::

Ryan lightly elbowed him and he suppressed an amused grin. “I’m always up for meeting new faces.” Then Wilson fell silent as Caelius announced the pairings. Once he heard his name he looked around the room for ‘Tika,’ but not before glancing at Ryan and smiling apologetically. “Good luck working with Caelius. At least you’ll have company.”

He gladly returned the smile. “No! It’s perfectly fine. Experience is more important, right?” he reasoned. Wilson tried not to laugh uneasily. Yeah, that was his division leader, lovely…Once the group strode onto the training fields the glowing door caught his attention first. The new trainee watched Caelius walk through without even batting an eye and disappeared. Wilson blinked. Was that a magical door? As he followed Tika through the door and suddenly found himself surrounded by a sea of sand, Wilson decided that yes, that definitely was a magical door.

Wilson obediently listened to the moon hunter’s instructions, but as she glanced inside the tent he couldn’t help himself from following her gaze. It didn’t quite register to him at first, but a few seconds later he gawked and hastily looked somewhere else. Don’t look. Don’t look. Don’t look. He put on the headset and hesitated when it came to putting on the mask.

Dabir. I think it’d be a good idea to be a pair of goggles again. [Oh fine.] He left the eyewear hanging around his neck as he slipped on the mask and examined his surroundings again. “How do people move with these things on? Everything’s just a bunch of blobs,” Wilson mumbled.

Sherry didn't know how to take the joy aimed at the Life Division, but she didn't really have time to think about it anyway. The Caelius guy started giving them the names of the trainee they would be working with.

Madison, Sherry repeated the name in her head and scanned the room. Which one was Madison? Before she had time to ask, everyone began to file out of the room. Sherry followed suit. She could find her partner later.

On the other side of the door, the first thing Sherry noticed was the warmth.



Really? Well, maybe you will get to be out in it later. The idea of a weapon liking the temperature was a bit odd, but she saw no reason to argue with Armagnac. Instead, she looked at their surroundings. Sherry was sure they were not on the island anymore. This heat, that sand...where were they?

When the Moon Hunter greeted them, Sherry's questions was basically answered. The Sahara Disaster Site? Sahara? Really? Wow, that door is something! It was then that she caught a glimpse of the inside of the tent. Were those....The Moon Hunter had talked about finding survivors. Non-survivors would have need of those bags. Sherry gulped.



I don't know, Sherry responded as she went to grab her mask and headset, it sounds more like a clean up type of deal. She did mention disaster. She didn't know if she was ready for Armagnac's type of fun just yet.

"Sherry? Is Sherry here?"

She turned at the sound of her name. There was girl near the masks, with light hair and a Life Hunter coat.

"I'm Sherry!" she waved a bit, to help indicate herself. "Are you Madison by any chance?"

Sosiqui

The Moon Hunter attendant tapped their earpiece. "Yes Sir?" The tone was all but exasperated as she scanned and pinpointed the cluster of trainees that were not mingling in pairs. "Okay, I'll see what I can do." An audible sigh. "If you don't have a group partner can you come up here next to me? Everyone else just... hang tight okay? And please, put your mask on and then the earphones not vice versa."

 

::...And so that's why you shouldn't feed an elaphant a dandelion while it's on a tight-rope. :: Volt was laughing in her head, amused by his own joke. His very loud, static-like chuckles had drowned out most of what the man, Caelius had been saying.

Including to introduce yourself to him.

Vanessa only realized this when he was listing off names. She frowned, a slight twitch in her eye from Volt's constant chattering, as she realized she had not provided a name to be called by, and thuse ended up in the unnamed category. The category that would be accompanying Caelius. The statistics of survive - a part of his explanation she had heard - suddenly didn't seem like a one in two chance anymore, not with her new assignment.

She noted that Jerry, the bazooka(?) slinger, had approached the Death Division's leader and inquired what to do. Ryan was there too, and Eva soon joined them. Vanessa followed, soon reaching the small group that was forming. "I'm with you guys." She said, nodding to her fellow Epsilon, the bazooka holder, and the one she'd realized was a medic. Every time she saw the red-cross on his arm, she felt a slight pang of pity, knowing that usually everyone tried to kill the medics off first. Well, if they were a team, she'd do her best to help keep those around her alive.

Apparently their mission was in a desert. She remembered the strange portals from her trial, and managed to keep herself from being surprised by them. She followed after her group and Caelius, wondering if she should approach him and introduce herself, even though she would be late in doing so. However, the Moon Hunter was calling them over. Vanessa moved faster this time, her own drive moving her over. She raised a hand quickly, a signal to the Moon Hunter that she didn't have a group. She spoke, saying just as much, "I seem to be missing a group partner. My name is Vanessa Arrian, of the Life Division." Yup, Vanessa was making up for not telling Caelius her name in the most efficient way possible, by telling one of other authority figures instead.

She took one of the masks, holding it hesitantly. She didn't want to put it on right away if they simply would be taking them off or had a different job waiting ahead of them. "Do you want those who have no partners yet to do the same?" She asked before she realized Jerry had asked the same thing, holding up the mask slightly so the Moon Hunter would know what the readhead was talking about.

The group of 4 whom had no partner soon turned in to a group of five, something she had noted as the other woman approached. Giving a brief nod to Vanessa, not offering a name in return just yet.

You should be proud of your name, Ceres!

When it is time to talk names i wil-

It is always time to talk names! How else will they kn-

Tuning out the sword, which was something that was becoming increasingly difficult, she ignored his bantering in the back of her mind.. only a brief eye twitch showing she was annoyed. Gripping the mask and headset a little tighter, she looked up towards Jerry, whom seemed to be the experienced one of the small cluster of hunters. Yet he seemed a little nervous? Maybe she was just reading his body language wrong...

"Seems Caelius is either bad with names, numbers, or he has a reason for a larger group.." She thought out loud hoping it really was not the latter, looking nervously around herself. Why would they need a larger group when.... what was inside those bags exactly?

Eva had been fanning herself with a hand, but this soon turned to waving once Vanessa made her way over to the group. So that made five of them who were presently lost and confused. Like the others, she looked to Jerry--the most experienced of their group--for guidance or hints on what they should do. The poor man seemed nervous, and honestly, she couldn't blame him. It would be one thing if they were expected to sit to the side uselessly and look pretty, but another if Caelius actually had something specific in mind for them.

Dear god, she hoped not. She could hardly even wield her weapon without losing her grip and nearly impaling someone's foot.

You'll be fine, Eva.

Tell me that again when I accidentally lose my grip and have you go flying in Caelius' direction next time. If he's touchy with his hair now, I don't know how he'll feel about having a buzzcut. When Chara didn't respond, Eva decided that she had made her point and turned back to focus on the others.

"I guess we'll fine out what we're doing soon," she murmured to Ceres and Ryan before eying the headset and masks. She was still waiting on their superior's answer, but while it would be nice to ensure a way from keeping the sand from being blown into their eyes, Eva didn't want to wear anything that would make her hotter than she already was. It was already uncomfortably harder to breath with the heat.

Her gaze shifted from the hunter's face to the mask and headset she offered to her in hand, smiling, she reached over and took them into her own. "Thanks. Nice to meet you, Candace. You can call me Kat if you prefer..?" A little baffled over the woman's sudden pause, she decided to just ignore it. No point asking about it anyways. "Looks like."

"Headset first, mask after. Got it." Sounded easy enough--

And please, put your mask on and then the earphones not vice versa.

"Er..I guess its the other way around then, huh?" Letting loose a nervous laugh, Kat rubbed at her arm. If she struggled with her mask and headset, she would definitely be asking for her help to put them on. But so far it seemed easy enough. "I think I'll be okay--If I get tangled in this, I'll be sure to let you know though." Snickering she moved to put the mask on.

"Have you had any other missions like this before?"