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There was more stabbing and kicking at the serpents. Jake was NOT a happy camper.
And then suddenly a small handful of them met their scaly demise, and he blinked, turning to see... a giant greatsword pointed at him, and he raised his hands, staring at Stormy.
"Don't stab me. I have legs."

He let out a sigh of relief when it was de-summoned (really, he had enough injuries to deal with today, tyvm) and grabbed her hand, the other hand pulling out the dagger in his sash to use as a sort of makeshift peg as he stabbed it into the wall, using it to pull himself up. The LAST thing he needed to do was pull Stormy in also.

When he got out, he let out a huff, sounding somewhat like "thanks", and straightened his coat.
He looked over to Tori and shook his head.
"I can bandage myself just fine. Just toss me a roll."
As he began wrapping it over his arms, he heard an explosion, and whipped his head towards the sound. Oh hell. The trainee who was carrying the Codex managed to set off a bomb or something.

...Ami was so going to blame him for this, wasn't she?

"You two, move on towards the exit. I'll be fine." He nodded at Tori and Stormy, before making his way towards the moon trainee.
"Hey, pass the Codex over here. If that thing doesn't make it back, her royal highness is going to kill all of us. Get yourself moving. I can take more hits than you."

HP: 50/50
Bandages Remaining: 1/2

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[Jake is moving to D3]

Tori was somewhat impressed on how well Jake was bandaging himself up since he wasn’t a Life hunter, but then she thought that maybe it could have been from practice like her most of what she knew was from practice on bandaging herself up and others. Giggling a little to herself that maybe she should give Jake one of the smiley stickers she found for his good bandage work later on.

“Alright, but be careful,” Tori said to Jake when she heard the explosion from where the trainee sun hunter was and thought that had got to hurt. “Come on, lets get moving before there is more trouble,” she said to Stormy and motioned her to lets get moving towards the exit.

[Tori is moving to B3]

Taking the Codex, Jake grunted slightly under the weight.
Damn, why was this thing so freaking heavy?
He was about to ask how the trainee had even managed lugging the thing all the way here, when he heard a small whirring sound, and quickly turned his head towards the source.
Unfortunately, he was too slow, and hissed when he felt something p***k his neck, mind flashing back to the life lab training course months ago.
It seemed the trainee unfortunately got a dart to the neck too.

"You might want to grab a bandage roll from Tori." he muttered, jerking a thumb towads the life intermediate. "Wouldn't want to lug your unconscious body out of here. We have enough to deal with as is."

Reaching up to pluck the dart out of his neck, he suddenly felt dizzy, and staggered under the weight of the Codex, but managed not to drop it. Hell, they just needed to get this thing out... in one piece. Preferably a full piece.
Shaking his head, he managed to move forward slightly, wearily eyeing the bookshelf and statue. He just KNEW something else was going to happen.

HP: 45/50

JAKE HAS THE POWER CODEX
[Moving to D2]

With the sharp, sudden stinging sensation at the back of Evan's neck came the urge to swat at whatever caused it. Evan lifted a hand to do so before remembering that would press the offending object in deeper, then plucked it out instead. His eyes unfocused a little as he examined the object now held between his fingers. A dart? Who the hell booby trapped a library, of all places?

And why was the floor moving?

Evan wobbled where he stood as he looked up at the hunter he had passed the Codex to, following his gesture to the woman he indicated. He reached towards her and nodded his thanks--carefully--before clumsily slapping the bandage on. It made him feel a little better, but no less dizzy. He moved a few feet forward and leaned against the wall, letting it support him for a moment while he waited for the room to stop spinning.

((Evan is moving to D1))

"You've reached the door," came Gale's voice, buzzing across everyone's headsets, though it was clearly directed at Deryk. "I've tried hacking into the main locking mechanism system, but the coding is extremely complicated. I can't seem to break it, so you're gonna have to find the switch that releases the locks before you guys can get out."

OH COME ON.
Jake grunted as he turned his back towards the steam, using his body to shield the Codex from it.
Dammit all...

Getting away from the steam, he flinched when he heard a loud buzzing sound, and whipped his heard towards the noise, noticing that Deryk was at the exit already, but...

Another voice, someone shouting about the... bookshelf?
And then Gale's voice buzzing through the headset only confirmed the worst.
"Geez, Gale, way to be useful." he muttered.

Huh... a switch... and one of the guards mentioned something about the bookshelf?
If he wasn't lugging around this Codex, he would have made his way towards it, but doing so would only keep him farther away from the exit. They needed to get this book out pronto.

"Hey, you, trainee." He never really did get Evan's name... or maybe he wasn't paying attention when Ami said it. "Head over to the bookcase and see if there's some sort of switch."

HP: 40/50

[Jake is moving to C1]

Mysteriously locked doors? A bookshelf they weren't supposed to be around? Evan wondered if they couldn't just break everything in the room the door down and be done with it. The ecstatically cheering voice in his head wondered that, too. But wrecking an entire room during a mission that was all about stealth--though they had obviously been detected--would probably be frowned upon.

"On it," Evan said to the hunter carrying the Codex instead. He slid around to its side, remembering the sting he had just received from walking in front of it.

Stormy received a bemused frown for her assessment of the bookcase. "Careful," he said, "this thing's probably as booby-trapped as the rest of this place." Nevermind that he was reaching around and pulling out books at random, flipping through them quickly to see if there were any switch-like devices concealed within before discarding them with a careless toss over his shoulder.

((Evan is moving to E2))

... really. REALLY.
He was 1000% done with you, library.

"WHY THE HELL IS THERE A FLAMETHROWER IN A LIBRARY?"
There was no point in being stealthy, the guards already knew they were there. And he felt like blasting Gale's eardrums off too. Maybe that'd make him feel better.

The Codex might have been scorched a little. Just a little.

When Evan pressed the switch and the exit opened, and Ami came up and offered to take the Codex out of his hands, he more than happily obliged. That thing weighed a TON. And considering the hunter was smaller than him... well, whatever, that was her problem.

He quickly left before she could pin the blame of the booby-traps on him, and... possibly see that he had given her the Codex in less-than-mint condition.

Mission reports, UGH of course.
And rather than thank Gale, he muttered a quick "Gale you suck" before tearing off the headphones and turning it off.

[ Exit ]

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