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 Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 5:56 pm
She's hunting wabbits Candace.
The lack of working technology and mean meals meant Stormy needed to distract herself from the less than great situation with other things. Like training. Training was a great distraction! And after practicing with Dylon she felt confident about going on to the next step.
Ho boy.
First things first: she had to actually locate the Mist hunter. Now Stormy wasn't sure if Candace had seen her new Twitter picture, so she couldn't fully rely on her hair cut being enough to blend in. Thus, with a hat on to try and obscure her face just a bit and a few handy tools at her hip should something happen, Stormy tailed a group of trainees avidly talking about something they had seen on a poster at headquarters. Something about a tournament . . . ? Huh. She'd have to check that out later.
For now, with a push of her sunglasses, Stormy surreptitiously checked around for her target.
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 6:10 pm
With the power off and considering whose room Candace lived across from, Candace was spending quite a bit of time outside and away from her apartment. She was doing anything she could get into; helping clean up, checking on whatever was working, doing whatever jobs leaders, assistants and other Hunters asked of her, patrolling, hounding Mists to train, anything she could think of.
Hell, she even visited the house she and Dakota had picked out a few times to get away from everything.
Today she had decided to allow herself a break. The sun was still warm despite it being September, but it was September in the tropics, so she had decided to find a safe place to lay out a towel and relax in the sun in a swimsuit. For now her eyes were closed and she had a pair of sunglasses on, she was doing her best to tune the world out for the moment.
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 6:28 pm
For a while she wasn't sure she'd catch her, but on the sixth time of peering over her sunglasses (and after walking for another ten minutes), Stormy finally saw it. Purple.
Purple bikini.
Technically she had gotten an accidental look of Candace naked thanks to Mark's . . . antics at her promotion, but that didn't desensitize her any. Sunglasss or not, Stormy immediately looked away and rubbed at her face, trying to look inconspicuous while thinking of a way to get near. She'd brought a small magazine (old as hell addition of Psychology Today) and snapped it open, slowly shuffling along the road as if making her way to the beach as well. Disturbing Candace while she was trying to relax would probably be super awful, but . . . beggars couldn't be choosers.
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Eight rolled 1 20-sided dice:
20
Total: 20 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 6:39 pm
The ruffling of pages definitely got her attention. Candace looked up and pushed her sunglasses down to get a good look at whoever was walking by her. Uh..?
She frowned. Who was that?
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medigel rolled 1 10-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:12 pm
. . . Crap crap crap crap ABORT ABORT NOT READY DO NOT APPROACH DO NOT PASS GO.
What was the point? Candace had seen her already. "Hi, Ms. C, how're you doing, awesome I'm fine thanks for asking, you have a really nice body I thought I should let you know, okay I should probably go, Nevada's waiting for me to do girly things, okay bye nice chatting with you see you later!"
Smooth.
She started to sing the first song that came to mind, "Hakuna Matatta", and nervously left the mist hunter alone. Hopefully Candace would attribute that to, as her bestie called it, "Stormy Crazy."
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:35 pm
Ah, Stormy. Why was she dressed that way?
...Oh. She understood. Candace chuckled and shook her head as Stormy ran away, calling out "Nice try, sweetheart!" before the Mist was out of earshot.
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:54 pm
Aahahahah . . . hahaha . . . hah . . .ha . . .
Round two began about an hour and a half later, after Stormy had cooled herself off physically and mentally. She wasn't completely calmed down, but she took a big breath and reminded herself: gotta keep going.
Changing her outfit, this time she set herself in the Mist Lounge with a different book (books were great disguise makers in her mind, alright), settled behind the door and propping it open so that she could still peek between the hinges as well as listen in. Sure, it meant being pretty jittery anytime she heard footsteps, but sacrifices were made to be a hunter anyway.
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Eight rolled 1 20-sided dice:
18
Total: 18 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:57 pm
Candace sighed and stretched her arms up over her head as she strolled into the Mist lounge, stopping when she noticed something behind the door. She peeked around the door to see who was sitting by it.
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medigel rolled 1 10-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 8:02 pm
OH GOD MISS CANDACE--
Stormy acted as casually as she could, even though she was now breaking into a sweat with the hunter before her. "Hey, Ms. C~ What's up?" At least she wasn't babbling this time. "Just reading up on Dr. Seuss to cool off after sparring . . ."
It was a lame excuse, but what could you do?
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 8:12 pm
"Ah, hello.." Did Stormy cut her hair? Cute? Candace raised a brow. Stormy was sweating...was she hot or..?
"...I'll see you later, sweetheart. I like your haircut, by the way." Blowing Stormy a kiss, Candace then left.
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 8:28 pm
"O-Oh, um, thank you!" she called after her, wiping at her brow.
She really needed to do better under pressure. Could they suggest a lecture on that or something?
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This time Stormy waited a bit longer (and showered in the meantime). It was getting close to dinnertime for most people, so she started to edge near the cafeteria. For the moment she parked herself against the side wall outside, allowing herself peeks everyone once in a while.
Third time's the charm, right?
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Eight rolled 1 20-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 8:35 pm
Candace was not looking forward to MREs again. She would just grab one for herself and one for Dakota and go. This time of day she had tunnel vision, Stormy got lucky. She grabbed two of them and headed out, humming quietly under her breath.
She was a good girlfriend, providing for Dakota. She stopped a moment and looked around, pausing to take one of her rings off and put it on her left ring finger. She stared at it a moment, her expression unreadable, before she suddenly frowned and shook her head. The ring was put back on her middle finger where it belonged.
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medigel rolled 8-sided dice:
Total: 0 (-0)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:25 pm
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:26 pm
Oh thank God the third time was the charm. Asdlfkjdslfkajd okay don't get all happy now, Stormy, that was inviting bad luck.
. . . Wait, what was Miss Candace . . . Oh my God.
Stormy stared. Stared. Blinked. Stared. pulled back behind the corner. Was she seeing things?
Did Miss Candace . . . ?
She filed the motion away (quietly kirakira-ing) and snuck another glance.
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Eight rolled 1 20-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-20)
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Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:31 pm
Candace suddenly stopped. Oh!
Sighing, she turned on her heel and headed back to the kitchen. Once inside she set down her two MRE packages and grabbed a coffee mug, pouring herself a cup of coffee and then adding lots of cream and milk. She couldn't make her perfect cappuccino with the power out but she could try.
Once that was sorted out she picked everything up and headed out again, sipping at her coffee.
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