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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:07 pm


User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Resupply Mission 5A
Location: General Groceries
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General debriefing: With portals more or less back up and running, Deus Ex is in sore need of supplies. As the island is currently unable to sustain life and not all hunters know how to hunt or fish AND with the holiday season coming up, it has been decided to have hunters scavenge food from a place they're familiar with: a grocery store. Care has been taken to ensure that hunters do not visit a General Groceries in or near their home towns; civilian outfits requested, leave your coats on the island. Hunters have also been granted a $300 budget. To share.
* E class difficulty level (must have a team of three, at least one of them must be an intermediate trainee)


MECHANICS

* MECHANICS: RP assembling a team, as necessary, before heading towards the Lighthouse portal to request a portal to Resupply Mission 5A. Once there, roll a 100-sided dice and match the roleplay to the results below, as well as any reactions.
* Shopping Cart: The mission starts with an empty cart: 0/100 units. When you roll a dice, you will either gain or lose units OR items. Keep track of what items you've picked up AND how many units they're worth. The team shares the same budget, however it is up to you and your group whether you want to share a shopping cart. Sharing means you're unlikely to go over the budget, but you're also not going to bring as much back...
* Players can continue rolling until any of the players roll a CASHIER, in which case the CHECK OUT begins. See below for check out mechanics. Your cart can also hold 100 units of food. When you reach this (or go over) proceed directly to the CASHIER.

1 - 5: The produce section of the store is pretty decent. And hunters do need a balanced diet. Pick up 5 units of produce.

6 - 10: This store has a section of barrels. It's not too surprising at first until a chorus of screaming kids alert you to the presence of candy. There are clear plastic bags nearby and scoops, so why not satisfy your inner child and add five units to your cart. As in five fully filled bags.

11 - 20: The cart you pick suddenly loses its wheel! Your cart tips over and spills everything out. After grabbing another cart and loading it up with your pile of goods, it seems to be a bit... lighter. Lose the FIRST three items you picked up.

21 - 25: Somehow you "accidentally" wind up in the soda pop aisle. While making your way through it, your inner teenager gives into the colorful labels and you somehow wind up with five cases of canned soda. Add them to your cart, you soda junkie.

26 - 30: You discover the health and beauty section of the store. Shamelessly you pick up some non-Beach soap and shampoo, and other health and beauty products. Add five units to your cart.

31 - 35: It looks like you're in one of those fancy supermarkets. Or the state you're in possibly legalized it, but it looks like a large section of the store has turned into a mini brewery which offers a vast array of alcohol. You add 5 units to your cart.

As you're purchasing the alcohol, a clearly underaged teenager slides up to you and asks if it wouldn't be too much trouble to purchase some for them, too. Do you agree?

Yes:
Roll 1d10.
If Even:
Nothing special happens. If you make it out of the store WITH alcohol, -1 unit however you gain + $20 for your pocket.

In addition, when you return a hunter of a higher rank compliments you on your sneaky ways and gives you a bonus of $50. They also seem to help themselves to one of your booze units, but they're long gone before you realize it.

If Odd:
Turns out it was part of a sting operation! You're arrested on the spot, and your division lead has to come bail you out of jail. You are now banned from doing this EM for two IRL weeks. You also are deducted $100 from your personal paycheck.


36 - 40: As you turn to grab an item and maybe debate with your teammates on what to get next, someone helps themselves to the cart. Lose the last three items you picked up.

41 - 50: Another turn in the store leads you to the pasta aisle. You can't go wrong with ramen, right? Add 20 boxes of pasta to your cart.

51 - 60: A group of rambunctious children races by, some in the cart and others pushing it. They narrowly avoid slamming into you. However, they don't seem to avoid the rather large display of promotional pet food that comes raining down onto you! Unintentionally add 10 cans of pet food to your cart; you thought you got them all too...

61 - 65: You know what every kitchen needs? A giant cheese wheel! Too bad it takes up 10 units by its sheer size alone.

66 - 70: You know what else the Deus Kitchen needs? A non-runic Happy Hot Dog Man. Add one to your cart. It would've come with a free catsup critter and mustard monster, but as soon as you pick it up a kid yells "IT'S KETCHUP!" and runs off with it.

71 - 75: You hear the cackling of teenagers with too much time on their hands while in the dairy aisle. Before you can do anything, one of them happens to chuck a giant milk carton at you before running off. Your character is now dripping milk and will start to reek badly. Though if you haven't been taking advantage of the beach soap, the smell of milk manages to make you smell more like a decent human being. Not to mention you've just lost three units of each of your last three items due to gross milkage.

76 - 80: As you move to compare two items, a frustrated mother trying to wrangle several kids accidentally walks off with your cart! By the time you track them down and return their cart to them, you realize that some of your items are missing. Lose two units of all of your acquired things.

81 - 85: At the meat counter, you spend some time considering what to get. Given the popularity of meat on the island, you decide to stock up. Add 10 units to your cart.

86 - 90: You know what's next to the meat? Seafood. You know what's part of seafood? Crab legs and lobsters. Someone's going to be eating fancy tonight on someone else's budget! Add 5 units to your cart.

91 - 100: CASHIER; CUE CHECK-OUT:
- Either your cart has hit 100/100 capacity or you've had enough of the holiday rush, but you're now in line for check-out. After a bit of waiting (and being tempted by the gum -- +1 unit of gum if your cart isn't at max capacity).

- In addition, if you have room in your cart, you have the choice to purchase cigarettes. Not only is smoking a bad habit, but it's one you can easily exploit back on Deus... You can choose to add 5 units to your cart.

- If your team is still shopping, let them shop -- you're just going to check out early and wait by the register. First one to the register just so happens to have the money...

- You pile the items onto the conveyer belt and wait in anticipation as the cashier starts to ring your items up...

- FINDING THE TOTAL:
This is why you keep a list of WHAT you have and HOW MUCH of it you have. Match up what you have to its price, and multiply it by how many you have. Everything is priced per unit:

Produce - 3.49
Candy - .99
A Case of Soda Pop (Contains 12 cans) - 5.99
Health & Beauty Supples - 6.99
Alcohol - 13.99
Pasta - .49
Premium Quality Promotional Pet Food - 4.99 per can
Giant Cheese Wheel - 99.99
A Happy Hotdog Man - 10.99
Meat - 4.49
Crab Legs - 14.99
Cigarettes - 9.89

Multiply the units you have to the price. If you have five units of crab legs, you're now shelling out 14.99*5=74.95 for fancy eating.

Once you have your total, subtract it from the budget of $300.

- Remember, you're SHARING this budget with your team!

- If you go over the budget, you can either pay with your island allowance OR attempt to run.
If you run:
Roll 1d10
1 - 5: You're caught and escorted off the premises. You're banned from doing this EM for two IRL weeks.

6 - 10: You manage to run off with the last THREE items on your shopping list. In addition, they have a picture of you on camera so you're banned from doing this EM for two IRL weeks.


Maru's Suggestion for this EM:

Keep a running tally of what you have in your post. No need to keep track of prices, but keep track of your cart and what's IN your cart. That way at the end, you'll know exactly what you have and what you can add to your RP inventory (if you're that kind of person).

I'd personally arrange my post like this:

Quote:

* RP HERE*

Cart: -/100
Contents:
Pasta (ramen & alfredo mix) - 20 units
Candy (mostly hard fruit candy) - 10 units
Giant wheel of cheese (swiss) - 1 unit


etc. The brackets are more for me know what KIND of thing I have. Then at the end, just need to multiply the prices with how many units I have~

If you have questions/are confused, please ping me!



* 2 mission reward points for completing this successfully

In addition, for successfully completing this you may choose to keep FIVE UNITS of whatever you brought back. If you want more, you'll need to pay for it. But at least you're paying Deus itself and not some over-priced hoarder.
PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:09 pm


It was time to go get food. Like real food, not island food, and when the option had come up to go...well, Solomon had kind of volunteered to go, then realized he'd needed a hand because they didn't trust him grocery shopping. Clearly they had heard the stories about when a 24 year old who could maybe do his own laundry went shopping last.

True story: It hadn't ended too well.

Never the less, he took a minute to go through his phone and look for someone to go with him. Someone.. responsible. That was actually code for someone with more responsibility with him, but hey, that was an easy decision to make.


Nyxtsuki Moon

Text to Nevada:
Do you want to go grocery shopping with me? They say we need three people and one of them needs to be more responsible than me.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:22 pm


Nevada blearily blinked at the text message, something about responsible and stuff.

Say that to the girl clearly intertwined with her girlfriend....

There was a muffled sound as she sent a reply...and then another text to her sister before getting ready. It it was grocery shopping, she assumed that they wouldn't need hunter attire, and thus dressed accordingly. plus Alaska needed to get out.

Yeah.

Nevada went to Solomon's door, knocking on it with a large yawn. Her hair was tied back and her casual outfit worn.

Ah Grocery shopping.

"Solomon, come on you unresponsible child."


Demon_Pachabel
Syusaki
Text to Alaska: Grocery Shopping at Portal. See you there Big sister.
PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 2:21 pm


Who knew grocery shopping could be considered a mission? Definitely not Alaska. The new text message from her twin caused her to crinkle her eyes with suspicions. What? It took the sun hunter a few moments of digging around her old messages and notices to confirm that yes, grocery shopping was one of the external missions listed currently. Amazing. Snacks! Let’s get snacks! She snapped her phone shut and realizing that wearing her hunter coat and scarf might attract some attention, decided to slip into casual clothes.

Scowling and cranky as usual, Alaska arrived at the portal with her heels clacking and one hand propped on her hip. “I’m going to guess you dragged me along as the “responsible” one here?” She didn’t look very impressed at Nevada (and Solomon too, but not as much when she was busy greeting him with a half-nod.) “Make sure to keep track of what we have, okay?” she warned in a low voice.


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demon_pachabel

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:22 pm


He'd barely gotten his pants on when Nevada had knocked on his door and frankly he was shameless enough to answer the door in just those. It wasn't like she hadn't seen his tattoos already, after all. "I'm so irresponsible I'm barely dressed, give me a minute." Though the fact he put on more layers than an onion probably contributed to the reason why he wasn't dressed properly yet.

But he didn't drag his feet when it came time to head to the portal to meet up with whoever their third party member of shopping responsibility was going to be. To be honest, Solomon wasn't sure why Nevada had invited rainbow-haired-girl-with-good-tastes (dem tattoos B smile of all people, but a proper introduction had never been in order to allow such a thing to make sense to him.

Still, one could say he probably looked better dressed than he had swimming around mostly naked and not hitting anything. He inclined his head to Alaska in turn. "Well, I was planning on Nevada being responsible, but if she's delegating responsibilities, I shop by color." Lucky charms? Always in the basket.


Nyxtsuki Moon

Syusaki
PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:47 pm


Nevada's eyes of course dropped to look at the tattoo's....and then to the pants.

"Look Handsome," Nevada began, "You are very handsome yes. The tattoo's are real lady attracters, added to the mysterious visor and dangerous personality type, you're a real lady killer." She snorted, "Will you hurry up though...." She laughed again, looking away.

Soon enough, they were at the portal and Nevada was bounding over to her twin with arms held out wide.

"HI BIG SISTER." Nevada rubbed cheeks with her twins and then moved to hold her hand for greetings. "Solomon, this is Alaska, my twin. Alaska this is Solomon. He's a sun, I hope you guys get along well."

Then she smiled wider. "Solomon is the oldest though....so shouldn't he be in charge..." She was teasing though.


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 8:56 am


“….” She held in her groan of displeasure when Nevada pressed their cheeks together. But the loud sigh didn’t go unnoticed as she patted the brunette on the head. “Yes, yes. Nice to see you too.” A nod to Solomon. “We’ve met. Sort of.” If meeting and fighting mermaids and not saying a word to each other counted as a meeting.

Alaska took a moment to scrutinize Solomon’s clothes. How…nice. Also slightly disappointing since she couldn’t clearly see his tattoos like last time, but last time had been underwater and both of them in swimsuits. She might’ve revealed a nod of approval if she hadn’t heard that shop by color. Immediately, her brows furrowed. “Excuse me?”

The sun hunter turned to Nevada. “Did you just hear the blasphemy that came out of his mouth? I think not. So let’s just hurry, yeah?” She pointed toward the portal and gestured for them to walk through first.


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demon_pachabel
PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 7:06 pm


Solomon seemed to be 100% confused at what he's just said to upset Alaska all of a sudden. "What? Do you have a thing against colorful food?" he looked at Nevada with a sort of 'send help' gesture because he really wasn't sure what he'd just done.

No, Alaska, he wasn't paying attention to your hair because seriously it was beautiful but he wasn't putting you in the basket to be eaten later as part of his lucky-charms-and-fruit-snack diet. Because Solomon was a responsible adult.

For all his sisters, he didn't have magic power-over-ladies skills. But that was alright.


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:24 pm


Nevada gave Alaska a small pat on the shoulder. "Shopping by color is not always a bad thing..." Right? It really wasn't, in fact, Nevada thought it might be entertaining to see how Solomon led a shopping group.

She didn't get to voice that as they were pulled into the portal and dropped outside of a grocery store.

"Wow...Real people...real food..." She looked wide eyed, not caring (for once) that people stared at the odd trio. Rainbow hair, A girl with one eye and a guy with a visor...It did make for a sci fi esque trip.

"Let's get inside here..." She rubbed her hands together and led the way in and grabbed a cart.

Cart: -/100
Contents:


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:50 pm


"I don't have a thing against colorful food. Colorful food generally indicates a healthy diet. But shopping by color is..." Her voice trailed off as she entered the portal and stepped into the store. "Don't get so surprised now. We've been to grocery stores plenty of times," Alaska noted with a roll of her eyes. She scanned the store before heading over to pick up their first item.

And you know what she grabbed? You know what? Giant a** cheese wheels.

It was hard to tell if she was being serious or joking.

Cart: 10 cheese wheels
Cost: 999.90 I'm so gomen.

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demon_pachabel rolled 1 100-sided dice: 58 Total: 58 (1-100)

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:18 pm


Solomon looked at all the cheese wheels, then looked up at Alaska like 'are you serious?' Not that one could really tell through his visor. He'd take it off someday when he was sure Alaska was immune to being turned to stone as Nevada was.

"Okay, you're judging me for my shop by color while.....really?" he asked, before he took one of the cheese wheels and pressed it up to his visor. Because he could totally smell through his visor.

As if he alone wasn't making them get enough looks by wearing the visor.

It got worse when they were all suddenly rushed upon by a herd of children that bumped him into the cart...and rolled it into a dog food display. It wasn't certain what took more space in the cart - Solomon or all the dog food cans.


Cart:

Units: 20/100
Cheese (counts for 10 Units) - $99.99
Dog Food - 10 Units x 4.99


Budget:

149.99 (ish)/300


Nyxtsuki Moon

Syusaki
Pixie Nyxie rolled 1 100-sided dice: 85 Total: 85 (1-100)
PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:42 pm


"Alaska..." Nevada gave her twin a very disappointed look at the cheese wheel. Just...Why sister...Why?

The look became baffled even more so as children rushed them, dragging Solomon off to the abyss of their cart...with Dog food to boot.

"Well Handsome...." She pulled the cart out of the display and turned the corner with him and her sister...like they didn't just make a large mess..."If I knew you were on Sale, I would've snatched you up in a heartbeat..." She smiled at him.

Then veered around to the meat counters and looked very hard and long at what was on sale...She hummed and she hawed, picking up turkeys and chickens and setting them down again.

Finally she picked up ten things of Hamburger meat and neatly placed them around the Solomon in the cart.

"Let me surrounded you with Meat Handsome." She teased, "What's next Alaska?"

Cart: 21/100
Contents:
1x Cheese Wheel (99.99$)
10x Dog Food (4.99$)
10x Hamburger meat (6.99$)

Total: 219$/300$


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:04 pm


She could feel the judgment from both hunters when she hauled the wheel onto their cart, but Alaska decided to stand her ground. The woman kept her chin high. “It’s healthy and cheese is tasty,” she answered, tight-lipped. All tension in her muscles evaporated when he decided to cram the wheel against his visor. “…” No words, just a judgmental stare. She crossed her arms slowly. Her gaze lingered on the other sun trainee before she decided to move on and find something actually decent, but she too got caught in the children undertow. The cart now had more cans of pet food and a disgruntled Alaska on top of a Solomon.

“…” It was easy to imagine the veins popping on her forehead as she remained in the cart for another moment, hands gripping his shoulders. “How about we get out first?” Alaska suggested before finally slipping out and offering a hand to Solomon if he needed it.

Cart: 40
Contents: 1x Cheese Wheel (99.99$)
20x Dog Food (4.99$)
10x Hamburger meat (6.99$)
Total: 269.69


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demon_pachabel rolled 1 100-sided dice: 99 Total: 99 (1-100)
PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 4:53 pm


He had a pretty lady on him. However, Solomon knew better than to try and cop a feel so instead he just grinned at her. "Fancy-Feast-meeting you here." Yes, he knew that was a cat food brand, but it was a noble attempt at a pun that would probably get him hit for his quick wit. Or something.

While he didn't immediately accept Alaska's help out of the cart, after watching him (hilariously) flail around in the cart like a turtle on it's back, he took it - if only to spare himself more shame while buried in cans of dog food (seriously, though, what were they going to do with that?). "Okay, clearly I can man a cart if nothing else." he grinned once he was out of the awkward-turtle position and back at the head of the cart.

Which immediately went from the display of dog food to one of the check-out lines without his permission. Upon going after it, however, another person went into the line behind him and he had to push his visor up to shoot both sisters a look of 'send help, I don't want to be here'.

...

He totally was going to buy some cigarettes, though.


Cart:

Units: 40/100
Cheese (counts for 10 Units) - $99.99
Dog Food - 20 Units x 4.99


Out of Own Pocket:
Cigarettes - 5 units - about $50


Budget:

269.99 (ish)/300


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:17 pm


Nevada was watching the cart tussle...with a interesting look on her face.

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My did her sister and Solomon look nice together, fighting over dog food and sitting with each other...She was a little jealous but at the same time...So cute.

She probably resembled a very indulgent mother right now.

Very suddenly the cart was taken away from her with a maniac Solomon going up to the line...THEY HADN'T EVEN GOT REAL FOOD SOLOMON.

Then the visor went up and Nevada put her hand on Alaska's shoulder.

"Bask my sister, in the only time you'll see his face of his own free will. Look at him with his pleading face...That is how you should remember him."

Then she disappeared for her own things.

Obviously leaving the tattooed pair with each other.


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