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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:47 pm
Quote:  [ Quest 2: Scavenging Team: ] You are asked to search the tower ruins for any weapons tablets. - The tower ruins is a large, clay tower that seems to span still to the sky, crumbled for the most park and caked in a strange burnished substance. The outskirts of the tower is infinitely long, the inside is barricaded and you cannot enter. Around the outskirts you can see the remnants of a battle, and bloodstains that still look somewhat fresh . Occasionally a weapons tablet is poking out. - Create a PRP thread and title it [QUEST PRP ] Scavenging Team (PLAYER NAMES HERE). - Next, write your introduction posts to your team having gathered their wits and gotten ready to do the process. When you are ready, have your team start searching by rolling 1d10. There are lots of unusual shaped fossils to encounter, mostly blackened masses with mutated skulls, but none of them radiate Fear. If you roll a 10, you encounter a weapons tablet to bring back. When a 10 has been rolled 2 times your lime limit is up and you can head back. The quest is considered COMPLETED. Mark the title of the thread as so.
Rep and Harrison were checking a few things out on their own, leaving Melvin looking at the next mission. As it was, he somehow managed to be walking with Otto to look for weapon artifacts. It was a rather grim task, to find tablets that were more or less hunter tombstones. A dead weapon meant a dead hunter. Every mission he went to to the Sahara, he wound up seeing them. He wondered just how many were hidden in the sands. How many lost.
These grim thoughts were otherwise distracted by one very pressing matter.
Otto had a piece of mandible in his hair - and had such a piece of mandible for some time. Melvin had hoped he would have noticed, but he had yet to pull it out or flick if off. It was stuck in such a way that it wasn't able to naturally fall either.
It was driving Melvin crazy.
The tower itself was a giant black thorn that went up to the sky, and didn't allow anyone in. Outside of it were the red and near black stains dotting the golden sands of what had been some fight. It looked like a recent one.
"I wonder what happened." He thought out loud, checking the battlefield or any stones he could find.
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Bittiface rolled 1 10-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:59 pm
He was gross. Sticky. Dirty. Clumpy. This was why he came in his work out clothes, but man did a white shirt ever show off every little stain. Little... more like the white shirt was now... ichor coloured.
Otto was miserable. Being dirty from rolling around in a field was one thing. This was nasty. The heat of the sun made it cake uncomfortably. He desperatly wished they'd set up a runic shower. He was dying for it.
"Yeah..." He murmured back, looking over the remnants of another failed battle for the hunters.
He did not notice the mandible.
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MoonKitsune rolled 1 10-sided dice:
10
Total: 10 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:09 pm
Melvin glanced from Otto's head back to the battlefield. Despite needing to look for a tablet, most of his attention was on the piece of bug. Not only did he too wish that they could waste water on what he deemed as a valuable piece of equipment to allow Sahara showers, but he wanted it even more for the people around him. Being disgusting was one major discomfort for him, but also people around him being unclean bothered him to no ends.
He was miserable.
"It seems impossible to even set a base up here. It's like we are just feeding hunters just to try to get a foot in on their territory. I wonder if they just want to get rid of the horsemen from their territory or if they want anything more." Maybe more artifacts of power that could give them an edge.
He moved through the field, looking at pieces of dried tissue and blood. There were no bodies. Eaten? Taken? Torn to bits and left to rot below?
Just as he was debating how he could somehow "accidentally" throw something at Ottos' head to shake off the mandible, he noticed a stone sticking out from the ground. Moving over, he reached down and pulled out the tablet, brushing if off and noticing the blood dried on the corner.
"Where do they all go?"
Tablets Found: 1/2
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Bittiface rolled 1 10-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:15 pm
"God knows what the bigger picture is. S'long as they keep tryin' to put wrenches in the pony clan's plans, I don't care." Anything to stop an Apocalypse, or the murder of innocent humans.
Otto scuored through the sand. "Where did what go? The bodies?" He cringed, "I don't wanna know."
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MoonKitsune rolled 1 10-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:22 pm
Standing up, he dusted off the tablet a bit more before placing it under one arm. As he did, he glanced back up and winced.
Ugh. Even in the Sahara with it's sand and wind, it was still there. He wondered if Otto's hair was just tangled or stick or both.
If he had a bottle of water, he wouldn't drink it. He'd dump it on Otto's head first.
He had to do something. It was driving him nuts, and he couldn't concentrate.
Maybe he could...brush against him?
OH GOD! That just sounded creepy! Hmm. No. He had to have a reason to somehow touch Otto's hair or jerk him enough to maybe jostle the mandible off. Could he shoot at his head and pretend he saw something?
He picked Saliva out from his hair.
You are going to shoot another hunter?
Just...just a little bit.
He sighed at the thought sank in a bit more. Maybe he could just throw a rock and say it wasn't him. Really strong wind?
That might work actually.
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Bittiface rolled 1 10-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:27 pm
Otto's hair was very tangled. He'd not the time to brush it that morning. Mix it up with the wind, sand and guts of his enemies, his hair was in need of rehab. Shampoo, water, the works!
None the wiser, he continued digging through sand, unaware that Melvin was so antsy about his buggy hair clip.
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 6-sided dice:
1, 5
Total: 6 (2-12)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:31 pm
Melvin knelt down somewhere behind Otto to make sure he wasn't seen, then he started to move sand to find a decent pebble. Something that wouldn't know the teen out, but enough to hit the bug.
He found a small rock, narrowed his eyes, and aimed.
The rock was chucked and it went sailing past him.
Melvin frozen, turned quickly around so he wasn't looking at Otto, and went back to pretending to be looking for another tablet.
The urge to whistle was strong.
"so...uh..." He had to distract him. Say something! "...how many missions have you done in the Sahara?"
Rock throw: Miss!
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Bittiface rolled 1 10-sided dice:
9
Total: 9 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:36 pm
Otto blinked as a rock sailed past. Did... the tower lose a stone? He really hoped it wasn't coming down. He shrugged it off, equating it to a bird up above causing mischief.
"Uh... I dunno if I could count...." Otto tried to recall just how many times he'd been to the desert as a hunter. He'd had an extended stay underneath it that he liked to forget.
"A lot."
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 6-sided dice:
4, 1
Total: 5 (2-12)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:39 pm
" I was wondering how often they have been working on the Sahara or if these were just recent missions. It's not a set of statistics that I've looked into, but was just wondering about now. Since...technically you are older as a hunter than I am."
He picked up another rock, glanced to make sure Otto wasn't looking his way, and threw it.
The rock sailed past and plopped in the sand and Melvin gritted his teeth. This was way harder than pointing a gun and aiming.
Rock throw: MISS!
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Bittiface rolled 1 10-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:43 pm
"My very first mission out of the pod was in the Sahara." Otto called back, "We had to bring dead bodies back from a failed battle. We were knee deep in carnage. So I'm gunna guess a long ******** time."
Another rock. Otto was a bit worried.
He stopped his work to look up at the tower, trying to catch it in the act of falling over.
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MoonKitsune rolled 2 6-sided dice:
6, 6
Total: 12 (2-12)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:45 pm
"My first mission was to get people out of the Horsemen caves. I didn't even know what horsemen where or what was going on. I didn't even know how to fire a weapon." He had been almost too fresh, and had spent the entire time screaming and running out of the cave. However, even then, he had gone back to see if he could find anyone else. He never wanted to leave anyone behind, even strangers.
He met Rin again in that cell, a few days after she woke him up from his pod.
When Otto looked up, he siezed his opportunity and picked up another small rock. This time his aim was true. TOO TRUE as a gust of wind picked up and flicked the rock right at Otto's head.
Melvin tensed and bolted to look away, eyes wide and beads of sweat forming on his brow.
OH s**t!
Target: HIT! 6 damage!
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Bittiface rolled 1 10-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:55 pm
Otto froze. That mission Melvin had been on was the rescue mission. The one that had come to save himself and the others who'd been kidnapped. So he was....
Otto's yelp ripped through the air. He hissed, holding his head with a small whimper. That hurt! Really bad! If not for his Fear Shield, it would have felt like a damned bullet.
"Ooooow.." He looked behind him toward Melvin. That had felt like it had been thrown, not fallen. Otto was so fed up with this place, and now someone was throwing rocks!?
"What the <********> dude!?" He snapped back at Melvin, sounding more hurt and frustrated than angry. "Did you seriously just do that!?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:58 pm
Melvin did not turn around, before very slowly turning his head and looking at Otto.
"...do what?"
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Bittiface rolled 1 10-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-10)
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:01 pm
"If it wasn't you who chucked a rock at me then who was it?!" He snapped. "God! Do your <********> job, asswipe!" His voice nearly cracked from being so emotional.
Otto huffed, insulted and upset, stomping off to find a spot to dig far away from Melvin.
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 7:10 pm
He frowned, and then when Otto shouted, he wasn't sure if the cracking was from being angry to the point of being on the verge of tears or because puberty was hitting hard.
He's 19. He's only 4 years younger than you.
Right.
That was a sad though. This was it for Otto and his peak of height. Ouch.
Still, he had thrown the rock and it did look like it hurt -which hadn't been his intention at all!
He got up, walking over but stopping because he wasn't sure if Otto was even going to let him get that close. Great. He was worried about trying to find a way to get the bug off his head but knowing he wasn't going to be able to get close without an excuse, and not he was even more at a distance.
"Are you okay? That....looked like it hurt." No thanks to him. Why did he throw that hard? When did he EVER throw that hard? The one time he wanted to be gentle with a throw and he threw like a Sun.
"Can I...check?"
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