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 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:43 pm
Quote:  Reconnaissance Mission S86
Location: The Sahara Desert (North Africa)
Images:: x, x, xx
General debriefing: The Sahara has been a strong hold of the Horseman Clans for millenia. Current events have created a demand for more widespread observation of the area, as well as a need for greater experience with the region among Hunters and trainees.
Duties include: Upkeep of base. Acclimatization. Regular patrols. Observe and record any aberrations found within the area. Capture specimens. Destroy threats to the human populace. Flagging A and S class threats for special dispatch.
Bring supplies for at least a three day stay as a base. Modified desert uniforms and gear are available from the Quartermaster. Extra charged runes are recommended.
* C class difficulty level (must have a team of three to five, at least one of them must be an intermediate trainee) MECHANICS * MECHANICS: RP assembling a team, as necessary, before heading towards the Lighthouse for Reconnaissance Mission S86. You will roll at least 1 daily prompt for each of the hunters on the team, unless the mission ends early due to injury or further enemy interference. Daily Prompts: roll 1 d100 1: The ground shakes beneath your feet and cracks begin to appear in the distance when out of the sand a massive sand worm the size of the Empire State Building bursts out. Between its many segments you see tiny flashes of light that upon (dangerously) closer inspection appear to be suits of armour and weapons. Weapons with glowing runic marks. It towers above you and then smashes down upon the camp, destroying it easily. Roll 2d20 to determine your injuries. Your options are to either portal home and report, or stay and fight the creature known as The Armoury (HP: 9999) 2 - 10: Nothing happens. 11 - 20: An unusually large swarm of insects pass by the camp. They seem to pause and hover, blanketing the camp for several moments before moving on. 21 - 30: You find a stone stairway that leads to vine-covered underground temple, red flowers blooming all along its walls. You begin to hear voices, both strange and familiar. Should you get injured at any point during this, the vines will enter your body and begin growing inside your hunter. They will grow more paranoid as the days pass as well as hallucinating, the vines becoming visible under their skin after one day, and then blooming the next. Bringing them back to Deus will end their part in the mission, as they will need a two day day infirmary stay to be rid of the plants. A flower or vine-like scar will remain on their person. 31 - 60: Horsemen appear and attack your camp or patrol group. ((These can be either player character horseman you invite to battle (which will make your base RP points PVP points and worth 2 instead of 1 rp point) or you can battle against an automob who you will be able to possibly capture.)) Horseman AutoMob (clan/appearance/name are your choice, though do follow the horseman guidelines for such) HP: 60 Auto Damage: 5 Special: Should you bring their HP to either 0 exactly or 1, then you may viably capture them and bring them back to Deus. (Bonus Pay: $3000) otherwise they simply escape or dissipate. 61 - 70: Nothing happens 71 - 80: You discover an underground oasis. It's very enjoyable. 81 - 90: You fall through the sand into a stone room. Along the floor are piles of body parts. One of the piles begins to move, then several more. Roll 1d20 to escape back up the way you came or destroy a wall with your weapon. You must roll 11 or higher to succeed. Failure causes you to be mobbed by the creatures. Before you pass out, you notice their features changing to match your own. When you wake up, you are naked and alone except for your weapon's totem. You either escape under your own power or are rescued by your teammates. 91: Nothing happens. 92: You're attacked by figures of bone and rotting flesh, they move both mindlessly and as a unit, as it they were puppets. Corpse Mob: HP:30 Auto Damage: 3 Special: Every time you miss the auto damage is 6 instead of 3. When they are defeated they simply collapse into parts. 93: Nothing happens. 94 - 99: A sandstorm locks you into the base for the rest of the day. No more prompts may be rolled for that day. 100: Moths shot through with silvery veins begin to form a female figure. (post quote lizbot) * 3 mission reward points for completing this successfully
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:32 am
Chel was ready for today. She was all warmed up from a few spars in the morning, and she was ready to kick some serious butt.
"You know who's goin' with me?" she asked one of the lab techs. Apparently one was Jason (whom she knew kicked butt when he needed to!) and a girl named Nora, whom she'd never met. But apparently Nora was a sun and that was nearly good enough for Chel. Nearly.
Now she just had to wait for them to show up.
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:45 am
Jason showed up at the time he was supposed to, complete with his usual bandages and a pair of over sized goggles to keep out the sand. He thought about bringing his new runic chains but decided against it. He didn't want to rub it in on poor Chel "I'm here!" He called out, inwardly keeping the panic down at the fact he was going to the Sahara again. Why he kept doing these things he didn't know but then a mission was a mission, and he had to do them.
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:46 am
With the advent of new missions, Nora decided it was high time to actually, well, go on one. She had really been lazy these days, which she excused as being part of the recovery from her first major mission in which Death died, something happened with pony people, and the world was probably three steps closer to its end than she ever thought should be possible. Spars could only take her mind off that last part for so long.
She was a Sun, damn it. Hiding in the shadows didn't do her well at all.
So Nora signed up for the next available recon mission without bothering to specify the whos and whats, polished her armor (and Beatrix, just to be nice), and prepped as best she could. The outpost shift was for at least a couple of days, so she made sure to pack a healthy amount of snacks alongside the rest of the equipment she'd gotten from the quartermaster.
The soft clunk of her pack was heard before she arrived at the meeting place. In place of her usual wear were lighter clothes, boots, and more leather leather armor along with her coat. She tipped an invisible cap to Chel and Jason as she approached. "Morning, you two. Hope I'm not late, breakfast had a long line today . . ." She was holding a muffin and proceeded to continue her nibbling, ready for instructions.
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chiickadee rolled 1 100-sided dice:
36
Total: 36 (1-100)
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:53 am
DAY ONE
Tipping an invisible cap was lame, but when Nora approached Chel realized that this was the girl Evan had been crushing on. There could only be so many Noras on the island after all, let alone one that was a sun with freckles and armor (for some reason).
"Hey Jason, 'sup?" she greeted, slapping him a high five. "And you must be Nora? I'm Chel."
She looked towards the portal longingly and said, "Look, I'm gonna be real honest. Been cooped up on the island for a while now. I'll meet ya guys there?" Before they could answer, she'd already snuck through the glowing circle, finding herself in a desert.
Deserts were never a good thing.
Almost immediately a horseman, one coated in skulls and painted markings, lunged for her. WELL THEN.
AUTOBOSS HP: 60/60
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poke mattix rolled 1 8-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:14 am
Returning the friendly high five, Jason turned to see the new trainee who would be part of their group. "Ah, hello Nora, my names Jason." He smilied warmly at the girl, the noticed the large pack she had brought. Seeing the well prepared Nora made him think a little about how much he had prepared himself. He hadn't realized this mission would take more then a few hours at most and as such brought only the bare essentials. Maybe he should go back to grab some more things. Nope, Chel had already jumped through the portal. "Wait, Chel!" He called out worriedly before jumping through himself. Shouldn't they have talked a little before jumping through, come up with a strategy or something?! Oh well they could just come up with one on the other side- Apparently not. "Shhhit!" Jason saw Chel had already stumbled into a horsemen. Just their luck. Zanth was out in a flash, the moon trainee running to Chel's side to keep her from getting hurt by the horsemen.
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medigel rolled 2 8-sided dice:
4, 3
Total: 7 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:19 pm
"Yup, I remember you," she said to Jason. "Back in the Sahara thing, right? Death worm, lots of sand and panicking. You were stuttering." Nora said it with a smile, but it didn't seem to bode well with her.
Especially when Chel ran across a horseman barely two steps into the mission.
As Jason ran to her defense, Nora summoned her hammer and immediately leaped at the thing. "Oi! Don't run ahead next time," she called to Chel a little belatedly, barely nicking the horseman; at least she had done her job, though, as it turned to her and began to jab at her shield with a short sword. "I'm just as glad to get off the island, but we can't do well as a group if we don't stick together, eh?"
hp: 35
damage: 1
charge: 1/3
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chiickadee rolled 2 10-sided dice:
7, 8
Total: 15 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 12:11 am
Chel grinned as the horseman moved forward, lurching in odd movements and fighting in a style she'd never seen before.
Nora began tutting her and Chel rolled her eyes in an amiable way. "Aw but it's fun this way!" A grin in her eyes and a flash of pink and Tenebrae was summoned to her hand. "Besides, we were bound to meet one soon enough. Better we get it out of the way!"
Jason came to deflect some of the horseman's attacks while she fired arrows around his body. "Thanks darlin'!"
HP: 50/50
DMG: 9
Charge: 1/3
Boss HP: 50
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poke mattix rolled 2 10-sided dice:
8, 8
Total: 16 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 12:50 am
Oh, s**t, now he remembered! He would have to apologize to Nora later but right now they were fighting the horsemen, the way it moved freaking him out. "N-Nora's right we need to stay close, the Sahara no place to wander around!" He yelped as the horsemen went to stab him, deflecting it's blade and stabbing him in the chest. "N-no problem!" He called out to Chel, trying to keep a eye on both girls in case the horsemen tried to do something weird. HP: 45 Damage: 10 Charge: 2/3 Boss HP: 40
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medigel rolled 2 8-sided dice:
6, 3
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 6:26 pm
Oh, goody. Thrillseeker. Nora sighed to herself as she swung a little harder at the horseman's back. Well, at least one who was a higher rank and a Sun, so maybe that worked out. Jason too wasn't slacking, so she bit back the impulse to be Ms. Stick Up Her Arse and instead focused on not dying.
Damn, though, she needed to talk to the Moons about runic armor . . .
"Think you could make sure not to kill this one?" she called to them. "I heard there's a pretty payout for bringing in live specimens." And Nora could definitely use the cash.
hp: 30
damage: 3
charge: 2/3
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chiickadee rolled 2 10-sided dice:
5, 8
Total: 13 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 6:47 pm
Money? Not killing the monster?
Chel was 500% down with that.
"Agreed. Let's bring 'em back and split the pay!" Chel whooped, firing arrows with greater fervor now that she had a goal in mind.
"How dare you speak of me that way!"
"YO IT TALKS."
HP: 45/50
DMG: 7
Charge: 2/3
Boss HP: 30
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poke mattix rolled 1 8-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-8)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:06 pm
"I'll try not to" Jason didn't know how he was going to go about that, but he wouldn't mind the huge payout as he was broke. He could see Nora was struggling a little with the horsemen, so he stood by her side to block some of the dagger blows. HP: 45 Defending Nora for: 3 Charge: 3/3 Boss HP: 30
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medigel rolled 2 8-sided dice:
4, 6
Total: 10 (2-16)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:23 pm
"Well, of course they talk, we're not fighting complete animals." If they had been, this would have been so much easier--less like repetetive murdering (Nora still cringed at the idea that these things could die and come back right as rain) and more like, well, hunters just hunting.
She smiled as Jason took the blunt of the thing's attack. "Thanks, mate," she said as she darted around, Beatrix barking excitedly as she got her last bite of Fear.
hp: 28
damage: 4
charge: 3/3
monster hp: 26
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chiickadee rolled 2 10-sided dice:
8, 4
Total: 12 (2-20)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:33 pm
"I know, I just-" She was cut off mid-sentence as the horseman retaliated. He definitely wasn't going to give them room to breathe.
She backed up a few spaces, meeting blows with the creature and eventually coming to a standstill. "Let 'im have it!"
HP: 40/50
DMG: 6
Charge: 3/3
Boss HP: 20
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poke mattix rolled 11 4-sided dice:
4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3
Total: 27 (11-44)
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:50 pm
Well, Chel said to let them have it.. His sword glowed a eerie black as he swung it, filling the Horsemen with black needles. For a moment he thought he had downed it but it managed to get to it's feet again. s**t. How were they gonna subdue this thing without killing it?! HP: 40 Damager: 18 Ability: Swift strikes Y3 Boss HP: 2
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