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 Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:56 pm
 Founded in 1944 by the late great Professor Bruttenholm to combat Nazi Germany's occult practices, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense has since grown to become a world-wide regulatory agency, defending humanity from all things that go bump in the night. It is home to bureacrats, hardened soldiers, psychics, scholars, and quite a few.. "unique talents". Budget cuts have moved us from our home in Connecticut to this old research facility in Colorado. Watch your step, the techs are still fixing things up here.
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:18 pm
*Roger is deep in the bowels of the building, making his way through a veritable warehouse of assorted paranormal goodies* Of all the ways to spend a Friday night, why do I have to get stuck running inventory? *sigh* Oh well...*checks a clip board he has with him* Now where is this "Lemurian Pendant of Badger Control"?
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:40 pm
Eh, we just haven't gotten the interns yet. Once summer starts this place will be flooded with pimply-faced young hopefuls ready to fetch coffee, do inventory checks on Friday night, and get eaten for purposes of plot advancement. Truly, it's the good life. *peers grimly through the sea of crates*
I knew the old place, but what with the move... that pendant could be anywhere. Just keep a look-out for boxes labeled "Lemurian" or Lemurian-looking statues.
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:50 pm
Interns, eh? *imagines being carried around in a palanquin by male interns while the females lavish him in exotic oils, cavorting wildly* God, I wish I had genitals...
*keeps digging through the crates until he finds and unmarked pendant* Hey HB, I think I might have found it. *turns it, scrutinizing it to no avail* Can't really tell though... confused I guess there's just one way to find out. *without hesitating, he puts the pendant around his neck and concentrates. nothing happens at first, but just as he's about to take it off, he hears a soft scuttling sound. Looking down, he finds a sole horseshoe crab* Well, I think I found the Aborigines Amulet of Horseshoe Crab Summoning. *marks that off the list and files it properly*
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:06 am
Man, how'd that get in with all of the Victorian cursed jewelry? Nah, the Lemurian Badger Pendant is at least helpful enough to actually have a badger on it. And of course tentacles. I don't know WHY tentacles...those Lemurians really liked their tentacles... maybe there were roots...
*continues mumbling about roots and tentacles as he sifts through the junk* *pauses at a box next to a suspiciously tentacled statue*
Hey, this might be the box. *opens and rifles through it, pulling out a jewelry box* Lessee.. earrings of enchantment, ring of fly-repellant.... Ah HA! A badger! *lifts a simply carved stone pendant on a silver chain* Yeah, Remind me what we need this thing for again?
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:10 am
*leafs through the inventory manifest* Is that Gaia's Tear or Terra's Tear? I know they're both rocks on chains, but one of them causes terrifying earthquakes and one makes the ground slightly muddy.
...wanna test it? twisted
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:16 am
Ten bucks says it's muddy ground one. But you know, to be safe... *hands one of the other pendants to Roger* We could both try them. surprised You first, or shall I? *looks down, steps away from the dusty texts in case he has the muddy pendant* Or count of three?
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:24 am
Oh, no. You go first. If we do "one, two, three", you're just going to back out, just like you did when we had to capture the Jersey Devil. The thing was chewing on my head before you stopped him! So please, proceed. stare
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:29 am
Aw, but while he was busy chewing on your head I clocked him a good one right upside HIS head! And he stopped chewing THEN didn't he?
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...ok, sorry. sweatdrop I'll go first, then. *puts the pendant on* .... *nothing happens*
Must be one a them pendants that uses a trigger word. *checks the inventory list* .. what the... "Hareem bites the big one?" *the ground begins to rumble* Huh. Looks like this is the shakey one. *takes the pendant off, but the ground is still rumbling. It's starting to shake in earnest now* Crap, how the hell do you stop this thing? *frantically checks the list*
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:33 am
*as the earth shakes, several boxes fall over. in the midst of the chaos, Roger notices a growing pool of water.* Oh crap...I think the quake knocked over Nike's Eternal Chalice. It never empties, so I can only assume that means it will keep making more water until it floods this place. gonk *scrambles to find it in the maze of crates while being jostled by seismic activity.*
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:40 am
Crap crap crap. *flips through the list* Son of a- this thing was last checked out by one Hareem Obdalla... one of the goddamn interns... thinkthinkthink... *snaps fingers* I think I got it. *puts pendant back on* Hareem sucks! *rumbling continues* Crap. Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top? *nada* Dammit. Uh... Oh wise and merciful Hareem, I beg pardon! *zip* Godammit! *swears in Arabic* *rumbling ceases* .... dirty mouth on the little b*****d.
*water continues to pool* Find it yet?
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:49 am
*finds a crate full of water, gushing its contents over the top into the floor* It's a crate of chalices! *begins to fish through the crate, taking out each chalice and placing it right side up on the floor. Nothing happens, save for one chalice setting off a dazzling fireworks display that lasts a few seconds.* I hate inventory. *Finally, after reaching the bottom, he pulls out the last chalice, righting it and ending the artificial flood* eek Remind me why we don't just break all this stuff?
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:25 am
*flies into the office and fills out an application for employment, including his resume and references, mostly members of the Justice League (in all of it's forms)*
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:02 am
*drops off the bag lunch that Hellboy forgot*
And yes, I even cut off the crusts.
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