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naggeela

PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:27 pm


"Its nice to meet you, Wilson and Vanessa," she replied as she was still a little nervous, but gave them both a little smile, Aklin just kept on making happy noises.

Tori watched as Wilson invited two other trainees over as she herself might have not done since she wouldn't have know what to say, so she was fine with him taking the lead. Also giving Wilson a nod and a little smile when he smiled apologetically to her and Vanessa's direction. "I also have no issues with them joining us," she replied as she also thought that strength in numbers was a good thing.

Trira

Manda

Bloodlust Dante

Syusaki
Nio Love rolled 8 8-sided dice: 5, 6, 4, 4, 6, 8, 2, 8 Total: 43 (8-64)
PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:27 pm


Robert helped Deryk. Even though he couldn't read the words very well and he probably wished they were looking at porn instead. That's what computers were for, right?

He almost had a breakthrough near the end, but that was only because Petra was making him work harder. Mostly he just wanted to look up porn.

Day One

GROUP 2
Hunter Character and Division: Robert Morris - Life
RESEARCH: 19pts

Nio Love

Enthusiastic Lunatic

17,350 Points
  • Object of Affection 150
  • Campaign Manager 500
  • Ultimate Player 200
Pixie Nyxie rolled 8 8-sided dice: 8, 4, 2, 4, 5, 7, 7, 3 Total: 40 (8-64)

Pixie Nyxie

Adorable Waffles

14,125 Points
  • Cat Fancier 100
  • Somebody Likes You 100
PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:31 pm


Dakota sighed as he looked at the Mist Huntress. Mission time looked like it was going to be tough as s**t but....then again, he got to work with the pretty Ariane and well....Before. But he didn't know all about Before, for all he knew, the guy could be a total BAMF.

He liked BAMF's. Robert reminded him of one, Wilson and Ryan too though....they weren't as cool as him. Whatever, he was getting sidetracked. So now....they had to research?

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit.



He walked over to Ariane before smiling, offering his hand to his two members. "Well Gorgeous, Before, I don't know about you, but I suck at reading through books. Mind coming with me to the library and getting this done?" He continued to hold his hand out.

After he had them with him, he set about the library, looking around. God, there was so many books. He'd rather cuddle up to Ariane and see what she came up with.



Dragain
Huni Pi


Day One

Group: 4
Hunter Character and Division: Dakota - Moon
Research: 14

Syusaki rolled 8 8-sided dice: 6, 2, 5, 8, 3, 8, 6, 8 Total: 46 (8-64)
PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:34 pm


The mission definitely piqued Wilson’s interest. Capturing? Plus the offered bonuses were incredibly tempting. Grinning, he peered over at the rest of his group mates. “I don’t know about you, but I certainly wouldn’t be getting those bonuses don’t you think?” However, the trainee frowned slightly when he heard that they would be preparing for the mission completely on their own rather than have someone hold their hands throughout the entire process. Well, at least it sounded pretty hands on. “Research, huh? Sounds right up my alley.”

He immediately headed toward the library and dove in. Surprisingly, the first hour went well for Wilson—but it was only the start. By the second hour he had grown too distracted, but luck appeared to be on his side. Wilson sat at a table piled with tall stacks of books as he skimmed through the pages. He frowned and looked around to see if any of his teammates were nearby. “Hey guys? I think I almost got it, but not quite yet. Anyone else got any ideas?”


Day One

GROUP 6
Hunter Character and Division: Wilson Hopkins-Death
RESEARCH: 6, 2, 5, 8, 3, 8, 6, 8 => 8, 4, 7, 10, 5, 10, 8, 10
5+1+3+10+1+10+5+10=45


naggeela

Trira

Manda

Bloodlust Dante

Syusaki

x_Nata_x rolled 8 8-sided dice: 6, 7, 6, 8, 1, 2, 7, 8 Total: 45 (8-64)

x_Nata_x

Interesting Conversationalist

PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:47 pm


There was a distinct flicker of skepticism in the moon-hunter-in-training's eyes as she watched Aria lift the money high, as if it were supposed to be some sort of amazing motivator for them to work harder. Unfortunately, in this instance it did not work as she probably had planned it -- Petra let her gaze wander as the suspicious higher-up began to explain the 'rules' of this 'game,' clearly having lost quite a bit of interest. In fact, she was a little insulted, if she were completely truthful (which she never would be -- any interrogation about how she felt would be met with unsubtle deflections and blank stares.) Being the serious type, she did her best in all missions. She did not become a hunter to earn money, and the fact that money was supposed to be an insentive was like insulting their character. In addition, adding money and silly limitations that did nothing but add some sort of hilarity to the situation that made it feel like the hunters were going to be laughing at them. Something she did not tolerate well. At all.

Not to mention Julie was involved. Julie pained the part of her that acknowledged they were in the same division.

Exhaling a slow, heavy breath as Aria finished, Petra turned to follow her team anyway as they all filtered out, waffling between doing shitty work to be spiteful, or perform the same as she always did for the same reason.

~*~*~


The former ended up being too repulsive a thought for her to actually carry it out.

Sitting at one of the computer terminals, Petra's fingers clicked over the keyboard with a precise agility, one that could have been considered nothing but precise. Not slow, not fast, but with a deliberate crispness that she did much of the things she did now a days. The sound was lost in a sea of typing as the other hunters continued their search, but her eyes never left the screen, seemingly never blinking as she poured over information, useless or otherwise. Truth be told, research didn't actually bother Petra. Academia in general never bothered her -- she was the intelligent type, never considered brilliant but receiving respectable grades in school. She'd wanted to be an architect, before she'd been recruited as a hunter, a field which required a considerable amount of study that most people would have thought of as unpleasant, so she was certainly used to it. As such, the work went fast, without much show of her slowing in motivation or performance.

That was, until she made the mistake of looking away.

Leaning back in her chair, the moon-trainee let her eyes blink closed a few times as she took a minute to recover, sliding a strand of hair behind her ear. Her hair was starting to grow out -- above the dark tresses of black and deep midnight blue, pure white roots had long since began to show, stark and startling against the black. It had been almost a comical look, in the beginning, but after nearly a year on the island, she now retained a good eight inches of white, slowly cutting off inch after inch of black. Now all that remained was about an inch of dye at the bottom, black tips appearing just below her ears, her new, shorter haircut shaped diagonally to trace her jaw, longer in the front and shorter in the back. It was a very new change, one she wasn't quite used to -- strands which used to be her bangs now fell in her face often, prompting her to brush them away. And it was this break in her concentration that she took the moment to glance briefly at the other members of her group, interested to see their progress.

Lastly, her eyes settled to Robert... whose attention was clearly wavering. Shifting her gaze back to the screen, she brought up the basic instant messaging system she was kind of surprised the computers even supported, typing out a message before returning back to work.


Nio Love
-Bobby. Mission now. Sex later. Focus.-




Day One

GROUP 2
Hunter Character and Division: Petra Walker - Moon
RESEARCH: 6 7 6 8 1 2 7 8 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 5 = 22 pts?
naggeela rolled 8 8-sided dice: 2, 3, 8, 5, 8, 6, 1, 4 Total: 37 (8-64)
PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:57 pm


Tori listened to all of what Aria was saying and found that she was total up for all for this mission and that bonus did sound very nice too. "I totally have to agree with you on that one, Wilson." Tori replied as she was getting a little excited at doing some research as she love to read. This was a total change of pace to the other missions she had done and knew that this could be some type of test to see how they could handle things.

When heading out to the library Tori got her phone out as she had felt it go off while they were learning on what there mission was going to be and she didn't want to look at it to reply as she didn't want to get into trouble over it. Smiling to see it was from Before and gave him a quick reply before getting into her research.

Huni Pi
Its alright, Before and don't worry about making it up to me, but thanks as it was kind of you to think about me. Sure as that would be a lot of fun!!! Talk with you then and good luck!


Once there she sat down to start her research, for the first few hours she didn't get anything done because of the constant questions her weapon would ask her about random things. Then after she got him to agree with quiet time she did a lot better, but towards the end getting he got bored and asked a few more questions that she got a little more done. Tori had sat near to were others of her teammates were as it was just logical in her mind. "I have a few idea but not too much, my weapon kept on bugging me," she answered.

Day One

GROUP 6
Hunter Character and Division: Victoria Straka - Life
RESEARCH: 15pts
2, 3, 8, 5, 8, 6, 1, 4
0+0+5+1+5+3+0+1 = 15


Syusaki

Trira

Manda

Bloodlust Dante

naggeela

Huni Pi rolled 8 8-sided dice: 6, 6, 8, 2, 6, 7, 7, 4 Total: 46 (8-64)

Huni Pi

Questionable Garbage

16,950 Points
  • Timid 100
  • Gaian 50
  • Clambake 200
PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:13 am


Sorry, Dakota, but Before is not a BAMF. Unless that happens to stand for: Before Amasses Massive Fail. Then yes, yes indeed, Before is quite the BAMF. He stared at the Moon trainee's manner of inviting Ariane and him to the library. :3 Well, it was going to be no trouble to keep Ariane's attention off of him with Dakota around! And given that the younger trainee was calling Ariane "Gorgeous" (hey, different strokes for different folks), the Life trainee had no guilt in going "'K, we're at the Library, imma head over there so you two can read through books!" Without waiting for a response from either of them, Before zoomed off to research on his own.

Is it wise to venture on your own, silly Before? Vanna asked, doubting her partner's ability, the bottle-cap pin's expression shifting to a large question mark.

Before mentally pouted at his weapon's reaction but gave no response because he suddenly got a text from Story! Quickly he sent her a reply before focusing on his task.

naggeela
I'm still gonna try to make it up to you!! ;; And be careful on this mission, okay?

They weren't given a whole lot to go on but Before had a theory. Whatever this thing was, it didn't come from the Island. Which suggested that it could either fly, swim, breathe under water, didn't need to breathe to begin with, or had the ability to teleport. There hadn't been any explosions or earthquakes or storms as of late, unless Deus Ex suddenly had its own super weather-controlling machine... it was possible! It's not like they all had unrestricted access.

He managed to collect several books, most of them repeating what the others already mentioned but with more detail. The only useless book he ended up taking was one about U-haul vehicles. And only because he was looking up "moving matter" >.>


Day One
Group: 4
Hunter Character and Division: Before - Life
Research: 21


Nyxtsuki Moon
Dragain
Tamawolien rolled 8 8-sided dice: 1, 5, 3, 4, 8, 6, 5, 8 Total: 40 (8-64)
PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:33 am


Tedan groaned slightly to himself when he realized that they'd be needing to do research first of all. Not really his favorite from when he was in school but he knew it was a necessary part of this whole process. So the next day he took himself off the library to poke around for a while.

The first hour or so he got absolutely nowhere and was about ready to give up entirely when he suddenly found a pretty obscure reference to something that sounded promising. Things went a little better after that, though he managed to pick up completely the wrong book a little while later.

But then he hit on another set of facts that sounded right and for the rest of the day, he did fairly well. He could only hope the others could do this stuff a little faster, though. He kinda sucked at it overall.

Day One

GROUP 6
Hunter Character and Division: Tedan Galloway; Sun
RESEARCH: 76
DRILLS: # pts
BUILDING: # pts
PREP-WORK: # pts


Personal Stats

RESEARCH: 16
DRILLS: # pts
BUILDING: # pts
PREP-WORK: # pts

Tamawolien

Skilled Explorer

8,700 Points
  • Beta Gaian 0
  • Beta Citizen 0
  • Brandisher 100
iStoleYurVamps rolled 8 8-sided dice: 6, 8, 2, 5, 6, 1, 2, 4 Total: 34 (8-64)


iStoleYurVamps

iStoleYurVamps


Trash Husband

PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:34 am


So that was that. Research. Blegh. Couldn't he just build all the wall again? He was good at building walls, yes he was. Sleepys as s**t, he barely registered Cass's kiss before turning to Bix and leaving with a very simple. 'Mmm sleep. text you latur." Shuffling back to the dorms, and his room. A hour later he'd be fine and ready for the google.

Day One

GROUP 5
Hunter Character and Division: Marcus Hasan-Moon
RESEARCH: 3, 5, 0, 1, 3, 0, 0, 1= 13 pts + 33= 46?
Bloodlust Dante rolled 8 8-sided dice: 3, 2, 6, 4, 5, 3, 3, 6 Total: 32 (8-64)
PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:42 am


Leon had no problem working with Tedan. they were both mature adults, that were able to deal with their dislike in a proper, adult manner. However working with just Tedan, he was sure the sun hunter was going to get thrown off a building pretty quickly. So the boxer let out a sigh of relief once the group was confirmed and the big 'ol life hunter picked up Wilson in a bear hug and squeezed. "Thank you for saving me man, you won't regret it!" the chainsaw wielder babbled out and shook the hands of Victoria and Vanessa. "Its nice to meet you, fellow life squad members."

He couldn't complain at having more female members on the team. Before, Bix and himself would have a great time scoping out the new tail, before might even get a kiss. It would give the hunter a reason to say YAY LIFE alright.

It wasn't long after that Aria went over the details of the mission and the oddness of it all that had him scratching his head in thought. "Jeeze, to capture and detain an intruder that we have no information or even its identity, you all don't play around do yah?" he muttered while placing a hand on his hip and mulled over the task.

Maybe its a renegade pile of junk food.
nIdhogg quipped up from his ugly sleep and mumbled half awake in Leon's head. "No no, even if it was, you're not getting more empty calories in me." the bearer reprimanded back and got a lovely growl of dissatisfaction in return. Fun killer.

Even as the dragon decided to continue to pester him, he followed along when wilson was walking to the library, step one was research and it..

it was going to suck since there was almost no prior info to go off of. "Any ideas dragon?" he droned out to the beast that was feeling more agreeable after the two hours of boredom and broad speculation between the two of them and with the others. Instead of tryng to figure out what it is, lets figure out what it ISN"T.
And it was worth a shot, while the daylight was quickly dying out, the athlete managed to rule out some of the more farfetched ideas from the listing and was making the list much smaller than when they started. "A slow start, but it would have to do."

It wasn't as much progress as he would have liked but it was something and the lack of viable info seemed to not help, if only there was something to add to it.

little did he know that the phone call from Julie was going to be a lifesaver from the normally stress inducing hunter.
Day One

GROUP 6 Total stats
Hunter Character and Division: Leon Stone, Life
RESEARCH: # pts 94 (This total includes the +10 from Julie's information)
DRILLS: # pts
BUILDING: # pts
PREP-WORK: # pts


Personal Stats

RESEARCH: # pts 8
DRILLS: # pts
BUILDING: # pts
PREP-WORK: # pts

naggeela

Trira

Manda

Syusaki

Bloodlust Dante

Fortunate Hellraiser

Dragain rolled 8 8-sided dice: 2, 1, 1, 8, 1, 4, 1, 5 Total: 23 (8-64)

Dragain

Wealthy Lover

PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:56 am


... Seriously? Identify a mysterious, unknown target by reading through books in the library? Is Aria an idiot? Was the creature big? Small? Slimy? Does it have wings? Not even one hint was given to them! Without at least some field work to gather information regarding their target first, how would they know which section of the library to look through? How will they know where to start?

Unless there was a section on highly possible "unknown assailants in the wilderness part of the Deus Ex island".

"Why, of course, Dakota," She grinned before taking his hand, allowing him to pretty much lead as she dragged Before along; she couldn't risk him escaping, after all, "I'm not even sure what the heck we're up against here... They should have given us a lead of some type."

At the library, she watched as Before sped to the library, leaving her to work with Dakota... Which was fine by her, really. She spent the first few hours with nothing, combing the shelves brought her nothing but information that might or might not be relevant, although she did find a couple of more general information regarding creatures that might breech Deus Ex security... And then an hour of breakthroughs, all from a single book about common creature abilities, before going back to little discoveries here and there.

For a Death hunter, she really wasn't doing too well with her Intel gathering.


Day One
Group: 4
Hunter Character and Division: Ariane - Death
Research: 17 (I think the dice hates me.)

Total so far
Group: 4
Research: 14 + 21 + 17 = 51


Huni Pi
Nyxtsuki Moon
iloveyouDIE rolled 8 8-sided dice: 8, 8, 3, 2, 6, 7, 8, 4 Total: 46 (8-64)
PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:59 am


Bix gave Cass a look, first when she kissed him on the head and then a distinct double take when he realized the three of them would be doing the work for a whole squad. He was trying his best to be sweet to Julie though. Maybe she could help him out? They had an impending 'date' and he didn't want to screw that up at all.

Mina was bitching in his head. She wanted to fight, immediate fighting. Capture and study was not something she approved of.

"I can do research." Bix affirmed. Marcus was heading back to sleep, Cass was headed to the library, but Bix already had a giant stack of library books in his room that he'd gotten the day before. He'd start with those. But before leaving the room he approached Julie with a smile. "Hey Julie.. got any secrets about this mission? That will help?" He wiggled his eyebrows, hoping to at least get a giggle out of her.

Back in his dorm he hit the books hard, powering through the first couple hours until he was distracted by some of his new comic books. The time seemed to fly and before he knew it, another hour or so had passed. The albino hunter tried to syke himself up, throwing himself into the books again. It seemed to be going well until he nodded off at his desk.

-----------------------------


8, 8, 3, 2, 6, 7, 8, 4
5, 5, 0, 0, 3, 3, 5, 1
_______________________
22 points TOTAL

Day One

GROUP 5
Bix - Sun Division:
RESEARCH: 22


demon_pachabel

iStoleYurVamps

Zoomutt

iloveyouDIE

Unstoppable OTP

27,425 Points
  • Falling For You 25
  • Married 100
  • OTP 200

Huni Pi

Questionable Garbage

16,950 Points
  • Timid 100
  • Gaian 50
  • Clambake 200
PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:15 am


Before's return to his group was reluctant at best, but they did need to work together and share information. He wordlessly came back and presented to Dakota and Ariane a series of index cards containing bite-sized portions of information, ranked from most-likely-the-creature to least-likely-the-creature. It wouldn't be Before if there wasn't a stray card that was scribbled with gobbledygook diagrams (and if they flipped it to the back they'd find little hearts doodled on it with the letters "B+T" on it), which he quickly snatched back.
Dragain
Nyxtsuki Moon


To alleviate himself of his embarrassment, he pretended to be busy texting someone. Which would turn out to be his Bros.
iloveyouDIE
Broooooooooooooo. Good luck ;; And take care.

kuromeez
After! Just because you're higher ranked than me don't mean you shouldn't be totes careful >C
PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:44 am


Julie was having a blast of a time tracking trainees through the cell phone tracking system as she offered her helpful advice. She was texting away to Marcus when Bix approached her.

"A secret a secret hmm..." The Moon Hunter paused to think. "Well, what about going for a walk for some fresh air? I saw something outside this morning..."

Was she actually being helpful? Perhaps.


EVENT


Julie is sending all sorts of HELPFUL cell phone texts to various trainees. Simply tally the OC + or - amount to your existing total group score


istoleyurvamps


- Did you check the section titled "Bog Monsters?" I heard it's in there : ) GOOD LUCK JOHN WINDWALKER.

((OOC: Marcus and his group lose 20 research points due to Julie's mis-information ))


iloveyouDIE


- Have you checked the training fields recently? We should go caroling there sometime : )

((OOC: Bix and his group gain 10 research points due to Julie's information))


Dragain


- Did you know that camels have ten legs? It kind of reminds me of this mission project...

((OOC: Ariane and her group lose 20 research points due to Julie's mis-information ))


Bloodlust Dante


- Do you prefer reindeer headbands or Santa hats?

((OOC: Leon and his group gain 10 research points due to Julie's information))


Lilwolfpard


- I would actually say they look more like ponies, you know, just like the brownies we made...

((OOC: Ceres and her group gain 10 research points due to Julie's information))


Nio Love


- Hmmmm... do you think I should have sent you that Rudolph the Happy Nosed Reindeer costume instead?

((OOC: Robert and his group gain 10 research points due to Julie's information))



Danse-hexe


- SALLY EARTHWALKER YOU FORGOT ABOUT THE JOY COOKIES! THIS IS IMPORTANT!

((OOC: Reine and her group lose 20 research points due to Julie's information))

Zoobey
Artist

Magical Incubator


demon_pachabel

Beloved Werewolf

PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:51 am


Cass went over her group's research to piece together what they had so far.

It looked like they had a reasonable idea of what they were looking for! If only an idea. Alas.


Quote:

GROUP 5
Group Totals
RESEARCH: 58 pts
DRILLS: -- pts
BUILDING: -- pts
PREP-WORK: -- pts



Quote:

Cass's Personal Tally
--> Cass gets +1 to all stats as a Mist Hunter!
RESEARCH: 33 pts
DRILLS: -- pts
BUILDING: -- pts
PREP-WORK: - pts
???: ?????


iloveyouDIE

istoleyurVamps


((I did the math of Julie's damage for our group. Our total is still good! :> ))
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