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Ebreus/Infobox

2019-06-02T11:23:12Z

Ebreus:

Birthday: August 23rd, 1989

Place of birth: United States, [[Fairhaven]] California

Gender: Male

Faction: [[Prometheans]]

Ebreus/Nanomagic

2019-06-02T11:16:13Z

Ebreus: Just brining things in line with recent changes

*[[Nanite Manufacturing Nanomagic]]

>[[Regulation Nanomagic]]

*[[Electric Nanomagic]]

>[[Electrical Assault Nanomagic]]

>[[Electromagnetic Shielding Nanomagic]]

*[[Earth Nanomagic]]

>[[Sculpting Nanomagic]]

>>[[Basic Construction Nanomagic]]

>>[[Item Conjuration Nanomagic]]

*[[Emotional Aura Nanomagic]]

>[[SUCK Nanomagic]]

>[[Targeted Emotions Nanomagic]]

>[[Telepathic Nanomagic]]

>>[[Radiotelepathic Nanomagic]]

>>>[[Sensory Download Nanomagic]]

>>[[Dream Nanomagic]]

>>>[[Shared Dream Nanomagic]]

*[[Techno Nanomagic]]

>[[Data Nanomagic]]

>>[[Awareness Nanomagic]]

>>[[Interfacing Nanomagic]]

>>>[[Advanced Integration Nanomagic]]

>>[[Translation Nanomagic]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2019-02-12T01:35:02Z

Ebreus: /* Harem */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Mercia]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

== Harem ==
[[Bleu]]

[[Solii]]

[[Dash]]

[[Rickshaw]]

[[Luciferlight]]

[[Tinya]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2019-02-12T01:31:00Z

Ebreus: /* Harem */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Mercia]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

== Harem ==
[Bleu]

[Solii]

Ebreus/Contacts

2019-02-09T23:13:35Z

Ebreus:

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Mercia]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

== Harem ==

Ebreus/Contacts

2018-07-03T20:36:37Z

Ebreus: /* Packmates */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Otto]]

[[Mercia]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2018-07-03T20:26:30Z

Ebreus:

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Otto]]: Deceased

[[Mercia]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2018-07-03T20:25:59Z

Ebreus:

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Otto]]

[[Mercia]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

Ebreus/Infobox

2018-02-04T16:00:46Z

Ebreus:

Birthday: August 23rd, 1989

Place of birth: United States, [[Fairhaven]] California

Gender: Male - [[Masculine Herm]]

Faction: [[Prometheans]]

[[Drone Master]] damager combat build.

Hellhound

2018-02-03T17:50:33Z

Ebreus: /* Additional Equipment */

Perform a blood ritual in the right place and earn access to the aether.

==Location==
The ritual site is the Strange Sanctum beneath Arborwatch Manor. Those who reach it may dedicate for 50 Mako.

==Powers==
Hellhounds can rip open small portals to Hell to scorch their foes with the flames of perdition with [[Hellfire]] and can take bites out of the souls of their enemies with [[Soul Burn]] to invigorate themselves.

==Additional Equipment==
The Hellhounds are letting to tap into the aether and use their form... do you really want to press you luck enough to ask them to equip you too?

==Thematic Information==
Hellhounds the guardians of the Aether Bridges or, as mortals know them, Portals to Hell. Largely solitary creatures they hunt demons and devils that happen to make it across a bridge and answer to no central authority.

[[Category:Dedications]]

Hellhound

2018-02-03T16:47:39Z

Ebreus: Created page with "Perform a blood ritual in the right place and earn access to the aether. ==Location== The ritual site is the Strange Sanctum beneath Arborwatch Manor. Those who reach it may..."

Perform a blood ritual in the right place and earn access to the aether.

==Location==
The ritual site is the Strange Sanctum beneath Arborwatch Manor. Those who reach it may dedicate for 50 Mako.

==Powers==
Hellhounds can rip open small portals to Hell to scorch their foes with the flames of perdition with [[Hellfire]] and can take bites out of the souls of their enemies with [[Soul Burn]] to invigorate themselves.

==Additional Equipment==
The Hellhounds are letting to tap into the aether and use their form... do you really want to press you luck far enough to ask them to equip you too?

==Thematic Information==
Hellhounds the guardians of the Aether Bridges or, as mortals know them, Portals to Hell. Largely solitary creatures they hunt demons and devils that happen to make it across a bridge and answer to no central authority.

[[Category:Dedications]]

Ebreus/Infobox

2018-02-03T05:37:01Z

Ebreus:

Birthday: August 23rd, 1989

Place of birth: United States, [[Fairhaven]] California

Gender: Male - [[Masculine Herm]]

Faction: [[Prometheans]]

[[Drone Master]] combat build.

Ebreus/Dedications

2018-02-01T18:49:53Z

Ebreus: Updated with current Dedications

[[Nanite Adept]]

[[Recursion]]

[[Hellhound]]

Ebreus/Infobox

2017-11-20T00:49:23Z

Ebreus:

Birthday: August 23rd, 1989

Place of birth: United States, [[Fairhaven]] California

Gender: Male - [[Masculine Herm]]

Faction: [[Prometheans]]

Not into mechanical combat.

Ebreus/Contacts

2017-11-01T14:28:16Z

Ebreus: /* Friends */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Otto]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

[[Mercia]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2017-11-01T14:27:33Z

Ebreus: /* Packmates */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

[[Otto]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2017-11-01T14:27:19Z

Ebreus: /* Friends */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

Eureka Jobs

2017-10-24T15:40:51Z

Ebreus: Adding Bureaucrat SA to the Town Hall

Note that in order to see the job, you have to have at least one point in the relevant skill, e.g. you need an Economics skill of at least 1 to do the "Sell Trinkets" job.

== Main Table ==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
! Location !! Skill !! Job Type !! Min. Level !! Job Name !! Patrol Points !! Target Value !! Special Note
|-
| Temporary School || Comprehension || Teacher || 0 || Study || 5 || 6
|-
| Temporary School || Comprehension || Teacher || 1 || Basic Lessons || 10 || 8
|-
| Temporary School || Comprehension || Teacher || 2 || Advanced Lessons || 10 || 10
|-
| Temporary School || Comprehension || Teacher || 3 || Doctorate || 10 || 12
|-
| Temporary School || History || Librarian || 0 || Sort Out The Books || 5 || 6
|-
| Temporary School || History || Librarian || 1 || Scan The Books || 10 || 8
|-
| Temporary School || History || Librarian || 2 || Restore Rare Books || 10 || 10
|-
| Temporary School || History || Librarian || 3 || That Book Belongs to a Library! || 10 || 12
|-
| Temporary School || Research || Scientist || 0 || Compile Journals || 5 || 6
|-
| Temporary School || Research and Medicine || Scientist || 1 || Basic Data Collection || 10 || 8
|-
| Temporary School || Research and Xeno || Scientist || 2 || Infections Research || 10 || 10
|-
| Temporary School || Research and Medicine || Scientist || 2 || Medical Research || 10 || 10
|-
| Temporary School || Research and Computer || Scientist || 2 || Nanite Research || 10 || 10
|-
| Temporary School || Research || Scientist || 3 || Research New Alloys || 10 || 12
|-
| Temporary School || Research and Computer || Scientist || 3 || Study the Local Bubble || 10 || 12
|-
| Back Alley || Underworld || Street Lord || 0 || Claim The Streets || 5 || 6
|-
| Back Alley || Underworld || Street Lord || 1 || Lead The Gang || 10 || 8
|-
| Back Alley || Underworld || Street Lord || 2 || Working the System || 10 || 10
|-
| Back Alley || Underworld || Street Lord || 3 || Expand your Influence || 15 || 10
|-
| Back Alley || Intimidation || Loan Shark || 0 || Gather Profiles || 5 || 6
|-
| Back Alley || Intimidation || Loan Shark || 1 || Lend Loan || 10 || 8 || Allows you to then Collect a Loan
|-
| Back Alley || Intimidation || Loan Shark || 1 || Collect Loan || 10 || 8 || You must first Lend a Loan
|-
| Back Alley || Underworld || Thief || 0 || Steal Food || 5 || 6
|-
| Back Alley || Underworld || Thief || 1 || Pickpocket || 5 || 8
|-
| Back Alley || Underworld || Thief || 2 || Burglary || 15 || 10
|-
| Bath House || Sexual || Masseuse || 0 || The Art of Massage || 5 || 2
|-
| The Farm || None || Farmer || 0 || Prepare the Fields || 10 || 4 || All players roll 2d10 vs target number
|-
| The Farm || None || Farmer || 1 || Harvest || 10 || 2 || All players roll 3d10 vs target number
|-
| The Farm || None || Farmer || 2 || Nano Fertilizing || 10 || 2 || All players roll 2d10 vs target number
|-
| The Cow Barn || Breast size || Cow Girl || 0 || Produce Average Milk || 10 || 6 || A bonus for having multiple breasts and for being a cow maiden.
|-
| The Cow Barn || Breast size || Cow Girl || 1 || Produce Good Milk || 10 || 7 || A bonus for having multiple breasts and for being a cow maiden.
|-
| The Cow Barn || Breast size || Cow Girl || 2 || Produce Quality Milk || 10 || 8 || A bonus for having multiple breasts and for being a cow maiden.
|-
| The Cow Barn || Breast size || Cow Girl || 2 || Produce Chock Milk || 10 || 8 || Requires an upgraded [[Chock Milk]] power. A bonus for having multiple breasts and for being a cow maiden.
|-
| Police Station || Management || Guard || 0 || Street Surveillance || 5 || 6
|-
| Police Station || Management || Guard || 1 || Fight The Crime || 5 || 8
|-
| Police Station || Management & Underworld || Guard || 2 || Covert Operation || 10 || 10
|-
| Scrapyard & Military Workshop || Computer || Roboticist || 0 || Salvage Parts || 5 || 6 || Chance to find salvage. Also found in Military Workshop.
|-
| Scrapyard & Military Workshop || Computer || Roboticist || 1 || Assemble Basic Circuits || 10 || 8
|-
| Scrapyard & Military Workshop || Computer || Roboticist || 2 || Assemble Basic Circuits || 10 || 10
|-
| Scrapyard & Military Workshop || Computer || Roboticist || 3 || Assemble Drone || 20 || 12 || Allows you to 'Program Security Drone or Program Repair Drone'
|-
| Scrapyard & Military Workshop || Computer || Roboticist || 3 || Program Security Drone || 10 || 12 || Requires 'Assemble Drone'
|-
| Scrapyard & Military Workshop || Computer || Roboticist || 3 || Program Repair Drone || 10 || 12 || Requires 'Assemble Drone'
|-
| Scrapyard & Military Workshop || Research || Inventor || 0 || I have an idea! || 5 || 6 ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 0 || Filing || Management || 2 || 5 || None || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.10 ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 1 || Implement New Laws || Management || 4 || 5 || Wealth of 20.00 || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.10, Order by 0.05, Wealth by -0.10 ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 1 || Update Old Laws || Management || 6 || 5 || Wealth of 20.00 || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.30, Order by 0.20, Wealth by -0.30 ||
|-
| Town Hall || Design || Architect || 0 || Study with Another Designer || 5 || 6
|-
| Town Hall || Comprehension || Banker || 0 || Basic Accounting || 5 || 6
|-
| Town Hall || Management || Lawyer || 0 || Depositions || 5 || 6
|-
| Town Hall || Management || Lawyer || 1 || Pleadings || 10 || 8
|-
| Town Hall || Management || Lawyer || 2 || Case Management || 10 || 10
|-
| Town Hall || Management || Lawyer || 3 || Settlement Negotiations || 10 || 12
|-
| Town Hall || Intimidation || Bodyguard || 0 || Train your Body || 5 || 6
|-
| Grocery Store || Economics || Shopkeeper || 0 || Sell Trinkets || 5 || 6
|-
| Grocery Store || Economics || Shopkeeper || 0 || Set up the Shop || 10 || 8
|-
| Mines || Strength || Miner || 0 || Sift out Minerals || 6 || 5 || Chance to find salvage
|-
| Mines || Strength || Miner || 1 || Mining || 10 || 8 || Chance to find salvage
|-
| Mines || Strength || Miner || 2 || Freelancer Mining || 10 || 10 || Chance to find salvage
|-
| Mines || Strength || Miner || 3 || Deep Mining || 20 || 12 || Chance to find salvage
|-
| Military Cantina || Strength || Soldier || 0 || Volunteer Border Patrol || 5 || 6
|-
| Military Cantina || Strength || Soldier || 1 || Basic Training || 5 || 8
|-
| Military Cantina || Strength+Markmanship-4 || Soldier || 2 || Patrolling || 10 || 10
|-
| Military Cantina || Strength || Soldier || 3 || Thugs Hunting || 20 || 12
|-
| The Factory Entrance || Installation || Engineer || 0 || Running Checks || 5 || 6
|-
| The Factory Entrance || Installation || Engineer || 1 || Supply Monitoring || 8 || 10
|-
| The Factory Entrance || Installation || Engineer || 2 || Design Assembly Line || 10 || 10
|-
| Power Plant || Installation || Worker || 0 || Free Maintenance || 5 || 6
|-
| Power Plant || Installation || Worker || 1 || Regular Maintenance || 10 || 8
|-
| Power Plant || Installation || Worker || 2 || Running Test Procedures || 10 || 10
|-
| Landing Spot || Economics || Trader || 0 || Basic Trade - Food || 6 || 5
|-
| Landing Spot || Economics || Trader || 0 || Basic Trade - Goodies || 6 || 5
|-
| Landing Spot || Economics || Trader || 1 || Average Trade - Food || 8 || 5
|-
| Landing Spot || Economics || Trader || 1 || Average Trade - Goodies || 8 || 5
|-
| Landing Spot || Economics || Trader || 2 || Advanced Trade - Food || 10 || 5
|-
| Landing Spot || Economics || Trader || 2 || Advanced Trade - Goodies || 10 || 5
|-
| Landing Spot || Design || Artisan || 0 || Trinket Hawking || 6 || 5
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Psychologist || 0 || First Treatment to Ferals || 6 || 5
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Psychologist || 1 || Study New Infection Strains || 8 || 5
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Psychologist || 2 || Resolve Nanite Infection Related Conflicts || 10 || 15
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Psychologist || 3 || Resolve Nanite Infection Related Conflicts || 12 || 20
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Doctor || 0 || Healthcare Volunteer || 5 || 6
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Doctor || 1 || Medical Round || 8 || 5
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Doctor || 2 || Diagnosis Doctor || 10 || 10
|-
| Clinic || Medicine || Doctor || 3 || ER || 12 || 20
|-
| Military Compound || Security || Security Officer || 3 || Pound the Pavement || 6 || 5
|-
| City's Eastern Gate || Survival || Hunter || 0 || Collect Fruits || 6 || 10
|-
| City's Eastern Gate || Survival || Hunter || 1 || Hunt Small Prey || 8 || 10
|-
| City's Eastern Gate || Survival || Hunter || 2 || Hunt Large Prey || 10 || 10
|-
| Internet Coffee || Computer || Technician || 0 || Basic Computer Lessons || 6 || 5
|-
| Internet Coffee || Empathy || Bartender || 0 || Dishwashing || 6 || 5
|-
| Internet Coffee || Legends || Storyteller || 0 || Listen to the People || 6 || 5
|}

Haretown jobs

2017-10-24T15:27:43Z

Ebreus: Updating Bureaucrat and Diplomat Jobs

This page is a work in progress. Please contribute!

=== Job Details ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
! Location !! Job Type !! Min. Level !! Job Name !! Skill !! Target Value !! Patrol Points !! Resource Requirements !! Influence !! Resource Modifiers !! Directions from Teleport
|-
| Carrots and Breakfast || Social || 0 || Get a Drink || None || 4 || 1 || None || Moderate || Wealth and Happiness by 0.01 || Same Room ||
|-
| Carrots and Breakfast || Bartender || 0 || Dishwashing || Empathy || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Scraps by 0.10 || Same Room ||
|-
| Daniel's Workshop || Inventor || 0 || I have an idea! || Research || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Scraps by 0.10 || S S ||
|-
| Daniel's Workshop || Bartender || 0 || Trinket Hawking || Design || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Goodies by 0.10 || S S ||
|-
| The Waterfall || Fishing || 0 || None, really || Can has fish! || 0 || 0 || None || None || Fish! for bellies! || S E E ||
|-
| Oscar's Clinic || Doctor || 0 || Healthcare Volunteer || Medicine || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Health by 0.10 || S E N ||
|-
| Center of The Town || Trader || 0 || Basic Trade - Food || Economics || 6 || 5 || Food of 30.00 || Mild || Wealth by 0.40 and Food by -1 || S W ||
|-
| Center of The Town || Trader || 0 || Basic Trade - Food || Economics || 6 || 5 || Goodies of 10.00 || Mild || Wealth by 0.60 and Goodies by -1 || S W ||
|-
| Uptown Residential || Teacher || 0 || Study || Comprehension || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Culture by 0.10 || S W N E ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 0 || Courier || Negotiation || 2 || 5 || None || Mild || Faction Relations by .05 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 1 || Improve Zephyr Relations || Negotiation || 4 || 5 || None || Mild || Zephyr Relationship by 0.08, RSX Relationship by -0.02, Prometheans Relationship by -0.02 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 1 || Improve Prometheans Relations || Negotiation || 4 || 5 || None || Mild || Prometheans Relationship by 0.08, RSX Relationship by -0.02, Zephyr Relationship by -0.02 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 1 || Improve RSX Relations || Negotiation || 4 || 5 || None || Mild || RSX Relationship by 0.08, Zephyr Relationship by -0.02, Prometheans Relationship by -0.02 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 0 || Filing || Management || 2 || 5 || None || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.10 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 1 || Implement New Laws || Management || 4 || 5 || Wealth of 20.00 || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.10, Order by 0.05, Wealth by -0.10 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 1 || Update Old Laws || Management || 6 || 5 || Wealth of 20.00 || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.30, Order by 0.20, Wealth by -0.30 || S W N W ||
|-
| The Fields || Trader || 0 || Prepare the Fields || None || 4 || 10 || Food of 30.00 || Mild || Food by 0.50 || S W W ||
|-
|}

Haretown jobs

2017-10-24T15:19:32Z

Ebreus: Added jobs requiring Bureaucrat 1 and Diplomat 1.

This page is a work in progress. Please contribute!

=== Job Details ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
! Location !! Job Type !! Min. Level !! Job Name !! Skill !! Target Value !! Patrol Points !! Resource Requirements !! Influence !! Resource Modifiers !! Directions from Teleport
|-
| Carrots and Breakfast || Social || 0 || Get a Drink || None || 4 || 1 || None || Moderate || Wealth and Happiness by 0.01 || Same Room ||
|-
| Carrots and Breakfast || Bartender || 0 || Dishwashing || Empathy || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Scraps by 0.10 || Same Room ||
|-
| Daniel's Workshop || Inventor || 0 || I have an idea! || Research || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Scraps by 0.10 || S S ||
|-
| Daniel's Workshop || Bartender || 0 || Trinket Hawking || Design || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Goodies by 0.10 || S S ||
|-
| The Waterfall || Fishing || 0 || None, really || Can has fish! || 0 || 0 || None || None || Fish! for bellies! || S E E ||
|-
| Oscar's Clinic || Doctor || 0 || Healthcare Volunteer || Medicine || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Health by 0.10 || S E N ||
|-
| Center of The Town || Trader || 0 || Basic Trade - Food || Economics || 6 || 5 || Food of 30.00 || Mild || Wealth by 0.40 and Food by -1 || S W ||
|-
| Center of The Town || Trader || 0 || Basic Trade - Food || Economics || 6 || 5 || Goodies of 10.00 || Mild || Wealth by 0.60 and Goodies by -1 || S W ||
|-
| Uptown Residential || Teacher || 0 || Study || Comprehension || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Culture by 0.10 || S W N E ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 0 || Courier || Negotiation || 2 || 5 || None || Mild || Faction Relations by .05 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 1 || Improve Zephyr Relations || Negotiation || 4 || 5 || None || Mild || Faction Relations by .05 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 1 || Improve Prometheans Relations || Negotiation || 4 || 5 || None || Mild || Faction Relations by .05 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Diplomat || 1 || Improve RSX Relations || Negotiation || 4 || 5 || None || Mild || Faction Relations by .05 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 0 || Filing || Management || 2 || 5 || None || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.10 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 1 || Implement New Laws || Management || 4 || 5 || None || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.10 || S W N W ||
|-
| Town Hall || Bureaucrat || 1 || Update Old Laws || Management || 6 || 5 || None || Mild || Bureaucracy by 0.10 || S W N W ||
|-
| The Fields || Trader || 0 || Prepare the Fields || None || 4 || 10 || Food of 30.00 || Mild || Food by 0.50 || S W W ||
|-
|}

Ebreus/Contacts

2017-09-27T19:38:33Z

Ebreus:

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

== Friends ==

[[Otto]]

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

Ebreus/Nanomagic

2017-09-26T23:45:55Z

Ebreus:

*[[Nanite Manufacturing Nanomagic]]

>[[Regulation Nanomagic]]

*[[Electric Nanomagic]]

>[[Electrical Assault Nanomagic]]

*[[Earth Nanomagic]]

>[[Sculpting Nanomagic]]

>>[[Basic Construction Nanomagic]]

>>[[Item Conjuration Nanomagic]]

*[[Emotional Aura Nanomagic]]

>[[Telepathic Nanomagic]]

>>[[Radiotelepathic Nanomagic]]

>>>[[Sensory Download Nanomagic]]

>>[[Dream Nanomagic]]

>>>[[Shared Dream Nanomagic]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2017-09-03T06:50:32Z

Ebreus:

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

[[Borneo]]

== Friends ==

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

San Diego Act III - Mounting Tensions - RPLOG

2017-08-18T09:50:47Z

Ebreus: Fixed a spelling error in the name 'Ebreus'

=Participants=
* [[Buzamu]]
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Pelle]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Thelergramor]]
=Date=
28/07/2017
=Log=
Here at teh border between Fairhaven and the wider world is intangible, invisible, and most importantly, real. There's no makers, no warnings, no security, just, the ruins of Fairhaven ravaged by the nanites on one side, clear to see, and then buildings that simply have not been worked on or maintained in nearly a decade. The difference is stark and in some ways, a clear reminder of just how much of an effect the nanites actually HAVE within the bubble.
Of course, this one time, there is a truck sitting outside the bubble, a large two and a half ton beast in plain tan, the back exposed to the elements, while a pair of Marines from teh San Diego force wait to transport those who would be dealing with the ongoing raider attacks. Both are hellhound in form, and watching the border carefully. One sitting in the ring mount for a machine gun, and was manning it, though his aim was pointed out into the wilderness beyond.

T'was a gloomy evening at the edge of the Fairhaven bubble, but one jackal with a golden coat of fur and a lot of armaments was happily striding towards his mission's starting point. He knew the risks, he'd done this countless times before, and to him it all meant several things -- adventure, danger, excitement! His blood was boiling at the prospect of a good challenge and with all his gear cleaned and primed for use, he was ready to rumble, ready to headbutt the challenge and take his wounds with pride!

Stomping his way to his target destination, the metalic shine of his heavy armor reflecting the last rays of the setting sun, the jackal stops once he spots the gathered escort that'd been arranged for them. He whistles sharply and grins at the sight of the mutants gathered, then greets the soldiers with a salute and asks, "Evening fellas! Did I get here too soon or something?"

Trying to ignore the weather and intellectualize away any nerves Ebreus aproaches the hellhound soldiers holding his shield in one hand, and flamethrower with two others he was as ready as he would ever be for the first mission where there was a chance of death higher than 'unlikely'. He takes a breath and calms down as he spots Otto.

Aproaching him with only his wings and tails exposed, "Hello Otto." he says and turning his attention to the Marines he says, "Greetings."
Pelle flutters throw the air to the meeting place for her first mission outside of the bubble. She flutters down when she gets close and spots Ebreus and Otto and flutters down to them "Hello Ebreus and hello Otto" she looks to the two marines "And hello to the two of you!"

Early summer evening. Still far more light than Cerl was entirely comfortable with while sneaking around, but that's what she had her invisibility tricks for. Silently padding through the city to where her mate had asked her to meet up, she reviewed the mission statement that had come across her comms recently. Ghosting up behind her mate, she lets her invisibility drop and taps Otto on his shoulder. "Hey love, I'm here." She looks around then at the gathering agents, giving each a nod of recognition and a quick 'Hello, Ebreus, Pelle." before giving her gear one last check.

Thelergramor was wandering around, making life hell for ferals before he remembered: He's supposed to do shit today. Currently a Crimson Wyrm, the Fox dedicated, former Zephyr securityman just wanders on up to the marines, walking despite his ability to fly. Which probably won't work outside the bubble... Glide, maybe... He's never tried. Armed, armor wearing and goggled, the wyrm fidgets with his rifle, counting ammo, coming out to 20 rounds (two mags of 10) while he approaches, scarf pulled up over his reptilian snout. Has a few other weapons, noting he's not the only one with a flamethrower. He approves of this, silently, despite not knowing any of these people... As far as he remembers.

The pair of Marines, one standing by the driver's door of the truck, the other in the cupola, give the approaching agents a small huff of recognition. Not actual recognition, just acknowledging they exist. Once the five arrive, the driver lifts her left hand off her M4 and points to the back of the truck. "Mount up. It's about 3 hours of driving, and we're expecting this God-Damned 'Cult of the Clean' to cause trouble on the way there." She growls, before opening the driver door and climbing in herself. As each of you exit the bubble proper, unless you'd done a lot of out of bubble work before, the wave of nauseaus as you step out is almost dehabilitating. Explaining the truck.

One would wonder what crawled up their asses. Otto was just being civil, as were the others... He gives his mate a nudge and a wink, barely able to spill a word before they're crammed into the vehicle and brought outside the bubble. He does get a chance to greet the others proper, and once the bubble is left behind, the jackal feels that familiar sense of nausea. He'd gotten so used to it now, that it just spelled excitement for him. He was ready for what was to come. Thankfully, no one spills their lunch along the way, avoiding any unwanted messes... The jackal remains quiet during their trip, preferring instead to humm a tune he was playing back in his head.

Ebreus nods, not knowing or really caring that they're not sociable so long as they'ree good at their jobs. Ebreus makes sure to board the truck imediently after Otto and score a suitable seat for the ride by his friends or at least work-buddies. "Cult of the Clean... I am unfamiliar with them. I get the armed and hostile part. Do we know their motives?" As they pass the edge of the bubble knowing presicely why he was nauseaus aids him in intellectualizing and ignoring the familiar nausia. "Anybody else have Regulation? If not I'm putting up a bubble." he says and true to his word if noone puts up a bubble he does.

Pelle follows after ebreus and sits down beside him not really sure wat to do since it's her first time outside of the bubble and as she feels this sudden nausea hit her she almost throws up but manages to swallow it back down and raises her hand when she hears wat Ebreus is asking "i have it, and wat was this feeling that just hit me?" she looks a bit sick but other than that she seems to be fine she shakes her head a bit and sits up and looks to Ebreus "i can run the nanomagic since I'm not too sure of the things that will happen here"

Cerl takes a deep breath, and then strides through the bubble edge, swallowing down any nausea she feels after having traveled outside of the bubble so often. Settling herself down in the back of the truck, near the tail so she can jump out and vanish or at least hide at a moment's notice in order to strike from the shadows as is her usual preferred method of combat, Cerl glances over at the marines. "Any information on what we can expect from this Cult? Their known weapons, numbers, what have you?" She sighs in relief as the regulation bubble goes up. "Ahh, that feels better, thanks whoever just put the bubble up. Woe be to any ambushers now" she snickers softly to herself as she once again fades to near total invisibility. "I'll be right over here unless we get jumped."

"Cultists? Sounds like fun..." Thel says, quietly looking over the group again. He steps across the threshold, and the naniteless bubble hits him. He sniffs, feels sick for a moment, his body temperature going back to normal. No longer icy... The feeling passes. As does his silence. "Never get used to that. So, 3 hours. Ten to One we get ambushed somewhere around hour 2. And no, no nanomagic on my end." Unless you do get used to leaving the bubble... And he hasn't. Still, the wyrm mounts up, hoping it will rain while he takes a seat, tapping a claw idly on his rifle... Sniffs again, when Cerl mostly disappears. No comment.

The Marine up in the gun turret growls. "Survivors who were caught outside the bubbles when the Bio-Weapon dropped. They view anyone, or anything that cames out of the afflicted areas as unclean. Known weapons are assorted small arms. AK's, AR-15's, even some US issue gear they likely scavanged. Thank God they haven't brought out anything to kill vehicles." He says, his gaze pointed out to the fields. "Been raiding our convoy's moving equipment to establish the FOB's for protecting the proposed trade line." He finished.

The Agents have plenty of time to ponder things, the vehicle lacking any real 'shocks' for the various pot holes and bumps in the unmaintained road of State Highway 101, driving south. The Marines seem more upset at this Cult than the Agents themselves, more than happy to chatter with them. "So, just wanting to clear up something... the Weapon turned Fairhaven into a Furry's paradise, and Woodfield into a fantasy nerd's wet dream? Seems a little specific, then again... We had two Godzilla's tearing up the entire San Diego coast."

Otto listens closely and nods as he picks up on the information. He doesn't much care that the regulation bubble comes up, it made no difference to him. He does however have a few things to say. *CLAP* he clasps his paws "OKAY!" he exclaims loudly and makes use of his illusion nanomagic for the first real time.

Before everyone materializes a series of visual aids that everyone could see. "It's clear we'll be dealing with a lot of hostility, so I'd like to first of all remind everyone about the basics of warfare. Number one, keep your fucking eyes and ears open at all times. Whoever gets the jump wins half the fight." he exclaims loudly, an illusionary overview of an ambush situation manifesting before everyone in which the ones being ambushed are easily picked off by a barrage of gunfire.

"Number two, use the terrain. If you're being shot at, dive for cover if you don't have your own, circle around and flank rather than engaging head-on, if you can. You're useless if you just sit under cover all the time, this is true, but you know what makes you more useless?" an image of a corpse riddled with bullet wounds manifests before them "Looking like this poor bastard here. It is not a fun experience, take it from me, I've been there once."

"Number three!" the jackal exclaims loudly and snaps his fingers, manifesting the image of a typical soldier for them, garbed in commonly seen combat armor. "We know these schmucks have military equipment. Expect them to wear bulletproof vests and helmets. I'm not seeing a lot of long-range firearms in this team, so point number two goes double. Be smart, try to flank. If we had someone with a rifle, these are the key weaknesses you should aim to exploit." he explains as the exposed and unprotected areas around the joints and groin, added to the neck and face light up in red to point out what the jackal was talking about.

"LASTLY!" he exclaims once more "Know your opponent's arsenal." he goes on to show off a variety of different firearms by class and type, explaining their accuracies and how deadly they are at different ranges, how accurate they are and a few tid-bits regarding how tough one's armor needs to be to withstand a round from each of them."

The illusion vanishes, and Otto finishes off by saying "But relax... we're from Fairhaven, folks. We deal with kaiju-sized monsters and rabid atrocities. What's a few soldiers? Keep your wits, fight smart, not strong, and most importantly, stay the fuck alive because if I have to come back and give death reports into Zephyr, that's going to ruin my entire fucking week!" he jokes, then leans back.

Ebreus smiles, even though it isn't likely to be seen or significant covered by the front of his helmet, as Pelle puts up a Regulation Bubble. "It's the nanites going to battery mode, Pelle, happens whenever you leave the bubble." he explains. He takes mental note of each weapon listed by the marine. He rides quietly as they make for the destination and then when the marine speaks up he thinks for a moment before replying, "That's kind of accurate. There's more fur than fantasy in Fairhaven and the other way 'round in Woodfield but there's still pleanty of WTF in both." Seeing the illusion appear in front of his eyes Ebreus watches and listens as Otto explains how to stay alive. He takes careful not of Ottos four tips for staying alive and once Otto finishes his speach he nods, "Alright, no deaths." he comments.

Pelle nods as she lisenas to ebreus explain wat happen to her "huh so that is wat happen, well it's an interesting feeling" she looks to the illusions and nods "ok i hope my small size will make it hard for them to hit me, and i do the best i can" she thinks for a moment before asking "and how will firearms work outside of the bubble?" she asks to nobody in specific

Cerl looks up, though noone can see the movement as anything other than a slight shimmer in the air. "Bio weapon? I take it, since you mentioned the bubbles, that you're not talking about pday? What is this bio weapon then, and do we need to take other precautions against infection or contamination from it?" She keeps a ear cocked towards Otto as he goes over standard battle tactics...tactics she was already intimately familiar with. Turning to Pelle, Cerl snickers. "Firearms work just fine, but are limited to however much ammo is in your clip, or like my crossbow, how much you can carry. That's why I bring 100 bolts on an out of bubble mission, along with my dagger."

Thelergramor snerks a bit. "Well they're not wrong about the cleanliness bit! Place is -covered- in semen." Is amused, up until he realizes that the marine just tempted fate with that 'kill vehicles' comment. Then he is even more amused! He leans back in his seat, hand rubbing along his sniper rifle's barrel, a bit... eager... "...Anyone have any cigarettes? Ran out last week." Not... not very concerned or professional right now... But he follows along with Otto and his imaging. That said, he's familiar with where to shoot people who have armor. Been doing the murder for a few years now. Really, he's just waiting for the truck to explode at this point... Though he does correct Ebreus. "No deaths on our side, you mean..." Should've brought a gas mask...

The Marine in the cupola shrugs. "Sorry, forgot you all have a different name for it. Us and the Navy boy's call it the Bio-weapon, ya'll call it nanites. IT was hte only explianation we could come up with for why... We didn't look human, and it'd been nearly a year before we had our wits about us again. San Diego is still a bit of a war zone with rioters attacking convoys as well, but we can handle them well enough. It's this cultists who've been giving us trouble." He replies. "Jsut figured I'd ask. Only experience we've had with folks outside San Diego was those teams your trio of factions sent our way twice." So far, 2 hours in, still no ambush, but that doesn't mean the Marine is being lax in his duty.

The road was still in horrible shape with 9 years of neglect to the, but it seemed they'd reach the point where even the truck was having to slow down to navigate the debris from nature doing it's thing undisturbed. "As for these raiders... We think they started as a group with a crazy religious bent prior to the Attack, uhh, P-day as you call it... Then with the chaos got big. Also, kiddo, firearms work just fine out here. Just make sure to count your bullets. You only got so many of 'em."
Otto strikes his chest, where his bandoleer was located. There, he had magazines a-plenty for his own firearms, including several grenades, some rapid deployment adrenaline and painkiller shots, and a combat knife. He had plenty of ammunition, but it definitely was not infinite. It was at this point that the jackal wanted to scream out "ARE WE THERE YET?" like a little child, that would have been a funny thing to do, and rather stupid as well. Were the otter nanites still skewing his judgement, he'd have repeated it several times over by now, but clearheaded as he was, he keeps his antics under control.

"Run in, ice the opposition, get the hell out. Basic shit." he shrugs and stares out the window "I wish we had a better lay of the land, but I suppose we'll improvise. Cerl and I can't really stealth around too well without the mini bubble. Well, she can. I can't." turning to her, or rather the spot that now contained some barely visible blurry lines, he shoots her a wink and says "You'll have an advantage when we get there. We'll want to know what we're really dealing with."

Ebreus chuckles as he is corrected about the 'on our side' part. He calms himself after a few moments. While a bright mood might be useful laughter was likely a distraction, at least so thought Ebreus. "Our bubbles are in a mostly peaceful semi-anarchistic state... no major rioters but the only offenses great enough to warrent really any serious punishment is murder... which is very hard to do in a bubble that'll keep you from dieing to anything but total brain destruction." he explains happy to talk to the Marine as they ride to their destination. "So if you've got a few guns and don't mind heart shots instead of headshots life is nice." he adds.

Pelle nods "ah well ok if i know that i who'd have made a few battery's for my laser rifle and a few rockets for my rocket Launcher" she things for a bit more "and the bubble i have will cheap the powers i have active?" she thinks for a bit more and seems to be holding her breach for a long time

Cerl nods, though she knows the movement can't be seen. "Well enough then, no special gear needed. Just get in, kick some ass, get out like Otto said."

Thelergramor finally does take a minute to ogle the marines... Not that they can tell through his goggles. Shrugs to himself, goes back to being good. "Yeah, go in, kill them, all that, but, no smokes then?" Ponders. "Yeah, killing people is -really- hard in the bubble." Remains tobacco free... goes back to idly fidgeting with his rifle.

"Bravo Company, this is Fireteam Echo. Approaching FOB Redway. ETA, 30 minutes. Bringing 5 Agents from Fairhaven." The Marine in the Passenger seat said, suddenly revealing that there were in fact three Marines on this truck. Considering the canvas cover is not on, and hte back of hte truck is open to hte world, there was a lot of open sky and easily viewed surroundings.

Sadly, all that open ground just happened to also be a disadvantage to seeing what happens next. "Yeah well, we'll see if we're lucky or not today. If not, you'l-" The Marine in teh cupola was saying, before his head suddenly snapped to the side, the right side of his helmet erupting in a small spray of blood, as the crack of a rifle echos though the area. Inside the cabin of hte truck, the two Marines curse. "AMBUSH!" The driver calls out. "Bravo, Bravo, taking sniper fire! I say again, taking sniper fire!" THe one on the radio reports. There was soon the rumble of an engine being gunned through the woods and a dune buggy bursts out of hte forest behind the truck, bouncing a moment on the road as it hit. Sitting in teh passenger seat of that vehicle was someone armed with what looked like a machine gun. Which once the buggy stopped serving on the road, opened fire on the group in teh back.

The moment the chaos was unleashed, Otto didn't think twice. *click, snap* he primes his Semi-Automatic rifle and turns around to take aim at the attacking vehicle. He unleashes a barrage of bullets at the passenger side attacker, aiming for his torso to maximize his chances of hitting him. They were exposed, but he was confident in his armor. Bullet wounds were nothing new to him.

Ebreus moves to put his shield between himself and the attackers as quickly as possible. He stabilizes his position as best he can in the moving truck and prepares to subject the drivet to a ranged equivalent to the electric chair should they pass within range.

Pelle gets up from her seat and wakes to the end where she climes up a bit and takes out a grenade with she pulls the pin out of and throwers at the buggy when she has thrown it she goes back in and hides behind ebreus shield

Cerl's head whips around as the dune buggy comes crashing out of the forest. Raising her crossbow, she takes aim at the driver of the vehicle and snaps off her shot. "Someone get on that machine gun, take them out!" she yells as she ducks down to try and take cover behind the tailgate of the transport truck while she reloads.

Thelergramor snaps his head towards the car coming up behind them, ignoring the deadass marine. He hefts his rifle up to his shoulder, though firing from a moving vehicle at another moving vehicle on a shitty road is not ideal... But one more bullet won't hurt. He shifts in his seated position, braces his rifle, aims down the sight and fires one shot at the machine gun wielding passenger. Driverguy isn't an issue yet... Then starts looking for the sniper, head down, not about to trust his helmet. "Hey! You're invisible, you get up there! Won't hit you!" In response to Cerl...

The crossbow bolt did it's work, hitting the driver, but not killing them, having grazed his arm. IT did however throw the machine gunner's aim off enough that the bullets went high and missed those in the back of the 2 and a half ton military truck. Of course, the pair shooting at the gunner both succeeded in hitting him, though they were not immediately fatal shots, the cry of pain from the gunner enough to distract the driver, who was in teh middle of a swerve, which put it right in teh path of hte grenade. Though it detonated undernear teh buggy, it evidently caused enough damage that the vehicle was slowing down. The truck however, is soon skidding to a stop suddenly. "SHIT!" The Driver growls out, before the sound of a heavy machine gun begins to chatter. Ahead of hte truck. The rounds punch through not only the bullet-resistant glass, but also through the back of the cabin, flying high above the agents in the bed of the truck's back. There's no more response from the pair of Marines in the front.

"Monsters of the unclean! This is your ONLY warning. These monsters claiming to be Marines have been warned time and again to leave, go back to their foul lands! If you attempt to stop the Cult of hte Clean, we will kill any you send out of your foul land!" The voice calling this out is deep, almost manicial.

Well, shit... Otto curses under his breath once the truck halted in its tracks, though looking at the way those last few rounds chewed through their bullet-resistant glass, it was clear that they were faced with something far more significant. "Is everyone alright?" he asks loudly, then tries his best to spot their new attackers. Activating his Vanishing nanomagic, the jackal disappears from direct sight, climbs out of the truck and lands with a heavy *thud*, his armor making his footfalls quite audible indeed. "We can't stay here! Head for the trees! Eb, use the shield to cover us!" Otto instructs, thinking frantically about what to do.

Ebreus lays against the truckbed with the shield atop him angled so that bullets /should/ bounce rather than penetrate. Hearing Otto jump out he takes a deep breath and climbs out of the back of the truck. He makes use of his telepathic Nanomagic to say to everyone in range, "Alright, if you want shielded get behind me." He then backs into the closer forrest keeping his shield between him and the machine gun and sniper to the best of his ability.

Pelle climes out of the now stopped car and tries her best to stay hidden and when she gets to the forest she climes up the nearest tree and disappears into the greenery

Cerl leaps out of the truck, dashing into the treeline while trying to determine where the sniper was hiding, and moving in that direction with the intention to ambush the punk right back. Once she leaves the range of the bubble and can see herself again, she employs every stealth skill she knows to remain undetected as she slinks through the forest towards her goal. Realizing the sniper is in the forest on the far side of the river, she watches for a narrower area she can cross quickly and easily...and most importantly, undetected. She keeps her senses peeled for any hint of any other enemies as she moves, ready to take them out if need be.

Thelergramor eyes the rest of his team, minus Cerl, can't see Cerl... Then scans about over the side of the truck for the sniper. He draws back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the casing, loads the new round. "HEY, CUNTISTS!" Good one, he whispers to himself. If they want maniacal, he'll give them maniacal... "I'M GOING TO EAT YOUR FUCKING LIVER AND SHOW YOU WHAT HELL IS LIKE! IN NOMINE PATR-! Huh-?" Aaaand then the rest of his team is leaving, his confidence deflates significantly. Proceeds to dive out of the truck, hopefully roll, and use Ebreus's sheild as cover. Hopefully gets a bit deep into the woods where vehicles with machine guns can't chase him before taking cover behind something thick. Or solid.

"Make this easy on yourselves! We can end your misery quickly with our 50 calibers!" The voice says. Those looking to the west seeing the reason for the Truck stopping. There were two green, brown and black trucks like the one the Agents arrived in blocking the road. Every single person present were human in form, and they were in whatever random peices of clothing they could find that was still servicable, under Army vests (due to the ACU pattern they bore), but one man, standing on the back of the southern truck was not wearing any armor. Just a long duster over a leather shirt and pants. "Once we grow strong enough, we'll end your foul hives and return humanity to it's rightful place as the clean beings we were meant to be!" He calls out. If anyone had to guess, this guy was likely the cult leader. Of course, there wasn't any sign of the sniper, but chances were that they were already gone by the time the truck stopped. The gunners track to fire on the shielded being, the look of hate and venom in their expression impossible to miss even over the muzzle flashes of the M2 Brownings that were mounted on the trucks.

Otto growls quietly at the taunts, now under the cover of the foliage. He was perceptive enough to spot the unarmored one, and that weakness was just the opening he needed. He'd trained under multiple marksmen to become a deadeye shot himself, and this was the opportunity to send those fucking cultists reeling.

The jackal went off on his own, keeping under the cover of the trees, at least as far as he could reach and stay within the bubble provided by their friend. He draws his Semi-Automatic rifle and kneels down, takes careful aim.

"Steady, steady..." he murmurs to himself, his crosshairs dancing ever so slightly over their target. He had one, maybe two shots at this guy before he ducks for cover, and once he's seen, they'll open fire on him. He had to make this count. His breathing ceased, and he even felt his heartbeat waver as he struggles so hard to line the perfect shot, and once he thinks he does, at that crucial moment... *BANG BANG BANG* he lets three bullets fly, aimed at the leader's head.

Ebreus moves around the arena staying behind the cover of trees as best he can positioning himself in so that one of the trucks is between him and the turrent as he telepathically says, "Kill the north gunner, I have the south. Somebody lob a bunch of explosives I need a distraction." and with that he readies himself to surprize the west MG once the east comes under attack.

Pelle climes higher up into the tree till she is at the top and aims her Rocket Launcher at the north gunner aiming more for his feet and when she has shot she crewels back down the tree

Realizing she has no idea where the sniper went as she can't detect any movement anywhere in the direction the shot came from, Cerl turns her attention to the dune buggy and it's occupants. Seeing them trying to unmount the squad automatic weapon from the front of the buggy, she takes careful aim at the driver, figuring that the seriously wounded passenger is much less of a threat. Quickly changing her mind, she opts to lob a grenade at the vehicle occupants.

Thelergramor looks back, leaning around the tree he took cover behind... There's a prick in a trenchcoat yelling at him. well. He's got too much backup to -eat- his liver... But Otto seems to have him. And he's asked to kill the north gunner. Which fucking way is north!? Bah. He aims at one of the other guys on the south truck; there's a rocket launcher aimed at the north one now... Cover Ebreus a bit, take one of them out. The wyrm offers up a quick prayer, half in spite, half from actual faith before looking down the sight of his rifle. Crouches, aims for the face, pulls the trigger with a murderous grin hidden behind his scarf. And Otto probably has him. Still. "I WILL SEND YOU VILE HEATHENS TO HELL!" He's in cover, the ham has returned.

Otto's trio of shots are perfectly aimed, resutling in the cult leader's head to snap back as they stitch their way up his face. Even as he collapses, teh gunner, who HAD been pointing at Otto, is ripped out of hte cupola and violently ripped apart. Though, despite this, peoples focus isn't on the beast that just ripped a man in half, or the beast that killed their leader. It's on the treeline as the rocket detonates teh truck and kills the trio on it's bed, including the gunner. As for Cerl's grenade, it lands perfectly between the two men, who barely get a chance to realize what's happened when it detonates at point blank range, killing them instantly. Thel's shot was basically redundent. The remaining 3 cultists are quickly throwing their weapons down, and raising their hands. They didn't want to die, no matter how good a rheotric their leader spat. The Marines they'd faced were never this few, and the skills the Agents showed were things they'd never thought being possible. This was far more than they asked for.

Otto blinks and tilts his head at what had just happened. Seriously? It was that easy? He thought they were in deep shit there for a moment. He doesn't put his rifle away, rather he leaves the woods and approaches the three that had surrendered. He'd already given away his location by opening fire anyway. "Down on the ground." he orders the men "Hands behind your heads, you move, I shoot." the jackal instructs, then waits for the rest of his team to gather back around. This all seemed too easy somehow... He presses the barrel of his weapon against one of the men's heads and asks "Are there others, where and how many? Talk!"

Ebreus growls as he dismembers his target shouting about how nothing could save them from him. Once the cultist he had grabbed is obviously dead he climbs into the back of the truck and glares down at them, the blood splatter of his last victum covering his hands, coat, and armor. He growls at them and he swivels the 50. cal over to aim at them and commands, "Obey."

Pelle shakes her a little an yells "otto, ebreus theirs still a sniper around and we don't know if he or she ran so get back into the forest and bring the three that surrendered with you they may have info we want to have" she climes down a bit to the lower branches where she runs over cheerful not to fall and jumps and using her wings to help glide to the tree to the left of the tree she was in

Cerl approaches the dune buggy, crossbow ready should either of her victims move. Checking them quickly to make sure they're dead....giving them a couple quick stabs with her dagger to make double sure they are, she then turns to inspect the SAW and it's mount. Seeing the gun looks mangled pretty bad by the grenade she threw, she shrugs and moves back towards the truck she arrived in. Stepping around it as she hears Otto ordering the remaining soldiers down, she first moves towards the forest enough to feel the mini bubble again, reactivating her invisibility, then settles down to watch for any movement on the other side of the river that might indicate the sniper has returned.

Thelergramor practically starts to drool at the thought of prisoners... (Not for that reason.) Completely fine with redundancy. He chambers another round, stays in cover and keeps his rifle on one of the surrendering cultists... "...I could make a crucifixion joke... I won't. 18 left." He reminds himself, watching the others... Then heads up, still in cover because there -was- a sniper. Another sniper. Not him. Moves up cautiously, stays in the trees, watches the dudes... "Make him bleed, man, he won't talk if there's no blood... I mean there's already gallons of the shit around... But still." Wyrm is hungry...

"FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING MONSTER!" The man Otto was pinning replied, spitting at Otto's feet with a glare. There's the sound of more engines coming from teh east, as soon a convoy of tan military vehicles rolls up, 1 HMMWV in the front, and a Bradley with it's gun mount rotating. Behind that is another M35 2 and a half ton. Out of the three vehicles come several marines, weapons up and ready. They see the Agents in the area, and the number of dead cultists. One climbs onto the south truck, and checks the unarmored man.

"Ma'am, this is the cultist leader." the Marine reports, looking over at a Hellhound who was in fact lacking a rifle unlike hte rest of hte Marines present. "Right. Who's in charge of the Agents here?" The Marine asked, looking over the 5. "I'm Lieutenant Ramirez, commander of Bravo Company." She said, climbing onto the truck and looking down, while croched.

*click* Otto pulls the trigger, the bullets in his first clip all spent. "Oh, would you look at that. It's your lucky day." the jackal growls, then swings his weapon and *SMACK* knocks the defiant man out cold. With a stern look on his face, the jackal turns around as the vehicles arrive, his golden gaze wandering between the various men that'd emerged. He approaches the general and speaks firmly "We didn't settle on a pre-determined leader, most of us acted on our own accord. Unfortunately, the men who brought us here and gave us our mission briefing were gunned down during an ambush. After that, we handled things to the best of our abilities. No one really called thee shots, but I instructed these agents on how to handle combat situations, such as this one. This your guy?" he waves his rifle at the deceased cult leader.

Ebreus taps his claws against the 50. cal as the cultist yells at Otto. He was just forming the right death threat for this specific occasion when the trucks arive. He rotates the 50. cal around away from the cultist but doesn't focus it on the trucks while it is pointed in their general direction. When marines step out of the truck he smiles... still not like that matters as his helmet is covering the smile. He brushes some of the loose blood off of his amor. "He's about accurate. No determined leader, we just work together well enough." he says as he hops down from the MG turrent. "Anyone have something that could reconstitute our escourts?" he asks. Then a moment later he says, "And anybody get the sniper?"

Pelle jumps out of the tree she is in wand wakes to the car they came in taking cover behind the tire and looks to the marines and shakes her head "no leader but if i where to point my finger at somebody i who'd point it to otto, that's is my opinion" she looks to Ebreus "no the sniper is still alive and a danger unless the marines got to him or her" she looks to the leader of the marines "found a sniper on your way here? and sorry for wat happen to your men who was with oss"

Cerl moves enough to call out, "Ma'am, there's a sniper across the river somewhere. I suggest you and your troops keep their heads down. The sniper already killed our machine gunner while we were in a moving vehicle." She does not drop her invisibility while saying this, letting the marines come to whatever conclusion they wish about the disembodied voice.

Thelergramor is definitely not in charge... Could lie and say he is, but... everyone kind of said he's not already. He slings his rifle over his shoulder, looks over the marines... Shrugs again. Heads over to one of the prisoners, the one who spat, moving quick to catch up. He pulls the scarf off his face, goggles atop his helmet now. Grins. "Oh you have no idea what a monster is..." That said... There's a team of marines around, And Otto probably already knocked him out; can't scare him anymore. He moves onto the next prisoner, looks over him/her. Ponders. "So, then, heathen." He's really enjoying fighting a cult for once, basically ignoring the marines now, picking up one of the cultist's guns. "...You know, I'm not good at this taunting shit. You have any cigs?" He waves off Ebreus. "I can pick one back up, gimme a minute. They're not going anywhere."

The prisoner glares at Thel, while the other one can, well, visible piss himself as judged by the growing damp spot in his jeans. Ramriez sighs. "Fuck. Alright, let's get the dead gathered, and get back to the FOB. Speed is of the essence people!" She barks out, actually barks to start it. The Marines quickly move, gaterhing the dead and the three prisoners, before checking the dead Marines. "Corporal Hart, Private Victer, and Private Crasmire are all KIA ma'am. Victer took a round through teh brain..." One reported, pulling the dead Marine out of hte cupola. The other two's torso's were torn up, but otherwise they were definitely dead. Put onto stretchers brought off the new truck the Marines keep an eye out for hte forest across the river. "Let's get moving. I'll order a helo to get you back. Without their leader, I don't see this Cult enduring much longer. Force of personality indeed." Ramirez says, getting back into the HMMWV.

Otto nods and puts his weapon away. Another venture outside the bubble under his belt, another scar in his mind, another reason to wonder if everyone have lost their damn minds out here. Ye stretches out and yawns widely, then scratches himself under his chin and asks himself one question, the elephant in the room, if you will. "Why the fuck was this leader guy even all the way out here anyway? Dumbass..." the jackal rolls his eyes, then joins the others towards the road leading back to their chaotic lifestyle in the den of nimphomanic ferals.

Ebreus watches and listends carefully to the Lieutenant. Then when she calls for the dead marines to be moved he speaks up, "Hold on! Out sniper, Thel, can fix one of them at least." He then looks over to Thel and says, "You've got plenty of time to taunt the prisoners and limited time to restore them." trying to prod him into fixing one of them before it's too late. He turns his attention back to the Lieutenant, "So which one gets a new lease on life?" he asks her.

Pelle wakes over to ebreus and flutters up to his shoulder and sits down there "well I'm glad i managed to help a bit, and i want back into our bubble i want my rocket back" she looks to the corpse of the cult leader when she hears wat otto seas "yea, perhaps the place the called home was destroyed or something like that?"

Cerl scans the far treeline one more time before moving towards the military Hummer. Dropping her invisibility as she goes, she looks at the space remaining in the vehicle and then tries to find the best spot to fit her tauric body. "So, can I take it that killing the cult leader means mission accomplished? Seemed too easy, you sure it was him?" Shrugging regardless of the response, she mutters something about not being able to grab one of the working heavy weapons as a souvenir. Looking up suddenly, she asks, "On the way here, one of them...Private Victer, I think you called him? Said something about a pair of Godzillas rampaging up and down the cost in San Diego. What's a Godzilla?" She then growls at any laughter her question engenders. "Whatever. Must be a pre-pday thing. Never mind."

Thelergramor rubs at his snout, sniffs, snake tongue flicks out once, tail curling around his leg. "..." He opened his mouth to speak but doesn't say anything, but then remembers he's a terrible person and shoots the cultist. In the face. With his own gun. Tosses that away, and idly wanders over to the stretcher, and touches one of the dead marines to revive him/her... Preferably the one that was on the gun in the back. He liked that one...

Of course while waiting for the helicopter and hopefully not being restrained by marines for murdering that other guy, he can search literally every body for cigarettes. Oh and take trenchcoat man's liver out.

And -then- probably be arrested.[[Category:RPLogs]]

Gonzaga Pt 3 - Success - RPLOG

2017-08-14T06:42:47Z

Ebreus: /* Participants */

==Participants==
[[Ebreus]]

[[Firecracker]]

[[Willy]]

[[Navara]]

==Date==
8/13/2017

==Log==
The Human stands, still holding their electric lamp that illuminates a small area around them. Even after posing their question they try to examine the Agents who have reached their location. Willy looks to the Human a little nervously. He had no idea how much they want to negotiate, or what "Creatures" meant. Taking a deep breath, the fox smiles and responds "yes, We were looking to possibly procure some electronics for our projects far south of here, especially a solar panel or two is possible." Amethyst looks around nervously, her fluffy tail twitching furiously behind her as she cowers ever so slightly. Her ears alternate between rotating around to listen to potential danger and folding back as she looks at the humans in turn. "W-We honestly didn't know anyone was out here. We didn't mean to disturb anyone..." Her hazel eyes then flash upwards at the flying pegasus. "Some of us just don't know better..." Firecracker zips down to the little grouping of people around the lantern, flaring out her large pink wings to come to a quick stop and drop to the floor in front of the human. "Hiya!" she chirps out happily, "I'm Firecracker and that's Willy, and that's Ammy!" she introduces herself and her teammates, pointing a forehoof to each as she names them, "What's your name? And I dunno if we brought anything for trading." She looks over to Willy to confirm, "Did we bring anything for trading?" The Human begins to look a little nervouse and takes a halfstep backwards away from the Agents. He jumps when Firecracker quickly aproaches him. "M-my name is Johnathan Lawrence." he says. Being in the light it isn't difficult to see that he is young, in his late 20s, maybe very early 30s, and thin. "I-I'm not sure that w-we could trade away the solar pannels." he continues. Willy sees how nervous Johnathan is and realize he's probably just as nervous. Trying to be as calm as he can he smiles and responds "We...hadn't really brought much for trade as this was expected as a Salvaging mission." he says "But we do have some protective glass cases we could trade." he says before hearing the response "We could really use at least one or two if there is any way possible. We are working on projects with nanites that require use of them. I understand though if that is your only power source." Amethyst's tufted ears perk up at the mention of trading the protective cases. The kitten girl looks up at Willy from her standing spot beside him, she gives him a small nudge and mutters quietly. "D-Don't we need those to bring the salvage back safely? Won't the nanites eat them otherwise...?" "Didn't I say ya didn't haveta be all scaredy waredy, Silly Johnny?" Firecracker giggles, trying to make the man feel more comfortable. "And anyway, if you dunno, who does?" she asks before looking around to the last places she heard the people shuffling about. "Hey peoples! What'chu guys and gals wanna trade for?" she shouts out to the darkness. Johnathan takes another step away when Firecracker speaks up again. "I'll... get someone who knows what we might want to trade." he excuses himself and quickly rushes back into the building. Once he is gone and takes his lamp with him the field between the buildings again grows dark and quiet. Willy nods and watches Johnathan leaves with a minor sigh in relaxation. "Well...this will be interesting" he says before looking over to Ammy "I wasn't planning to trade away all of them, but I expect we aren't going to be able to use them all, so I figure we may as well make them trade bait. Course, we probably could also offer trade or something, but we are a good ways from Fairhaven." Amethyst's ears fall flat, and she nods a little. "A-Alright, I suppose that's reasonable. I just hope that we don't disappoint when if we come back with less than expected..." The kitten girl clasps her hands together at her chest, and takes a few steps towards Firecracker. "And Fire, what if they had been hostile? They still might be, if we don't have anything they want!" Theres a tinge of a wavering whine in her voice, trying to speak up but at the same time, being afraid of being overhears. "Don't worry, Ammy! They're just really scared! Just gotta show em that we're their friends!" Firecracker responds to the catgirl before trotting after Johnathan as he retreats, following him back into the building to see what's going on inside! She speeds up to trot alongside him and asks, "How many people are living around here anyway? And what are their names? And what are the solar panels for? Do ya have other neat stuff around here? What do ya do for fun? What do you eat? Got any pie? I like pie! What kinda pie do you like? I can't even think of my favorite kinda pie cause they're all so good!" She smiles brightly at the human, whether or not he answers or even has the time to answer through her rapid questioning. Johnathan stops for a split second then takes off running when he hears Firecracker following him. A short distance after that he turns a corner and should Firecracker follow him she finds herself standing in front of a large man holding a rifle, glaring at her. Outside all is quiet and the darkness only worstens as the last of the light from the Sun fades into the darkness of the night. The air begins to cool in the absence of the Sun. Willy shrugs to Amethyst "I figure I can replace it...and if they aren't tr---wait Fire!" he says as she suddenly sprints off and sighs and looks back. "Ummm...don't know if I want to leave the truck in this situation." he says trying to decide to run after or not. Amethyst looks back and forth from the doorway to Willy and the truck. "I-I can't say I'm not curious... And we really should stick together." She sighs slightly, and moves to walk forward into the building. "We'll just go look around and grab her quick. Who knows what could happen." With that, the kitten girl follows, her hands gripping tightly at the strap of her messenger bag around her torso. Firecracker trots happily after Johnathan as he sprints through the building. "Aww, does that mean you don't like pie?" she asks as he bolts. When she rounds the corner and finds a rifle pointed right in her face, she responds in probably one of the most appropriate ways possible. "Hiya! I'm Firecracker! What's your name? And what's your favorite kinda pie?" she asks with a bright smile. The burly, rifle bearing, man glares at the pegasus for a moment, "Back away or I shoot." he says, sounding entirely serious. He glances at Amethyst as she reaches the corner but quickly returns his attention to the Pegasus who had spooked Johnathan. Willy sees Ametyhst run off and sighs before he chases after. Rounding the corner he stops and slides to a stop as he hears the man's words. "Whoa whoa, easy there. We weren't trying to hurt anyone, Fire just likes to be really nice" he says as he sees the shotgun. "Fire...perhaps we should hold up and wait back at the truck." he says trying to diffuse the situation a little. Amethyst gives a small squeal of surprise as she rounds the corner, the kitten girl pausing for just a moment before striding up beside Firecracker extending one of her wings across her friend, her body blocking half of the pegasus. Her hazel eyes lock on the man holding the shotgun, her gaze piercing. She says nothing, the fur on her tail fluffed up and her body shuddering just slightly. "Awww, but I wanted to meet all my new friends!" Firecracker whines slightly as she responds to Willy, poking her head around from behind Amethyst's wing to look behind the rifleman. "Oh well! Guess we gotta wait a little bit then!" she says with a shrug. Looking back to the man with the gun, she takes one step backwards and asks, "Is that enough?" If not, she'll take another single step back and ask again, and then again and again until he's satisfied. The riflemans brow wavers for a moment. He takes a breath when Firecracker begans to back up. "Further." he replies to Firecracker and repeats ten times before he lowers his rifle any. Then once he lowers the rifle he says, "You're friend has the right idea. Go back to your truck." Willy does his best to back up slowly, making sure Ammy and Fire have stepped off first. Once they have Willy turns and will meander back to the truck himself to wait. Amethyst backs up slowly, her wing folding back against her back. As the three round the corner the kitten girl's tail gives a flicker. "What are we going to do with you, Fire?" She says as she walks, looking around. "That could have been bad.." Firecracker plops her rump down on the ground 10 steps farther away from the rifleman than she was a few seconds ago. Now in an acceptable position, she repeats her questioning. "So anyway, what's your name? And what's your favorite kinda pie? And this is Ammy!" she says happily, pointing to the catgirl. She turns to Amethyst to respond to her comment shortly afterwards. "Everything CAN always be bad! But ya gotta do stuff to get good things to happen too!" she giggles. The rifleman shakes his head a sighs. "I'm not here to talk." he says. He stands still and quietly watches the three of them. After a minute or so he hums an agrivated tone for a moment. Willy sighs and closes his eyes for a moment. "Fire, we need to step back and let them get the person." he says "I know you are trying to be welcoming and all, and you did good getting your message out, but I think they need their space and time at the moment." he says. Amethyst stops a moment, turning her head back as she realizes that the pegasus isn't following. A distressed mewl emanates from her throat as she turns and stomps back, placing her hands around one of the pony's forehooves and pulling it gently to nudge her to move. "We can talk in a bit! Let's go, we've already overstayed our welcome..." "Oh, okay then!" Firecracker chirps as Amethyst practically drags her away. She stands up to all fours once more and turns to pronk her way back over to the truck. "Tell Johnny it was niceta meet him if he doesn't come back, Talky!" she calls back over her shoulder as the little group goes back to their vehicle. Shortly after they leave the building the rifleman walks up to the door that Johnathan exited through and the Agents entered and closes it before walking back down the hallway. A few minutes pass and Johnathan returns with an older gentleman. Johnathan speaks, "W-we've returned." he states then take a breath. "This is Prof-" The older man glances to Johnathan and he imediently cuts himself off then continues "Mister Jackson. He knows what we're willing to trade and for what." He older man steps forward, "Greetings... creatures?" he says. As they return, Willy smiles "Greetings, my name is Willy, and these are my friends Amethyst and Firecracker...were from Fairhaven, California a bit south of here." he says trying not to look nervious. "We came up this way in search of some salvage to help with the nanite projects in town and was wondering if we could possibly trade for it, especially solar panels." Amethyst pulls the strap of her messenger bag over her head, the bag hitting the ground with a metallic thump. The kitten girl straightens her clothing and gives a nearly inaudible mewl, looking a bit restless. Regardless, when the two humans emerged from the building once more, she raised her flushed cheeks and offered a soft smile, her feline ears folding back. She clasps her hands together in front of her, keeping quiet, as she was sure that her companions would do plenty enough talking. The second Johnathan returns, Firecracker bounces up and down in place, waving her forelegs over her head to call attention to herself. "Oh! Johnny! Over here! Hiya!" she shouts out, as if he was going to go anywhere other than the truck where the three agents were gathered. Once the duo arrives, she greets them happily once again, "Hiya, again, Johnny! And hiya to you too, Jackie!" Mister Jackson sighs as he sees and hears the hyperactive pegasus. "Greetings Willy." he says. He does not extend a hand or aproach closely instead opting to stay several feet away and speak loudly. "Our solar panels are unlikely to be available for trade unless you could provide a more reliable source of power. Now that being said we have a small excess of food and have had success in salvaging materials and recreating some machines. Should you be interested we may begin negotiating for them." he states. Willy nods in response to this "I see, and I understand about the Solar Panels, especially in the...disconnected world it had become." he says "I would be glad to see the machines you speak of though, if it is fine." he says, his curiosity a bit peaked. Amethyst looks at each individual as they talk, her tufted ears twitching. As Willy finishes talking, the kitten girl nods and takes a single step forward, raising her voice. "That would be agreeable." She says, affirming Willy's desire to see the tech. "Our mission is to collect solar panels and other technology, as well as scout the area. While it is unfortunate that the solar panels are in use, perhaps there are some broken, or obsolete panels available?" Her ears perk up inquisitively, though her voice remains soft and non-aggressive. "Got any games?!" Firecracker asks excitedly after Jackie mentions the recreated machines. "And what kinda stuff didja find? Where'dya find it? Where's the food? What kind do ya have? Got any pie? Can I have some?" Mister Jackson takes a breath and says, "We have developed some devices to aid us in reconstruction and maintenance tasks in the absence of the powered machines that existed a decade ago." he looks over the three of them and their truck, "Though it seems that your settlement in Fairhaven may be a bit ahead of us in recreating technology from before the apocalypse." He hums a thoughtful tone for a moment, "Did you drive from California?" he asks. Willy nods to Mister Jackson's discussions before shaking his head. "Ah, no actually." he says remembering. "One of the companies we work with has a Headquarters in Woodfield. We were airlifted there and then took the truck up the Interstate from there." he says. "The road, while worn down from neglect, was serviceable enough." Amethyst brushes a lock of hair back from her face. "We took quite a trip to get here. It wasn't easy. So, do you mean construction equipment?" She asks, cocking her head to the side. "Cats and the like?" "I didn't know cats were good at construction!" Firecracker interjects, blinking at Amethyst's words before redirecting her attention to the two humans. "Oh yeah! Why's everyone else hiding anyway? Just cause it's all dark and scary and weird furry hairy people showed up in a truck for unknown mysterious reasons?" Mister Jackson shakes his head, "No, we don't have things quite like that. We do have some pulley systems and some electric motors to make using them a little easier though." He turns his attention to Willy, "So there are several functioning towns... why has it taken nine years for survivor groups to come this far? It mustn't have taken you more than a few hours to make the commute from Woodfield in a truck." he says then thinks to himself for a moment. "We may have something in our library that would be of interest to you if your... you said corporation, yes? If they're looking for technology." Willy scratches the back of his head. "I...don't think I have an exact idea why." he says to Mister Jackson's question. "Though expansion out from the cities has been slow...and well...alot of people...are more interested in..." he tries to think about the best way to answer it. "pleasuring themselves and other and don't really care about the outside world." he says before hearing the second part. "I would be interested in that yes." he says. Amethyst looks over at Willy, blushing a bit at his roundabout way of explaining. "W-well, it's not only that, though that is an issue. It's also incredibly dangerous to venture out too far. Who knows what the nanites have done to people, and what could be out here." She sighs lightly, lifting a hand to one of her ears. "I was human, too, before this all happened." Firecracker looks back and forth between the people as they talk, quickly getting bored of all the talk of construction and technology and not pies! Setting her sights back on the younger man with the lamp, she asks, "Hey Johnny, whatcha do for fun 'round here?" She looks around curiously, seeing if she can spot any fun-looking stuff from her position. Mister Jackson nods in acknowledgement of their answer then says, "Alright, if you would accompany me to the library I'm certain that we will have books that are valuable to you." he says as he begins to walk. Johnathan begins to get nervous when Firecracker approaches him. "I-I mostly read and play chess." he says and takes a half step away from the pegasus. Willy nods and slowly follows Mister Jackson, hoping that the discovery is useful. He was starting to feel doubtful about if he was going to have much success with this mission, though there was alot that could still happen. Amethyst follows as well, neglecting to pick up her messenger bag. She seemed more comfortable than before, though something still seemed to unnerve her. She watches as the pony and human interact, giggling a little. "You really have nothing to fear. She's mostly harmless, unless you're an aggressive creature who comes at us in a lustful rage." "I already toldja ya don't haveta be all scaredy scaredpants," Firecracker giggles as she pronks alongside Johnathan, big poofy pink mane and tail bouncing up and down with the rest of the mare. After Amethyst speaks, she smiles and nods, "See! Mostly harmless unless you're an aggressive lustrage guy!" Mister Jackson leads Willy acrost the small field to the Library, "We've done the best we could to maintain the Library, most of the books are still here, and in readable condidtion since before the apocoplypse. Feel free to browse for something you want to trade for." he says. Meanwhile Johnathan still looks nervouse, "That's nice to know. Is she an intelligent... horse or was she human before this all happened?" he asks. Willy chuckles "Unless something really strange happened, human yes. All who are within the cities in the end were fully human before P-Day...and then...well whatever was released I think had a creator with really strange images of the world. In the end in some ways we still are, the form very much a guise." he says as he continues to be lead to the library. Amethyst nods. "What Willy said. The nanites only change what's on the outside... With enough practice and dedication you can even shift your own form..." The kitten girl's hazel eyes scan her path, and closes her eyes, walking slowly... As she does so, her ears and tail shorten, deforming, until they disappear entirely. The now (mostly) human female then speeds up, catching up with a flutter of her wings. "I haven't gotten the hang of how to get rid of these yet... But they do more good than not." She looks to the group. "So, this library, was it a public library or was it part of a college campus or something? I'm only wondering because it would be amazing to get some more specialized texts." "Horse? I'm not a horse, silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Firecracker corrects the oh so wrong man with a little flutter of her pink, feathery wings, "See?" As the little group approaches the library, she quickly scans the area. "Hmmmmmm, what's the most boringest books here? Boring work people love boring work books!" she comments, mostly to herself. She looks over to the two humans that aren't Amethyst nearby as she bounces along to ask more directly, "Where're the boring books? Or even better! Those blueprint manual thingies! Boring people love those!" Mister Jackson and Johnathan hum an interested tone. Mister Jackson says, "This is the campus Library and as I said we whent to great lengths to make sure it stayed in good condition. Whenever the world ends centuries of knowledge tends to get lost and some of it never recovered so we're doing our best to make sure it doesn't happen this time." as they reach the library. "Johnathan, could you watch the Pegasus? Willy and Amethyst you said your names are, correct? You two may search the library, with my supervision, to see if there are books your organization would be able to use." he says. Willy nods "Thank you for allowing us access." he says before he works his way down to what he believes is the Techincal Reference section. Sifting his way through the various guides, he works his way down through the Ps, until something catches his eyes. Pulling the book out, he smiles as he reads the title "Eggbert's guide to setup and operation of Photovoltaic power panels." Carefully sifting through it, he can see that it is something they are looking for, and thus looks back to Mister Jackson. "Mister Jackson, I believe this would be helpful to us." he says "So I would be happy to trade it for one of the protective glass cases we brought along. They are very good at keeping electronics protected from nanites and other things." he says. Amethyst walks through the library as well, her hazel eyes scanning the rows of books. She takes out a couple, only to botch the pronunciation of the titles, her head tilting confusedly before placing them back. "These are more specialized than I thought..." The girl notes with a light sigh. When Willy finds something, though, she perks up, walking over. "A protective glass case for a book?" Her eyes travel the cover and title and she then giggles. "Oh, of course! You think that will help us back home?" Firecracker is left alone with Johnathan as the others go into the library. "Oh! So now it's just me and you, Johnny! So we can talk all about all the fun stuff! What'cha like to read? Is it funny stuff? Or is it like adventure stuff? Fantasy? Comics? I like comics! There's all sortsa comics to read! And they're mostly pictures insteada words so you can have a whole buncha pages with only a little buncha words and a lotta pictures with stuff happening that you look at ad not read but it's kinda like reading cause it's in a book but it's pictures so it's kinda more like watching insteada reading but you read too and there's all sortsa fun stuff like BANG POW ZOOM SPLAT WHOOSH!" The rapid-fire words are accompanied by equally animated actions from the bubbly mare as she bounces in place, swinging her forelegs around to punctuate her words. Mister Jackson humms when the offer is made of him. "I would like to examine this glass box of yours before agreeing to anything but as is we are far from being able to make use of that particular book and if your corporation could use it then it may very well be better off with you." he says as he gestures for them to follow and walks to the exit. Meanwhile Johnathan is trying to avoid physical contact with the pegasus and when there is an oppertunity to do so he says, "I mostly read science fiction and mechanical engineering books. It'd be nice to see some of that fictional stuff made reality and I'd like to help fix the world once Gonzaga is more intact." A minute or so later Mister Jackson reaches the exit and says, "We're going to their truck to examine a good they want to trade for a book." and Johnathan begins to follow him, keeping Mister Jackson in the light. Upon reaching the truck he examines the box, tapping on it lightly and examining it from various angles, "And you say this thing would keep sensitive things safe should they have to travel through one of those nanite fields?" he asks. Willy nods in response to Mister Jackson. "Yes, it's required for us to be able to transport them as the areas we work in are within the Nanite Bubbles." he says. "They are in the end something that helps many of use function out of normal human ranges at times. Amethyst reaches down and picks uo her messenger bag, slinging it over her shoulder. "The nanites like to eat technology if you're not careful. Having a protective box would definitely help you if you ever travel to places where there may or may not be a nanite presence." The girl says Matter-of factly. "Sciencey stuff can be fun and so is fictiony stuff! So sciencey fictiony stuff is like, doubling the fun!" Firecracker concludes happily as the group makes it back to the truck with their new book! "Oh! What'd we get?" she asks Willy and Amethyst, flying up into a hover to look over Willy's shoulder and inspect the book. "Is it a boring blueprinty manual thingy?" Mister Jackson hums as he considers the box and the book, "Very well this is an acceptable trade." he says, noting that they have one box for the book to be placed in and smiles slightly at Willy. He steps back from the truck, still holding the box. Johnathan nods in agreement that science and fiction are fun and still keeps his distance from Firecracker. The agents then pack up the book in the spare box and start the truck. It starts up well and Willy drives them home. He somehow managed to keep the truck smoothly rolling along scarely jostling anything even on the roughest of portions. After a few hours it is well after midnight and they've returned the truck to the Promethean safe house and walked to RSXs Headquarters in Woodfield where Neil is waiting for them. "Ah, you took your time. What have you managed to collect?" he says to them. Willy smiles with the glass case in his hands. "Well, we had a bit of an incident in the university. It looks like someone of the survivors of P-Day have made themselves shelter on the campus, and as part of it, they are maintaining the campus' library." he says "We were able to work with them and get a technical manual on solar panels." he says "Cost us one of the glass cases, but I can cover the cost of replacement if need be." Amethyst seems a bit sheepish, her hands holding onto the strap around her torso. "I-I feel kind of guilty for not coming back with the actual tech, but the locals relied on them for power and if we had taken them, we would be the ones in the wrong..." She sighs lightly, brushing back a lock of hair. "Hopefully the information contained in the book will be enough and we can create our own via our own means." "Bye bye, Johnny! Bye bye, Jackie! Say 'Bye bye' to Talky and everyone else for me!" Firecracker says to the humans as she hangs out of the window of the car as they group gets set to leave. The whole way back, the pegasus once again hangs her head out the window to let the wind blow in her face and whip her mane around behind her. Once back at base, Firecracker listens to the others before adding in, "Oh! Now that we know peoples are there we can go back over and over and keep trading with em! But I don't think they like all the hair and stuff." She looks down at her pink coat and then back up to the clockwork fox, "But they really like machiney stuff!" she says with a smile. "You should go next time! Oh, and say 'hi' to Johnny and Jackie and Talky for me!" Niel take the box and peers into it to read the title of the book as he listens to the Agents explain and notes Navara, who had been watching the truck, climb into the chopper and dose off. "The cases are replaceable to a limmited extent." the Clockwork Fox says, "But I believe the value of this manual will outweight the loss of the box." he continues. Looking up from the box to Amethyst, "It is always a little sad when one can't get what they set out to get. Still you've managed to come back with something useful when some groups would have just lost the truck and boxes." When Firecracker mentions the idea of Neil going to Gonzagas campus he shakes his head, "I don't think that would be wise... being made of metal cause aches without a bubble to keep everything running smoothly. Now I'll make sure that you're aproprately compensated for this success." he says as he climbs onto the chopper for the flight back to Fairhaven.

Gonzaga Pt 3 - Success - RPLOG

2017-08-14T06:42:32Z

Ebreus: Added the page in it's entirety after an error with RPlogging made it necessary to do manually for this one.

==Participants==
[[Ebreus]]
[[Firecracker]]
[[Willy]]
[[Navara]]

==Date==
8/13/2017

==Log==
The Human stands, still holding their electric lamp that illuminates a small area around them. Even after posing their question they try to examine the Agents who have reached their location. Willy looks to the Human a little nervously. He had no idea how much they want to negotiate, or what "Creatures" meant. Taking a deep breath, the fox smiles and responds "yes, We were looking to possibly procure some electronics for our projects far south of here, especially a solar panel or two is possible." Amethyst looks around nervously, her fluffy tail twitching furiously behind her as she cowers ever so slightly. Her ears alternate between rotating around to listen to potential danger and folding back as she looks at the humans in turn. "W-We honestly didn't know anyone was out here. We didn't mean to disturb anyone..." Her hazel eyes then flash upwards at the flying pegasus. "Some of us just don't know better..." Firecracker zips down to the little grouping of people around the lantern, flaring out her large pink wings to come to a quick stop and drop to the floor in front of the human. "Hiya!" she chirps out happily, "I'm Firecracker and that's Willy, and that's Ammy!" she introduces herself and her teammates, pointing a forehoof to each as she names them, "What's your name? And I dunno if we brought anything for trading." She looks over to Willy to confirm, "Did we bring anything for trading?" The Human begins to look a little nervouse and takes a halfstep backwards away from the Agents. He jumps when Firecracker quickly aproaches him. "M-my name is Johnathan Lawrence." he says. Being in the light it isn't difficult to see that he is young, in his late 20s, maybe very early 30s, and thin. "I-I'm not sure that w-we could trade away the solar pannels." he continues. Willy sees how nervous Johnathan is and realize he's probably just as nervous. Trying to be as calm as he can he smiles and responds "We...hadn't really brought much for trade as this was expected as a Salvaging mission." he says "But we do have some protective glass cases we could trade." he says before hearing the response "We could really use at least one or two if there is any way possible. We are working on projects with nanites that require use of them. I understand though if that is your only power source." Amethyst's tufted ears perk up at the mention of trading the protective cases. The kitten girl looks up at Willy from her standing spot beside him, she gives him a small nudge and mutters quietly. "D-Don't we need those to bring the salvage back safely? Won't the nanites eat them otherwise...?" "Didn't I say ya didn't haveta be all scaredy waredy, Silly Johnny?" Firecracker giggles, trying to make the man feel more comfortable. "And anyway, if you dunno, who does?" she asks before looking around to the last places she heard the people shuffling about. "Hey peoples! What'chu guys and gals wanna trade for?" she shouts out to the darkness. Johnathan takes another step away when Firecracker speaks up again. "I'll... get someone who knows what we might want to trade." he excuses himself and quickly rushes back into the building. Once he is gone and takes his lamp with him the field between the buildings again grows dark and quiet. Willy nods and watches Johnathan leaves with a minor sigh in relaxation. "Well...this will be interesting" he says before looking over to Ammy "I wasn't planning to trade away all of them, but I expect we aren't going to be able to use them all, so I figure we may as well make them trade bait. Course, we probably could also offer trade or something, but we are a good ways from Fairhaven." Amethyst's ears fall flat, and she nods a little. "A-Alright, I suppose that's reasonable. I just hope that we don't disappoint when if we come back with less than expected..." The kitten girl clasps her hands together at her chest, and takes a few steps towards Firecracker. "And Fire, what if they had been hostile? They still might be, if we don't have anything they want!" Theres a tinge of a wavering whine in her voice, trying to speak up but at the same time, being afraid of being overhears. "Don't worry, Ammy! They're just really scared! Just gotta show em that we're their friends!" Firecracker responds to the catgirl before trotting after Johnathan as he retreats, following him back into the building to see what's going on inside! She speeds up to trot alongside him and asks, "How many people are living around here anyway? And what are their names? And what are the solar panels for? Do ya have other neat stuff around here? What do ya do for fun? What do you eat? Got any pie? I like pie! What kinda pie do you like? I can't even think of my favorite kinda pie cause they're all so good!" She smiles brightly at the human, whether or not he answers or even has the time to answer through her rapid questioning. Johnathan stops for a split second then takes off running when he hears Firecracker following him. A short distance after that he turns a corner and should Firecracker follow him she finds herself standing in front of a large man holding a rifle, glaring at her. Outside all is quiet and the darkness only worstens as the last of the light from the Sun fades into the darkness of the night. The air begins to cool in the absence of the Sun. Willy shrugs to Amethyst "I figure I can replace it...and if they aren't tr---wait Fire!" he says as she suddenly sprints off and sighs and looks back. "Ummm...don't know if I want to leave the truck in this situation." he says trying to decide to run after or not. Amethyst looks back and forth from the doorway to Willy and the truck. "I-I can't say I'm not curious... And we really should stick together." She sighs slightly, and moves to walk forward into the building. "We'll just go look around and grab her quick. Who knows what could happen." With that, the kitten girl follows, her hands gripping tightly at the strap of her messenger bag around her torso. Firecracker trots happily after Johnathan as he sprints through the building. "Aww, does that mean you don't like pie?" she asks as he bolts. When she rounds the corner and finds a rifle pointed right in her face, she responds in probably one of the most appropriate ways possible. "Hiya! I'm Firecracker! What's your name? And what's your favorite kinda pie?" she asks with a bright smile. The burly, rifle bearing, man glares at the pegasus for a moment, "Back away or I shoot." he says, sounding entirely serious. He glances at Amethyst as she reaches the corner but quickly returns his attention to the Pegasus who had spooked Johnathan. Willy sees Ametyhst run off and sighs before he chases after. Rounding the corner he stops and slides to a stop as he hears the man's words. "Whoa whoa, easy there. We weren't trying to hurt anyone, Fire just likes to be really nice" he says as he sees the shotgun. "Fire...perhaps we should hold up and wait back at the truck." he says trying to diffuse the situation a little. Amethyst gives a small squeal of surprise as she rounds the corner, the kitten girl pausing for just a moment before striding up beside Firecracker extending one of her wings across her friend, her body blocking half of the pegasus. Her hazel eyes lock on the man holding the shotgun, her gaze piercing. She says nothing, the fur on her tail fluffed up and her body shuddering just slightly. "Awww, but I wanted to meet all my new friends!" Firecracker whines slightly as she responds to Willy, poking her head around from behind Amethyst's wing to look behind the rifleman. "Oh well! Guess we gotta wait a little bit then!" she says with a shrug. Looking back to the man with the gun, she takes one step backwards and asks, "Is that enough?" If not, she'll take another single step back and ask again, and then again and again until he's satisfied. The riflemans brow wavers for a moment. He takes a breath when Firecracker begans to back up. "Further." he replies to Firecracker and repeats ten times before he lowers his rifle any. Then once he lowers the rifle he says, "You're friend has the right idea. Go back to your truck." Willy does his best to back up slowly, making sure Ammy and Fire have stepped off first. Once they have Willy turns and will meander back to the truck himself to wait. Amethyst backs up slowly, her wing folding back against her back. As the three round the corner the kitten girl's tail gives a flicker. "What are we going to do with you, Fire?" She says as she walks, looking around. "That could have been bad.." Firecracker plops her rump down on the ground 10 steps farther away from the rifleman than she was a few seconds ago. Now in an acceptable position, she repeats her questioning. "So anyway, what's your name? And what's your favorite kinda pie? And this is Ammy!" she says happily, pointing to the catgirl. She turns to Amethyst to respond to her comment shortly afterwards. "Everything CAN always be bad! But ya gotta do stuff to get good things to happen too!" she giggles. The rifleman shakes his head a sighs. "I'm not here to talk." he says. He stands still and quietly watches the three of them. After a minute or so he hums an agrivated tone for a moment. Willy sighs and closes his eyes for a moment. "Fire, we need to step back and let them get the person." he says "I know you are trying to be welcoming and all, and you did good getting your message out, but I think they need their space and time at the moment." he says. Amethyst stops a moment, turning her head back as she realizes that the pegasus isn't following. A distressed mewl emanates from her throat as she turns and stomps back, placing her hands around one of the pony's forehooves and pulling it gently to nudge her to move. "We can talk in a bit! Let's go, we've already overstayed our welcome..." "Oh, okay then!" Firecracker chirps as Amethyst practically drags her away. She stands up to all fours once more and turns to pronk her way back over to the truck. "Tell Johnny it was niceta meet him if he doesn't come back, Talky!" she calls back over her shoulder as the little group goes back to their vehicle. Shortly after they leave the building the rifleman walks up to the door that Johnathan exited through and the Agents entered and closes it before walking back down the hallway. A few minutes pass and Johnathan returns with an older gentleman. Johnathan speaks, "W-we've returned." he states then take a breath. "This is Prof-" The older man glances to Johnathan and he imediently cuts himself off then continues "Mister Jackson. He knows what we're willing to trade and for what." He older man steps forward, "Greetings... creatures?" he says. As they return, Willy smiles "Greetings, my name is Willy, and these are my friends Amethyst and Firecracker...were from Fairhaven, California a bit south of here." he says trying not to look nervious. "We came up this way in search of some salvage to help with the nanite projects in town and was wondering if we could possibly trade for it, especially solar panels." Amethyst pulls the strap of her messenger bag over her head, the bag hitting the ground with a metallic thump. The kitten girl straightens her clothing and gives a nearly inaudible mewl, looking a bit restless. Regardless, when the two humans emerged from the building once more, she raised her flushed cheeks and offered a soft smile, her feline ears folding back. She clasps her hands together in front of her, keeping quiet, as she was sure that her companions would do plenty enough talking. The second Johnathan returns, Firecracker bounces up and down in place, waving her forelegs over her head to call attention to herself. "Oh! Johnny! Over here! Hiya!" she shouts out, as if he was going to go anywhere other than the truck where the three agents were gathered. Once the duo arrives, she greets them happily once again, "Hiya, again, Johnny! And hiya to you too, Jackie!" Mister Jackson sighs as he sees and hears the hyperactive pegasus. "Greetings Willy." he says. He does not extend a hand or aproach closely instead opting to stay several feet away and speak loudly. "Our solar panels are unlikely to be available for trade unless you could provide a more reliable source of power. Now that being said we have a small excess of food and have had success in salvaging materials and recreating some machines. Should you be interested we may begin negotiating for them." he states. Willy nods in response to this "I see, and I understand about the Solar Panels, especially in the...disconnected world it had become." he says "I would be glad to see the machines you speak of though, if it is fine." he says, his curiosity a bit peaked. Amethyst looks at each individual as they talk, her tufted ears twitching. As Willy finishes talking, the kitten girl nods and takes a single step forward, raising her voice. "That would be agreeable." She says, affirming Willy's desire to see the tech. "Our mission is to collect solar panels and other technology, as well as scout the area. While it is unfortunate that the solar panels are in use, perhaps there are some broken, or obsolete panels available?" Her ears perk up inquisitively, though her voice remains soft and non-aggressive. "Got any games?!" Firecracker asks excitedly after Jackie mentions the recreated machines. "And what kinda stuff didja find? Where'dya find it? Where's the food? What kind do ya have? Got any pie? Can I have some?" Mister Jackson takes a breath and says, "We have developed some devices to aid us in reconstruction and maintenance tasks in the absence of the powered machines that existed a decade ago." he looks over the three of them and their truck, "Though it seems that your settlement in Fairhaven may be a bit ahead of us in recreating technology from before the apocalypse." He hums a thoughtful tone for a moment, "Did you drive from California?" he asks. Willy nods to Mister Jackson's discussions before shaking his head. "Ah, no actually." he says remembering. "One of the companies we work with has a Headquarters in Woodfield. We were airlifted there and then took the truck up the Interstate from there." he says. "The road, while worn down from neglect, was serviceable enough." Amethyst brushes a lock of hair back from her face. "We took quite a trip to get here. It wasn't easy. So, do you mean construction equipment?" She asks, cocking her head to the side. "Cats and the like?" "I didn't know cats were good at construction!" Firecracker interjects, blinking at Amethyst's words before redirecting her attention to the two humans. "Oh yeah! Why's everyone else hiding anyway? Just cause it's all dark and scary and weird furry hairy people showed up in a truck for unknown mysterious reasons?" Mister Jackson shakes his head, "No, we don't have things quite like that. We do have some pulley systems and some electric motors to make using them a little easier though." He turns his attention to Willy, "So there are several functioning towns... why has it taken nine years for survivor groups to come this far? It mustn't have taken you more than a few hours to make the commute from Woodfield in a truck." he says then thinks to himself for a moment. "We may have something in our library that would be of interest to you if your... you said corporation, yes? If they're looking for technology." Willy scratches the back of his head. "I...don't think I have an exact idea why." he says to Mister Jackson's question. "Though expansion out from the cities has been slow...and well...alot of people...are more interested in..." he tries to think about the best way to answer it. "pleasuring themselves and other and don't really care about the outside world." he says before hearing the second part. "I would be interested in that yes." he says. Amethyst looks over at Willy, blushing a bit at his roundabout way of explaining. "W-well, it's not only that, though that is an issue. It's also incredibly dangerous to venture out too far. Who knows what the nanites have done to people, and what could be out here." She sighs lightly, lifting a hand to one of her ears. "I was human, too, before this all happened." Firecracker looks back and forth between the people as they talk, quickly getting bored of all the talk of construction and technology and not pies! Setting her sights back on the younger man with the lamp, she asks, "Hey Johnny, whatcha do for fun 'round here?" She looks around curiously, seeing if she can spot any fun-looking stuff from her position. Mister Jackson nods in acknowledgement of their answer then says, "Alright, if you would accompany me to the library I'm certain that we will have books that are valuable to you." he says as he begins to walk. Johnathan begins to get nervous when Firecracker approaches him. "I-I mostly read and play chess." he says and takes a half step away from the pegasus. Willy nods and slowly follows Mister Jackson, hoping that the discovery is useful. He was starting to feel doubtful about if he was going to have much success with this mission, though there was alot that could still happen. Amethyst follows as well, neglecting to pick up her messenger bag. She seemed more comfortable than before, though something still seemed to unnerve her. She watches as the pony and human interact, giggling a little. "You really have nothing to fear. She's mostly harmless, unless you're an aggressive creature who comes at us in a lustful rage." "I already toldja ya don't haveta be all scaredy scaredpants," Firecracker giggles as she pronks alongside Johnathan, big poofy pink mane and tail bouncing up and down with the rest of the mare. After Amethyst speaks, she smiles and nods, "See! Mostly harmless unless you're an aggressive lustrage guy!" Mister Jackson leads Willy acrost the small field to the Library, "We've done the best we could to maintain the Library, most of the books are still here, and in readable condidtion since before the apocoplypse. Feel free to browse for something you want to trade for." he says. Meanwhile Johnathan still looks nervouse, "That's nice to know. Is she an intelligent... horse or was she human before this all happened?" he asks. Willy chuckles "Unless something really strange happened, human yes. All who are within the cities in the end were fully human before P-Day...and then...well whatever was released I think had a creator with really strange images of the world. In the end in some ways we still are, the form very much a guise." he says as he continues to be lead to the library. Amethyst nods. "What Willy said. The nanites only change what's on the outside... With enough practice and dedication you can even shift your own form..." The kitten girl's hazel eyes scan her path, and closes her eyes, walking slowly... As she does so, her ears and tail shorten, deforming, until they disappear entirely. The now (mostly) human female then speeds up, catching up with a flutter of her wings. "I haven't gotten the hang of how to get rid of these yet... But they do more good than not." She looks to the group. "So, this library, was it a public library or was it part of a college campus or something? I'm only wondering because it would be amazing to get some more specialized texts." "Horse? I'm not a horse, silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Firecracker corrects the oh so wrong man with a little flutter of her pink, feathery wings, "See?" As the little group approaches the library, she quickly scans the area. "Hmmmmmm, what's the most boringest books here? Boring work people love boring work books!" she comments, mostly to herself. She looks over to the two humans that aren't Amethyst nearby as she bounces along to ask more directly, "Where're the boring books? Or even better! Those blueprint manual thingies! Boring people love those!" Mister Jackson and Johnathan hum an interested tone. Mister Jackson says, "This is the campus Library and as I said we whent to great lengths to make sure it stayed in good condition. Whenever the world ends centuries of knowledge tends to get lost and some of it never recovered so we're doing our best to make sure it doesn't happen this time." as they reach the library. "Johnathan, could you watch the Pegasus? Willy and Amethyst you said your names are, correct? You two may search the library, with my supervision, to see if there are books your organization would be able to use." he says. Willy nods "Thank you for allowing us access." he says before he works his way down to what he believes is the Techincal Reference section. Sifting his way through the various guides, he works his way down through the Ps, until something catches his eyes. Pulling the book out, he smiles as he reads the title "Eggbert's guide to setup and operation of Photovoltaic power panels." Carefully sifting through it, he can see that it is something they are looking for, and thus looks back to Mister Jackson. "Mister Jackson, I believe this would be helpful to us." he says "So I would be happy to trade it for one of the protective glass cases we brought along. They are very good at keeping electronics protected from nanites and other things." he says. Amethyst walks through the library as well, her hazel eyes scanning the rows of books. She takes out a couple, only to botch the pronunciation of the titles, her head tilting confusedly before placing them back. "These are more specialized than I thought..." The girl notes with a light sigh. When Willy finds something, though, she perks up, walking over. "A protective glass case for a book?" Her eyes travel the cover and title and she then giggles. "Oh, of course! You think that will help us back home?" Firecracker is left alone with Johnathan as the others go into the library. "Oh! So now it's just me and you, Johnny! So we can talk all about all the fun stuff! What'cha like to read? Is it funny stuff? Or is it like adventure stuff? Fantasy? Comics? I like comics! There's all sortsa comics to read! And they're mostly pictures insteada words so you can have a whole buncha pages with only a little buncha words and a lotta pictures with stuff happening that you look at ad not read but it's kinda like reading cause it's in a book but it's pictures so it's kinda more like watching insteada reading but you read too and there's all sortsa fun stuff like BANG POW ZOOM SPLAT WHOOSH!" The rapid-fire words are accompanied by equally animated actions from the bubbly mare as she bounces in place, swinging her forelegs around to punctuate her words. Mister Jackson humms when the offer is made of him. "I would like to examine this glass box of yours before agreeing to anything but as is we are far from being able to make use of that particular book and if your corporation could use it then it may very well be better off with you." he says as he gestures for them to follow and walks to the exit. Meanwhile Johnathan is trying to avoid physical contact with the pegasus and when there is an oppertunity to do so he says, "I mostly read science fiction and mechanical engineering books. It'd be nice to see some of that fictional stuff made reality and I'd like to help fix the world once Gonzaga is more intact." A minute or so later Mister Jackson reaches the exit and says, "We're going to their truck to examine a good they want to trade for a book." and Johnathan begins to follow him, keeping Mister Jackson in the light. Upon reaching the truck he examines the box, tapping on it lightly and examining it from various angles, "And you say this thing would keep sensitive things safe should they have to travel through one of those nanite fields?" he asks. Willy nods in response to Mister Jackson. "Yes, it's required for us to be able to transport them as the areas we work in are within the Nanite Bubbles." he says. "They are in the end something that helps many of use function out of normal human ranges at times. Amethyst reaches down and picks uo her messenger bag, slinging it over her shoulder. "The nanites like to eat technology if you're not careful. Having a protective box would definitely help you if you ever travel to places where there may or may not be a nanite presence." The girl says Matter-of factly. "Sciencey stuff can be fun and so is fictiony stuff! So sciencey fictiony stuff is like, doubling the fun!" Firecracker concludes happily as the group makes it back to the truck with their new book! "Oh! What'd we get?" she asks Willy and Amethyst, flying up into a hover to look over Willy's shoulder and inspect the book. "Is it a boring blueprinty manual thingy?" Mister Jackson hums as he considers the box and the book, "Very well this is an acceptable trade." he says, noting that they have one box for the book to be placed in and smiles slightly at Willy. He steps back from the truck, still holding the box. Johnathan nods in agreement that science and fiction are fun and still keeps his distance from Firecracker. The agents then pack up the book in the spare box and start the truck. It starts up well and Willy drives them home. He somehow managed to keep the truck smoothly rolling along scarely jostling anything even on the roughest of portions. After a few hours it is well after midnight and they've returned the truck to the Promethean safe house and walked to RSXs Headquarters in Woodfield where Neil is waiting for them. "Ah, you took your time. What have you managed to collect?" he says to them. Willy smiles with the glass case in his hands. "Well, we had a bit of an incident in the university. It looks like someone of the survivors of P-Day have made themselves shelter on the campus, and as part of it, they are maintaining the campus' library." he says "We were able to work with them and get a technical manual on solar panels." he says "Cost us one of the glass cases, but I can cover the cost of replacement if need be." Amethyst seems a bit sheepish, her hands holding onto the strap around her torso. "I-I feel kind of guilty for not coming back with the actual tech, but the locals relied on them for power and if we had taken them, we would be the ones in the wrong..." She sighs lightly, brushing back a lock of hair. "Hopefully the information contained in the book will be enough and we can create our own via our own means." "Bye bye, Johnny! Bye bye, Jackie! Say 'Bye bye' to Talky and everyone else for me!" Firecracker says to the humans as she hangs out of the window of the car as they group gets set to leave. The whole way back, the pegasus once again hangs her head out the window to let the wind blow in her face and whip her mane around behind her. Once back at base, Firecracker listens to the others before adding in, "Oh! Now that we know peoples are there we can go back over and over and keep trading with em! But I don't think they like all the hair and stuff." She looks down at her pink coat and then back up to the clockwork fox, "But they really like machiney stuff!" she says with a smile. "You should go next time! Oh, and say 'hi' to Johnny and Jackie and Talky for me!" Niel take the box and peers into it to read the title of the book as he listens to the Agents explain and notes Navara, who had been watching the truck, climb into the chopper and dose off. "The cases are replaceable to a limmited extent." the Clockwork Fox says, "But I believe the value of this manual will outweight the loss of the box." he continues. Looking up from the box to Amethyst, "It is always a little sad when one can't get what they set out to get. Still you've managed to come back with something useful when some groups would have just lost the truck and boxes." When Firecracker mentions the idea of Neil going to Gonzagas campus he shakes his head, "I don't think that would be wise... being made of metal cause aches without a bubble to keep everything running smoothly. Now I'll make sure that you're aproprately compensated for this success." he says as he climbs onto the chopper for the flight back to Fairhaven.

Gonzaga Pt 2 - Arrival - RPLOG

2017-08-03T05:34:34Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Willy]]
* [[Amethyst]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Navara]]
=Date=
8/02/2017
=Log=
Neil exits the interviewing room about fifteen seconds after Amethyst does and leaves the hut entirely. He returns exactly five minutes after talking Ameythyst he needed a five minute break. "Pegasus, come with me. It is time for your interview." he says as he heads into the room. Alissa steps aside from the podium and digs through a small bag as Neil exits the hut. She removes a bunch of strawberries from the pouch and says, "Would anyone like some fruit? I have some to spare." before eating one of the strawberries, biting it so that the stem may be discarded. Amethyst takes a few steps over to Alissa, clasping her hands together in front of her and tilting her head. "Fruit? May I try a few?" She asks, cocking her head and looking over the strawberries curiously. She then turns and flops down on a nearby seat, kicking her legs idly. She then looks over to smile softly at Firecracker, raising a hand to wave. "Good luck! Not that you'll need it!" Willy looks at the strawberries with a smile and picks one from the bunch "Thank you" he says as he gently removes the leaves and stem before be noms on it happily. The fox wags his tail with a smile. "Man I always love these when I was younger." "Oh! Me! I knew there was gunna be snacks!" Firecracker chirps out happily, darting through the air to the podium and landing atop it. "Thanks!" she says to the husky before opening her mouth nice and wide, bending down to the fruits, and clamping her tiny teethies down on one of them. With the sweet thing held in her mouth, she spreads her wings and shoots off through the door after Neil, waving goodbye to all the people left behind! Alissa smiles and her tail wags happily. She takes four berries from the bunch and sets them in Amethysts hands when she cups them to recieve the strawberries. "I'm glad you like them." she responds to Willy and Navara. She watches as the tiny pony carries away one of the large ripe strawberries, "Good luck!" she wishes the Pony. Inside the beige interviewing room Neil walks around the desk before sitting and returning to perfect posture. He watches the small, strawberry carrying, Pony fly around. "Please take a seat and we will begin." he says. Firecracker lands atop the desk with the strawberry in her mouth, closing her jaw to take a bite out of the fruit and letting it drop on the desk in front of her. "Fanks! Buh I dun weally needa sead, sho yoo gan geep id!" she says to the interviewer, mouth stuffed with juicy redness and making her words rather difficult to understand as she chews. Amethyst brings her cupped hands to her face, taking a deep sniff of the fruit. She then smiles and nods approvingly, beginning to nibble on them... Though some juice escapes her mouth and trails down the corner of her mouth. "Wow, these are so sweet. I really should expand my diet now that I'm above ground..." She muses for only a moment before continuing to savor the berries. Willy finishes off his strawberry. "Not bad at all. A little sweeter than the old store brands I recall, but that something that can be good on their own." he says before patiently waiting on Fire's interview. Neils eyes widen as the strange creature lands on his desk with a piece of fruit. He hums lightly, a sound that is more similar to a louder version of the whirring noise that always comes from Clockwork Foxes, for just a moment before saying, "Are you sure? You may want to... become larger so that if while on mission and something stops you from flying you don't get left behind or stepped on." he says. Navara chomps happily on her strawberry, licking her lips when a little extra juice seeps out. Looking over the strawberry curiously, she ponders softly. "I wonder if I could make anything like this..." Firecracker makes a rather loud gulping sound as she swallows down her bit of strawberry, and then points to it with a hoof as she offers some to her interviewer. "Want some? And am I s'posedta be bigger for this? Okay then! Say whenta stop!" she says to the clockwork fox before she inhales a deep breath through her mouth, plugs it with her hoof, and then blows, quickly getting larger in her spot on the desk as she keeps her ears perked for a signal to stop her growth. Alissa smiles as the agents enjoy her strawberries and she eats another of them. At about this time Cookies who had been fairly quiet excuses herself and rushes out explaining that they would not be able to participate in this contract. Alissa watches the door, a bit confused at the going on, before shrugging and returning her attention to the agents still here. "Make strawberries? You mean like grow a garden of their plants?" she asks as Navara suggests making them. Neil watches the tiny pegasus as she expands in a way that almost makes him wonder if she is somehow made of synthetic materials. He watches, his head tilted slightly to the left, as she expands until she is about five feet tall. "Alright, that size should be about enough." he says. He then tales a breath and continues, "No thank you about the strawberry. I have some questions for you. The first of which being what do you think qualifies you to take this contract?" Amethyst glances to Navara as she finishes her strawberries, licking the juice from her lips. "A garden would be cool, but I would be worried about any... pests. You don't exactly have just small critters who will want your food..." Willy licks his lips as he finishes his strawberry. "As long as you have the people power to deal with them, you should be fine. New Dawn after all has a small community far setup as is, and they don't seem to have any big issues." Navara chuckles softly, finishing her strawberry off right up to the leafy nub. Leaning back into her chair, she stretches her legs out in front of her, looking over to Amethyst. "Gardens for stuff like this is nice, sure. Though, I was actually thinking about what I can do with the NICE I had recently installed. Still figuring out what I can do with that nanomagic." Firecracker pops her hoof out of her mouth as she reaches just a bit over five feet long, still leaving her about 4 feet tall when standing on all fours. "Okie dokie lokie!" she says, still sitting atop the desk as she bends down and scoops up the strawberry with her tongue to finish the snack! "Oh! I know that one! You wanted someone to 'deal with unexpected elements'," she says, raising her forelegs up to make airquotes by bending her 'wrists', "and no one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Their chief weapon is surprise! And the element of surprise is unexpected and I love surprises!" Alissa slowly nods as she recognizes the subject is drifting into the nanomagical. He smiles at the three agents and makes to effort to conceal the remaining strawberries. "I don't know if they're able to make fruits... I wonder if their taste would be affected." he says. Neil, the clockwork fox whom up to this point had shown no indication that he wasn't actually a robot, snerks as Firecracker uses the old Monty Python line. He immediately calms himself and says, "While it is true that the element of surprise is very effective I am here to evaluate you on your specific skills in how they relate to this contract. Are you qualified to work with pre P-Day tech? Do you have applicable Nanomagics?" he asks a very feint tone of amusement in his voice. "I have no idea! Maybe!" Firecracker replies with a wide smile. "First ya gotta tell me what those things are then I can tell ya if I am or not or do or don't!" Amethyst tilts her head at the mention of nanomagic, though she seems content to listen, her fluffy tufted ears at attention atop her head. Likewise, her tail wavers in the air between the kitten girl's back and the back of the chair. Neil again tilts his head, confused by the pegasus, "Well... a qualification would be having demonstrable skill with technology, Nanomagics are the abilities provided by the varius programs exicutable via a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, or as most people call it a N.I.C.E." he says. He takes another breath. Navara turns briefly to Alissa as she joins in the subject. Though, she furrows her brow, scratching behind an ear as she thinks. "Well, from what I understand so far is that with culinary nanomagic you can make fruits. Can't make anything that grows...but it still taste like a fruit. Just has the nutrients of whatever biomass you make it out of...or I could produce something like that as a syrup or juice...." Navara scratches her, thoughtful and trying make sure she had caught on with everything she had been when she had the NICE installed. Alissa nods slowly, "Oh... so you could make carrots into strawberries but not strawberry plants?" she asks, she sounds quite curious about the idea of making fruit from not-fruit. "Oh! Roomie has a compy that he let me play with! Does that count?" Firecracker asks cheerfully. "And I'm probably the nicest nicer that ever niced a nicety!" she adds, jovially swinging a foreleg in front of her. Amethyst tilts her head more, as if that was even possible. "Nanomagic sounds... confusing." She muses, flicking her tail and leaning back in her seat. "I've heard it's useful on the field, but I've never looked into it, myself..." Neil watches the human-sized pegasus blankly for a moment before saying, "Alright... so you do have a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, could you list what programs you have for it or demonstrate them?" he asks. Willy nods inquisitively "Huh...so it's kinda like...I doubt most people will get this...like a replicator from old Science Fiction shows, making stuff from the reworked materials of other things?" "I have no idea!" Firecracker answers happily once again, "Is there a wayta check or somethin'? What's it look like? I got a lotta stuff!" Navara sighs, scratching her cheek. She nods to Amethyst. "You're telling me. That's why I've been trying to practice with it!" Chuckling, she nods to Willy and Alissa in tandem. "Yes, and yes. And, they would taste and feel like strawberries, but they'd have the nutrients of a carrot." Neil blinks a few times. He then says, "I can provide you with a test for technical skills." he then opens a drawer and sets the reassembled Bamboozler on the table. "This thing is broken and I am not sure what it is. Could you tell me and fix it?" he says. Alissas eyes widen slightly, "That is amazing. It'd certainly make eating the less yummy healthy things more bearable." she comments. Amethyst giggles. "That would actually be really cool for things like rations. Maybe you could make dry, pasty rations taste like chocolate cake!" She continues to kick her legs, her body swaying with the momentum. Willy nods "yes that would. I do wonder though if it also can be used for not so nice means, but having tasted the honey from you Navara, I don't think that’s coming from your rapture of course." he says with a smile. Navara purrs softly, tilting her head she considers the possibilities. "I....think I might be able to that to rations? Maybe?" She shrugs to Willy. "I'm sure there is some nasty this you could do. My focus is just even learning what I can do." Firecracker blinks at the Bamboozler, tilting her head this way and that in confusion before suddenly perking up in realization! "Ohhhhh! This is onea those art thingies you make outta a bunch of different parts, right?" she asks before standing over it and moving around to see it from from all angles. "Oh no, wait! There's some computery stuff and an art thingy all mixed together!" she says with a smile, pulling out bits of a toaster and blender from the full computer she quickly puts together with her forehooves inexplicably. With the computer put back in working order, she turns to her remaining pieces, picking up the scraps and licking them before placing them back together, arranging them in roughly the shape of a Christmas tree as they are held together by her gluey saliva! "There! Computer thingy and part arty thingy! Two for one!" she giggles as she presents her finished work back the fox, tongue still poking out of her mouth as she smiles. Neil looks dumfounded down at the now functional computer, totally ignoring the tree-like peace of art, "That is impressive." he says. He looks up at the Pegasus, "Well now... I believe you will be able to contribute to the mission." he says as he rises from his chair. "Come with me. Alissa will want to give you your briefing." he says. He then leads Firecracker out of the beige room and says to Alissa, "All of these applicants are acceptable. You may brief them." Alissa nods slowly as the agents get into some detail of Nanomagic. She then perks up when the door opens and Neil emerges to make the statement. "Alright." she says and moves to the podium. "Now if everyone would listen for a minute or two I have a presentation to prepare you for this operation." she says then pauses for a moment to allow the Agents to take their seats. She starts, "Today we are sending you to Spokane, in Washington State. We have made arrangements for Zephyr to fly you over Oregon to avoid the unnecessary danger of the Packminds. Once you land by RSXs Headquarters Neil will lead you to one of our Washington Safe houses where we have a reassembled motor-vehicle prepared with enough fuel to reach Spokane and return. Upon reaching the city we want you to focus your salvaging efforts on the grounds of Gonzaga University. We believe that the University poses the greatest chance for salvaging intact computers and solar panels. While we do have enough panels for our needs here in New Dawn some of our research projects do desperately need these sensitive materials. With the vehicle are several sealable reinforced glass cases. Please fill these with salvage before returning to earn full payment. Any questions?” Amethyst straightens up and ceases her fidgeting, listening intently to the briefing. As they're asked die questions, she raises a hand, speaking soon after. "Do we have any information on hostiles in the area? Depending on the amount of potential danger we might need to adjust our strategy and watch each other's backs." Willy is about to ask a question but Amethyst asked it for him. The fox looks over at the two to see what sort of response will be given. Navara looks around at the team, feeling a bit out of place. Not having heard the interviews of the others, she raises hand. Amethyst had already ask her main question, but she had another. "I take it others of the team know how to properly dismantle some of these items for safe transport?" Firecracker pronks happily behind Neil as he leads her back to the main room for briefing, reemerging from her interview more than ten times as large as she was when she went in. "Hiya again, peoples!" she chirps out happily as she enters and then plops her rump down in her chair in front for the information session. Once Alissa finishes speaking, Firecracker's hoof shoots up in the air, waving around and around frantically as she waits for Amethyst to finish her question, then dropping it and blurting out, "Got any more snacks?!" Alissa nods when she receives the first question, "Really this is the first time we have sent people to Spokane... and why we wanted only the most qualified agents. We don't know if there will be hostiles." At about this time Neil chimes in, "Yes, as per your interviews I have made sure the group has all of the necessary skills that I believe you will be able to achieve mission success with no assistance beyond being shown where the motor vehicle is in Woodfield." Alissa then clears her throught after Neils interruption and continues, "Only the strawberries that we had a moment ago." he says to Firecracker. Amethyst nods a bit, her hazel eyes break away from Alissa and travel across her companions. "I suppose we'll have to stick together then, or at least in only a couple of groups. We don't want to be overwhelmed." The kitten girl grips the edge of her skirt tightly, seeming a bit on edge. Willy nods "Rough, going in blind." he says "Hopefully if there is any there, they will be scare of us as we are uneasy about them. No further questions." he says as he listens in more. Navara glances briefly at the others and then gives their Neil and Alissa a nod. "I believe I'm set." "Aww..." Firecracker groans in disappointment for a second before quickly perking back up, "Oh well! Good thing I have my own!" she says, reaching a hoof up into her mane and digging around a couple seconds before pulling out a hoof full of strawberries! She hops up out of her chair and heads for the door, offering the snacks to the others as she bounces along on three hooves, popping the fruits into her own mouth as well. Once she goes out the door, she immediately turns around and pokes her head back in. "Oh wait, where we are going again?" she asks with a giggle. Alissa nods and Neil says, "Excellent. Then if you would follow me I with lead you to the truck and we can begin the excursion into Spokane." he walks out of the hut with the Agents then answers Firecracker, "You are going to the city of Spokane using the truck we have prepared in Woodfield." he replies. He then uneventfully leads them through Fairhaven, to the Zephyr Building and speaking with some of the Zephyr employees the group is then directed to the helipad where the chopper is waiting. Neil exchanges pleasantries with Mike before boarding and urging the agents to do as well. Once the entire group is aboard the chopper takes off, flying the three hour trip to Woodfield. Along the three hours Neil remains mostly silent, taking deep breaths, until Woodfield is in sight. Neil smiles and quickly disembarks the helicopter once it lands. He stretches and says, "Alright... the safe house is only a block and a half from here." The second the helicopter leaves the bubble, Firecracker's Distributed nanomagic is activated, keeping the group in bubble in effect. The entire three hour trip is filled with talking or humming or singing from the pegasus as they travel making it quite a bit more lively than the usual three hours of silence the trip is. Once the group makes it to their destination, Firecracker pops out of the helicopter to continue on their trip to the car and then to the great unknown! "Okie dokie lokie! Where to next?!" she asks enthusiastically as she looks around. Neil nods in agreement with Amethysts comments. "Yes, it would be best if this doesn't take until tomorrow morning." He finishes his stretching and walks off of the RSX Helipad before looking behind him and saying, "Come along." He then leads the party the block and a half to the Safe house. He then unlocks and opens the garage door to the building revealing a vehicle that looks like a cross between a dune buggy and a pickup truck. "This is the vehicle we have prepared." he says. He then climbs into the bed of the strange vehicle and shows you two large transparent boxes. "These are the reinforced glass containers we want you to put the salvage in on recovery. Nanites, especially the nanite soup of an established bubble, will devour the salvage if you don't or the boxes are damaged. Oh and that is another thing don't let the word 'reinforced' fool you. These are still made of glass. If you're not gentle they will break." he explains then climbs out of the truck. "Now your destination is north-east along Route 395. Spokane should be just under one hundred and fifty miles from here. You should have just over enough fuel for the three hundred mile round trip." he says. Willy nods "That is noted. I did use them before with the science missions. Shouldn't have any issues." he says before opening the driver’s seat door "I'll drive" he says as he hops his way in. Quickly he inspects the setup, looking for what he remembers as gas pedal, break and ignition. He also looks to the center "hehe, too bad there isn't any radio stations left for this trip" he says as he gets prepared. Navara wandered around the vehicle Neil explained everything. Taking in the curious mix of vehicle, and looking where to seat herself. Her eyes are drawn to the transport boxes, and she nods slowly as they are warned about them breaking. "Understood. We'll be careful to treat them well." Her ears flick at the sides of her head as she tries to figure out if it'd be better to seat herself in the bed with the transport boxes. Firecracker hops right into the back seat of the car buggy and sticks her head out the window. "Ready to go!" she cheers out happily, bouncing in her seat in excitement as she waits for the adventure to really begin! The nearly three and three quarter hour long trip to Spokane is largely uneventful. It isn't the smooth ride it may have been a decade ago but between the vehicle modified for the times and the good driving of Willy they hit very few large bumps and jostles arriving in Spokane as the Sun is beginning to set. Rolling along Route 395 they arrive in the city on an Overpass giving them a decent view into the city. Amethyst fiddles with her hands a bit along the ride, seemingly in another place... Mentally, at least. As the sound of the tires shift upon driving onto the overpass, the kitten girl snaps back into reality, her tufted ears indecisive as to whether or not they're folded back. She glances out the window, taking in the view, a bit taken aback by the new surroundings. Willy gazes around a bit as they reach the overpass. "Hmm...doesn't look like there is anyone out on the edge of town. Don't know if that’s good or bad..." he says before spying the chewed up road sigh. Slowly down as he reaches the off-ramp, he slowly eases the car off the highway and onto the state road that leads into the university. Navara is alert, very alert as they close in on the target city. Her ears twist and swivel, but still most anything but the vehicle is drowned out. Her eyes scan roads and nearby landscape as they head down the ramp. "Don't see anything either. Not yet at least." Leaning just slightly, she looks down at the river they are passing over on the way to the campus. The city remains quiet as they roll down the off-ramp, over the Spokane River, onto the street. It is a trivial task from there to navigate into the center of the campus. There is evidence of recent habitation, firepits, bits of recent litter, and to anyone with a mutant’s sense of smell the whole area reeks of human. As they reach the center they see a spot that would be great for them to park. Not an actual parking spot as where one would park to avoid tickets before P-Day but it's convenient and in the absence of the government they're unlikely to be ticketed. Amethyst looks around curiously, her fluffy tail flicking beside her in the car seat. "This place seems rather odd..." She notes as they approach the parking spot. "We should be careful as to not disturb more than absolutely necessary..." Her hands go to grip at the hem of her skirt again, her body tense. Willy eases the vehicle into the space and parks it as straight as possible. "This place does seem rather quiet, especially since it seems people have been here." he says as he turns the engine off and gets out. Stepping out, he does his best to keep his nose to the wind, just in case. Navara hops out the vehicle, her ears on a constant swivel as she cautiously approaches the one of the firepits. A voice echoes softly in the heads of the entire team. /This is Navara. I'm using Nanomagic to communicate. Going to check the firepits./ Kneeling down, she brings her hand over one of the pits, feeling for heat and then inspect the ashes. Her gaze is drawn to the footprints around them. /Firepits her being used less than an hour go. These footprints of fresh. People were here within about...fifteen minutes? I'd not be surprised if we are being watched./ Standing back up, she begins looking around, trying to find a place to get the high ground to look over the campus. Firecracker scrambles her way out of the car window to land on the ground outside with a clippity clopping of her hooves. "Oh! Peoples are around?" she asks nobody in particular as she looks around to see if she can see any of the peoples nearby. In order to get a better view, she extends her wings and flaps her way up into the air several dozen feet, looking down and around from above. "Helloooooo?! Anybody home?!" she shouts out to the campus from above, then waits for a response. The sound of Fires loud words echo through the campus without reply as darkness descends upon the university. Her words go without a response as the campus again grows quiet. Amethyst exits the vehicle, her ears pressed firmly against her chestnut hair, occasionally popping up to take in the sounds of the environment. The kitten girl jumps a bit at the nanomagic communication, nodding nervously at the words said. She moves over to Willy, keeping close even as the other two inspect the surroundings. "Someone watching? I mean, we're not doing anything inherently wrong, so hopefully they don't hate us..." She says softly, under her breath. She lets out a quiet squeal as the pegasus's voice rings out around them. As bubbly as it is, it only makes the oncoming silence more unnerving. "Let's just.. Do what we came here for, and leave as soon as possible. Don't want to disturb anyone..." Willy goes "Huh" and looks around when he's "Mind pinged" by Navara before shaking his head "Oh right, nanomagic..." he softly says before looking to her. "Thanks for checking" he says before he hears Fire's yell and sighs. "I guess we should expect we may see a welcoming party soon. I don't know what you guys plans are, but if we can be diplomatic first, I'd prefer to be." he says. As he says that he sets one hand back on the holster of his aptly named "Thunder Stick" as he looks around a little "Ummm...guys...you think the car will be ok with use not around?" he asks. Navara's ears perk up as she hear some movement, but from where? "I'm all for diplomacy if we can manage it." Lowering her voice to whisper, she murmurs. "I definitely hear something out there. Keep your guard up. I'm going to see what I can find from the treetops." Approaching one of the campus trees, she extends her claws and starts to climb. It's rough, scratching away bark and barely make it to one of the branches. Though, ones she is up there, she leaps from branch to branch gracefully. As she finds a good lookout point, she scans the builds. Something catching her eye. Though, she chooses caution, not bellowing it out. Firecracker's adorable head adornments swivel and flick as they pick up on the nearly silent sounds of motion on the wind while she hovers above. "Come on Peoples! Ya don't haveta be all sneaky hidey!" she calls out again, "We're not gunna hurtcha or anything! We're just here to look around and see if there's anything to take home with us! But if you guys are here already and using the stuff, we don't wanna steal it!" As she speaks, she turns around in midair, speaking to three distinct areas where she picked up on the sounds. "Oh uhhh... I have strawberries!" she offers, still waiting for a response from the sneaky noises. After Firecracker yells into the darkness a second time the world goes quiet again. There is a minute long pause before the sound of movement picks up again. First only audible to Firecracker then to the rest of the party. A few moments later a single human walks out of one of the buildings with an electric lamp. "So you... creatures want to buy things from us?" he asks.

Gonzaga Pt 2 - Arrival - RPLOG

2017-08-03T05:32:28Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Willy]]
* [[Amethyst]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Navara]]
=Date=
8/02/2017
=Log=
Neil exits the interviewing room about fifteen seconds after Amethyst does and leaves the hut entirely. He returns exactly five minutes after talking Ameythyst he needed a five minute break. "Pegasus, come with me. It is time for your interview." he says as he heads into the room. Alissa steps aside from the podium and digs through a small bag as Neil exits the hut. She removes a bunch of strawberries from the pouch and says, "Would anyone like some fruit? I have some to spare." before eating one of the strawberries, biting it so that the stem may be discarded. Amethyst takes a few steps over to Alissa, clasping her hands together in front of her and tilting her head. "Fruit? May I try a few?" She asks, cocking her head and looking over the strawberries curiously. She then turns and flops down on a nearby seat, kicking her legs idly. She then looks over to smile softly at Firecracker, raising a hand to wave. "Good luck! Not that you'll need it!" Willy looks at the strawberries with a smile and picks one from the bunch "Thank you" he says as he gently removes the leaves and stem before be noms on it happily. The fox wags his tail with a smile. "Man I always love these when I was younger." "Oh! Me! I knew there was gunna be snacks!" Firecracker chirps out happily, darting through the air to the podium and landing atop it. "Thanks!" she says to the husky before opening her mouth nice and wide, bending down to the fruits, and clamping her tiny teethies down on one of them. With the sweet thing held in her mouth, she spreads her wings and shoots off through the door after Neil, waving goodbye to all the people left behind! Alissa smiles and her tail wags happily. She takes four berries from the bunch and sets them in Amethysts hands when she cups them to recieve the strawberries. "I'm glad you like them." she responds to Willy and Navara. She watches as the tiny pony carries away one of the large ripe strawberries, "Good luck!" she wishes the Pony. Inside the beige interviewing room Neil walks around the desk before sitting and returning to perfect posture. He watches the small, strawberry carrying, Pony fly around. "Please take a seat and we will begin." he says. Firecracker lands atop the desk with the strawberry in her mouth, closing her jaw to take a bite out of the fruit and letting it drop on the desk in front of her. "Fanks! Buh I dun weally needa sead, sho yoo gan geep id!" she says to the interviewer, mouth stuffed with juicy redness and making her words rather difficult to understand as she chews. Amethyst brings her cupped hands to her face, taking a deep sniff of the fruit. She then smiles and nods approvingly, beginning to nibble on them... Though some juice escapes her mouth and trails down the corner of her mouth. "Wow, these are so sweet. I really should expand my diet now that I'm above ground..." She muses for only a moment before continuing to savor the berries. Willy finishes off his strawberry. "Not bad at all. A little sweeter than the old store brands I recall, but that something that can be good on their own." he says before patiently waiting on Fire's interview. Neils eyes widen as the strange creature lands on his desk with a piece of fruit. He hums lightly, a sound that is more similar to a louder version of the whirring noise that always comes from Clockwork Foxes, for just a moment before saying, "Are you sure? You may want to... become larger so that if while on mission and something stops you from flying you don't get left behind or stepped on." he says. Navara chomps happily on her strawberry, licking her lips when a little extra juice seeps out. Looking over the strawberry curiously, she ponders softly. "I wonder if I could make anything like this..." Firecracker makes a rather loud gulping sound as she swallows down her bit of strawberry, and then points to it with a hoof as she offers some to her interviewer. "Want some? And am I s'posedta be bigger for this? Okay then! Say whenta stop!" she says to the clockwork fox before she inhales a deep breath through her mouth, plugs it with her hoof, and then blows, quickly getting larger in her spot on the desk as she keeps her ears perked for a signal to stop her growth. Alissa smiles as the agents enjoy her strawberries and she eats another of them. At about this time Cookies who had been fairly quiet excuses herself and rushes out explaining that they would not be able to participate in this contract. Alissa watches the door, a bit confused at the going on, before shrugging and returning her attention to the agents still here. "Make strawberries? You mean like grow a garden of their plants?" she asks as Navara suggests making them. Neil watches the tiny pegasus as she expands in a way that almost makes him wonder if she is somehow made of synthetic materials. He watches, his head tilted slightly to the left, as she expands until she is about five feet tall. "Alright, that size should be about enough." he says. He then tales a breath and continues, "No thank you about the strawberry. I have some questions for you. The first of which being what do you think qualifies you to take this contract?" Amethyst glances to Navara as she finishes her strawberries, licking the juice from her lips. "A garden would be cool, but I would be worried about any... pests. You don't exactly have just small critters who will want your food..." Willy licks his lips as he finishes his strawberry. "As long as you have the people power to deal with them, you should be fine. New Dawn after all has a small community far setup as is, and they don't seem to have any big issues." Navara chuckles softly, finishing her strawberry off right up to the leafy nub. Leaning back into her chair, she stretches her legs out in front of her, looking over to Amethyst. "Gardens for stuff like this is nice, sure. Though, I was actually thinking about what I can do with the NICE I had recently installed. Still figuring out what I can do with that nanomagic." Firecracker pops her hoof out of her mouth as she reaches just a bit over five feet long, still leaving her about 4 feet tall when standing on all fours. "Okie dokie lokie!" she says, still sitting atop the desk as she bends down and scoops up the strawberry with her tongue to finish the snack! "Oh! I know that one! You wanted someone to 'deal with unexpected elements'," she says, raising her forelegs up to make airquotes by bending her 'wrists', "and no one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Their chief weapon is surprise! And the element of surprise is unexpected and I love surprises!" Alissa slowly nods as she recognizes the subject is drifting into the nanomagical. He smiles at the three agents and makes to effort to conceal the remaining strawberries. "I don't know if they're able to make fruits... I wonder if their taste would be affected." he says. Neil, the clockwork fox whom up to this point had shown no indication that he wasn't actually a robot, snerks as Firecracker uses the old Monty Python line. He immediately calms himself and says, "While it is true that the element of surprise is very effective I am here to evaluate you on your specific skills in how they relate to this contract. Are you qualified to work with pre P-Day tech? Do you have applicable Nanomagics?" he asks a very feint tone of amusement in his voice. "I have no idea! Maybe!" Firecracker replies with a wide smile. "First ya gotta tell me what those things are then I can tell ya if I am or not or do or don't!" Amethyst tilts her head at the mention of nanomagic, though she seems content to listen, her fluffy tufted ears at attention atop her head. Likewise, her tail wavers in the air between the kitten girl's back and the back of the chair. Neil again tilts his head, confused by the pegasus, "Well... a qualification would be having demonstrable skill with technology, Nanomagics are the abilities provided by the varius programs exicutable via a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, or as most people call it a N.I.C.E." he says. He takes another breath. Navara turns briefly to Alissa as she joins in the subject. Though, she furrows her brow, scratching behind an ear as she thinks. "Well, from what I understand so far is that with culinary nanomagic you can make fruits. Can't make anything that grows...but it still taste like a fruit. Just has the nutrients of whatever biomass you make it out of...or I could produce something like that as a syrup or juice...." Navara scratches her, thoughtful and trying make sure she had caught on with everything she had been when she had the NICE installed. Alissa nods slowly, "Oh... so you could make carrots into strawberries but not strawberry plants?" she asks, she sounds quite curious about the idea of making fruit from not-fruit. "Oh! Roomie has a compy that he let me play with! Does that count?" Firecracker asks cheerfully. "And I'm probably the nicest nicer that ever niced a nicety!" she adds, jovially swinging a foreleg in front of her. Amethyst tilts her head more, as if that was even possible. "Nanomagic sounds... confusing." She muses, flicking her tail and leaning back in her seat. "I've heard it's useful on the field, but I've never looked into it, myself..." Neil watches the human-sized pegasus blankly for a moment before saying, "Alright... so you do have a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, could you list what programs you have for it or demonstrate them?" he asks. Willy nods inquisitively "Huh...so it's kinda like...I doubt most people will get this...like a replicator from old Science Fiction shows, making stuff from the reworked materials of other things?" "I have no idea!" Firecracker answers happily once again, "Is there a wayta check or somethin'? What's it look like? I got a lotta stuff!" Navara sighs, scratching her cheek. She nods to Amethyst. "You're telling me. That's why I've been trying to practice with it!" Chuckling, she nods to Willy and Alissa in tandem. "Yes, and yes. And, they would taste and feel like strawberries, but they'd have the nutrients of a carrot." Neil blinks a few times. He then says, "I can provide you with a test for technical skills." he then opens a drawer and sets the reassembled Bamboozler on the table. "This thing is broken and I am not sure what it is. Could you tell me and fix it?" he says. Alissas eyes widen slightly, "That is amazing. It'd certainly make eating the less yummy healthy things more bearable." she comments. Amethyst giggles. "That would actually be really cool for things like rations. Maybe you could make dry, pasty rations taste like chocolate cake!" She continues to kick her legs, her body swaying with the momentum. Willy nods "yes that would. I do wonder though if it also can be used for not so nice means, but having tasted the honey from you Navara, I don't think that’s coming from your rapture of course." he says with a smile. Navara purrs softly, tilting her head she considers the possibilities. "I....think I might be able to that to rations? Maybe?" She shrugs to Willy. "I'm sure there is some nasty this you could do. My focus is just even learning what I can do." Firecracker blinks at the Bamboozler, tilting her head this way and that in confusion before suddenly perking up in realization! "Ohhhhh! This is onea those art thingies you make outta a bunch of different parts, right?" she asks before standing over it and moving around to see it from from all angles. "Oh no, wait! There's some computery stuff and an art thingy all mixed together!" she says with a smile, pulling out bits of a toaster and blender from the full computer she quickly puts together with her forehooves inexplicably. With the computer put back in working order, she turns to her remaining pieces, picking up the scraps and licking them before placing them back together, arranging them in roughly the shape of a Christmas tree as they are held together by her gluey saliva! "There! Computer thingy and part arty thingy! Two for one!" she giggles as she presents her finished work back the fox, tongue still poking out of her mouth as she smiles. Neil looks dumfounded down at the now functional computer, totally ignoring the tree-like peace of art, "That is impressive." he says. He looks up at the Pegasus, "Well now... I believe you will be able to contribute to the mission." he says as he rises from his chair. "Come with me. Alissa will want to give you your briefing." he says. He then leads Firecracker out of the beige room and says to Alissa, "All of these applicants are acceptable. You may brief them." Alissa nods slowly as the agents get into some detail of Nanomagic. She then perks up when the door opens and Neil emerges to make the statement. "Alright." she says and moves to the podium. "Now if everyone would listen for a minute or two I have a presentation to prepare you for this operation." she says then pauses for a moment to allow the Agents to take their seats. She starts, "Today we are sending you to Spokane, in Washington State. We have made arrangements for Zephyr to fly you over Oregon to avoid the unnecessary danger of the Packminds. Once you land by RSXs Headquarters Neil will lead you to one of our Washington Safe houses where we have a reassembled motor-vehicle prepared with enough fuel to reach Spokane and return. Upon reaching the city we want you to focus your salvaging efforts on the grounds of Gonzaga University. We believe that the University poses the greatest chance for salvaging intact computers and solar panels. While we do have enough panels for our needs here in New Dawn some of our research projects do desperately need these sensitive materials. With the vehicle are several sealable reinforced glass cases. Please fill these with salvage before returning to earn full payment. Any questions?” Amethyst straightens up and ceases her fidgeting, listening intently to the briefing. As they're asked die questions, she raises a hand, speaking soon after. "Do we have any information on hostiles in the area? Depending on the amount of potential danger we might need to adjust our strategy and watch each other's backs." Willy is about to ask a question but Amethyst asked it for him. The fox looks over at the two to see what sort of response will be given. Navara looks around at the team, feeling a bit out of place. Not having heard the interviews of the others, she raises hand. Amethyst had already ask her main question, but she had another. "I take it others of the team know how to properly dismantle some of these items for safe transport?" Firecracker pronks happily behind Neil as he leads her back to the main room for briefing, reemerging from her interview more than ten times as large as she was when she went in. "Hiya again, peoples!" she chirps out happily as she enters and then plops her rump down in her chair in front for the information session. Once Alissa finishes speaking, Firecracker's hoof shoots up in the air, waving around and around frantically as she waits for Amethyst to finish her question, then dropping it and blurting out, "Got any more snacks?!" Alissa nods when she receives the first question, "Really this is the first time we have sent people to Spokane... and why we wanted only the most qualified agents. We don't know if there will be hostiles." At about this time Neil chimes in, "Yes, as per your interviews I have made sure the group has all of the necessary skills that I believe you will be able to achieve mission success with no assistance beyond being shown where the motor vehicle is in Woodfield." Alissa then clears her throught after Neils interruption and continues, "Only the strawberries that we had a moment ago." he says to Firecracker. Amethyst nods a bit, her hazel eyes break away from Alissa and travel across her companions. "I suppose we'll have to stick together then, or at least in only a couple of groups. We don't want to be overwhelmed." The kitten girl grips the edge of her skirt tightly, seeming a bit on edge. Willy nods "Rough, going in blind." he says "Hopefully if there is any there, they will be scare of us as we are uneasy about them. No further questions." he says as he listens in more. Navara glances briefly at the others and then gives their Neil and Alissa a nod. "I believe I'm set." "Aww..." Firecracker groans in disappointment for a second before quickly perking back up, "Oh well! Good thing I have my own!" she says, reaching a hoof up into her mane and digging around a couple seconds before pulling out a hoof full of strawberries! She hops up out of her chair and heads for the door, offering the snacks to the others as she bounces along on three hooves, popping the fruits into her own mouth as well. Once she goes out the door, she immediately turns around and pokes her head back in. "Oh wait, where we are going again?" she asks with a giggle. Alissa nods and Neil says, "Excellent. Then if you would follow me I with lead you to the truck and we can begin the excursion into Spokane." he walks out of the hut with the Agents then answers Firecracker, "You are going to the city of Spokane using the truck we have prepared in Woodfield." he replies. He then uneventfully leads them through Fairhaven, to the Zephyr Building and speaking with some of the Zephyr employees the group is then directed to the helipad where the chopper is waiting. Neil exchanges pleasantries with Mike before boarding and urging the agents to do as well. Once the entire group is aboard the chopper takes off, flying the three hour trip to Woodfield. Along the three hours Neil remains mostly silent, taking deep breaths, until Woodfield is in sight. Neil smiles and quickly disembarks the helicopter once it lands. He stretches and says, "Alright... the safe house is only a block and a half from here." The second the helicopter leaves the bubble, Firecracker's Distributed nanomagic is activated, keeping the group in bubble in effect. The entire three hour trip is filled with talking or humming or singing from the pegasus as they travel making it quite a bit more lively than the usual three hours of silence the trip is. Once the group makes it to their destination, Firecracker pops out of the helicopter to continue on their trip to the car and then to the great unknown! "Okie dokie lokie! Where to next?!" she asks enthusiastically as she looks around. Neil nods in agreement with Amethysts comments. "Yes, it would be best if this doesn't take until tomorrow morning." He finishes his stretching and walks off of the RSX Helipad before looking behind him and saying, "Come along." He then leads the party the block and a half to the Safe house. He then unlocks and opens the garage door to the building revealing a vehicle that looks like a cross between a dune buggy and a pickup truck. "This is the vehicle we have prepared." he says. He then climbs into the bed of the strange vehicle and shows you two large transparent boxes. "These are the reinforced glass containers we want you to put the salvage in on recovery. Nanites, especially the nanite soup of an established bubble, will devour the salvage if you don't or the boxes are damaged. Oh and that is another thing don't let the word 'reinforced' fool you. These are still made of glass. If you're not gentle they will break." he explains then climbs out of the truck. "Now your destination is north-east along Route 395. Spokane should be just under one hundred and fifty miles from here. You should have just over enough fuel for the three hundred mile round trip." he says. Willy nods "That is noted. I did use them before with the science missions. Shouldn't have any issues." he says before opening the driver’s seat door "I'll drive" he says as he hops his way in. Quickly he inspects the setup, looking for what he remembers as gas pedal, break and ignition. He also looks to the center "hehe, too bad there isn't any radio stations left for this trip" he says as he gets prepared. Navara wandered around the vehicle Neil explained everything. Taking in the curious mix of vehicle, and looking where to seat herself. Her eyes are drawn to the transport boxes, and she nods slowly as they are warned about them breaking. "Understood. We'll be careful to treat them well." Her ears flick at the sides of her head as she tries to figure out if it'd be better to seat herself in the bed with the transport boxes. Firecracker hops right into the back seat of the car buggy and sticks her head out the window. "Ready to go!" she cheers out happily, bouncing in her seat in excitement as she waits for the adventure to really begin! The nearly three and three quarter hour long trip to Spokane is largely uneventful. It isn't the smooth ride it may have been a decade ago but between the vehicle modified for the times and the good driving of Willy they hit very few large bumps and jostles arriving in Spokane as the Sun is beginning to set. Rolling along Route 395 they arrive in the city on an Overpass giving them a decent view into the city. Amethyst fiddles with her hands a bit along the ride, seemingly in another place... Mentally, at least. As the sound of the tires shift upon driving onto the overpass, the kitten girl snaps back into reality, her tufted ears indecisive as to whether or not they're folded back. She glances out the window, taking in the view, a bit taken aback by the new surroundings. Willy gazes around a bit as they reach the overpass. "Hmm...doesn't look like there is anyone out on the edge of town. Don't know if that’s good or bad..." he says before spying the chewed up road sigh. Slowly down as he reaches the off-ramp, he slowly eases the car off the highway and onto the state road that leads into the university. Navara is alert, very alert as they close in on the target city. Her ears twist and swivel, but still most anything but the vehicle is drowned out. Her eyes scan roads and nearby landscape as they head down the ramp. "Don't see anything either. Not yet at least." Leaning just slightly, she looks down at the river they are passing over on the way to the campus. The city remains quiet as they roll down the off-ramp, over the Spokane River, onto the street. It is a trivial task from there to navigate into the center of the campus. There is evidence of recent habitation, firepits, bits of recent litter, and to anyone with a mutant’s sense of smell the whole area reeks of human. As they reach the center they see a spot that would be great for them to park. Not an actual parking spot as where one would park to avoid tickets before P-Day but it's convenient and in the absence of the government they're unlikely to be ticketed. Amethyst looks around curiously, her fluffy tail flicking beside her in the car seat. "This place seems rather odd..." She notes as they approach the parking spot. "We should be careful as to not disturb more than absolutely necessary..." Her hands go to grip at the hem of her skirt again, her body tense. Willy eases the vehicle into the space and parks it as straight as possible. "This place does seem rather quiet, especially since it seems people have been here." he says as he turns the engine off and gets out. Stepping out, he does his best to keep his nose to the wind, just in case. Navara hops out the vehicle, her ears on a constant swivel as she cautiously approaches the one of the firepits. A voice echoes softly in the heads of the entire team. /This is Navara. I'm using Nanomagic to communicate. Going to check the firepits./ Kneeling down, she brings her hand over one of the pits, feeling for heat and then inspect the ashes. Her gaze is drawn to the footprints around them. /Firepits her being used less than an hour go. These footprints of fresh. People were here within about...fifteen minutes? I'd not be surprised if we are being watched./ Standing back up, she begins looking around, trying to find a place to get the high ground to look over the campus. Firecracker scrambles her way out of the car window to land on the ground outside with a clippity clopping of her hooves. "Oh! Peoples are around?" she asks nobody in particular as she looks around to see if she can see any of the peoples nearby. In order to get a better view, she extends her wings and flaps her way up into the air several dozen feet, looking down and around from above. "Helloooooo?! Anybody home?!" she shouts out to the campus from above, then waits for a response. The sound of Fires loud words echo through the campus without reply as darkness descends upon the university. Her words go without a response as the campus again grows quiet. Amethyst exits the vehicle, her ears pressed firmly against her chestnut hair, occasionally popping up to take in the sounds of the environment. The kitten girl jumps a bit at the nanomagic communication, nodding nervously at the words said. She moves over to Willy, keeping close even as the other two inspect the surroundings. "Someone watching? I mean, we're not doing anything inherently wrong, so hopefully they don't hate us..." She says softly, under her breath. She lets out a quiet squeal as the pegasus's voice rings out around them. As bubbly as it is, it only makes the oncoming silence more unnerving. "Let's just.. Do what we came here for, and leave as soon as possible. Don't want to disturb anyone..." Willy goes "Huh" and looks around when he's "Mind pinged" by Navara before shaking his head "Oh right, nanomagic..." he softly says before looking to her. "Thanks for checking" he says before he hears Fire's yell and sighs. "I guess we should expect we may see a welcoming party soon. I don't know what you guys plans are, but if we can be diplomatic first, I'd prefer to be." he says. As he says that he sets one hand back on the holster of his aptly named "Thunder Stick" as he looks around a little "Ummm...guys...you think the car will be ok with use not around?" he asks. Navara's ears perk up as she hear some movement, but from where? "I'm all for diplomacy if we can manage it." Lowering her voice to whisper, she murmurs. "I definitely hear something out there. Keep your guard up. I'm going to see what I can find from the treetops." Approaching one of the campus trees, she extends her claws and starts to climb. It's rough, scratching away bark and barely make it to one of the branches. Though, ones she is up there, she leaps from branch to branch gracefully. As she finds a good lookout point, she scans the builds. Something catching her eye. Though, she chooses caution, not bellowing it out. Firecracker's adorable head adornments swivel and flick as they pick up on the nearly silent sounds of motion on the wind while she hovers above. "Come on Peoples! Ya don't haveta be all sneaky hidey!" she calls out again, "We're not gunna hurtcha or anything! We're just here to look around and see if there's anything to take home with us! But if you guys are here already and using the stuff, we don't wanna steal it!" As she speaks, she turns around in midair, speaking to three distinct areas where she picked up on the sounds. "Oh uhhh... I have strawberries!" she offers, still waiting for a response from the sneaky noises. After Firecracker yells into the darkness a second time the world goes quiet again. There is a minute long pause before the sound of movement picks up again. First only audible to Firecracker then to the rest of the party. A few moments later a single human walks out of one of the buildings with an electric lamp. "So you... creatures want to buy things from us?" he asks.

Gonzaga Pt 2 - Arrival - RPLOG

2017-08-03T05:31:54Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Willy]]
* [[Amethyst]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Navara]]
=Date=
8/02/2017
=Log=
Neil exits the interviewing room about fifteen seconds after Amethyst does and leaves the hut entirely. He returns exactly five minutes after talking Ameythyst he needed a five minute break. "Pegasus, come with me. It is time for your interview." he says as he heads into the room. Alissa steps aside from the podium and digs through a small bag as Neil exits the hut. She removes a bunch of strawberries from the pouch and says, "Would anyone like some fruit? I have some to spare." before eating one of the strawberries, biting it so that the stem may be discarded. Amethyst takes a few steps over to Alissa, clasping her hands together in front of her and tilting her head. "Fruit? May I try a few?" She asks, cocking her head and looking over the strawberries curiously. She then turns and flops down on a nearby seat, kicking her legs idly. She then looks over to smile softly at Firecracker, raising a hand to wave. "Good luck! Not that you'll need it!" Willy looks at the strawberries with a smile and picks one from the bunch "Thank you" he says as he gently removes the leaves and stem before be noms on it happily. The fox wags his tail with a smile. "Man I always love these when I was younger." "Oh! Me! I knew there was gunna be snacks!" Firecracker chirps out happily, darting through the air to the podium and landing atop it. "Thanks!" she says to the husky before opening her mouth nice and wide, bending down to the fruits, and clamping her tiny teethies down on one of them. With the sweet thing held in her mouth, she spreads her wings and shoots off through the door after Neil, waving goodbye to all the people left behind! Alissa smiles and her tail wags happily. She takes four berries from the bunch and sets them in Amethysts hands when she cups them to recieve the strawberries. "I'm glad you like them." she responds to Willy and Navara. She watches as the tiny pony carries away one of the large ripe strawberries, "Good luck!" she wishes the Pony. Inside the beige interviewing room Neil walks around the desk before sitting and returning to perfect posture. He watches the small, strawberry carrying, Pony fly around. "Please take a seat and we will begin." he says. Firecracker lands atop the desk with the strawberry in her mouth, closing her jaw to take a bite out of the fruit and letting it drop on the desk in front of her. "Fanks! Buh I dun weally needa sead, sho yoo gan geep id!" she says to the interviewer, mouth stuffed with juicy redness and making her words rather difficult to understand as she chews. Amethyst brings her cupped hands to her face, taking a deep sniff of the fruit. She then smiles and nods approvingly, beginning to nibble on them... Though some juice escapes her mouth and trails down the corner of her mouth. "Wow, these are so sweet. I really should expand my diet now that I'm above ground..." She muses for only a moment before continuing to savor the berries. Willy finishes off his strawberry. "Not bad at all. A little sweeter than the old store brands I recall, but that something that can be good on their own." he says before patiently waiting on Fire's interview. Neils eyes widen as the strange creature lands on his desk with a piece of fruit. He hums lightly, a sound that is more similar to a louder version of the whirring noise that always comes from Clockwork Foxes, for just a moment before saying, "Are you sure? You may want to... become larger so that if while on mission and something stops you from flying you don't get left behind or stepped on." he says. Navara chomps happily on her strawberry, licking her lips when a little extra juice seeps out. Looking over the strawberry curiously, she ponders softly. "I wonder if I could make anything like this..." Firecracker makes a rather loud gulping sound as she swallows down her bit of strawberry, and then points to it with a hoof as she offers some to her interviewer. "Want some? And am I s'posedta be bigger for this? Okay then! Say whenta stop!" she says to the clockwork fox before she inhales a deep breath through her mouth, plugs it with her hoof, and then blows, quickly getting larger in her spot on the desk as she keeps her ears perked for a signal to stop her growth. Alissa smiles as the agents enjoy her strawberries and she eats another of them. At about this time Cookies who had been fairly quiet excuses herself and rushes out explaining that they would not be able to participate in this contract. Alissa watches the door, a bit confused at the going on, before shrugging and returning her attention to the agents still here. "Make strawberries? You mean like grow a garden of their plants?" she asks as Navara suggests making them. Neil watches the tiny pegasus as she expands in a way that almost makes him wonder if she is somehow made of synthetic materials. He watches, his head tilted slightly to the left, as she expands until she is about five feet tall. "Alright, that size should be about enough." he says. He then tales a breath and continues, "No thank you about the strawberry. I have some questions for you. The first of which being what do you think qualifies you to take this contract?" Amethyst glances to Navara as she finishes her strawberries, licking the juice from her lips. "A garden would be cool, but I would be worried about any... pests. You don't exactly have just small critters who will want your food..." Willy licks his lips as he finishes his strawberry. "As long as you have the people power to deal with them, you should be fine. New Dawn after all has a small community far setup as is, and they don't seem to have any big issues." Navara chuckles softly, finishing her strawberry off right up to the leafy nub. Leaning back into her chair, she stretches her legs out in front of her, looking over to Amethyst. "Gardens for stuff like this is nice, sure. Though, I was actually thinking about what I can do with the NICE I had recently installed. Still figuring out what I can do with that nanomagic." Firecracker pops her hoof out of her mouth as she reaches just a bit over five feet long, still leaving her about 4 feet tall when standing on all fours. "Okie dokie lokie!" she says, still sitting atop the desk as she bends down and scoops up the strawberry with her tongue to finish the snack! "Oh! I know that one! You wanted someone to 'deal with unexpected elements'," she says, raising her forelegs up to make airquotes by bending her 'wrists', "and no one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Their chief weapon is surprise! And the element of surprise is unexpected and I love surprises!" Alissa slowly nods as she recognizes the subject is drifting into the nanomagical. He smiles at the three agents and makes to effort to conceal the remaining strawberries. "I don't know if they're able to make fruits... I wonder if their taste would be affected." he says. Neil, the clockwork fox whom up to this point had shown no indication that he wasn't actually a robot, snerks as Firecracker uses the old Monty Python line. He immediately calms himself and says, "While it is true that the element of surprise is very effective I am here to evaluate you on your specific skills in how they relate to this contract. Are you qualified to work with pre P-Day tech? Do you have applicable Nanomagics?" he asks a very feint tone of amusement in his voice. "I have no idea! Maybe!" Firecracker replies with a wide smile. "First ya gotta tell me what those things are then I can tell ya if I am or not or do or don't!" Amethyst tilts her head at the mention of nanomagic, though she seems content to listen, her fluffy tufted ears at attention atop her head. Likewise, her tail wavers in the air between the kitten girl's back and the back of the chair. Neil again tilts his head, confused by the pegasus, "Well... a qualification would be having demonstrable skill with technology, Nanomagics are the abilities provided by the varius programs exicutable via a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, or as most people call it a N.I.C.E." he says. He takes another breath. Navara turns briefly to Alissa as she joins in the subject. Though, she furrows her brow, scratching behind an ear as she thinks. "Well, from what I understand so far is that with culinary nanomagic you can make fruits. Can't make anything that grows...but it still taste like a fruit. Just has the nutrients of whatever biomass you make it out of...or I could produce something like that as a syrup or juice...." Navara scratches her, thoughtful and trying make sure she had caught on with everything she had been when she had the NICE installed. Alissa nods slowly, "Oh... so you could make carrots into strawberries but not strawberry plants?" she asks, she sounds quite curious about the idea of making fruit from not-fruit. "Oh! Roomie has a compy that he let me play with! Does that count?" Firecracker asks cheerfully. "And I'm probably the nicest nicer that ever niced a nicety!" she adds, jovially swinging a foreleg in front of her. Amethyst tilts her head more, as if that was even possible. "Nanomagic sounds... confusing." She muses, flicking her tail and leaning back in her seat. "I've heard it's useful on the field, but I've never looked into it, myself..." Neil watches the human-sized pegasus blankly for a moment before saying, "Alright... so you do have a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, could you list what programs you have for it or demonstrate them?" he asks. Willy nods inquisitively "Huh...so it's kinda like...I doubt most people will get this...like a replicator from old Science Fiction shows, making stuff from the reworked materials of other things?" "I have no idea!" Firecracker answers happily once again, "Is there a wayta check or somethin'? What's it look like? I got a lotta stuff!" Navara sighs, scratching her cheek. She nods to Amethyst. "You're telling me. That's why I've been trying to practice with it!" Chuckling, she nods to Willy and Alissa in tandem. "Yes, and yes. And, they would taste and feel like strawberries, but they'd have the nutrients of a carrot." Neil blinks a few times. He then says, "I can provide you with a test for technical skills." he then opens a drawer and sets the reassembled Bamboozler on the table. "This thing is broken and I am not sure what it is. Could you tell me and fix it?" he says. Alissas eyes widen slightly, "That is amazing. It'd certainly make eating the less yummy healthy things more bearable." she comments. Amethyst giggles. "That would actually be really cool for things like rations. Maybe you could make dry, pasty rations taste like chocolate cake!" She continues to kick her legs, her body swaying with the momentum. Willy nods "yes that would. I do wonder though if it also can be used for not so nice means, but having tasted the honey from you Navara, I don't think that’s coming from your rapture of course." he says with a smile. Navara purrs softly, tilting her head she considers the possibilities. "I....think I might be able to that to rations? Maybe?" She shrugs to Willy. "I'm sure there is some nasty this you could do. My focus is just even learning what I can do." Firecracker blinks at the Bamboozler, tilting her head this way and that in confusion before suddenly perking up in realization! "Ohhhhh! This is onea those art thingies you make outta a bunch of different parts, right?" she asks before standing over it and moving around to see it from from all angles. "Oh no, wait! There's some computery stuff and an art thingy all mixed together!" she says with a smile, pulling out bits of a toaster and blender from the full computer she quickly puts together with her forehooves inexplicably. With the computer put back in working order, she turns to her remaining pieces, picking up the scraps and licking them before placing them back together, arranging them in roughly the shape of a Christmas tree as they are held together by her gluey saliva! "There! Computer thingy and part arty thingy! Two for one!" she giggles as she presents her finished work back the fox, tongue still poking out of her mouth as she smiles. Neil looks dumfounded down at the now functional computer, totally ignoring the tree-like peace of art, "That is impressive." he says. He looks up at the Pegasus, "Well now... I believe you will be able to contribute to the mission." he says as he rises from his chair. "Come with me. Alissa will want to give you your briefing." he says. He then leads Firecracker out of the beige room and says to Alissa, "All of these applicants are acceptable. You may brief them." Alissa nods slowly as the agents get into some detail of Nanomagic. She then perks up when the door opens and Neil emerges to make the statement. "Alright." she says and moves to the podium. "Now if everyone would listen for a minute or two I have a presentation to prepare you for this operation." she says then pauses for a moment to allow the Agents to take their seats. She starts, "Today we are sending you to Spokane, in Washington State. We have made arrangements for Zephyr to fly you over Oregon to avoid the unnecessary danger of the Packminds. Once you land by RSXs Headquarters Neil will lead you to one of our Washington Safe houses where we have a reassembled motor-vehicle prepared with enough fuel to reach Spokane and return. Upon reaching the city we want you to focus your salvaging efforts on the grounds of Gonzaga University. We believe that the University poses the greatest chance for salvaging intact computers and solar panels. While we do have enough panels for our needs here in New Dawn some of our research projects do desperately need these sensitive materials. With the vehicle are several sealable reinforced glass cases. Please fill these with salvage before returning to earn full payment. Any questions?” Amethyst straightens up and ceases her fidgeting, listening intently to the briefing. As they're asked die questions, she raises a hand, speaking soon after. "Do we have any information on hostiles in the area? Depending on the amount of potential danger we might need to adjust our strategy and watch each other's backs." Willy is about to ask a question but Amethyst asked it for him. The fox looks over at the two to see what sort of response will be given. Navara looks around at the team, feeling a bit out of place. Not having heard the interviews of the others, she raises hand. Amethyst had already ask her main question, but she had another. "I take it others of the team know how to properly dismantle some of these items for safe transport?" Firecracker pronks happily behind Neil as he leads her back to the main room for briefing, reemerging from her interview more than ten times as large as she was when she went in. "Hiya again, peoples!" she chirps out happily as she enters and then plops her rump down in her chair in front for the information session. Once Alissa finishes speaking, Firecracker's hoof shoots up in the air, waving around and around frantically as she waits for Amethyst to finish her question, then dropping it and blurting out, "Got any more snacks?!" Alissa nods when she receives the first question, "Really this is the first time we have sent people to Spokane... and why we wanted only the most qualified agents. We don't know if there will be hostiles." At about this time Neil chimes in, "Yes, as per your interviews I have made sure the group has all of the necessary skills that I believe you will be able to achieve mission success with no assistance beyond being shown where the motor vehicle is in Woodfield." Alissa then clears her throught after Neils interruption and continues, "Only the strawberries that we had a moment ago." he says to Firecracker. Amethyst nods a bit, her hazel eyes break away from Alissa and travel across her companions. "I suppose we'll have to stick together then, or at least in only a couple of groups. We don't want to be overwhelmed." The kitten girl grips the edge of her skirt tightly, seeming a bit on edge. Willy nods "Rough, going in blind." he says "Hopefully if there is any there, they will be scare of us as we are uneasy about them. No further questions." he says as he listens in more. Navara glances briefly at the others and then gives their Neil and Alissa a nod. "I believe I'm set." "Aww..." Firecracker groans in disappointment for a second before quickly perking back up, "Oh well! Good thing I have my own!" she says, reaching a hoof up into her mane and digging around a couple seconds before pulling out a hoof full of strawberries! She hops up out of her chair and heads for the door, offering the snacks to the others as she bounces along on three hooves, popping the fruits into her own mouth as well. Once she goes out the door, she immediately turns around and pokes her head back in. "Oh wait, where we are going again?" she asks with a giggle. Alissa nods and Neil says, "Excellent. Then if you would follow me I with lead you to the truck and we can begin the excursion into Spokane." he walks out of the hut with the Agents then answers Firecracker, "You are going to the city of Spokane using the truck we have prepared in Woodfield." he replies. He then uneventfully leads them through Fairhaven, to the Zephyr Building and speaking with some of the Zephyr employees the group is then directed to the helipad where the chopper is waiting. Neil exchanges pleasantries with Mike before boarding and urging the agents to do as well. Once the entire group is aboard the chopper takes off, flying the three hour trip to Woodfield. Along the three hours Neil remains mostly silent, taking deep breaths, until Woodfield is in sight. Neil smiles and quickly disembarks the helicopter once it lands. He stretches and says, "Alright... the safe house is only a block and a half from here." The second the helicopter leaves the bubble, Firecracker's Distributed nanomagic is activated, keeping the group in bubble in effect. The entire three hour trip is filled with talking or humming or singing from the pegasus as they travel making it quite a bit more lively than the usual three hours of silence the trip is. Once the group makes it to their destination, Firecracker pops out of the helicopter to continue on their trip to the car and then to the great unknown! "Okie dokie lokie! Where to next?!" she asks enthusiastically as she looks around. Neil nods in agreement with Amethysts comments. "Yes, it would be best if this doesn't take until tomorrow morning." He finishes his stretching and walks off of the RSX Helipad before looking behind him and saying, "Come along." He then leads the party the block and a half to the Safe house. He then unlocks and opens the garage door to the building revealing a vehicle that looks like a cross between a dune buggy and a pickup truck. "This is the vehicle we have prepared." he says. He then climbs into the bed of the strange vehicle and shows you two large transparent boxes. "These are the reinforced glass containers we want you to put the salvage in on recovery. Nanites, especially the nanite soup of an established bubble, will devour the salvage if you don't or the boxes are damaged. Oh and that is another thing don't let the word 'reinforced' fool you. These are still made of glass. If you're not gentle they will break." he explains then climbs out of the truck. "Now your destination is north-east along Route 395. Spokane should be just under one hundred and fifty miles from here. You should have just over enough fuel for the three hundred mile round trip." he says. Willy nods "That is noted. I did use them before with the science missions. Shouldn't have any issues." he says before opening the driver’s seat door "I'll drive" he says as he hops his way in. Quickly he inspects the setup, looking for what he remembers as gas pedal, break and ignition. He also looks to the center "hehe, too bad there isn't any radio stations left for this trip" he says as he gets prepared. Navara wandered around the vehicle Neil explained everything. Taking in the curious mix of vehicle, and looking where to seat herself. Her eyes are drawn to the transport boxes, and she nods slowly as they are warned about them breaking. "Understood. We'll be careful to treat them well." Her ears flick at the sides of her head as she tries to figure out if it'd be better to seat herself in the bed with the transport boxes. Firecracker hops right into the back seat of the car buggy and sticks her head out the window. "Ready to go!" she cheers out happily, bouncing in her seat in excitement as she waits for the adventure to really begin! The nearly three and three quarter hour long trip to Spokane is largely uneventful. It isn't the smooth ride it may have been a decade ago but between the vehicle modified for the times and the good driving of Willy they hit very few large bumps and jostles arriving in Spokane as the Sun is beginning to set. Rolling along Route 395 they arrive in the city on an Overpass giving them a decent view into the city. Amethyst fiddles with her hands a bit along the ride, seemingly in another place... Mentally, at least. As the sound of the tires shift upon driving onto the overpass, the kitten girl snaps back into reality, her tufted ears indecisive as to whether or not they're folded back. She glances out the window, taking in the view, a bit taken aback by the new surroundings. Willy gazes around a bit as they reach the overpass. "Hmm...doesn't look like there is anyone out on the edge of town. Don't know if that’s good or bad..." he says before spying the chewed up road sigh. Slowly down as he reaches the off-ramp, he slowly eases the car off the highway and onto the state road that leads into the university. Navara is alert, very alert as they close in on the target city. Her ears twist and swivel, but still most anything but the vehicle is drowned out. Her eyes scan roads and nearby landscape as they head down the ramp. "Don't see anything either. Not yet at least." Leaning just slightly, she looks down at the river they are passing over on the way to the campus. The city remains quiet as they roll down the off-ramp, over the Spokane River, onto the street. It is a trivial task from there to navigate into the center of the campus. There is evidence of recent habitation, firepits, bits of recent litter, and to anyone with a mutant’s sense of smell the whole area reeks of human. As they reach the center they see a spot that would be great for them to park. Not an actual parking spot as where one would park to avoid tickets before P-Day but it's convenient and in the absence of the government they're unlikely to be ticketed. Amethyst looks around curiously, her fluffy tail flicking beside her in the car seat. "This place seems rather odd..." She notes as they approach the parking spot. "We should be careful as to not disturb more than absolutely necessary..." Her hands go to grip at the hem of her skirt again, her body tense. Willy eases the vehicle into the space and parks it as straight as possible. "This place does seem rather quiet, especially since it seems people have been here." he says as he turns the engine off and gets out. Stepping out, he does his best to keep his nose to the wind, just in case. Navara hops out the vehicle, her ears on a constant swivel as she cautiously approaches the one of the firepits. A voice echoes softly in the heads of the entire team. /This is Navara. I'm using Nanomagic to communicate. Going to check the firepits./ Kneeling down, she brings her hand over one of the pits, feeling for heat and then inspect the ashes. Her gaze is drawn to the footprints around them. /Firepits her being used less than an hour go. These footprints of fresh. People were here within about...fifteen minutes? I'd not be surprised if we are being watched./ Standing back up, she begins looking around, trying to find a place to get the high ground to look over the campus. Firecracker scrambles her way out of the car window to land on the ground outside with a clippity clopping of her hooves. "Oh! Peoples are around?" she asks nobody in particular as she looks around to see if she can see any of the peoples nearby. In order to get a better view, she extends her wings and flaps her way up into the air several dozen feet, looking down and around from above. "Helloooooo?! Anybody home?!" she shouts out to the campus from above, then waits for a response. The sound of Fires loud words echo through the campus without reply as darkness descends upon the university. Her words go without a response as the campus again grows quiet. Amethyst exits the vehicle, her ears pressed firmly against her chestnut hair, occasionally popping up to take in the sounds of the environment. The kitten girl jumps a bit at the nanomagic communication, nodding nervously at the words said. She moves over to Willy, keeping close even as the other two inspect the surroundings. "Someone watching? I mean, we're not doing anything inherently wrong, so hopefully they don't hate us..." She says softly, under her breath. She lets out a quiet squeal as the pegasus's voice rings out around them. As bubbly as it is, it only makes the oncoming silence more unnerving. "Let's just.. Do what we came here for, and leave as soon as possible. Don't want to disturb anyone..." Willy goes "Huh" and looks around when he's "Mind pinged" by Navara before shaking his head "Oh right, nanomagic..." he softly says before looking to her. "Thanks for checking" he says before he hears Fire's yell and sighs. "I guess we should expect we may see a welcoming party soon. I don't know what you guys plans are, but if we can be diplomatic first, I'd prefer to be." he says. As he says that he sets one hand back on the holster of his aptly named "Thunder Stick" as he looks around a little "Ummm...guys...you think the car will be ok with use not around?" he asks. Navara's ears perk up as she hear some movement, but from where? "I'm all for diplomacy if we can manage it." Lowering her voice to whisper, she murmurs. "I definitely hear something out there. Keep your guard up. I'm going to see what I can find from the treetops." Approaching one of the campus trees, she extends her claws and starts to climb. It's rough, scratching away bark and barely make it to one of the branches. Though, ones she is up there, she leaps from branch to branch gracefully. As she finds a good lookout point, she scans the builds. Something catching her eye. Though, she chooses caution, not bellowing it out. Firecracker's adorable head adornments swivel and flick as they pick up on the nearly silent sounds of motion on the wind while she hovers above. "Come on Peoples! Ya don't haveta be all sneaky hidey!" she calls out again, "We're not gunna hurtcha or anything! We're just here to look around and see if there's anything to take home with us! But if you guys are here already and using the stuff, we don't wanna steal it!" As she speaks, she turns around in midair, speaking to three distinct areas where she picked up on the sounds. "Oh uhhh... I have strawberries!" she offers, still waiting for a response from the sneaky noises. After Firecracker yells into the darkness a second time the world goes quiet again. There is a minute long pause before the sound of movement picks up again. First only audible to Firecracker then to the rest of the party. A few moments later a single human walks out of one of the buildings with an electric lamp. "So you... creatures want to buy things from us?" he asks.

Gonzaga Pt 2 - Arrival - RPLOG

2017-08-03T05:16:11Z

Ebreus: Added the page in it's entirety after an error with RPlogging made it necessary to do manually for this one.

=Participants=
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Willy]]
* [[Amethyst]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Navara]]
=Date=
8/02/2017
=Log=
Neil exits the interviewing room about fifteen seconds after Amethyst does and leaves the hut entirely. He returns exactly five minutes after talking Ameythyst he needed a five minute break. "Pegasus, come with me. It is time for your interview." he says as he heads into the room. Alissa steps aside from the podium and digs through a small bag as Neil exits the hut. She removes a bunch of strawberries from the pouch and says, "Would anyone like some fruit? I have some to spare." before eating one of the strawberries, biting it so that the stem may be discarded. Amethyst takes a few steps over to Alissa, clasping her hands together in front of her and tilting her head. "Fruit? May I try a few?" She asks, cocking her head and looking over the strawberries curiously. She then turns and flops down on a nearby seat, kicking her legs idly. She then looks over to smile softly at Firecracker, raising a hand to wave. "Good luck! Not that you'll need it!" Willy looks at the strawberries with a smile and picks one from the bunch "Thank you" he says as he gently removes the leaves and stem before be noms on it happily. The fox wags his tail with a smile. "Man I always love these when I was younger." "Oh! Me! I knew there was gunna be snacks!" Firecracker chirps out happily, darting through the air to the podium and landing atop it. "Thanks!" she says to the husky before opening her mouth nice and wide, bending down to the fruits, and clamping her tiny teethies down on one of them. With the sweet thing held in her mouth, she spreads her wings and shoots off through the door after Neil, waving goodbye to all the people left behind! Alissa smiles and her tail wags happily. She takes four berries from the bunch and sets them in Amethysts hands when she cups them to recieve the strawberries. "I'm glad you like them." she responds to Willy and Navara. She watches as the tiny pony carries away one of the large ripe strawberries, "Good luck!" she wishes the Pony. Inside the beige interviewing room Neil walks around the desk before sitting and returning to perfect posture. He watches the small, strawberry carrying, Pony fly around. "Please take a seat and we will begin." he says. Firecracker lands atop the desk with the strawberry in her mouth, closing her jaw to take a bite out of the fruit and letting it drop on the desk in front of her. "Fanks! Buh I dun weally needa sead, sho yoo gan geep id!" she says to the interviewer, mouth stuffed with juicy redness and making her words rather difficult to understand as she chews. Amethyst brings her cupped hands to her face, taking a deep sniff of the fruit. She then smiles and nods approvingly, beginning to nibble on them... Though some juice escapes her mouth and trails down the corner of her mouth. "Wow, these are so sweet. I really should expand my diet now that I'm above ground..." She muses for only a moment before continuing to savor the berries. Willy finishes off his strawberry. "Not bad at all. A little sweeter than the old store brands I recall, but that something that can be good on their own." he says before patiently waiting on Fire's interview. Neils eyes widen as the strange creature lands on his desk with a piece of fruit. He hums lightly, a sound that is more similar to a louder version of the whirring noise that always comes from Clockwork Foxes, for just a moment before saying, "Are you sure? You may want to... become larger so that if while on mission and something stops you from flying you don't get left behind or stepped on." he says. Navara chomps happily on her strawberry, licking her lips when a little extra juice seeps out. Looking over the strawberry curiously, she ponders softly. "I wonder if I could make anything like this..." Firecracker makes a rather loud gulping sound as she swallows down her bit of strawberry, and then points to it with a hoof as she offers some to her interviewer. "Want some? And am I s'posedta be bigger for this? Okay then! Say whenta stop!" she says to the clockwork fox before she inhales a deep breath through her mouth, plugs it with her hoof, and then blows, quickly getting larger in her spot on the desk as she keeps her ears perked for a signal to stop her growth. Alissa smiles as the agents enjoy her strawberries and she eats another of them. At about this time Cookies who had been fairly quiet excuses herself and rushes out explaining that they would not be able to participate in this contract. Alissa watches the door, a bit confused at the going on, before shrugging and returning her attention to the agents still here. "Make strawberries? You mean like grow a garden of their plants?" she asks as Navara suggests making them. Neil watches the tiny pegasus as she expands in a way that almost makes him wonder if she is somehow made of synthetic materials. He watches, his head tilted slightly to the left, as she expands until she is about five feet tall. "Alright, that size should be about enough." he says. He then tales a breath and continues, "No thank you about the strawberry. I have some questions for you. The first of which being what do you think qualifies you to take this contract?" Amethyst glances to Navara as she finishes her strawberries, licking the juice from her lips. "A garden would be cool, but I would be worried about any... pests. You don't exactly have just small critters who will want your food..." Willy licks his lips as he finishes his strawberry. "As long as you have the people power to deal with them, you should be fine. New Dawn after all has a small community far setup as is, and they don't seem to have any big issues." Navara chuckles softly, finishing her strawberry off right up to the leafy nub. Leaning back into her chair, she stretches her legs out in front of her, looking over to Amethyst. "Gardens for stuff like this is nice, sure. Though, I was actually thinking about what I can do with the NICE I had recently installed. Still figuring out what I can do with that nanomagic." Firecracker pops her hoof out of her mouth as she reaches just a bit over five feet long, still leaving her about 4 feet tall when standing on all fours. "Okie dokie lokie!" she says, still sitting atop the desk as she bends down and scoops up the strawberry with her tongue to finish the snack! "Oh! I know that one! You wanted someone to 'deal with unexpected elements'," she says, raising her forelegs up to make airquotes by bending her 'wrists', "and no one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Their chief weapon is surprise! And the element of surprise is unexpected and I love surprises!" Alissa slowly nods as she recognizes the subject is drifting into the nanomagical. He smiles at the three agents and makes to effort to conceal the remaining strawberries. "I don't know if they're able to make fruits... I wonder if their taste would be affected." he says. Neil, the clockwork fox whom up to this point had shown no indication that he wasn't actually a robot, snerks as Firecracker uses the old Monty Python line. He immediately calms himself and says, "While it is true that the element of surprise is very effective I am here to evaluate you on your specific skills in how they relate to this contract. Are you qualified to work with pre P-Day tech? Do you have applicable Nanomagics?" he asks a very feint tone of amusement in his voice. "I have no idea! Maybe!" Firecracker replies with a wide smile. "First ya gotta tell me what those things are then I can tell ya if I am or not or do or don't!" Amethyst tilts her head at the mention of nanomagic, though she seems content to listen, her fluffy tufted ears at attention atop her head. Likewise, her tail wavers in the air between the kitten girl's back and the back of the chair. Neil again tilts his head, confused by the pegasus, "Well... a qualification would be having demonstrable skill with technology, Nanomagics are the abilities provided by the varius programs exicutable via a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, or as most people call it a N.I.C.E." he says. He takes another breath. Navara turns briefly to Alissa as she joins in the subject. Though, she furrows her brow, scratching behind an ear as she thinks. "Well, from what I understand so far is that with culinary nanomagic you can make fruits. Can't make anything that grows...but it still taste like a fruit. Just has the nutrients of whatever biomass you make it out of...or I could produce something like that as a syrup or juice...." Navara scratches her, thoughtful and trying make sure she had caught on with everything she had been when she had the NICE installed. Alissa nods slowly, "Oh... so you could make carrots into strawberries but not strawberry plants?" she asks, she sounds quite curious about the idea of making fruit from not-fruit. "Oh! Roomie has a compy that he let me play with! Does that count?" Firecracker asks cheerfully. "And I'm probably the nicest nicer that ever niced a nicety!" she adds, jovially swinging a foreleg in front of her. Amethyst tilts her head more, as if that was even possible. "Nanomagic sounds... confusing." She muses, flicking her tail and leaning back in her seat. "I've heard it's useful on the field, but I've never looked into it, myself..." Neil watches the human-sized pegasus blankly for a moment before saying, "Alright... so you do have a Nanite Interface Control Enhancer, could you list what programs you have for it or demonstrate them?" he asks. Willy nods inquisitively "Huh...so it's kinda like...I doubt most people will get this...like a replicator from old Science Fiction shows, making stuff from the reworked materials of other things?" "I have no idea!" Firecracker answers happily once again, "Is there a wayta check or somethin'? What's it look like? I got a lotta stuff!" Navara sighs, scratching her cheek. She nods to Amethyst. "You're telling me. That's why I've been trying to practice with it!" Chuckling, she nods to Willy and Alissa in tandem. "Yes, and yes. And, they would taste and feel like strawberries, but they'd have the nutrients of a carrot." Neil blinks a few times. He then says, "I can provide you with a test for technical skills." he then opens a drawer and sets the reassembled Bamboozler on the table. "This thing is broken and I am not sure what it is. Could you tell me and fix it?" he says. Alissas eyes widen slightly, "That is amazing. It'd certainly make eating the less yummy healthy things more bearable." she comments. Amethyst giggles. "That would actually be really cool for things like rations. Maybe you could make dry, pasty rations taste like chocolate cake!" She continues to kick her legs, her body swaying with the momentum. Willy nods "yes that would. I do wonder though if it also can be used for not so nice means, but having tasted the honey from you Navara, I don't think that’s coming from your rapture of course." he says with a smile. Navara purrs softly, tilting her head she considers the possibilities. "I....think I might be able to that to rations? Maybe?" She shrugs to Willy. "I'm sure there is some nasty this you could do. My focus is just even learning what I can do." Firecracker blinks at the Bamboozler, tilting her head this way and that in confusion before suddenly perking up in realization! "Ohhhhh! This is onea those art thingies you make outta a bunch of different parts, right?" she asks before standing over it and moving around to see it from from all angles. "Oh no, wait! There's some computery stuff and an art thingy all mixed together!" she says with a smile, pulling out bits of a toaster and blender from the full computer she quickly puts together with her forehooves inexplicably. With the computer put back in working order, she turns to her remaining pieces, picking up the scraps and licking them before placing them back together, arranging them in roughly the shape of a Christmas tree as they are held together by her gluey saliva! "There! Computer thingy and part arty thingy! Two for one!" she giggles as she presents her finished work back the fox, tongue still poking out of her mouth as she smiles. Neil looks dumfounded down at the now functional computer, totally ignoring the tree-like peace of art, "That is impressive." he says. He looks up at the Pegasus, "Well now... I believe you will be able to contribute to the mission." he says as he rises from his chair. "Come with me. Alissa will want to give you your briefing." he says. He then leads Firecracker out of the beige room and says to Alissa, "All of these applicants are acceptable. You may brief them." Alissa nods slowly as the agents get into some detail of Nanomagic. She then perks up when the door opens and Neil emerges to make the statement. "Alright." she says and moves to the podium. "Now if everyone would listen for a minute or two I have a presentation to prepare you for this operation." she says then pauses for a moment to allow the Agents to take their seats. She starts, "Today we are sending you to Spokane, in Washington State. We have made arrangements for Zephyr to fly you over Oregon to avoid the unnecessary danger of the Packminds. Once you land by RSXs Headquarters Neil will lead you to one of our Washington Safe houses where we have a reassembled motor-vehicle prepared with enough fuel to reach Spokane and return. Upon reaching the city we want you to focus your salvaging efforts on the grounds of Gonzaga University. We believe that the University poses the greatest chance for salvaging intact computers and solar panels. While we do have enough panels for our needs here in New Dawn some of our research projects do desperately need these sensitive materials. With the vehicle are several sealable reinforced glass cases. Please fill these with salvage before returning to earn full payment. Any questions?” Amethyst straightens up and ceases her fidgeting, listening intently to the briefing. As they're asked die questions, she raises a hand, speaking soon after. "Do we have any information on hostiles in the area? Depending on the amount of potential danger we might need to adjust our strategy and watch each other's backs." Willy is about to ask a question but Amethyst asked it for him. The fox looks over at the two to see what sort of response will be given. Navara looks around at the team, feeling a bit out of place. Not having heard the interviews of the others, she raises hand. Amethyst had already ask her main question, but she had another. "I take it others of the team know how to properly dismantle some of these items for safe transport?" Firecracker pronks happily behind Neil as he leads her back to the main room for briefing, reemerging from her interview more than ten times as large as she was when she went in. "Hiya again, peoples!" she chirps out happily as she enters and then plops her rump down in her chair in front for the information session. Once Alissa finishes speaking, Firecracker's hoof shoots up in the air, waving around and around frantically as she waits for Amethyst to finish her question, then dropping it and blurting out, "Got any more snacks?!" Alissa nods when she receives the first question, "Really this is the first time we have sent people to Spokane... and why we wanted only the most qualified agents. We don't know if there will be hostiles." At about this time Neil chimes in, "Yes, as per your interviews I have made sure the group has all of the necessary skills that I believe you will be able to achieve mission success with no assistance beyond being shown where the motor vehicle is in Woodfield." Alissa then clears her throught after Neils interruption and continues, "Only the strawberries that we had a moment ago." he says to Firecracker. Amethyst nods a bit, her hazel eyes break away from Alissa and travel across her companions. "I suppose we'll have to stick together then, or at least in only a couple of groups. We don't want to be overwhelmed." The kitten girl grips the edge of her skirt tightly, seeming a bit on edge. Willy nods "Rough, going in blind." he says "Hopefully if there is any there, they will be scare of us as we are uneasy about them. No further questions." he says as he listens in more. Navara glances briefly at the others and then gives their Neil and Alissa a nod. "I believe I'm set." "Aww..." Firecracker groans in disappointment for a second before quickly perking back up, "Oh well! Good thing I have my own!" she says, reaching a hoof up into her mane and digging around a couple seconds before pulling out a hoof full of strawberries! She hops up out of her chair and heads for the door, offering the snacks to the others as she bounces along on three hooves, popping the fruits into her own mouth as well. Once she goes out the door, she immediately turns around and pokes her head back in. "Oh wait, where we are going again?" she asks with a giggle. Alissa nods and Neil says, "Excellent. Then if you would follow me I with lead you to the truck and we can begin the excursion into Spokane." he walks out of the hut with the Agents then answers Firecracker, "You are going to the city of Spokane using the truck we have prepared in Woodfield." he replies. He then uneventfully leads them through Fairhaven, to the Zephyr Building and speaking with some of the Zephyr employees the group is then directed to the helipad where the chopper is waiting. Neil exchanges pleasantries with Mike before boarding and urging the agents to do as well. Once the entire group is aboard the chopper takes off, flying the three hour trip to Woodfield. Along the three hours Neil remains mostly silent, taking deep breaths, until Woodfield is in sight. Neil smiles and quickly disembarks the helicopter once it lands. He stretches and says, "Alright... the safe house is only a block and a half from here." The second the helicopter leaves the bubble, Firecracker's Distributed nanomagic is activated, keeping the group in bubble in effect. The entire three hour trip is filled with talking or humming or singing from the pegasus as they travel making it quite a bit more lively than the usual three hours of silence the trip is. Once the group makes it to their destination, Firecracker pops out of the helicopter to continue on their trip to the car and then to the great unknown! "Okie dokie lokie! Where to next?!" she asks enthusiastically as she looks around. Neil nods in agreement with Amethysts comments. "Yes, it would be best if this doesn't take until tomorrow morning." He finishes his stretching and walks off of the RSX Helipad before looking behind him and saying, "Come along." He then leads the party the block and a half to the Safe house. He then unlocks and opens the garage door to the building revealing a vehicle that looks like a cross between a dune buggy and a pickup truck. "This is the vehicle we have prepared." he says. He then climbs into the bed of the strange vehicle and shows you two large transparent boxes. "These are the reinforced glass containers we want you to put the salvage in on recovery. Nanites, especially the nanite soup of an established bubble, will devour the salvage if you don't or the boxes are damaged. Oh and that is another thing don't let the word 'reinforced' fool you. These are still made of glass. If you're not gentle they will break." he explains then climbs out of the truck. "Now your destination is north-east along Route 395. Spokane should be just under one hundred and fifty miles from here. You should have just over enough fuel for the three hundred mile round trip." he says. Willy nods "That is noted. I did use them before with the science missions. Shouldn't have any issues." he says before opening the driver’s seat door "I'll drive" he says as he hops his way in. Quickly he inspects the setup, looking for what he remembers as gas pedal, break and ignition. He also looks to the center "hehe, too bad there isn't any radio stations left for this trip" he says as he gets prepared. Navara wandered around the vehicle Neil explained everything. Taking in the curious mix of vehicle, and looking where to seat herself. Her eyes are drawn to the transport boxes, and she nods slowly as they are warned about them breaking. "Understood. We'll be careful to treat them well." Her ears flick at the sides of her head as she tries to figure out if it'd be better to seat herself in the bed with the transport boxes. Firecracker hops right into the back seat of the car buggy and sticks her head out the window. "Ready to go!" she cheers out happily, bouncing in her seat in excitement as she waits for the adventure to really begin! The nearly three and three quarter hour long trip to Spokane is largely uneventful. It isn't the smooth ride it may have been a decade ago but between the vehicle modified for the times and the good driving of Willy they hit very few large bumps and jostles arriving in Spokane as the Sun is beginning to set. Rolling along Route 395 they arrive in the city on an Overpass giving them a decent view into the city. Amethyst fiddles with her hands a bit along the ride, seemingly in another place... Mentally, at least. As the sound of the tires shift upon driving onto the overpass, the kitten girl snaps back into reality, her tufted ears indecisive as to whether or not they're folded back. She glances out the window, taking in the view, a bit taken aback by the new surroundings. Willy gazes around a bit as they reach the overpass. "Hmm...doesn't look like there is anyone out on the edge of town. Don't know if that’s good or bad..." he says before spying the chewed up road sigh. Slowly down as he reaches the off-ramp, he slowly eases the car off the highway and onto the state road that leads into the university. Navara is alert, very alert as they close in on the target city. Her ears twist and swivel, but still most anything but the vehicle is drowned out. Her eyes scan roads and nearby landscape as they head down the ramp. "Don't see anything either. Not yet at least." Leaning just slightly, she looks down at the river they are passing over on the way to the campus. The city remains quiet as they roll down the off-ramp, over the Spokane River, onto the street. It is a trivial task from there to navigate into the center of the campus. There is evidence of recent habitation, firepits, bits of recent litter, and to anyone with a mutant’s sense of smell the whole area reeks of human. As they reach the center they see a spot that would be great for them to park. Not an actual parking spot as where one would park to avoid tickets before P-Day but it's convenient and in the absence of the government they're unlikely to be ticketed. Amethyst looks around curiously, her fluffy tail flicking beside her in the car seat. "This place seems rather odd..." She notes as they approach the parking spot. "We should be careful as to not disturb more than absolutely necessary..." Her hands go to grip at the hem of her skirt again, her body tense. Willy eases the vehicle into the space and parks it as straight as possible. "This place does seem rather quiet, especially since it seems people have been here." he says as he turns the engine off and gets out. Stepping out, he does his best to keep his nose to the wind, just in case. Navara hops out the vehicle, her ears on a constant swivel as she cautiously approaches the one of the firepits. A voice echoes softly in the heads of the entire team. /This is Navara. I'm using Nanomagic to communicate. Going to check the firepits./ Kneeling down, she brings her hand over one of the pits, feeling for heat and then inspect the ashes. Her gaze is drawn to the footprints around them. /Firepits her being used less than an hour go. These footprints of fresh. People were here within about...fifteen minutes? I'd not be surprised if we are being watched./ Standing back up, she begins looking around, trying to find a place to get the high ground to look over the campus. Firecracker scrambles her way out of the car window to land on the ground outside with a clippity clopping of her hooves. "Oh! Peoples are around?" she asks nobody in particular as she looks around to see if she can see any of the peoples nearby. In order to get a better view, she extends her wings and flaps her way up into the air several dozen feet, looking down and around from above. "Helloooooo?! Anybody home?!" she shouts out to the campus from above, then waits for a response. The sound of Fires loud words echo through the campus without reply as darkness descends upon the university. Her words go without a response as the campus again grows quiet. Amethyst exits the vehicle, her ears pressed firmly against her chestnut hair, occasionally popping up to take in the sounds of the environment. The kitten girl jumps a bit at the nanomagic communication, nodding nervously at the words said. She moves over to Willy, keeping close even as the other two inspect the surroundings. "Someone watching? I mean, we're not doing anything inherently wrong, so hopefully they don't hate us..." She says softly, under her breath. She lets out a quiet squeal as the pegasus's voice rings out around them. As bubbly as it is, it only makes the oncoming silence more unnerving. "Let's just.. Do what we came here for, and leave as soon as possible. Don't want to disturb anyone..." Willy goes "Huh" and looks around when he's "Mind pinged" by Navara before shaking his head "Oh right, nanomagic..." he softly says before looking to her. "Thanks for checking" he says before he hears Fire's yell and sighs. "I guess we should expect we may see a welcoming party soon. I don't know what you guys plans are, but if we can be diplomatic first, I'd prefer to be." he says. As he says that he sets one hand back on the holster of his aptly named "Thunder Stick" as he looks around a little "Ummm...guys...you think the car will be ok with use not around?" he asks. Navara's ears perk up as she hear some movement, but from where? "I'm all for diplomacy if we can manage it." Lowering her voice to whisper, she murmurs. "I definitely hear something out there. Keep your guard up. I'm going to see what I can find from the treetops." Approaching one of the campus trees, she extends her claws and starts to climb. It's rough, scratching away bark and barely make it to one of the branches. Though, ones she is up there, she leaps from branch to branch gracefully. As she finds a good lookout point, she scans the builds. Something catching her eye. Though, she chooses caution, not bellowing it out. Firecracker's adorable head adornments swivel and flick as they pick up on the nearly silent sounds of motion on the wind while she hovers above. "Come on Peoples! Ya don't haveta be all sneaky hidey!" she calls out again, "We're not gunna hurtcha or anything! We're just here to look around and see if there's anything to take home with us! But if you guys are here already and using the stuff, we don't wanna steal it!" As she speaks, she turns around in midair, speaking to three distinct areas where she picked up on the sounds. "Oh uhhh... I have strawberries!" she offers, still waiting for a response from the sneaky noises. After Firecracker yells into the darkness a second time the world goes quiet again. There is a minute long pause before the sound of movement picks up again. First only audible to Firecracker then to the rest of the party. A few moments later a single human walks out of one of the buildings with an electric lamp. "So you... creatures want to buy things from us?" he asks.

Ebreus/Contacts

2017-07-29T07:39:42Z

Ebreus: /* Friends */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

== Friends ==

[[Borneo]]

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

[[Pelle]]

Gonzaga Pt 1 - Interviews - RPLOG

2017-07-25T11:28:59Z

Ebreus: Added the page in it's entirety after an error with RPlogging made it necessary to do manually for this one.

=Participants=
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Willy]]
* [[Amethyst]]
* [[Cookies]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Navara]]
=Date=
7/24/2017
=Log=
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Alissa the husky girl who briefs agents on their contracts awaits in the hut usually set aside for important briefings this time accompanied by a male Clockwork Fox. As agents begin to enter Alissa steps up to the podium and says, "Thank you all for responding. This mission is a little different from normal so we have a colleague, Neil, with us who will be interviewing each of you individually before we get on to the full mission briefing." She quickly scans the group of Agents who have arrived for the contract before continuing, "Before Neil begins one on one interviews are there any general questions?" Amethyst shakes her head, her hands clasped around the strap of her messenger bag slung diagonally across her torso. The human sized kitten girl was clad in her usual cutesy costume, her messenger bag bulging with something round and metallic inside. The kitten girl's fluffy tail flickers behind her as she stands patiently, her eyes bright and well-rested. "Just happy to be given the opportunity to help..." She mewls softly, before quieting and glancing at the others. Cookies is leaned against a wall in her usual overblown too-cool-for-school style, clad in scrap armor that doesn't even show off her enormous cleavage for once, wowzers! "Yeah, just one," she responds. She holds back the 'chickenshit outfit' joke with every fibre of her being. "What's the 'nature of the desired salvage'? Makes it sound like it's gonna bite us in the ass when we try to snag it. Wouldn't be the first time." Willy looks to Alissa after he is briefed, the Fennec fully equipped in his usually heavy armored attire. "I guess I may as well ask...what sort of terrain or area are we going into, and do we expect to deal with any sort of hostile force? Also, what sort of material are we salvaging?" He asked, a stern look to his face as he awaits an answer. Perching atop the back of one of the chairs in the front row, Firecracker's foreleg shoots up into the air and starts waving around above her head. "Oh oh oh!" the excitable pint-sized pink pony pegasus blurts out. "Do we get snacks or a movie or something while we wait?" Once her oh-so-important question is asked, she gives the husky and fox a beaming smile as she awaits their response. Navara is standing against a wall in her usual tribal attire. Having recently returned to the area, she simply listens to the others ask their questions, having no more to add afterward. Her ears swivel and twitch to follow each person as they spoke. Alissas eyes light up to hear questions and her tail wags as she prepares her response, "We are interested in delecate electronics, the sort of thing that doesn't keep well being exposed to nanites or anything worse than a mild shock." she says to Cookies then shifts her attention to Willy, "The area isn't fully scouted but there was a town there..." she trails off and begins to look through her notes, "Spokane, it's called. We have a record of a University being there, there should be good salvage on campus." she says then turns her attention to Firecracker and just before she can start Neil interjects, "Excuse me Alissa, we should save the full briefing until they've been interviewed." he says then turns his attention to the Agents. He looks them over for a few seconds then points to Willy, "You, follow me. You're first for an interview." he says and begins to walk into the other room. Amethyst listens intently, her tufted brown ears standing at attention as the woman speaks. Her hands move from her bag's strap to clasp together in front of her as she idles. She stays quiet, just shifting her weight between her feet and waiting, somewhat keeping to herself. Cookies picks at her teeth a little bit with a pinky, seemingly just for effect. There isn't even anything in her teeth. She spends a moment lost in thought like this before she pipes up, "Okay, make that two questions. Are we getting paid or do we get to keep whatever we find besides the target?" Willy snerks "Heh, town, as I recall Spokane was a small city" he says, as he does his best to recall the time before stuff got weird. Seeing the pointing for an interview, the Fennec nods before getting up and following Neil to the other room. "Good luck person guy!" Firecracker cheers as Willy goes to his interview. She then turns on her chair and waves to the others in the room. "Hiya peoples! I'm Firecracker! What're your names? And anyone bring any snacks?" Navara eyes flick around the room, glancing slowly between each of the other agents and familiarizing herself with them. As she watches Willy go, she ponders to herself just how he'll do. A smiles slowly forms on her lips as she takes in Firecracker's warm greeting, giving a friendly wave in return. "The name's Navara. And, no snacks here." Neil leads Willy into the other room that has cubical-like walls aligned around the actual wooden walls to make a, mostly beige, pseudo-room that almost looks like it would fit in an office building. This almost office even has a desk. Neil seats himself at the desk, which has a chair though not a modern desk chair and indicates the stool on the other side of the desk form him. "Please sit." he says. He pauses a moment to allow Willy time to react to his suggestion then continues, "So, to lead with an overly broad question, what qualifies you for a delicate exo-bubble salvage operation?" he asks. Back in the briefing room Alissa takes note of Cookies question, "We found a location that should have important salvage and are offering to buy all that you return with." he says then smiles to Firecracker, "Hi Firecracker! I am Alissa." Willy smiles to Neil and calmly begins to explain. "Well first off, I am someone that survived P-Day, far be it in the not so nice ways until I was rescued, and most of my memories from that time are restored. I am also very good when it comes to working on electronics, and are skills I have been trusted on in other missions he says." The entire statement is given calmly as if he has been using something to stay cool and calm. Cookies checks her nails and frowns. "And we're just gonna sit here until our number comes up, huh? I don't have, uh..." She clicks her tongue against the roof of her mouth, rolling her eyes. "Okay, well, technically I probably have forever, but I would rather not spend it in a waiting room." Amethyst turns her head, a hand raising to cover her mouth as she stifles a small giggle. "It's nice to see you again, Fire." She says, her voice perky. She then looks to the others. "I don't believe I've met you all before. I'm Amethyst..." The kitten girl smiles gently and gives a casual curtsey, but pauses as Cookies speaks. Her smile lessens, and she tilts her head. "Oh, I've done this before, it's not that bad. At least we're not waiting alone." Neil watches the Fennec intently, the very faint sounds of clicking and whirring coming from his every movement without fail although he is mostly still as he listens. "Yes, you've been involved with the acquisition of spacesuits for some of the joint-research projects if I am not mistaken." he says. He smiles very faintly and continues, "Now other than prior experience with this sort of work do you have any applicable skills, or capabilities that would make you desirable for this operation? Ability to control pre P-day vehicles or perhaps some form of Nanite control?" In the briefing room Alissas smile vanishes for a split second before returning although smaller than before as she says, "Sorry, I wanted to do things as a group but Neil tends to get his way and wanted one on one interviews. We could chat while we wait." Willy makes faces as he thinks for a moment on the question. "I did drive a car before the fall, so I should be able to deal with such." he says with a small pause "Though, perhaps I should shift to something closer to human size to better fit...and so Nanite control...if you are speaking of a NICE, so I do not have such...though I recall from the last mission, Regulation nanomagic is too big of a risk around electronics" he says before calming looking over for a response. "Oh! I like chatting!" Firecracker chirps happily. "Chatting and talking and speaking and conversing and prattling and jabbering and babbling and blabbering and yapping and yakking and yattering and yammering and confabulating!" She gives the husky girl a bright grin after her word-vomit and then looks to Navara. "Oh, I brought snacks!" she giggles, reaching up into her mane and digging around for a few seconds before pulling out a grape, which she promptly chomps into. Cookies shrugs broadly, though her tail whips about behind her in visible annoyance. "It's agonizing, actually," she states flatly in response to Amethyst, her expression in the perfect resting bitch face. "But I digress. Everyone knows me as Cookies. I'm, uh... For the sake of ease, let's just say I'm a computer specialist and leave it at that." Despite carrying such a rude tone, she does at least have the common courtesy to offer a hand. Navara chuckles at Firecracker's seemingly boundless energy. Turning, to look over to Amethyst, she gives a small nod of recognition. "I believe we've met before. You work at the new sunshine restaurant right? I've been there a couple times since the opening. Neil nods slowly and lightly, the motion accompanied by the clockwork sounds expected by one of a Clockwork form. "That is accurate, exposure to Nanites can be quite damaging to sensitive salvage, but short term nanite exposure is unlikely to cause significant damage. Somewhere in the range of a minute or less." he says. He smiles, "It does speak to your credibility you caught that though." He is quiet a moment then says, "Alright, I think in light of your previous work that is all that I will need from you. Could you send the cat in?" Willy smiles and nodes "Thank you" before hearing the request and looking a little confused. "The...cat? Umm...which one?" Alissa pouts for a moment to see one of the agents who came for a contract so annoyed but whatever she felt that caused her to pout melts when Fire starts up her antics he giggles and says, "Neil is very efficient this shouldn't be very long." Meanwhile Neil thinks for a moment before responding to Willy, "The less fluffy one." Amethyst seems a little taken back, her ears flattening atop her head, though she meets the cat girl's hand with her own. "It's nice to meet you, Cookies. It's rare that I see another with a similar infection." The kitten girl's hazel eyes flicker over Cookies' feline features before one of her fluffy brown ears rotates towards Navara. Amethyst turns, and with a flick of her tail, bounces on her heels a bit. "Oh my gosh, yes! I'm so sorry for not recognizing you!" She lifts a finger, her eyes looking upwards as she thinks. "You were... hmm... I-I dont know if I can remember your name. I remember serving pina coladas, though..." She shakes her head, her chestnut hair shifting against her shoulders as she does so. She then smiles sheepishly, cocking her head to the side. "It's nice to see you again, regardless. I was pretty sure no one would recognize me..." Willy blinks for a moment, and winces as he tries to think "I...guess you mean the housecat." he says with a nod before heading out into the main room. Looking to the group he looks to Cookies. "Umm...excuse me miss, I think Neil wishes to see you next. Cookies vigorously shakes Amethyst's hand and even breaks her icy demeanor long enough to crack a genuine smile. Once she's called in, though, she turns tail and heads right for Neil. "Well, that's more like it!" she says cheerfully, a stip in her step all the way through the door. She's not terribly hard to please, is she? Neil smiles to see that the Fennec didn't mistake his words and sent in the right cat, it only now occurring to him that Kemo cats aren't particularly fluffy or non-fluffy. He says, "Hello Miss. As our contract stated we are looking for people capable of working with uncommon salvage, particularly of the delecate kind. If you have experience or other qualifications relevent to this type of task now would be a good time to mention it." Alissa smiles to see Willy emerge from the interviewing room and says, "Neil wasn't too intense was he?" after Cookies is sent in. Alissa wags her tail as she takes a look through her notes again. Willy smiles as Cookies walked off and stood there for a moment. Focusing, he suddenly grew a bit taller and his fur turned a deep red. Finishing the shift, he found himself a seat nearby Navara with a smile. Navara smiles warmly as she sees Willy, dipping her head in a nod. "Good to see you Willy." Turning back to Amethyst, she chuckles. "Navara." She repeated. "You actually served couple of us steak. It was getting late there, and you served a small group before closed up. It was a good time though." Cookies takes a seat and smiles widely at Neil, crossing her legs and placing her hands on a knee. "I have handled and even read a server. It's all Assembly bullshit that I couldn't make a lick of sense of without further study, mind you, but I've been in the 'head' of a bubble before. I'd like to think that alone makes me overqualified. Let's see..." She brings a hand to tap her chin thoughtfully. "I'm also fully equipped with a NICE and a suite of programmes tailored specifically for the manipulation of technology, information and electricity, and have as many years of experience salvaging as we have been in nanoplague hell." With another click of her tongue, she finishes, "That's about it." "Hiya again, Person Guy!" Firecracker greets the fox as he returns. "Didja win?" she asks with a smile, tail swishing back and forth in excitement behind her as she awaits his response. Amethyst remains standing, although she sways side to side idly. The kitten girl giggles at the small pony. "There's no winning here, Fire. We just have to answer truthfully. They will know whether we are right for this mission or not..." She grows quiet, her eyes falling to the ground, and one of her canines biting on her supple lower lip. Her tail grows a bit more hectic, anxiously making arcs in the air. Neil stairs at Cookies for a good three seconds before saying, "Alright, being 'overqualified' and equipped with all of that 'Nanomagic' as they call it I am certain you would be able to pass a simple test then, wouldn't you?" He opens one of the drawers in his desk and takes something out of it and sets it on the table. "I know a NICE would make restoring this to perfect working order a trivial task if you're as qualified as you say you are." he says, smiling at her. Alissa looks up from her notes having refreshed her memory of which contract she was briefing agents on and smiles at the Agents in the room with her. In time to hear Amethysts words and nods, "That is right. Be honest and this will all go very well. I am sure of it." she says. Willy smiles and wags his tail a bit. "Good to see you too Navara." he says, before hearing Fire's question. Looking over he says "Hehe yes I think I did" with a bright smile. "Old work and old knowledge won the day. As he finishes his response he spies whats happening with Navara and looks a little confused. "Ummm...sorry if prying...but are you having an issue with your "plumbing"?" he asks, seeing how much milk her breasts are giving out. Cookies glances down at the doodad for a few moments, and back up at Neil with a mildly exasperated expression. "Really? Does this scrap heap even actually count as ANYthing?" She shakes her head and picks it up, firmly grasping it in one hand. "You know, if you wanted to play solitaire, you could get a deck of cards. It would probably cost you less." She closes her eyes and focuses deeply on the object, letting techno nanites work through them in an attempt to repair it... Navara chuckles, a grin forming forming in praise of Willy's accomplishment. "Well done. I figured you'd be a good fit for this mission." She briefly glances down to her bosom, folding her arms over her top in an inherent reaction. "It's been fine. Things have developed, but also just being practicing with the NICE now that its in." Her gaze wanders over to Amethyst, a look of understanding on her face. "Yes, the will know. Though, even if some of us aren't suited for this mission, there will be others. Personally, just came to see if I'd be any aid in it." "Awwww, but I'm not old!" Firecracker whines a bit, "I don't have old knowledge and work is booooooooooring!" She slumps down in her seat, resting her belly on the back of the chair and hanging her forelegs over the back and hindlegs over the front. Neil smiles as the Kemo Cat initially doesn't seem to be able to figure out just what his bamboozler is. He humms when she makes it clear she does have the Nanomagics she says she does. "That is accurate but the purpose of this device is to be difficult to repair." he explains. "Now if you would be so kind as to repair it I would look forward to a game once all the interviews are done." he says. Cookies opens one eye specifically for the purpose of rolling it sardonically. "Whadda ya think I'm doing, beating your high score?" She then actually takes the thing apart, no less than four pieces removed, and hands a fully-functioning, pristinely conditioned jury-rigged computer... thing to Neil. It still mostly looks and feels like a clump to her. Either way, she frowns deeply. "If you didn't screw that thing up on purpose, I would yell at you for making such an abominable piece of tech. I might yet. Satisfied?" Amethyst smiles gently, nodding. "I'm here as a medic, not necessarily for my technological prowess. I'm sure that'll be covered. I just hate for there to be unnecessary pain when out on a mission, you know? So I tag along and assist." Her demeanor grows less anxious as she talks, her tail quieting and her ears folding back. Neil snerks when Cookies mentions a high-score but almost imediently calms himself. He watches her dismantle the bamboozler, leaving only a functional computer, half a toaster, several pieces of misalanius electronic components, and a few select pieces of microwave oven on his desk. He starts up the computer then looks to Cookies, "Rather ironically you did beat my 'high-score'. That is the best time I've yet seen for making a functional computer out of the abomination it was. You are most defininitly qualified. Please send in the other Kemo feline." he says. Cookies beams with obvious pride for a moment at the mention of beating the record time. "Well hot damn, ain't I something." With nothing more than that and a wink to Neil, she turns tail and walks out the way she came, looking TWICE as smug as when she entered, dear gods. "Amethyst, you're up," she says in a sing-song voice, cocking a thumb towards the door. Willy chuckles a little "I see. I guess I will have to keep that in mind if I go down that path in purchasing a NICE" he says before hearing Firecracker's reaction. "If work is Boring Fire...why are you at this interview? Aren't most missions some form of work?" The Fox boy adjusts himself a little in the chair, not fully adjusted to his change in height. Amethyst's ears perk up, her attention turned to Cookies. "Oh, of course!" She says brightly, smiling. With a twitch of her tail, the kitten girl strides towards the door, slipping through it. She enters the room where Neil resides, and approaches, before standing with her hands clasped before her. Her ears stand at attention, as does the rest of her, though her cheeks showed subtle signs of flushing. "You wanted to see me, sir?" She asks, tilting her head. Navara shakes her head briefly, briefly quipping to Willy. "It's not really the NICE doing anything." Leaving it at that, she pushes off the wall to walk to stretch and walk around. It had been and little while standing around and she was starting to get stiff. As she stretches, she directs her voice to Amethyst. "A medic?" She remarked, intrigued. "Definitely always good to have one around. I'm here to see if any of my experience surviving at the edge of the bubble could be put to good use." Looking to doorway that people enter for the interviews, she sighs. "Well, will know soon enough." Firecracker perks up as Willy speaks out to her, ear flicking and head lifting to look towards him. "This isn't work, Silly! We're gunna go out exploraficating and finding shiny stuff and surprises! That's fun!" she happily giggles. When Cookies comes back, she greets the cat with a wave and asks happily, "Didja win?!" Then as Amethyst goes in, she waves her off and calls out, "Good luck! You can do it!" Once Cookies begins to head out Neil turns off the computer and begins disassmbly and reintegrating the toaster, microwave, and electronic components. When Amethyst enters he looks up, not slowing his integration process at all, and says, "Yes, it is your turn for an interview. What qualifications do you have for this contract?" Alissa smiles to see Cookies exit the interviewing room in a good mood. "It is fun." she agrees with Firecracker, "And it is always good when our fun helps other people." she adds cheerfully. Willy chuckles a little "You have a point. Well then I will simply say I won because they know about the last time I had fun." he says with a chuckle, and a smile before watching to the door to await for the rest of the interviews to finish. Cookies' ears perk up at the word 'medic' in reference to Amethyst. "Well merda! You just got knocked real high up on my buddy list," she notes as the other kemo passes by, grinning like a devil and sauntering back to her place against the wall. She nods once towards Firecracker, responding in an equally saccharine tone, "I sure did, little weirdo!" She purses her lips and tilts her head aside. "You know, you almost remind me of me when I was a few marbles short of a bag." Amethyst's hazel eyes travel over the fox's work, and though she smiles, she seems a bit intimidated. With a long, silent breath, she straigtens her posture. "I am of the understanding that this will be a mission with various risks involved, seeing as it is set in a hazardous area. That's why I am here, to offer my services as medic. In my time underground since P-Day I have studied various medical texts and documents, and since I came above ground two months ago, I have been practicing and mastering my skills when it comes to helping the wounded recover." The kitten girl's fingers on her right hand reach up to her collarbone, her arm resting on her petite breast. "I have trained myself in the ways of using various techniques, from breast milk to proper dressing and disinfection of wounds. For this, I'd like you to consider me." After her small speech, she takes a moment, almost seeming out of breath. Navara at this point, just continues her stretching. The wait to getting interview building up a gradual anxiousness to get it done. Idly, she walk walks around in cicles for a bit before sitting down in seat. Due to her large form, she carefully picks out one of the sturdier seat. Her are still listening, turning to listen to all the other agents. Neil stops his work reintegrating the red-herring compontents of his bamboozler to focus all of his attention on Amethyst. "It is always good to have a competant medic around. Full stop actually. I can't think of anywhere or when that statement isn't true." he says. There is a moments pause then he continues, "Of course you wouldn't mind if I ask a few questions about how you would treat wounds without the benefit of Nanites, correct?" he asks. Alissas tail wags quickly behind her, "I am glad to see so far all of you have made a good impression on Neil." she says. "I don't have any marbles though," Firecracker responds to the cat engaging her in conversation. "Guess I lost 'em or something!" She tilt her head back all the way to look at the dog at the podium and add, "Yeah! Fun stuff makes me happy and helping makes other people happy which makes me happy which means I'll be double happy!" Amethyst smiles, shaking her head. "I don't mind one bit. I'm an open book in that regard." She mewls, the hand on her chest moving to rest on the white messenger bag about her hip. "Give me a hypothetical situation and I'd be happy to go through the theoreticap motions." The fluffy brown tail behind her makes a couple anxious arcs in the air as she waits for a response, though her heels lift just slightly off the ground in anticipation. Neil smiles and says, "Alright, a blunt object falls from the cieling and strikes one of your party. Their skull is intact but the impact near the temple did break the skin and they are bleeding. With no nanites and only what you bring with you, how do you heal them?" Alissa nods, "It is great when fun is helpful and being helpful is fun." she says. "Even better when you're helping people who help even more people." Cookies squints at Firecracker for a moment, then just laughs quietly. "Yeah, you're okay by me. Should get your head fixed up, though." She glances over at Willy and sits up a little straighter against the wall. "So what're your stories, anyways? Let's kill some time. By which I mean spill all your personal beans, as is custom in our fucked up lands." Willy giggles a bit at Fire's response, before seeing Cookies glance over and ask. "My Stories" he laughs "Man, in my now many years here I have a bunch...would you like what happened at P-day or something much more recent?" the Fox says, looking curiously at Cookies. Amethyst lifts her hands, holding her fingers out as if she was counting. "Depending on the immediate danger, and their state of consciousness, I would do a few things. First of all, if they are conscious the first thing to do would to get them in a sitting or laying position. You don't want them passing out and injuring themselves further. The immediate danger is blood loss. So gentle pressure on the wound using sterile gauze I bring with me in my medkit. If it's bad enough, a couple sutures will keep the wound closed well enough until the trip back where more advanced treatment can be taken. After slowing the bleeding, cover it in a bandage and - this is the important part - taking note of other bodily functions. Anything from eye dilation to spasms in the legs and breathing rate can be early indicators of brain trauma. There are a lot of factors to think of, but with enough care we could get them back without exasperating the injury." Navara takes a deep breath, stretching her legs out in front of her, and across the floor. Her ears perk up at Cookies question, figuring it was meant for all of them. Her gaze however fell to Willy in silence, figuring he should simply tell his tale first. Firecracker flips over onto her back on the chair, folding in the other direction probably moreso than a normal person should be able to. "I'd spill my beans, but I think I left those at home! I have some grapes though if you want those!" she offers, digging around in her mane for a few seconds before pulling out a large, juicy green grape and holding it out in her upside down forehooves. Neil nods as Amethyst explains how to treat such an injury as he had described. "So far so good." he says. He thinks for a few moments, humming lightly in a way that sounds almost like a louder version of the wirring noise he makes when moving. He then says, "The trip has been long and exausting, you've had to exert yourselves greatly to acheive mission success and stay alive. It seems like you're home free but then one of you companions gets a darting pain in their left arm and falls to the ground. What has most-likely happened and how is it treated in the field?" Cookies places her hands behind her head to rest against and offers another big ol' shrug to Willy. "Whatever's the most relevant to you as you are now. That's what I'm interested in." She momentarily glances over at Firecracker, cracking another dumb grin. "Yeah, you just do you. I get the feeling you have a hard time NOT having a good time." Willy looks a little confused at Cookies "What I am of now? There are alot of those, but nothing that comes directly to mind..." he says before thinking. As he is thinking he sees Navara waiting silently. "Hey Navara, do you have something you wanna talk about?" he asks. Amethyst perks up a moment, then tilts her head as she thinks. "T-That's a bit more difficult thank the hypothetical head trauma. It could simply be an extreme muscle cramp. Those can be painful enough to send even the toughest man to the ground. I would talk with my companion, and inspect the affected area. I can't do much more without knowing more information." Neil nods, "This is a bit more difficult than hypothetical trauma but just as important a medic know how to treat it. Your companion is short of breath and dizzy, upon inspection of the area you find they have no pulse." he says. Navara takes a deep breath, scratching behind one of her ears as Willy asks his question. "No, not particularly." Her ambers eyes turn to Cookies though, biting her lip briefly in thought. "If you are looking for stories though. I've only recently returned to the area of fairhaven. Been out surviving in the wilderness for past several years. I lived near edge of the bubble, using the forests for safety. Sometimes I'd wander outside for a short while, but I mostly stayed within it." "I'd do me but this isn't really a good time for it," Firecracker replies, "And besides, it's a lot more fun if other people do me instead!" She gives a shrug as nobody takes the offered grape, instead popping the whole thing into her tiny face, causing her cheeks to bulge with the fruit. Cookies nods at Navara. "Interesting way to scrape by. Can't say I ever thought of it, but then I usually don't go out of bubble. Makes me sore before too long just being away from the nanites." She turns her attentions back to Willy. "Then let's just go with what happened during good ol' P-day. How'd you make it out with your mind intact?" She quirks an eyebrow. "Or did you at all?" Amethyst nods. "That I can work with. It sounds like it could be a couple things. Heat stroke would be my first diagnosis if there had been no prior trauma where severe blood loss occurred. In the case of this hypothetical I would move him to a shady place if at all possible, loosen his armor, and try to lower his temperature, giving him water every fifteen minutes or so." Willy laughs "No I can safely say I didn't..." he says "I had decided to journey down from my home in Arcata to visit the area for the day when all hell broke loose...and I was very quickly lost in the mess. What happened between getting caught and getting rescued by the Prometheans is all a blur unfortunately, outside of waking up as a Hermaphaditic Chocolate Rabbit" he says. Neil thinks for a few moments, the louder whirring noise returning as he does. "It could be heat stroke and in either case one would want to watch the sufferer but I was describing a heart attack... not that they're likely amongst agents but it is the unexpected things that cost lives. Now I have one more hypothetical; One of your companions took a fall badly and has broken their tibia and fibula in one leg. Part of the tibia pierced the skin and is exposed to the air." he says. Navara grimaces slightly at Willy's story, but is happy to see he was able to laugh at it. "Before p-day, I was interning over at the museum. Ended up getting infected fairly early on, and ended up looking not too different from my neighbor's house cats. It...took a lot of focus, but I managed to keep ahold of my senses until the inoculations came out. Until then though, I tended to be very irritable." Amethyst's ears fold back, and she brushes a chestnut lock of hair from her face. The feline tail behind her flicks through the air a bit anxiously. "Aside from disinfecting and covering the compound fracture, the biggest focus should be on stabilization and immobilization. Take from what's around to make a splint, and try to keep the injured person from moving. Of course, it can't be truly fixed if we don't have a way to see the fracture, so the best course of action would be splinting it and keeping it elevated until we get back so that it can be set properly." Cookies nods towards the others again and moves her arms to cross beneath her massive bosom. "Sounds about right all around. Coincidental clusterfuck is the name of the game, it seems." She pats a hand on her chest, making it jiggle ever so slightly in the armor. "Long story short, I was at the anime con for my birthday when shit hit the fan. Worst gift EVER. I made the mistake of cosplaying as a catgirl from a video game I liked. Lo and behold the results." She makes a sweeping gesture down her body. Firecracker chews up her grape quite happily as the others talk about their pasts. After a good amount of juicy goodness, she swallows it down with a gulp! "Oh! I woke up and made pancakes and then went explorin' and then came here!" and ate some grapes!" she says, kicking her hindlegs back and forth idly. Neil nods, "That is correct. It does appear that you are a reasonably well qualified medic." he says. He looks down at his partially integrated bamboozler then back to Amethyst, "I believe you're qualified. Please send in the Serval." he says. Meanwhile Alissa is listening intently to the stories of the Agents while they wait for everyone to have an interview. Once Amethyst exits the interviewing room she smiles at her, "How did it go?" she asks. Amethyst brings her hands together, her fingers intertwining. "Thank you, sir. I'll send her right in." The kitten girl turns, stepping out, her tail a bit higher than it was when she entered... And immediately upon entering the briefing room the kitten lets out a held breath, her back slumping. She looked utterly exhausted. At the question, her ear rotates towards Alissa, her face following suit soon after. "One of the hardest I've had, honestly. I didn't quite expect to be quizzed." She smiles sheepishly, moving over to a seat and sitting down, taking her messenger bag off her shoulder. Amethyst Then looks over to Navara. "Your turn next, Nav! Good luck in there." Navara perks her ears up as she her name called. Her limbs stretch, reaching for the ceiling as she let's out a sigh of relief. "Well, times time to get this over with..." A small spring to her steps, she strides gracefully through the doorway. As she bring her large form, to sit in the chair she briefly flashes a smile to Niel. "Didja win?!" Firecracker asks the returning catgirl as she flips back over to rest on her belly once again. "And good luck!" she adds, waving to the departing cat. So many cats! Neil watches the Serval enter and responds to her polite slime with one of his own. "Hello. Now let's get to the business shall we? What skills do you posses that you believe qualifies you for this mission?" he says. He is then quiet and still as he awaits her response. Alissa smiles at Navara as she heads into the interviewing room, "Good luck Nav." she says before turning her attention back to the Agents in the room with her. Cookies huffs through her nose and quirks an eyebrow at Amethyst. "Really? What he had me do was chump work." She starts to pace around the room a bit, growing increasingly restless again. "I hate waiting more than anything in the goddamned world." Amethyst gives a small giggle. "Barely. Hard to prove yourself as a competent medic with only a few theoretical symptoms to go off of. I work best when I actually have a patient." The kitten-girl leans back, tilting her face upwards towards the ceiling. Navara takes a deep breath, her slitted amber eyes locking intently on Neil. "Largely, the survival skills I've learned while living near the edge of the bubble. I know what it can be like out there and can help get us what we need from the environment if necessary. Beyond that, while I'm not skilled with technology I can offer my physical prowess and aid in any heavy lifting. Perhaps even get to places that are more challenging to reach." Neil nods slowly, "Alright..." he says, being a clockwork form you can almost see the gears in his head turning as he thinks. "So have you any experience with handling large and fragile objects? Some of the choicest salvage is so hard to acquire because it is both heavy and fragile." he explains. Navara furrows her brows questioningly at the question. Her eyes shift around if she actually had done such lifting. ".....Not since pre-pday...AT the time, I sometimes handled relics. Oh, I don't believe it'll be too effective out there but I do have a NICE." Neil nods as the Navara explains, "I have had agents tell me so long as someone runs Regulation those things are quite powerful." he says. He takes a breath, his clockwork body making several whirring and licking noises as he does, and then says, "Might I ask what 'nanomagics'. you have?" "Chump work? What kinda chump work?" Firecracker asks Cookies from her position before turning to the other cat in the room. "And what thingies were ya talkin' about?" Cookies rolls her hand in brief gesture. "Crummy computer thing needed fixing. Sort of." Navara chuckles. "I...had quite an extensive an extensive bit learned. I have medical, hydrodynamic, biochemistry, edible, culinary, secretion, pharmaceutical, emotional aura, telepathic, radiotelepathic, nanite scanning, sensory download, sensory upload, and detachable nanomagics. I also have a small about of medicinal experience." Amethyst sits back up, her ears perked. After sitting down she seemed to regain some of her lost energy. She turns to Firecracker, her hands moving to her lap, fingers wrapping around the edge of her skirt. "Head trauma, cardiac arrest, compound fractures. Standard medical emergencies..." The kitten girl's ears fold back, looking a little sheepish. "I've been too comfortable in the bubble. While I have to do some pretty embarrassing to help injuries here, at least my body's... assets deal with them much easier." Her arms wrap around her torso, struggling not to blush at the memories. She even shoots a glance at Willy, but mostly just goes quiet. Neil nods slowly as he listens to the list, a clockwork ticking coming from his neck as he listents. "Alright then. It appears that unless you're a proficient liar you are a fairly capable survivalist. I will need to come up with a test so I will have one for survivalists next time but for now I haven't seen a hint of lies so I'll accept you for this mission. I would tell you to send in the pegasus but I need a break. You may return to the group but give me five minutes before sending her in." he says.

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2017-06-26T08:03:30Z

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CompSci Part 2 - RPLOG

2017-06-22T03:45:17Z

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=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
21/6/2017
=Log=
<div></div> When we last saw the party they had navigated to the campus. Having exited the bubble with no trouble at all, disarmed or avoided the traps in the woodland between them and their destination and arrived on campus to encounter a small group of armed, unmutated, humans. The humans, whom the party decided to both try sneaking around and talking to, said to those who talk to them that their names were James, Benjamin, and Jack.

Now the trio of humans leads the party through the building they entered and up a staircase to the second floor. James explains, "We keep everything off the first floor so it's harder for the crazies... what you called ferals to raid." as he ascends the stairs. They lead the party down another hallway to a large room.

Looking around this room it is apparent this was once a classroom. The room is large and still has desks and a few intact chairs in it though they're not positioned as would be for a lecture. Instead they're used to create sub-rooms within the classroom, at least two of them obviously bedrooms. In the center of the room is something that almost appears to be a jury-rigged stove made largely of bun-son burners.

An older man looks up from making some adjustment to the stove and seeing the trio of humans leading a group of mutants to him he raises an eyebrow, "Why have you three brought a group of mutants into our home?" he asks, he sounds moderately annoyed but more so curious to hear their answer. Otto is the first to speak up. He steps forward confidently and begins to explain, "I assure you, we are simply passing through, sir. We are interested in retaking the CompSci building, our benefactors back in Fairhaven are very interested in its contents, so they've sent us to see if it is quite possible to dispose of the erm... undesirables." the otter's paws move as his words flow out. "I understand that my group may appear a bit... well... inhuman, much like myself, but rest assured we will be out of your hair in no time. However, in light of the circumstances, perhaps we could be of assistance to one another in doing what needs doing to dispose of the 'crazies' as you call them?" Nekura had conveniently shrunken her male parts! Conveniently because Nekura would probably be trying to lewd Firecracker right now due to having been in the middle of Rut when she removed it. Besides, if all else fails and she needs to lewd the hyenas into submission it's not like the Nightmare can't return it with the same device. As the human talks she just ~_~ faces, waiting for Otto (and the others) to finish. Firecracker rides around on Otto's head throughout the little tour, still keeping her Distributed Nanomagic active as the group travels. Once they arrive at their final destination, she hops right off Otto's head to zip on over to the man who addressed them, stopping in a hover only a foot from his face. "Hiya! I'm Firecracker! And those're my friends! We're in here for some dinner!" she says excitedly before quickly adding, "Aaand to see how we're gunna go to that other building or something! But dinner for sure! Do ya have any chimichangas?" Setrian just follws the rest of the group, taking position by the staircase just in case, being both guard and lookout. one of his ears swivel to listen in on the conversation, but for the most part he is keeping watch. Perhaps he was being overly cautious, but these lands were far from friendly to them after all. The older man smiles when Otto steps forward and speaks. He is momentarily distracted by Firecracker when she flutters over to him he examines her with the practiced eyes of a biologist. He humms lightly as he examines the tiny creature in front of him then once it appears he's done examining her he turns his attention back to Otto. He smiles and says, "It is good to hear that you want to help. I am Professor Shultz. I've been helping keep the survivors here safe." He gestures for the group to approach and says, "We have some vegetables and anything you'd want to contribute." he sits in front of this makeshift stove and adds, "If you're going to be retaking the building we should probably talk about how best to do so. You've gotten a glimpse of it, yes? The three story building just down the path." "Well..." the otter rubs the nape of his neck, a smirk still tugging his lips after seeing Firecracker's antics. He turns to his team for a moment, unsure if they'd all seen the structure, then looks back towards the esteemed professor. Placing his metallic suitcase atop the nearest usable surface, Otto opens it up. The locking mechanisms clack and release the lid, internal workings click click clicking as he opens it up, revealing several small compartments within, and one larger one where he'd stashed the file. *clank* the case is shut, and the file is once more within Otto's hands. He opens it up and rubs his chin for a moment,

"We have a lot on it here, our scouts were diligent, though nothing about the interior. I saw plenty of damage on the first floor, lots of openings we could get in through, but we can't be sure where we'll encounter the undesirables." he sighs quietly and offers Shultz the file. "My guess is we'll have to just run them out of the area. We're well armed and ready for such a thing, though we're not doing anything that might endanger a life until we know just how many we are dealing with. Maybe you folks can clue us in on that? You must have been dealing with them for a while now. A rough estimate would help too." Meanwhile Nekura is dreaming of possible lewdness to come. Then again she's pretty sure she's never done anything with a hyena, either, so this should be most interesting if it comoes to that kind of result. The ~_~ remains as Otto and the human talk. Firecracker quickly looks around for the mentioned veggies, darting over to land next to them and grab up a carrot! She then plops down on her rump and starts munching away, not really caring about boring things like coming up with a plan! "Yuh! It'sh that big one wid all da wuhndahs obah dat way!" she affirms through a mouthful of food, waving a foreleg in the general direction of the computer science building even as she continues to munch and crunch little bites out of the carrot longer than her whole body. Setrian continues his watch, but calls over to the humans "Do you have more men posted outside? I saw some movement." He states, it being the first time he spoke around them. His axe is drawn while he speaks, again with his overly cautious nature. Prof. Shultz takes the document provided to him by Otto and begins to look it over, "These are desturbingly acurrate." he comments. "We hadn't known about your scouts... give the one our traps injured our apologies." he says as he examines the document. Prof. Shultz looks through the document quietly for a few moments longer.

James looks over when Setrian calls to them. He walks over to the big fox and shakes his head, "We have a few more people but none of them should be on this side of the building... they can't be that clever, can they?" he says looking down the staircase with his rifle prepared. "Ah, that we will." he nods and sighs quietly. "Well, I think I'll just round the group up and we'll see how we can best approach this. Hell, it might be easier than we thought." The otter goes quiet for a moment, listening to what was happening around himself. He looks over towards Setrian and James, interest piqued once the human had raised his weapon. "Everything alright?" he asks, one hand gently sliding towards the hilt of his chainsword. What danger could there be around here? They were in a secure camp! ...then again, this was the age in which the unexpected is always expected. Nekura doesn't appear to notice whatever is happening between James and Setrian at the moment. Then again she might as well have a set of headphones on and be listening to music for all the more she's paying the hoomans mind. Firecracker looks over to the others as they start to gear up, tilting her head a bit in curiosity while she continues to chew. She lets the carrot drop back down and takes to the air, headed over towards the entrance to get a better view of what's going on behind them. Setrian follws cautiously after firecracker, being careful to note any potential threats as he makes his way over to where the movement was he had seen. glad to have the support of the pony, as he had seen her in combat before. Prof. Shultz takes a few steps past the stove to the door as Benjamin and Jack rush over to James. The three of them line up, ready to shoot in a formation resembling a formation that would be used in warfare around the time of Napoleon. Jack looks over to Setrian and Otto, "We've got to make sure they don't get to the actual camp. If you want to help you can head down and check if it is wildlife or cr- ferals." he says. Realizing that something was indeed afoot, the otter cracks his knuckles and draws his blade with an audible *ssshink*. "Alright, let's see what it is, then." Brushing past the others, the otter heads out the door and down the stairs, all senses on alert for what it was that'd drawn their attention like that. "Ain't got time for no smelly feral to be sneaking around..." he grumbles quietly and heads towards the source of the noise. Oh boy action! As if on cue Nekura snaps out of her ~_~ face and goes to follow after the others as if nothing had been going on. Hopefully the fact she's in-heat won't go pulling a bunch of horny feral hyenas on the party! Firecracker stays right on top of the otter as he bolts down the stairs and out of the building, literally. She lands right on top of his head and rides him as he moves, still chewing her dinner while her sensitive little eyes and ears nose stay on alert. Setrian steps outside, moving over to where he imagines the source of the shadow he had seen to be, constantly scanning the surroundings, checking the ground for tracks as he goes. The trio of Humans stay in their position, ready to fire on anything that tries to ascend the stairs. Benjamin nods as Otto and Firecracker head down. When he is quickly followed by the Nightmare James lowers his rifle for just a moment and looks over to his compatriots then returns to looking down the sights as Setrian moves down, leaving only humans on the second floor. As the party exits the building they see a single hermaphroditic hyena with jet black fur. The hyena, noticing them, barks, yaps, and snarls at them. This hyena having been caught in whatever it is that it was going by the woodland the party had come from on the far side of the humans building from the CompSci builing backs away, defensively as it sees it's outnumbered. Seeing the feral back away, Otto sighs quietly and covers his face with one paw. "So I guess this is what we're dealing with." he notes, then steps forward towards the creature. *ssshink* he puts his blade away, moves away from the camp exit as best he can and and waves one arm at it "Shooo! Off with you!" he exclaims, not feeling the need to have to butcher a single feral right then and there. They had no purpose for that one straggler, so what's the point? Might as well send her back to her den of ferals, that is if she'd actually shoo off. Figuring it wouldn't go well to have one of the hyenas get mauled by the traps if they're going to be investigating the ferals Nekura goes to beckon the herm closer the way she almost always does; by putting on an Erotic Dance to draw them closer. Of course one they're near the smell of her heat /should/ help keep the other mutant locked on her though at this point she might well pounce them first. How does she keep getting in these long periods of not getting laid anyways? "No wait! Don't shoo! There's a buncha traps and stuff in the shooing place!" Firecracker say to the feral and Otto at the same time. "But after you don't shoo, ya gotta tell everyone else to shoo to somewhere else, cause ya keep scaring the people living over here!" She waves a hoof behind her, gesturing towards the building they just left and the people inside. Setrian is about to go to chase the feral, but is suddenly caught off guard by the dancing nightmare. Her heat wafts towards him and ignites the fires of his loins. He is stunned for a while as he simply observes, just on the edge of pouncing nekura himself! The hyena seeing a heavily armed Otter trying to shoo it off on one side and a sexy Nightmare danceing erotically on the other the choice is pretty clear. The Hyena aproaches Nekura, clearly growing excited by her scent and display. The hyena comes close looking like it's about to tackle the Nightmare and begin humping. Otto's glance wanders between himself and the mutant. He finds himself locking his gaze onto Nekura, only to rip it away momentarily. Cursed be these animal instincts. Normally he'd be all over her in an instant, but they had a job to do! Reaching into his pockets, the otter pulls out a small pill bottle filled with white colored tablets. He lifts the bottle up against his muzzle and downs one of them. A few moments pass, and he feels that accursed male need pass away, crushed by the drug's potent effect. It was a lot easier to watch Nekura now, and there was no denying that she was quite the seductress. "While you lot are doing that, I'll scout ahead and see what we're dealing with." he announces, then takes towards the building. "Agh!" squeals Nekura though it's not so much a sound of surprise so much as.. wait no it was surprise. It was the GOOD kind thouh not the sort she often makes when being run over by things like giant metal balls and shot with guns. The Nightmare doesn't offer any struggle as the herm tackles her to the ground and just kind of acceptingly wraps her arms around them, moaning out as she tries to angle their tip into her pussy. "Oooo, I didn't know you brought candy!" Firecracker says as she watches Otto take a pill, then goes back to watching Nekura and the hyena get down to business. Without leaving Otto's head, she simply rotates a bit on top of it to continue watching as he leaves, bringing her with him. "Have fun peoples! We gotta go do that thing we're s'posedta do! Then I wanna play too!" she calls out to them, waving a foreleg goodbye before turning back around and scoping out her new surroundings. Setrian growls with feral rage as he hefts the puny hyena up before slamming it down on its back. He glares at the pitiful creature and looks back towards nekura. The fenrir is torn between the options of savagely taking the herm in front of him, or claiming the nightmare behind.. He squeezes the throat of the hyena with his strong grip as he struggles to decide, looking between the two to see which would be able to actually physically accept his large rods as he pulls them out. Cerl checks that her vanishing nanomagic is still active and then slips silently out to see what is going on. She had been relaxing unseen in a dark corner, lightly napping while the group dealt with the humans. With a grimace of distaste at Nekura's antics, Cerl turns away and walks over by Otto. "So, that's one of the ferals we're dealing with? Looks a lot smaller than the one I saw in the building over there...kind of a runt compared to what I saw. If that is one of the hyenas, probably got driven out of the pack for being weak." Shrugging, she flips a dismissive paw at the lust crazed group, deciding they're not worth her time when there are more important issues at hand. With the noise coming from the ground floor the trio of humans Ben, Jack, and James, make their way down the staircase in formation and look out one of the busted windows to the building their camp is in to see the giant Fenrir Wolf standing over a Hyena and his Nightmare ally. Not sure of how this will unfold they keep their rifles ready. As Otto Cerl and Fire approach the building they see all the windows on the first floor busted, alternating between in and out at random, and several of the doors to the rooms being busted in with hyenas fucking in those rooms while other hyenas roam the halls. "Yeah, it is. It might have gotten booted out, or it might have just wandered in. Who knows, who cares." the otter shrugs and opens his briefcase. The mechanisms within click and clank as he unfolds it fully, revealing the reason it is so heavy and metallic. Fully opened up, the two halves of it form into a reliable bulletproof shield that covers most of the otter's body should he crouch down behind it. "Alright Fire, we're doing this the easy way. No fancy schemes, no half-boiled plots, no wasting several hours sitting there brainstorming the next course of action. You, me and Cerl are just gonna smack these ferals around until they take a hint and buzz off." he says with a grin, shield in one hand, uzi in the other. His glance wanders back to Cerl "It's nothing we haven't handled before, love. So..." *thump* the otter's heavy boot strikes the ground, shattering the silence and drawing attention to them. He aims at the nearest target and pulls the trigger, unleashing a volley of bullets its way. Nekura isn't entirely amused at being !peen so it's not surprising she ends up trying to shove Sestian off the hyena that was attempting to plow her. The Nightmare didn't even manage to slip the other mutant into position successfully so she's especially annoyed for all that effort put to waste. On the other hand her pushing someone outside the bubble probably won't go very well even though the pony is normally pretty stronk. "Mine!" she growls at the wolf. Ironic given she used to have one for a boss at the Red Court. Firecracker looks down at Otto as he gives the plan, then looks up to the building full of hyenas with a wild grin plastered on her face. "Now that's my kinda planning!" she cheers while engulfing herself in flames with her Fiery Hide, pulling out a pair of red, triangular shades and a cape to put on. "You go low and I'll go high! Meet in the middle!" she says, leaping up off Otto's head to dash up into the third floor through a window. The tiny pony literally sparks with energy as she enters the building, looking around to whoever or whatever is inside. "Alright! Everyone out! Ya wanna do this the easy way or the hard way?" she shouts out, waiting for a response from anyone nearby. Setrian picks up the nightmare, all but tossing her on top of the hyena so they are face to face, then he plunges into any holes he can fit in, getting his rocks off on both of them before he leaves them there, picking up his axe and then going to join the assault on the building, his instincts saying that there are plenty of others he can likewise enjoy, and fight as well. Cerl stays out of the way of the gunfire, slipping around the building to look for any other ways in, or for any other places that will need to be cleared out. As the party begins their assault on the CompSci building they begin to hear loud barking and howling from deeper in the building. The trio of fucking hyenas in one of the rooms collapsed out of sight with pained yips and squiels in response to Ottos gunfire. The hyena wondering the hall sprints around a corner only to return two seconds later with four friends who spread out leaping out of the building and running down the hall on their approach to the party. "Come on, then!" Otto grins and puts away his uzi. *sssshink* goes his blade as it leaves its sheathe, shield upon his other arm as he readies himself for a glorious charge! His blade strikes the hard metal surface of the shield and he lets off a bellowing roar as he charges right in! With the metallic barrier raised before himself, he rams right into the first of the canines in his way, knocking it out of the way with all his strength and likely shattering several bones in his wake. The long blade in his hand swings to catch two others in the wide arc of his attack, slicing one across the chest and another across the arm, leaving deep wounds and pushing them back. Still surrounded by several more, the otter steels himself and readies for another attack! Nekura seems to go out of her way to be the largest dicktease ever since the moment she's flopped on the hyena she rolls over to cockblock Setrian from using her either to get off or onto in any way. Then again she came here to help disrupt the sentry(ies) not get ridden by another agent. She can do that any ol' time at the lobby after all. Of course the moment he goes away the female tries to wrap her legs around the herm and let them resume what they were doing. By now it shouldn't be too hard for them to hit the mark with the Nightmare on bottom and all. Firecracker spots only a single hyena on the third floor, who turns and dashes away the instant it sees her! "Well, that was easy..." she says to herself with a shrug as combat starts outside. "Dang, sounds like he's getting all the fun!" she continues to nobody in particular as she gives chase, keeping her ears perked for any others as she follows behind him. Setrian charges in, letting out a battlecry that is mostly a howl as he spots the nearest feral, whacking it with the blunt side of his axe to stun it before aiming for the killing blow, as he fights, clarity returns to his mind, and he recalls his lessons when learning how to fight. He proceeds into the battle more calmly, with a surprisingly fluid grace for his size. Cerl finds a trail leading from the building where the fighting is going on, and follows it while employing every stealth technique she knows. Coming to another building full of hyenas, she glances back towards where her companions are fighting, and knows that more reinforcements added to that fight could make for a very bad day. Pulling out a pair of grenades, she pitches them into the middle of the hyenas and then takes cover while pulling out her crossbow, ready to shoot anything that survives the blasts. The two hyenas attacked by Otto yip and wail in pain the first dropping to the ground and the second begining to flail its claws at him in a rage. The third Hyena bowled over by the heavy but non-lethal blow from the giant wolf growls up at its opponent lunging at the wolfs ankles as it tries to get in a few bites.

Meanwhile the curious hyena who had decided to see if there was anything happening in the attic is now fleeing for his life from a sentient ball of fire chasing him down the second floor hallway. He after rounding a corner runs into two of his compatriots before the fireball catches up to it.

Having perceptively found the hyena reinforcements and sneak attacked them the first grenade chucked by the stealthy Shadow Vixen bounces off the second nearest Hyenas head just before going off downing the unlucky Hyena and the closest hyena. Then the next grenade which had been cleverly pitched just a bit further goes off throwing shrapnel into the legs of two of the other hyenas and downing the fifth leaving only an incredibly luck sixth hyena huding behind a sofa. The otter meets his attacker's claws head-on! The hyena ends up flailing against his heavy armor, its nails scratching the metal in vain, leaving no injuries save for a small scratch on his arm. Flinching from the injury, Otto swings right around, the fist gripping the pommel of his sword coming around to slam the poor feral's head with full force, knocking it down and out cold. That was all from that group, but fired up as he was, Otto makes straight for the building entrance. His foot impacts the door to bust it wide open and his shield comes before himself as he readies for another attack~ Firecracker follows right behind the fleeing hyena, letting him bring her right to his buddies. Once in range, she gives an extra hard flap of her wings, smashing herself into his back in an effort to send him spawling forward into his companions. After the hit, she returns to a hover as she looks down on the group with a rather cocky grin on her face and one foreleg proudly jutted forth towards her opponents. "Alright! I've got a bucha one-way tickets to Hurtsville! Anyone who doesn't want a free trip better clear out!" Sensing the hyena coming around and still horny from not getting peened yet Nekura goes to roll over so that she's on top of them once again leaving her free to slot the herm's spear into her pussy. With only her doing the movement she doubts it'll be nearly as hard to get it inside herself though knowing her luck the other mutant will wake up and instinctively try to ram her down onto the hilt. Setrian tries to body-slam his weakened foe, but alas he misjudged how quick they were, and his aim was off the mark, causing him to simply hit the ground.. With a couple tons of weight. Cerl stays hidden, watching for any movement from the building she tossed the grenades into. If anything does show it's face, she'll be ready to put a bolt between it's eyes. As Otto renders his second Hyena opponent unconcious whith the first still writhing on the ground too pained to do anything of use in combat he is free to kick in the door with little trouble. With the, not locked, door kicked in they make a loud clattering noise as two Hyenas who are late to the party notice him and charge into the fray to tackle Otto. The knocked down Hyena managed to deftly dodge a multi-ton body slap that surely would have been its end then spring onto his attacker clawing at his back and neck.

Firecracker slams into the much larger Hyaenidae while it sprints to its friends she manages to tip its balance while it wasn't caring about being at a steady pace. It flops forward onto its face in a rather embarrassing display in front of its friends who find this whole situation rather funny and treat Fire to the mocking Hyena laugh.

A short distance from the CompSci building in the house the Hyenas den was originally in five of them lay injured and unable to battle and the sixth cowering behind the only cover it has terrified at the spontaneous explosions of his friends. The otter spots the two immediately and readies himself. He lowers his shield and runs right into them, ramming into one with his shoulder, letting the other try its best to claw at his metal armor! He could feel claws scratching the surface, one claw digging into his leg on the way down, bypassing the plating and digging into the flesh before releasing. The spikes upon him impale the hyena he'd tackled, forcing whines and cries out of the poor mutant as the otter runs and rams it right into a wall! Turning right around, Otto swings his shield to strike his other attacker, slamming the heavy metal surface into the mutant's front, his mighty swing sending it flying back from the impact! "Bah..." he huffs and looks down at the streams of crimson dripping down the plating of his leg armor. T'was but a scratch, but a deep one nonetheless. Knowing the hyena was likely not too focused on sex right now Nekura decides to fix that by doing something simple yet quite lewd by thrusting down onto its cock with her pussy. The Nightmare does her best to take a lot of the other mutant on that first movement, too, wanting to snap the herm back to paying attention to her. Of course with how big the thing was she was having a little trouble doing so with as much speed as she wanted. Then again it's not too hard for the feral to just reach up and grab hold of her rump to pull her down even harder either. Meanwhile she grabs hold of their head and mooshes it into her boobies, trying to keep the scout nice and distracted while the others are raided. Firecracker responds with a shrug. "Hurtsville it is then," she says with a laugh of her own, "Glad ya wanted me to have some fun!" She flares out her wings, increases the flames around her, and dashes right into one of the hyena's faces, impacting with a massive explosion of fire for everyone nearby as she connects hoof to snout. Setrian rolls onto his front and tries to kick the hyena away, but misses. Even so, he uses the space created to roll farther away until he has room to stand. Cerl carefully sneaks a bit closer to the building in order to count the casualties....five, just what she thought at first. There had been six, so one is still hiding in there somewhere. Knowing it would have the advantage of home ground especially with the two she can see are just wounded but might still be able to fight, she decides not to move in but returns to hiding and waiting with her crossbow ready to fire once the final hyena shows it's face. The first hyena struck by Ottos shield is forced back even though it managed a glacing blow. The strong Otter slams the Hyena into the wall quite effectively removing it from combat as it slumps over covered in cuts from Ottos spiky equipment. The second Hyena takes a glancing blow leacing cuts in its arms as it tries to avoid being it then lunges at him trying to hit with his powerful jaws. The hyena combatting Setrian is bucked off before it can dig its claws into his neck, instead falling on its ass as the big wolf gains some distance from his foe.

Meanwhile on the second floor the tiny fiery pegasus slams into the hyenas managing to put two of them on the floor with the third stepping backward. The Bubble flickers as Fire is caught in her own explosion but she managed to just barely keep it running.

On the other side of the building down the path to the know blasted house that served as the Hyena den three Hyenas lay moaning in pain unable to move from where they are while two wounded hyenas crawl away from the window the grenades came from. The last hyena, hiding behind a sofa, jitters and yips in the direction of the window but doesn't move from his cover.

The Hyena runt having recently been thrown out of then den and almost wondering to his death in the trap-field set up by the humans is now the best fairing hyena here not only not having major injuries but somehow fucking a female in heat. The hyena reaches up to the Nightmares ass and grabs it pulling her down onto his double shafts.

The Humans who still haven't left the building do the quick look through all that is happening before aiming their rifles at the unscathed hyenas in the fray with Otto and Setrian and firing. Ben, Jack, and James aren't great shots but they each manage a glancing blow and the Hyenas leap through the windows into the building. Otto reacts too slowly, though this was hardly an issue in the end. He hisses sharply once he feels the bite of the hyena, its jaws coming around his armored hand to squeeze down hard enough to draw blood but not much else. Otto smacks it across the face to daze it and force it to release him, the mutant doing so momentarily. He clutches the hyena by the gruff of its neck, reaches down to grapple it proper, then lifts it with ease over his head and throws it with all his might out the window! The mutant shatters the remaining glass on the window and tumbles some outside before coming to a halt, unconscious. Otto dusts off his hands and looks around for any more ferals to rough up. Oh gods where did that other cock come from? Nekura is no stranger to having or taking dual spears given she was a dragoness for a long while and got ridden by them too but it's definitely a surprise on a species like this. Still, the sounds of surprise that once more come out of her are quite loud and long as the male's paws pull her down onto his poles so as to split her good and deep. It might not be Setrian-sized but the Nightmare already feels pretty stuffed. And she's not even thinking about what will happen should the male manage to tie her either. "See? Hurtsville," Firecracker tells the hyena now seeing the light... in the form of flames and ignited fur. "Now why don'tcha grab your friends here and get? And take the rest of your pack with ya." With her statement said, the pony simply moves to pass the hyena through the air, continuing on her way towards the bottom of the building to meet up with the others as she looks for anyone else putting up a fight. Setrian stands up and prepares himself for the hyena, readying his axe in case he gets an opportunity to parry, or counter any attacks from the feral. Cerl has the patience of a sniper, willing to wait out the final hyena for as long as it takes. She is confident that her companions can handle the ones in the compsci building without her. Keeping her crossbow ready, she checks to make sure that she stil has plenty of grenades in easy reach should the hyenas she can see crawling around manage to get back up and thus they become necessary, and settles back to continue the waiting game. As Otto throws the Hyena he hasn't knocked unconscious out the window the two that had just leaped into the building to escape gunfire look at each-other then take off running down the hallway towards the other exit away from Otto. Setrians opponent managed to get to its paws and glares at the giant wolf for a moment before charging him tackling him teeth first.

The Hyenas on the second floor have entirely stopped laughing, not finding the explosive fireball that got into the building funny anymore, they two she knocked down slowly get to their feet and the three of them stare at her as she flutters away. The begin to back off and head in the other direction unsure of what to make of the intruder.

All is quiet in the Hyena den as the last healthy hyena there stays hiding while the two with leg injuries manage to finish crawling behind cover. After a few moments the healthy hyena makes a break for the door on the wall opposite of the window.

This is turning into a very good day for the Hyena runt as he thrusts his two shafts into the equine atop him. Being the runt he never got to give before and thrusts erratically for a few seconds before pulling the Nightmare down as hard as he can to knot her, cumming the moment he does.

Seeing the Hyenas in retreat, except for the runt, the human riflemen have their rifles trained on Setrians opponent as they watch the last of the battle. "AGH!" squeals out Nekura when the hyena takes hold of her hips and pulls her down to the hilts on each respective cock. She forgot about canines and their knots so it was quite a shock to have two of them going into her passages at that. Oh sure, she fits them well enough, but it was simply the suddenness that it happened which caught her off-guard. Now the female's insides are quite full and only get more so as the hyena cums. "Oh gods!" she squeals louder, hugging the male into her breasts as her sex clenches up like a vice. She manages to keep from Love Boxing the poor thing but it was rather close! With the ties her stomach will probably dome out some too due to it being unable to pour out. Firecracker calls back to the hyenas as she goes to explore the rest of the building, casually making her way through the hostile environment. "Probably wanna keep your hands up unless you wanna got shot!" Setrian swings his axe with practiced ease, aiming to debilitate his much smaller foe. He is growing tired of this enemy. He should have defeated it ages ago, but his inexperience in live combat is quite telling. Cerl raises her crossbow and fires at the fleeing hyena, aiming for low on it's back to disable and possibly cripple it. She will then reload while keeping an eye to see if any more hyena decide to break cover in case there were more than just six of them in the building. The hyenas that where closest to Otto flee, uninhibited for reasons only known to Otto, getting to the other exit and fleeing into the woodland far from where the party had encountered traps. As Setrians opponent charges him he manges to dodge its strong rending jaws as its torso bounces off of him like a bycycle bouncing off a brick wall only to be batted over by a solid axe-strike to his side. The hyena yelps in pain on the ground all the fight cut out of him.

Firecracker has an uneventful trip wondering through the second floor as the Hyenas she encountered slip out of the building by some other rout. She eventually finds the stairs and rejoins Ottos group to see all the TKO'd hyenas strewn across the area in front of the CompSci Building.

As the runt hyena cums he does in fact fill out the Nightmare quite nicely her belly becoming rounded as the exhausted hyena passes out beneath her.

Seeing no more fighting hyenas the rifleman trio exit the camp building and make there way to the group of agents. "That was incredible. They've been harassing us for months and you ran them out in minutes." Jack says. "So you were after a Computer Lab, right? Well we could lead you to it now that the Hyenas are gone." James adds. Benjamin says nothing but offers Otto a high-five. As the last healthy hyena makes a break for its only chance at staying healthy it is struck in the lower back by a crossbow bolt. The hyena most of the way to the nearby door strikes the door head first, yipping in pain, before beginning to slowly crawl back to cover. Otto breathes heavily for a few moments and watches as the humans come into the scene. He re-holsters his weapons and checks his wounds. Not too bad altogether, but still a scratch or two here and there. Thankfully he was already regenerating thanks to his ties to the Phoenix. He greets the humans with a smile and returns Ben's high five! "Piece of cake." he muses, then pulls a pair of shades out of his pocket and dons them, as if to make a point. "Well, the place is cleared. We'll take what we need and tell our transport all's clear." He looks around to see if his team was alright. Seems they'd done just fine for themselves. Not that Nekura isn't used to dealing with young, horny male mutants and letting them get their rocks off by this point though she ends up moaning out all the same as the twin shafted 'runt' leaves her stomach domed in a faux pregnancy. Though he ends up passing out again the Nightmare remains awake, albeit sweated from the effort of such a fast, hard mating, rolling over and groaning out as her womb sloshes and her guts gurgle from all the spooge inside her. "Oooh.. I am so taking you back home with us..!" she decides, petting over the male's head as she tries to keep from squeezing on those knots. "Awww, you guys got way more than me!" Firecracker says, looking around to all the beat down hyenas on the ground. She simply makes her way over to Otto, landing on his head and storing her gear away once again as she loes down on her back. "Guess that's all the fun for now!" she says with a shrug, kicking one hind-leg up over the other and folding her forelegs behind her head as she lounges. Setrian slips his axe away and growls at the downed hyena before making his way over to most of the rest of the group, sighing at his lack of usefulness in combat. "If possible, I'd like to take a look at that lab. There's bound to be some research notes in there, and I'd like to study them." He says to the group. Cerl breaks cover and makes her way cautiously to the entrance to the hyena lair. Sweeping left and right with her crossbow, alert for threats, she examines the three downed hyenas and then calls out, "If those of you who are wounded can still understand speech, crawl out where I can see you but don't try to get up and I won't shoot you again." Once she can see the remaining three conscious hyenas she keeps an eye on them while searching the lair for anything useful. If they proved they can understand speech by following her orders, she puts her crossbow away. "Once you heal up enough to travel, you should head to New Dawn. They can help you there." She gives quick directions to New Dawn, not caring if the hyenas can find it later, and heads back out to join the rest of the group...and showing herself to the humans for the first time. Jack nods as the Otter explains they'll be headed out. "Alright, when the world went crazy we tried to stay safe but we also locked a lot of rooms that had tech or books in them, keep the stuff safe for when things got better, y'know?" he explains as he passes Otto and heads into the building, rifle ready for any straggler hyenas as he is followed by the other two humans.

The wounded hyenas crawl out of cover demonstrating they understand even if they don't use speech. They stare at Cerl as she loots their home but they do nothing about it, just watch quietly.

When Cerl reveals herself to the group James notices her first and trains his rifle on her. "What are you?" he asks. The other two humans look at her, Jack keeping his attention on her but Benjamin looking to Otto, "This the woman you said was with you?" he asks. After a tense moment of sorting out the Cerl was in fact not a threat to the humans they continue leading the Agents to the second floor where they unlock the double doors to one of the larger rooms.

Stepping inside James says, "Most of this stuff should work if provided with power and what doesn't could probably be made into one or two working computers." The humans look through the room to make sure the Hyenas haven't destroyed anything even though the door was locked. Benjamin says, "We could keep an eye on the lab while it's here since it'd be a lot of stuff to move." "Gun down." Otto says and sharply yanks the soldier's rifle downwards by its nozzle once it is pointed at Cerl. "Yes she is. She's been scouting out the location while we were in your camp." he turns towards his mate and sighs heavily. "Fuck this seven ways, I can't wait to get home. I feel so worn out for some reason, I didn't even do all that much fighting. Glad to see you're alright though, hon." Meanwhile Nekura goes to take the hyenas back to New Dawn though she imagines it will be a rather hump-filled journey given that they're so horny. Of course she might be intending to keep the runt and take him home with her after all the fun they had. Either way she ends up rounding up the males and makes to lead them towards somewhere they should at least be relatively safe. Not that she really thinks too much of how bad an idea giving them the sight of her booty the entire walk might lead to intensive probings upon arrival. With all the fighting complete, Firecracker returns to her normal, cheery self. After all is set and done, she doesn't have much to do but make conversation with all the hyenas as they return home, even if all the talking is done by her and they only respond with yaps and barks! Cerl gives Otto a hug and then waits while computer equipment is loaded onto her back, looking at the human James while the others do so. "How big is your group? If it's not much more than just the three of you, you should come back to New Dawn with us. there's a whole enclave of humans who live and work there, and you might find the advantages of life inside the Fairhaven bubble to be a good bit better than scraping by out here. If your group is bigger, you might still come. We can always build an extension to the existing enclave if need be." James nods when Otto stops him from pointing his rifle at Cerl. "Alright, nice to meet you miss." he says turning his attention back to Cerl as they head to the lab. Benjamin speaks up in reply to Cerl, "There are five of use. The three you see, Professor Shultz in the other building and another who's out on a supply run. We've been camping here since it's familiar ground and we were protecting the books and technology here. There's no way all this stuff is getting moved unless you've got a truck or somethin'. We'll keep it safe until you come back with something that can move the lab."

Meanwhile Nekura manages to get off of the runt and get the injured Hyenas up and functional enough to follow her. It takes a while to stabilize all the Hyenas to the point where they could follow the Nightmare but she manages to do it and has a party of Hyenas to bring to New Dawn.

Now with the lab secured and under the protection of the survivor group the party is free to return to New Dawn to make their report so the Prometheans can come and get the resources here now that the danger has been removed.[[Category:RPLogs]]

Ebreus/Contacts

2017-06-20T01:55:21Z

Ebreus: /* Friends */

== Packmates ==

[[Cerl]]

[[Easter]]

[[Draken]]

[[Debbie]]: mate.

[[Allura]]

== Friends ==

[[Borneo]]

[[Zeex]]

[[Wianne]]

[[Evey]]

[[Melan]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T04:12:44Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who briefs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the huts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others? 
On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hut she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be briefing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly recommend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the vicinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with details about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am briefing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the approach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto. 
When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rapidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream... 
Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look. 
"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently. 
Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles. 
When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and written descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso. 
Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her pleasant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa. 
"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut. 
The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel east of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the edge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visibility and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assisted with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them. 
After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and forty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her. 
A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Otto's head in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quickly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back down to land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroyed since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow managed to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he approaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of comparable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T03:54:46Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who breifs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the hutts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others? 
On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hutt she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be breifing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly reccomend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the facinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with ditails about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am breifing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the aproach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto. 
When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rappidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream... 
Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look. 
"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently. 
Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles. 
When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and writtent descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso. 
Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her plesant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa. 
"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut. 
The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel east of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the edge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visibility and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assisted with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them. 
After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and forty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her. 
A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Otto's head in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quickly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back down to land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroyed since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow managed to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he approaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of comparable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T03:49:36Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who breifs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the hutts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others? 
On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hutt she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be breifing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly reccomend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the facinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with ditails about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am breifing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the aproach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto. 
When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rappidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream... 
Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look. 
"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently. 
Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles. 
When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and writtent descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso. 
Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her plesant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa. 
"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut. 
The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel east of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the edge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visibility and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assisted with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. spotting cameras and traps Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them. 
After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and forty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her. 
A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Otto's head in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quickly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back down to land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroyed since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow managed to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he approaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of comparable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T03:40:21Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who breifs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the hutts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others? 
On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hutt she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be breifing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly reccomend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the facinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with ditails about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am breifing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the aproach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto. 
When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rappidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream... 
Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look. 
"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently. 
Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles. 
When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and writtent descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso. 
Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her plesant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa. 
"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut. 
The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel west of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the endge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visiblity and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assited with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. spotting cameras and traps Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them. 
After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and fourty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her. 
A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Cerl's tauric back in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quicly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back downto land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroied since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow mannaged to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he aproaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of compairable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T03:23:21Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who breifs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the hutts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others? 
On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hutt she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be breifing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly reccomend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the facinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with ditails about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am breifing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the aproach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto. 
When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rappidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream... 
Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look. 
"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently. 
Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles. 
When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and writtent descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso. 
Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her plesant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa. 
"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut. 
The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel west of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the endge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visiblity and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assited with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. spotting cameras and traps Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them. 
After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and fourty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her. 
A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Cerl's tauric back in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quicly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back downto land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroied since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow mannaged to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he aproaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of compairable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T03:15:31Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who breifs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the hutts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others? 
On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hutt she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be breifing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly reccomend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the facinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with ditails about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am breifing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the aproach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto. 
When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rappidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream... 
Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look. 
"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently. 
Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles. 
When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and writtent descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso. 
Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her plesant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa. 
"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut. 
The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel west of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the endge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visiblity and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assited with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. spotting cameras and traps Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them. 
After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and fourty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her. 
A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Cerl's tauric back in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quicly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back downto land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroied since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow mannaged to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he aproaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of compairable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T02:56:57Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who breifs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the hutts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others? 
On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hutt she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be breifing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly reccomend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the facinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with ditails about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am breifing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the aproach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto.

When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rappidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream...

Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look.

"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently

Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles.

When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and writtent descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso.

Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her plesant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa.

"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut.

The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel west of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the endge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visiblity and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assited with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. spotting cameras and traps Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them.

After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and fourty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her.

A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Cerl's tauric back in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quicly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back downto land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroied since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow mannaged to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he aproaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of compairable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T02:52:42Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

=Participants=
* [[Cerl]]
* [[Ebreus]]
* [[Firecracker]]
* [[Nekura]]
* [[Otto]]
* [[Setrian]]
=Date=
15/6/2017
=Log=
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It is a cloudy day in New Dawn as Alissa, the Husky girl who breifs agents on their contracts, waits in one of the hutts with her materials. 
Cerl strolls down the New Dawn road, greeting old friends from the days when she lived there. Stepping into the hut where Alissa waits, she nods at the husky then steps over into the shadows near the door. 
What a wonderful time to be alive! Especially for one coyote turned otter after losing a wager with a friend. Turns out, he quite liked his new form. His life had been quite bubbly and nice, devoid of trouble and conflict ever since the change, but that only meant that Otto was now LOOKING to get in trouble. What was a life... devoid of strife? No? Today, he would be a wonderful day to venture outside the bubble and assist in advancing some research. Inside, outside, it mattered not to Otto. He performed just as well in either area, and by now he'd spent so much time out there that it made next to no difference for him. So why not use that to benefit others?

On this day, Otto would find himself wandering down the road in New Dawn, heading towards the hut where the lovely husky named Alissa was waiting for them to gather. He'd worked with her before, and had gathered with others to investigate an attack on Zephyr in the very same tent. Once he enters, he chirrups a happy hello her way, shoots her a wink, then moves over to sit his rump down on the ground, crosslegged and leaned forward with his paws pressing against his knees. As more folks pooled in, Otto greeted each and every one of them individually. Clearly he was in a good mood. 
Firecracker flits into the tent to meet up with the other agents as they arrive! The pint-sized pink pegasus perches upon Otto's head as others are arriving in order to rest her wings, folding them to her sides. "Hiya peoples!" she chirps out happily with a little wave, "This is the place for the thing and the stuff, right?" she asks, giving her little rump an even littler wiggle as she sits on the otter. 
Having heard a rumor about the possibility of a laboratory, the silvery white furred fenrir is elated to join in on the mission. Setrian had never been outside the bubble, but for the sake of progress he was certainly willing to take the risk. His trusty axe at the ready, along with his generic armor fitted snugly over his form, he makes his way over to the group. He offers a wave to those he has not met, and a nod to firecracker who he was.. Familiar with. "Who's in charge of this expedition? I was hoping to lend a hand, and an axe if need be." 
Having managed to peel herself away from the huskies Nekura is currently wandering her way towards the hutts as well though she appears to have gotten rid of her male parts again. Of course given what happened last time she was pretty sure she wouldn't need them anyways. Plus it's not like she can't just 'reattach' them if she does. Upon getting to the building the Nightmare takes a seat like always. 
As the agents enter Alissa does a quick headcount and checks her notes. She smiles and greets Otto as 'agent 1206' as he had introduced himself as last they met. Once everyone has entered the hutt she says, "Hello Agents. I am Alissa, I'll be breifing you on this contract." She fusses with her papers a moment then resumes smiling and continues, "We have found records of a pre P-Day collage campus that isn't in any known bubbles. As it is a fair distance from all bubbles we've contracted you to investigate it and if there is in fact a workable lab in one of the buildings secure it."
Alissa clears her throught and continues, "As computer tech is very sensitive we would highly reccomend avoiding the use of explosive or incendiary weapons or abilities when you suspect to be in the facinity of the laboratory." She rifles through her papers for two more moments and sets something aside, "Now do you have any questions about the contract?" she asks. 
Stepping forward from the shadows, Cerl speaks up. "Any known threats in the area? What can we expect when we arrive?" 
The otter yawns widely and blinks a few times once Firecracker perches atop his head. He wiggles his nose and holds back a sneeze, then giggles quietly and lets her be, "Hello Firecracker." he greets with a cheery tone, then averts his attention to the others entering the room. His eyes were drawn to the gigantic wolfen that enters the room. "My, you're a fat one, ain't ya?" Otto snerks "Nice axe, though. I can see you crammed a lot of effort into that thing." his ears tilt once the husky speaks up and his attention is drawn to her on the spot. Otto opens his maw to ask his question, but then his mate pops out of the shadows like she so loved doing all the time. Rolling his eyes, the otter moves right in and leans against her as she speaks. "Last time we worked together, you presented me with a folder filled with ditails about the structure based on scout reports. It was of immense help then, so I am wondering if you have one now? If not, that's alright. I WOULD like to know what my sneaky mate here asked as well... what can we expect in terms of resistance?" 
Firecracker blinks at Otto's words stopping just as she was about to introduce herself! "Hey! How'd you know who I am? Are you psycho or somethin'?" she asks the otter, looking down over his head with her scrutinizing gaze. "And what's your name anyway?" she asks before sitting up once again and looking around to everyone that's shown up, "Actually, what's everybody's names? And what do we need a folder for?! That ruins the surprise! Adventure! Fun!" By the time she finishes, she's hopping in place with excitement on Otto's head! 
Oh boy computers. Nekura has no clue how to work them so she mostly just pays attention to details on what they're going to possibly be facing. It helps to have a clue what you're going to encounter after all. Plus it might give her an idea if she needs to change into something more 'appreciable' to the ferals. 
Setrian raises an eyebrow at the comment from otto as he tries to listen in and gather as much information as he can. "I do have one question miss Alissa. If the lab is safely secured, do you know what it will be primarily used for?" He asks, having a vested interest, being a researcher himself. 
As Alissa recalls the question asked of her by Setrian and replies, "I am breifing you but you are free to decide who amongst you will be leading your group." When she is asked of what resistance they may face she pats the thin folder she'd set aside a moment ago and continues, "Our scouts kept their distance from the campus to avoid detection so our intel is limited. There is evidence of Hyena strains and Human survivors in the area and our scouts encountered several traps on the aproach. There are more details in their report." she says and takes the report from the podium and hands it to Otto.

When Setrian ask her of what the lab will be used for she blinks twice rappidly then begins to flip through her notes. After about ten seconds of looking she looks up from her notes and says, "I'm sorry I don't have the specifics of what the lab will be used for with me. I know it has something to do with researching nanites though." After a moment or so of no questions she says, "If that is all of your questions I have some supplies and a map for you. Good luck agents." 
Cerl checks that her crossbow is in good shape, and that she has her bolt cases with her ammo with her. Pulling a string of grenades out of the saddlebag she has slung over one shoulder, she shrugs. They might come in handy regardless. "How then are we getting there, do you have transportation lined up for us?" 
Otto snickers quietly and bobs his head to help the pony bounce higher. "It's Ott... It's Toey, Fire." he snerks and giggles quietly, clearly enjoying himself and the bouncing pony on his head. He was already looking forward to digging into the upcoming assignment. Otto was as much a computer nerd as he was a fighter, so to get his paws on some old world tech? Oh, one could only dream...

Accepting the file, Otto opens it up and skims the information. There wasn't much to go on, but it was useful nonetheless. He nods as though to himself as his eyes scan over the papers, before closing it and giving an idle shrug. "Doesn't look that bad, alright then!" he swings one paw and offers the file around to anyone who might want to take a look.

"OKAY!" the otter exclaims once everyone has finished looking over the file, then checks his equipment as well. Firearms primed and ready, packed with extended magazines and spare ammunition located on the bandoleer crossing his armor-plated chest, chainsword nice and sharp upon his back, gladius swinging off his right hip, his reinforced spiked knuckles also primed for quick action... oh boy, talk about overkill. "That's all I really need to know. We have a location and a goal. We know what to expect, time to roll out! We'll be back before you can say cyka blyat." Otto states confidently

Placing the files within a compartment of his briefcase, the otter steps towards the entrance of the hut and leans against the doorway, draws his blade and starts to entertain himself by trying to balance it upright on one finger. 
Firecracker reads the information in the folder quickly as Otto looks through it, just waiting for the time when their group sets off for their epic quest. "Cyka blyat!" she announces shortly after Otto makes his statement, then looks around with some surprise on her face. "Woah! You're right! We're back already! Fastest adventure ever! And I don't even remember doing it!" 
Upon hearing about hyenas Nekura twitches at the lewd thoughts of knottings that might be in her future though she decides to avoid turning into one quite so soon. After all with how twitchy trigger fingers can be they might mistake her for a real one. 
Setrian takes a quick look through the folder, wanting to know for sure what to expect. It seems for now all they have to worry about is ferals, but you can never be too sure. He gives the folder back to otto and watches the otter stow it away "Guess we are all set to go. After you Toey." He says, trusting that the well prepared otter has experience in these matters, at the very least more than himself. 
Alissa moves a large pack into view of the agents after Cerls question, "You will be hiking but we have provided rations for the group." she says. Cursory examination of the pack reveals it to obviously contain fruits of several types and water bottles.

When the party skim through the report the see the documented evidence of Hyenas and Humans in addition to sketches and writtent descriptions of the kinds of traps the scouts encountered. Punji Pits, noise-maker traps, and several spring-loaded traps. The report also details the injuries cause to one scout who triggered a spring-trap. Multiple piercing wounds to the torso.

Alissa watches the agents step out, making sure one of them at least takes the map to their destination and maintaining her plesant smile as they prepare and head out. 
Cerl shrugs, looking at the large pack of rations. Slapping at her armband, she quickly shifts to her normal tauric self and sets about strapping the saddlebags she's carrying into place. Taking the large pack of rations, she straps that on as well before stepping out to where Otto is waiting. "Sounds like my skills should come in very handy then, wouldn't you say my love?" she snerks. "Mind pulling that map back out, Otto?" 
 "Not literally, you silly horse." Otto boops Fire's nose and giggles under his breath. Once the team sets out, he takes his own pack of rations and lets someone else handle the map. "Eh? Oh... uhhh..." he reaches into his briefcase and hands Cerl the map. "Yeah, you're good at this navigating thing." he hands Cerl the map, clearly glad to be rid of it. Last time Otto tried to to navigate, he'd lead his team in the wrong direction and ended up wasting hours of their time. He was simply no good at it, and that's one of the ways his lovely mate completed him. She was just so adept at things he was rubbish at, and vice versa.

"There ya go. If anyone else wants to look at it, I guess Cerl has it." the otter shrugs, then tries again to balance the sword on his fingertip. He sticks out his tongue and bites lightly down on it as he focuses on *clank* it falls to the ground. "Shoot..." he swings one paw, picks it up and *shhhink* re-sheathes it. "D'oh!" the otter suddenly exclaims, then flashes a smile at Setrian and Nekura "Where are my manners?! I'm Otto, and you can call me Toey if that so pleases you." he directs that comment at Setrian "I don't really care. Nice to meet you both. Now let's head out before someone gets too rational and stalls us here." he snerks and waves them over so that they could head out now. "Oh, we're going again? Yay!" Firecracker cheers, clopping her tiny forehooves together to produce hollow, equally tiny, sounds. "Don't tell me what's gunna happen though, I want it to be a surprise!" She scrunches her little muzzle at the nose booping and responds, "I'm not a horse, Silly! I'mma pegasusus!" Once the party is all set and ready to go, the pony hops into Cerl's saddlebag, poking her head and the ends of her forelegs out of it as she rests upon its edge. "I dunno if we're too rational, but we got a lot of em in here!" she notes, patting the outside of the bag. Oh brother the pegasus is along. Nekura rolls her eyes remembering last time Firecracker stole some of her thunder though she doesn't say anything and instead follows after them. Setrian simply gives a nod, picking up his own ration pack and preparing to head out. "Nice to meetq you otto. I'm Setrian. I'm guessing toey was a nickname that firecracker gave you? Anyway, looks like the only thing keeping us here is the lack of direction, so where to?" he asks of Cerl who has the map. Allisa helps Cerl secure the rations pack and double checks all the pouches are closed. Doing her best to help the Agents acheive their objective and come home safely even though she is only tasked with briefing them. "Good by and good luck." she says as they exit the hut.

The wind was blowing lightly to the north-east which would be a benefit to them if it were warm as they travel west of the Fairhaven bubble. They aren't bothered by ferals as the hike, being lead away from their normal territories one their way out of the bubble and arrive at the endge of the bubble. At this particular section of the edge there are few trees or buildings to obscure visiblity and the weather is favorable to not being ambushed. Cerl trots quickly along the path indicated by the map, keeping an eye out for potential threats as they travel. As they approach the target area, she stops well short of the goal remembering that the scouts found many traps. Pulling Firecracker back out of the saddlebag, she whispers to her, "Hey Fire, got a game for you. The goal is to make sure all of us stay safe. The more traps you can find and tell us about without letting anyone else know you're in the area, the bigger the prize is for winning!" Otto perks up his ears and smiles lightly as he overhears what his mate was whispering into the pony's ear. He giggles quietly but doesn't say anything about it, certain that Firecracker would do an excellent job as their spotter. She had quite the eye, after all. As for the otter, well he was happy just walking on the path after Cerl and with the others. There wasn't much to say or do, so he hummed a tune that sounded a lot like the Irish shanty "Drunken Sailor". He also seems to notice how nice it was out here, the pleasing sighs of the natural landscapes proving quite easy on the eyes. "So! How about those ferals? We gonna clear them out or... find some dastardly way to avoid harassing them..." he then mutters something under his breath that sounds a lot like "just like we always end up doing...". The moment Firecracker feels the bubble failing around her, she puts up her own bubble! With her Distributed Nanomagic drawing from three other NICE units nearby, assited with her nano magician talents and nanofilaments, it can reach out an impressive 140 feet in all directions. After hearing Cerl's game idea, the pegasus smiles brightly and snaps a quick little salute. "Okie dokie lokie! Find the traps and don't get found!" she confirms before starting to whistle along to Otto's song, bobbing her head to the tune. Oh boy a bubble. Too bad Nekura still has no nano magic since her player is lazy about acquiring them. The Nightmare continues following after the others as they head towards the college though she's keeping an eye out for any signs of snoops watching them on the way. spotting cameras and traps Setrian takes the rear position of the formation, looking behind them often to ensure that they are not being followed, or even worse, ambushed! His perception is not the best, but he tries to make up for it by frequency in checking their six. The party manages to cross the edge of the bubble without even slowing down, even bringing their own bubble with them. As they exit the bubble and begin to look around they astutely notice that there are not yet traps and that no-one it following them.

After some time hiking they reach a wooded area the map tells them in almost on top of the destination. Being already alert for traps and trails they are surely ready for what awaits them as they procede through the shaded woods. Cerl glances around at the group once Firecracker starts her little game of Find-The-Traps. "Take it slow, remember the scouts reported lots of pits, wires, etc. I'll try to let you know if I find any but don't follow too close." Since she's in range of Firecracker's bubble, Cerl decides she might as well put it to good use as long as she can. While she is quite stealthy without any extra help, being invisible just makes it that much more likely she won't get caught. With that thought, she quickly activates her vanishing nanomagic and begins to move forward slowly toward the goal. She probes the ground ahead of her wherever it seems a bit more ground cover has built up, while at the same time keeping a sharp eye peeled for trip wires or any sign of anyone...or anything...approaching the group. Otto kept an eye out for traps, though looking at how paranoid his group was, he figured there was hardly a point to straining his eyes. The otter sighs lightly and shakes his head. "You folks are gonna get a heart attack the way you're going." he giggles, then clasps his paws, his metal armor producing a loud *CLANK* once he does. "Watch your steps. There are two of em over there." he points towards the first to his left "And there." he points at the second to his right. "We try to walk between em might set em both off so..." he shrugs "If someone has the fingers and nerve to disarm them, go right ahead! I am staying... R-R-R-RIGHT here." the otter stops and awaits for someone more competent to deal with the traps. He was a technician, not a trapper. Once the party gets closer to their destination, Firecracker hops out into the air to search the area from above, seeking out any traps, patrols, ferals, ice cream sundae bars, or anything else of interest as she flies ahead of the group. "I'll be back in like six minutes and fourty two seconds!" she calls back to them as she leaves, bringing her bubble with her.

A short while later, the pegasus returns, landing on Cerl's tauric back in order to give her report. "There's sixteen traps all over everywhere and you guys can't get through or around em without going over at LEAST two of em! Ya gotta go over onea these and then over to the right a little bit then turn left and go straight for a while then turn right again, but not tooooooo much, then turn left and over another one and then straight until we're done!" As she speaks, she gestures with her forelegs, pointing in the directions she lists off. "What do I win?!" she asks, wiggling her rump against the taur's back as she waits for her prize. Well it's not hard to guess what Nekura is doing in this situation though in any event she ends up waiting for the others to deal with the traps. Not that she's good at spotting things or beings but she's definitely going to just hurt herself or perhaps the entire team by trying to mess with the traps that were found. Besides, maybe she'll get lucky and take one for the team in the form of a horny hyena feral! Setrian sticks to his role of guarding the rear, giving just a cursory look around for traps, but not spotting any, so he keeps his eyes peeled on the trees and path behind them, making sure that threats other than traps hopefully don't get the jump on them. Hearing firecracker's report, he nods, but just decies to follow the others, figuring it would be better for them if he didn't meddle in areas that were not his expertise. "I hope one of us can handle the traps then." The effect of traps is interesting. The party walked all the way here without needing to so much as stop to relive themselves and yet now they stop short of their destination to carefully deal with the dangers ahead of them. Each party member dealing with the potential for traps their own way be that to scout them all out, wait for the path to be cleared, or disarm them. Spotting a pair of traps, Cerl moves to the edge of the pit she spotted and clears enough of the cover off it so the rest of the group will be able to see it is there. She softly growls at everyone, "Get back, or do you want to get caught in a trap if I screw up while trying to disarm it? If you can feel Fire's bubble, you're probably too close!" She then turns her attention to the tripwire, examining it carefully before safely disabling it. That task complete, she moves forward again, still watching for enemies or other traps while trying to make sense of the directions that Fire gave and then opting to just take the shortest route. Stopping again when she spots several more traps, she decides that deciphering the pony's confusing directions might be safer for everyone after all and cautiously moves off in the way she had rambled on about. Letting her cloak fall away, she waits to stop anyone from heading down the shortest path pointing out the plethora of traps found that way. "That's my mate." Otto exclaims proudly as Cerl worked to keep everyone safe from falling into whatever devilish contraptions someone had set up to hinder them. He almost wished that they'd fallen into one or two of them, just to shake things up. Still, the otter knew better than to hurl himself in harm's way. He kept a reasonable distance and entertained himself by humming his tune and watching Cerl work. She sure had some nimble fingers on her, handling the delicate trap mechanisms like that. It was hard to believe she had such vicious claws under there just looking at her like that. A wide yawn escapes the otter as he continues along the path with the others. He picks up a few rocks along the way and starts to juggle them. It proved a little harder than it looked, but he managed to keep them from "OW!" Otto yelps once one of them clonks his noggen. He rubs his scalp, then tries again, this time taking care not to fuck up again. Using the knowledge of the area as seen from above, Firecracker guides the little group down her extremely-easy-to-follow route plotted out for them. "Yeah, now right a little teensy bit more... aaaaaaaand STOP! Okay now left and straight and then here's the next one we gotta get through and then we're past 'em all!" As she sits atop Otto's head, pressing her groin into it and wiggling her hips side-to-side, she watches as the otter juggles, letting the little rock bon him in the noggin right in front of her before he rubs the pain away. "Oh wait, you weren't trying to do that? Sorry! I'll stop it next time!" she giggles. Nekura continues to wander around the 'outskirts' of the team meanwhile keeping watch for any ferals, mutants or others that might be in the area. Not that she's too likely to see them before they see her but it's more interesting than just standing waiting for the traps to be disarmed. Not that wandering around the woods while in-heat is a bad idea or anything. Setrian continues to play his part at the tail end of the team, occasionally looking at nekura who seems.. Just a bit too excited to get to their destination. He had no idea if she was a kindred spirit to his love of science or was motivated by something else, but her cheerful demeanor lifted his spirits a bit and let him feel less 'lost in the woods' as far as the mission went. "How much further to the school once we're out of the woods?" He asks to those in front of him who currently had a monopoly on location information. With the first traps disabled and the party is able to begin to follow the trail of least traps as planned by Firecracker. The winding path taking a few minutes to travel but leaving them all less likely to be impaled or detected by whomever set all these traps. Cerl moves quicly forward, disarming the spring trap by the simple expedient of standing to the side and snapping the wire. Someone else could disassemble and scavenge what they wanted from it. Moving on to the pit trap, she uncovers the edge of it enough for everyone to see it, and then past it around the edge reactivating her invisibility as she does so. Moving forward again, she starts watching for more traps or enemies while trying to determine how close to the college they are now. Otto quickly gets bored of juggling and lets the rocks fall within his paws. He spots the punji pit first and rolls his eyes. "Oh come on..." Dropping the rocks, he picks up a stick and draws several arrows pointing the edges of the trap, with the words "Do not stand here, you silly person." underneath the arrows, then draws another one winding past the trap, with the words "Go around here instead." He drops the stick in a huff and proceeds to follow his own advice. "I wonder what was in there. Probably something cliche like spikes." he shrugs and continues along the way. His keen otter nose twitches once he picks up on a few scents ahead of them. "Heads up, everyone. We're about to have some company." he notes "Smells like... humies." Otto notes, his ears perking up once he detects some voices as well. "Oh boy..." *shhhink* goes his blade as it meets his paw. Firecracker hops up off Otto's head and into the air above the trees once again. This time, she turns her sight forward to see what's making the noise ahead. She then dives back downto land upon the otter's head again, cheerfully reporting her findings. "There's three people with guns talking about tacos and chimichangas a little bit farther. I woulda went to say 'hiya' and that chimichangas are waaaaay better, but then I woulda gotten a smaller prize!" Nekura meanwhile spots nothing of use to no one's surprise. As Firecracker comes back talking about the humans though the Nightmare huffs at the reinder of last time she dealt with guns. Stupid giant metal balls! As the party disables the last of the traps and continues on their way. It doesn't take them much walking before they can spot the buildings on the campus. The humans are there, standing by a statue that hadn't been destroied since P-Day, talking about whatever it is out of bubble humans talk about. As the some of them can hear these strange creatures talking they can notably pick up that they're talking about why they have to be guarding. One of them mentions, 'those damned hyenas' Cerl stays to the shadows in case she moves beyond range of Fire's bubble, taking note of the humans but not engaging them. The way they were busier talking to each other than watching for threats made her sure the rest of the group would know they were there and be able to deal with them easily enough. Looking the buildings over, she moves past the first set of buildings to a couple further along that seem better cared for, Cerl tries to peer in any windows to see what there is to see. Otto sighs as he spots the humans. "I'm just gonna... go distract them, I guess." he puts his sword away back in its sheathe and just steps right off towards the human guards. He knew well enough that they were civilians, so what possible reason could they have to shoot some passers-by? Whatever... Otto wasn't scared by a group of punks with guns anyway. He'd taken on squadrons of mega beasties by himself and emerged victorious. This was child's play compared to all that. "Excuse me, lads!" he calls out to them, weapons put away and with a smile on his face. "No need for alarm, I am not here to hurt anyone. Me and my team were just passing through." he explains, arms raised to show that he was not about to turn around and shoot them in the back. "So if we could just scoot by you here, that'd be great. That uh, won't be a problem, ay? we might even dispose of some of the ferals in the area, if there are any. But we got no beef with civilized folks. Alright?" "Hyenas? I thought you said 'chimichangas'! Which are way better than tacos, y'know!" Firecracker adds to the conversation as she sits atop Otto's head. "Oh wait, I already told you guys about the traps, so I can let other people know I'm here now without getting a smaller prize! Yay!" she finishes, clopping her forehooves together happily. "Oh right! I'm Firecracker and this is Toey! What're your names?" she asks the trio, patting the otter on the head. Nekura ends up sneaking along with the bushes to avoid the humans crowded around the statue. She has little interest in them either lewd-wise or a desire to be shot at after all. Though the Nightmare doesn't wander off just yet since she wants to see what happens when Otto wanders out to try to be nicey-nice with them. Setrian remains in the trees until some sort of signal is given, knowing that there was no chance of him doing anything remotely sneaky. He draws his axe just to be on the safe side and watches in waiting for any developments. Prepared to charge the humans if needed. The humans talk about why they're guarding for a few moments longer until the armed and amored Otter walks out of the bushes toward them. The first one to speak, a burly white guy with wait down to his shoulders and a short beard smiles and says, "Pay up, knew we'd see something today." to the two others. The second a thinner man who has somehow mannaged to be clean shaven watches Otto closely as he aproaches, not aiming his rifle at him but preparing to do so. He groans a bit in response to the larger man. The third human, a scruffy man of compairable height to the second who is wearing thick glasses, goes to more effort to point his rifle at Otto but still not quite aiming down the sights at him. The third says, "Hello strangers. Haven't heard mutants sound so civilized before." he appears to be a bit nervous. He takes a breath and continues, "You say you want to go fight the crazies? Fine by us if you can get the CompSci building back." Cerl dismisses the buildings at not worth her time when the glances through the windows show them to be barren of anything useful. Moving further along, staying to cover and shadows, she approaches some rattier looking buildings. Sniffing, the scent of some sort of creature can be detected ahead. Moving more carefully and silently now, she approaches these buildings and tries to find a window or crack that she can look through to see the interiors. "Rest assured, we can be perfectly civil. Well, some of us anyway." Otto shrugs, not at all bothered by the rifle aiming at him. "Some of my companions may be a little less... erm, approachable than I and my friend here." he reaches to pick up Firecracker by her tail and dangle her over his nose. "But at the very least we are not ferals like the 'crazies' you described." the otter explains. "Thank you for cooperating." he breathes a sigh of relief, then turns towards where the rest of his team was and whistles loudly for them to come out, or approach. "It's alright. We can go through!" Otto calls out, then turns back towards the humans and tucks his paws into his pockets. "These crazies, I am guessing they're feral hyena muties? Our scouts reported a large concentration of them around the CompSci building. We'll take a good look, see what can be done, if anything. We have a very diverse skillset so, who knows..." he shrugs and re-places Firecracker atop his head. "Anyway, off I go. Have a good one, and what not." the civil otter bids them adieu and proceeds past them towards his next destination, trusting that the rest of his team would follow. Firecracker doesn't really need to say much with Otto doing all the negotiation... which mostly amounts to agreeing to beating up some crazies. But even though she doesn't NEED to say much, she does anyway! "Chimichangas are for sure better than tacos, and then burritos and enchiladas are somewhere in between," she says as she starts to dangle in front of the coyote, wiggling around in his grasp as her heat is made rather apparent in her new position. She twists and squirms as her tail is pulled, squealing with pleasure with a little "Ahh~!" before being plopped back down on the otters head. With a blush she continues, "W-Wow, that's better than burritos and enchiladas!" Nekura decides to keep watching the happenings in the statue area though when it appears that they're leaving to find something else she goes to sneakily sneak after Firecracker and Otto. Now if only she'd managed this sort of invisibility when trying to steal that one teen away for a nice tryst. Setrian slips his axe back into his holster on his side and makes his way over to otto and the humans. It is unlikely his large form goes unnoticed and he tries to play it up, just grunting at them and giving a nod to ottoto lead the way. The glasses wearing human and the clean shaven human both pass something to the burly human and he stoes the things in his pockets. Then the burly human says, "Nice to see not everyone losses their minds." as he watches Otto and Fire, smiling. The clean shaven human says, "If you're going to help us get the CompSci building back then we might as well be hospitable." he clears his throught and says, "Welcome to the university surviors camp." he starts to walk to the closest building and says, "Come in, we'll have something to eat and see if we can help you decide on how best to aproach the building." The glasses wearing human says, "Where are our manners? I am James, the big man is Benjamin, and our friend offering you a meal is Jack." Cerl turns to head back to the group after spotting a black hyena in one of the buildings, confirming what the scouts had said, but other than that nothing but litter, old blood, and destroyed equipment. Getting back just in time to see them being led inside one of the buildings she had dismissed, she follows them inside still invisible, not trusting these humans though the rest of the group seems to take them at face value. She will remain silent and invisible, sending a quick telepathic message to Otto informing him that she is in there with the rest of them, but otherwise not letting her presence be known. The otter looked a bit surprised at the sudden display of hospitality. "Oh? Damn, well..." he approaches and shakes hands with... well, whoever among them would take a mutant's hand. "I feel welcome already. Just a moment, though... I need to go fetch one of my team. Seems she snuck off, she's always doing that." he squints a little and laughs nervously "Uhhh, she's also a taur. So, don't get too freaked out, alright? Anyway be back in a whi..." he presses his index finger against his ear and catches that message. "Nevermind, she'll be around." he sighs and subtly rolls his eyes, then follows the rest of the humans in. "Oooh, food! I like food!" Firecracker cheers, bouncing in place on Otto's head with joy. "What'cha got? Is it good? Do ya have nachos? How about cake? Pie? Cream? Cream pie? Oh wait no, burritos? Chimichangas?! Do ya have any of those?" As Otto follows them into the building, she just continues to blabber on about the different types of food they may or may not have while she looks around, inspecting her new surroundings. Well that was a weird turn of events. Nekura goes to follow after the others when they're invited into the building though she continues to keep a leery eye on the humans. She doesn't trust the furless race! Setrian follows them, still keeping a wary eye out and his hand just inches from his axe in case things happen to go south with the humans, or if they come under surprise feral assault. Better safe than sorry he reasons, not putting much faith in the safety of the immediate area. As the party gathers around the humans enter the building leaving Benjamin, the burly human, to hold the door for their guests as they enter. He nots quietly counting all, visible, members of the party. When Setrian aproaches he door he looks up to the big wolf, "Huh, what they feed you guys that you can get to big?" he asks, still holding the door for him.[[Category:RPLogs]]

CompSci Part 1 - RPLOG

2017-06-16T02:35:16Z

Ebreus: /* Log */

Kaiju (dedication)

2017-06-11T21:03:29Z

Ebreus:

Golems of earth on an island in the ocean. Yeah, that will work.

==Location==
One can dedicate to the Kaiju on the Kaiju Island in the ocean for 50 Mako.

==Powers==
{{Monster
|head=[[Solar Ray]]
|torso=[[Density Shift]],[[Gigantic Body Slam]],[[Juggernaut]],
|arms=
|legs=
|tail=[[Tail Smash]]
|skin=[[Thick Hide]]
|groin=
}}Kaiju heed the [[Call of Gaia]], and are thus rewarded for their dedication. They can also take on a [[Giant Size]] while giving their enemies a [[Giant Pound]]. 
 
'''NOTE''': Kaiju bypass the size hard cap of 20, allowing them to grow to larger sizes than normal without outside influence.

==Additional Equipment==
Being as big as a Kaiju is, using equipment would be difficult.

(No equipment coded for Kaiju at this time)

==Thematic Information==
This dedication represents someone who is empowered by the Earth Itself to combat the nanite-fueled ravages of the land. The power of the earth element grants greater size. This grants increased strength and resilience, but at the cost of mobility. Also, it's quite difficult for a giant monster to accurately hit things smaller than itself.

[[Category:Dedications]]
[[Category:Supports Arm Divider]]
[[Category:Supports Tail Divider]]

Kaiju (dedication)

2017-06-11T21:02:53Z

Ebreus:

Golems of earth on an island in the ocean. Yeah, that will work.

==Location==
One can dedicate to the Kaiju on the Kaiju Island in the ocean for 50 Mako.

==Powers==
{{Monster
|head=[[Solar Ray]]
|torso=[[Density Shift]],[[Gigantic Body Slam]],[[Juggernaut],
|arms=
|legs=
|tail=[[Tail Smash]]
|skin=[[Thick Hide]]
|groin=
}}Kaiju heed the [[Call of Gaia]], and are thus rewarded for their dedication. They can also take on a [[Giant Size]] while giving their enemies a [[Giant Pound]]. 
 
'''NOTE''': Kaiju bypass the size hard cap of 20, allowing them to grow to larger sizes than normal without outside influence.

==Additional Equipment==
Being as big as a Kaiju is, using equipment would be difficult.

(No equipment coded for Kaiju at this time)

==Thematic Information==
This dedication represents someone who is empowered by the Earth Itself to combat the nanite-fueled ravages of the land. The power of the earth element grants greater size. This grants increased strength and resilience, but at the cost of mobility. Also, it's quite difficult for a giant monster to accurately hit things smaller than itself.

[[Category:Dedications]]
[[Category:Supports Arm Divider]]
[[Category:Supports Tail Divider]]

Kaiju (dedication)

2017-06-11T21:01:58Z

Ebreus:

Golems of earth on an island in the ocean. Yeah, that will work.

==Location==
One can dedicate to the Kaiju on the Kaiju Island in the ocean for 50 Mako.

==Powers==
{{Monster
|head=[[Solar Ray]]
|torso=[[Density Shift]], [[Gigantic Body Slam]], [[Juggernaut]
|arms=
|legs=
|tail=[[Tail Smash]]
|skin=[[Thick Hide]]
|groin=
}}Kaiju heed the [[Call of Gaia]], and are thus rewarded for their dedication. They can also take on a [[Giant Size]] while giving their enemies a [[Giant Pound]]. 
 
'''NOTE''': Kaiju bypass the size hard cap of 20, allowing them to grow to larger sizes than normal without outside influence.

==Additional Equipment==
Being as big as a Kaiju is, using equipment would be difficult.

(No equipment coded for Kaiju at this time)

==Thematic Information==
This dedication represents someone who is empowered by the Earth Itself to combat the nanite-fueled ravages of the land. The power of the earth element grants greater size. This grants increased strength and resilience, but at the cost of mobility. Also, it's quite difficult for a giant monster to accurately hit things smaller than itself.

[[Category:Dedications]]
[[Category:Supports Arm Divider]]
[[Category:Supports Tail Divider]]

Density Shift/Extra Notes

2017-06-11T20:43:18Z

Ebreus: /* Found On: */

== Found On: ==
===K===
*[[Kaiju]]

Quest listings

2017-06-10T03:43:26Z

Ebreus: /* Overview */

==Overview==
This page exists for the purpose of providing links to the pages on specific quests along with a very basic description of content and rewards.

==Quests==

[[Namidian (Quest)]]: The quest for the Namidian dedication is very story-based with primary game play aspects being puzzles and exploration. This quest begins in the Namidian Camp just off the Highway.

[[Husky Matchmaking]]: This is a light-hearted quest with primary game play aspects being exploration of Fairhaven and some combat against ferals. This quest begins by talking to Sarah a few rooms south of the exit of Zephyr Building.

[[Ashen Eggs Retrieved]]: A short quest for an interesting form. The major game play aspects of this quest being exploration of the area under Fairhaven Mall and a small amount of combat against the local ferals. This quest begins by talking to the Ember Matriarch under the Mall.

[[Skunk Hunting]]: The quest to join the Library Skunks. This is a very combat focused quest. To begin speak to Monique in the Fairhavens Library.

Quest listings

2017-06-10T03:42:56Z

Ebreus: /* Quests */

==Overview==
This page exists for the purpose of providing links to the pages on specific quests along with a very basic description of content.

==Quests==

[[Namidian (Quest)]]: The quest for the Namidian dedication is very story-based with primary game play aspects being puzzles and exploration. This quest begins in the Namidian Camp just off the Highway.

[[Husky Matchmaking]]: This is a light-hearted quest with primary game play aspects being exploration of Fairhaven and some combat against ferals. This quest begins by talking to Sarah a few rooms south of the exit of Zephyr Building.

[[Ashen Eggs Retrieved]]: A short quest for an interesting form. The major game play aspects of this quest being exploration of the area under Fairhaven Mall and a small amount of combat against the local ferals. This quest begins by talking to the Ember Matriarch under the Mall.

[[Skunk Hunting]]: The quest to join the Library Skunks. This is a very combat focused quest. To begin speak to Monique in the Fairhavens Library.