A Space Suit Endeavor - RPLOG
Participants
Date
12/7/2017
Log
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It's later in the vening off down the Highway where the message directed potential candidates for the mission to show up. The air's cooler, almost frigid compared to the day's muggy heat; It's as if the world decided to turn on the AC outside, and the air moves with a cool breeze tinged with that same humidity from earlier. The stark corpse of a building stands beside the roadway, its windows cavernous sockets, and its interior gutted, but serviceable. It's large enough to house several vehicles, and it might have once been a repair shop from all the garage-doors is sports along the side.
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Sitting outside the building, a single Fire Newt is settled with its shoulders resting back against the main entrance, the breeze tussling some weeds across the road nearby, and the person's got their arms crossed and a bit of grass stem swaying from their lower lip while they appear to be patiently waiting.
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A cheetah woman jogs into view, though her head is the only thing visible right now. A hard rubber suit covers her from head to toe under her otherwise casual clothing, and she carries a rifle on her back along with an old canvas backpack. Utterly lacking in any sort of military decorum, Kimberley offers a sloppy salute. "Got your message, sir. What's the job?"
Firecracker drops down from above, landing atop Kimberley's head to snap a salute of her own with a foreleg. "What she said!" the pint-sized pegasus offers happily. "The explorafication adventurtizing thingy!" Of course, the pegasus is in the nude on her new perch, though her belly is quite a bit pudgier than usual.
Mokou quickly hastened down the road, feet flying beneath the pavement as her hands gripped the straps to her pack. Her comms had lit up with a message she couldn't quite ignore, and she had been running to the location since then. Her pack jostled lightly, the broken suitcase held down by the straps of rope that cradled it, forming the straps she so clung to. She ran... but not alone towards her destination! Nope, by her side ran a much smaller fox, darting forward on all fours! The little strip of rope about its neck was cut, only a slight knot keeping it wrapped. Despite the lack of leash, they didn't seem to stray far...
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Finally, the fennec lass managed to near the location, quietly panting despite the cold. Her fur stood on end, making her seem about an extra inch larger in all directions. Her eyes scanned the edges of the road, looking upon broken building after broken building. Finally, a garage stood out, standing high and dry, stripped bare but standing still, bones of a business long since gone. The fennec gave a sharp tilt of her head to the smaller vulpine companion, both walking towards the building, towards the Fire Newt before it. A cheetah had arrived before her, as well as a familiar pegasus, the lass trying to not look to them. "Alright then... You wanted to see those interested in this mission... Yeah?"
Moving along with the sounds of clacking from the joint of his doubly layered armor, Willy slowly tromps over to the others. "Wheeewf, what a hot day" he says before the Fennec feels the tempature drop off. "Oooo man that feels goooood." he says, before stopping in front of the fire newt and popping off his helmet for the moment. "I'm Willy, I'm here about the Salvage mission" he says as he looks calmly prepared.
Ebreus examines his new shield for any flaws as he aproaches the corpose of a building indicated as the meeting place for this mission. After a few moments he is satasfied with the shield and lowers it onto its carrying strap and adjusts the straps of his satchels and flamethroawer over his armor. He looks up to see the group of gathering agents and the Fire Newt and smiles as he strides confidently toward them. "I am Ebreus, I am also here for the salvage operation. It's nice working with you again Firecracker." he says and fetches the Firecracker plushie from on of his pockets to jog her memory of their friendship. Then spying Mokou he maintains his smile and says, "Hello Mokou." with no noticable difference in his cheery voice.
Fiore was in the Lobby when the message came through. And she finds herself answering the call despite knowing well and better then to take jobs from Zephyr as a rule. She had never been this far out of town on her own and it shows. She's able to navigate this far out, but it's clear that she's on edge while doing that.
After some moments, the vulpine reaches the gecko, "Reporting as asked, what's the job?" Her voice comes through the speaker of her helmet with a slightly tinny tune to it.
Setrian follws behind the fox, eyes alert for their objective and anything that might prevent them from getting there. He is glad he had enough time to stop by his home to grab his gear before they made their way here, with his axe in a holster on his hip, and two large guns on his back, one a nanite cannon, the other a rocket launcher, he hoped to be better prepared than the last time he went out of the bubble. His generic armor was strapped to him for flexibility of movement while providing relatively decent defense from most attacks. He had a pack for food and water supplies, as well as any additional ammunition he had. He allows fiore to be the one to speak, hanging back just a bit, but close enough that he could hear everything that was being said clearly.
In the darkness above, the sound of buffeting wind grows. A costumed cat girl slowly comes into view, her frilly costume ensemble the first thing to catch the eye. With a couple of strong wing-beats, she lowers herself, her ballet-like heels contacting the pavement lightly with a small click. Amethyst looks around at the group, her body relaxing visibly as her hazel eyes sweep over familiar faces. She says nothing, shifting the strap of her white messenger bag that lay across her shoulder, the bag itself looking full and rather heavy, however, her fluffy, tufted brown ears rotate restlessly, taking in the environment. She offers a cheery smile and a nod to those she knew, though afterwards she focuses on the newt, her tail arcing behind her idly as she waits.
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The newt rolls the bit of grass straw about between his lips whilst the collection comes together. Its fluffy tassel flags in the breeze before the figure turns its head and spits the straw away. In a voice reminiscent of a yoddling yokel of some sort, throatknob bobbing with their speech, the newt begins, "First off, it's Bill, not sir. This here's the recruitment process." Smoothing down his pocketed vest, the figure straightens from the leaning position. Thought here's no sign of any genitalia or the like, the voice does carry a masculine intonation to it, "An', we'll be talkin' t'each of y'individual-like t'see if you're right for the task. If'n you are, more details'll come forth-with and somesuch, got't?" A smile tugs at the corner of his thick, lizard lips and points towards the Cheetah, "You... since y'got here first, y'c'n come on in, an' we can see what'cha can offer." And motions towards the metal door with its lack of glass, one of those office storefront affairs but long shattered quite some time ago.
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He cocks his head, eyeing the rest, "Th'rest'a you c'n wait'n chatter 'mongst y'selves f'r a spell.
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Shaking off the nerves, Kimberley ambles into the old garage with a determined look on her feline face. When she makes it inside, she explains her skills as best as she can... Through the window the others can see her dig a pair of binoculars from her sack, and a rather beat-up looking quadcopter. Tools of the trade for a scout like her.
Firecracker hops off the cheetah's head as she is called into the room for interrogation! "Good luck person that smells like me!" she calls out to her before turning to the rest of the group. "Hiya peoples! I'm Firecracker! What're your names? And are ya all ready for the super fun explorafication adventurtizing trip to who knows where?!" she greets while waving a tiny foreleg towards the most center-ish area of the others. "Cause I know I'm ready! I'm super ready! I'm more ready than the readiest readierizer that ever readied!" she says, nearly bursting with energy as she bounces in her hover.
The fennec lass gave a quiet nod back to the newt as he spoke, bobbing her head at the words he drawled out. "Alright then... Bill." She stepped back, watching the cheetah set off to speak with the newt. Instead of focusing on that, she turned towards the company that had gathered. Her smile rose briefly as she looked among them. Familiar faces, most of them. A wince ran across Mokou's features as a voice she knew sounded out, her ears flicking back as she turned for a moment. Her smile dimmed a touch before she nodded firmly back to him, "Hello again Ebreus." She was stiff for a moment... before giving him a faint nod. "I... Shan't try and mess up for you this time. Promise."
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Mokou turned towards the others though, a slight grin lifting to her muzzle, not just from the smaller vulpine rubbing against her leg. "Though, certainly didn't imagine I'd be seeing you here Amethyst! Setrian maybe, but you? Heh... Catch me off guard that did." Her eyes turned, a hand offered to the other fennec and vixen with a slight smile. "Pardon, don't think I know you two though... The name is Mokou. And this little fella," she pointed her muzzle down, nudging the fox at her side, "Is Felix. Pleasure to be here."
Willy chuckles as he hears Fire's comments before hearing himself be addressed by the other Fennec. He smiles and shakes her hand "How are you mam, I am Willy." he says before giving a shake and offering a pet to Felix.
The vixen waits for the other people to get done doing their interviews. She ajusts her bag a bit, and checks it for her pistol. She pulls out the tubular body of the weapon before stuffing a magizine into it and chambering a round. It's returned to her bag before she turns her head to Ammy and Set with a shrug. Mokou gets a small nod as well, before she turns her gaze to willy as well. "What an odd crew this is turning out to be."
Ebreus nods as Bill takes the Cheeta woman into the building. He walks to the outer wall of the building. He snerks and nods at Firecrackers hyperactive antics before sitting down with his back to the wall. He smiles at Mokou, "That is good to hear. It is a bit unsettling when that happens, even if it did work last time." he says. He lifts his flamethrowrs projector onto his lap as he turns his attention to Willy, "Hello Willy." he greets the male Fennec then turns his attention to his flamethrower, tripple-checking it for faults.
Setrian nods to bill as he makes his proclamation, and he looks over the group as kimberley was brought into the building. He looks down at himself, glad that he was better prepared, but unsure if it was good enough. "Well, hopefully there's something I xan do besides smack things with my axe on this mission." The fenrir nods to willy and ebreus "I'm Setrian, hope I don't slow things down too much. If I even am allowed to join." He chuckles at fiore's comment "The motley crew is often the most successful in stories, isn't it?"
Amethyst's ears fold back against her head, her cheeks flushing a bit as the female fennec singles her out. Her hands reach down to wrap around the front hem of her skirt, her shoulders shrugging slightly. "I... Well, I want to help. I may not be the best scientist like Master..." Her fluffy brown tail thwaps against the fenrir in emphasis, "But I know a bit about helping the wounded and overall keeping morale up." She turns on one foot, the toe of her shoe making a chrunching noice against the rocks. "I'm Amethyst." She says, raising her small voice as loud as possible. "It's really nice to meet all of you. If only I had gotten the memo..." Her hazel eyes trace along the armored figures, then lower to her own frilly costume, eliciting a small giggle and a smile from the kitten girl. "I look ridiculous compared to you all."
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The newt doesn't say anything to Kimberley once they're within. He simply motions to the door that's behind the counter, a much more solid and reinforced affair, before tugging it open to let Kimberley through. Past it is a cavernous bay, sectioned off from alternate garages, and just within, to the left, is a door to an office. The reinforced glass for the door still appears to be intact with a cross-cross of embeded wires through the panel. Within waits what appears to be a badger Kemonomimi, black-tufted ears perked above oiled-back hair.
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Once within the office, he addresses Kimberley, "Thank you for responding so promptly. So, tell me, what skills do you have with technology and or reconaissance? This mission will involved sensitive equipment, and we need qualified individuals operating in it." His tone is matter-of-fact and casual, a smooth tone with natural charisma oozing from the fellow.
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Kimberley nods, rattling off her qualifications. "I'm a scout. Been working contracts with Zephyr about a month and a half now. But more than that, I've lived out of the bubble. I know SoCal like the back of my hand. That answer your question?" She asks in a somewhat clipped tone.
The badger-mimi purses his lips primly, looking over Kimberley's build. He comments wryly, "Well, you look like you could survive on your own, but as part of a team? What experience do you hvavhave in com-." He pauses and sniffs a bit at the air, brow knitting, "My dear, are you pregnant?"
Kimberley nods curtly. "For only a couple days now. Don't worry sir. It won't slow me down. And I've worked with other agents before. Some of whom are out there right now."
There's a bit of consternation to the badger's expression, and he taps lightly at the desk, "What other assets might you have outside of being a look-out. Have you any skills with computers or other technologies?"
The cat swallows, a lump in her throat as she tries to make herself seem useful. "Enough to get by. I'm no programmer, but I know hardware well enough. How to take it apart, put it back together and all that."
The fellow opens a drawer within the desk and pulls out a box, setting it onto the table and motions towards it, "Alright, then. If that's the case... open this, find what's wrong, fix it, and put it back together."
There are a few tools there on the table, and Kimberley's able to pick out a screwdriver and loosen the seam of the box before pressing a couple tabs before popping the plate free. Within, there's an assortment of wires, bundled cables, circuit boards and various other computery odds and ends as well as the fragrance of comptuer parts and plastics.
There are a few securing screws that hold what appears to be the primary board in place. With care, Kimb works them out, though the last strips a bit, the contacts both reaming the hole and the head of the screw with the jitter that hits through from the accident. However, the board is loosened, freed from the casing so that the parts can be laid out a bit more effectively.
There's definitely a burnt aroma to the device once the board's been drawn out, but its source is a bit elusive. Gingerly nudging through the wires connecting to the board, the secondary board beneath is now visible, as are the capcitors and other toggles and resistors. While starting to lay the first board out, one of the cables comes loose from teh underside. Where had it connected to before it fell out?
Concentration beads as perspiration from the intensity of the task, but it's not obvious where the cable had been connected, and there's most definitely a burnt smell. The badger watches a moment longer before he says, "Alright, that's enough... Go ahead and set it down, please." He motions, "It seems you've got some rudimentary knowledge, but we're looking for something a little more advanced, I'm sorry to say. We'll see how the other candidates are, and we'll let you know. Please, follow the hall you see through the door," he points, "and enter the second bay on the right. You can wait there until all the interviews are completed."
Kimberley scowls, but she follows orders well enough, heading down the hall and into the old garage bay, muttering to herself as she goes.
The hallway is rather heavily lit, almost blindingly so, and there are four bay doors spread out on either side of it. A couple fellows, a Gorilla and what looks like some large, metallic beetle form stand near the end to watch as Kim heads into the directed bay. Inside is a series of benches and chairs and tables, a lounge area with some coffee.
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There's a rap, rap, rapping at the metal door, and Bill stirs, pushing off and away before he looks around, "Alrigh'... who's gonna be next for an interview?" The lizard fellow's large eyes ogle outwards at the group.
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"Oh me! Pick me!" Firecracker says, dashing over to hover right in front of the fire newt before anyone else responds, waving a foreleg around excitedly over her head.
Mokou cracked a faint smile shaking Willy's hand with a firm grip. "Well then, good to meet you." Raising her brow at the vixen's comments, the fennec lass simply shrugged and crack a smile. "Setrian is right. The motley crew wins. Or loses. You'd never hear about the losses though. But... This isn't going to be one of those cases. Don't think so." Her smile turned back towards the feline with a slight shake of her head, a touch of warmth upon her muzzle. "Relax Amethyst. You will be fine, yeah? The best way to figure such out is out on missions like this anyway... and I doubt that Setrian would let any harm befall you." There, she stepped back, kneeling to rub at the little fox by here, Felix reveling in the care he was given... A few minutes passed there, before she looked up, Bill finally asking for the next. Before a word could even be said though, the pony pounded forward. "Heh... Best take care of that one then. Good luck Fire..."
Willy chuckles at the mix of comments. "ot
Willy chuckles at the mix of comments. "When is it ever not a Motley crew anyway here." he says as he pets Felix a little. "This place makes for some really interesting people in the end." He then nods to Eberus "Good to work with you here." he smiles "and you as well Amythyst. Had any more luck when it comes to collecting vials?" he asks before doing a quick check of his equipment.
Ebreus humms fragments of rock songs as he waits and checks his equipment. He smiles at Setrian as he introduces himself, "Hello Setrian." he says. When Willy comments on the fact almost all crews are motly nowadays he nods. "Sounds about right and I've been part of a few of the sucess stories." he comments then returns to examining his gear. As Bill returns his smiles and looks up as Firecracker eagerly tries to get the anphibians attention. "Let's let Fire take her turn." he comments.
Fiore falls completely silent and simply waits her turn to get checked out. She finds a place to lean on while waiting, and closing her eyes with a sigh. Her foot crosses over the other, "I didn't realize that we'd have to do interviews on top of it all." Her ears flick boredly, before she turns back to Set and Ammy, "Man..." She shrugs a little, then.
Setrian looks around at the others and grimaces "I really need to consider training with guns.. I've never really used them. Only reason I have these big things is because you just need to hit near the thing to do damage.." He pats his axe "It's a good thing most ferals fight up close anyway." He nods to fiore "I'm a little nervous, I have not really been tested for a mission."
Amethyst seems reassured by the female fennec's words, her ears returning to their normal perky state. She turns to Willy, nodding and smiling. "I have, actually! Been training a lot with the nanites, learning how to use them most effectively." She sways side to side idly, in a obvious good mood. "With that, and learning about healing techniques, I think it's about time I try to pull my weight!"
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And, Bill turns his head a bit, blinking one large eye at the hyperactive, wee figure. He parts his lips before clapping them shut again and motioning for the pony to follow. Over at the heavy door, pulls it open and flags her past.
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The office door was left open, and the kemonomimi badger looks at the arriving bundle of eagerness before he motions towards the hallway that's so brightly lit, "First bay door on the left, my dear."
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Firecracker cheers out "Woohoo!" as she pumps a hoof in victory! "See ya in a little bit peoples!" she says, waving goodbye to the people behind her before turning and shooting into the door. When she's directed into the door on the left, she heads in, chirping, "Okie dokie lokie!" with a wave in thanks to the badger.
FWAP! The pony's face meets the door. Once... twice... thrice! Hmmn, it's not budging. It does make for an effective method of knocking, despite how painful it might be. From his spot at the end of the hall, the Gorilla fellow grunts and shuffles down the hall, and with a light push, he opens the heavy door for Fire. Past the door is... it looks akin to something from a Burger King's playland or a Kindergarten classroom. There are tubes and slides and various odds and ends throughout. There are even what look to be coloring books and crayons, fingerpaints and more! Seems a lot like a daycare or maybe... maybe it's an obstacle course?!
"Ooooooo!" Firecracker emotes with glee, looking around at all the colors and fun things! She zips around from one thing to the next, tumbling down slides, checking the books and coloring a page or two with an oversized crayon, smearing her hooves around in the paint, one color for each hoof, of course, before pronking around on a sheet of paper, and she only takes one lick after! Maybe two... Which of course makes her feel a bit nauseous as she sticks her green tongue out with a "Blech!"
The heavy door closes afterwards, leaving the pony to her designs, both literaly and figurative, for the moment.
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There's another rap-rap-rapping at the heavy door that Bill's leant up against, and the figure sidles away from it, back out to the rest, "Alright, that was a quick one... so, who's next t'have their interview?" His head turns this way and that, looking at the group sideways.
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Mokou idly scritched beneath Felix's chin, the little fox giving a quiet little bark. Her ears twitched before she looked to the others with a slow nod. "First time there's been a test of sorts for a mission... Must be something important..." She shook her head, ears twitching for a moment as a quiet knocking echoed to her. "That... Was fast." A frown rose before she stood, a sharp nod given. "Come on Felix... And, I'll go next Bill. If, you don't mind..."
Willy smiles at Amethyst reponse "Thats good to hear, especially as we always could use more agents who are adept at healing." he says with a smile "Especially in parties with me" he chuckles. He then notices the door swing open and Mokou being called. He smiles "Good luck!" he says as he waves to the two foxes as they venture in.
Ebreus nods, "Yeah, it would be nice if Z, RSX, and the Prommies could standardize mission procedure. I've got all my exo-bubble kit on me since I was preparing to just arrive, get the briefing and go on mission. This way is probably for the best though." he says in response to Fiore as he finishes his check of the flamethrower and looks up at the Shadow Vixen. He nods in agreement with Setrian, "I should get something less... destruction of the general area focused than my flamethrower too. Maybe I could get Cerl to show me how to use a crossbow." he comments. As his shield and flamethrower were both checked to be up to his standards he reaches into one of his satchels and counts his gernades, both the stun and fragmentals. When Bill returns he smiles, "That /was/ quick. I bet the interviewer has a new apreciation of calm dispositions now." he says. He smiles as Mokou offers to go next, "Good luck Mokou." he says.
Fiore gives a shrug to Ebereus 'Same as you. Though the only reason I came was because I already had my combat gear on at the time." She goes quiet then, and adds, "Admittedly, I haven't even been keeping track of who's gone in so far. Kinda spacing out here, heh."
The vixen flicks her ears, and notes, "Well, not too many agents come out on side jobs... And I was told basically 'never take a job from them ever'... I mean, I'm on the books, but this will be the first time I've left the bubble with them.... Hell, I've /shot at them/ pretty regularly." She chuckles, "You don't get between me and good petochemicals."
Setrian decides to take this time to rest and relax, meditating, trying to ensure he is focused once it was his turn to take whatever test would be assigned to him.
"Well, I didn't spend all that time studying boring medical texts underground for nothing!" The kitten girl says brightly, hopping a little. She turns and gives a wave to Mokou as she offers herself up next, then clasps her hands together and just listens to the conversations, her tail making large arcs in the air behind her.
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The newt's palm shows, "Eh, eh, just you. One at a time," before pointing a digit towards Felix, "you'll jus' have t'wait y'r turn f'r an int'rview." He crosses his arms over his chest as he waits for them to pick between each other to see who goes first between the pair of them.
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Mokou simply offered a slight nod back to Willy, her pet Felix leaping up briefly, clawing at her pack before clambering up to her shoulders. As she stepped forward though, she frowned faintly, "Err... He's with me. Not actually sapient mind you..." She paused, tilting her head as she tried to explain. "Not Feral-like non-sapient... but just... Well, he's my pet. N-not that kind of pet mind you! Just... H-he... Um... I bought him in New Dawn." She gestured towards the door, looking a touch warmer in the ears. "He's... well, with me."
The newt fixes Mokou with one eye, head turned to do so, and he then gives a shake of his head, 'I'm sorry. That's too much of a liabil'ty f'r a mission as sens'tive as th'one we're doin' We cant have any 'non-sapeitns'r ferals'r..." He looks back towrds the door which Firecracker'd recently passed through, "loose cannons messin' up a sens'tive operation, y'know? We need skilled individuals." He motions, "an', if he ain't a feral mutant, then he's an animal, which c'n be worse, even."
The fennec paused briefly before sighing, offering a slight nod. Pulling the fox off her back, she set him down for the time being, giving his collar a brief tug. "Alright then. Felix? Stay... I want you to stay here, got it?" Placing her hand upon the bridge of his muzzle, she stared deeply at him... A swift nod given before she rose. "Okay then sir... Can lead the way if you wish." That Felix gave a slight whine... Well, she tried to not listen...
When she's directed through the heavy door, the whining soudns do get cut off as it shuts. Sitting behind the desk, the badger kemonomimi says, "We do have facility here to watch over your pet should you qualify, by the by, and we head out. Now, please, have a seat..." He motions towards a chair across from the desk, a smiel touching his genteel features.
Slowly coming to rest in the offered chair, curling her tail to rest upon her lap, Mokou looked up briefly to the badger lad with a swift nod. "Thank you. That... would be a load off my shoulders then." A touch of a smile played at her muzzle as she leaned forward, fingers steepling as she nodded. "So... What is it that I can do for you? Or, rather, tell you?"
Genially, the badger says, "We're looking for individuals with fair technical skills, whether it be in first aid, precision mechanical and electrical work, comprehensive design and the like to go on an excursion to acquire some sensitive equipment. The difficult part is being able to identify pieces, make sure all that are needed are present and potentially checking to see if any of it is faulty." The fellow purses his lips lightly, "part of why we need to make sure those involved are both competent and capable. Of course, a few hands who're skilled with reconaissance helps, in case of trouble rising, but, we'd like those also to be team-players."
