WEEK 3 DAY 1: MISSION

[wonderful_mods]

Mission: "Rest under the tannenbaum!"
Time Limit: Short
Noise Plane: Solo
Wall Instructions: Key wall in front of the main gate. Condition is a pact.
Wall Rewards: Long Live The Ice
Reaped Rewards: Cold Stare
Mission Rewards: 10,000 zeny



[After a long trek through the snowy field, a row of fancy heat lamps and a stone gate finally come into view. Through it, the town of Lutie is visible, and looking quite welcoming with its Christmas greetings everywhere. Compared to the frozen tundra, you'll want to hurry inside - just try not to let the wall hit you on the way in! And once the gate is passed, the first thing you'll see is a massive Christmas Tree.... ]

Comments

[leggierissimo]

[Shrug!] Let's just hope our normal methods of attacking will work.

[tamedhollow]

Well, if it doesn't, we'll run. Fast. [he grins, then tunes back to the UG and slips off through the crowd toward the candy factory. It looks pretty innocuous from the outside but... he's pretty sure he just heard a bloodcurdling scream.

He blinks, then points out the decal to Josh]

Check it out, they decaled this place.

[leggierissimo]

What a solid plan. [Sarcasm, obviously. Joshua is quick to follow, tuning himself to the UG as he steps away from the stands. And apparently, looks were fairly deceiving, if that scream is any indication...]

So they have. I suppose this is where the Players are meant to go to earn money, since it obviously isn't a shop and there are no levels to be gained.

[tamedhollow]

Yeesh. I don't know if I want to go in here. I'm getting some seriously bad vibes... [but his curiosity is strong. He'll just stay near the door.

Ichigo cautiously enters the candy factory--

-- to be greeted with the sight of warriors and christmassy monsters running amok]

... I dont think they actually make candy in this place.

[leggierissimo]

Are you, now? [Joshua tilts his head, regarding the doors of the factory with curiosity. He can feel some pretty negative energy, true, but...

Following Ichigo inside, he's not at all surprised by what they find.]

Wow. Couldn't have made that observation without you, Ichigo-kun.

[tamedhollow]

Hey, shut up. Why would they call it that, then? [>:V]

[leggierissimo]

Irony? [Shrug! It makes sense to him.]

[tamedhollow]

Annoying. [Ichigo frowns and watches a group of adventurers take down a couple of... elves? Is that what those are?]

I don't know if I want to go in more than this.

[leggierissimo]

[They kind of looks like elves, so... it's highly probable, considering the environment.]

You want money, don't you? [Smirk.] I'm sure they aren't all that bad.

[tamedhollow]

[Josh, you are just calling him a chicken in the most roundabout way possible, aren't you. He glares at the other Reaper, then sighs and summons his ethereal blade]

Are you gonna help, or are you just gonna watch?

[leggierissimo]

[More or less, yes. He tilts his head, appearing to seriously be considering the question.]

I think I'll hang out back here. I'm not much of a 'get-in-your-face' type. And besides, I don't want to work up a sweat.

[tamedhollow]

[Ichigo rolls his eyes. He could at LEAST be his squishy mage.

He treads off into the factory, provoking one of the green elf things.

And then promptly gets swarmed by about seven more of the damn things. He swats at them with his sword, then decides to make a tactical retreat]

They don't fight fair!!

[leggierissimo]

[Surprises do come in the most unlikely of places~

Joshua stays near the entrance, cell phone in hand and raised to his lips. And he looks amused. Way too amused.]

It makes sense that they would help one of their own, doesn't it?

[Well, that tactical retreat doesn't seem to be helping a whole lot, considering a few are still following. With a long-suffering sigh, Joshua flips open his phone, keying in a couple of things and jerking his hand towards the elf creatures. With each keystroke, a small beam of bluish-white light strikes one of them at random. And with the final movement, a much larger one - with cherubs, no less - engulfs the entire group, leaving a couple knocked out cold and the rest of them fairly dazed.]

You're welcome.

[tamedhollow]

[Ichigo can only watch, stunned, as Josh does his... Jesus beam thing... Wow. What. He does regain enough sense to stab each one in the head once they're dazed and KO'd, quickly eliminating the whole group. Then, without even picking up his loot, he turns to Josh]

The hell was that?!

[leggierissimo]

[... yes, this was a good decision. Very amusing. A+, would try again.]

A pin. One that only I can use.

[tamedhollow]

But there were... little fat.... angel things!! [he gestures at the space where the elves were. Well, more like flails] Why do you have a pin that makes fat angels?!

[leggierissimo]

Because I do. [He is trying so hard not to laugh.] Or would you rather I dropped a vending machine on them~?

[tamedhollow]

I--! [he holds out his hand with one finger raised, then stops, and looks down, then at the loot, then back at Josh] ... vending.... I... You know what. You know what, I'm not going to ask. I'm not gonna ask why you have fat flying babies and vending machines out of the ether as weapons. I'm just going to go with it. [and now he's going to scoop up his loot thank you very much]

[leggierissimo]

[This trying not to laugh thing is now failing. Miserably.] After all you've seen in this Game, it's still that strange to you? [No, he's not actually going to explain. He's going to leave it a complete mystery. But it's still hilarious.]

[tamedhollow]

[he picks up one of the cookies that the elves dropped and munches on it before stuffing the rest in his loot bag] Look. I've seen lots of weird shit. I try not to get jaded by all of it!

[leggierissimo]

[... ew, Ichigo, that's been on the ground.] Well, there are pins that do some fairly strange things. This isn't so different, really.

[tamedhollow]

[Yeah and? Josh, Ichigo eats Noise, monsters, dead things, and whatever else fits in his mouth. A cookie off the ground is literally nothing] So why are they special? Or is it you who's special.

[leggierissimo]

[It's still disgusting. Eugh, germs.] It's special because I'm the only one that can use it. As for your other question... everyone is special in some way, aren't they?

[tamedhollow]

Ahh... So you're just always that infuriatingly vague. [He swings his bag over his shoulder] Let's get out of here. I need more stuff and more people if we're gonna do this thing up right.

[leggierissimo]

It gets a good reaction. [Just chuckling over here, don't mind him.] I'm sure that you, Neku and I could probably take them just fine.