C.C. - Mission 2

Jace gets up and comes over to the deer. "You call this eating? I'm guessing you don't camp out here often. There are tons of creatures better fit for eating than deer. I'll be over there actually camping. I have a radio and plenty of tools so don't worry about me." He starts walking that way and remembers he doesn't have a working gun. "Uh not right now actually I have no gun. So until then I'm stuck eating blood and liver. I guess I'll help prepare it." He cuts a chunk out of the deer and lays it on a flat piece of wood. He gets some salt and starts salting it. "You gotta salt your meat if you want it to last out here."
 
"Clean shot my arse." Connor said, sitting on the ground and leaning his back against the hog. "I want this one as a trophy." He continued as he got up to help Robert carry the carcass back to camp. "At least the tusks."


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"And you aren't getting your gun back any time soon!" Connor shouted from where he was examining the rifle. "This thing's a piece of garbage. I'm surprised it didn't blow up in your hands. I want to know the science behind a bullet firing out the side of the barrel. Or I want to see the thing that did this and make a knife out of it." The barrel needed to be replaced, that much he was certain of. A quick fix would do, but it would break again after a few shots. "When we get back to base, you're getting a new one so I don't have to keep fixing this one."
 
That night, Pequod left in his hovercraft to fly the pricklehogs back to the Crimson Canines motherbase, leaving the tusks of the big one with Connor.


"There'd better be some meat left when I come back, or ya'll walking back to base." he told them before he departed.


Artemis, Hikaru, Komodo Rhino, Assassin Marmot and Sandai were all gathered around the roasting pit where Grizzly was cooking the seasoned deer parts. On one side he had a portable burner keeping a collapsible bowl of soup warm, and on a slab of rock laid dishes cooked by the other members spread out on large leaves and Grizzly's spare plates.


Artemis was helping herself to her third slice of venison while the two other ladies were listening interestedly to Komodo Rhino's backstory.


He, Grizzly Sloth, and Artemis all graduated from the same military academy in the U.S. mother ship. He started when he was still thirteen and met Grizzly Sloth first after Grizzly accidentally set him on fire during their Fire Prevention Training. He met Artemis when they were twenty, she was standing in for the nurse when Komodo Rhino came in after Grizzly Sloth accidentally shot him in the bum.


"I still have the scar . . ." said Komodo Rhino.


"I'll never forget that day." said Artemis, laughing. "Komodo needed some blood transfusion and he kept pestering me asking me to make sure that the donor wasn't gay."


"Anyway," said Komodo Rhino hastily, "that's my story. What about you guys? Connor, what's your story?"


@Beowulf, @CkSmalling, @LocoBlock
 
"It ain't nothing much." Connor said, holding one of the two tusks in his hand and inspecting it by the light of the fire. "My family and I need a bit of extra cash. I thought joining up with the military was a good idea to get that done. The next thing I know Pequod is flying me over a hole in the canopy and telling me to jump with a signal amplifier. Then I met this group full of crazies and learned that I was assigned to them" That was about the extent of his story, said with a bit of a smile to take any sting out in case anyone took offense. "Going to send one of these up to them, give my mom a heart attack and something my dad can brag about to his neighbors."
 
"Connor it didn't shoot through the side it got to the barrel and exploded then shot chunks of lead that's why I missed. Should we tell Pequod to bring back a gun? Because I don't want have to throw it stab a hog with a knife. So unless I have a gun or I can use my mecha somewhere I will have to stab the hogs in the back without getting ran over. I guess I can turn invisible but you know that doesn't mask scent."


@Beowulf
 
"Why can't you stab one with a knife? I nearly had to do it myself. Here, take a sniff." Holding out an arm, his face was deadpan for a whole five seconds before he couldn't help himself and smiled. "Nah, Pequod is probably out of radio range. I can get it fixed up, but it'll only be a temporary thing. Make sure you're going to hit what you're firing at kind of thing." he told Jace. Besides, he doubted they'd go after more pricklehogs right away. Actually, they should. He smelled like one now. He could probably walk right up to one and poke it in the side before it noticed he was even there. "But that shouldn't be a problem, you got marksman on your resume for a reason."
 
"You is there any blood left from the hog? If so bring it here I'm going hunting. Wait are the hogs carnivores? Also I have a long range radio to listen to music from the ship while camping but I think it will work for contacting Pequod. I guess I could use my mecha to chop trees down with it's giant knife but that wouldn't be very quite. Actually shooting a creature smaller than Godzilla might blow them apart with my gun now that I think about it."


@Beowulf
 
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Artemis listened to the conversations as the night wore on. After a while, she said her good night to the squad and told them that early tomorrow morning their next destination will be the Balooga Sea, then went of to sleep in her cocoon tent that was hanging high on the cliff face, near the waterfalls beside the gargantuan statue of the Hindu god.


(OOC: @CkSmalling, @Beowulf, @LocoBlock, shall we time skip to next morning after your next posts?)
 
"Wait were going to sea. With the giant snakes? Um how about I stay in shore with my mecha and shoot into the water. I think I would much rather do that. You know what I'm gonna set up a thing in the tree to avoid snakes." Jace proceeds to tie up a hammock high in the trees. He proceeds to climb in and pull out his knife sticking it in the tree where he can get it. He then yells "Get me a new gun first. Maybe with rounds that kill giant snakes. That would make me the happiest private in the world. Good night" He wraps himself up in his cloak then pulls up his blankets and falls asleep.


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The next morning, Pequod returned to the clearing, relieved that there was still some venison kept in one of Grizzly Sloth's air-tight containers.


Today's prey was the balooga fish in the Balooga Sea. Artemis helped the others break camp and they mounted their mechs.


The squad flew south-west until they came upon a small island in the Taura Ocean with fine white sandy beaches, where a group of giant crabs were mindlessly ambling along in the shore near the ruins of what looked like a stone house.
 
Jace looks around. "Good no giant snakes. Can I have a new gun though? You know not one with whatever we will do to temporarily fix the barrel."
 
"The patch will do for now. I think we're going to be staying in our mech's for this one. Unless you brought some scuba gear and a gun that can work well underwater. Then by all means, go ahead." As he spoke, he was eyeing up the giant crabs. There wouldn't be a pot big enough to boil those suckers in for several miles. But he always wanted to try crab. "What's the best way to kill one of those you think?"
 
"Connor its easy you just have to stab them in the head. Although these look bigger than the ones I normally prepare from the lakes. Actually I think that we might have to do more than stab them. You know what lets go kill this thing come on Connor. I want better food than what you guys call venison." He proceeds to have his mecha pull out his knife and starts walking towards the crab. As he gets closer he realizes that these were soft shell crabs and wouldn't even be that hard to kill.


@Beowulf
 
The group made camp again.


Artemis watched the two guys catch crabs with their mechs. The crabs were so unused to people that they just ignored the two, even when their fellows were being crushed.


"We'll start hunting after lunch!" she told them.


Grizzly Sloth was uncertain whether he should join them since he might cause Jace to probably throw his neo-steel dagger at him, but those crabs looked tasty good and he could boil them later. Welp, he was going to be working with Jace from now on so he might as well try to repair things, and he lumbered off to join the two.


Hikaru and Sandai flew off to look for a school of Balooga fish, leaving only Komodo Rhino, Artemis, and Assassin Marmot to set up camp.
 
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"Hey Grizzly get over here! Or else you don't get crab. After this I might go get more things. I plan on making a feast for us tonight." He proceeds to crush another crab and throw it in a pile. "We might needs some vegetables or food. Get some seaweed that would be good."


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"Uh . . ." said Grizzly thinking. He wanted to be cool with Jace, so he did as he asked. "Gotcha!" he called back to him.


Grizzly Sloth waded into the sea and looked down appreciating the reef with its many colored corals, spiky black urchins, various fish darting between the sea grass, and seaweed. He wondered if the seaweed for Maki and that yellow jelly-ish one that looked like a branch and the green slimy one that looked like little spaghetti still existed.


He searched for an hour, but didn't find them, instead he came back to shore carrying various sea weeds and shells in his arms, and plopped them onto a piece of wooden plank they found from the ruins of the stone house.


"Time to experiment . . ." he said.


Minutes later, he went to Jace holding up a purple sea-weed. "Bhis' wab' we cun' eat." he mumbled. Grizzly Sloth's face was red like a tomato and his lips and cheeks were swollen. He seemed to be having an allergic reaction to one of the seaweeds he tasted.


@LocoBlock
 
"Not those there poisonous you want me to show you the ones that don't kill or cause pain. First of all. Only green seaweed or kelp. Come here." Jace points at a variety of different plants. "Those are all poisonous. Also any fish with barbs probably are to. So just because it is red and has stripes don't touch it you might day. Oh and any kite like thing with a tail will sting you and can kill you. And with jellyfish and sea urchins unless you want someone to pee on you don't touch them." He proceeds to go back to killing the crabs.


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Robert held his ribs as he laughed hard when he saw Grizzly's swollen face. "Hahahaha dude what on earth did you eat?I have never seen such an allergic reaction. Man i wish i had a camera. This would have been a very good shot!!" He went and helped Grizzly sit down as he rummaged through the medical bag for some antihistamines.


@Zer0
 
"Hey Robert wanna help me with something? I plan on making a meal tonight. You know one better than the venison. Wondering if you could help Grizzly collect plants like seaweed. And any thing that's not poisonous that he thinks might be interesting eat. Just um no more crabs I think we have enough." He points to a pile of giant crabs over to the side.


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"I wab' bwying' bo' fff-", Grizzly Sloth sprayed spit all over Robert's helmet, "-find out wib' wab' ebible." he said, showing Robert some seaweeds.


He then saw his face reflected on the metal of Robert's helmet. "Bwa! Is bat be? Bhoa . . ."


Komodo came over and clapped Robert on the shoulder. "Our helmets have video cameras." he said, and proceeded to take a picture of Grizzly Sloth, who posed and grinned, one side of his face lopsided.


@CkSmalling
 
Jace looks around for a place to cook the crabs at. "Hey Artemis can we cook this crabs anywhere? I need to get this cooking if we want them to be done by tonight. Robert do you know how to cook crab? It will take at least two people to cook it. And Grizzly has just had an allergic reaction so. Yeah you know what I have to go get something I guess. I just know that I want dinner."
 

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"You cab' buse' meh coobing set." said Grizzly Sloth, pointing at his MOLLE leaning against a wooden post inside the stone house ruins where his cooking set was already out.


In that moment, Hikaru and Sandai came back from their scouting and their mechs landed on the beach.


"We found a huge school of Balooga fish guys." said Hikaru, dismounting from her black wolf Okami. "Only we might have to compete for it . . . There's a flock of tropical Kururu's fishing for it."
 
"Yea sure Jace. I can help Komodo out. Just point me in the right direction and i will go." He said as he fistbumbs him. "Crab isn't entirely my speciality but i heard you can't really go wrong with steamed crab."


Robert continued to laugh at Grizzly as he tried to form words with his swollen mouth. "Hahahaha omg omg. This is gold. I will make you remember this day." He found a syringe of antihistamines and injected Grizzly at the thighs. "There that should do the trick."


Robert saw the mechs land and their occupants leap out. He heard about the tropical Kururu's and he steppee up." So what do we do about the birds Hikaru? Are they edible?"


@Zer0 @LocoBlock
 
"My question is how fast do they fly I wanna have fun. Fun shooting them down that is."
 
"I can't understand a word he's saying." Connor shouted from his opened cockpit. "Can someone translate for me until he speaks English again?" But then the scouting party returned, and brought news of Kururu birds. "They can have a couple. As it is we're really screwing with mother nature here. These crabs don't give two shits about us killing them, like those birds that the real old history books talk about."
 
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