Brithwyr

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@SolisHeretic So you're the other chap KoL was talking about.
A pleasure to meet you!

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@Brithwyr Gaz has white hair not blond

@Spriggs27

Whoops! My bad, I was still envisioning Lloyd, with his big strong arms and his beautiful face and his luxurious blonde locks...

Sorry, got lost in thought. Rectified!

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Change June-Bug's manifestation to reactive armour. Should be more helpful.

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Juniper Finlay

So, the trial was to go into a ruined city, find a bunch of cards and bring them back, roughly before the sun rose. Seemed easy enough. Of course Juniper wasn't so naive as to think it would be a total cakewalk - the cards would be very well hidden and probably guarded by a monster or two - but she had everything she needed. A full belly, a weapon and armour and her intuition. And the Director had told them to have fun, which was exactly what she planned on doing.

"The Easter Bunny isn't real, silly" Juniper giggled at Lloyd before he ran off. For someone who was so old, he had such childish beliefs.

So who would she team up with? That question seemed to be answered for her, as the white-haired boy from yesterday rocked up and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Hey you." he barked, with an intense stare. Juniper stared back. "You're coming with me. Let's go." He didn't really give her the choice, dragging her behind him like a parent with a disobedient child. Not that she would resist him anyway. She would need as many eyes as possible for this task and if there were two of them they could probably find each other's cards. Oh! Maybe if they found two cards of the same kind, they'd be on the same team together! She didn't know much about Tarrow, but there had to be at least two cards of a kind, right? Or maybe they would be on the same team simply by working together.

"Be ready for anything, you never know what could be in these types of ruins, besides just us and the others." The man continued "The name's Gaz by the way."
Hmph. Man of few words, this guy. She thought he'd be a little more talkative, given his loud-mouthed nature yesterday. Maybe he just needed to come out of his shell, or maybe he was focused on getting those cards. Smart, but boring.

"Juniper. Nice to meet you!" She didn't bother extending her hand. "Alright, mister, we've got a challenge to win. I say we look around for monsters first, because the boss lady will probably have hid those Tarrow cards where the monsters are. The more monsters we find, the more cards there will be, right? So let's get moving!"

Juniper stormed on ahead, heading into the heart of the city, whistling a merry tune as she did so. She wasn't worried, with Gaz at her side and her pick in her hand. After all, how hard would it be? All they had to do was root around a ruin the size of Cardiff looking for a couple of little cards, make sure they were the same kind of card, fight off any monsters or rivals who tried to get to the cards before them then make it back to the boss lady before sunrise. Simple!
"So where are all the beasties?" she asked aloud, half to Gaz and half to the ruin.

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@Brithwyr

Juniper and Gaz can team up, all we need now is two other people and we'll have the strongest group.

@Spriggs27

Oh, decisions, decisions....
Team PPPR or Team JG?
Pepper or Jag?

Hey, boss, in the wake of everyone changing character traits, is it alright if I too change my character's manifestation? Feel no pain is good and all, but it's very situational and doesn't really protect her. She also lacks any kind of shield or gun, which means having a one-handed weapon is a big disadvantage, so if she had some kind of defensive manifestation, it would be very helpful.
@KoL @TheWindel

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This character is taking longer than it should do...

... Weapon names are hard, especially when you want it to be meaningful AND relate to your power...

@Vocab

You could give it a name after the RP starts. My Warpick doesn't have a name yet. Why not just describe it and name it later?

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@Brithwyr Heh, it seems our RPs were kinda out of sync, but I will do my best to fix that on the next post, its just that on this moment there is such a huge timeframe and the connections aren't clear. I would love to have Gyuuki interacting with Juniper and having an honest pink brute to pink brute conversation.

@Double Capybara

Shoot, that was my fault. Sorry.

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Juniper Finlay

Juniper smiled at the two girls, especially the Youkai whom she only now realised she had completely ignored.

"Juniper Finlay, ex-slave. Pleasure to meetcha!" she said, extending her branded hand. This was so exciting! A real, life Youkai that wasn't trying to eat her! She had so many questions, so many things to say! What was it like? What could she do? Was it really that different from being human?What was her family like? What did she eat?
She held her tongue, however, as there was the overwhelming sense that both Red and the Youkai would prefer silence. So rather than do what she'd like to do and launch into a thousand and one questions, she very quietly sat down and pulled her pack off her back. She pulled out her sleeping bag and jammies, lay the sleeping bag on the ground and rather shamelessly threw her dress off to get changed into her PJs.

"Hey, Red, Yuki. If you get tired, just crawl in." she told her new friends, before sliding under herself. She didn't feel tired, but she needed her rest. Besides, it wasn't like she was doing anything else that day. It didn't take long before she was snoozing quietly between Red and Yuki.

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About 2:00 AM

Juniper awoke to the gentle shaking from Kurenai. Almost instantly, her eyes were bright and open, and she dragged herself out the sleeping bag with little fuss.
"Morning, Red ~ ♪! Morning, Yuki ~ ♪!" she sang out merrily. She was keen to get moving and the sooner they got there, the sooner the adventure would begin. "You two want something to eat?"
She reached into her bag and retrieved a few rolls of brioche. Breakfast was one of the most important meals of the day, after all, and they needed to keep their energy up if they were going exploring.
Biting into one of the sweet rolls, she also reclaimed a few other things from her bag, namely a chestplate, armguards and several FLUX containers of different varieties. She then strapped on her armour over her jammies, loaded up the Warpick with FLUX and wrapped up her sleeping bag. By the time she had done all this, both Red and Yuki had vanished from her sight.

"Rats."

You would have thought following Little Red Riding Hood and an ox-demon would have been easy! She ended up trailing at the back, looking around for someone - anyone - who looked familiar. But she had only been with those two and the sassy blonde guy, and she couldn't see any of them.
She did see someone who looked familiar though. She recognised him as the guy that Gaz had almost beat up yesterday, the other blonde guy. Though she hand heard him speak, if he was getting in a confrontation with Sandwich Guy, he must have been at least as cheeky as he was. Never one to be shy, she bounced over to him and introduced herself.
"Hello! You know that guy, the blonde one, who you were about to beat up yesterday?" Oh boy, was this fella in for a treat. Once Juniper started talking, she could go on a while unless she was stopped. "The one who was talking about sandwiches yesterday. Have you seen him at all? I'm kinda looking for him, because he's the only person I really know and I've only just come here and I'd like to talk to people, but Red and Yuki have vanished and I can't see them, and Sandwich dude was the only other one I spoke to that day, and I really don't want to be on my own cause then I have no-one to talk to and then I'll get bored and I can't just keep walking for an hour straight and not talk to anyone, but it's not like down the mines where you can just whistle and sing, cause everyone's so serious here and I though that you looked a little more approachable, and I really want to just talk to someone and I was hoping that you could point me in that other guy's direction because I have no idea where he is and he's really the only other person I can talk to, unless you know where Red and Yuki are since they left way before us. So, uh, do you mind if I talk to you for a bit, just until I can find Red and Yuki, or the blonde guy again."
All this was said in one breath, I hasten to add. She took a single sharp breath, then spoke again
"Oh! My names Juniper, by the way. It's good to meet you!"

@Lmpkio@Double Capybara@KoL

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Huh? I cant see it can you state what is wrong about that my native language isnt english so I might have overlooked it

@liferusher

I think he means the comma rather than a apostrophe.
And it says "4,76 ft" but surely it's either "4'7" or "4'8"?

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Juniper Finlay

The boy she had spoke to responded rather curtly, eyes glowing like a jack-o-lantern. "Any fucking kind really, half the chicks here look like they belong to some kind of cutting board school for the flat chested, I almost feel like a pedo bear for trying to steal glances at chest and asses here, I'm almost completely sad that I even hoped some of these chicks had back when they didn't even have any front."

Juniper looked down at herself, then back at the boy. She was not flat chested in the slightest. She was at least a C-cup, and even though she was slender, she could bench-press about five times her own weight with ease.
"You're daft!" she giggled, but she didn't get much further before the instructor started talking again. Apparently, she was wrong. A chaser was really...
"A miserable little pile of killings, of course! But enough talk... Have at you!" cried a sultry looking Youkai before descending. After a queer looking affair, the Youkai told the gathered applicants that no, they would not get inside the academy tonight, but tomorrow. That sucked, but it wasn't nothing she wasn't used to. Juniper was more focussed on the girl being called Absinthe Red despite Absinthe being green. And even that paled compared to the strange boy she was talking to.
And then she realised what was going on. A bunch of strangers were going to be sleeping in the same, cramped quarters on the hard stone floor. They were going to be forced to shack up together for a fairly long time. Someone was already getting crabby, shouting about how unfair it was and that she would sue. Juniper saw it a rather different way:
"SLUMBER PARTY!" Oh gosh, there were so many people to talk to! So many things to see, people to do! Strike that, reverse it. She would have to find a good spot, maybe find a couple of people she could share with.
Fortunately for her, not only was she particularly toughened from her long days slaving away in the mines, but her Dad had the foresight to pack a sleeping bag with her things. The only question was who to set up camp with.

Turning her back on the platform, the Pink Pain went to continue talking to Gaz, to ask him if he wanted to share her sleeping bag. Sadly, he had got a little distracted - and by that, I mean he was a kitten's whisker away from pummeling some fellow. Through the crowds, she noticed another brawl brewing, started by "I'll Sue You" girl. Was this the right time? Perhaps she had better leave it until after the troubles were over. Little Red looked lonely, maybe she would keep her company.

She pushed her way past several people, making a beeline for the girl with red hood. The big fellow could handle himself, and the Sue You girl now had what appeared to be a miniature scientist growing out of her. Huh. That wasn't a sentence she ever thought she'd say.

Hey, Red, you okay?" she asked as she approached the stranger. "You wanna talk?"

@KoL