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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #135 on: August 08, 2017, 09:55:35 AM »
When the rock itself started cracking, Anna began backing off the wall, mostly to be at an alright range to use her weapons. She also prepared a knife with a Lightning capsule, hoping for it to arc between the crowd and therefore easily subdue a large amount of Grimm.

When the wall exploded, though, she merely jumped back like a terrified cat, pulsing her semblance to get the gist of what was happening.

Well, shit. Her teammates weren't quite as lucky as her, as they were showered in projectiles before going back into the cave, even with Calen's best efforts. Meanwhile, all Anna could do was continue to scamper away from the falling stones.

When everything calmed down - and a very loud rumbling noise was heard from within the cave, Anna ran back to the edge of the hole, climbing over the debris along the way. She was greeted by Calen. "Yeah, I'm okay. Coming down to help you." With that, she used one of her chains to grab a rocky outcropping, lowered herself to the cave floor and proceeded to whip the remaining Grimm into oblivion.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #136 on: August 09, 2017, 09:54:15 AM »
Darkness. Everything was dark. There was nothing around him. He was floating in an endless void. In a way...this place had that sense of familiarity. Like he'd been here before. It was a long time ago. Also fighting Grimm. If he could have, he would have laughed. It was ironic. Sent to the realm in between reality because he was fighting. To protect. Protect...

Protect...his...

Setsuna awoke from his faint, staring at the dull, smooth rock ceiling, streaked with the softest tinges of sunlight, like strokes of light yellow on a blank canvas. He tried to raise his hand, to grasp at that which could not be held. Nothing moved into his line of view. Tried again. This time, his dust-covered hand shakily moved upward, before falling to his side, making contact with something cold and hard. His sword.

Tilting his head forward, he noticed the rockfall, the trees of the Forever Fall forest, the dust clouds of fighting as Calen and Anna engaged the remaining Death Stalkers. Straining every muscle in his trembling arm, he pulled his sword close and transformed it into its ranged form, before slowly aiming and firing, one unsteady shot after another, in the vicinity of the Grimm.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #137 on: August 09, 2017, 10:23:52 PM »
Calen was so drained that when Anna came in to view that he only reacted to the noise, thinking his team mate was another Grimm Calen set up a defensive stance as the blind girl approached. After a few moments had passed recognition sparked in his eyes and Calen lowed his weapon and began leaning on it heavily. The flood of relief of seeing both Anna and Setsuna active triggered another wave of nausea. It would have caused the pale boy to throw up, if he had anything in his stomach, so instead sent Calen through a fit of wrenching. Recovering slowly Calen looked around and caught sight of the metallic glint of the building further in the cave. Although it took some time for the connection to click in Calen's mind he did eventually understand what the building could represent and to make his way over.

The open air was much better for scroll reception and when Anna's scroll which Calen had almost forgotten about gripped tight in his hand started giving off static again. This time however words could be made out 'CALLING ...VIBLE HUNTERS ....VER FALL ....LOST DOCTOR ....NEAR RUINS..... GRIMM.... REWARD.... VAR INDUSTRIES.' Calen cocked his head to the side trying to make more out but was unable. Shrugging and deciding it wasn't something that their team could deal with Calen decided to simply finish the mission and get out.

The path further into the cave was safe if difficult to traverse with ruins and Calen stumbled several times from obstacles and his own fatigue. Still reaching the squat building Calen found his entry barred by a series of chains and locks on the door. These had degraded over time and with a few heavy breaths Calen started to tear these down, using his knives to try to slip through chain links or gaps. Getting closer to the building the students could notice the remnants of it's old paint job and even it's name 'Lexkvar Industries Research Lab 1' was still reasonably visible. In fact there was no evidence that any Grimm had even attempted to damage the building at all.

The dust had mostly settled and the caves fell into almost complete silence only interrupted by metal clinking of Calen trying to break the chains and the occasion sparks of static.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #138 on: August 10, 2017, 03:43:33 PM »
As the last Grimm burst into a smokey cloud, Anna felt relieved. It was over, thank goodness. She gathered up her chains, retrieved the knives she could find and followed Calen to the shiny, shiny building, pulsing her semblance every now and then to see where she was going. She also took the opportunity to carry Taro along, as her teammates were in quite the sorry state already. Besides, she seemed to have more energy than them at the moment.

The ground, probably partially due to the recent cave-in, was extremely uneven and highly unstable. Anna kept having her foot slide along with the odd rock that decided it wanted to roll away, right now, at this very moment. Still, this was quite the relaxing trek after the ordeal they'd just been through.

She stopped behind Calen, watching him relax in his own way by prying open what blocked the entrance. She turned around and kept her second stage on, admiring the (restricted) sight of the cavern and, albeit with less details, the building behind her. She also took the occasion to get her hair out of her face.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #139 on: August 15, 2017, 09:08:56 PM »
The exhausted Setsuna just dropped his sword and fell back on the floor, staring back up at the ceiling. Maybe, just maybe, the fighting was over for more than just a minute. Normally he'd reflect back on what happened in the fight, but his brain was muddled. Tired. Confused at what he saw in the cave, specifically the long-gone civilisation, and that metal object, which he still had. Bringing it out of his pocket, he examined it with some detail, trying to figure out if there was something more to it than just the look of a dagger. Ah, screw it. I'll show it to them later.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #140 on: August 16, 2017, 09:01:26 PM »
Although the dagger was well made it was clearly more of a trinket that a real weapon. Scratching back the long dried blood reveal thick gold filigree as well as a handful of gems embedded in the metal. Still despite the decorations the weapon's edge was still sharp and showed no sign of rust. While Setsuna sat studying his the more passive wild life of the Forever Fall forest went in to investigate the noises brought about by the cave in. Birds squawking as they flew over as well as a few braver ones landing amongst the upturned soil hoping for worms or the like.

As for Anna and Calen progress was slow. Knives were not the most effective tool at cutting threw metal and even if they were Calen's tired state would have dampened progress substantially. Luckily however slow progress is still progress and soon Calen had made enough of a hole to work on the wood behind. This gave away much faster, the door seemed braced to resist blunt impacts rather than the sharp edges of Calen's knives. This combined with substantial rot which had taken up within the wood itself a hole to crawl into the building was soon open. After taking a series of deep breaths from the several minutes of cutting Calen made his way through the gap and was taken aback by what he saw. Except for a thick coating of dust the room seemed perfectly intact; magazines, a vending machine and even a bowl of lollies sat in stacks or on tables. Seeing a few couches Calen had to desperately resist the urge to crash to keep looking for anything that might be a 'relic'.

The interior of the building seemed to be split into three evenly sized rooms, the receptionist-like room and two storage rooms. In the centre there was a spiral staircase leading further down to a laboratory. Despite how well the building had stood the test of time batteries had long since leaked dry but luckily hand written notes remained in books and magnetised to walls. They spoke of attempts to develop the technology which repels Grimm although no reference is made in how successful the experiments were and while the notes gave no explicit reference to how these experiments the claw marks along the walls gave hints. Not wanting to go down the stairs Calen searched the ground level storage rooms finding large amounts of dust, food, medical supplies and scientific equipment. It was all substantially out of date but there was some of the nasal spray which Setsuna had found before which Calen helped himself to. After the coughing fit subsided he did feel a bit better.

'So do you think they have something in mind when they don't use to find a 'relic' or is it more of a symbolic thing' Calen called out to Anna as he continued his search getting more and more frustrated about the entire situation. All throughout this the same message asking for assistance came through Anna's scroll and Calen was clearly purposely ignoring it.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #141 on: August 17, 2017, 04:49:36 PM »
Before following Calen inside after what seemed to have been a relaxing eternity wrestling antiques into submission, Anna sat Taro along the external wall and called out to Setsuna. "Hey, Set! Watch over Taro for a bit, please!" This being said, she followed Calen inside.

There was so much dust everywhere, nearly all surfaces had taken on a uniform grey look. She more or less followed Calen as he looked around, using her semblance's second stage to look at the very same things as him. As she was about to head downstairs to search for anything matching the description of 'relic', Calen talked to her. "Well, uh, I guess anything that could be considered old-ish and/or with some sort of historical or scientific significance could fit the bill. Preferably well-preserved. And dunno, maybe it's half symbolic? Sorta?", she finished before going down the stairs and ratcheting her semblance into third gear to actually see something.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #142 on: August 17, 2017, 08:30:39 PM »
Set? Setsuna thought, a slightly amused smile coming to his face as he dragged his stuff over to where Taro was lying, before collapsing next to him along the wall. Turning to look at his unconscious teammate, he checked up on him, before rustling through his backpack to see if he had any spare water. It turned out he had, along with his scroll, which was buzzing with an unknown message, the same as the one currently being ignored by Calen, though Setsuna didn't know that. After trying to give Taro some water (he refrained from mouth-to-mouth), he turned his focus to the jumbled and static-y message, attempting to understand more.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #143 on: August 18, 2017, 02:36:29 AM »
Setsuna wasn't able to pick much more details with repeated listening to the distress call. The voice was clearly getting more and more distressed muddling even the original message. This was punctuated by a piercing scream and a long pause and a new voice, female, began repeating the same message. It was clear that no one else had responded. Calen turned the volume off Anna's scroll.

As for searching for the relics Calen wasn't making much progress, he had found several heavy containers of dust which he had put to one side. Without knowing if it was still explosive, in theory it could be, Calen was leaving it on one side to either take or just to make sure it didn't fall and explode, he hadn't decided yet. This is why I hate working with dust, you never know the quality. Calen muttered to himself as he continued rummaging through the storage rooms finding little else of value.

For Anna there was no bodies waiting for her in the laboratory, the darkness might not have fazed the blind girl so as such she would find no difficulty navigating the area. Traditional scientific equipment, test tubes filled with strange coloured liquids sat in organised collections while beakers and whatnot were all stored carefully away in draws. One of these draws however was locked and the steel had held up a lot better over the years this place had been abandoned. If Anna would be able to get inside she would find a journal detailing several devices that the scientists where working on and fears that at least the author had that at least one of the experiments was attracting Grimm rather than repelling on a larger scale.

Tired of searching Calen called out to Anna. 'I found a paperweight, that'll do for me. We've got to get Taro out of here anyway.' Calen then made his way out of the research centre and went to find Setsuna.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #144 on: August 18, 2017, 10:32:44 AM »
As Anna moved around, she took in all there was around her, trying to notice if anything was behaving oddly. She decided it'd be best to not touch any of the filled tubes, beakers and whatnot, instead going for the drawers that were here and there.

Opening them one by one, she took the opportunity to further analyze their contents, which became clearly visible as the drawers slid in and out of their slots. She was about to give up - seriously, who the hell stores that many beakers? - before coming across one that looked... locked? There were metal bits going from the drawer to the piece of furniture it was embedded in. "Yeah, hold on, just picking this lock.", she answered to Calen.

Not bothering to spend 5 minutes of her somewhat precious time picking the lock, she took out a knife as well as her second-to-last Kinetic capsule before wedging the assembly right in front of the piece of metal holding the drawer in place. She backed off a bit and detonated it.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #145 on: August 18, 2017, 06:45:51 PM »
As Setsuna started getting both confused and frustrated at not being able to make much out of the message, the sudden scream made him jump and look around in fright, before calming down. Whoever was sending this message clearly needed help, that much was certain. He attempted to call the transmitter back, but got little more than static: the cave was blocking any clear connection. Leaving everything behind and climbing up toward the exit he tried again. This time, he got the original muddled message, and he attempted to reply. "Hello?" he shouted into the scroll. "Can anyone there hear me?"
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #146 on: August 19, 2017, 08:04:10 AM »
Looking back down the stairwell which Anna descended Calen stated to feel gears clicking in his head. Anna was operating in complete darkness without any light source. Mentally filing that titbit away Calen waited on one of the couches reading a magazine while Anna 'picked the lock.' The small explosion rattled the building and did some reasonable damage to the journal. Luckily the thick leather binding kept most of the book intact, if blackened and disintegrated the last remnants of the glue forming the spine. Anna would now have to take great care handling the journal if she didn't want to lose pages.

A desperate but relieved voice met Setsuna's question. 'Thank...ound someone ...We've been sea....Lex..lab...iant Grimm....playing with us.....coordinates ASF..... Repeat F890... you copy?' The coordinates given aren't far from here and should only take a few minutes to get to now that team ASTC has an easy exit from the caves.

Once Anna has made her way out of the labortory Calen will depart the research centre and go to find Setsuna, deciding to take one of the heavy satchels of dust.  Hearing that his leader had begun talking to the distress call Calen let out a long sigh, this day was about to get even worse. Never one to really pay attention to proper dust handling procedure Calen dumps the heavy satchle on the ground, it luckily doesn't explode, and squats down to be eye level with Setsuna. 'This is a bad idea Master Setsuna, I've heard three different people on that distress call meaning what ever is hunting them at least incapacitated two people and I don't know if you noticed but we are in pretty bad shape. You've passed out, Taro is still unconscious and honestly I'm not that far behind, we have one person at even close to full strength and her power is seeing in the dark.' Calen argues, keeping his voice low so the people on the other side of the scroll can't hear him as well as trying his best to seem empathetic when in reality his fatigue was making him apathetic.
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #147 on: August 19, 2017, 11:50:47 AM »
The knife managed to not only break the lock, but also make fire, punch through the entirety of the desk, make it explode slightly and embedded itself a good 6 cm into the concrete wall. After picking it back up, Anna opened the undoubtedly traumatized drawer to find a journal - now slightly singed and falling apart, thanks to her lock pick. Welp. She carefully gathered everything and put it in a now-empty pocket of her satchel, where knives wouldn't be able to accidentally turn it into confetti and where it would also remain in order.

Running back up the stairs after her task was complete, she toned down her semblance back to pulsing the second stage and followed Calen out of the building. Bifurcating from her teammate's path, she picked up Taro before resuming her previous course.

After arriving and listening in a similarly crouched position (whilst making sure Taro wasn't having a face full of dirt), she waited for Calen to stop speaking and inserted her own two cents. "One, that's not exactly my semblance. Two, are you really saying we should, as Huntsmen-in-training, leave however many possibly non-combat capable people are being tormented by a single Grimm to their own devices without even attempting to help them evade it, much less try to kill it?"
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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #148 on: August 19, 2017, 06:24:24 PM »
When the person on the other end of the scroll started replying with the coordinates, Setsuna sighed partly in relief, then jumped when an unheard Calen started speaking to him. Instinctively he covered the scroll, but as Calen expressed his thoughts his grip lessened further and further as Setsuna got more distressed and conflicted. Thankfully Anna threw in her own look on things; that eased things in his mind a tiny bit.

Calen's words rang true: to even reach the survivors required traversing pitch-black rooms with Dust knows what inside, in addition to bringing Taro with them, only slowing them down. In addition, both he and Calen were in bad shape, ignoring the elephant in the room which was, again, Taro. But how could he vent his own thoughts without possibly sounding selfish? There were people down there in need of help! He couldn't possibly just leave them and still call himself a Huntsman. And yet he couldn't just order them to aid him in such a suicidal mission...

"Anna. Calen. While I might be your team leader, there is no way I will order you to follow what I am doing. Take Taro and whatever you managed to salvage from that building and get out of here. Return to Beacon and request support. As for me...you know my decision. It doesn't matter to me if I get injured. What does matter is getting innocents out alive." He thumbed several buttons on his scroll, which had shut off, and returned it to his pocket. "Of course, you are free to help me, and if you do, know that this is much more dangerous than what we faced before. But also know that you have my eternal gratitude. If you do leave, all I ask is that you return with help." A rocket locker, trailing fire, zoomed across the sky and slammed down somewhere behind him. The front of the locker had the words "Full Saber Kit" marked on it. Opening the locker and attaching the equipment onto his backpack, he returned to the group.

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Re: Within the Ruins of the Aztec [Team ASTC][CLOSED - Initiation]
« Reply #149 on: August 20, 2017, 02:31:41 AM »
Listening with both responses with barely contained contempt. 'Do you honestly think anyone would go into these forests who doesn't know how to fight? Or at least have a protective detail. And with all do respect Master Setsuna...' Calen began before being interrupted by Setsuna's locker landing nearby. Frowning as the consequences of the locker became clear Calen. 'Couldn't we just put Taro in the locker, mark a message on the outside and send in back to the school?' Calen continued only realising afterwards he was arguing against himself. 'No need to be so dramatic, I was just outlining the more sensible option. Anyway last time I let you out of my sight you decided to have a nap under a rockfall.' Calen finished completely reversing his previous position.

Making a move towards Anna to take Taro to put him in the locker answering any questions of safety or practicality with. 'What? Haven't you ever shoved someone in one of these? They have to transport dust it can't be too much of a bumpy ride.'A particularly harsh blast of static erupted for Setsuna's scroll and the line went dead. An equally harsh squawk follows all the avian wildlife which had been collecting around the cave to fly off abandoning the team to their last fight.
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Calen Shrike - ASTC - First Year Beacon.

Saffron de Cortez - SALT - Third Year Atlas.

Amarant Lovis - (formerly of)ACCE - Headmaster of Atlas Academy

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