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Post by Nanami Hanabana on Apr 29, 2022 19:08:37 GMT
The meeting point was located near the base of a waterfall, hidden by a canopy of trees following the river. Out of sight, and thanks to the crashing water, the sounds they made would be drowned out entirely.
Which was good, because the two Digimon within sight weren't exactly keen on being quiet. A Gotsumon and Armadillomon were seated by the riverside as they gorged themselves on a large pile of ice cream sandwiches. They were all half-melted by this point, but the two rookie-level Digimon didn't seem to mind, their faces and hands covered in ice cream of all flavors and colors. Behind them was a vending machine, plugged into an extension cord that went on seemingly without end.
The Gotsumon let out a loud burp as he asked, "How much longer are these mercs gonna be? I can't stand this heat! I wanna go back up north!"
"I dunno, the Vice Captain..." The Armadillomon shook his head after mispeaking. "err, the Vice-Vice Captain said that they he gave them our coordinates, though!"
"Ooh! Coordinates!? That sounds super fancy!" Gotsumon exclaimed "Wait, but that makes us sound like spies or something! Aren't we supposed to be pirates?"
"So what? We were bandits before, so I don't mind another career change!" Armadillomon stated, nodding thoughtfully.
"Well... I wonder what we'll be after we're done being spies and going on secret missions and stuff..." Gotsumon pondered, looking at the giant pile of ice cream sandwich wrappers, then back to Armadillomon. Apparently, they were thinking the same thing.
"Yo, we should buy an ice cream bar!"
"Dude, let's run an ice cream shack!"
And so, while awaiting our intrepid heroes, the two Digimon began discussing completely unrealistic dreams of what their ice cream store would be like.
Truly, a riveting introduction.
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Apr 29, 2022 23:06:56 GMT
Kshin and Grace with their new companion, a Terriermon Assistant and fashionista supreme named Mona made their way through the jungle. Mona was quiet and observing the area as if searching for inspiration for a new outfit design and with much of the greens, browns, and various colorful flowers it was obvious she wanted to go with a nature theme but what amazed Kshin most was the small digimon's ability to multitask even after being told of the seriousness of the mission.
Speaking of the mission Kshin looked at the paper he wrote on after receiving instructions to meet out here of all places. The FBW was meeting near some waterfall for further instructions and yet had not seen evidence of such a thing. "No waterfall. I'm beginning to think we might be lost." Kshin said. His thoughts being spoken out loud didn't seem to bother the Gammamon and Terriermon Assistant with him.
Mona, after taking her eyes from the various flora, looked over to Kshin and said "Do not worry darling there is a waterfall nearby." She then pointed to her ears indicating that she could hear the falling water so it couldn't be far.
As if cluing in to the silent message the Terriermon Assistant was trying to convey, Grace's eyes lit up as her wings extended from her back and began fluttering into the air. There was nothing at first till she caught sight of a river before landing and putting her wings away. "I saw no waterfall but there seems to be a river not far from here." Grace said pointing in the direction of the river she spotted.
The group now had a direction and followed soon finding the river Grace mentioned and after analyzing the path the river was taking the group followed the river upstream eventually finding the waterfall mentioned in the instructions. "So should we head closer or wait for the others?" Kshin asked getting a shrug from Grace.
"It might be best since we would be easier to spot standing near the waterfall." Mona suggested and Kshin and Grace nodded deciding to take the suggestion from the older digimon.
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Post by Shi on May 3, 2022 8:53:33 GMT
"Jungle, Waterfall. Guess we must be pretty close." They had just started to see the trees, even close by a river which Shi assumed would lead to the base of the waterfall. Shi didn't have his jacket on considering it'd just look silly in the heat but his EV suit was still clipped to his shirt. Throwing his hands back in his pockets Shi started to make his way followed the river followed close by his two Agumon brothers, who were rushing around him in circles following after the teenager.
"C'mon Shi, move faster. We're gonna be the last ones there again! We're always late for stuff like this." Yuudai exclaimed while trying to push Shi to move faster, which the teen seemed to lean back to make sure the dinosaur couldn't without using all his strength to push him, which Shi was very sure Yuudai wouldn't do.
"Yeah, you always insist on taking a nap before stuff like this. Why can't you just take a nap in the digital world so we can save time?" It was a good question, however Shi had a good counter point.
"Cause then I'd hafta sleep in the car and let you two drive, which I'm still not keen on doing ever since Yuudai drove it off a cliff."
"Yasuo dared me to do it."
"No I didn't I said 'don't drive the car off a cliff' then you told me 'don't tell me what to do' then drove it off the cliff!"
"Oh right, hehe yeah that did happen." Yuudai laughed to himself recalling the situation, it was a small cliff anyway they were fine. Jet engine and all.
Thankfully that conversation went straight to them making it to the base of the waterfall, sadly on the other side of the river as the other member who was making it the same way. Looking over at the base of the waterfall Shi saw two digimon gorging themselves on Ice cream.
Shi waved to try and get their attention considering he was decently sure he wouldn't be heard over the waterfall close by. Meanwhile Yuudai and Yasuo had noticed Kshin and grace on the otherside of the river and waved, thinking the exact same as Shi in this situation.
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Post by Based Knight, Gihai! on May 17, 2022 16:59:39 GMT
Out of sight, and out of mind was the basis behind this. At least, that was the assumption Gihai had while venturing towards the coordinates she and her two fellow knights were given for this very important mission. "It seems like we're using a waterfall as our base camp for this sort of thing..." Roche noted, the Gammamon looking the coordinates over on a D-Terminal.
"Yep. What's the problem there?" Gihai found herself peering to the dinosaur, and then to Horus--the Black Shoutmon was not napping for a change, and was instead hiking right behind them. "None. It's simply...hm. Where I hail from, a waterfall as a meeting point is usually used when you don't want people eavesdropping. The noises drown out any sound you can hear from near the waterfall, if that makes sense. Did...Lady Coolmon not teach that?"
The green Guilmon hmm'd, and mused, before she shook her head. "She said something similar." As the group got closer to the waterfall, they noticed a number of parties, including... "Oh, hey, they got ice cream." Gihai, being as stupid as usual, noticed the wrong thing entirely. But she did guess that mayhaps those were to be their employers.
And without awaiting further input from literally anyone? She made her way to the two DM NPCS, and...
"Hi, I'm Gihai."
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on May 20, 2022 6:07:25 GMT
Indeed, the sound of the crashing waterfall prevented outside forces from overhearing any conversations going on, but they also had a significant downside, as the two Digimon who had been too busy stuffing their face with ice cream hadn't heard anyone else approach. So when Gihai and her knight-companions directly approached the pair, they were taken completely by surprise.
The two screamed out, startled by the newcomers. Then they noticed Kshin's group, screaming out once more, before noticing and screaming in response to seeing Shi's group as well.
"We're surrounded!" Armadillomon yelled out, ever the font of helpful information.
"We'll have to fight our way out!" Gotsumon declared, clenching his stone fists. Both Digimon nodded to one another, knowing what they'd have to do. Gotsumon charged to the left, while Armadillomon charged to the right, their bodies colliding with one another and immediately knocking each other unconscious.
After that, there was nothing but the sound of rushing water, until another voice suddenly appeared from a strange place. The ice cream vending machine began to speak! "Hello, is there anyone there? I can't see behind me or to my sides, so please stand in front of me."
Anyone willing to do so would spot what looked like a pile of half-melted slush, its face vaguely reminiscent of an icy hybrid Digimon. "My name is Shiroku, thank you for coming here today."
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on May 20, 2022 8:27:29 GMT
When Yasuo and Yuudai saw Kshin's group they waved and both he and Grace waved to them in return with Grace being more ecstatic in her efforts before trotting over to the twin Agumon and their tamer. Then Mona's ears rose hearing something over the falling water before Kshin looked at the Terriermon Assistant and asked "What is it, Mona?"
"I hear some digimon closer to the waterfall and some buzzing of a machine. Kshin, we should get closer to investigate." Mona said and Kshin nodded in agreement. As the oldest of the trio Mona seemed to have more wisdom than both Kshin and Grace combined so it wouldn't surprise Kshin if Mona could digivolve.
As Kshin and Mona caught up to everyone else it seemed Grace wasn't the only Gammamon involved in all of this as one was with what appeared to be a green Guilmon. Kshin shrugged not bothered by such a thing. Shortly after Kshin's group spotted the Armadillomon and Gotsumon all hell seemed to break loose as the pair that had once been chowing down on ice cream were now understandably freaking out. When they planned to fight their way out their disorganized actions caused them to run into each other knocking themselves unconscious. "Great. Just great. Now what?" Kshin asked looking at the unconscious pair not knowing what to do.
Then when the vending machine began to speak it surprised Kshin's group for a brief moment before Grace walked up to the vending machine seeing what looked like something made of half melted slush that introduced itself as Shiroku. Smiling she said "Nice to meet you, Shiroku. I'm Grace." She then pointed at the scarless Gumdramon and Terriermon Assistant nearby before she then said "And those are my friends Kshin and Mona." Kshin and Mona approached Shiroku standing just behind Grace but not interfering with their peppy companion.
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Post by Shi on May 20, 2022 9:20:51 GMT
Whoa, look at that green digimon go. Walking right up to the waterfall instead of standing near it like Shi had been doing. Deciding to follow that example Shi put his hands in his pockets and started walking over towards it as well when all of the sudden there was screaming, and Shi walked up just in time to see two digimon knock themselves out onto the ground. Huh, feels familiar." Shi said glancing over at his twin partners for a moment as they looked at the downed digimon.
"We didn't knock ourselves out though!" Yuudai complained looking up at Shi.
"Are they gonna be ok?" Yasuo poked the Gotsumon and sure enough yeah they seemed out cold.
Shi shrugged not knowing at all about if they'd be fine or not deciding that it was probably, hopefully not his problem as he decided to walk closer to the now talking ice cream machine standing in front of it a little bit behind the shorter digimon in front of him "Yo, Shi. Yuudai and Yasuo, I guess you're the client for this whole thing?" Shi decided to just roll with it and take this completely like it was a normal thing, there was absolutely nothing strange about this in the slighest.
"Also could I get one of those ice cream sandwiches?" Because of course Yuudai would ask for that.
"Two please." God d-
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Post by Based Knight, Gihai! on Jun 2, 2022 2:38:16 GMT
Oh no, it would appear that Gihai had accidentally caused a ruckus that had made the Armadimon and the Gotsumon get ready to throw hands, and then quite literally knock themselves out. She tapped her chin with a claw in thought. "Oops." You can't apologize to people when they're unconscious. That was the rule. Gihai didn't make it, she just enforced it.
"What a bunch of fools." Horus spat, the Black Shoutmon immediately going to the front of the vending machine as it spoke. "Hi, I am Horus--Warmaster of Lady Gihai's band. Why do you look like abject shit. I know it's hot out, but do you require air conditioning?"
Roche kept silent as he stared at the slush, while Gihai waved. "Hi, thank you for having us! What's the details on this mission?"
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on Jun 3, 2022 23:42:24 GMT
Everyone introduced themselves and things were getting to be back on track, despite the unconscious duo's idiocy. "It is a pleasure to meet you all," In a monotonous voice that suggested nothing of the sort. He glanced towards the Agumon brothers and shook his flattened bear face. "The food within had to be removed in order to make space for my body. There may be some ice cream in the large pile that my comrades hadn't eaten yet. It's probably mostly melted by now, but I doubt they'll wake up in time to eat the rest of it. Please feel free to help yourselves while we go over the details of the mission."
And there was the question of why he was in here in the first place. "I'm afraid my body doesn't do so well in the hot climates," He admitted. "Eventually my body will melt into a liquid form, and I'll be unable to move around. Which means if there's no around to rescue me I'll starve to death, and I would prefer that didn't happen. That is why I've requested outside help. Because the help of my comrades..." He glanced towards the unconscious duo. "They've performed within my expectations." Which were presumably nothing.
Whether anyone helped themselves to half-melted ice cream or not, Shiroku would begin. "My current employer has tasked her entire organization to locate a missing friend of hers, a Falcomon by the name of Mukuroyukihime. Unfortunately, I had no leads to go off of given her particular skillset. As such, the most obvious place to search, or perhaps find some sort of clue as to her whereabouts, is where she had spent a majority of her childhood. After some investigating I discovered that she had grown up in a hidden ninja village. They're a secretive sort, but I managed to convince one of the villagers, a Digimon by the name of Yahikobamaru, to lead me towards the Digimon that had raised Mukuroyukihime. Because of my own limitations I'm unable to do so myself, so I need others to act as my proxy. Yahikobamaru has been informed as such. The village isn't fond of outsiders, so discretion is advised. Also..." He glanced over towards Shi. "I'm unsure how the village will treat humans. It's possible that there are many who have never encountered a human before. So please take precautions."
Shiroku paused for a moment before asking, "Does anyone have any questions?"
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jun 4, 2022 2:28:33 GMT
Shi's partners didn't seem to bother Kshin's party. Heck Mona seemed somewhat amused at the twins for their eagerness. Meanwhile Kshin glanced over at Horus as he identified himself and said that the small digimon looked like shit before he, with a roll of his eyes, muttered "Warmaster maybe, but you are no tactmaster." At least the green Guilmon he addressed as Lady Gihai appeared to have better manners.
"Darling there is no wonder why you don't looks so good given your nature as being made of ice. Perhaps when your associates reawaken they can transport you to a much more suitable place so you don't continue to endanger your well being." Mona said to the small digimon. While not the outwardly emotional type in most circumstances she was concerned for Shiroku's condition.
Kshin's group quietly listened to the situation at hand learning they were trying to find a missing digimon. "Mukuroyukihime?" Grace asked carefully sounding the name out before she said "Wow that name is quite the mouthful to say."
"We would love to help and all we would need is directions to either the village or this Yahikobamaru." Kshin said after taking in all the information.
"It would probably also be for the best if we try to avoid unneeded conflict and move as silently as possible." Mona said mostly to herself as she seemed to be in thought before a thought came to mind. "I can create garments that can provide us with some camouflage if it is needed as I have been studying the resident plant life. That and I am quick at making simple clothing on the spot. We wouldn't need fancy outfits for such a mission anyway."
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Post by Shi on Jun 8, 2022 10:32:08 GMT
Oh dear lord, one of his allies has said the s word. Though truth be told Shi definitely was thinking the exact same thing or at least close to that but probably would've put it more tactfully. Well regardless it didn't matter so swear away he supposed.
Meanwhile Yuudai and Yasuo got their wish, though it'd be a bit melty they could have some. "Score, lets grab em Yasuo!" With that Yuudai and Yasuo rushed over to grab one or a few but was quickly stopped by Shi.
"Only one each, you'll spoil your appetite if you eat more then that." A small aww could be heard from the two Agumon but they listened and were quickly back to listen in on why they were melted like that. "My condolences, for the ice thing and for..." Looking at the unconcious duo Shi continued. "Yeah..."
Though with what Mona said Yasuo had to chime in with a comment. "Something tells me even when they wake up they won't be of much help. We can help if you want though? Like anything you need right now?" It was probably at least just nice to ask, even if what they could do was definitely limited considering most of Shi's group was better at starting fires then it was at putting them out or freezing stuff.
Hidden ninja village, well that wasn't what Shi thought he was going to do today but hey the day usually never goes the way that Shi wants anyway so eh. Though the last part of how they might treat humans was probably something Shi should worry about. "I'll be careful, worse case scenario I'll just hang back and let these two deal with it." Was that a smart idea? Probably not but hey it was better then the risk of getting hurt.
"Maybe they'll believe you're just some giant weird looking Agumon!" Yuudai suggested mostly as a joke, the taller skinnier Agumon compared to the two literal ones in front of him.
"Holo-suit gone wrong, stuck forever in that form!" That was the second idea which was just as bad as the first and also still a joke.
Shi completely ignored his Duo's banter though and just scratched the side of his head trying to think of a question, but none came to mind. "Nothing that comes to mind, seems pretty straight forward." Hidden ninja village, make sure not to make them purge the outsiders and watch your human privilege, seemed easy enough to go on for now and directions were already asked for.
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Post by Based Knight, Gihai! on Jun 13, 2022 7:22:51 GMT
"...Oh. Yeah, that's kind of unfortunate. Sorry to hear, bud. You go and find a place to not melt at while we're there, alright?" Horus nodded. He caught Kshin's comment. A glare like daggers went from the Black Shoutmon to the Gumdramon. "Didn't ask." The ebon dragon quite honestly didn't have the time nor patience for uppity little shits that seemed to leap on basic commentary.
Otherwise it was a rather straightforward mission. Acquire information about Mukuroyukihime and maybe get a lead for her whereabouts. "I don't know, it seems like a pretty straightforward bunch of Japanese namewise. Should be fine." Gihai shrugged.
Roche meanwhile had a small think to himself. "...You know if we had an actual ninja's gear we could probably deck you in it and call you our sensei or something along those lines. Alas, I'm not a ninja." The Gammamon almost sounded disappointed. "So how does one find a hidden village, anywho?"
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Post by Nanami Hanabana on Jun 17, 2022 7:15:41 GMT
The Chakmon's eyes darted from the Gumdramon to the BlackShoutmon. Perhaps he was worried there was going to be some bad blood between members? Well... they were pros... or something like that... so he was pretty sure that they could put their differences aside for the time being. Besides, looking over at Gotsumon and Armadillomon... Shiroku was positive that they were the most competent options he had.
He glanced over towards the Agumon scarfing down some ice cream. They didn't seem very smart but their tamer seemed to compensate for that. Hopefully they would be able to resolve that whole... looking like a human thing. But it seemed like the Terriermon Assistant could... assist with that.
And Gihai's companion, Roche actually had a question. That sure was neat. And for that, Shiroku glanced in the direction of the waterfall. "There's a hidden tunnel past the waterfall, followed by a series of caves. I had Gotsumon and Armadillomon explore some of it, but they gave up after a few minutes and complained that it was 'too scary'. I had Gotsumon draw you a map from what he could remember. I wouldn't expect much, however."
Sure enough, if anyone cared to pilfer the unconscious rock boi, you would find a rolled up piece of paper lodged in between his little rock boi joints. There were a few ice cream stains, and the paper itself wasn't very large.
Surely this map would be of great help!
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Post by ricochet8-Kshin on Jun 17, 2022 8:18:06 GMT
Shi seemed to convince both his partners from making total pigs of themselves with simple reasoning so that was one less thing to worry about. After all stomach aches could cause problems on a job such as this. As for Kshin he didn't seem to be bothered by Horus anymore as in fighting would not be all that helpful. Looking over at Horus he said "Hey about what I said a few moments ago, I'm sorry. I shouldn't of said such a rude thought out loud." Kshin hoped the BlackShoutmon would forgive the young dragon for his stupidity.
Then Shiroku mentioned the village was hidden in a tunnel past the waterfall and that the unconscious Gotsumon had drawn a map. Looking over at Gotsumon Kshin walked over to the rocky digimon using his hammer tail to gently move Gotsumon aside in order to pick up the somewhat stained map.
Hearing Roche mention about having actual ninja gear caused Mona to smile and began rooting through her things pulling out various fabrics and other sewing supplies before flitting about taking swift and precise measurements of everyone before walking back to her stuff writing the info down on a piece of paper before she got to work with sewing choosing various fabrics that would help the group blend with the area with various browns and greens. As she swiftly stiched the fabric it was clear that ninja garb would soon be done. Grace watched Mona in awe as she said "Wow, Mona. You're amazing! I didn't know you could make clothing so fast."
"This mission is important, darling, so time is of the essence. I should be done with everyone's clothes shortly though." Mona said without looking up from her work which was her silent cue to be left alone so she could work and Grace clued in quickly.
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Post by Shi on Jun 17, 2022 19:16:29 GMT
Oh no, conflict between members, Shi needed to his use vast number of social skills and ability to talk to people in order to solve such a problem. Which amounted to sitting there for a few seconds as the problem seemed to resolve itself by Kishin apologizing to them, which was probably the best outcome that could've happened. So he just decided to respond to what the Gammamon mentioned. "Doubt most of us here could pass as Ninja's but hey, fake it till you make it." They didn't need to do any ninja tricks to look the part after all.
Oh neat a map was drawn, however counter point the map wasn't that good. Which apparently they also gave up on making it after a few minutes which was always a bad sign. "They should, probably reconsider this whole assistance thing huh." Some digimon just weren't cut out for this sorta thing after all, Yasuo couldn't even admire their tenacity in trying since it was pretty clear they uhh, weren't. Least with the information provided.
Yuudai also went over to go check out the map provided, glancing over Kishin to look at the map itself. "Huh, well looking at this the middle path is probably the best bet. You usually don't set a trap unless you're trying to hide something." If that is what that was, after all a trap to these digimon might've been just a slightly larger then average hole.
"Unless that's a feint and the real path is untrapped to cause misdirection, which feels probably the ninja thing to do." Then there was the matter of the dead end, could they trust that it was a real dead end though and not some sort of trick? Well this was getting a bit more complicated.
Then some clothes were being made which was neat. "Probably don't have to rush, we need to actually find the place first after all." They wouldn't need the clothes now, least Yasuo hoped not.
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