NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC:well those of you involved in this one know what is going on. the last word was that our thread bit the dust. This shall take it's place. Sorry for the short posts, but I'm trying to get this back on the road.

IC:
After Pai Mai taught Tetol several techniques it was time for them to eat lunch, "Go fetch some water child!" he yelled as they headed back to the building complex.
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"You may start any time, but use the same gun," Val told Cas, pressing another button.
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"Well, Arthas, we're here, I'm guessing you haven't had Chinese before?" Ernine Esras asked
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DWAR woke up his student and said, "today, we have two goals, one to get you an animal like Zephyr here except your choice of what it is, and two, to get you used to the idea of tracking. Don't worry about your bad shot the other day, we'll work on that later."

"Alright." Cas set 2 clips of ammunition withing easy reach, as he removed the safty, and began again, this time he was faster than last time as he had the ammo, within easy reach, making it easier to re-load, the problem Val said he had dealing with speed.

ooc: did you TG the others about the thread crash and the new thread?
If not including a link would be good.

OC: I sent them a slightly modified post of the one I sent you, and I sent a link to slums, I was going to send one oto you, but I didnt' want to search for you, and figured you would find it. Could you send one to liberty for me, as i need to do some homework

ooc: will do

OOC. I was wondering why I couldnt log onto it, just thought my computer was being dicky. Any idea what happened?

I.C. Tetol grabbed the yoke with the buckets and headed down to the well again. He spent the trip reflecting what they had learnt that morning. When he eventually got to the well he filled up the buckets. They were heavier than he remembered. He struggled a bit on the way back up to Pai Mai, taking longer than he wouldve wanted, but being careful to spill the minimal amount of water. He took the yoke off his shoulders and un hooked the buckets.

OOC: Fris, said that it became corrupt, and the name of this one is my shot of joking about that.

IC:
Valerie watched as he shot the last of the targets. "Very good, but your still not fast enough," she threw another dart into his leg, accidently hitting the same spot as last time.
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Pai Mai took the water and put it over the fire to make tea. He waited for the water to boil in silence.

"Ow, that was the same spot as last time, Val. If your going to be throwing any more darts could you move to my right before thowing them." Cas said as he removed the dart, brushed away the dried blood, and left it. "Should I go again with the Storm, or should I switch to the to the Steyr?"

ooc: storm=pistol steyr=assault rifle
does Nova now about the change?

Tetol asked Pai Mai, "Sir, Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Really? Lucky shot I guess, never was the best at these, but I'll teach you how to deal with these someday....wait a second, that didn't have a green tip it? those ones have a really bad poison in them. Any way, continue on with the storm, If you manage to beat the time limit I'll have you switch." She said, fingering a green tipped dart, but wasn't telling him that the red ones actually have the poison.
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"Go fetch the bowls and chopsticks." Pai Mai replied.

OOC: try here yar (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=410642)

"You know the time limit so could you show me at what approximate speed I'd have to hit the targets?" Cas asked

Tetol ran off to grab some chopsticks and bowels.

OOC. Do they have table and/or chairs? or are they sitting on the ground?

"You want me to do it? Well fine, but your time limit is about how long it would take the average soldier to shoot down an NoF Merc, multiplied by how many targets their are. But I can do it, with out setting out the clips like you are." she said, getting ready to step down from the platform.

The tea was finished and Pai Mai pulled the tea off of the fire, and started cooking the rice. He stood up and walked over to the table, and kneeled down at the table setting the bowls and chopsticks across from each other on the small knee high table.

"Alright, I just need to get an aproximate time frame." Cas said as passed Val the pistol, butt first with the safty on, and stepped back to time/watch the demonstration.

Tetol served up some tea and handed a cup to Pai Mai.

Val refused his offer of his pistol, pulling out her own Browning BDM. She twisted her neck, popping it several times, and pointed the pistol down range. "Anytime just press that button Cas, and let me know when to start."
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Pai Mai took the tea and sipped it, waiting for the rice to finish cooking.

"Alright." Cas walked over, pressed the button, walked back ." Ready, go." As he timed her speed in his head.

OOC. Im off to work, may not be back for a while

Tetol slawly drank his tea, trying to absorb as much physical and mental energy as possible to regain from what he had lost during the morning of training

She quickly shot each target in a critical location, emptying her clip, she pressed the switch with her thumb and let the empty clip drop.At the same time the clip fell, she reached for a second clip, and was just pressing it in as the first clip hit the ground, she quickly cocked it and resumed her rampage on the targets. After she had hit each target, she dropped the second clip out and casually popped in a third. She bent down and picked up the two empty clips, and headed towards the platform Cas was standing on. "Thats about how fast you need to do it. Although you are at a slight disadvantage because you only have a fourteen round clip. You need to find a pistol that suits you the best, and I dont' think this one is it. Now lets test out that assult rifle of yours." she holstered her pistol, and reached for her fnP-90's. "new rule, time limit has gone down, and three shots in each target."

"In this test does accuracy matter?" Cas asked as he got the Steyr AUG and set the ammo.

ooc: who makes your assault rifle?

"One of the shots has to hit a critical point," she said

OOC: it's an SMG not an assult rifle, and she has two of them just so you know.
fnp-90 (http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg13-e.htm)
Browning BDM (http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg109-e.htm)

"So 3 shots into each target, min one in a critical spot?" Cas asked as he got ready.

ooc: he won't be as good as even his graduating class with guns in general as he is still only five and doesn't have the mass to absorb the recoil well.

OOC: yeah, I gotta finish my Home work now so I'll leave you to your own devices

Jack got up and got dressed. He was a bit nevo... He was very nervous about this day's lessons. He had decided what kind of animal he wanted though, a wolf, but he wasn't sure about the tracking. He had to learn in one day what he hadn't learned during those years his grandfather used to talk about his days of hunting.

OOC: Going to school.

"No, I don't think I have, ma'am." Arthas replied as he got out of the sidecar. 'So this is the outside world.' He mumbled to himself.

Tom replied "Sure, why not?" to the question of the dessert. Kay and Leon had ordered Pina Coladas.

Aaron got up and ran over to the kitchen line, grabbing a napkin "Here, you have a little blood there, on your cheek." He offered Jestil the napkin.

OOC. Has anything happened regarding Jestil and Himmelstoss?

Cas fired the gun, following the same general firing/re-load style as Val did.

"What are you getting, because a ice cream sundae looks good to me." Cara said.

"Good, but you definatly seem to have problems with an assult rifle, I think it's the recoil, go back to the pistol for now." Val said, not throwing a dart because he had problems that couldn't be worked out that way.
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DWAR said, "I'm sure your anxious about this whole tracking thing, but you'll get used to it, and remember that everything I teach you about tracking your prey, beit a human or an animal, can also be applied to you. Getting you an animal isn't the first thing on the list though, but you will have you track what type of animal you want. Now for a bit of animal training, you are going to need to track down a mother of the type of animal you want, you are not going to be able to train an already fully grown animal, because they have spent their life learning to avoid humans and to protect themselves. Now what type of animal do you want?"
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Ernine Esras headed into the restruant and asked for a seat for two. After a young chinese waitress offered them drinks, she told Arthas, "Well, depending on how things go after we eat, I just might get a 'patient' for you to observe." at the same time she went over the menu, and decided she was going to have a big plate of fried rice and two eggrolls.
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After they ate, Pai Mai took Tetol to a different clearing, and decided to wait for a little bit before telling him what to do.

((OOC: I posted a bit ago for you, Slums))

Arthas looked over the menu, having no idea what anything was. He was about to ask what the picture showed on the front when he found out what his possible afternoon plans were. He looked over the top of the menu, his eyebrows going up and an eager look on his face, much like if you told any normal kid his age that they were to go on a Toys R Us shopping spree.

Tom looked at the desserts "I might just get one of these shakes, myself"

As the waiter arrived the kids ordered dessert. "I wonder we'll be doing after dinner." Cara wondered.

"Alright." Cas said as he unloaded and put the safety on the rifle and set it aside. He took the storm, and asked "Should I try again?"

"Yes," Val replied

Cas unsafetied the pistol, loaded it, set the ammo, before firing again, improving somewhat over last time.

"I dunno. Yesterday me an' Leon went for a run, which was a bad idea, because we both cramped up." He chuckled.

OOC: Sorry I've been away for so long but I have had some massive homework this week.

IC:
Nick looked into DWARs eyes and said without hesitation ¨A wolf sir. A grey wolf. ¨. That would be his pet, he was determined.
He aslo thought about what DWAR had said about tracking and he decided that noone, ever, would be able to track him.

OOC. Sorry A.N. I missed it.

Jestil thanked Aaron, took the napkin and wiped her face and asked, "is it all gone?"

Tetol followed Pai Mai to the clearing. When they stopped walking Tetol stood and quietly waited for Pai Mai to give instructions

"Nah, you got it all." He sat for a moment. "You better get eating, from the looks of it, you're going to need the energy for your teacher."

ooc: NoF and Nova, awaiting reply Nova post 30 NoF post 32

ooc: Arthaga, I'm waiting

OOC: Post 33.

"Ya but this time Kay and I are here so, I think we'll probably so something else as Kay doesn't seem like the running type." Cara replied

ooc: I thought that was to someone else, sorry

"Very good, Cas. But your still not under the time limit. Let's head back to the cabin, it's getting late." After this she started heading back towards the large doors that would bring them back to the underground railroad.

"Alright." Cas removes the ammo, presses the trigger one more time, to ensure the gun is empty, then safeties it, grabbed both guns/ammo/empty clips and follows Val.

Jestil offered Aaron some breakfast again, before thanking him, again, and downing the breakfast.

OOC. do they wash their own plates? or take it up to the front?

OOC: Awaiting reply on post 34.

OOC: They use disposable trays.

IC: As Jestil ate, Himmelstoss walked in and came up to the table. "What's going on here?" Aaron's expression soured.

Tom lightly laughed, the other two were finishing their meals, lightly gossiping amongst each other.

Cara, seeing the two adults done, went over to Kay and asked, "So what's the plan for tonight?"

"Well, me and Leon are going back to the apartment. You two kids get to do whatever you want." Kay replies, Leon adds "You don't get any money or anything, Kay picked that rule." Kay nodded "That's right, so not only do oyu get to practice some Charm, Cara, but you can use Tom as well."

"Alright." Cara went over to Tom, "We're on our own for tonight." Cara said

Tom finished up his shake. "Alright then, m'lady." He said sarcastically as Kay and Leon got up, this time Kay tried carrying Leon out, but they both fell and laughed, getting back up, Leon paid the bill and they left.

"What are you interested in doing, knave?" Cara asked with a grin.

"Well... I dunno." He tapped his fingers on the table "I'm up for anything, you lead the way."

"How about we just explore the city?" Cara said

"Alright. You lead the way." He stood up and pushed in his chair.

Cara gets up, motions for Tom to follow, leaves the resturant, and heads down the street.

OOC: sorry people, I've been busy, who would have thought that I had a life?
IC:
Valerie stepped onto the cart that would take them back to the cabin area, and started it up, heading off as soon as Cas stepped on.
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DWAR said, "Grab your rifle, and lets get going. Before we go, we're going to make a stop at an armory and get you some tranq rounds." He headed out and stepped into his hummer.

"Val, what are we doing when we arrive back to where we're staying?" Cas asked as the cart rolled down the track.

"We're going to eat eat, and then were goig to sleep." She replied coldly

"Alright." Cas said as he sat back and awaited the end of the track.

Nick grabbed his rifle and checked, then went outside and took a seat in the HMMWV. A heck of a car he thought.

OOC. NoF, have you replied to post 36?

I.C. Jestil looked at himmelstoss and said "Sir, you told me to try and get some breakfast. Aaron here gave me some."
Jestil was very nervous, hoping that she wouldnt get hit again.

Himmelstoss' eyebrows went up "So, you just asked and he gave you his whole breakfast?"

Pai Mai told Tetol "stand on that stump, and don't fall off," the stump had about a 6 inch diameter.
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DWAR started the vehicle when Nick stepped in, and took off down the road. after about 45 minutes he pulled the HMMWV into the building they were at the other day. "Wait here," he said, before heading into the building. Several minutes later he came out carrying several boxes of tranqulizer rounds for a PSG1, and several cans of gasoline. He stuffed the boxes and gas in the back, before bringing the Hummer to the back and filling it up. "With those out of the way, we will be heading out to the wild." He stepped back into the Drivers seat and started it up.

OOC: made a map (http://img39.echo.cx/my.php?image=nof0xn.png) of my nation

As Cas and Val arrived at the end of the track, Cas gathered his gear and waited for further instructions.

Cara, followed by Tom travelled down the street, looking at the various sites.

Tom tried to make conversation "So, how has been your past 3 years?"

"It was ok. In terms of basic training it was the same as yours." Cara replied, "How did you find school?"

"It was alright, I guess." He sighed "Wasn't too big in the friends department though, not that I'm seeing any of those people again."

"Who know, you might. My teacher hinted that the students would be interacting with each other in the future." Cara replied as they continued down the street.

"Hmm... that's just what I need." Tom said sarcastically.

Nick saw DWAR loading a couple of boxes of tranqulizer darts in the back of the Humvee before getting in the drivers seat again. That was a lot of ammo Nick thought.

"Who knows what can happen in the next few years, you have a chance to re-invent yourself." Cara replied trying to cheer Tom up.

He looked over at Cara and smiled, a weak but genuine chuckle from him "Yeah, I guess so."

"I wonder what Kay intended for us to do, as she didn't provide money, and I seriously doubt we'd be welcome at her appartment." Cara said as they started to head into the downtown/inner city part of the city.

Tom laughed "I dunno, she said that we'll have to figure out what to do for ourselves, and that you have to get us money and use me if you need to in that."

OOC. Sorry I've been away, we have just finished term so had heaps of assesment :(, got 2 weeks holiday now though, time to do my 4 assignments due back first week of next term :D

I.C. Jestil looked at Himmelstoss and replied "Yes Sir."

Tetol looked at the stump and then looked at Pai Mai and asked "How long will I have to stand on that sir?."

OOC. how high is the stump?

"We'll just have to see what oppertunities come up then." Cara replied with a grin.

Himmelstoss reached for his stick "Is this true?" Himmelstoss asked Aaron. "Yes sir." Aaron replied uneasily. Himmelstoss drew his stick and hit the bottom of Aaron's head and jabbed the stick into his throat, knocking him off the seat. He walked over to him and put his booted foot on Aaron's chest. It was obvious, from the strained look on the kid's face, that his chest was being pushed on hard. Himmelstoss barked "You don't simply give up your food, you make the person beg, just like you are going to have to beg for me to let you up!!!" Aaron squirmed, in a weak voice "Please let me up sir." Himmelstoss pushed harder "Sir... please." His voice was fading as Himmelstoss leaned forward harder.

"So, what were some of your favorite things in school?" Tom asked as the two passed a park with modern art statues.

"Favorite activities, you say, those would be martial arts and running. Yours? Oh and look at those statues, they're horrible." Cara said

"No, these statues are great" He said sarcastically while hopping on top of a sculpture of an anvil that turned into a sandwich at the end. "I liked the wilderness survival, that and the shooting class."

"Shooting happened to be my worst subject." Cara replied

He jumped off the statue and landed next to Cara "I was bad with automatics, but I was decent with a pistol and great with rifles."

OOC: not very high, probably about 4 feet high.

IC:
When Tetol climbed up the pole, Pai Mai said, "Now, You must stand there, and not fall down, no matter what, until I say come down."

Ernine looked at Arthas over the pile of empty dishes and said, "So what did you think?" She was fiddling with the chopstick that she had eaten with while waiting for his response.

Arthas put down his chopsticks, a light, relaxed look on his face "Oooooh, I think it was alright." He said in an obviously understated manner "Sits pretty heavy on you."

"OK, well then I'm gonna make a phone call and see what we can do about getting you a subject to observe." She pulled out a blood splattered white cell phone and dialed Kay's cell phone.

Arthas sat and watched, thinking about who Kay was, among other things.

Kay was in the middle of having wine with Leon when her phone rang. She laughed weakly "Just a second" and walked over to the phone, answering it without giving a look to the ID "Hello there, Kay here."

"I was bad with any type of gun, the recoil really threw my aim off." Cara replied as they continued down the road, wandering aimlessly.

"Hello Kay, It's The Iron Maiden, I need some help from you."

She dipped one of her chopsticks in the water and attempted to clean it off. After it had been cleaned a little, she tried her best to dry it off, before handing to Arthas in hopes he would understand to clean and dry it. Arthas took the hint and cleaned hers and his own chopsticks, still watching the half of the conversation with curiosity.

"Oh, sure, what do you need?"

Kay smiled to Leon and stepped out onto the fire escape.

"I hope your not doing anything too important at the moment, I need you to pick me up a drunk, and bring him down to the warehouse. Do you remember how to get there?"

After Arthas cleaned the chopsticks she took one of them and tied her hair up with it.

There was a pause "Hmm... Yeah, I think I know. If I don't, I can just follow the stench of death." She replied in a joking voice.

"Very good then, how fast can you be there? It'll take me 20 minutes to get there."

Kay looked over the ledge of the fire escape, spotting the bottom half of a guy sticking out of a trashcan. "Well, I got a mark, it's a 30 minute drive, I'll be there in 15."

"Very well, I'll take my sweet assed time then. You should know where the key is if you get there before me, just put him on the table, and make sure he is at least mostly concious."

She climbed back through the window and walked over to Leon, putting her finger gently on his nose, whispering "I'll be back in a bit" then grabbing her jacket and walking out the door "Alright, if it all goes according to plan, his only problem should be he's drunk and tied to a table, until you get there, then you'll be his problem." She walked out the front door, the sounds of the city joining her voice "So, why do you need him, got a big job tonight and want to warm up?"

"Teaching a student, He seems eager to get a bit of action. So I'm probably going to ask this of you fairly frequently, for a while at least. Hope it doesn't get too mundane for you."

"Oh, you got a little spook now? Well, don't worry, I got my own kid to teach, give her plenty of experience too."

"Good for her, perhaps she can meet up with Arthas here sometime."

"Ooooh, Arthas eh?" She giggled a bit "Sounds creepy, perfect match for you... wait, Arthas?"

"Yeah, Arthas."

She chuckled "Wouldn't happen to be one of Adair's bunch, would he?"

She rounded the corner to watch the shoddily dressed man staggering about, looking for booze or money for the first.

"Of course he is. Their trying to run me out of the restraunt, so I gotta go."

"Oh, I think my student might know him, I'll meet you there, well, this guy will at the least"

"OK," She hung up the phone and told Arthas, "Well it looks like your gonna get to watch a prime example of pain and interogation tonight."

Kay thought about just getting this overwith, but curiosity got the best of her, this Arthas kid... After a quick visit (and goodbye kiss) to Leon, Kay dialed the phone number she just got, Tom's.

Tom "I could hold steady, it just took me a second to get my aim back, so rifles were good." A ringing from his pocket "Hold on, emergency cell Leon gave me" He answered it and after a brief conversation with the other person "Hey, Cara? Your teacher called, she is coming to pick you up, something about going on an errand."

Kay pulled up in her car a minute or two later at the sculpture garden, sleazy bum in tow. "Hey Cara, I might have a surprise for you. Tom, just head back to my apartment, keep Leon there." She popped the door open for Cara.

Ernine headed out of the restraunt and stepped on her bike. When Arthas got on she started it up and headed towards the warehouse.

Cara hopped into the car, "See ya later Tom."

Tom waved and walked off. Kay took off down the road, her usual urban off-road style shaving off time here and there, she stayed quiet for once, the bum mumbled every now and then, but since he was bond and gagged, couldn't really tell what he was trying to say.

Arthas looked up to his teacher "So, ma'am, who were you talking to?"

"So Kay, what are we doing, and what's with smelly here?" Cara asked pointing to the bum.

"Oh, that's our errand. We have to take him to a warehouse for a torture teacher to use as an example for her student." She said, obviously not saying everything.

"Doesn't matter who I was talking to, all that matters was your getting to see a torture today, and before too long, you'll be doing the tortures yourself."

Arthas was a bit taken back by the reply at first, hoping he didn't overstep his boundaries with his question, but that was replaced by an eagerness at the latter part of her reply.

"Your hiding something arn't you? Who's the student?" Cara asked, a note of suspicion in her voice.

"No one in particular" Kay replied with a grin, hopping the curb and parking. The warehouse. The way Kay drove, it was amazing that the old car was in such good shape.

Ernine and Arthas had pulled up several minutes before Kay and Cara and were waiting inside for them.

Cara followed Kay into the warehouse.

Kay got out and untied the feet of the drunk, bringing him into the warehouse, not noticing the fact that Ernine and Arthas were there.

Arthas was looking at the wall of tools, quietly reciting their names and purposes.

Ernine pulled a pistol out of her belt and pulled the slide back, popping a bullet into the chamber. All through the warehouse the sound of steel sliding on steel and the clunk of the round being chambered could be heard.

"I see you made it here on time," she said, unchambering the round.

Kay was startled "Oh!" Pause "Yeah, sorry I'm late, had to pick up my student, Cara. Cara, this is the Iron Maiden herself, Ms. Esras." Kay walked over to the table with the bum and helped strap him down, at first it was easy, but as fear began to sober him, he started to stuggle.

"Hello Ms. Esras, your student looks familia... is that Arthas?" Cara said

"Kay could you watch over these two for a bit, I got some stuff I need to do. I'll be back in like 15 minutes." She stepped outside, started her bike, and took off,


OOC: last post till I finish my homework for tonight

Kay smiled "Alright" waving Ernine off. She walked over to a chair and sat down, watching the two kids.

Arthas was lost in thought in front of the wall of tools.

Cara walked over to 'Arthas', she tapped him on the arm and said "Boo."

Arthas turned his head, an angered look on his face until he realized who it was "Oh... it's... you? What the hell are you doing here?"

"My teacher brought me, and what are you doing?" Cara asked

"Oh..." Arthas looked at the wall, then at the whole room. "I'm an artist's apprentice, this is our studio, and these are our paint colors." He gestured to the door Ernine walked out, the whole warehouse and the wall of tools, respectively.

"Ah, I'm sure Kay knew about this ahead of time." Cara said as she shot a 'dirty' look at her teacher. "So what have you learned since school?"

"Well..." Arthas thought, he grabbed the clacker. "You don't want to get with this in the ribs, and that Chinese food is good."

"Ah, I've learnt that video games are fun, and how to manipulate people into giving me money and other stuff." Cara replied

Arthas lightly chuckled "Scam anyone who isn't a complete idiot yet?"

'Depends how you define an idiot. I've got money out of an old couple, I got 5 student ID's, candy from a principal, and free games from another kid." Cara said

"Oh." Arthas simply said, an uncomfortable silence settling in.

"So how have you been feeling, last time I saw you, you were looking in rough shape?" Cara asked

"Ehh... I'm getting better, I think sleep in a warm, real bed and a couple good, hot, homemade meals helped, I still have the splint though." Arthas replied, knocking on the side of his leg where the branch still was.

"That's good." Cara said "What's your favorite gadget of the ones you've learnt of?"

"Well, there is this" He pulled out something that looked like an electric turkey carver. "It's pretty cool, you plug it in, blade heats up alot, cuts and cauterizes in one cut. I like the clacker for it's mere simplicity he raised the little club he was still holding. "But, then of course, drugs and serums aside, I think that I'll like the regular blades and scalpels still, more of a personal touch to it. Plus, there is always the shear psychology of it, that's your goal, to make them crack and leak all their information."

"It appears our courses have similar goals, but with different methods, you use torture, I use manipulation." Cara said with a grin.

"You know?" Arthas replied, a small grin, taking out his notepad and jotting something down "I think you may have something there."

"You, smiling? Who are you and what have you done with my sullen Arthas?" Cara said with a chuckle.

"Sullen Arthas? No, I'm not sullen, I just haven't been doing what I've been meant to" He picket up a whetsone and began sharpening the heated knife's blade. His smile quickly went away.

"Well it seems like you'll get a chance to try what you learnt tonight." Cara said

"Nah, not tonight, I'm only a spectator, but soon though. Real soon I hope." The look in his eyes reflecting that last word.

Kay was watching the two, writing notes in her notebook.

"I wonder where we'll be seeing more of each other as it was Kay who brought this guy." Cara said as she pointed to the struggling hobo.

"Oh, I dunno, from the sounds though, Kay is going to be supplier of this places paint" He pointed to the blood splatters.

"I wonder if she'll have me get a 'victem' as part of my training?" Cara mused

"I dunno, probably, from one student to the next, eh?" He looked over at Kay and saw he was being watched.

"What's Kay is doing?" Cara wispered as she said in a loud voice, "I wonder what you teacher's doing."

"I don't know" Arthas replied, meaning to both questions.

"Ah." Cara said "I wonder how long we'll be here?"

"I imagine you'll leave when my teacher gets back." He replied, respectful tone to sixth and seventh word.

"You like her don't you?" Cara asked a not of teasing in her voice.

"Well, she's my mo... teacher. She's my teacher. I kind of have to like her, besides, I'm a fan of her work." Arthas replied, slight amount of blushing.

Cara grins at Arthas's embarrassment.

"What?" He sounded irritated "What's so funny?"

"Oh, nothing just something I saw." Cara said with a grin

"No, no, no..." Arthas replied, faking a disciplinarian look on his face "Don't forget who has the clacker here." He shook it at her. "Tell me what's so funny."

"And what would you do if I told you that it was you who made me grin?" Cara asked

"Well now, I'd tell you that wasn't a good enough answer and demand more detail, such as what about me made you laugh."

"Just something you said and the look on your face as you said it." Cara says with a grin.

"Wha... heh.... wah... hrm..." Arthas stumbled, not knowing what to say to that, hanging the clacker back up on the rack.

Cara grinned even widerer at Arthas's embarressment. "You should lighten up a bit."

"Lighten up a bit, what do you mean?" Arthas asked, pulling over a couple office chairs and sitting down in one.

"You seem to be acting far too serious. For one thing, what do you think would be scarier to your 'victems/subjects'? A sour depressed torturer or a smiling happy looking one?" Cara replied as she sat down.

((OOC: yes I finished my homework))

Ernine stepped into the warehouse carrying a paper bag. She walke dup to Cara and Arthas jsut as Cara had finished inquiring about which type is scarier. "One that smiles at their job," she said, "If he isn't smiling, than this isn't the job for him. Now a happy looking one isn't the way to go, but a smile on your face is. If you look happy then they don't get as afraid." She pulled a couple apples from the bag and handed one Cara, "Now go along and catch up with Kay." She waited for Cara to leave," As for you Arthas, you don't get an apple. Before you ask why, I'll answer your question, first," she looked around to make sure Cara was away, "I wanted her to shutup, secondly since this is only a display of pain, it's to muffle his screams," she pointed at the drunk, and scared looking man. "And these," she pulled several lengths of rubber tubing from the bag, "are to be used for tournequits. Usually we don't use these and just cauterize the wounds behind us, more pain less blood, but these come in very handy if you need to torture somone and you don't have your tools handy. And I'll show you how to properly use them today."

Cara takes the apple and heads over to Kay, tossing it up and catching it in the other hand as she goes.

Kay quickly put her notebook away, making sure to not let Cara see it. "Well, I guess we might be off, unless we want a more morbid version of a Gallagher routine, I don't think Ms. Esras would let us have the tarp though." She got up and walked for the door, waving to the master and apprentice.

Arthas had given no acknowledgment to Cara and Kay as they left, jotting a couple more notes in his notebook, which definitely was getting it's use. "Alright ma'am" He looked over at the table "Can we get started?" Hopeful gleam in his eyes.

Cara followed Kay and once outside the warehouse asked "What's a Gallagher routine?"

"Oh, Gallagher? He's this guy who goes on stage and tells jokes, and smashes things with a sledgehammer, usually watermelons. The whole audience gets sheets of plastic to hide under so they don't get splattered." Key chuckled "I find him sort of lame, he's okay sometimes though.

"Ah, so whats the plan for the rest of the night?" Cara asked

"Well..." Kay said in a 'how should I put this' voice "Me and Leon were busy, so if you don't mind goofing around with Tom for a little longer, you can do that."

"Sure." Cara replied as the sped back to the apartment.

"I hope you are aware I'm not giving you money still." Kay reminded.

"I figured as much." Cara replied

"So, I assume that was the kid you talked about." Kay asked, looking at her nails while driving.

"Ya, will you/we be doing 'victem/subject' runs fairly often?" Cara asked

Jestil saw what Himmelstoss was doing to Aaron. With her eyes watering (from nervousness as to what would happen, and guilt that aaron was being punished) stood up and said, "Sir, please dont punish him, its my fault for asking. Please just let him go and punish me." Not being able to bear looking at Himmelstoss Jestil looked at her feet, shuffling nervously

"Yeah, probably, knowing the Iron Maiden and how she'd probably teach." Kay sighed "Wait, did you just change the subject on me?"

Himmelstoss realized he had found effective punishment for Jestil. He gave Aaron one more kick in the side and then barked at Jestil "My office, 5 minutes."

"And if I did?" Cara replied with a grin.

"Well Arthas, I guess we should get started then shouldn't we," noticing that Cara and Kay were gone. The drunk was starting to ask questions as to why he was here, and proclaiming his innocence to whatever it was he didn't do.

"Now, first thing to do is to shut him up, usually that is done with several hits with something painfull, but today, we aren't searching for information, were just doing a display of pain, so this apple should work just fine."

She walked up and held is jaw wide open, and shoved the apple in his gaping mouth. She walked over to one of the cabinets and pulled out a cauterizing blade.

"Ok, well if we were searching for information, we would be letting him know exactly what we were going to do before we did it, but I see no need for that
today."

She heated the blade up, showing Arthas how to start it up. When the blade got hot enough she set it aside and pulled out a traditional scalpel blade.

"Now, I'm going to cut off his finger, or rather part of it. Notice how I cut at the joint,"

She started her cut at the index fingers first joint from the tip.

"That makes it easier to take the finger off with delicate tools, less bone to deal with. any questions thus far?"

The drunk surged with pain as he was cut. One could tell that if he hadn't had an apple crammed in his mouth he would be screaming in pain and fear.

Arthas started to grin, scribbling away in his notepad. "No, ma'am." He said with an urging tone.

Kay grinned "Well, it's my job to find out why."

"Find out what?" Cara asked "How I managed to change subject on you?"

"Well," she said while cauterizing the wound. A sizzling and muffled screams could be heard, "I'll do a couple more, and then I'll pass it on to you so you can try." She put the cauterizing iron down and picked up the scalpel again. After she cut and cauterized several joints in a similar fashion she passed it on to Arthas, and said, "Do the rest of the fingers, and then we'll move on to other parts. If you need any help just ask me."

Arthas had a look of disbelief as he took the kinfe and went for the next finger down the line, hand slightly trembling as he brought it into the first joint from the top, just as he had watched, after he cut and cauterized, he was confident, finishing the task with relative ease, hand not shaking anymore, chuckling to himself on occasion, smiling as if he was normal and had gotten a puppy.

"Not how" Kay said slyly "But why.

"It seemed like I should, also to see if I could." Cara replied

"Well, it really didn't work, now did it. We can beat around the bush all you like, but if you want my opinion on why you don't have him bowing at your feet, talk." Kay fired back.

"Why do you think I didn't have him at my feet as you put it?" Cara asked

"Well you seemed to do just fine with that, so lets move on shall we. Next in line is tournequites." She took some rubber tubing and tied the mid section of his forearm up, so the circulation is cut off. she brought the scalpel to the guy's wrist, and after several minutes had cut off his hand. After she had cut off his hand she took the scalpel and started disecting the hand, pointing out all the parts to Arthas. After several minutes a soft thump was heard, and the sounds of screaming filled the room.

"YOU STUPID BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!?!?!?!?!?"

"Well that wasn't very nice.....whatever your name is. Now Arthas I was going to save this for later, but he just pissed me off. Now, one thing people value very much is their eye's, now observe."

She walked up to the face of the man, and produced her scalpel. She brought it up the mans eye. He became very silent.
"Well you jackass, I only do this to those that really piss me off, and you seem to make that list."

She cut off his eyelids. He tried to blink his eyes with his now nonexsitant eyelids, and his eyes filled up with blood, he tried again, only releasing more blood into his eyes.

"well Arthas, now, I'll let you get his other hand." She handed him a length of rubber tubing, and the scalpel

"Well, for one, it seemed that either he is just a particularly nutty person, or he was subconciously toying with you, letting you think he likes you, then dashing those thoughts in his next words." Kay replied, mind churning.

Arthas tied the tubing in the same position and began to go to work, humming, occasionally glancing up at the man's eyes, an impressed look on his face as he still cut his way through. "This may sound odd, but I'm enjoying this." He said to the drunk as much as Ernine.

"At least in school he was somewhat more insane than most." Cara replied

"Well thats a good thing, you'll be doing a lot of it in the next few years. Now, it's getting late, Carpe Jugulum, and we'll get another one sometime soon."

The drunk said nothing as Ernine took the scalpel back. She brought the blade up to his neck and made an incision as to where the jugular vein could be seen. She reached in with some forceps and clamped it so it wasn't pumping blood to the brain. The drunk struggled for a minute, and a pop was heard. No motion, and a spray of blood followed very soon after.

"Now, lets take care of him, and head out."

She wheeled the table over to a chute that was situated in the wall, and dumped the lifeless body in it.

((brb, phone))

"So, are you saying he isn't capable of toying with you?" Kay asked

When the vein burts, Arthas happened to have gotten a light splatter. It seemed he didn't notice it, save for his tongue subconciously licking up a few drops around his mouth. "Where does this chute lead to, ma'am?"

"No, he may be capable of toying with me if he focused on it, but I doubt he has the skill as now as well as the inclination." Cara replied

Kay chuckled a little bit. "You sound like me when I was your age, so nieve."

"The Chute leads to an incinerator," she said, "Now lets head back to the house, we've had enough for one day." she stepped outside and walked over to her bike.

"How so?" Cara asked

Arthas got in the sidecar he was learning to like so much. "Will Ms. Kay be getting us more of our subjects, ma'am?" Arthas asked. He was a bit off, a bit worried, now faced with seeing Cara more, or even worse, Cara seeing him, what he is going to become.

Kay smiled, a look of memory on her face. "Well, I had a little crush like you do when I first got out of school. Oooh, he's a sniper now, I liked him. I tried using my skills on him, but I liked him so much, I could never realize the fact that he had more control over me than I him."

"I don't think I have a crush on Arthas, but I might, so who knows." Cara replied

Kay playfully punched Cara's arm. "I'm just giving you a hard time, kiddo. But, you know what they say about crushes, if theres doubt, ' means you do."

"But if you've never had one, how do you know either way?" Cara asked with a grin

"If you've never had a crush, how will you know? Oh, trust me. You'll know." Key had a look on her face that kind of said 'But I already know you doooooooo'

Cara laughts a bit a Kay's expression, as they continue driving.

"So, do you want a ride all the way back? Or should I just drop you off somewhere and have Tom meet you there?"

"Could you pick us both up and drop us off where we were when you 'abductecd me'?" Cara asked

ooc: what time at night is it aprox

OOC: No clue, I'll say 5PM.

IC: Kay pulled up to the apartment building and honked the horn. After a minute, Tom came out the door and got in, Kay drove off down the road to the garden. "So, what'd you go and do?" Tom asked.

"Just running a errand for another teacher, and I meet another kid from school." Cara replied

"Oh..." Tom said, not the greatest expression on his face after hearing about the other student. Kay pulled up to the anvil-wich and let the two kids off, an eager look to get back to the apartment as the tires screeched.

"So what have you been doing while me and Kay were gone?" Cara asked

"Waiting, had to hear Leon go on and on about Kay." He chuckled "He's annoying at times."

"And what was he saying? Maybe I can get some info I could use on Kay." Cara asked

Tom chuckled, thinking "Well, he did say she's so embarassed over her love for opera, she uses a fake ID to reserve tickets."

"Maybe I can use that to get my way sometimes." Cara said with a laugh. " Do you have any money on you?"

"No, I got a handful of quarters from the arcade though, but that doesn't get us much." Tom replied. "Oh, by the way, Kay hates dogs, is a Coke person instead of Pepsi, will do about any bet, has a gambling problem, can speak Latin, can't swim, and has always wanted a daughter. Probably why she likes you."

"Ah, now I/we have to figure out how to get some money, unless we can figure out how to use the money you have." Cara replied as they continued to walk down the street.

He emptied his pockets. 3 quarters and some lint.

"Ya, we really need to find a way to get some money, you have any objections to anything?" Cara asked

"Objections?" Tom asked quizically, wondering what she meant "What objections could I possibly have?"

"Oh, I don't know theft for example?" Cara replied

Tetol stood on the stump waving from side to side trying to keep his balance
OOC. is there much wind? or is it sheltered?

"How do you think I made it through the first stage of schooling alone?" Tom replied rhetorically.

OOC: sheltered, it's in a forest
IC:
Pai Mai watched Tetol sway on the stump. After two minutes he picked up a rock and threw it at Tetol. After the rock left his hand he reached for another.

"And who did you rob in school?" Cara asked with an arched eyebrow.

"You see something you want, you be smart about it, and you take it." Matter-of-fact tone to Tom's voice.

"Not what, but who did you steal from? Anyways we need to find someway to get money, any ideas?" Cara asked

"Other students, the staff, anyone who gave the opportunity." He sat down on the sandwich "Well, not meaning to sound snotty, but you're the expert, or at least you're learning to be."

"I'm the suppose to be the manipulator, thus I am 'manipulating' you into come up with ideas." Cara replied with a grin.

Tom chuckled "Well, it's obvious you are only a student."

Jestil apologised to Aaron and the got ready to go to Himmelstoss' office

"The teacher told you to do as I say, so do as I say and think of an idea for making money." Cara replied with a grin.

Tetol saw the rock just before it hit him. He quickly ducked, almost loosing his balance. He managed to regain his balance just before another rock hit him straight in the temple. He almost fell off, but managed to crouch down and get his balance back before he fell off again

Pai Mai laughed and then said, "Very good, but may I suggest not letting the rock hit you to begin with." He lobbed another rock at Tetol

this time the rock came a little lower and Tetol was forced to turn 90 degrees and curve his back around the rock. He turned back and faced back at Pai Mai grinning in minor triumph at having dodged the first couple of rocks Pai Mai had thrown at him, if only just

"Good, your getting better, but your your stull not good enough" He grabbed a moss covered stick and tossed it up to Tetol.

Tetol, amazed that he got a compliment from Pai Mai almost fell off the stump but managed to catch himself just in time. When he was standing again he saw a stick come flying towards him. He caught the stick and waited for Pai Mai's instructions

Aaron got up and put the tray away, obviously in a spot of pain "Nah, that's alright. Wasn't like they didn't do this sort of thing to us in school, right?"

Tom smiled, then got a thoughtful look on his face. "Well, can you sing or play an instument. I saw somebody on a corner playing a flute yesterday and people were giving him money."

"I don't think so, I could try thougth, can you preform any tricks?" Cara asked

Tom shook his head no, but was juggling the three coins he was holding in his hands.

Cara notice what Tom was doing. "Can you do that with bigger things?" Cara asked, pointing to his juggling.

"I'm not really sure." Tom replied, looking at the coins. "I used to do it with alot of things, pistols, apples, potatos, knives, anything really."

"When you used knives did you ever drop them or cut yourself?" Cara asked, the gleam of a plan in her eyes.

"I cut myself on occasion, but very minor, very rarely. Haven't dropped any though." He paused "Why do you ask?"

"I have a plan, but first we must find a resturant and not a fastfood joint. Now help me look for one, preferably with a side door in an alley." Cara replied

((OOC: I gotta go soon, I'm at school right now : P))

"There was an Asian steakhouse half a block down I saw as we were driving here. What good does that do us if we have no money though?"

"Perfect, let's go." Cara said as she dragged Tom with her.

ooc: see you when next your on

Tom laughed as Cara grabbed his sleeve and pulled him with. He quickly stepped up a bit and was walking next to her, brushing her arm away. "Not like I'm goign to escape or something. So, what's uh the deal?"

"Not escape but moving to slowly." Cara replied, "As to the plan, you get to juggle knives, and I'll be doing something else."

"Oh, and people are going to pay us to watch?" Tom finally started to get it.

"Sort of, they will give you tips, but you won't be making the primary money." Cara replied as they got to the door and Cara began working on picking it.

Tom nodded, watching Cara "How do you know how to do that?" He asked, leaning over her and trying the knob, it opened. The door wasn't locked.

"Just practice." Cara replied with a grin. The door lead into the kitchen, which was quite busy. "Now for the first part, go in and get as many knives as you can juggle with out hurting yourself, the bigger and flashier the better."

Tom headed in. After a minute, there was a crash and a lot of yelling as Tom came running out as fast as he can with four cleavers in his hand and four more butcher knives in his pockets.

"Perfect, let's go." Cara leads Tom and begins looking for a well trafficked sidewalk.

They walked out onto State St., a place for shoppers with unusual tastes or unusually thick wallets.

"Alright, here's the plan, you do your juggling, to make money, while I do gymnastics and maybe pickpocket, depending on oppertunity." Cara said as she took Tom's baseball hat. "Ready to start?"

Tom tossed two of the cleavers into each hand, holding them by the blades, fanned out a bit. "Ready as ever."

Cara placed the hat close enought that people would see it and associate it with them but far enought away then wouldn't be scared.
As Tom began juggling, Cara began doing acrobatics and gymnastics and if she saw someone with an opening for pickpocketing she also took the chance to cut a purse or too as well.

One of the people that Cara pickpocketed noticed. IT was an undercover cop, who kicked Cara square in the ribs.

Cara let out a muffled grunt, and she knew the kick would likely leave a bruise but ignored it to prevent causing a scene that might cause people to check thier wallets. After the baseball hat had a somewhat decent amount of money, she motioned Tom to stop juggling and to start packing up.

The officer stayed to the back of the crowd unseen, watching, waiting.

Tom pocketed the knives and took a bow to the crowd, picking up the hat and putting it on his head, the money in it still. All the coins rained down and he caught them, making it look like part of the routine, which insighted one final wave of small amounts of money.

Cara led Tom to a less crowded area and sat down and began counting the money.

Tom's performance had gotten quite the take for the two and the pickpocketing just added to it. Within the 15 minutes they were out there, they had made "269... 270...271 euros." Tom said with a thumbs up. The cop stood at the entrance to the alley, watching the two. Tom didn't notice him.

((OOC: 271 euros is about 314 US dollars. So much for American money these days, eh?))

"This is a nice amount, I'm sure Kay would be proud. Now we should get something to eat, your choice." Cara replied, she noticed the man but didn't give him more than a passing thought.