fandomhigh | Merc'ing 101: How to Make it as a Mercenary and Still Stay in One Piece, Wed 8/14, period 4

Island hopping he could dig. Turning into a kid wasn't so bad. Even hordes of crawling, slithering things he could handle. This random getting lost? Not so much. "Freakin' island," he muttered, "gonna make me even more crazy."

Blink. Oh. Hi class.

"Uh...glad everyone could make it. Hope it didn't take you too long to make it here." Or you didn't just, you know, find yourself lost in your own house for hours just to suddenly wind up two seconds later in the Danger Shop. At least it was convenient this time?

"So...uhm..." Murdock was a off to a bit of slow start today, but he'd get there. "Mercs. Play an important role in ... certain circles. Like political circles or as some people call 'em Clans. As we covered in class before, merc companies were often used by higher powers in time of war. And as we've seen before, merc teams and companies can come in all sizes. Large scale forces and smaller, more elite teams. Mainly what drives the size of 'em is the kind of need there is. Sometimes, you need large-scale and sometimes, you need smaller strike units." He grinned a bit impishly. "Then you have times where you're short on both, so you have to combine them. One single man, with a lot of firepower." His grin wasn't perhaps on the completely sane side.

"Now, are we ready? Nobody got lost in the last five minutes?" Ignore the look of annoyance at that idea. "Then good! Let's get started."

And he might have to talk with Tyler about that attic...

(ooc: the standard stuff again. ~~wait for ocd plz~~ tis up!)

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Like you have no idea where the hell you are.

Bender

Rikku

Ignore him, chat amongst yourselves or twiddle your thumbs. Just don't get lost in the middle of class.

"Wars are often fought for many reasons. Independence, conquest, those kinds of things and then you have religion. Sometimes the worst and bloodiest battles are fought in the name of religion. And if you get things like a crazy cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Blake) involved, the rules of engagement change."

"Now, you might think that a group of mercenaries are only looking after themselves.". But sometimes, the merc team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%27s_Dragoons) can have more principles than you might expect. Maybe it's odd to have a merc company go after a religious sect, but when that group decides to attack civilian targets," he did not look pleased at that idea, as he paced around the Danger Shop, "the unexpected rise to help."

"These guys," he finally stopped moving and faced his students, "have taken over a whole planet. They've killed a lot of civilians and destroyed large parts of the planet. We're part of the guys being sent in there to drive them out. It won't be easy, especially with that base they got hidden somewhere. That needs to be found and destroyed, the rest is clean up. But gettin' there won't be easy."

Rikku was frowning. A lot. A lot.

Stupid freaking religions.

"Is this scorched-earth?" she asked. "Like, can we just go in and kill them all?"

"Close to," Murdock replied. "All civilians should be out of the way as we head in, and at the base..." he just gave her a look that pretty much said it all, "no civilians at all. Just them."

That was as close to a 'yes' answer she was going to get.

The safety protocols are on. Of course. Huge robots with guns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BattleMechs)? Heck yes, the safeties are on! Choose whichever you want. You can also opt for Battle Armor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BattleMechs#BattleArmours), which is useful at times, and if you know how to do it, you can 'jack' someone else's mech. Totally mod what you want and what you want to do. Just like...

After Murdock's little spiel, there was robots. Big, honking, huge ones. With big, honking, huge guns. Boggle at them if you need to before you pick one out. Then fight in battle! Shoot the enemy! Shoot ... anything that moves! Murdock sure will. He was still annoyed by the island losing him every time he turned around and he was going to have himself a therapeutic session. OH YES.

Bender sidled up to a spiky robot (http://theinfosphere.org/images/1/1c/Destructor.jpg) that looked kinda familiar.

"How's about you and me make tracks and kill all humans?"

Murdock caught that comment. "Just so long as you don't shoot the rest of us."

Then he climbed in a robot (http://mechassault.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/cougar-cnofig-screen.htm) and took off.

Rikku was shooting at everything. Everything. Stupid lying Yevonites who kept their own war machina but said nobody else could use them.

Rikku was shooting a lot.

Murdock was probably shooting just as much as she was. He even let out a screeching howl when a building crumbled to the ground.

Who said all therapy had to involve a couch?

After ~~piloting a huge robot and blowing the crap out of things~~ class ended, he was still around. And in a much better mood than he had been. Wonder why.

Edited 2008-08-13 04:40 (UTC)

Alice entered the room, looking around curiously, a swallowtail butterfly resting on the back of her hand.

Murdock was quite surprised to see her walk in. "Alice!" he beamed at her. "How's it goin', girl? Oh, you found a butterfly. Pretty."

"I believe she might be a student," Alice said, worrying her lower lip between her teeth. "I've yet to see Anemone, and this butterfly's been inhabiting her alcove."

"Anemone?" He leaned down to get a closer look. Like that would help, sure. "Well...I didn't see her in class today." He glanced back up at Alice, "You sure this could be her?"

"That it could be, yes, I am," Alice smiled. "That it is her, I'm afraid I'm not. But her absence from class is rather telling. Should she arrive, I'll send her to you at the first convenience. In the meantime, I suppose this is a fair excuse for missing class."

"Yah," he straightened back up, "it's not like her to miss class." He glanced down at the Anemone?butterfly. "If that really is you, you're totally excused," he grinned. He looked back to Alice, "But if you do happen to run into her and she's not actually a butterfly," or anything else, "send her on by, sure. I'll be around for a bit, and if not, I got office hours tomorrow."

"I need to swing back by the music shop again, huh? Been a while," he smirked.

"It was better for your sake to have missed yesterday," she frowned. "Most of the music was bubble-wrapped. The discs that were skipped were ones that the island thought didn't need protection. It was right."

She didn't think it was coincidence that all of the untouched music was horrible, no.

"Ugh. That sounds horrible. I'm...not even goin' to ask what you had to put up with. Maybe I'll catch you next week? Been busy on Tuesdays now. And yesterday," eyeroll, "I got lost anyway. If I didn't know any better, I'd say the island was just tryin' to mess with me." He tapped a finger to a temple, "You know what I mean?"

If you've never played any of the video games, you totally should. Better if you have family/friends to play with. Nothing says 'I love you' like blasting them with a Particle Projection Cannon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechAssault#Energy_weapons). Hah!

Yes, it's up a early.

Cuz I'm off to bed. I have a new med and its making me dead.

... I can't believe I just rhymed that. lol.

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