A'huntin we will go~

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Characters: Luke fon Fabre and YOU
Setting: Floor Six (until he realizes how dangerous it is), and then Floor Thirty-Two.
Format: You decide.
Summary: Luke needs warmer clothes and something other than nutrition bars to eat. Naturally, this leads to so much fail.
Warnings: Luke. Failing. AT EVERYTHING.

[There was a soft rustle from the underbrush on floor six, and if you looked closely, you might see a head of red hair snooping around. He's being surprisingly quiet for one so loud, and if you stick around long enough, you'll get to see why.]

[There's a few deer lurking around, minding their own business, and Luke is heading straight for them. He keeps himself quiet, waiting... and then he leaps from his hiding place, sword brandished and eyes squeezed shut as he aims to behead one of the deer...!]

[...but the deer are having none of that. One with a medium size rack of antlers snapped its head toward Luke, baring its teeth and letting out a dangerous, not-very-deer-like growl. He somehow fumbled in mid-air, landing on his butt as the other deer turned on him, letting out similar noises. A startled, "Meep!" escaped from him as he scooted back on his behind, before finally flailing up to his feet.]

[This was the second batch that did that! This was so not a nice forest!]

[Later on, on floor thirty-six, you'll get to see him doing much of the same... with the same amount of success. Clearly, Luke fails at this whole "hunting" thing, and needs a mentor (or someone to mock him).]

Comments

[Mindlink abuse, so that'd be floor 6]

[bloodyashes]

[Headache incoming; sorry, Luke, but he's been watching through your eyes for a while, and has finally had enough of your flailing.]

/If you keep attacking with your eyes closed like that, of course you're going to miss./

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G-gahh...!

[Luke fumbled to his knees, pressing his hands against his head. Ow, ow, ow; stupid original!]

C-can't you just come over and talk to me like a normal person!?

[Mindlink until further notice]

[bloodyashes]

/I'm comfortable./

[If Luke cares to notice, there's a bit of a song at the edge of Asch's awareness - some kind of hymn from another world, which Asch is listening to as he's wedged up in a beanbag on the media floor.

The damn things really are comfortable.]

/Also, if you want to be quiet, try walking on the balls of your feet./

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I was being quiet just fine, at least until someone interrupted me!

[Luke grumbled under his breath, folding his arms. There had to be an easy way to kill these deer, he just had to figure it out...]

...besides, I don't think the deer on this floor are normal.

[bloodyashes]

/Not quiet by my measure. Special Forces would eat you alive if you call that sneaking./

[Yes, there's a bit of a huff there - really, Luke, you barely even avoid stepping on twigs and things that rustle.]

/And you can't honestly tell me you expect anything here to be normal./

[In that tone of voice, you'd think Asch was the one who'd been here for months, instead of a little over two weeks.]

Floor 32

[facedthetruth]

*Someone else had been watching the same group of deer as Luke. As the deer spook, someone throws a knife that looks like it was stolen from the kitchen at one of them. He'd intended to hit its neck, but with the poor balance of the knife combined with his illness, he barely grazed its leg instead as it ran off.

A second later, Margulis drops down from his hiding place in a tree, landing a little more heavily than he'd planned, and glares.*

If you're going to flail about wildly, do it where you won't be interfering with other people.

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[Luke was more than happy to glare right back.]

Hey, at least I was trying to kill it. What the hell was that just now?

[facedthetruth]

*He coughs a bit, but ignores it and walks to retrieve his knife.*

An unfortunate problem with combining improvised weapons, minor illness and the ability nullifying nature of this floor.

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...abilities are nullified here?

[He had no clue... then again, his only big ability was his lame attempt at using fields of fonons and hyperresonance. Of course he didn't realize it.]

Floor 6..? because she's too scared to get to the other floor alone. ;A;

[holychord]

[As Luke backed away from the creepy mutated animals, someone, closer to the stairs began to sing.]

Kuroa Ryuo Zue...

[As her song continued, a shell of light encased Luke, keeping the deer from harming him.]

Luke!

[Tear came bounding through the trees, and almost as soon as she reached him, the force field around Luke faded away.]

Why are you-- Huh?

[Obviously, that wasn't supposed to happen...]

D'awww...

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[One of the deer hit her barrier, looking confused a moment, as was Luke. As soon as it vanished, though, the deer was right back to charging, antlers aimed for the both of them now.]

[Crap.]

[Luke spun around blindly, smacking the deer with his broken sword. It stumbled for a moment, dazed, before it went right back to growling at him, hoofing at the ground. He probably should have made a break for it... but with Tear there now, he couldn't look that lame!]

Back me up, Tear!

[He grit his teeth, standing his ground. Dammit, he was going to get a new coat and a decent meal if it was the last thing he did!]

It's a secret~ thatonlyjadeknowsprobably ;A;

[holychord]

[She hopped back and began to sing again, only... nothing happened.]

My hymns aren't working!

[So instead, she launched a pair of throwing knives for the beast's head.]

FFF

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D-damn! Powers must not work against them!

[One of the knives hit the deer's antlers, making it shake its head in irritation. Luke shot forward while it was distracted, managing to bring his sword crashing down on the animal's skull... though it was more like cracking down. As the deer stumbled away at the attack, there was a noticeable snapping noise from Luke's blade, another crack appearing from the broken tip.]

32!

[scorchedchivalry]

[Luke will catch sight of Saber off by herself - that blue greatcloak is very hard to miss - but her hair is all down, hanging loose about her shoulders. And she has a small black furball in her arms as she stands motionless as she stands in the forest, looking at something before her.

To Luke, there is nothing there...]

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[Hey... he hadn't seen her in awhile. Luke approached, kind of curious what she was looking at.]

Saber?

[scorchedchivalry]

[Luke will find that there is a small black cat in Saber's arms, snuggled against the king's chest for warmth. She doesn't respond to the call of her name, but it's clear she's watching something in that empty space.

She even glances over at Luke after a long moment. Her shoulders sag a little before she sighs and looks back to whatever she was watching before, fingers scritching the cat behind the ears.]

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[...woah, okay, something was seriously wrong here. He paused glancing to see if there was anyone else around, before he spoke again.]

Arthuria? You okay?

Floor Thirty-Two! IN UR FORESTS, RUININ UR HUNTS EVEN MOAR (...Hooboy, here we go...)

[idol_support]

[Hunting deer with a sword is pretty fail, Luke. But he can be pretty quiet when he wants to, because it looks like he's managed to creep up pretty close to a couple of them, when suddenly--]

Heeeeey, Luke~!

[Don't mind Rise Risette, she's just going to be basically pulling an Anise and tackling you from behind without warning. She doesn't let go after the initial tackle, either, hanging there a couple inches off the ground with her arms wrapped around his neck and her chin resting on his shoulder and of course her boobs pressed up against his back, too X'D.]

Whatcha doing?

[Of course, Risette isn't at all quiet, so the deer he'd been trying so hard to stalk have most certainly bolted and are already long gone by now.]

Oh. My. God.

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[Luke let out a really loud, "ACK!" as he was pounced on, flailing, but still ending up face first in a bush. He grumbled as he lifted his head, watching the last deer he was stalking run off into the trees.]

Dammit!

[He swiveled his head around, glaring at Rise as best he could.]

What the hell, Rise?!

This is going to be TERRIBLE isn't it. |D

[idol_support]

Rise? [She gives a playful-sounding scoff.] I'm Risette, silly! Why would anyone want to have someone boring and gloomy like Rise around when they could have me!

[She is making no move to release him, and is seemingly oblivious to the glare~]

And hey, you didn't answer my question!

COMPLETELY

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Risette... what?

[Luke tried to stand in an effort to get her off. What the heck was wrong with her... why wasn't she acting like herself?]

Why are you calling yourself boring and gloomy? You're nothing like that.

32

[of_emptiness]

[ HA. ] Hey, hey! You almost got it that time.

[ Translation: you suck at this, man. ]

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[HE KNOWS OKAY?! Luke let out an irritable grumble, standing up straight and trying not to look as annoyed as he felt; was everyone a critic?]

I-I'll get 'em next time.

[of_emptiness]

[ He shoves his hands into his pockets, giving a shrug. ] I hope you don't have anyone depending on you for some of those for dinner.

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I'm going to give the meat out to who ever wants it; the nutrition bars are filling, but it's easy to get sick of them.

[He reached back, rubbing his neck. Man, this was so much easier in his head...]

Who are you, anyway?