Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-17970636-20151031204604/@comment-17970636-20151102062012

(Alright for convenience's sake you're all in Ozpin's office)

The professor looked at each of the students as they arrived and wondered whether this was a terible mistake, his position was already under review and now this.

Children can surprise you though.... he thought to himself.

Would that be the thought that would console him until their bodies arrived? If they ever did?

Casting the thoughts away he looked at each face in turn at spoke their names.

"Tanner Arthen, Stephan Kalashnikov, Amet Revfold, Leaf Evergreen, Regda Yenoh and finally Miss Inari Tsukiakari. You've all read over the mission I would hope as I'm not going to give a recap, I'm simply going to give you some things, some suggestions, and let you be on your way."

The professor stood up and turned his back to them, looking outside towards Vale before continuing.

"However, I will not pretend like you may not lose your lives. Many good hunters have and while you are all hunters and huntress in training, I am choosing to send you without a guide. Professor Oobleck or Professor Goodwitch would both be amiable choices, however, I am deciding to put my full faith in you. I pray that you succeed."

The professor turned back and pulled six scrolls out of his desk and placed one in front of each student.

"You'll be leaving your scrolls here...." Ozpin paused for a moment. "Until your return. These scrolls are much more durable than the ones you currently hold and they contain information about your teammates in terms of overall health and aura level. They also contain maps of each region you'll be visiting.... except for conclage. the map of Ryka is constantly changing, but the map contained in here will only be around 80% accurate so you're going to have to use your heads a bit as well...." he paused before continuing.

"I will only say this once. Only by working as a team can you expect to succeed in this. If you're going to quarrel and refuse to help one another then this missions is already over. You're already dead. Working cohesively is the only route of success."

At the end of his speaking each scroll lit up, showing the user's aura level as well as displaying "Condition: Stable, Mentality: Stable or for a few: Nervous.

"Your mental stability is also key to keep track of, these scrolls will warn you of any lacerations on your teammates, but if one of them is mentally wavering, you also must assist them." Ozpin continued.

"I have spoken for much longer than I should've as the sun is high in the sky and it is the optimal time for you all to be leaving, however, please bear with me for a bit longer. The city of Ryka is one where you all must stick together as a group. Never turn a corner without everyone else turning it too. If someone needs to enter a shop, everyone enters the shop together. One mistake could leave one of you trapped by themselves. Getting out of the city should be simple if you simply head west, however I won't lie to you and say that there aren't useful resouces there, stocking up might not be a bad idea."

The professor then reached into his desk once more and said solemnly.

"As to display my gratitude to each of you, I've decided to get each of you something that should aid you."

In front of Inari he placed a ring.

"This ring will bolster your aura levels and as well as the strength of your semblance, I believe you wont require contact with an enemy to freeze their weapon and retreiving your swords ought to be a much quicker task.... and take these as well."

He then slid forward four vials and a single crystal of light pink dust that seemed to be glowing lightly.

"This is all I have for a rare element known simply as "healing dust" rare because it's only naturally found and recreating the conditions for making it haven't been discovered yet. Use them wisely."

He then moved to Regda and placed a small box in front of him.

"This is a premium lock pick kit, as well, there are some electric dust crystals inside if you so need them. I also included the user's manual for the lock picking.... but I doubt you'll need it."

He then stepped to Leaf and placed a single crystal of Rift Dust.

"You've heard of this, you know what it can do. It's got a good number of uses in a single crystal, but when the time comes, you'll know when to use it. The reason people don't just warp into conclave and out however, is that in conclave, the user cannot enter his own portal. I don't know why, but keep that in mind."

Then moving on to the purple haird boy and placed a belt of a dozen cartridges in front of Amet.

"These are four times stronger than the ones that you currently use for your sword. Each cartridge is usable 3 times, so remember that."

He then moved onto Stephan and placed two things in front of the Kestral faunus.

"This right here is a solar charger for your rifle, it'll recharge the batteries you use while the sun is up, it's not too big and it sticks out to the left so it shouldn't be much of a hindrage. And this...." he said gesturing to a white fang mask with crosshairs etched onto the left eye and an bird of prey sketched onto the right. "Should help you at Base Morte."

Finally, he stepped to Tanner and pulled out a sealed bottle of whiskey and slid it over with a wink.

"Alright, you're now dismissed. You have an hour to get ready and then meet each other over at Forever Fall those who are ready head over right now and get acquainted."

(For the sake of time, could be the end of each next post could you have your OC arrive at the forest?)

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Leaf grabbed the scroll and the crystal of dust and looked at it. It was deep purple, almost black and it appeared to have some kind of energy spiralling inside it.

''I'll know when I need to use it... well according to my experience one can only warp to some place where they've been to before and the distance they can warp to depends on the users familiarity with the rift, an experienced hunter could get into conclave and grab the ruby, but be forced to battle his way out, and he can't go into his own portal there. Hmm.... this is worth investigating a bit, but first...''

The boy headed to his dorm and readied up, grabbing Hades, Chronos and Thanatos and filling with plenty of extra ammunition and a couple of dust crystals of each type for his sword, putting the rift dust in a special pocket on the inside of his jacket.

Finally, he grabbed a small pack and filled it up with snacks, in case anyone got hungry.

Looking over at his dorm, all of his teammates were looking at him with mixtures of affection and worry, except  for one blonde girl who had her back faced to him.

Leaf went over and rubbed Pomona's shoulder. "Pom?"

"Go away, you want to go and die so much just go, LEAVE!" she screamed.

Leaf reached behind his neck and undid his necklace, dropping it beside her.

"Aster, I know you'll take care of her until I return." he said evenly and walked out.

A half hour later, he arrived at the meeting point, forcing his mental condition to stable, he wasn't surprised that he wasn't the first to arrive.

"Leaf Evergreen, nice to meet you all"

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Stephan went back to his dorm and readied up, grabbing every single pack of ammo he had, attaching the solar generator to the side of his gun, but just in case, he also grabbed his two extra already full battery packs, leaving his charging stand where it was.

Yeah, I`ll plug it into a tree. he thought sarcastically.

Putting on his combat vest and grabbing his holsters, putting the extra clips of ammunition for his pistols and finally the already loaded pistols in, he grabbed his ammo belt and placed clips for his sniper on it. the overall getup was a bit heavier than he was used to, but it didn't bother him. Placing his sniper into a bag, he slung it over his shoulder, his sniper had a strap on it, the bag was simply there to protect it from the elements.

Finally, he grabbed the mask Ozpin had gave him.

''I thought I'd gotten rid of this, how quaint of him to keep it. He's not wrong though, in a mercenary base this will be helptul.''

He put it on and immediately felt like how he had before Beacon, the tactical sniper who assassinated so many.

No time for brooding on the past... he thought and tossed the mask into an inner sleeve on his vest.

He walked taking his time, and it wasn't a surprise that he was the last to arrive, he looked over all of them, 4 humans and what appeared to be a faunus, but he couldn't distinguish what species from the ears.

"Stephan Noir Kalashnikov...." He muttered, not too comfortable of being forced to work with humans that weren't his team, his ten foot long sniper sticking out a fair bit above his head.