Construction was going smoothly, well at least smoothly in Mooch's opinion. Everyone else was cursing like a sailor as the cave in continued to rumble through the mines general area. He smiled as the small vibrations of mountain falling in neared its finish, and then clapped as everything calmed. Naturally he was covered in dust and soot from the collapse itself. "Good job guys, we're done at this site, that's the second entrance closed off, now we know when people are coming to visit." He said as he pushed his goggles up to his forehead leaving a streak of pale skin along his forehead. He grabbed the drill next to him and heaved it onto his shoulder with one hand and started down back the way he came. There was still a lot of work to do to make sure the guild hall was secure, however it was exactly what he wanted in his dreams. The place was underground, within a large abandoned mining complex with tunnels going down where most people would never bother exploring. It was a good thing he wasn't like most people.
The hall itself was coming along great, deep within a central hub with a near limitless supply of tunnels coming off of it and only one lead to it. If you didn't know the Talon secret you were almost certain to get lost in the mines. However it like the rest of the mines were no where near finished for the secret underground super base Mooch had designed for this location, this was only the beginning of the Hawks Talons underground city. Certain tunnels needed to be removed, others needed to be extended, rooms and buildings needed to be made, houses, there was a lot of work to be done yet. However Mooch was proud, he only had about ten to fifteen people in his guild and they had already done so much. It was a good thing to be proud of, and so he had decided to go to his area in the far back, he trusted the guys to do whatever they wanted, that's how the Talons worked afterall. If they kept working it was because they wanted too, you made your own life here.
Mooch's Tunnel had been fitted with a metal door leading to his workshop. He walked up to it and slid the small metal panel next to it upwards, revealing a small set of nine unmarked metal buttons. Without hesitation he punched in the secret code only him and his "Fist" Neala knew and entered his workshop and put the drill on the large metal table. The Drill hit the table with a Thud and easily took up half the availible space, Mooch sighed as he grabbed the goggles on his forehead and took them off throwing them in the sink next to the table. A moment later his toolbelt joined them with a crash throwing water everywhere. Mooch looked towards the wall and pushed his head against it with a sigh, it had been a long day and he needed a rest. He sighed again and then took a seat on his small cot assembled into the wall, he looked around and wondered where Ku was. Normally the fox rested here while he worked along with the others.
There was very little a talking fox could do to create a underground city complex after all, besides provide entertainment.
Neala grinned as she moved through the wood directing a few human sized wood golems to assist with the construction. She would be working herself but she had long gotten bored with the effort having been at it far longer than everyone else. Now she wanted to have fun and oh what was this? Looks like the boss was taking a break, Neala moved along the wood following him. Mooch was paranoid so there wasn't really any wood she could use to get in however as he opened the door, and was a noisy guy(seriously he did know that throwing things around made a lot of noise right?), it was way too easy to sneak in unheard. She stayed behind him not really needing to breath and only taking steps when he did until he finally stopped moving. Aha the cot just the right amount of wood in there to hide again. Neala slipping into it and waited as Mooch looked around, he must be looking for Ku that little thing was really entertaining. She could sit there for hours listening to it talk.
"Coooome tooo sleeeeeeep~" Neala said emerging from the frame of the cot and wrapping her arms around Mooch so he couldn't escape, letting some of the plants she kept on her grow out to imitate tendrils to stretch out to capture prey. "Sup boss? Feeling tired?" She asked giving him a hug before sitting down in the waaay back of the cot and starting to give him a back massage. "Sooo tense boss man, and here I thought you were happy. Well happier than you were, need a rest? maybe I could light a few incense candles or run a bath, go on a mission you have not given me yet. I can do anything I am flexible, and not really busy, so how about it?" She said in as much of a soothing tone as she could manage, clearly trying to find something else to do. She was keeping the golems at work but multiple golems at the same time in a different room was hard. She wanted something fun to do, or she could kick him off this cot and take a nap.
Last Edit: Sept 16, 2015 4:07:30 GMT by Neala Furea
There was a moment where Mooch's paranoid powered senses went overdrive. He could feel something dangerous nearby, his eyes widened and he looked around the room he had direct access too. He started to reach for something in his coat as he eyed the door, when the danger senses overloaded. Suddenly there was a soft ringing voice, and tendrils of roots and branches. Mooch reacted in the most composed Manner as the trees came to get him. "AHH AHH AHH AHH AHH AHH AHH AHH" Naturally his flailing and screaming about didn't really do much to stop the Half Dryads hug, but he tried. It took him a few moments to regain his composure and when he did Neala started to make suggestions and ask questions.
"Im a little tired yes, physical work does that to people who aren't made for physical work." Mooch sighed as she started giving him a back massage. While she wasn't GREAT at it, he wouldn't ever say no. It was a kind gesture and that's all that really mattered at the moment. Tense huh? Pretty sure he was always tense, last he checked being happy just made him more paranoid and tenser. For a second he considered getting some sort of psychological help about that, but then realized that psychologists were quacks who stole a rather large buck from your pocket to do a job that your friends did for free.
Now the hard part was finding friends who didn't surprise him with surprise tentacles.
Then she started making suggestions; Candles? Run a bath? Flexibility? Was she? Could it be? Was she offering too? Excitement lit up his face as he turned towards her, this look of confusion on it, but some sort of happy glee. "Are you asking to rob a bank with me?" He asked happily.
Neala did her best to not laugh when Mooch panicked, she loved how he just let lose with the screams when he couldn't do much else. She briefly wondered if he knew that his reaction were why she loved to mess with him, She loved to watch people get all flustered and panicked. Mooch was particularly entertaining, he was jumpy and paranoid. She only had to worry about pushing the scare too far he could attack out of fright, that would suck. Well if he was tired already he must be out of shape, or maybe he'd been working longer than she thought? What did it matter, he was taking a break now, so he must've worn himself out. Or pulled a muscle. She felt her smile grow at the though of him pulling a muscle he wasn't a physical guy so he might get those often right?
That's when Mooch asked her if she was asking to rob a bank with him, well she was kinda hoping for a job of some sort but she hadn't robbed a bank with Mooch in a long time, or at all, she couldn't remember which.
"I would love to rob a bank with you boss! If you are ready to do it now I can go grab my parasol, Where do you wanna go West fiore doesn't have much in the way of high reward targets but there's little security and the local guilds are pfft well not impressive. Magnolia is still more of a small town but it's got a few banks that would be worth hitting if you are fine with tangling with Saber Tooth and Fairy Tail. Central fiore has the larger cities and the Templars I have been itching to see how I measure up to their captains for while now" She babbled excitedly. Realistically they should be focusing on targets that wouldn't attract much attention, but she was confident in her combat abilities unless she went up against an entire squad of high ranking mages she was sure she could easily take down any do-gooders that got in their way, and Mooch was a unpredictable presence in combat as well she was sure they could take on the strongest people around and hold their ground. "Should we do it immediately or would you rather I give you time to plan first?" She asked with a smile.
(o.o if we go with a bank robbery we should totally do an open thread one later see who shows up to stop us!)
Last Edit: Sept 19, 2015 4:23:31 GMT by Neala Furea
(we totally will when we get to that point) "Well first I would like to rest, I mean, not only did I work afterall, but you're now in my bed, scaring the crap out of me. Exhausted, and crapless, is not a good way to rob a bank, how am I going to bullshit my way out of a bad situation if one arises?" Mooch said with a shrug like this was just common sense. "While i'm recovering, we should probably discuss what we're going to rob, and maybe if you have a plan of attack or not. You seem really into this, we could compare notes!" Mooch said excitedly, like if Neala's girl-friend had just said "we could talk about boys!". He was already sitting on his bed to an extent, so he stretched his arms out and place them on his lap and started kicking his foot.
"While I'm happy to go marching into Magnolia town, I don't think their resident Giant would be too pleased with returning to the non-time displaced, and being forced to intervene in a bank robbery. However as he's been wandering lately we may not have to deal with that, however Tony Redgrave is still a problem, as well as this person named Ira Woede, wherever he may be." He tapped his chin thinking for a moment. It was scruffy, he needed to work on that, scruffy was bad for a roguish type, it got you mocked by all the other roguish types. It was even worse when they were better looking than you, which they all inevitably thought they were. The ego's ran high in this area of expertise, at least it was better than the black markets and the amount of blood that flowed through that particular market. "I'm against robbing places near here in West Fiore, too much attention straight off the bat while the organization is down due to construction. Which naturally leaves the Templar filled central Fiore. Now we need a target, potential threats, and a plan"
"Sorry boss man I got over excited, you lay down, get some rest, relax." Neala said moving off his cot and standing at the edge of it stretching her body out. "Woede is a problem no matter where we go, I say just plan as if him showing up was basically guaranteed." Neala shrugged, she had heard rumors of this Woede guy, how he was apparently terrifying, and his actions during the refusal wars. She respected anyone who could get themselves a terrifying reputation like he did but whatever he wasn't the subject matter. "Redgrave is a competent fighter, I would prefer that we succeed at the heist him showing up as well as bringing in other guild members lowers those chances way too much for my liking."
"As for targets there is a bank in Crocus, Raven tail's absence is convenient though I believe there is a Fairly strong Templar presence. The Bank itself is rather impressive, large and prosperous, has it's own security and is unlikely to call for help if the problem seems, 'insignificant'. The Private security's threat is nominal, I already checked them out, confident in their abilities but no match for a true professional. I do not really know much about the Templars in the area though, I could go do recon while you rest." She said giving her boss a smile, she tended to leave the major plans to him, she could make her own but she let her boss make the plans when it was their operation.
"Hummm..." The noise of thought was simple and careless, he knew about this type of resistance however he needed a break before he could really come up with a good plan. He took his coat off and placed it on the corner of his cot, within reach, but off. He wore as useual a short sleeved green shirt, that did no job at hiding the horrible scarring his entire body had up to the neck. From his finger tips starting at the nails all the way to the very bridge of his collar bone. He then stretched out for a second with a few horrible cracks and pops from his joints and muscles. He then laid his head on the pillow and was seemingly out like a light. About three minutes later there was a small pitter patter noise from further within the tunnel, deeper underground. Soon a small white fox trotted up to the cot and sat down and stared at Neala with its calmly mocking violet eyes. Its tail twitched as if the small canine was content with whatever it had been doing before hand. "Wuz crackalackin' Neala?" The fox asked its voice smooth yet melodic. "Got plans todizzle?" Ku asked as well, tacking that onto its previous question. As it did it looked at the small mans coat and looked back at Neala. It moved closer to the coat to stick its muzzle in a pocket and pulled out what seemingly was a small dog treat.
Naturally it ate the ever loving crumbs out of the treat, and as it did Mooch sat up lightning fast, drawing another gun from somewhere on his person and aimed it at the door. A couple of seconds passed and Mooch put the gun on the bed, threw his coat on, and stood up with a stretch like nothing had happened. "About the templars and their strengths, the only one we'd really have to worry about is naturally Able Lockheart, their captain. Even then if he showed up i'm pretty sure I could take him in a fight." "Lockheart be a pushover yo." Yipped Ku. "The hardest part will be coming up with a good plan, for this we'll need a third, sadly we both know the perfect guy." With that Mooch pulled open his door and looked around. "EVERYONE CHECK YOUR POCKETS, FIRST PERSON TO FIND OUT THAT THEY'RE MISSING A WALLET REPORT TO ME" Mooch screamed out of his room. He then turned and looked at Ku. "How much did you grab" "Dude only had like a funky-ass buck fifty, I swear. Shiiit, dis aint no joke." "Right, Ku, stop stealing from guild members or I'll hide a bomb in the next mouse I feed you." The fox just yipped at him and hopped up on the cot and curled up with a snort.
"Now we just need to find out where Cael IS." Mooch stated tapping his chin. "Well that and a plan, but I have a pretty good one."
"Oh hey there Ku, not much just hanging out with the Boss man and coming up with a plan." She said taking a step forwards and scratching the fox behind the ears. Ku was amusing, such an adorable creature that talks like some of the thugs she'd seen hanging around from time to time. It made her laugh a lot. Talking fox? pretty cool. Gansta talking fox? Well that was just ridiculous and hilarious. She gave her boss a glance as he pulled a gun out and pointed it at the door. "Oh Ku you lovable prankster you. You should aim higher if you are gonna snag a guild members wallet." She said giving the fox and friendly pat on the head and turned to Mooch.
"Lockhart? Huh I think I heard that name before, well if we get into a fight I am confident we can take on any challengers. As for the plan I agree we need Cael, if for nothing else a distraction. I do not remember what he was doing, he might be somewhere topside we could use him as a distraction, his shadow magic would be perfect for it. Just need to talk to him without anyone listening in, we will need to locate him first though." She said smiling, she shook her head as Mooch shouted at the other members. "Clearly they feel safe here if they are still letting Ku get away with their wallets. I wish I could get them to agree to train with me they might be more than a group of criminals... Wait you already got a plan? Well stop stalling already let he have it Boss, I am all ears." She said growing some roots from her plants to act like a chair and sitting down.
"Give me some time and I will find Cael promise." She assured him.
Post by Cael Ironstaff on Oct 2, 2015 21:55:00 GMT
"Dia dhuit" Cael said as he materialized out of seemingly nowhere... and that's when Mooch started shooting... a lot... Yeah, don't sneak up on a paranoid guild master. Shortly after the shooting died down and Mooch saying that he shouldn't be able to get in the room without permission Cael looked to Ku, "Hey, good job by the way, you took one of my decoy wallets." he said. "Yo ass is just a arrogant prick" Ku replied. "Maybe you need ta git phat scrub" Cael remarked in an mocking tone. "Ok you be thinkin you so good?! I bet I could kick yo' ass at yo' own game!" Ku said rather hotly. "-Get in the Templar compound-" Mooch said, starting on his "Super plotty plot of plottiness" "Please, don't over estimate yourself, ya awful feckin’ gobshite." Cael said back just as hotly. "-oh hey anyone know where we can get a ballistae?-" Mooch continued, starting to get a little frustrated with the two arguing. "What did you just call me son?! I can't even pronounce dat son! Why don't you learn some english you fuckin ass hole!" Ku responded in a rising tone. "Why don't ye go find yourself a mouse to hunt ye vermin! Or I can make you into a pelt!" Cael said back, rising in tone as well. "OK STOP ARGUING WITH MY FOX AND LISTEN!" Shouted Mooch and Ku darted under a table due to loud noises.
(you really need to add a picture to that man, Its in edit profile, under personal, way down at the bottom under sidebar picture, thank god you fixed that by the time I actually posted this.) With a half spoken greeting from his homeland, Cael showed up, just showed up. Mooch wasnt okay with that, at all, his little paranoia issue went into overdrive as he panicked at the just random fucking appearance of another individual and he shot like three shots into the wall behind Cael. He sighed and threw his hands into the air, tossing the gun with the motion. Okay good now that Cael was here, wait, why was Cael HERE? Wait Ku got Caels wallet? Or was it a dummy? oh it was a dummy, that was less impressive. Whatever, he was too flustered for this shit. He took a few breaths to steady himself, which is when the two idiots in the room started arguing with each other.
"Okay so here the plan, first we need to identify the banks security itself, that shouldn't be a problem for you, Ku, and Cael. I'll leave it to you guys to just do recon properly." Mooch said sitting back down on his bed and sliding against the wall. "After that we need to actually get us and the actual gear needed to carry all the loot we will no doubt be acquiring, all that we need to get in the Templar compound, which should not be too much of a problem for me and Cael, we'll just grab some guard uniforms and a few metal carts and make it look like more currency. Which naturally means we need to rob an armored car on the way to the job, or get a few other members to do that." He paused to stare at the two who were still kinda screaming at each other, thinking to himself for a few seconds. "Oh hey, anyone know where we can get a ballistae? Less out of official need for this robbery and more out of personal curiosity, we don't really need one for this robbery, we are however going to need that armored car for get away use. A few Fiorian firearms, a lot of black bags, a couple Lacrima one wind, two waters, and a fire, and a very expensive drill." He paused for a second, then turned towards the two people in the center of the room. "OKAY STOP ARGUING WITH MY FOX AND LISTEN" He screamed at the two loud mouths, causing Ku to just run under the table. He then reached over and grabbed the jack he was working on the base earlier today with. "We're also going to need this, and a chicken suit."
(Hello proboards I'm gonna punch you in the code if you keep messing with my post!)
Mooch panicked which wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, and she leaned away from the area climbing up into Ku's bed and picking up the fennec and holding it in her arms as it argued with Cael who's accent made her feel strangely at home. She smiled softly as she listened to Mooch try and start up a plan, she was listening to him through some of the plants she was making grow out of the wooden frame of his cot, small ones no petals to attract attention. Didn't need him panicking over them, he might think she was trying take over his bed or something. She just needed to hear over these two anyways. She chose to wait until they stop- Oh sweet Chocolaty Hells Mooch was even louder than they were! Neala froze gripping Ku's neck a bit tighter than she should've.
"Ow, okay so ignoring these two, we need to scope out their security, possibly rob or direct others to rob a armored car. We should be really careful on that wait for an armored car to go down into some bandit territory so it being attacked even 'unsuccessfully' won't immediately step up the security unless you all think we can handle that." She started, scratching her head. "I am not sure about a ballistae considering tat I had not made any weapon contacts that work with large scale stuff like that since I came here. I will add it to my to-do list." She said grinning, before snapping her fingers. "I can however get some empty lacrima really easy, some charged stuff would be a bit more of a stretch but I think I can pull it off, you want something with a bit more oomph right? Not home standard stuff?" She shrugged and patted Ku. "I think we all can get some guns real easily, I mean hells we could just rob some bandits take their outfits and mascaraed as them when we rob a armored truck. Hell even better is there a legit job up to deal with some bandits let's take that and get paid for it on top of it." Neala finished her thought before looking at Cael and Mooch.
Last Edit: Oct 6, 2015 19:41:57 GMT by Neala Furea
Cael watched Ku dart under the table and turned towards Mooch as Neala finished up her thoughts. "I have no problem with recon, as for the armored vehicle that is something we will have to look in to and find out more. The ballistae... that will be interesting, maybe in a future venture we can acquire that. I have a guy who can get us the tools, shouldn't be that hard. I can also talk to him about the chicken suit, he might have one or at least the info on where we can get some." He said with a little bit of a smirk, turning to Neala, "Sounds like a plan if you want smack some bandits up, I'll head with you if you need some back up."
"Well I think we have a the beginnings of a plan if you want to approve it, we can get down to business." He said turning back to Mooch, his grin has grown even wider.
"HmhmhmhmhmhmhehehehehahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Mooch's manic and intensely insane and possibly evil laughter started low, and rang high. He smiled at his two companions as he devised the first part of this plan, and drew a finishing line for it. Oh this was going to be so much better than a bank robbery. "Ku will do the recon, we'll meet you there Ku" "Roger that, Recon yeah. Okay bossman i'll hook up you all up in tha bank." With that, the fox took off at a full sprint back into the deeper tunnel complex hidden within Mooch's room. As the crazed Vallishman looked at his two accomplices. He had one of Fiores strongest fighters, and the cheapest man alive. A good combo, a straight up power house who enjoyed a straight up fight, and a tricksy clever bastard with a crap load of tricksy tools and stupid damnable traps. Mooch always enjoyed those types when they were on his side.
His smile grew as he started the first part of this great scheme. "So there's this biker gang near Gallowstown, running an extortion ring, that's our turf, and working on our people. Right and proper businessmen. Normally id say we try to accept them into the fold of the Hawks, but...and Neala, you're going to like this next bit. Because TECHNICALLY We're" and he stopped to do air quotes for this next bit "New" he finished the air quotes "in the area, that means its not our turf. So naturally we teach these guys and make a lesson out of them, that this is" and he did air quotes again "OUR" he finished the finger quotes "turf, and no one fucks with the Hawks Talons" he smiled at them both as they let that sink in.
"Also there's a guild job for their dispatchment, they're bandits, and they have motorcycles." His smile started to borderline on impossibly creepy levels of large. "See where im going with this?"
