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Danger Shop, After Classes

Once again, it was a Danger Shop day for those who were gathering for the reserves. Reservists would probably notice that they were down to two leaders once again this week, but it would appear that they had swapped out the pretty one for the one with the facial hair and the floppy ears. Zack, for his part, just seemed pleased to be in the company of people at all. Which was nothing new, because, seriously. It was Zack. And being happy to be in the company of other people totally beat out the urge to giggle like an idiot after hearing that their third leader had been turned into a wee bitty hedgehog.

The other thing that they would notice was that the layout didn't really seem to be like anything on the island. Through the doors of the Danger Shop, they would be faced with a large body of deep, murky water, crisscrossed with wooden-plank walkways that seemed to be in a horrible state of disrepair. That fact didn't seem to bother Zack, either.

"Hey, guys! We're doing exercises in balance and speed and surefootedness today!" Zack paused, mouthing 'surefootedness' to himself for a moment as if trying to figure out if that was even really a word. "... Yeah! So! We've got these walkways and stuff, and over at the end of the walkway, which is kind of a maze on its own, is our cookie table!"

Yes. Horror of horror, they were making people earn their cookies today.

"So the point is to get to the other side of the walkways and eat Zack's cookies," said Jak, completely redundantly. There was a short pause, as he glanced around the group, and then promptly realised that he was saying things that were a little redundant, and it would be best if he turned to his own niche of reserve leadering to further fill up the silence. "And try not to fall off and drown," he said, smoothly, "Or die horribly some other way." By... snagging their feet on a loose screw or something.

He shot Zack a quick look, as if waiting for some fountain of wisdom to spill out (or, knowing Jak, just plain 'okay, are we done now?'). "...First one there," he added, awkwardly, "Gets all the best cookies." Beat. "Now what are you waiting for?"

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Stare longingly across the walkways toward the cookies that you can't eat yet!

That was a little mean, she thought, considering the walkway and the cookies. Putting them all the way over there. Hmph.

Well, she'd just have to get them.

Asuna didn't exactly look at the cookies longingly but she was always up to a challenge.

Leda eyed the water apprehensively. Dark murky water could be hiding any number of horrors.

But...cookies.

Goose wasn't particularly bothered about the cookies being put the far away but he was up for the challenge that was being presented to them.

They're rickety, and there's water, and they don't seem to have been fixed up in quite a while. But there's cookies at the end, so what are you waiting for?

Asuna stepped on the walkways and felt it shift. The water below didn't look inviting. She moved another step forward and it felt even more perilous. She had to reach the other side.

There was only one way then, taking a deep breath Asuna let out a shout and ran.

Rickety? No problem. Leda had spent much time in buildings with floors that could collapse any time. And as an elf she had very good balance.

But still, she stood for longer than would seem necessary at the beginning of the course. That water was very murky. Who knew what might be in there?

Oh noes! Your way down to the cookies has suddenly been obstructed by a sudden attack of NINJAS!

When they tag in!

Of course Zack was there! And bouncing on his toes! Uh... carefully, so that he didn't fall in.

You better believe that he had a cookie stash of his own in his pocket, so that he wouldn't miss out on any of the good ones if he politely waited for everyone else to go first.

And Jak was there! Incredibly happy that the talking part was over.

He also remembered the running-over-walkways part, but. Yes.

Tara wandered over to Jak once she was certain Kennedy-the-hedgehog wasn't going to use the force of cute to make her walk through the maze.

"Th-this is Kennedy," she explained softly. "She, uh. I promised I'd take her to watch even if she can't play today."

The hedgehog seemed indignant it was being called "play."

Jak rather understandably rubbed the back of his head at that statement, and gave Kennedy-the-hedgehog a wary look. "Uh," he said, "...just don't throw her over the side into the water?"

Jak, two things: one, there shouldn't be a question mark there. Two, it was Tara. She wasn't.

"I -- I wouldn't!" Tara protested earnestly, clutching the animal to her chest

Kennedy, meanwhile, seemed to be intent on jumping in and proving hedgehogs could swim. Tara gripped her tighter. "D'you think she'd listen if we told her she's not allowed to jump in on her own?"

Were you asking Jak? Jak's communicating-with-women skills were. Uh. Limited. "...can those even swim?" he asked, finally. "Hey, I've never seen one before."

"Hedgehogs?" Tara offered. "I don't know, I hadn't seen one up close before she turned into one a while back."

She gave the tiny animal a doubtful look. "I -- I don't think that's the right water to use to find out whether she can or not."

"Yeah, probably not." Nonplussed Jak was definitely still nonplussed, but he was going to try to take it in stride. "So how long has she been a hedgehog? I wasn't here last week."

"Since yesterday," Tara answered, absently stroking the hedgehog's spikes. "She was going to teach me archery, but by the time I came down she was already like this."

"What was going on last week?"

"Krew called me in for a mission," Jak said, shrugging a little. "Nothing new, just bad timing."

Tara looked concerned as she nodded, eye on the shifting colors of Jak's aura. "You made it out okay, anyhow," she said, not sounding as if she entirely believed it.

"Took a couple of bullets," he admitted, "But nothing a little green eco can't cure." There would be more than a fair share of green in that aura right now, fading slowly, but not quite gone yet. "Anyway, things are starting to get a move on."

It'd taken him a while, but he'd caught on to the idea that it probably wasn't a good thing to elaborate about that to Tara.

Tara looked flummoxed about how casual he was about getting shot, and she swallowed hard to keep from saying something too dumb.

"... and that's good?" she asked, not able to keep a dubious note out of her tone.

"Yeah," he said. "It means it won't be long until I get another shot at the Baron."

Realising he was growling in front of Tara, Jak backed off a little. "Anyway, it's fine. It'll be quiet for a couple of days, probably."

Yes, Jak, thank you for not growling. Tara didn't even realize she had stepped back.

"Good luck?" she tried feebly. "I think Kennedy wants to watch people walk the path, so, uh..."

Not awkward at all.

"...Yeah." Jak rubbed the back of his head. "Uh. Try the pole at the start over there. Maybe?"

"Looks like a place to ... start, yeah," Tara said hesitantly.

She couldn't resist. She waved Kennedy's tiny paw at him. "Later," she said.

The hedgehog looked like she wanted to facepalm.

Ninjas! Cookies! References to levels in maddening videogames! (Sorry, Jak.)

What's not to love?

If you really want an NPC, tag here and we'll get to them for you, otherwise, mod your ninjas to your hearts' content, and have fun. :D

Hey! That walkways level is totally... uh. Doable.

You know.

After you've torn all your hair out and you're stuck screaming at the screen going FOR GOD'S SAKE JAK KILL THEM ALLLLLL.

Funny thing! Jono had far better luck with that level than I ever will!

No idea why.

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