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[freeformschooler]

~Prologue Pt. 2~

	"If elected leader of the Red Team, I vow not to lead us to our bloody deaths!"
	"what Ashley no that is a terrible team name"

"I nominate myself for leader!" Squeaked the small being beneath everyone's feet, hopping up and down to catch their attention. When they all turned to look at her, she said it again, a bit louder. Because some times they didn't hear!

"Also, I figure a good team name is 'The Seekers'. I mean, that's what we do, right? Seeking! I'm not too small to be leader, anyway.

My name is Mowsalyn by the way. Nice to meet all of you! I mean, this is my first time working with my own team, so I hope everything works out.

...I nominate myself for leader!"

The Register Toad squinted at Ash and his unusually acute angle then perked up again when he heard Mowsalyn also declare her leadership capabilities.

"You know what? How about I just put you guys down as 'undecided.' Leader's only important in who gets and distributes the rewards, and team name is mostly for rankings." The tiny capped man pointed to a large grey wall opposite his counter. A comically-large plaque on the top read "Wall of Heroes." Under those words, a pyramid of hung portraits spread out almost to the floor. At the top, the world's most recognizable heroes: Mario and Luigi. The next two portraits under those were of Team Kong, lead by the famous ape himself, and Teamometry, a two-man Magikoopa group. "Here. We've got a few D-rank jobs unclaimed right now. That's where you are. D-rankers. Be proud of it! You can only take one job at a time, so let me know when if you reach any kind of consensus."

Spoiler: Trouble in Paradise (click to show/hide)

Image credit to the Mario Wiki

Job description: Help! Someone's stolen the Grand Pianta Statue from Isle Delfino. This isn't the first time it's happened, so I want you to get it back AND find out why someone would want it. If you're feeling brave enough, I'll pay for a trip from Toad Town docks to the Isle. As a centerpiece of Delfino Plaza, we need that statue BACK!

P.S. In case a Pianta stole it, our giant noses are our vulnerable spot. Yee-owch!
Client: "Junior"
Recommended skills: Investigation, interrogation, maybe even self-defense
Time limit: --
Difficulty: ☆
Reward: 1500 Coins, lifetime free passage to Isle Delfino

Spoiler: Dangerous Dinner With Dubious Duchess (click to show/hide)

Image credit to my unbelievable willingness to copy-paste old drawings

Job description: I will be hosting a dinner tonight at my castle. There will be cake~ We're short on guards, and one of the guests is a very special duchess whom I fear. Our countries have not gotten along so well lately. In case she brings uninvited friends, I want you working as extra eyes to help guard the castle.
Client: If you don't know, don't bother~
Recommended skills: Observation, combat
Time limit: One day
Difficulty: ☆☆
Reward: 2000 coins, cake

Spoiler: I Need Parts! (click to show/hide)

Image credit to Chrono Trigger

Job description: I need a fuel cell for my latest invention. It's going to be really impressive, I guarantee you! But the cells are veeeeeeeery expensive, and my stocks have taken a nose dive since the Winged Hat Scandal. I might know where to find one for free, but it's reeeeeally risky. That's where you come in!
Client: A Brilliant Inventor
Recommended skills: Rummaging through scrap metal, self-defense
Time limit: 7 days
Difficulty: ☆
Reward: 1250 coins, 1 badge

[5] As the team looked through the job openings, they noticed a crowd gathering near the Battle Stall at one end of the building.

[Tomcost]

I would take the princess' quest just for the cake. Anyway I'm not even playing

[Dwarmin]

Mow looked at the jobs, rubbing her tiny chin.

"I say we take the Cake. I mean the mission with the cake. Dangerous Dinner With Dubious Duchess, I mean. Not that the others ones don't look very interesting, but it'd be nice if we all got to know each other before we got into any trouble,  right? And if we're lucky it will be easy coins without much danger. Seeing as I'm broke."

Action: Vote for DDWDD mission. And myself as Team Leader!

((OOC: Let's all vote for a mission and a team leader in our actions to get it out of the way. I'll go with majority rules in any case.))

[freeformschooler]

((If there's a pattern of no one being able to decide on anything then I could always make it a poll, but then it's not just you who can vote I doubt this'll come up very often, though))

[flabort]

Roger slouches against the wall beside Ash.
"Rewards...? That sounds... like something... I'd... like to handle...
But I... don't think... I should be... trusted with that..."
Looking at Ash, it continues.
"You... look trust... worthy... enough. I think... you should be... leader."

When Mow declares her preference for the security detail, motivated by cake, Roger straightens up and declares "I... don't like... being indoors... much... I'm going... outside... to soak... up some... sun. There's... plenty... of sun... on Delfino... it would be... better... than being... cooped up... in a castle... or a cave..."

((Edit: That's a vote for TiP quest, and Ash for Leader))

[Blade Master Model 42]

Mimic Guy swapped in his happy mask, immediately becoming significantly more chipper. "Cake sounds nice and all, but I'm with Roger. The Delfino deal sounds fun. Besides, lifetime free passage to the Isle Delfino? That's a nice bonus, y'know!"

Voting for TiP and obstaining from a leader vote!

[monk12]

	"Ooh, cake!"
	"uh I don't know if that one is such a good idea Ashley what with the volatile political situation and the high difficulty rating and us being new at this and all"

Ash's face disappears within her trenchcoat.

"But it pays the most, and it requires the least walking around! What, you want to do the one that'll give us a badge? I don't want to spend a day scrounging through scrap, it sounds dangerous and an awful lot like work." "Well then why don't we do the Trouble in Paradise one like the pokey wants since it seems pretty easy and the pay is okay"

Another moment of muffled deliberation emerges from the slumped human figure before Ash's face emerges from the trenchcoat. The bounty hunter carefully adjusts her hat and sunglasses.

"Alright, so, after thinking it over, I think we should do Trouble in Paradise for our first mission together. It plays well with our skillset, and probably won't have more than one fight, so it will be good practice. And hey, if the pokey wants me to be leader, I won't argue! I'm pretty good at sharing if I say so myself."

Vote TiP Quest
Vote Ash for loot-distributor Leader

[Dwarmin]

((That looks like a lock for mission and I doubt Errol wants to deadlock us by voting for me...))

Mows did the math, and her ears drooped.

"Oh, erm, uh...hooray for the Democratic process..." She said, wondering if they chose him because he was taller, or if she was just too short.

[Errol]

"...zzzhuhwha? Er, um. I shall cast my vote for whatever the vote has already been cast for!"

[freeformschooler]

~Prologue Pt. 3~

"...zzzhuhwha? Er, um. I shall cast my vote for whatever the vote has already been cast for!"

"Alright, so, after thinking it over, I think we should do Trouble in Paradise for our first mission together. It plays well with our skillset, and probably won't have more than one fight, so it will be good practice. And hey, if the pokey wants me to be leader, I won't argue! I'm pretty good at sharing if I say so myself."

Vote TiP Quest
Vote Ash for loot-distributor Leader

When Mow declares her preference for the security detail, motivated by cake, Roger straightens up and declares "I... don't like... being indoors... much... I'm going... outside... to soak... up some... sun. There's... plenty... of sun... on Delfino... it would be... better... than being... cooped up... in a castle... or a cave..."

((Edit: That's a vote for TiP quest, and Ash for Leader))

Mimic Guy swapped in his happy mask, immediately becoming significantly more chipper. "Cake sounds nice and all, but I'm with Roger. The Delfino deal sounds fun. Besides, lifetime free passage to the Isle Delfino? That's a nice bonus, y'know!"

Voting for TiP and obstaining from a leader vote!

Mow looked at the jobs, rubbing her tiny chin.

"I say we take the Cake. I mean the mission with the cake. Dangerous Dinner With Dubious Duchess, I mean. Not that the others ones don't look very interesting, but it'd be nice if we all got to know each other before we got into any trouble,  right? And if we're lucky it will be easy coins without much danger. Seeing as I'm broke."

Action: Vote for DDWDD mission. And myself as Team Leader!

((OOC: Let's all vote for a mission and a team leader in our actions to get it out of the way. I'll go with majority rules in any case.))

"Alright, I'll call up your client for the quest. When you're done in the Forge, you'll find a ferry at the docks right west. Just show this slip to the captain, and he'll take you where you need to go." The Register Toad handed the slip to Ash with a wink. It was a bit odd how much bureaucracy was involved in being a hero, but the nameless team didn't need to think about it much. With that, they turned around and took their first long, collective look at the building's innards.

The Hero Forge was much like an indoor market. A dim place with few windows, two large doorways on either side teased the place with slivers of daylight. Every surface was tiled a depressing grey. Every corner was filled with stalls selling adventurer's goods. The team didn't have much money, but they rummaged through their pockets to see if they had enough to buy anything before they left.

[6] Mimic Guy found a whole SIX HUNDRED COINS in his pockets! He was totally holding out on everyone.
[4] Roger counted four-hundred sparklies left over from his travels. No one asked where he kept them.
[6] Ash still had the six-hundred from that man's trenchcoat!
[1] Mowsalyn wasn't kidding about being broke. She only managed to scrape together one-hundred coins from searching through her desert garb.
[2] Sir Bigglesworth pulled off his cap and shook out 200 coins. Damn kids always tryna steal his retirement moneys.

Some of the more prominent peddlers had signs on the front of their shacks:

Buddy-bom's Explosives
Cheap Cheep's Deals
Warioware: Mega Magic!
Goom-bess' Gypsy Fortunes
King Koop's Overstock Armory

The group couldn't see everything at once. Hero Forge was always crowded with lots of adventurers, shoppers and people just looking for information. The crowd gathering on one end dispersed and went back to their normal trading.

Spoiler: Mimic Guy (BMM42) (click to show/hide)

Name: Mimic Guy
Race: Shy Guy
Rubric: None
Gender: Who knows, man?
Bio: Mimic Guy is a Shy Guy, who, unusually, carries several different masks with him(her? whatever), with varying expressions. He(She? It?) swaps them out depending on the situation, causing personality changes. Or maybe the masks are swapped because of the changes? It's hard to say. Mimic Guy's true objectives are shrouded in mystery, as depending on what mask is on when you ask, being questioned about it will lead to different answers.

HP: 10/10
FP: 10/10
Power: 1d6

Mastered badge:
Additional badge:
Inventory: 600 coins

Spoiler: Roger (flabort) (click to show/hide)

Name: Roger
Rubric: None
Race: Pokey, please. Or see below if not.
Gender: Plant
Bio: If you grow up in a cave, and rely on photosynthesis, you're gonna have trouble. There's not much light in a cave. But there's this hole in the roof of the cave where it first sprouted. This is where its family lived.
It had the advantage of sprouting where the light shone all day, instead of being shadowed most of the time. It got greedy, and kept pushing its siblings away, back into the shade. When it rained, it claimed most of the rain, too.
It took it's name, Roger, when a human tromping through got accidentally spiked on it, and expired. It felt guilty, for once, and it's family took advantage of this, heaping on guilt until it could stand their company no more, and fled.
After a long time lost in the dark caves, it found the exit. Hungry from lack of light and water, it was desperate, and greedily shoved a goomba out of the sun. When this goomba protested, Roger realized that it was being mean again.
So burdened by guilt, it decided to start to be generous and giving instead. And what's more generous than saving people from danger? And that's what heroes do, so it decided to become a hero - the first pokey hero.

HP: 25/25
FP: 0/0
Power: 1d4

Mastered Badge:
Additional Badge:
Inventory: 400 coins

Spoiler: Ash (monk12) (click to show/hide)

Name: Ash. Or more specifically, the top half is Ashley and the bottom half is Ashton.
Rubric: None
Race: Human
Gender: Yes
Bio: Ashley and Ashton are twin ten year olds from [insert reasonably grim Mario city here]. They never knew their parents, as they were abandoned at an orphanage as infants. The Ash twins were the only humans at the orphanage, and they never got along with any of the other children. Ashley possesses a lightning wit and an outgoing personality, while Ashton is quite strong and has a thorough, methodical approach to problem-solving. Together, they could easily think or fight their way out of any situation.

HP: 10/10
FP: 10/10
Power: 1d4

Mastered badge:
Additional badge:
Inventory: 600 coins

Spoiler: Mowsalyn (Dwarmin) (click to show/hide)

Name: Mowsalyn
Rubric: None
Race: Custom-Mouser/ http://www.mariowiki.com/Little_Mouser
Gender: Girl
Bio: Mowsalyn (her nickname is Mow, Mowmow, Sally or Lyn as the mood strikes her) is barely noticeable from a distance-a diminutive rodentlike being with a round body-tawny sand colored hide, a long twitchy black tail that ends in question mark arch, her head topped with small and delicate round ears with a fuzzy grey interiors-and a pair of peeping, ocean blue eyes peering from behind a white bandanna that wraps around her upper body. She's also wearing the gear of an explorer, albeit in a small size-a tiny tan desert uniform and a halfsize fedora, a small shovel and a miniscule magnifying glass-all in very cute, mouser appropriate sizes. If you try to speak to her without warning, she will squeak and flee.

HP: 5/5
FP: 10/10
Power: 1d6

Mastered badge:
Additional badge:
Inventory: 100 coins

Spoiler: Sir Bigglesworth (Errol) (click to show/hide)

Name: Sir Bigglesworth the First
Race: Toad
Gender: Male
Bio: Sir Bigglesworth the First comes from a long line of honorable Toad paladins - or at least he intends to start one. He even has a loyal Yoshi steed! Then he dismounted it, because it was a stick yoshi and people were laughing at him. For, you see, the era of Toad Paladins is sadly long over, and this particular Toad is more than a bit delusional and has passed the prime of his years.
But fear not! Bigglesworth still does his best, standing tall against the ravages of time and doing good where he can. And despite his inability to use Flower Power, he wields his ancestral badge once owned by more practically minded toad ancestors, and protects the innocent with the blazing furor of the righteous.

HP: 20/20
FP: 0/0
Power: 1d4

Mastered badge:
Additional badge:
Inventory: 200 coins

[Dwarmin]

Mowsalyn dumped out the rest of her pockets, revealing only strings, buttons, sand, bones, paper and a single tiny wiggler-which turned red and retreated back into her pocket. She frowned, her nose and ears drooping.

Oh well! Time to make her money go as far as it could...

Action: Scurry over to Cheep Cheep Deals!

[GreatWyrmGold]

Someone go to the gypsy and ask how Ciro is.

[Tomcost]

Someone go to the gypsy and ask how Ciro is.

+1

Because the waitlisters can do something, right?

[Errol]

Sir Bigglesworth was not daunted. In fact, 'daunted' was not part of his dictionary. Just like 'cowardice', 'shame' or 'too old'.

March straight into the Armory and examine yon wares with great interest.

[Blade Master Model 42]

Follow good Sir Bigglesworth to King Koop's Overstock Armory!