[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Once again the place to venture was the place furthest from civilization, the pristine meadow, the shattered remnants of Planet Popstar literally adorning the ground like so many golden yellow boulders, the ominous skies overhead almost threatening to rain as though Kracko had been sighted, but instead of a big fluffy cloud with spikes and a single beady eye looking down at the scene of what appeared to be a makeshift cave, it was merly a simple stormcloud that was looming over the horizon, especially since it almost never rained on Li.

The group would easily get their search done because of the many footprints that would lead onward, some of them belonging to a group of adventurers who had previously been here{one of them would have been well aquainted with a certain character owned by the MM because of a previous mission, though that trail is colder than the planet Shiver Star}.

The only real evidence of anyone in the vicinity were the current tracks of footprints that led right into that very cave, and the person within was pretty much further in its depths.

Mission Set;
Ready?
GO!

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Banjo walked sluggishly through the meadowed area admiring the strange beauty in it seemingly not caring for the trail of footprints under his nose. He was smelling the plant life and nuzzling Kazooie as if he was in a romantic nostalgia. The bird cooed at his touch and he brushed his cheeks against her soft feathers feeling good being out of the Life Sphere for the first time in a long time and feeling the....somewhat....fresh air against his muzzle. Kazooie eventually picked up on the trail of very apparent foot steps ahead of them which finally got Banjo's attention causing him to eye them with curiousity. "Well wouldja look at that Kazooie? Why....why....SOMEONE must be stompin the ground a bit too hard to make those there feet so visible!" Kazooie face palmed her forehead and let out an angry chirp. She pecked Banjo on the head and flapped her wing to the trail urging him to follow it. "OH! Good call there little buddy. I should find out where these here feet pictures lead." Kazooie rolled her eyes at the fact that Banjo couldn't even say footprints correctly and continued to guide him to follow towards the cave. Banjo was so oblivious when it came to pretty much everything that even the sense of danger didn't even make him flinch or even the slightest hint of hazards would only make him scratch his nose. NOTHING, virutally nothing could stir Banjo's emotions other than a delicious meal and Kazooie being hurt, everything else, all other surroundings and senses Banjo was very much like a brick wall, which is why without Kazooie to push him in the right direction, he would be lost and probably very dead by now.

[PolarStarQuote]

Hazama wasnt one for complaints, he really wasn't, but seriously...Whoever thought star piece meadow would be a place to keep in such a hard to reach place can go screw themselves. Didn't help hazama decided to take a path cutting right into the mountains, because with ouroboros chains it wouldn't be too hard? Ahahahaha...Ha. For once, we can take solace in seeing the troll in some trouble as he struggled, swinging from mountain to mountain and navigating the rocky land scape. But, for once, hazama decided hamming it up to himself and talking aloud would be a stupid idea, considering he could wake up the infected.



However, eventually the Intelligence Division Captain of the N.O.L had reached the other side, and got hit with a unknown wall of surprisingly fresh air. He pulled himself onto the ground with his Ouroboros chain , adjusting his fedora and starting to stroll through the land. It was so...Nice. Hazama detested such word's normally, but that would be the way to describe it. All hazama needed now was a big, fat, target for tro-...Bear with bird backpack?...Ok. Hazama walked over to it, playing around with a butterfly knife, twirling it around his finger. "Oi, Friend or foe?" He asked, his glowing yellow eyes shining from under the rim of his hat. "You don't seem infected, and with how cute and cuddly you look, you arnt willing to hurt anything either. So, deductive reasoning, you're gonna be a pain in the ass to do this mission with." Hazama said with a sigh, Surely, this had to be the duo he was doing the mission with. In any case, hazama turned and took a look at the footprints in the ground. Time for that intelligence to kick in.



4B_NXLkGp_1d20+2=15 [Detective Hazama]

"Well, the shape of them are average for adventurers, so take solace we wont be dealing with Onaga or something. Which is a shame, i wanted to test a new kick ability. The shape of the print's are reminiscent of rubber boots, and it seems with the imprint, the man may of had a sour mood, causing him to stomp..And of course..." Hazama bent down, picking up a thread of black hair. "Facial hair, black, belonging to a older gentleman....Were on the path, lets go." Hazama said, walking with the Bear and Bird duo to find the old scientist theve been sent for in the cave.

[SEE THAT BANJO?! THAT. IS A GOD DANG POST.]1d20

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Irony be dashed; for once the group entered the cave proper, they wouldn't help but notice that the floor of the cave was more travelworn, the target having gone through the place several times before. There were torches in brackets and crystals of various colors here and there along the ground, walls and cieling, and each gave off a faint trace of Starvia contamination, though it was extremely small in quantities, and in a sense, touching them would be a bad idea for risk of infection, and even destroying them was a no-go because it would release the Starvia from the crystals and cause anything in the vicinity to become infected if they stayed too near the shattered remnants.

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Meanwhile in the deeper depths of the cave, the one that the group were tasked with rescuing was conducting a unique experiment with the crystalised Starvia, the many failures resulting indiscarded crystals that were melted down into crystal ore mixed with purified platimum. to mainly get rid if the trace remains of Starvia, the man didn't notice anything until a monitor flickered to life with the latest footage. "Damn it all! Delays, Delays... I'll never get any of my work done at thi-...Oh crap, no wonder why, it seems I've some company. Can't be helped mainly because of the situation here..." he said as he watched the monitor, which displayed Banjo & Kazooie and Hazama entering the cave, while unbeknownst to the group that they were being watched by this wily scientist.

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As Banjo was walking around the area he was, as before, very intrigued by his surroundings. He began to slump towards one of the many crystals on the wall like they were drawing him in, wishing desperately to touch it; luckily Kazooie was right there with him possessing the bigger brain of the two and flapped her wings to back him away before a single claw touched anything. Banjo frowned in a moan. "Awww come on Kazooie! Just a tap!" Kazooie cooed in defiance and spoke a few words to him in response. "I'll show you a tap lug head!" She pecked Banjo on his cranium which caused him to twitch ever so slightly and quickly shook it off. "Hey, was that really needed missy? You know I need to fill my curiousity...." Kazooie pecked him again and Banjo just rubbed his skull ignoring the punishment. He figured even though Kazooie was smart, this searcher guy with a glass circle thing seemed to be much smarter than the two of them combined. "Hey there feller, what ya got there? Is that a....a treasure finder!?! Could it find out what those shiny things on the wall do? OOOO KAZOOIE! Maybe they'll make a light show! I want to dance." Banjo does his form of slight and idiotic dancing which included a few shoulder shrugs and circling his paws around like he was holding a large spoon.

Kazooie made a bleak face really not enjoying how much Banjo completely neglected the danger of the crystals with obvious traces of Starvia in them and mislabeled their new team mate's magnifying glass as a treasure finder. Nothing really can be assumed was safe to touch when outside of the Life Sphere, everything had to be contaminated and a huge hazard to anyone on a journey. Even a bird could figure that out, but unfortunately not a bear. One would think two talking humanoid animals would have more intelligence than that. Kazooie stretched her neck out towards the man with them trying to get his sympathy. "You must forgive my furry friend here sir....he's got a few screws loose if you know what I mean...but I promise, he's as sweet as a button." Banjo stopped dancing as if a brand new idea that was way more important and urgent came to his mind....about buttons. His face stretched wide and his eyes lit up. "OOOO BUTTONS! I love buttons! I got two in my pockets see?" Banjo pulls out a large black lint covered overall button and a small purple shirt button and waves them around to show Hazama. "These are REAL treasures! They are worth a fortune!" Kazooie sighs knowing sometimes the bear just can't be helped.

"In any case sir, the name's Kazooie, and this here is Banjo. We hope we can be of use to you on this mission." Most team mates would ignore Banjo and Kazooie's attempt at friendship or even communication for that matter, so this was a test to see if the three of them would get along and make this mission go by much quicker, or if they would simply be enemies who are forced to work together. Sometimes you just can't please everyone with these two.

[PolarStarQuote]

Hazama stepped through the cave, walking further and further in as he looked at his partner's. The bear was annoying. Beyond all belief. "...Did you just call me 'Feller?'" He asked, stopping and turning to look the bear eye to...well, hazama's eyes didn't show very much. So, more eye to slants. "First of all, I am Captain Hazama of the N.O.L Intelligence division. I am no 'Feller'." He said. "Oh, and listen to your bird friend here. Touching those would infect you with starvia, and as much as i would love to find a reason to kill someone without consequence...For this once, lets just avoid them and keep moving on, alright?" He said, turning before stopping from another question. "...This is a Butterfly knife. You stab things with it. And then they fall down. Any questions?" Hazama said, continuing to play around with the dangerous weapon as he walked, making sure not to bump into any of the crystals litering the ground.



Hazama continued his walk, looking at kazooie as he stopped again to continue speaking, only getting two steps in before stopping. "Sweet as a button doesn't help much." Hazama said, sneering at the bear's joy as he suddenly started parading Hazama with button's. "..." Hazama obviously didn't pity the fool's. Hazama shook his head, just thinking to himself. These two are idiots, so...


m56cORiFp_1d20+1=13 [Charisma roll]

"Ah, apologies if i came out a little pessimistic there. Your buttons look very...nice." Hazama said, smiling to show the two animal's some form of kindness to perhaps lull them into manipulation. Well, the bird may be a little cautious, but it would be better than nothing. "But, the buttons can wait till later, hm? Weve got more important matters at hand, like getting out of here before the starvia crystals get to us." He said, continuing to walk once more deeper inside. He took one more look to kazooie, cocking a grin. "Dont worry, i'm sure you two will provide more than enough help for me." He said, before turning back. And in his mind, he just told himself. "Provided you don't mind being meat shields..."1d20

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

As the group traveled deeper within the cave, the Starvia contaminated crystals became fewer, but the scent of Smelted metal and Crystal became present, their target must have been at this for a while due to the fact that they were able to safely extricate them without breaking or touching them directly, as there was a particular tool standing a little way ahead, a pickax made of Nintendium with a Deku Stick as the handle.

It was propped near a door made of the Crystal Platinum Compound that was being smelted; had Uka Uka known this was going on{Which he did not as it WAS a unique experiment} he would have added the tidbit of 'follow the smell of smelting' or something to that degree.

The door was closed a tiny crack, and judging from the sound of the voice, their main objective target seemed to be mumbling something about his constant defeats at the furry hands of Crash Bandicoot, All while preparing his escape from this place.

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{Roll 15 or Higher in DEX to reach the door without making a sound.}
{Hazama Exclusive: Roll a 15 or higher in INT to hear Dr. Cortex's mumbling about his constant defeats.}
{Banjo&Kazooie Exclusive: Roll 15 or higher in CHA to annoy Dr. Cortex upon entering if DEX Roll is Lower than 15, Given a +3 DEX Mod for DEX Roll.}

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Banjo and Kazooie seemed hurt by the investigator man's words at first, but when he started to show a caring side and feel sorry for the way he acted Banjo and his bird cheered right up. He then stretched out an arm to the man in a giving motion and smiled. "Here, have one of my buttons. I want you to have it! I think you deserve it for all that treasure searchin your doin!" Kazooie cooed embracing Banjo's delicate and selfless need to give to others, it was one of the few attributes the bird liked about Banjo. As Kazooie was appreciating Banjo's kindness to their new team mate, she noticed a door ahead, a door ajar. She felt like she was just small enough to fit, however she wanted Banjo's help.

"Heya Banjo, there's a door up ahead, and I thought I could hear some noises. Lets sneak over there and see what's inside. You know how we used to do it back in Gruntilda's lair?" Banjo tapped his chin and perked up remembering how the two would stealthily get around their foes. He chuckled and nodded. "Sure do pal. Let's do it. WHEELBARROW FORMATION!" Kazooie hoists its feet into Banjo's arms and begins to crawl forward with its silent wings heading to the door with the help of Banjo's naturally padded and fluffy feet. There was no way they were going to be seen! Banjo stops for a second and looks at their investigator friend. "You comin?" Banjo asks this in a somewhat rhetorical sense and continues trailing forward with Kazooie for the door to get a better idea of what is ahead.

Roll for reaching Door without noise:

lp5E6D6zp_1d20(-5 modifier) = 2

Banjo's balance was so bad because he was so distracted by the crystals and kept looking up that Kazooie could not stop wobbling and even tumbled a few times with Banjo tripping once or twice. It was a terrible attempt at being sneaky, but the two kept trying despite their flups to reach the door. Once they would make it there, since being sneaky wasn't an option, Banjo being loud and boisterous was the next best thing to get attention and favor from whomever was behind there. "HEY ANYONE?! Can you please open the door and tell us who you are? Please?! I'll sing for you!" Banjo knocked on the door without opening it yet and was trying to charm the one responsible for the noises ahead with his friendly talking.

Roll for Annoyance:

p_1d20(+5 modifier, +3 instance modifier) = 12

Banjo felt confident with his bellowing and Kazooie even joined in too upping their voices to get the attention they wanted. "Please open up in there! We come in peace!" Kazooie's warm female voice was putting in a nice touch, and they both had a feeling that door was gonna open soon.


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[PolarStarQuote]

Hazama sighed taking banjo's button gift and putting it in his pocket. "Riiight, thank's." He said, adjusting his fedora and continuing on his way. He had already started hearing the sound's of someone in the other room complaining about his losses to a mister Crash the bandicoot. Time to take a peek...

k20WXYczp_1d20+2=10


p_1d20+2=18

Well, hazama wound up tripping over one of those crystals, his shoe knocking it over and making it clang against the wall. Hazama bit his silver tongue, not wanting to make a peep of noise. Perhaps he could just pass it off as the wind passing through the cave. Hazama leaned against the wall, listening in and making out every beautiful detail of this guy's defeats. Hazama immediately marked them down in a mental note, saving some quip's to use against him later. "Ok, Banjo, Kazooie i need you to be very, very qui-"

"Please open up in there! We come in peace!"

"..." Hazama internally screamed at the idiocy of the duo. Mainly cause the bird's voice was like nail's on a chalk board. "Or we can say screw stealth and just improvise as we go along..."1d20·1d20

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

CORTEX INT ROLL: 20+5=25{Ladies and gents... Dr. Neo Periwinkle Cortex just scored a Critical INT roll...}
CORTEX CHA ROLL: 5-3=2{...And just jumped because of Banjo banging on the door!}
"D'OH!" came the sound of Dr. Cortex as he heard the banging on his door, as he literally jumped about a foot in the air. The door, despite being open a tiny crack, opened up the rest of the way revealing the mad scientist to the group at large.

"Ok, what have we here, A few talking animals and someone dressed like Micheal Jackson. I suppose you guys will have to do, get in before you let something undesireable come through and close the door behind you." He asked in a rather posh tone. About as tall as his nemesis, Dr. Cortex was a bit odd, a British/Hispanic man with black hair, pale yellow skin, hazel red eyes, and a capital 'N' on his forehead{Which stands for nerd}, he was bald in certain places{Mainly because he uses Rogane on the only parts that have hair.} and currently equiped for an escape from this place, the stuff he was using sealed and packaged neatly, the Smelting Station being drained of the Crystal Platinum Compound and loaded into canisters with the same logo of 'Naughty Dog Chemicals Incorperated', in which there were only two canisters left for filling with the compound mixture, the remaining Starvia contaminated Crystals were packed away and the Platinum Ore that was obtained already in Dr. Cortex's patented 'Magic Satchel of infinite storage' along with the filled N.D.C.I. canisters, the Crystals were going to be the last to be stored in this mysterious bag of bottomless proportions.

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There was not a whole lot that Banjo was good at, but when it came to being loud and being annoying, or talking to get people to notice him in general, he was a real pro. The bear looked at strange tanks and containments of crystals that the big headed dude was harboring and nudged Kazooie to whisper towards her. "Say pal, what's that feller up to?" Kazooie had much sharper eyes than Banjo and most other people did, and looked closer at the stuff he had and came up with a theory. "Well Banjo, I'd say he is trying to use those Starvia crystals as some kind of weapon...." Banjo did not believe it. Could it be that he intended to invade and infect the Life Sphere? Banjo shuddered in terror and stared at the man horrified by his intentions. "Now listen here you meanie...you best stop whatever plans you're doing and behave. Or else we're gonna have to kick your can!" Kazooie jerked her head agreeing with the bear and was prepared for a fight. Banjo was going to try and convince the man first though, to stop his evil before it even began. "So whatdya say...change your ways?" Banjo was a firm believer in finding the good in everyone, even crazy scientists hiding in Infected caves. However, if the man was already Infected for being in a cave so long, there was no way around a change of morality.

Charisma Roll for Changing Cortex's Heart:

iVL59fGip_1d20(+5 modifier) = 6

Banjo didn't do a very good job with his convincing. His voice sounded real nervous, and his whole body was shaking. It was a terrible risk he just took, and now he felt a fight coming on, which he did not want it to come to.

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[PolarStarQuote]

BRhRoTOJp_1d20+2=17


p_1d20+1=16 [Making up for banjo's stupidity, as usual.]

Hazama gave a mere chuckle at the classic 'Micheal Jackson' response. "I look like Micheal Jackson, do i? You should check a mirror, cause i can only begin to mention all the mad scientist trope's you've brought to the table." He said, then seeing banjo's attempts at trying to make friends here. Aw. How cute. Hazama patted banjo's head, pushing him behind as hazama took place in front of the obviously scared bear. "Ignore my friend here. We arnt here to make enemies, we just wish to understand what's going on. Oh, don't be rude banjo, come on. It's impolite to stutter in front of company." Hazama said, pushing banjo in and closing the door, as per the doctor's orders. It would be best to play the mad scientists game for now. "Well then, what can we do for you captain N?" Hazama asked, smirking a little. 1d20·1d20

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Cortex was pretty much as calm and collected, albiet Downright Spineless when under pressure, especially since Banjo thought he was making a doomsday weapon.

"You think I'm planning an attack on the Life Sphere, when in fact all of my doomsday weapons were already demolished? How absurd and silly can one get. All I need is to get out of here before 'that' tries to invade again." Cortex said in a rather calm tone, though he turned his head to face the iconic 4th wall and said "For those on the opposite end of the screen, I'm refering to Dark Matter... I'm actually serious here." showing that he was perfectly capable of shattering the 4th wall just as good as Hades and Dark Pit can apparently.

"Confounded OoD imbiciles, if ONLY I could get my hands on the blueprints for their Weaponised Starvia and Reverse-Engineer it, I would be able to create an Antithesus to Starvia Corruption." Cortex added, in a rather sane but angry tone. He didn't know who the OoD was, but was also wary about stealing something from a terrorist group, especially since he had a big head.

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Well, Banjo was certainly very wrong in his opinion, and so was Kazooie for that matter. Banjo was bad at controling his emotions, but he definitely knew when he did wrong. His bird friend Kazooie felt bad as well. Banjo looked at the big headed man with sad eyes begging for forgiveness.

Charisma Roll for PLEASE FORGIVE!:

PNBMomPkp_1d20(+5 modifier, wow Banjo...)= 6

Banjo was doing a terrible job with his emotions today. His eyes swelled up into an ugly red color, gunk began to drip from his eye lids, and Kazooie wasn't feeling like joining him with the groveling. He was alone in his mistake but he was still going to try and suck up. "Oh please forgive me sir! PAHLEAAASE! I didn't mean to be a jerk it just sorta came out! It's the stress of the world! OH FOR SHAME!" His groveling was like that of a really bad actor, and he was milking it all he could. Kazooie pecked him on the head and made him stop in his tracks before he got worse with his whining, and she appeared stern to Cortex. "Forgive him, forgive US. So you're sayin...you are tryin to find a cure? For Starvia? That's darn near impossible even with a big head like yours." Kazooie wasn't trying to be offensive, just honest, but either way she wanted an answer from the man.
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[PolarStarQuote]

Hazama took a look at where cortex had taken a look as well, stepping over to it to find who he was talking too....


pux|Zn1kp_1d20+2=21 [Hazama obtains 4th wall awareness.]


Hazama's eyes looked shocked, a record stopping sound happening in his mind as he walked over to that far corner of the room, tapping on the scree-


"Has that guy always been narrating everything ive done??"


...Uh...Yeah?


"...So...he's been watching everything??"


Yessir i have.


"...Oh my god. I understand now. I'm a fictional character..." He said, finally obtaining omnipotence and a realization of his true purpose. A mere creation at the hand's of a unknown god. He act's not on his own accord, but by what the narrator says.
He then proceeded to try and break the screen to get at the narrator's neck.

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His knofe merely bounced off the screen. "...Well, atleast i know now what i am...so, were working on a vaccine, are we? That's a good place to start, but you don't seem to be going anywhere with that." Hazama said. "Perhaps i could be of assistance though. I am a captain of a intelligence division, after all." Hazama said, snake grin in place. Sure, he had just found out he's a character made to do nothing but troll the hell out of everyone...but hell, he may as well have fun with the roll he is given. He got into a more appealing stance, trying to look more appealing for cortex's plan. "Oh and if you could forgive those two or whatever, that would be swell."

p_1d20+1=18


p_1d20+1=12 [save banjo and kazooie!]1d20·1d20·1d20·1d20