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Post by wulfie13 on Oct 17, 2012 10:34:37 GMT
Nabarl set lazily on a tree branch.
He'd been warned that Wonderland was abnormal. He just thought that he would fit in without hiding for once.
He was wrong. He was much too normal.
Still, it was somewhere he could rest up without the QA higher ups constantly on his tail, and he didn't have to hide what he was.
That was when a familiar envelope flew straight at his face. He picked it up, shook his fist in anger, before exclaiming "GODDAMMIT! I'M ON VACATION!"
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Post by wulfie13 on Oct 20, 2012 19:36:06 GMT
After calming down, Nabarl sighed and opened the Letter.
"Nabarl. We have an assignment for you.
You are to join the Mad Hatter's tea party. You may use whatever non-lethal methods you wish, but you will require an invitation and a hat.
Good Luck.
HQ"
Nabarl looked at the letter in disbelief. 'They're taking me off vacation for THIS!?' He thought to himself.
He dropped down from the branch, and decided he better get this over with.
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Post by Echo on Nov 7, 2012 2:23:31 GMT
"But-" Katara protested, standing in the Portal room at HQ. "You'll be fine" said the QA Official. Kat could tell he was an official by the way the QA crest had been carefully hand-stiched onto the top left corner of his suit jacket. Well, that and the fact that he was wearing a suit. HQ had made her change her clothes, they were far too bright and colourful for her liking. Apparently it was deemed appropriate to put her in a blue dress with a white apron and white stockings. Her hair had been let loose and pushed back slightly by a black alice-band with a bow. They'd also given her a ridiculous top hat to wear, which made the alice-band completely pointless, though they'd allowed her to put her goggles on it. She'd won the argument about her tool belt and the square metalic pack she always wore on her back, so she'd been allowed to keep those, along with most of what was on her belt and, bizarrely, her gunblades. She hadn't understood that logic, but she assumed she'd have to kill someone at some point. The thing that annoyed her most was the shoes. They were actually shoes! She'd been forced to trade in her boots for actual shoes, which had next-to-no grip at all! And they were shiny! 'At least they're black' she'd thought at the time, but it was little comfort. "This shouldn't be a hard quest" the official was saying as Kat snapped back to reality, taking her eyes off her shoes and refocusing on the official "No more than a couple of days, QAST." "QAST?" she asked "Questing Association standard time" he replied. Kat just stared at him blankly. "Well, you certainly look the part. Off you go then." He said, ushering her to the open portal "And take this with you. He'll need it." He pressed another ridiculous hat into Kat's hands. Katara looked at the swirling vortex and grimaced, remembering what had happened the last time she'd gone through one. It had made her feel sick too, she remembered. She was about to turn around and protest again about being forced into servitude when she felt a hard shove in the small of her back and before she knew it she was hurtling through the portal.
Katara exited the portal in Wonderland with the same force she'd gone in with at HQ, and crashed into something big and human-shaped. "Sorry" she said, getting off the figure and picking herself up. She offered a hand down to help the mystery man up.
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Post by wulfie13 on Nov 7, 2012 12:06:10 GMT
Nabarl murmured a few choice curses in his mother tongue before accepting the hand offered down to him.
He looked over the person who had crashed into him. After realising that it was indeed a person, he sighed and placed his face in his palm. "Head Office send you?"
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Post by Echo on Nov 7, 2012 12:57:38 GMT
Katara nodded and flashed the man her cheeriest smile before picking up the two absurd hats and dusting them off. She held out the one without her goggles on to him. "They told me you would need this"
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Post by wulfie13 on Nov 7, 2012 13:11:28 GMT
Nabarl took the hat, and placed it on his head. He pulled out his letter, and put a line through the hat requirement.
"OK. How much did they tell you before you got here?" he asked the newcomer.
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Post by Echo on Nov 7, 2012 13:56:19 GMT
"Nothing much" Kat sighed "They just said I was meeting a man here and he would need a hat" She scowled down at her clothes "They also made me change into this..."
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Post by wulfie13 on Nov 7, 2012 14:03:35 GMT
Nabarl was puzzled by the dresscode, but figured he got in fine because he could blend in somewhat. Still, her clothing didn't exactly make her fit in either.
"Well, the rules of this one are simple. We need to get an invitation each to the mad hatters party. And no fatalities. I'm guessing there'll be more instructions when we get in. And then you get to go report to HQ what happened."
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Post by Echo on Nov 7, 2012 14:14:43 GMT
"Oh good..." Katara sighed "Paperwork. That is exactly why I signed up in the first place. Oh, wait. I didn't sign up, I was forcibly recruited because the idiots at HQ can't put one bloody portal in the right bloody world, regardless of the fact that they have very obviously done it before." She glowered for a moment before composing herself and returning to her vaguely sunny disposition. "Sorry. Still bitter" she sighed.
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Post by wulfie13 on Nov 7, 2012 15:21:56 GMT
"At least you're not on probation. Or called into action from your vacation." Nabarl responded. "Sorry, never going to stop being bitter."
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