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Mission Beta
Who: List forthcoming.
What: Going to get a queen ant!
Where: ...in a hive.
When: NOW. This thread will likely cover a few days.
Notes: The basket contains a blanket and fresh and perfectly edible stuff; sandwiches, a stack of wrapped pancakes, syrup, sugar cubes, random assortment of sweet candy, two bottles of sweet blue lemonade.
Warnings: To be updated.
It's hard but not that hard to track the ants down to their original brooding nest. Keen tracking skills or magic should do it. The best entrance lies inside the old subterranean Karsten and Pierce's Mushroom Farm just outside the City. The ants in this nest do not appear to be afflicted by the illness of their sisters on the surface.
It's perfectly dark down in these tunnels, and it smells of mold and formic acid. It's also quiet, or would be if it wasn't for the constant scratching and static tittering of worker ants milling up and down with food and building materials in their mandibles. Much like the ants in the houses, they will not mind intruders as long as the intruders are on their best behaviour. The queen is likely to be in the brooding chamber, surrounded by eggs (some of which may be queen eggs) and workers. She's also likely to be huge and ill disposed to being moved.
What: Going to get a queen ant!
Where: ...in a hive.
When: NOW. This thread will likely cover a few days.
Notes: The basket contains a blanket and fresh and perfectly edible stuff; sandwiches, a stack of wrapped pancakes, syrup, sugar cubes, random assortment of sweet candy, two bottles of sweet blue lemonade.
Warnings: To be updated.
Dear Beta Mission,
So. Large social arthropods and we are going after their queen. We got all of those houses checked and the royalty was in another castle every time. Leaves us (or rather you) with only one option: GOING UNDERGROUND. Thousands of people have done it before you so it should be simple enough! But just in case and just because you are so very dear to our hearts, your gods have decided to grant you some simple boons to help you on your way. You will get:
Glow Sticks - Do you folks like chemiluminescence? Well now you can have 200 sticks of single use biodegradable tubes worth of it! Break it and shake it, it will light up any deep dark tunnel of your choice.
A Magical Compass - Actually I don't know if it's magical or just really scientific but when you're lost somewhere deep underground and you want to know the way out it really doesn't matter does it? What you do is you tell it where you want to go, and it points in that direction. Talk about useful.
A Crate With a Tarp - The very latest in ant queen kidnapping technology!
A Picnic Basket - Well you are out hunting ants, aren't you.
It's hard but not that hard to track the ants down to their original brooding nest. Keen tracking skills or magic should do it. The best entrance lies inside the old subterranean Karsten and Pierce's Mushroom Farm just outside the City. The ants in this nest do not appear to be afflicted by the illness of their sisters on the surface.
It's perfectly dark down in these tunnels, and it smells of mold and formic acid. It's also quiet, or would be if it wasn't for the constant scratching and static tittering of worker ants milling up and down with food and building materials in their mandibles. Much like the ants in the houses, they will not mind intruders as long as the intruders are on their best behaviour. The queen is likely to be in the brooding chamber, surrounded by eggs (some of which may be queen eggs) and workers. She's also likely to be huge and ill disposed to being moved.
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Cindy doesn't know who or what Mina's all about, but the point where she gave a shit has long died and is rotting off in a corner somewhere. She hates working with pessimists even more than having to work with a team. They haven't even planned on who does what yet and here this woman is already sentencing them to death. Somebody wants to be the weakest link in this mission chain; Cindy's more than glad to let Mina be it. And she definitely doesn't care enough to beg Mina to confess her little hat trick.
Turning to the foxy girl, Cindy nods at her weaponry and glances at the fox. "Please tell me his or her teeth aren't just there for decoration."