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Just Doing A Little Gardening (Open) Jan 21, 2020 4:46:35 GMT

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ooc: Open to everyone! Feb. 5, early afternoon

bic: Twelve days. Twelve days since he and Chauncey had entered this most peculiar merging of worlds. Suffice to say he was still so very much new to this rather drastic change in scenery and it likely showed in a lot of the questionable choices he had been making ever since first entering this world. Still, he wasn't totally blind to everything happening around him and he liked to think himself a pretty fast learner. 'course having an army of spying native insects at his disposal and being able to understand them certainly helped him quite a bit. He just had to make sure Chauncey didn't get too jealous. Then again this wouldn't be the first time Karl used multiple insects to aid him in one of his schemes and Chauncey understood then just as he thankfully seemed to be understanding now.

Indeed, it was actually thanks to this very army of termites that Karl and Chauncey now found themselves in the middle of the cold, lonely Outlands. The termites led them to a real dump of a place too. Not only did the place seemed to be a bit low on...life, but it was just covered in prickly, scratchy thorns. The annoying things seemed to be everywhere! In fact, you couldn't walk two feet without running into a pile of prickly thorns. Any sane person would have probably just turned back around and gone back home upon seeing the Outlands in such a state of disrepair. But oh no not Karl. Karl wasn't exactly what a trained mental health professional would coin as sane and so there he remained happily in the Outlands. Giddy even for the termites recommended he come here for a reason and that reason was to test out his latest laser design on the thorns here. Okay so he did have something of a point of being there and it wasn't totally crazy either. Still, the annoying prickly thorns weren't the only dangers the Outlands had to offer. Thankfully, true to his nature, Karl did plan ahead for these...added dangers should they ever rear their ugly head. But, the mentally unstable fanaloka wasn't really thinking about all that right now. He was much more concerned with testing out his new weapon on the prickly thorns, so he may see if it worthy enough to sell to potential customers or not.

The fanaloka with Chauncey riding on his shoulder, climbed up onto a nearby rock to better position himself and to get away from the thorns since the rock seemed pretty clear of them. Pulling out a pair of binoculars, Karl scanned the land around him. "You see that Chauncey?" Karl said sharing his binoculars with his number one insect. "Those termites weren't kidding! This place is just crawling with thorns! It's...it's...perfect! Just absolutely beautiful, Chauncey! The perfect place to test out my latest laser!" Lowering his binoculars, Karl pulled out his laser and held it out. "Isn't she a beaut, Chaunc? She looks like a regular ax, but press this button annnnnd presto she's a laser. Now I haven't come up with a name yet, but trust me it's gonna be big! Really big in the farming community and in places like this where weeds and thorns grow like crazy. Trust me, if this test succeeds we will be set for a good long while." The roach simply hissed in reply. He seemed content in just supporting his master for now; which Karl liked. Karl simply smiled at his tiny friend. "Cross your fingers Chaunc," Karl informed his tiny friend as he positioned the stealthy laser gun which really did look a lot like a regular gardening ax.

After making some adjustments to the laser's sights, Karl took aim at a nearby pile of thorns and slowly he squeezed the trigger and fired at the pile. Sadly, it missed the planned target completely hitting instead the pile directly to the left of it. Understandably Karl was annoyed and disappointed with himself. "Damn it! It pulled too much to the left! I hate it when that happens!" Karl hissed in frustration under his breath. He pulled out a notepad and jotted down something. "It needs some adjusting, but with the right adjustments made it should work," Karl told Chauncey who had been quietly watching his master work in anticipation the whole time.

The fanaloka took out some tools and using a wrench made a quick adjustment. "Maybe this'll do the trick." Once again, the fanaloka took aim at the previously targeted pile of thorns and squeezing the trigger fired decimating the pile. "Haha success!" Karl declared with a small satisfied smile. The roach meanwhile, hissed happy and proud of his master's success. Truly, his master was indeed an unappreciated genius.

Having feelings of excitement following his success, however, Karl started to get a little trigger happy in his weapon testing as he started blasting every single thorn patch in his sights while laughing like a nut. 'Oh boy,' thought Chauncey. 'Here we go again!' He had seen his master like this before and truth be told the end result usually wasn't pretty. So the little insect crawled off his master's shoulder to take cover underneath the rock the crazed fanaloka was perched on. Luckily, they seemed to be all alone out there for the time being anyway otherwise there was always the off chance of an unfortunate getting hit by a stray laser beam.

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Just Doing A Little Gardening (Open) Jan 24, 2020 21:19:54 GMT

Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 21:19:54 GMT

"What are you doing?"

Between his current state of mind and the noise of whatever he was shooting anywhere, it was unlikely that the larger animal would have been aware of anyone approaching at all; and even less likely when that newcomer was a tiny pup who was just a little too good at popping up unnoticed when it suited him. The little jackal sat on a freshly bare patch of ground, very close to the base of Karl's current rock; his head was tilted, blue eyes wide, and looking very much the perfect picture of innocent curiosity.

The curiosity part of that wasn't even a lie.

It was the noise of it all that had drawn Dogo in. He'd been asleep not far away, in a hidden cleft in the rock - one that some animal had made into a den, back before the sprouting thorns had driven most everyone away, and had been just waiting there to be occupied by someone opportunistic - when the sounds had jerked him awake. The little pup didn't even have a word for what he was hearing, it was unlike any other noise that he'd ever heard in the Outlands.

But where there were noises, there were usually other animals. And where there were animals, there were things to take.

So he'd ventured closer.

The presence of a bug under the rock wasn't missed; but right now, Dogo was far more interested in satiating his curiosity than his stomach - and besides which, a single insect wasn't much of a meal. The animal atop the rock, a species Dogo wasn't familiar with, had some kind of... of... well, he didn't know what it was. But it was in the other animal's paws, and from it he was spewing some kind of controlled fire that seemed to be instantly vaporising many of the surrounding thorns. Dogo's eyes had grown even wider at the sight.

That was interesting. Not necessarily that useful, as the tiny pup was small enough to slip through all but the thickest clusters of thorns without help, but certainly worth knowing about.

As soon as the blasting paused long enough to give him a chance to be heard, the little animal had spoken. Now, he placed his forepaws up on the rock, leaning forward with all the inquisitiveness of a child who had just been introduced to a fancy new toy, one that he didn't yet understand but was eager to do so.

That impression wasn't even too far off the mark.

"I've never seen anything like that before! What is it? How did it do that? Can you show me again?"

As his tail wagged eagerly behind him, Dogo's face displayed the biggest grin of anticipation. On the one paw, he had absolutely no idea what he was getting himself into here, really. But on the other... pretending to be sweet and speaking with a smile got you further than anything else in life, Dogo had been well taught.

And it helped that he barely even had to pretend. He was curious, and he did want to know how Karl's toy worked.

~~The fact that he had every intention of taking it back to Mom, without Karl attached to it, wasn't even relevant right at that moment.~~

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Just Doing A Little Gardening (Open) Feb 2, 2020 16:28:30 GMT

Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 16:28:30 GMT

Dogo wasn't the only one who'd taken an interest in Karl's strange device.

Like her brother, Kijana had been sheltered somewhere nearby when the noise had drawn her attention. At first, she thought that it might have been something along the lines of a new predator trying to take the land over. What she'd seen when she popped out of the old den she'd taken was something beyond what she had imagined. Karl had just... blown away a good chunk of the thorns. How? With what? Kijana didn't know an answer for either question, but she had started to carefully pad around and weaved through the thorns in her path to get a better look. That was when she saw Dogo doing his thing. Oh, Dogo. Such a good little jackal, she thought with a prideful look on her face. Their mother had taught them both well.

And where there was one jackal... the other could sneak in and do the tricky bit. If Dogo was like her, and Kijana suspected her brother must have had the same interest in Karl's weapon as she did, then he surely saw an opportunity. The hard part was actually staying out of Karl's sight and sneaking around him to get... whatever that weapon was.

Now, Kijana didn't know what she'd even do with such a weapon. Maybe she and Dogo could pawn it off on someone for something even better. Maybe they could take it back to mom and she could direct them on what to do with it from there. The important thing was that they both had it in their heads that the thing was valuable to someone. That meant they had to do things Jackal Style.

As she crept closer with her belly low to the ground and minimizing her tail movement as much as possible, Kijana watched Dogo work. When she was near enough to listen but at a safe distance where she thought she wouldn't be seen, she decided to wait and see if Dogo would notice her. If he did, they would have to silently communicate their plans to one another. The best way Kijana could think of was with what little ear movement she could manage without getting them caught in the thorns. Whatever way they chose, though? The brother and sister were together now.

It all was a matter of following through and hoping that Karl was distracted enough by Dogo to pay her no mind.

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Just Doing A Little Gardening (Open) Feb 6, 2020 4:19:20 GMT

Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 4:19:20 GMT

Karl was having so much fun destroying the prickly thorns; which were a huge eyesore among other things with his latest creation, the Ax Laser while laughing merrily that he didn't even notice Chauncey had left his side. Every now and then he would pause to jot down a note or two onto his notepad. What he did notice as he was taking notes, however, was a voice. One that he had never heard before. A child's voice he'd wager. After doing a quick look around he spotted a lone jackal pup sitting not too far from him and his rock. The fanaloka had never seen jackals before, but he knew what they were from the books he read and if the fanaloka was being honest he hadn't seen most animals since Madagascar only housed certain animals like himself. Pocketing his notepad and lowering his large weapon, Karl looked the pup over sizing him up. He raised an eyebrow at the pup's question. Already he was suspicious of him, but that was only because the fanaloka had trouble trusting others. Trusting others and socializing just weren't on his list of things he did well. Even so Karl figured he probably would have noticed the pup sooner had he not been so...preoccupied with his weapon testing and taking notes.

Before answering the kid's curious question, Karl took a good, long look around them. He wanted to make sure they were completely alone first before answering any of the nosy pup's questions. You never know who just might be listening and the paranoid fanaloka was convinced that there were ears everywhere even out here in this desolate wasteland. And the absolute last thing he wanted was for someone to steal any one of his ingenious weapons and take credit for them and for his genius. No. No. No. That simply will not do for the self-proclaimed evil genius.

But once he was convinced that they were indeed out there all alone, Karl cleared his throat. He proudly stood there brimming with confidence upon the rock, the weapon gripped rightly in his left paw. "Oh what am I doing way out here in the middle of nothing, you dare ask? Oh nothing much. Just figured this dump would be the perfect place for me to test out my latest weapon, the Ax Laser. Check it out: it looks like an ordinary garden ax, right? Wrong. Press this button and...BAM the ax will now fire lasers at not only at annoying thorns and other eyesores, but turn your enemies into dust! That's right, dust," Karl answered in a businesslike way. His face then twisted up into a devious smile. "Now where do you suppose we could find a live test subject?" he asked evilly drumming his right clawed fingers along his Ax Laser. Karl already knew the jackal pup wouldn't volunteer. Nobody ever does. Still as far as the fanaloka was concerned it would have been rude not to ask. And besides for all he knew the pup had an enemy that he wouldn't mind Karl getting rid of on his behalf. One could always hope.

Karl smirked when the pup went on to ask him for another demonstration of his ingenious weapon. Normally, the evil genius would have been more on edge and treated the pup's growing curiosity and inquisitiveness with great suspicion. But if Karl was being perfectly honest few people took an interest in him and his ingenious weapons (ironically his arch-nemesis was one of those people, sometimes) and yet here this kid was, a mere stranger to him expressing a genuine interest in how his latest weapon works. He liked that about the kid; nosy as he was. And even he had to admit the kid adorable especially the way his big eyes bore into your soul and the way he wagged his tail. It was just enough to have Karl lower his guard just a tad. "You really want to know more and you really want another demonstration?" Karl asked. "Alright, I suppose I can do that. It really is just too bad there is no one out here to test it out on and I really was hoping to see if this baby really can turn organics into dust. I mean theoretically it should. But, gotta work with what you got I suppose. Still a real shame..."

"Now pay close attention cause this is really important. This is the proper way to wield the weapon; which is a lot different than simply holding it. This is the proper way to wield it if you want to shoot something," Karl explained taking on more of a mentor like tone than a business or evil one. "And this right here is the trigger and you squeeze it slowly like so. And you look through the tiny metal ring on top of the Ax Laser; which is known as the sights. You look through the sights to help you with your aim and when you are satisfied you squeeze the trigger gently like so and...fire!" As soon as Karl said, 'fire,' he shot his laser at a rolling tumbleweed blasting it into a hundred tiny bits. Lowering his weapon, he smirked. "Gotcha! You see kid, it's not so hard. Just remember, this is not a toy. It is a highly sophisticated piece of advanced weaponry meaning it is extremely dangerous and expensive. So do not under any circumstances touch this. Say it with me, I promise not to so much as touch Karl's highly sophisticated weapon. Got it? Good. And yes, the name's Karl. What's yours kid and where might your folks be?"

It was about this time he thought he heard something and said something was close. Too close for his comfort. "What's that?" he asked, ears flicking like crazy. Paranoia taking over he sniffed at the air catching the now familiar scent of another jackal. "Hey, we're not alone out here! What gives?" Karl scolded Dogo shooting him a glare.

He looked anxiously around trying to pinpoint where the other jackal was lurking. He had no idea it was just another pup and feared it might be Dogo's parent coming to possibly eat him. He wasn't exactly high on the food chain anymore and he knew it. He hated it, but he realized it nevertheless. Still, he had the laser and he seriously doubted the incoming jackal could do anything about it. "Hmmm...looks like I might get a live volunteer to test out my laser after all. Nice! You hear that jackal? I know you're there! I can...smell you. So you might as well come out nice and slowly. I have you in my sights. I can shoot you at any moment," Karl threatened cackling evilly.

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