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Post by Mia Kearney on Feb 13, 2018 12:05:19 GMT -8
Mission name: I can do this with one hand tied behind my back! Participants: Mia Kearney Spawning?: 3 tests of Dexterity. 1 preferably a flashback during the period Mia was getting used to only having one arm. Other 2 up to mods. 500 word count roughly each spawn (extra note edited in, all 3 are flashbacks except the last one. The opening takes place when Mia has gotten used to her off hand and her new arm, with maybe a final test to prove she's handling herself) Mission details: Having lost her arm months ago Mia is finally recovering, able to use both her remaining arm, and learning to use her new replacement, developing semi ambidextrous skills and just getting better motor skills generally. New Skill:
Dexterity Minor (1)
Mia used to be right handed but has become semi ambidextrous due to her injury. Her right arm is not quite as accurate it used to be yet either, but her general sense of her own placement and motor skills has increased. Her punches and blows are far more accurate, and over time she will develop finer motor skills, such as being able to play her guitar again, or handle a video game with a strong sense of accuracy. She still sucks at fighting games though. Damn combos. Humming to herself as she made breakfast, Mia pulled off a nice flip of a pancake, just beside her and adjusting the ipod Mia had put in her speaker system, flicking to a better playlist using a small 'touch' pen since his boxing gloves didn't exactly make for accurate pointers. Once a song was ready to play, he turned to the bowl he'd been carefully cracking eggs into, getting it ready to be scrambled. As the playlist finally settled on a song, Broham let out an audible groan and let his shoulders sink as Mia gave him a shitty grin. The blonde had been working on lyrics for this for weeks... "She's into Aleal snowstorms, big dogs and cherry scents~ It ain't no premonition~ This girl's gone and made me fall!~" With a playful bump of her hip into him, the Hitmonchan wrapped a careful arm around his brown...then let out a light sigh, smirked, and tossed her the spatula she needed, which she instantly began to sing into. "She's into my-y muscles!~ Romantic meals by candle light!~" With a heavy stomp she pulled a strong pose, flexing a little as she hit a stronger note. "She's got a new recipee!~ For every day and night!~"Placing his bowl to one side, Broham held out a hand, Mia taking it and spinning into it, cuddling backwards into her Hitmonchan as she continued to dramatically sing. "She makes me take my clothes off as we cuddle on the couch!~ She makes me live her cozy life and she soothes away ma' pain!~ Like a kiss right to my braaaaaain!~ Come on~"The two spun away from one another, the Hitmonchan doing his best to sing along as they continued to work on breakfast before it burnt. Mia used her right hand to flip the pancakes this time, just barely pulling it off and grinning in victory. "Upside right way round!~ (Hitmon Hitmon-CHAN!~) Livin la vie confortable!~"Mia was having a great time...she had a beautiful girl waiting for breakfast in bed, a fucking badass arm, and a metal one, and she was finally getting back into old habits with her gym open...ah fuck life was good...!~
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Post by Jay on Feb 13, 2018 20:19:25 GMT -8
With only a left hand to do things with, things are certainly difficult. What does a day in her life look like? Simple things like getting dressed, eating, taking the Pokemon for a walk? Certainly, it requires some dexterity in order to manage all this with just one arm. If that's not enough, however, she's also got to do a lot of paperwork for the League documentation while her gym is technically closed. Gotta learn to do that single-handedly as well. After all that's done, try beefing up your score in Mario Kart, gotta stay on top there!
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Pokémon League
Fighting-Type Gym Leader
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Post by Mia Kearney on Feb 14, 2018 5:02:04 GMT -8
Coming back home from spending some time with her parents, Mia pushed her way in through the door, even turning the keys the right way a light bit of a challenge with just one hand. Managing to slide her jacket off easy enough, she hooked it on the peg beside her door and moved toward the kitchen. She'd bee cleared by the hospital to start drinking again so long as she avoided her pain meds for that day, and managing to push through a bit of agony when she bumped her stump into someone in the street, she was more than eager to enjoy a nice, coooold beer.
It was only when she had the beer in her hand, and the bottle opener on the counter, did she realize her problem.
"...Right."
Placing the beer on the table clearly wasn't an option cause any force just tipped it over before she managed to open it. As Mia tried lodging the bottle between a few other kitchen counter knock knacks, Broham was careful enough to approach her slowly and offer some help. "Nah...I got it just...AH!" Slipping the bottle into the space between her bicep and the side of her torso, she managed to get a tight enough wedge and knocked off the lid with the opener. Of course this meant the beer rapidly began to spill, but she managed to tip it upright onto the counter, looking down over her now damp tanktop and the floor...and the half bottle of beer left. "...Don't say...anything. I count this as a win."
Broham nodded along, pointing a thumb back to the couch as he invited her to come and play with them.Taking her half-living beer bottle, she made her way to the couch. A sip of her drink as she landed into the couch, and plopping in between Saitama and Broham, taking half a switch controller to join them in the game. Chezzers was laying out infront of the couch, silently offering his shell as a footrest as the four of them played. Suffice to say Mia quickly realized a bottle opener wasn't the only thing she'd find difficulty using. Before long she had to turn on the auto-drive option that came with the new games, and even then her off hand was having difficulty making turns and holding the drift button at the same time...
Saitama was just eager to win, sticking his tongue out as he focused. Broham subtly tried to nudge him to slow down behind Mia's back and give her a chance to win. Meanwhile Chezzers was just obvlivious, taking the funner shortcuts and sometimes lagging behind just to get some funner item box picks. Mia herself wasn't exactly oblivious to Broham's nudges, especially when Saitama screeched back at the Hitmonchan for his shoving. Right. She was gonna get at least third place on this lap, lifting the controller to her face, adjusting the joystic with her chin as her hand worked the buttons and helped with adjustments...come on...!
YES! FOURTH! Okay it wasn't third but "That's a win! I'm keeping that as a win!"
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Post by Jay on Feb 16, 2018 17:09:31 GMT -8
Now it is just passed Christmas time, and Mia has received her new arm. She finds that yes it is very smooth and very moveable with all of Jazz's hard work. However, it still needs a couple of tweaks here and there to be at its peak (because obviously there's only so much one can do without having the person test it out). Mia's got to test it out lifting weights certain ways (and mirroring it with her other arm for challenge's sake, of course as well as assurance that it's got good balance), and when that's done, maybe try swinging from some monkey bars to practice momentum and hand-eye coordination.
500 Words
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Pokémon League
Fighting-Type Gym Leader
SOMEONE CHALLENGE MY GYM ALREADY |
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PLAYED BY Yumi
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Post by Mia Kearney on Feb 17, 2018 7:15:36 GMT -8
Back home with her new arm, Mia had learned it wasn't quite perfect. While she'd just been so shocked it was so fluid in the moment, now that she was using it more there were clear innacuracies in her motions or odd delays. Her metal arm could always be fixed or adjusted of course, she trusted Jazz to pull it off, but she felt she needed to either get used to it, or at the very least, give Jazz some proof of the issues maybe? Yeah, she'd just record herself trying to get used to it, and if there was still an issue by the end, she could use it as something for Jazz to work from and get a good idea of the issues...
"Right, Saitama you got the camera?" The monkey gave an affirmative little growling noise, not hostile in any way just confirming. He held the camera carefully in his hands and pressed the record button. Mia had two weights on the floor for her. If she was going to compare her arms, she needed to...well. Compare? Yeah. Making sure the infernape was recording, she lowered to a crouch and grabbed both weights, one in each hand of course, rising to full height and slowly starting to flex each arm as she curled the weights. While her right arm was stable, there was a clear bit of delay with the weight she was holding. It never looked like it would break, but it was like her brain was trying to put in more effort than was needed, and just jammed whatever computer shit was running the arm.
"Right...just gotta...clear my head and focus a bit..."
Focusing up, she closed her arms and focused just on the weight she felt rather than the weight she saw, just balancing her arms and slowly managing to get them both in time. Maybe Jazz wouldn't be needed afterall...
She'd continue that little routine each morning, her arm tended to get out of whack again throughout the day, but the more she did her little routine, the closer the two limbs seemed to be calibrated, and before long she had Saitama filming her in one of the above ground parks.
"Okay...pretty sure I still won't need Jazz, but this is a real test on if I can pull this off..."
Looking up to the monkey bars, she felt a bit silly since these were meant as a kids play thing, but it'd help her put herself in a position where she HAD to learn how to pull this off. Jumping up, the first grab was easy enough, her legs dangling beneath her despite her height. She could get her left arm onto the next bar, but as she tried to swing and grasp with her right, not only did she miss the first grab, but as she made it on the second swing, she twisted, unlocked her arm, and fell off of it, groaning as she lay back on the grass and watched her metal arm dangling from the bar.
"...I always hated these things."
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Post by Jay on Feb 17, 2018 10:38:36 GMT -8
Well, that was good to get some information to Jazz and the like. Now that everything seems to be perfected, why don't you try some rock climbing? There are quite a few spots in Liggs where you can try that~ A test of strength for sure- but grabbing the arm holds and foot holds and the like may prove to be a challenge in dexterity. Can you reach that hand grab or is it actually better to go for a shorter one? Where did that foot hold go? Maybe you should shuffle to the side there before trying to climb up to the next point. You can make it!
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Pokémon League
Fighting-Type Gym Leader
SOMEONE CHALLENGE MY GYM ALREADY |
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Yumi
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Post by Mia Kearney on Feb 20, 2018 1:49:11 GMT -8
I hate this I hate this I hate this I hate this
Mia was clinging tightly to the side of the rock wall she was halfway up. There was a reason she hadn't had a flying mount for so long, and while she was starting to get better, she was now in a position where, without a harness, she had somehow been convinced halfway up this dead-climb and felt stuck like a fly to sticky paper.
"Come on lass!" The burly miner called from the top of the climb, unable to resist snickering a little. "You still scared of heights?~ I'm pretty sure you could punch gravity and it'd flinch!"
"SHUT UP WILL YA!?"
"You live in the mountains how is this new to you?~"
"I live IN the mountains not on top of them you dipshit!" Scowling back up at the miner above her, Mia steeled her nerves and tried to just...take a breath that didn't shake...okay even if she fell Chezzers was down there waiting for her. She'd climbed walls like this before...HECK SHE'D ONCE DONE IT THROUGH A WATERFALL! Why was this making her piss herself!? Oh yeah, its cause there wasn't a cushion of water beneath her if she fell, and she was hardly in the most stable position to climb well here! Okay okay just...another deep breath...you've been eyeing that hand hold for like 5 minutes just...need to...
JUMP
Kicking off her footholds Mia stretched out her right arm, catching her fingers on the outcropping and latching onto the nearby holds as best she could, panting harshly as she once again clung to the wall, only able to hear laughter above which just added to her fury right now. Right, he wanted her up there to kick the shit out of him!? Fine! Fine fine fine! Her eyes darted to another handhold, about to go for it before recalling an earlier tip...footholds first...okay there...then there...then maybe a bit of a desperate lunge for that one...with a plan plotted out she started to climb, digging her fingers in where she could and always sure she had a strong place to rest her foot, her breath's heavy as she climbed right up the wall, gaining speed till she was moving like a gecko or another small lizard, at one point punching her metal arm into a crack in the rock just to MAKE a handhold so she didn't have to lose her momentum, finally climbing up to the top and gasping for breath as she rushed to the far wall, getting as far away from the edge as possible and missing Chezzer's congratulatory claps.
"Atta lass!~ See? It wheren't so hard!~"
"...C'mere." Mia started walking over to the miner, cracking her knuckles with a look of death in her eyes, the older man readily recognizing he may have pushed Mia a little too far out of her comfort zone...maybe he should of realized something MIA wasn't willing to try probably had some consequences to it.
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Post by Jay on Feb 20, 2018 18:30:09 GMT -8
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