At some point and definitely not because his writer is dumb and lost the bookmark Gavin gets distracted attempting to discern what sort of fossil the two pieces he's collected might belong to. One of them is still covered in damp and silt from being plucked from the water.

He's brushing away at the bones with a delicate touch when the call comes to line up and he realises, belated, that he's wasted a lot of time.

Oops.

He's the only one who didn't complete his, but he was doing this more for fun than anything else and doesn't seem disappointed.

"Missing, uh — the tail, maybe?"

It was hard to figure out what these belonged to but it's the back half of whatever-this-was.

(acquired: #1, #2)

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So only one person hadn't completed yet? That was pretty good odds, especially since he hadn't been expecting people to find pieces so darn quickly. But that could always be adjusted later. "Does anyone have an extra tail piece they wouldn't mind giving up for another competitor? Or perhaps trading it in for a tail piece? It's not required but kindness goes a long long way!" This might be the precision badge but that didn't mean he wouldn't grade on how the competitors treated each other too. There was more than one kind of precision after all.

Zac Ramsay , Chu-e Choi , michiko maeda , Cillian Quinn , Miles Sharp , Kazimir Wynter , kyle lopez , Laurence Anderson

Any of you with a duplicate piece can either trade it in for one that another competitor needs or give away a piece that a competitor requires in order to move on to the next round. Otherwise the competitors left out can sit and have a nice refreshing charja cola and judge you all while doing the next round.

Well, no one had spoken up and he really couldn't blame them for it. After all it was a dog eat dog world out there and you had to do what you had to do. "You can just sit next to me and watch then Patrick, since you're out and all. But that's fine. I like the company." Pressing a button, podiums raised with equipment necessary to put the fossils back as they were meant to be. A podium for each competitor. Except for Gavin. But that was fine. "Take your places everyone!" It was time to begin.

Zac Ramsay , Chu-e Choi , michiko maeda , Cillian Quinn , Miles Sharp , Kazimir Wynter , kyle lopez , Laurence Anderson

For your next task you will have to actually assemble your fossil! This round will be judged on both posting and your rolls. How you handle the materials given to you and how you go about assembling your fossil will be important. The more intact your fossil pieces from the earlier rounds are the better off you will be! This will be ONE ROUND ONLY with a roll at the end of everyone's posts. Get creative and get precise but remember to have fun.

Ah? She had to complete the fossil... herself?

Michiko stood, feeling very silly as others around her enthusiastically got to work assembling their three or four pieces. Her mind worked frantically. Was she missing something obvious? It seemed like everyone else had a good idea for how to fix the broken fossils, but Michi couldn’t even fix the holes in her drywall without calling half the region in to help.

But asking for help wasn’t a bad thing! In fact, it was her greatest strength!

“Ooh, Zac, can I borrow this... fossil book?” Michi asked, catching one of the assembly manuals Zac Ramsay had been referencing as one sailed past her. She bowed, grateful for the assist, and then approached Cillian Quinn timidly where the blonde man sat. “Ah, excuse me!” She said, book clutched to her chest. “Maybe Patrick, if it is okay, you can help me? I am not so much an expert,” she confessed, cheeks turning a little pink. 

Counting on the know-how of the manual and a knowledgable-looking stranger to steer her in the right direction, Michiko carefully superglued her chipped fossil back into one piece, then worked at assembling the rest. Her Dreepy hung onto the second piece with its tail, bridging the gap between Part One and Part Two to keep them in place while Michi waited for the cement to set.

“I think... it is backwards? No, I think it is right...” She mused uncertainly, standing back to walk around the fossil and examine her handiwork. 

It was done! She gave a sigh of relief, then laughed. “Ah, I did my best...” She patted the dust off her skirts. “I feel like I am doing handicrafts! It is very fun. Thank you!”

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FOSSIL ASSEMBLED!
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"If you would just hold still..."

michiko maeda finds Gavin in the process of trying to gently extract a stone from between his Aerodactyl's curved talons. Whether the prehistoric flier is ticklish or just fussy is difficult to tell; it shimmies about in spite of his efforts, screeching, but the stone comes free as the woman approaches.

Gavin glances up, expression curious and not unfriendly.

"Hm? Oh — sure, if the gym leader OK's it."

He glances over to glitch maverick, questioning.

Should he be allowed to assist, he'd do so eagerly, hands-off so as not to make it unfair but providing tips from his years of restoring fossils in his basement laboratory.

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Had to post again b/c Michi is a CUTIE I love her, I would die for her

He smiles a bit, clapping. "No one ever said you had to do it by yourself! It's about being precise and sometimes precision takes two sets of eyes, so since Patrick didn't finish his it's fine for him to go ahead and help Mrs. Maeda!" After all there were no rules to this sort of competition. And they were only waiting on a couple other people to finish now he thought.

Zac Ramsay , Chu-e Choi , michiko maeda , Cillian Quinn , Miles Sharp , Kazimir Wynter , kyle lopez , Laurence Anderson

O fuk I thought I replied to this already. I remember I looked for gifs but I guess I never actually posted it.

So anyway, when given his instructions, Chu-e very carefully took his fossils over to the table. One of them was kind of waterlogged, one kind of crumbly, and the other was really hard. It was still good to be careful, though, since unlike a lot of other people he only had one piece of each.

Leaving his Carbink and Sylveon to guard the fossils and make sure they didn't fall off the table, Chu-e went to go looking for a few tools he could use for this whole thing.

See, Chu-e didn't know too much about fossils. Maybe if he was smart he would have asked Cillian Quinn beforehand, since he knew the man loved stuff like this. Yet, he did at least know they were easy to break. After coming back, Chu-e found himself with a little drill, a small hammer and chisel, and a brush to dust anything off.

Starting with the soft fossil, Chu-e worried he would damage it if he just bashed it with a hammer. So, instead, he used the small drill to gently scrape away layers of dirt before brushing them off. It was tedious. Next was the hard one. The drill wasn't doing much to the hard outer layer, so he gently knocked it with the chisel and hammer to loosen those layers off. Only when he was done did he repeat the process as for the first fossil, drilling off the rock and dusting it off. This one took longer than the first since the stone was less yielding.

The waterlogged fossil was the last and also the hardest. It wasn't as hard or as soft as the other two, but the problem was where the rock was wet it would turn into kind of sludge when broken down too finely. Chu-e had to have his pokemon guard again as he went to go find some soft cloths he could wipe down his tools and the fossil with as he worked. By the time he was done, he had muddy sludge all over himself, the table, and his pokemon. At least he had three fossils. (Not that he was a good judge.)

Pleased, he tried to push them together to make one solid creature.

glitch maverick

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real life footage of chu-e doing his fossil

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It had seemed like it had been ages since they started this whole thing, with one of the competitors mysteriously disappearing during the whole thing. Perhaps he had gone home to Arceus within the depths of the gym. Oh well, more bones for excavating Glitch supposed. It was just how these things went. The podiums that fossils had been assembled upon glowed brightly.

"Congrats everyone! You have assembled your fossils! Luckily these poor fools will not be going through the reviver because honestly they're not even real fossils. They're made from plaster."

Stepping down from his position Glitch wheeled a cart in front of the competitors. On the cart contained the badges which he was going to give out and goodie bags for everyone. Including cookies and some candies shaped like bones and fossils. It was cute and he was sure that plenty of people would love to have a snack after all of that hard work.

"All of you did great in your own way and I'm so happy to have had all of you compete. There were some technical difficulties this time around but that's why we make adjustments and move on! I hope all of you had fun."

But he couldn't delay the inevitable any longer really.

"The first person to receive the gym badge and a place on the score board is... Ji-Hoon Ki! Your deft skill at putting together the fossil and making sure that everything was in order couldn't be ignored. You worked through your struggles at the beginning and managed to put together what would probably be a survivable Pokemon!" Chu-e's fossil podium changed from a white light to gold upon the announcement of his name.

"But as you know! I award multiple gym badges for suffering through all of this nonsense! The second person to get the badge from the fossil finder's event is... Lars Anderson! I really liked your use of tape through the fossil attachment process to map it all out. It was quick thinking and a great way to make sure that you could get it together without ruining your fossil!" He liked when people thought ahead really.

"The third person and final person to get a full badge from me is... Michiko Maeda! Congrats on being able to ask for help. Precision isn't just about what you see yourself, but also what you can learn from the eyes of others!" The other two players podiums lit up in gold as well, just as Chu-e's did. Clapping for the competitors Glitch was actually pleased with what had managed to happen. "But, please make sure that you check your goodie bags on the way out! You never know what sort of surprises will be in there!"

After all, in the bottom of the goodie bags, were half of his gym badge for those that hadn't managed to pull out a win.

Zac Ramsay , Chu-e Choi , michiko maeda , Cillian Quinn , Miles Sharp , Kazimir Wynter , kyle lopez , Laurence Anderson

WINNERS OF THE FULL BADGE:
- Chu-e Choi

- Laurence Anderson

- michiko maeda