{"sf1_id":614253,"sf2_id":null,"title":"You have passed.","author":"Yure16","words":1550,"posted_at":"2013-11-16T00:52:00.000Z","tags":["Avians","Bovines","Canines","Chubby","Cubs / Young Characters","Felines","Females","Lapines","Males","Mammals","Prey Species","Scenes – Tribal","Size differences (1-3 feet)","Story Driven","Yure"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/614253-you-have-passed","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/614253","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=614253\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"Previous: https://www.sofurry.com/view/611860\nNext: https://www.sofurry.com/view/623672","content":"Percival began to reflect on the\nquestions. Aside of the basics of exploration techniques, the test\nalso had questions about geology. Percival began to answer the\nquestions in his mind, reading each and preparing what to say to the\nsupervisor.Meanwhile, Mimo, who had caught\na different test, nervously read each question. He had never before\nparticipated in an exploration or studied anything of that nature.\nMoreover, he did not know geology. At least, the questions were\nmultiple choice, then, for each question, he had twenty-five percent\nof success rate.Percival approached the monkey\nand gave him the test.- What are the answers for each\nitem? - Asked the monkey.Percival recited the answers.\nThe monkey nodded and gave him a score of forty-six. Percival left\nthe supervisor and returned to his place, while Mimo, walking at slow\nsteps, trembling went to the another monkey who, although adult, was\nsmaller.- What are the answers for each\nitem? - Asked the monkey.Mimo looked at the test again\nand blindly guessed the answers, responding randomly. The monkey\nnodded again and gave a score of thirty-four to Mimo, who started\nwalking back to his place.- Hey, kid! - Said the monkey.Mimo froze.- You forgot to hand me the test\n- continued the monkey.- Ah ... forgive me... - Mimo\nwent back and handed it to the supervisor and only then returned to\nhis place in the crowd.Time passed slowly. Eventually,\neveryone had responded and returned the test. The supervisor examined\nfrom his memory the scores he had taken.- All those who took a score\nbelow twenty can go home - he announced.Most participants left the\nplace. Only six remained. The monkey gave those six another test.- Same process - he said. - Only\nanswers. This is to check if you are not taking advantage of my\nmemory to claim a score that did not give.- Why not use a pen to write\ndown the score of each? - Asked a heron that had remained.- Are you crazy? Writing down\nthe scores of all those ignorants would consume a lot of ink.The heron was offended by the\nsupervisor's language, but shrugged it off. Again, Percival, Mimo and\nthe other four participants completed the test. Mimo, as before,\ndoing everything randomly.Nervous and anxious, Mimo was\nthe first to declare that he had answered the questions, five minutes\nafter the test started. The ape looked at Mimo with an air of\nsuspicion and asked:- Already?- Yes, sir - said Mimo.\"Wow, he must be very good\n...\" thought Percival, who was still answering. The supervisor\ntook the test and called Mimo in particular, away from the others,\nand asked:- What is the answer for each\nitem?Mimo guessed the answers again.\nThe ape nodded, giving him a score twenty-six.- You have passed - he said. -\nIt is only a pity that the top six were the only ones to get a score\nabove twenty. It is a low grade. But still better than the vast\nmajority of those who took the test.Mimo was no longer paying\nattention after hearing that he had been approved.- Thank you - it was the only\nwords that little monkey managed to cast.The ape raised one of his\neyebrows, thinking that the little stranger had ignored the arrogant\ninsult that had been released. Mimo went back to the other five,\nsmiling with an air of satisfaction.Percival soon followed. After\nthe process, Percival had been approved with a score of twenty-two.\nHe then joined Mimo. The ape went to the duo and said:- You can enter the dungeon. In\nthe very first room were installed lamps and tents where you can rest\nif desired. A summoner keeps the warmth inside the tents. It is\nimportant to who are still doing the test alone.Percival and Mimo went to the\nentrance of the dungeon, the creepy ice tunnel that seemed endless.\nMimo shivered, wondering if he trembled from cold or fear.- You first - he said.Percival went first. Mimo looked\nback and realized that the supervisor was watching. Not wanting to\nlook scared, the little monkey followed Percival.The corridor was rectangular,\nvertical. Walls, ceiling and floor were perfectly polished,\nindicating that it was obviously not a work of nature. The deeper the\ndue went through the corridor, the colder it became. Light could be\nseen down the corridor after a few minutes of walk. They came to a\nlarge room with tents erected, a huge stone gate in the opposite wall\nand another corridor to the west. A group of moles examined the gate\nwhile another group chatted near the west corridor, all wearing\nhelmets with flash-lights. The lanterns were not fed with batteries,\nbut with a supernatural force channelled into small circular stones\ninside the lanterns. This force was channelled by the summoner.Percival and Mimo walked towards\nthe tents just in time to see a mole in a lab coat come out from one\nof them. She looked at them and smiled.- Explorers? - She asked.- Yes, we are - Percival said.- Excellent! - The mole clapped\ntwice, lively, with the arrival of the duo. - Finally, we can\ncontinue to explore! - She then looked around. - Want me to explain\nthe function of each tent?- Sure.- Follow me.The mole walked with the pair,\nexplaining the function of the tents. One was a rest spot for wounded\nexplorers. The other was the tent for meetings, where explorers\nshould go before and after each mission to receive instructions and\neat. The last tent was a storage for collective equipment.Other explorers came gradually.\nThe mole called them when the six explorers were there.- I suppose you do not know each\nother yet - she said. - Kindly introduce yourself.Percival was the first:- I'm Percival. I'm twenty-one.Percival was a white rabbit with\nred eyes. He wore a red shirt and long blue pants. Carried with him a\nbackpack.- Mimo, eight-year-old.Mimo was a brown monkey. Had\nblack eyes and a long tail. Wore only a red shorts, since his fat\nkept him warm. H looked overweight.- Sérica, nineteen.Sérica was a heron, dressed in\nshort pants and shirt. Had a belt made to accommodate tools and was\nholding a dagger.- Bolico, ten-year-old.Bolico was a predominantly white\ncat, with black spots. Also was overweight, wore only a loincloth and\nseemed completely unarmed and unprepared. His eyes were yellow.- Guino, thirty-year-old.Guino was a bull, big and\nstrong. He wore only ripped shorts, carried in one hand a sword that\nother species could only wield with two paws. His upper limbs ended\nin almost human hands covered with dense fur. His eyes had an eerie\nred glow.- Mático, twenty-five-year-old.Mático was a dog, lean and\ntall, as Percival. He wore glasses and carried with him an open\nbackpack, full of thick, heavy books. Judging by his clothes, a brown\nrobe tied at the waist with a purple rope, he was a summoner.- Now that everyone knows\neveryone, please proceed to the tent of meetings to eat and receive\nexplanations about your work here - said the mole.The sextet went to the tent of\nmeetings. The tent was huge, enough to fit a table and twelve chairs.\nThere was a map spread on the back of the tent, seven lamps and ten\ndishes on the table, a cauldron in the corner where the soup was\nprepared and some abandoned mining tools on the ground. A mole\nwearing typical explorer clothes was sitting at the table while\nanother mole was preparing the soup. They sat normally.- Very well, gentlemen. Glad you\nwere able to pass the tests and be approved. I see that we have a\nvery heterogeneous group - said the mole who was sitting. - But what\ndetermines the persistence or not of such group are mostly the\nreasons of it's components. So I wanted to know what motivates you to\nparticipate in the operation, aside, of course, the reward.- I want my mother to be free -\nMimo spoke immediately after the mole finished speaking.- Mm? How so?- My mother was arrested by the\nGovernment. She is innocent, however, and hopefully I can free her\nwith this job.The mole smiled at the answer.\nWith such strong reasons, Mimo would definitely stay until the end.- I want to improve the living\nconditions of my mother - said Percival. - She's too old to continue\nplanting and harvesting vegetables every day.- I want adventure - spoke\nSérica.- And I want gold - Guino said.\n- It is well known that the underground is filled with precious\nmetals.- I came on a mission - said\nMático. - I was inspired to come because of a dream in which the Air\ntalked to me.The mole listened to almost\neveryone. Bolico, however, still remained silent.- And you? - Asked the mole.Bolico sighed and looked at the\nmole.- I came because I have no other\nplace to go. My friends are dead and my parents were captured. I'm\ninterested in the work because it was the only way to not starve.The mole was impressed with that\nresponse. The others looked at Bolico, who lowered his head after\nearning the spotlight.- The soup is ready - said the\nmole at the cauldron.She picked up, one after\nanother, the dishes from the table and filled them with soup,\nreturning them shortly after."}