Having them be accepted into the group and having them be counted by the hierarchy updates people are two different things- rollers for activities do not check to see how many times they are mentioned for the HP count as it is not their job. In the first story, Avgas is mentioned for a section of (generously) 500 words, which is not enough for the exploring bonus, but a handler is present, making that 4 HP for the entire story. Blackbird is fine, earning the entire 13 HP, for a total of 17 HP for the first story. The second story is better, with a rough 1000 words for Avgas, though still not enough for the exploring bonus, but again, a handler is present, making a total of 7 HP for the story. Blackbird is another 1000 words, so 7 HP total, and the total would be 14 HP for the second story, giving you a total of leaving you short (current total is 31 HP) ^^' As I have been playing for over a year, and have submitted many tokotas for hierarchy updates, I am familiar with how the mods count HP. If you'd like, I'd be happy to ask one to take a brief look over the two stories and see what they say about the HP count.
I would like to clarify that I am not asking you to rewrite the entire story, but simply add their names in a few more times so the stories can count for the full amount of HP, as I really enjoy what you have written and I appreciate the amount of work that has gone into them.