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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

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[unclesam]

[ Sam laughs out loud at the message. ]

alright - tell you what, I find anything on here that makes for actual, good food rather than the end of all joy the mess hall provides, you gonna be the first to know.

sam wilson, and likewise.

[ man, those nazis just don't quit, do they? ]

[psychometries]

[ So you're telling him it's a human-shaped starfighter. ]

No kidding.

What kind of armaments does it usually have?

[spalten]

[ unfortunately, and just as gay ]

Nothing out of the ordinary. I didn't come with its rifle or its handguns. Which is fine, because resources are finite. It at least arrived with its sabre, and that's more than enough to cause damage with anything.

[brosbeforeprose]

They're not cheap, that much I can say. But then, I've seen copies in the damndest places, so there's probably a thriving secondhand market I'm not seeing any take from.

[He's not complaining. Today's secondhand buyer might be tomorrow's firsthand buyer.]

Your uniform tells you? How so?

You'd have to be very aware of those throbbings and pressures, and of how much your body can take, to be able to go into dangerous situations with permanently damaging yourself.

I guess it depends on how desposable your superiors find you if you ever find yourself in battle

[cleaningsolutions]

I don't really know how the technology works, but my uniform has a network of tiny sensors. Whenever one senses a puncture, for example, it automatically seals and sends a signal to my monocle, which even without Doc can make sense of all the signals and tell me how bad the damage is. If I had my team here and all in uniform I could have Doc monitor all of them.

It does take training. Infantry and anyone else going out in the field wears combat uniforms too. Those have more robust systems of detection and monitor our bodies more precisely than SHS - that's Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation.

It depends on the officer, but the Admiralty keeps us in mind and reprimands the ones who don't care. Some things are worth the risk of death, and in any case we're hard to kill.

[freightcars]

Right, yeah, that
makes sense.

( He was thinking they were about to induct a fourth one into the mix for some reason. Post Captain Stress Disorder. They're goddamn everywhere these days. )

[arnaults]

Thank you! I'm trying to learn as quickly as possible. I don't like feeling turned around.

We haven't got anything like this at home. But I suppose not everyone here can do magic, so I hope we aren't completely backwards.

[dissemblance]

That's an interesting question.

How do you feel about it?

（ would she go back in time and kill thanos? you fucking bet she would, and sleep soundly afterwards. ）

[dissemblance]

Obviously.

[dissemblance]

It would make sense to me.

But I'm not exactly an expert. I've seen a few episodes of Star Trek and that's about it.

[dissemblance]

'Ate their diplomats'.

Huh.

They sound like a pretty decent people, then. We could be so lucky here.

[dissemblance]

You know, there's probably a market for that sort of thing here. I'm willing to bet these people haven't had much time for the luxury of stories the last few years...

Though speaking entirely in earnest, I'd buy a book about backstabbing over bake sales.

And I'll keep an ear to the ground about our moonshine detractors. Can never be too careful.

[dissemblance]

Still sounds a little like one of those action hero names.

You don't travel to exotic locales to jump out of helicopters, do you?

（ this is a Joke. ）

[dissemblance]

You seem pretty spry to me 😘😘😘

[dissemblance]

Grizzled, battle worn, never to return again to the fields of feckless fun? I know a few people like that.

What I do not know, however, is anyone who would think the coffee's good. You're the very first.

[mylawn]

Well, a guy's gotta have his secrets.

[the secret is getting pumped full of government juice]

[dissemblance]

Oh, I've done a little bit of everything. I don't think you'd respect my coffee sommelier credentials, though.

[mylawn]

When you're as old as me, you've almost always had worse.

[dissemblance]

Don't we all.

[dissemblance]

I'm about 90 percent sure Redwing got tagged by the Gov't at some point in the last few years, so that's gonna be a no from me.

Thanks, though.

（ she does mean that genuinely. it's nice to know he's there, that he cares, and that he'll look out for her. ）

[dissemblance]

No limit. Live your best life.

And your secret's safe with me, but this is a public network, so... just so that doesn't bite you in the butt later.

Hm...

I'm going to go with 3. The leader thing just lays it on a little too much.

[dissemblance]

So I'm guessing the Mayans were wrong in your world too, huh?

（ that's her subtle way of asking about an alien invasion in 2012, since that's when the chitauri rocked up on them. ）

And wow, that's quite the jump. Time travel?

[dissemblance]

Caramel macchiato for me.

Nah, it's 2. I love that movie. Not a dry eye in the house at the end.

[dissemblance]

Crib would be easier, it's just math.

I could show you?

[dissemblance]

（ WHO IS SUPERVISING THIS SASSY LOST CHILD??? ）

I'm all ears if you have another explanation...