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[asecondfaster]

[Ian (who is only sixteen) is standing outside the ship. He looks confused and annoyed at the same time; he wants answers, and he wants them now.]

Gabe, are you around here somewhere? Suki? CJ?

[after no response from his friends, he frowns] Where am I? Is this some kind of test, or experiment? Some illusion created by Whisper?

Maybe it’s a dream...but it’s a pretty weird dream, if it is. Even weirder than the yellow elevator one, or the one where Conner called me his liege, whatever that means. [he pauses] At least Señor Guapo hasn’t made an appearance yet.


((ooc: I'll reply to everyone's permissions posts and tags sometime tomorrow! For now, I sleep. Also I have a pathetically small number of icons rn, but I will fix that soon.))

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[femshep]

...Señor Guapo?

[She was going to give him the intro speech, but she got hung up on that particular moniker first. She sounds a mixture of skeptical and amused.]

[asecondfaster]

[a bit sheepishly] Sorry, that's Gabe's sock monkey.

[femshep]

...Right. [She sounds a bit skeptical, but not outright judgmental. She's definitely heard stranger things.]

You're gonna have to put some descriptions with those names if you want us to find them. Odds are, they aren't here, but it's always worth a shot.

[asecondfaster]

[It's ok, everyone judges Gabe for his sock monkey. Because seriously Gabe, wtf.]

They're all about my age, and they'd all be wearing some version of the Tower Prep uniform, which is this color. [he gestures at his hoodie, which has a T in a small circle on the front.]

[femshep]

And assuming they're around here somewhere, what kind of survival skills are they leaning on?

[asecondfaster]

What kind of survival skills do you need here?

[femshep]

Hunting and scavenging, finding and filtering water, building fires... Not to mention being able to at least defend yourself in a fight.

[asecondfaster]

Really? I'm sure they're smart enough to figure out that stuff if they have to. Gabe can talk his way out of a fight, and Suki could create a distraction, but I'm not sure about CJ. She'd probably put up a good fight, but she hasn't been trained like me. [he might seem a bit more worried about her than the others. Because he is totally crushing on her. :|]

[femshep]

[These names mean nothing to her, but she's storing them away for later just in case.]

Trained how?

[Intrigued Shepard is intrigued.]

[asecondfaster]

Coach trained me in martial arts at Tower Prep. I sort of have a knack for them. [and sports in general, thanks to his ability]

[femshep]

Not sure how much that'll help against some of the things you'll run into out in the forest, but here in the city you should do just fine.

[asecondfaster]

Things I have to fight in the woods isn't anything new, either.

...Were you really serious about hunting and scavenging? Is that the only way to find food here?

[femshep]

Unless you're ready to trust the trader.

I'm sure as hell not.

[asecondfaster]

I don't exactly have much to trade.

[femshep]

Not many people do. Good thing he takes favors.

[asecondfaster]

...What kind of favors?