westedge | PC: Shu

Merrily.

[ yeah?? yeah?? ]

They’re the ones who have to deal with being called BDSM for the rest of this.

And more power to them. [ at least it's not them! but there's a drag of his cigarette. ]

How'd you end up with your team anyway?

[ may they have a very safe, sane and consensual time. ]

Nahida asked me. I agreed to talk to the other people she had in mind.

[ a short grin. ]

Yeah, she seems a little hard to say no to. She told me she and Kaveh were sticking together and they were still looking for others, but that was a few days ago.

She gave decent enough reasons for who she had in mind and why. I didn’t have much reason to turn her down.

[ it also saved him the bother of looking for a team himself so. wins all around. ] Did you stumble into yours as well?

Hard to beat logic, sure. [ and they aren't the worst people, he thinks. ]

Alex and I always knew we'd be together. Setsu and Kazuki talked about teaming up with each other, and I guess...both of us talked about teaming up with each other before we all agreed.

[ he could do worse than the ones he ended up with, yeah. someone lucked out. ]

That all worked out well for you then. [ there's a pause, and then he looks through his phone. ]

... Nice spread of skills though.

[ he looks at the sky. ]

Yeah, that's the downfall but we figured we can make it work. It's easier to work together than make sure our skills are so spread out.

[ lol ]

Drift Aura’s movement based, isn’t it? [ (gou voice) i like it because speed. ] There’s nothing wrong with being able to get out of a situation quickly.

Supposedly. We're still trying to figure out exactly how much we can do with it. I can't say that the thought didn't occur to me though.

[ maybe...they can dodge a murderer. who knows... ]

You can ace a speed based task, but if you break your ankle during it you’re out of luck.

[ except not because there are two healers in his team who would scramble over to heal anyone. ]

[ nyeh. ]

Maybe don't jinx us before we even start, Shu. [ nyeh!!! ] I'd be surprised if the tasks were set up to lean more toward one psych than another anyway.

[ he’s just talking facts. ]

I agree. If it was catered to a specific type of psych, they’d have been more particular about assigning them.

[ our ten healers, nine drift auras. ]

I'm still not sure who or how these were assigned but see, that's exactly my point. They also had to know that people with the same ability had a high chance of ending up on the same team in the first place.

Maybe not four in one, but I expect they’ll have accounted for duplicates.

Sounds like it was random though. Maybe with a little reaper favouritism for certain psychs?

You think? I wasn't even sure how much the reapers really knew about the psychs. When I asked, they were talking about the other powers they had.

Aika implied preference might have influenced things, but I'm not reading into it. We have to work with what we've got, unless there's a way to get more later.

Have any of us even asked if there is a way to get more than what we've got? Or, like, anything that might've implied we could.

I haven't yet, actually. What I've got is good for now, but-- maybe it's something we need to run by them.

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to use mine. [ there's a pause as he inhales for a moment, smoke slowly drifting. ] If you get around to asking before I do, let me know?

Try not to launch yourself into the air and fall.

[ why is he assuming the worst immediately? ] Sure. Same if you ask first? I’m interested in knowing the extent of what we can do.

What are we, rockets? [ that hadn't occurred to him, but now he's thinking. ]

Sure though. It's still early in the game, so...sharing information's not a terrible decision.

If it’s basics, it’ll get us on the same page pretty fast. I doubt we’re going to be telling each other everything though.

[ team loyalty. ]

Wouldn't be much of a game if we really were all cooperating every step of the way. That's going to disappoint some people.

[ our optimists... ]

[ OUR OPTIMISTS… my god there’s so many of them… ]

Unfortunately us or them is probably going to win out. Unless there’s a loophole somewhere we can pry open.

[ he doesn’t know if there is. and he doesn’t expect one. but sometimes you have to give an optimist a bone. ]

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