02 | video

[brainsqueeze]

( Maria's at the Citadel, for anyone that's familiar enough with it to recognise the location. For anyone that isn't she's hoping to push you a little into getting familiar with it )

We don't know when this will happen, that's obvious enough. We all have our groups and ours jobs, but what when the war really hits? Most of the training has been more focused to combat and those wishing to fight.

I want to focus on defense. Not everyone is going to fight - you made that choice with your group. Everyone should be able to defend themselves. To feel safer. Would you rather be able to help yourself, or wait until it could be too late for someone to help you.

( Just going for the worst case scenario here, not the expected. But if you expect the worst hopefully you can get something better. Or be shocked a little into going with her suggestion )

There are a lot of options, included weapons training and unarmed. I teach hand-to-hand combat at the Citadel and self-defense at the school. I'd rather see someone try, and take a chance at helping than not make it through because they couldn't. Think about it.

( Are you going to be able to count on the gods to revive you when it comes down to the end? )

( FILTERED | military group )

We need to get together. Knowing each other and our abilities will help us start putting together a strategy. The better we can work together now gives us a better chance when we need to work together. We have to be able to rely on each other.

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voice | private AHAHAHAHAHA HI AND ALSO FORGIVE ME

[selfmadman]

Experimental. [ Searching before, he snaps back into the moment. His voice has recovered its vitality. His cigarette is poised in his fingers. ] Imagine a lock that can't be picked because it doesn't need a key, a gun that has no trigger. It relies on you: you are the essential component.

I want to build equipment that responds to our powers.

voice | private i may be able to C:

[brainsqueeze]

A lock which any of us here could open. ( Correction ) Anyone with telekinesis.

( She caught that you. So not general, and so in line with his previous questions on her now using her powers. Goddamn it he was persistent )

Anyone could help you.

voice | private

[selfmadman]

I'm asking you. [ The statement's made with quiet certainty. For an instant he regrets that this isn't video, that he can't meet her eyes.

Voice lightening a shade: ] If you're arguing, you must be interested.

voice | private

[brainsqueeze]

Concerned.

( She's about as interesting in using her powers as the last time he mentioned it. She's stubborn and possible afraid of what they could do, or mean, even if that would never be admitted )

What if it got into someone else's hands. ( If an enemy managed to be able to operate it ) Or couldn't be used by someone that needed to. It's dangerous.

voice | private

[selfmadman]

Most good ideas are. [ A rare openness in his tone.

So much talk is expressive tedium, but this he likes. Hunkering down with an idea. ] Right now it's just pieces. [ A twitch in his voice and at his lips. ] Small ones.

[ He drags languidly on his cigarette, tries not to let his suspicions color his words. ] Where are you with your powers?

voice | private

[brainsqueeze]

Do you need to ask?

( Do you not at least know that much about her, and her stubborn refusal to touch them. And maybe some fear about them - about being changed, or what the powers could do - and do to her. It stems from Loki, she's not so willing to eagerly go there )

Pieces of what?

voice | private

[selfmadman]

More like mechanisms. The clever parts. [ His tone makes “clever” synonymous with “exasperating.” ] Parts that react.

[ A pause with the weight of a sigh. When he speaks it's soft: he trusts he's voicing something that's whispered in her thoughts. ] You can't keep putting it off.

voice | private

[brainsqueeze]

Pieces that are frustrating you.

( She heard that tone, and with something like this it definitely isn't going to be an easy task

Also don't make her sigh back )

I've done well putting it off so far.

( She's never going to admit that the further that this goes on the more she may be coming to the conclusion that she might have to use her powers. She's just stubbornly been silencing that whisper )