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This is Maketh Tua. State your business.

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Date: 2016-03-03 10:38 pm (UTC)
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I don't think so.

[He might've been more concerned about the possibility if this hadn't happened once already.]

Sometimes people just... Leave. Apparently.

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Date: 2016-03-03 11:00 pm (UTC)
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[He's not sure how to interpret that response except maybe she's dubious about the idea, but he doesn't elaborate at the moment. Instead he considers the shot she slides toward him, and decides one shot isn't going to hurt.

So he lifts the glass in a gesture of cheers before tipping it back. It's been over a year since he did any shots so it's a little stronger than he's expecting, and earns a probably somewhat amusing face and cough once he's done.]


Haven't done that in while.

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Date: 2016-03-03 11:10 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, liquor's usually a little too expensive for college students.

[So most of the parties he has attended in the past year served beer at the strongest anyway, in addition to him generally avoiding overdoing it.

The civilian comment gets his interest.]


'Civilians?' Are you like, military or a cop or something?

[Who knows what people might be in this place.[

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Date: 2016-03-03 11:20 pm (UTC)
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[He nods, interested; he's not really familiar with any of that, but the idea makes sense.]

What part of it did you like best? Like, the commanding part or the administrative stuff?

[Because he doubts those two things could be any more different, so he's curious about if she has a preference and, if so, which it is.

He nods at the question, pushing his glass around idly between his fingers.]


Yeah, I was in my second year. My major was computer science, so like, programming and how computers work and all that.

[He explains just because what 'computer science' entails seems to vary wildly between worlds, from what conversation he's had on the subject while here.]

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Date: 2016-03-03 11:35 pm (UTC)
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So like, planning things and solving problems?

[Makes sense, from what he knows of her personality so far. He also understands that a lot, because he's the same way; seeing the steps to a solution or putting together facts to solve a puzzle come naturally to him, which has been really helpful recently.

A lot more than his field in school, anyway, and he shakes his head a little.]


Yeah, it's really in demand at home, but here it's been totally unhelpful.

[Hope's weird phones aren't even an operating system he knows, though Rhys did say he'd teach him and hopefully he'll be able to pick it up pretty quickly. But otherwise his talent with technology hasn't helped much here, and he's felt kind of useless overall especially next to all these people who can use swords or do magic or whatever.]

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Date: 2016-03-03 11:59 pm (UTC)
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That's pretty cool. It sounds like something that'd be really useful here, if you wanted to deal with trying to coordinate it.

[The people here have definitely been more inclined to working independently, including his own group of friends, but some sort of more communal organization might be a good idea. Especially when things like the last few events happen.

He nods again, looking a little more serious.]


The whole 'being able to fight' thing seems to be the most useful skill in this place so far.

[He assumes that's what she means about her military academy training being useful, anyway.]

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Date: 2016-03-04 12:31 am (UTC)
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Yeah? Awesome. If there's anything I can do to help, just uh... Let me know.

[He doesn't like making serious decisions--though he definitely can if he has to--but he'd be interested in helping out in some sort of organizing that's in everyone's best interests. If that's even possible.

He considers that last comment seriously, tapping his fingers idly against his empty glass as he thinks.]


Yeah. Maybe like... There's so many people here with like, totally different skills; some of the people that messaged us during... You know...

[The last event.]

They could make fire, or heal people, or had weapons or whatever else, and offered to help with whatever. So maybe they and others here would be willing to just sort of make what they can do public knowledge? So everyone knows what each person here's capable of, so we all know who to go to for different situations?

[He's not sure how well it would work in practice, but it's really hard to organize a strategic response to a threat if no one knows who or what they're working with.]

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Date: 2016-03-04 02:02 am (UTC)
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[He still hasn't poured another shot, still deciding if he's going to or not; he has a pretty high alcohol tolerance, but he doesn't want to push it. Better to stop before he feels any effects, rather than drink enough to have reason to keep doing so.]

Yeah. A lot of people here seem big on the alcohol thing, so it's a good bargaining chip.

'Course it's good for more than just drinking, too.

[It's a disinfectant and, perhaps more importantly, a source a fire. Sure, the wendigo problem might have been taken care of by Rage, but for how long? They thought they'd escaped that nightmare on the mountain only for wendigo to just appear here too, so who knows when they might need a way to make fire. Especially a potentially long-range and explosive way.]

But who knows, I mean, no one who offered to help with the wendigos asked for anything in return. There might just be like, a lot of nice people here, or at least people who know working together's best for everyone.

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Date: 2016-03-04 02:22 am (UTC)
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Not really, but I'd think that...

[How to put this in a way that won't be insulting?]

Like, I totally understand wanting to drink to forget that we're all in this shithole of a cave, especially if it's only occasionally or whatever. But it seems like it should be kind of... Low priority?

[And being drunk makes you totally useless in an emergency, but he doesn't say that. Instead he frowns a little at her other comments, understanding but not agreeing.]

So you think that when it comes down to it people'll just be looking out for themselves?
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Date: 2016-03-04 02:57 am (UTC)
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[He's quiet, gazing off to the side towards the floor, going over her words and, more, his memory of the night on the mountain. There had been a few instances of what Maketh describes--or more specifically, one instance--but the rest of the time they'd been surprisingly united, even in the most dire circumstances. They'd worked together, protected each other, risked their lives to give all of them the best chance to get out alive.

But they'd also known each other for years, and despite fights and clashes of opinion there's a level of loyalty--especially now, among the survivors--that definitely can't be expected from a bunch of people who barely know each other. So while he doesn't believe that everyone would turn on each other, the idea of weaker bonds breaking down in the face of a threat is unfortunately likely.

Chris blinks a few times, pulling himself from his thoughts, and then looks back at Maketh again.]


Implement it how? Do something specifically to make fighting each other have to happen?

[They basically already did that with the wendigos, but it's a more subtle case.]

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Date: 2016-03-04 03:15 am (UTC)
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Don't give them ideas.

[Though that said--]

I think they'd have to work harder than that though. I mean, a month before the whole wendigo thing started they like... Buried half the people here alive.

[His voice is a little quieter as he says it, the memory not a good one, but he continues anyway.]

Pretty much everyone worked to try to find the people who were buried, even though they didn't have to. Some of them didn't even know anyone who was, they just wanted to help.

[And half the people in the city being trapped underground would've been perfect opportunity for hoarding--or stealing--supplies, or something like that, but as far as he knows no one took advantage of that at all.]
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Date: 2016-03-04 03:39 am (UTC)
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[He wishes he could argue, but he can't; the wendigo event was definitely the longest of the sustained threats here, with the burial event only--although 'only' is somewhat relative here--lasting three days. Back home, their first encounter with the wendigos had actually only been a few hours for him, as he and some of the others had been facing a completely different threat for the first portion of the night.

So he can't argue from experience, though he still isn't sure he agrees. Yes, something like starvation would be enormously stressful, but exhaustion and injuries and the terror of hours or nonstop fighting to survive are as well and he's not sure if there would be a lot of difference. Hopefully he won't have to find out.

The mention of the trauma of the wendigo event catches his attention though, and that he definitely agrees with it. It had been horrific, for many reasons, and it being the second go around for him hadn't made it any less so. Just different.

But her mentioning it is an opening, although he's not entirely sure how much of one.]


Yeah, maybe.

[He pauses a few more seconds, suddenly tempted for another drink, but shifts his gaze from the glass back to Maketh again.]

But um... About the wendigo thing...

[He trails off, not intentionally but because he's trying to decide how much to say.]

I'm gonna guess talking isn't like, your thing, but if you ever want to... I mean, I know how hard it is to...

[It's hard to even say it, and his gaze keeps flickering back to the table as he struggles to keep his voice steady.]

How hard it is to make the choice that you did. So like... No judgement, or whatever.

[He hasn't talked at all about the similar circumstance he'd gone through--hasn't even told anyone other than the people that were there for it--but it's more important that she knows there's someone she can talk to that truly understands, than for him to keep quiet just because it's difficult to think about.]

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Date: 2016-03-04 03:57 am (UTC)
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[He isn't watching her reaction as much as he would normally, since he's still struggling to make sure to keep his composure; he's trying to help, not accidentally worry her or upset her any further. But he does notice how she freezes, and her shift in posture.

He's quiet a few more seconds after her words, then gives a small shrug.]


The part that sucks about being logical is that you can know it's the best choice you had, but it's still... It doesn't make it better.

[Just because it was the smart choice--both in her case and in his--doesn't somehow make it less traumatizing. He really wishes it did.]

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