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casner) wrote in vestigenet2020-07-20 12:27 pm
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Hello. My name is Graham Casner, and as we all seem to be stuck here for the moment, I'd like to get a headcount and collect a few other potentially useful details. A record of who's here will let us know if anyone goes missing, and the benefit of cataloging what skills we have amidst the group should speak for itself.
In my day to day non-bullshit life I work as an adventure/survival guide; while I can't say for sure how much call we'll have for those services consider me on call for any questions about how to use what we have on hand. I also possess some experience in basic home maintenance, though for anything beyond simple electric/plumbing issues you're out of luck.
To sum up: please reply with your name and any skills, abilities, or otherwise you see as beneficial to our survival. Don't discount what might seem frivolous at first; creature comforts can go a long way.
Thank you for your time.
In my day to day non-bullshit life I work as an adventure/survival guide; while I can't say for sure how much call we'll have for those services consider me on call for any questions about how to use what we have on hand. I also possess some experience in basic home maintenance, though for anything beyond simple electric/plumbing issues you're out of luck.
To sum up: please reply with your name and any skills, abilities, or otherwise you see as beneficial to our survival. Don't discount what might seem frivolous at first; creature comforts can go a long way.
Thank you for your time.
@Jiang.Wanyin
You weren't completely useless when we fought together, either.
I'm one of the leaders of the cultivation world; I have skills in politics, training my young disciples in swordsmanship and cultivation, I have commanded troops in warfare and I know how to recruit and organize an army.
[ All of which is going to be fantastically useless here, he can see that already.]
While I wouldn't mind teaching cultivation, it takes many years to develop a golden core, especially if you start training as an adult. I won't deny anyone the chance to learn but I'm planning to have escaped from here long before such efforts could bear fruit.
If you're looking for other skills? I'm not bad with repairs around the house. I'm strong, I don't tire easily and heal quickly, like all cultivators. I'm trained in archery. My calligraphy is decent.
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[ taste the dryness, it's ...it's. dry? ]
Good. No telling when we might need to organize. Or rally the troops, as it were. That said I'm with you on the gone before I need to learn actual fucking magic front, so let's keep thinking that way.
Along with a skill that lends itself to hunting and house repair, I'd say congratulations, you're not completely useless either.
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That's high praise, coming from you. I'm pleased to hear I'm no longer considered a costumed amateur actor with a toy sword.
Yes, I can hunt. I'd gladly do so even, considering the terrible food in the store. I can fish, too. I've lived all my life at a lake. I'm a good swimmer and diver, but we should be wary of the middle of the lake, there's a current that drags you under. It cost me the boat I woke up on and if I weren't such a strong swimmer, it would have killed me.
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... i mean really. sincerely, it is. ]
Not at all. I've upgraded you to professional actor with an impressive prop sword.
[ let's continue with the dry humor, shall we? if jiang cheng is doing so well picking it up in text so far, that's ....honestly also a legitimate skill. ]
The game supply will most likely be controlled by these "Technicians." Another reason I don't want to be here long enough that we have no choice but to hunt.
I'll make a note about the lake. Can I assume you've begun to warn other people?
[ assuming he's begun to warn other people!! shit, it's two compliments in as many tags. better calm down, graham. ]
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[ Insert a contemptuous sniff, though there is no true malice intended. Honestly, he's enjoying the banter with Graham Casner. ]
I'm sure they would find it funny to starve us but so far the awful food in the store is being replenished, right? There is no harm in hunting, for now. Although I'm thinking, since they replenish the store, we should see about building up stashes for the day when they stop providing for us.
I've told the scout, Lalli Hotakainen, who is collecting information about this place. I didn't post a warning on this network yet.
[ Which... he should have done, come to think of it, but he is still getting used to using technology like this. ]
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Do you think you could familiarize yourself with a firearm? The weapon I used during our less pleasant time together. It's a fairly simple process.
[ haha pretend i didn't previously forget to mention this part, graham wouldn't have ]
I've spoken to Lalli. He might be the person best suited to pass on environmental dangers.
[ lalli's extreme terseness, unsurprisingly, has not seemed particularly foreign vis a vis the best way to communicate. at least not to graham "if i give you an order just do it" casner.
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I have never used that kind of weapon before but I would be willing to try and learn. It seemed fairly effective.
[ And being complimented on the use of his own weapon has soothed whatever defensiveness there might have been otherwise. It feels nice to have his skill acknowledged, even if it is by someone who isn't skilled himself with the sword.
It is that, maybe, which has him confide at least a little. ]
My sister is here. I have to learn whatever it takes to protect her.
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[ and he does, just--in a way that punches him in the sternum with something simultaneously very blunt and very sharp. Is he thinking about what he'd be willing to do if his daughter were here?
Or what he can't forget he couldn't do back in Svalbard? Some uneasy mixture of both, no doubt, a heavy, cloying perfume refusing to mix with water. ]
2/2; private
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[ Nobody had been expecting that a war would tear apart the cultivation world and force her on the run, or that their family to end up meeting on the battlefield, with Yanli, who loved them both, caught in the crossfire. And certainly, nobody could have expected for them to end up in a place built only to torture and kill them. ]
It didn't go as planned.
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But moving on:
He types and erases and retypes several variants on I'm sorry, mostly for how that's such a fucking inadequate response. Sounds like your world is as shitty as mine, my condolences. Got any tips on how to sleep at night or live with yourself while you're awake?--then, you know, disregards all that. ]
There's some saying about how men make plans and God laughs, which is all well and good if you're talking about a fucking souffle falling. In my experience no one ever applies it to anything so trivial.
What's her name? I can teach her some things, if you'd like. Not enough to qualify as seasoned combatant, exactly, but enough to have a fighting chance.
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[ She shouldn't - but he remembers Nightless City and how her body had gone still in his arms while her blood soaked his robes. ]
But I haven't been able to protect her even in our world.
Her name is Jiang Yanli. It will have to be her choice. I don't know if she wants to. She doesn’t remember what happened. Or for her, what will happen.
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[ which begs certain questions his brain answers without so much as a by your leave--rosa would fight. before anyone so much asked, she'd be ready. it was one of the things he counted on to keep himself level in those never ending pitch black tunnels; if she wasn't going to give up, he had to be at his best to match that. ]
Still--no one learns well when they're conscripted into it. Either way I can still share what I know with you.
There is one condition.
[ go on, ask. do iiiiiit ]
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SQUINT. ]
Speak! What do you want from me!
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He deflates sheepishly. ]
I can do that. Just make sure you don't cut your own foot off. That's never happened to any of my students and I don't want you ruining my track record.
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Has it happened to other people's students. That sounds like a feat of coordination in and of itself.
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