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[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara’s been here a few days, now. She’s explored a good chunk of the city after memorising the maps. She’s scrolled through dozens of network posts, getting a feel for her sudden compatriots. (In other words, "building an extensive database of files".)

She still feels out of her element – she has no tower, here, no network of power and persuasion – but she’s slowly starting to relax.

So her smile is more or less genuine when she makes her own introduction.]

Hello, everyone. I’m Barbara. [She considered an alias, back when she first arrived, but she didn’t see much point.] I'm new, so I've got my fair share of questions. [A fleeting, rueful smile that hides her frustration.]

How well-integrated have the Transports become? How many of you have jobs here? Have we set up any regulations or enforcement? Has anyone attempted any sort of education system? [She knows some of this already, but she'd like a number of experiences and perspectives.]

[Tony Stark | Encryption 100%]

[The air-tight encryption isn't so much necessary as it is habit.]

I hear you're a good man to talk to about mechanics.

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[biwinning]

One, okay. Two, yeth. Three, fuck no. Four, fuck no.

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[bodilesswarrior]

[You sound tiny. :( But she's only frowning for a second, until she smirks.]

What, you don't want to continue your education?

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[biwinning]

I wath schoolfed already. Your thupposed "education" ith inferior to what I already know.

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[bodilesswarrior]

Anyone with real smarts realises there's always more to know.

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[biwinning]

Not from a piss-poor education system slapped together in a war time by an inefficient team of people hired to be mercenaries.

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[bodilesswarrior]

Now you're just being defeatist.

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[biwinning]

Wow, where'd you get that idea! I'm being realistic.

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[bodilesswarrior]

It can be a fine line.

I don't expect to give anyone a full education here, but that doesn't mean it's not worth teaching anything, if people want to learn.

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[biwinning]

Then go teach someone who fucking cares. Because I sure ath hell don't.

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[bodilesswarrior]

[Yeah she's grinning now.] Why not?

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[biwinning]

Because I don't care about anything you'd have to say.

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[bodilesswarrior]

Because you don't know me, or because you don't listen to people in general?

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[biwinning]

Eighty percent the former, twenty the latter.

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[bodilesswarrior]

We can fix the former pretty easily.

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[biwinning]

Try me.

Video IS THIS COOL

[bodilesswarrior]

Sure thing, Sollux.

Video IF YOU MEAN THE NAME THING YES he doesnt exactly hide that.

[biwinning]

And even if you did manage to impress me enough, I'm still not going to "school," human.

Video AWESOME i just wanted to make sure

[bodilesswarrior]

Why assume I'm human?

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[biwinning]

Becauthe you look human, and "elves" are jutht humans with pointy ears. Unleth you have significantly different features, you're all offshoots of humans ath far ath I'm concerned.

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[bodilesswarrior]

Bad assumption to make. I could be a shape shifter, or I could be projecting an illusion, or I might just happen to have the same body type - I know several aliens who do.

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[biwinning]

One and two: then I would have even less of a reason to trust you if you couldn't even make your first post to the network a genuine one. Ath for three, again, human ath far ath I'm concerned.

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[bodilesswarrior]

Some people have good reasons to hide.

And I'd say there are things far more important than how someone looks.

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[biwinning]

Not good enough.

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[bodilesswarrior]

You think people owe you the truth about themselves?

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[biwinning]

I think everyone owes everyone the truth, and I'm thorry your morals are equivalent to a sack of shit.