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[Well he’s put off fiddling with this tablet thing for long enough... time to figure this all out. He goes through the tutorial... twice... but still ends up getting onto the network before he means to, so... this starts with some shuffling around, retreating footsteps and eventually an oddly accented voice coming from a little ways away: ]

I'm... Dammit. [Then the footsteps quickly returning and the sound of the tablet being picked up and moved around, voice slightly surprised: ] You're going? Don't do th--

[The sound goes dead as he accidentally flips it first to text... before finally he appears on screen, blinking, eye flickering over to note that the tablet's still on and still recording. Takes a quick breath to collect his thoughts again, grabbing the cigarette hanging at the edge of his lip just before it falls]

Uh... [...right] So'm I understanding right that not all of you have military training? Or even know how to fight? [...] Can I ask who's idea that one was... [Cause it's a bad one 8'| Pauses a moment to light his cigarette with a match, taking a long pull on it and holding it out for the camera] Also uh, if anyone could point me towards more of these, I'd appreciate it, you know?

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Mm...? No? [...laughs a little]

To each their own, I guess.

Different environments and mind sets. Some people might have had good military groups but others might have been brainwashed to follow the leader.

Yeah...

Haven't met a lotta brainwashed folk though so'm not sure if that really accounts for all the nonmilitary here, you know?

I think this place pulls in people who don't fit into a mold. Most of the people that look military aren't regular or are outcasts, you know?

[...o rly]

Ah yeah, was wondering about that too, I guess. [Sighs and fiddles a little with his cigarette for a second. He'd thought it had been a mistake, bringing him here so long after his military days but... if that's the norm then...] Seems... unorganized, to me.

It doesn't seem like they are able to organize it as well as they want. There's something off about how they grab people.

[Heh...]

S'what I was thinking, yeah. Seems like... they'd wanna get that fixed sometime, huh?

Maybe they don't have that ability yet. I don't know... I've only been here a short while.

[Little nod and a brief gesture towards himself as if to say, 'me too']

Seems like. If they can bring us here, they should be able to fix it just fine...? But maybe I just don't get how all this... technology works. [Wouldn't be the first time points at eyes points at the beginning of this post]

Unless it ain't their technology. What all of this was stolen from their enemy?

Then the enemy ought to keep a closer eye on their shit. [Heh!] Guess that'd bode okay for us though.

Eh, it's easy to get stuff from people that think they're the best.

Speaking from experience, huh?

Yeah, I am.

[...chuckles and leans back, amused]

Don't wanna share?

What? Can't tell? Or you just don't have my kind in your world?

Mmmm, suppose it depends what 'kind' you mean, you know? [Shrugs!]

I've never been good at guessing games, anyway.

[ laughs. it's fun playing with people some days. ]

Yakuza.

[...confused blink, mouthing the word back at him. He has to search his brain for a second cause uh... the East is not really his business nor something he's especially interested in... and also history shenanigans in his world mean the yakuza isn't much of anything right now. So: ]

Uh...? Yeah, we've got gamblers where I'm from. Not just in the East either. [>:?]

[ yeah they are a dying breed, only thing keeping people like him were the free trade zones and even then they were slowly getting honest.

and he just shakes his head, still grinning. ]

Gamblers, huh? Nah, that's not what I've dealt in.

Yeah...? What do you deal with then?

[Appears to be genuinely curious aww ('8]

Smuggling. Laundering. And high risk acquisitions.

[...lkasjdf nope laughs a little at """high risk acquisition""" you're a thief bro just say that]

Sounds like fun...! You know how to fight too, though?

[ yes, yes he is, but the best kind of thief with all guns blazing and a bit of a show. ]

Course I do. Can't get to the top without knowing how to fight in a gutter.

Guess so. Tend not to fight in gutters when I can help it though. [So he wouldn't know huhuhu]

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