To: Everyone

[freightcars]

Quick survey:
1 - What do you do for work here?
2 - What did you do back home?
3 - What's your skillset?

( note: personally, I'm cool with threadjacking in my posts as long as the other person is too, go to town. )

Comments

[carmesi]

True.

What do you do for work here?

[freightcars]

Manual labor, mostly. Picking stuff up and putting it back down. Hitting stuff with other stuff.

Exciting, right?

[carmesi]

I think I see why you've taken to socializing.

[freightcars]

Yeah
Exactly

Not exactly the same kind of fighting going on here, either. That's kind of like my one other skill.

[carmesi]

Really? I thought it would have been non-stop fighting over in the Free Cities.

[freightcars]

You're not wrong. It's not that there's NO fighting, just that it's a different kind

I'm not all that interested in joining another war effort

[carmesi]

Understandably.

No hobbies you would want to get into, either?

[freightcars]

I left swing dancing back in 1940
Didn't have a lot of time before the blip to take up Macramé

[carmesi]

I miss having Google.
What is Macramé?

[this is ur esl gal]

[freightcars]

Fancier knitting

( here 4 u dawg )

[carmesi]

It would be funny if you took that up.

Have you considered doing something with music?

[freightcars]

Not really
I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket

[carmesi]

[can't-play-a-bucket-bucky]

What about learning magic?

[freightcars]

I'm not against it, but it's a little harder around here. They're not so comfortable with magic in the Free Cities.

[carmesi]

Oh, right. I forgot you live in the no-fun zone.
New combat skills should be easy to look into at least, right?

[freightcars]

I did find somebody to brush up on my sword fighting with.

Hopefully that'll last me a couple weeks.

( But probably not because... serum things. Winter soldier things. It's real damn hard for him not to immediately become an expert at most forms of combat.

Not that he'd brag about it. It's literally his only Thing. )

[carmesi]

You are saying you weren't already an expert on it?
I fear some stories about you may have been embellished then.

[freightcars]

There's being an expert at a particular weapon, and then there's being able to kill somebody with it regardless.

Didn't exactly have a ton of people running around waving fifth century swords to practice my fencing technique against.



Wait, what stories?

[carmesi]

[hm. makes sense.]

The Winter Soldier was a popular character in putting fear in children in Sokovia. Stories were as scary as ones about baba yaga or bauk.

[freightcars]

I'm

Genuinely not sure if I'm flattered or horrified
Pretty sure it's mostly horrified

[carmesi]

Imagine how we felt.

It was painted more as a ghost/monster though, so it took me a moment to make the connection. No one expects the things that lurk in the deep woods to be real, after all.