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

[freightcars]

Can't say I'm familiar with a few of those terms. You wanna elaborate a little these:
-biotic
-n7
-SPECTRE


I gotta say, I do miss having a good tank driver. Also, having a tank.

But no. Kind of the reverse of that. I'm looking for work.

[earthborn]

Biotics is [she has to stop and think for a minute. How to explain it in a way that is both believable and accurate? She doesn't have Jack's flair for a turn of phrase.] complicated. I guess you could call it a superpower? That makes it sound a lot more action-vid than it is.

N7s are graduates of the ICT. That's the Interplanetary Combatives Training. It's kind of a bit deal, most people wash out.

SPECTRE stands for Special Tactics and Reconnaissance. They're kind of a above-the-law group, in Council space. Interplanetary pervue, not a lot of oversight— I'm the first human to get the job.

...and if I get hold of a tank, I'll let you know.

[freightcars]

Don't worry, superpowers are a pretty common thing where I'm from. I believe you.

So you're a special ops supersoldier from space
You know, once upon a time that would have blown my mind. Those were the good old days.

[earthborn]

I know the feeling. It's been a pretty weird couple of years.

I'm Shepard. You?

[freightcars]

Bucky
Nice to meet you

Think we were in pretty similar career fields

Biotics and all

[earthborn]

Is that so? Next you'll be telling me all about how you died and woke up with cool cyborg parts. I'm kidding.

[Because it's a joke, you see. That kind of thing does not happen to other people; her life is so tiring and weird.]

I'm looking for steady work for myself too, at the moment— I'm trying to avoid signing up for the local militia, if I can. If you're anywhere near Cadens, I'll keep you in mind while I'm looking.

[freightcars]

Funny you should say that...

( Shepard is just Space Bucky: dicuss. )

I'm in Cadens. I live at the inn everybody seems to gravitate to.

[earthborn]

You're joking.

[freightcars]

Wish I was
Whole left arm

[earthborn]

[See, this would be the ideal moment to have a large vehicle with a big gun on it.]

I need a drink. Bucky, was it?

[freightcars]

Yep.
Drinking still affect you after the biotics?

[earthborn]

If you're going to suck what little fun there is out of this, I'm not going to invite you to join me.

[freightcars]

Sorry about that. I'll bring confetti and glue sticks.

[earthborn]

In that case, I'm the redhead who still can't afford not to wear the barrack's stupid hand me downs.

[You work and you work and you earn the right to wear the N7 and what does life give you? Hand me downs. Of course.]

I'll see you there.

[freightcars]

Sure
I'll be the guy with the metal arm

( A little dry humor courtesy of the cyborg parts amputee.

He does wander down after maybe twenty or so minutes. Drinking Buddy status unlocked. )

[earthborn]

[And so there she is, hunched casually against the bar, nursing an example of the local brewing. Only a particularly observant eye would notice her shadow— not actually inside, but occasionally glimpsed out on the street, or passing nearby. Tall, angular, bulky shoulders with an oddly-shaped head, as if wearing a hat.

What? Every grown adult needs a babysitter.]

Hey. [You're distinctive sir. And she? She has scars that glow in the dark, so let's just be careful in who's houses we cast stones.] So, turns out we've got a few things in common.

[freightcars]

( He's got a keen eye, but he doesn't connect the dots. It's habit, ingrained, to track his surroundings and somebody with that stature is definitely noteworthy. He's got nothing to tie her to him yet, so that's filed neatly away into the background.

He settles into the space beside her with the familiarity of a guy who's definitely spent a solid amount of time here. )

Yeah, no kidding. I'd like to say my side involved a little less space, but I've been dealing with a surprising number of aliens lately.

( He remembers the days he thought he was going to go into accounting... If only he knew back then. God damn, his life is weird now. )

[earthborn]

Hell, it probably still does; I'm in space enough that my vote counts for the spacers bloc, instead of Earth.

[The one third of the year minimum was conservative, in Shepard's case; but then, the Alliance did move people around. She can't have been the only one.]

Tell me about it. What kind of aliens?