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[initiates]

Date & Time: Evening, 10th February 3312
Location: Transport Room
Characters: Open To All
Summary: Everyone is brought into the transport room at roughly the same time, in a great succession and flow of imported individuals. Everyone is being lead around in small bundles, or left to their own devices together inside the Initiative Hold.
Warnings: None.

Widespread and crowded, everyone is being transported into this unusually bright room with an efficiency that is almost horrifying. One after the other, new people are appearing -- being led, shown around and then ultimately abandoned with one final phrase; "Good luck."

The Initiative Hold is wide, like a small town in its depth and industry. You've received your weapon; you've got your keys, your netbook, and one of those robed strangers has shoved a small pouch full of what you can only assume is money into your open palm. You've been given an apartment, but where on earth -- are we on earth? -- is it? Your best opportunity right now is to mingle; at least, that's what everyone else appears to be doing. Those strangers in the robes have left. They're tending to the people who are arriving, one by one and in a quick procession. Energy bustles all around you, as you're strapped up with your sudden gifts and looking around.

Hey, maybe you'll even see some familiar faces.

Comments

touches your face

[multiplyby8s]

Vriska had never seen a human this tall before which might have been part of her intrigued. Via the Trollian she had watched human kids and they had all seemed to be the same height as her, give or take. So what was this guy's deal?

"That sounds pretty boring," Vriska replied with a slight shrug. "Why are you doing something so mundane?"

/quietly swoons

[alethiological]

"Because it is boring."

With a matching shrug, and there's another second spent listening at nothing before sighing. Harder to focus during a conversation, but it's not like there's anything important going around. "Can't say I'm fond of being used for another person's fight. Especially with such worthless reasoning."

Read as: eavesdropping to see if anything actually relevant comes up. Information is a weapon after all. No point explaining it to kids, anyway.

<3

[multiplyby8s]

Oh, oh... Well, maybe he wasn't as dumb as he looked. He was certainly the first person she'd spoken to here that showed a little resistance. So far everyone seemed to just be going along with everything. Except herself, of course.

"Then use them before they can use you. Duh."

[alethiological]

"I only use things that have uses."

Yes, that was just indicating everyone here is useless. At least from a first sweep. Could always be proven wrong. Objectively, hers is a good suggestion, if worded a bit crudely. But she's a kid, so it passes.

This doesn't change that you only find a use in something if you have a reason to use whatever it is. Maybe she has a use for a gathering of confused dimensional runoffs. Not so much from his end. "Can't say I approve of manipulating them. But at least find something worth the effort."

[multiplyby8s]

Haha! Still dumb after all but she supposed she'll give him a little credit all the same. "You have to think outside the box. Maybe you can find a use for the seemingly useless things."

As for the manipulating thing, well... His loss.

[alethiological]

An exasperated sigh here, with the expression that matches what Vriska's thinking. Stupid teenagers. "Then I'll be more blunt. I'm not going to manipulate anyone without good reason."

Indicating that most reasons aren't good enough. Manipulation is an active effort while investigation is passive effort. Lazy is always better. Not to mention that whole stepping on the toes of free will, and loopholes are a pain in the ass.

But either way, "Your eagerness means you must be a fan of that mode of operation. Shouldn't you be content? It means I'm not stepping on your toes."