Kino "needs help reacting to something" (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
onlyatraveler) wrote2014-08-30 01:25 am
onlyatraveler) wrote2014-08-30 01:25 am
Inbox for CDC
kino@cdc.org
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kino@cdc.org
(1) UNREAD MESSAGES
kino@cdc.org
(1) UNREAD MESSAGES
kino@cdc.org
(1) UNREAD MESSAGES
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No, we were first dropped on a mountain, and once we got to the bottom, we were greeted by butterflies that could cut through armor and eat through metal.
They were also poisonous.
[And that was just the first leg of the journey. The second involved stealing a boat from the neraki and being greeted by a very angry group on the other side of the inlet.]
FROM: kino@cdc.org
Tell me about the arrows—were the neraki attacking you?
FROM: kino@cdc.org
It's been... extremely taxing. I don't remember the journey to the meeting point being this long for when I arrived on Ajna.
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Butterflies? We're they at least as frail as their earth counterparts?
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
Apparently one group was greeted with fire arrows from the Neraki. My group had a giant bug-fish.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
Me neither. It makes me wonder what might have prevented a closer drop.
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That would've been easier to handle, but their wings were almost like crystals. They were also sharp.
We were able to get through quickly enough before anything too bad happened, but it was... difficult.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
A bug-fish? How giant?
FROM: kino@cdc.org
I'm not sure.
I've heard that every drop has its own challenges to it. Many tend to think that the instructors do it on purpose.
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Slow moving at least, then? That's a relief.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
Several hundred meters at least.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
What do you think about that possibility?
chatterbox kino, sorry
Relative to arrows and a sea-monster, yes, but they were troublesome when driving through them.
[Kino had quite a few new nicks and gouges in their armor, and Hermes had a few holes in his frame.]
FROM: kino@cdc.org
That's... fairly massive.
Were you able to get away safely? Is anyone hurt, to your knowledge?
FROM: kino@cdc.org
I would prefer not to think of it, but... it's difficult to ignore.
It's not unlike the CDC to do something like that, especially after what we learned of our mission on Ajna.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
I think it's cruel to put people through hardship in order to strengthen some and clear out the rest. But what I think doesn't matter in the end.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
What's your opinion?
never be sorry
I'll keep that in mind.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
We got out- some injured, yes, but no one's critical. Nanites are quite the useful carry-on.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
To be honest, I'd understand the basic idea... sometimes you have to dump people in the middle of a do-or-die situation to get something done.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
Though you'd hope there was slightly less liklihood of the "die" option...
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It's good to hear everyone made it.
Yes, I had to use a nanite shot for the first time a few days ago. They're extremely useful... though I feel they could become dangerous if used too often.
[Just like how pain-killers only masked the pain; they didn't fix the source.]
FROM: kino@cdc.org
The missions are dangerous enough without any added dangers in order to "weed" people out.
And I feel as though it might succeed easier without the additional hurdles as well.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
It's either that or they're teaching us a lesson of the type of control they have. I don't like either option.
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I guess they're like any drug- rely on it and you lose the ability to get on without it.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
Either of those might end up being right. Either way... I don't have the right to complain.
no subject
You're right. Perhaps that's why the CDC only provides us certain numbers of the shots.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
I suppose not, but others that might not have any training to prepare them might have reason to.
...But I suppose if everyone makes it to camp in one piece, nothing too terrible came out of it.
[Besides, you know, all the travail of the journey.]
FROM: kino@cdc.org
Do you happen to know how far off you are from the rendezvous?
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Good point.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
I'll hope for that sort of outcome. The Black Boxes are training, but... it's different out here.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
A few hours max.
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FROM: kino@cdc.org
If the Black Boxes are "simply" training, I don't think thinking about it that way makes me feel any better.
[If that was supposed to prepare them, what they might encounter would most likely end up being even more awful. A sobering thought.]
FROM: kino@cdc.org
I might arrive in camp before you. We're very close.
Have you heard the trees singing yet?
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It's shock training but. I'm pretty sure that's what it's intended to be.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
I'll see you at the rover then?
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
Unfortunately, yes.
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I'm no stranger to coarser styles of training and teaching, but... it had seemed particularly cruel, the Black Box.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
Yes, I will see you then. Hopefully everything made it down easier than we did.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
The songs are beautiful.
...Though, to be honest, I wish they weren't.
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... The psychological angle was particularly strong, admittedly.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
I hope the same.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
Does it make it harder for you?
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I understand why they cautioned it as the most difficult training they could offer now.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
...In a way.
It's always difficult. Every planet has its own beauty, its own potentials and possibilities.
Things like that, though, just make that a little more difficult to try to forget.
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They definitely don't dramatize.
FROM: havoc@cdc.org
That's true. We're stealing that potential away. But we have to bear that burden, I think. We don't really deserve to forget- not all the way.
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No, they certainly do not.
FROM: kino@cdc.org
It's a burden we deserve. At least, that's how I think of it for myself.
I would not want to forget anything I've seen. We're the last ones who can even say Ajna had ever existed, after all, and it no longer exists because of what we did.
If it's difficult... it's just what receive in return for what we do.
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You have a good head on your shoulders, Kino. That's a good way to think about it, I think.
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FROM: kino@cdc.org
Thank you, Havoc. It's been very nice talking with you.
I look forward to being able to do so in person again once we get to the rendezvous.