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[blue_ice]

...for anyone who ran into me in the luggage car on platform day, I apologize. I've been dealing with a personal matter. It's resolved now. But tangentially related to that, I'm going to hop on the self defense train.

[ Ugh. Puns. He rolls his eyes at himself. ]

It's been an unusually long time since our last real mission, and call me paranoid, but I believe that means the next one is likely to be difficult. As in: we're being given the extra time to prepare.

I'm not a trained soldier myself, and I know my powers will be inaccessible at the worst possible times, but I want to prepare for the worst case scenarios. Evacuation disabled, cornered, no one stronger in range. Building up an armory and strategizing to avoid that scenario in the first place is preferable, but...if there's one thing I've learned, it's that things can always get worse.

So I'll be in the training gym today, alternating between powered and non-powered practice. If you require payment for training services, that can be arranged as well.

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just scene setting here, guri go ahead and resume normal tagging order next tag?

[blue_ice]

[ The two of them will find a tired Seto lounging on the floor in a black tank top and khakis. He looks a little rumpled and sweaty, but he's otherwise fine.

Oh...oh, people! He scrambles to stand and brush himself off. ]

Tidus. And...I don't think I caught your name. Hello.

[ He inclines his head politely, directed at her first. ]

Works!

[marvelous_murderbot]

[She stands, hands clasped behind her back, looking, well. Calm and collected. which is, really, her default state. She inclines her head back, precisely.]

I am known as Guri. Greetings, Seto Kaiba.

[blitzcheer]

'Suup. [ Tidus is the more relaxed of the trio, and why would he be, when Seto's half a mess already. But that's fine, no biggy. ]

Heard you talking about building up an armoury. Reminded me of a talk me 'n' Guri had a while back. [ He looks to her, nodding briefly before turning back. ] Figured you'd take a break eventually.

[ Then, he gestures to his company. ] Soo, she's got a bunch of blueprints in her for weapons and all sorts! She's a, uhh... You use the word android? Droid?

[ Eh. He taps his own head. ] --She swiped data of how to make stuff and stuck it in her brain!

[ There we go! We call that being smart. ]

[blue_ice]

It's good to finally meet you, Guri.

[ Seto stretches, shaking out some of the tension in his wrists. His hands are ready to get back to work. ]

And with enough scrapping, we can build them? We can focus on things the train's armory can't provide for us, but we also need extras for people who aren't accumulating as many points for whatever reason.

[marvelous_murderbot]

[She nods as Tidus introduces her, as it were - looking at him.]

Human Replica Droid. But my friends have encouraged me to insist on my own personhood. But you are indeed correct - part of my early programming was combat and assassination protocols, which included field-stripping and repair of weapons and defensive equipment. Fairly basic, of course, I cannot exactly create a hyperdrive from scratch or anything.

[As for the latter.]

Oh, that won't be a problem, I don't think - most of the shielding components, for instance, are meant as basic, durable machinery - our biggest problem will be fabricating housings and finding power sources.

[blitzcheer]

If we can get the rest from scraps, buying good batteries shouldn't be a problem, right? 'Specially if it's something we can make more of.

[ Tidus folds his arms. Does he have a solution? Nope! But he can speak from an ordinary person point of view. ]

[blue_ice]

I'll put what I can toward a battery.

For basic testing, I suppose I could be the battery.

[ He flexes his fist and a lightning bolt shoots straight up from it to prove his point. ]

I'm working on storage gloves that will unleash a controlled charge. If I could reliably charge us up in the meantime...that'd be less wasteful point spending.

[marvelous_murderbot]

I will point out, there is also a possibility we will encounter a hostile species or group, given our mission profiles - and we can obtain equipment from them in decent quantity.

[That's the quickest way, as far as she is concerned. Stealing from enemies isn't really stealing. Especially as they probably won't be living ones, after.]

That would work, on a functional level.

[blitzcheer]

We've been looking out for that for missions. You've been on a few - the chances we get to take anything are low, save scraps and a few here and there. We even have guns - but it isn't many. Knives, the stuff the sali gave us...

[ Then again, maybe not enough people really think about it grabbing despite the calls. He wasn't on that mission anyway. ]

But speaking of charging - those guns we've got in supplies are some kind of laser-powered. You think you could look at them and see we can't charge them some easy way? Tobes took them missions back - we can fill 'em with arms band, but that takes a lot of energy.

[ Replenishing ammo through those wasn't easy. ]