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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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[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. ]