Bassoon, Day 25 - All Cabins

[mtsilver_conquor]

[This is up as soon as she figures out A- she is trapped in her cabin, and B- that these still work.]

These things still work. It's not the best, but it's what we have.

I know we're trapped and the Inspectors are coming. Yes, I feel the dread as well, no, I don't know why. Yet, and it is hard to think of it as one, the upside is at least we can still use these. We should make use of it. Think of it like getting to know everyone.

I'm Eva Iden'no. I come from a world with pokemon -think hardier animals with superpowers- and I have one with me called Princess. He's a pippi - Klefairy in 'English'.

I'm in Cabin 1:C and Team Orange; the only original Orange from when people were first brought aboard.

Comments

[dredefulchilde]

Do you have your suit with you in the cabin, Stark? I've seen what that thing can do in those videos you showed me.

[runs_on_batteries]

I always have my suit with me.

[Pause.]

Well, not always always. But yes, it's here and I'm not afraid to use it.

[dredefulchilde]

Good to hear.

I seem to have found myself with a souvenir from our little field trip. Quite a lovely piece, too. There's delicate scrollwork on the pommel and hilt--I think the drunkard I liberated it from on our final night must have been someone of some importance.

I should be fine.

[Lies. All of it (except for the stolen dagger--that, he has). He's shaking so hard he can barely type.]

[runs_on_batteries]

Excellent.

[He flashes the boy a grin, pleased he has a knife.]

How proficient are you with blades? Have you been going to the lessons Ignis has been teaching? I think someone else is too...

[He shrugs, unsure who it was. He had some taser weapons he was making for the kids (and May) but depending on this answer, Joss may or may not get one too.]

[dredefulchilde]

Stark, I’m 680 years old. I have had a lot of time to practice with weapons.

Also, my foster mother is a ninja. An actual ninja, who set me on learning to use throwing knives over a year ago.

I’m quite capable of taking care of myself.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony just rolled his eyes at that.]

Fin- Actually, that's a good question to add to the questionnaire. Thanks for the idea.

[He makes a note somewhere off screen to ask about weapon skills. When he turns his attention back to the brat, he gives him a look.]

If you're so skilled then are you interested in working with them as one of the teachers? You probably have a unique perspective given your size. It could be useful to the younger or smaller passengers.

[dredefulchilde]

I...

[He pauses.]

I worry that I would break them. I’m very strong and very fast and I have very little experience sparring with one my size. But I suppose I could try. Not anything close range, of course, but I suppose I could teach them to throw knives.

The children have no business being in the thick of things, should it come to that. Better to train them to attack from a safe distance.

[runs_on_batteries]

Wait so.. do you only know how to throw knives or was that just one example of multiple ways you know how to fight with them?

[He nodded in agreement of that last statement.]

When this is over, I'd like you to take a look at what I'm designing in my lab. I'm working on a taser for them to use, but I hadn't thought about something that could be a projectile weapon. It wouldn't be hard to tweak the design.

[dredefulchilde]

I can do lots of things. A gentleman’s education in years past included the arts martial. I can even joust—I’m an excellent horseman. The medieval era and Renaissance were all about training small boys to kill each other, and the woman who inflicted the vampire curse upon me insisted that I receive the same education as the human children of status and means with whom I occasionally came into contact.

I am rather partial to knives, however. Both thrown and in close hand to hand combat.

I should like to see those.

[runs_on_batteries]

Well.. it's not like they had television to entertain themselves with.

[Might as well teach small boys to kill each other? The insight into the young man's world though was interesting.]

[dredefulchilde]

Television is a marvelous invention. As are smart phones. I quite miss my iPhone. And my Xbox...PlayStation...Nintendo Switch...

I must say that being an independently wealthy child is quite pleasant. Except for the fact that my flat in London is in the name of my friend and business partner, as banks will not issue a mortgage to someone of my, ah, stature.

[He’s babbling at this point, but talking is helping take the edge off his panic attack.]

[runs_on_batteries]

The struggle is real, I'm sure.

[He teases about the 'problem' with the flat.]

What sort of business were you doing?

[dredefulchilde]

Real estate, mostly. I still hold an ‘ancestral’ claim to a castle and a fifteenth century manor house, plus some property in London. And, ah, some other business ventures. I am a minority stake holder in a hotel and...

A strip club. Don’t ask.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony's eyebrows rose with interest.]

A strip club? .. We could really use one here.

[Not that he wanted anyone in particular to strip for him exactly, but it would be nice to have some fun entertainment like that.]

[dredefulchilde]

If the train decides to stop off in my version of London, I'll be sure to introduce you to a vampire willing to help with that particular problem.

[runs_on_batteries]

[He flashed the kid a grin.]

Good.

[And just like someone spotting a squirrel, Joss can see Tony get up and walk away from the ICP.]