[audio]

[emasculates]

We are making landfall soon. I am building a team, three to five individuals for reconnaissance. No children. If you cannot keep up you will be left behind.

Comments

audio;

[ancillary]

I volunteer.

audio;

[emasculates]

Good.

[Faint approval. She likes Miranda.]

Do you require weapons?

audio;

[ancillary]

[ SOLIDARITY(?) ]

I have a sub-machine gun and a heavy pistol, but spare clips are in short supply. You?

audio;

[emasculates]

Two assault rifles, a handgun. Numerous magazines. This.

[A flash of video that involves her thunking her Bowie into the desk in front of her.]

audio;

[tasteforpoison]

[Yelena isn't volunteering for this team because she's fairly certain that 1: she'll be considered a child and 2: she has others she already trusts to go onto the mainland with.

But...the woman sounds as if she knows what she's talking about so:]

Have you heard anything from the locals about what to expect on the mainland?

audio;

[emasculates]

Desert.

audio;

[tasteforpoison]

[No trees? Drat. Not good. Yelena's always done better with trees and cover...]

I see. Did they tell you anything else about it? I haven't been able to track down someone who's been there first-hand.

[imlikeabird]

I've been told I'm useful.

[Hawke wouldn't mind seeing what's on the mainland. If only for a change of scenery. And to see what else this place has in store for him.]

[audio]

[emasculates]

Convince me.

[audio]

[imlikeabird]

[Oh boy she really wants him to brag.]

You want me to start at the beginning or with the most impressive.

[plains_hunter]

Wait a minute. Landfall? Are we even supposed to do that? What does everyone know about it?

audio;

[emasculates]

Very little. Thus the reconnaissance.

Re: audio;

[plains_hunter]

So basically running into a place you know nothing about, filled with who-knows-what.

audio;

[usavatar]

Miss Lawson suggested our two expeditions keep in touch, and I agree. We can cover more ground and have potential backup if necessary.

audio;

[emasculates]

[Good thing she's had years suppressing her dislike of people like you, Rogers. But she can still recognize the wisdom to his words, even if she privately disagrees with them.]

Fine. My team and I will go north.

[Leaving south and west for exploration.]

audio;

[usavatar]

Understood. Should we check in periodically?

audio;

[whatfriendsdo]

I'm down. I can provide my own weapons with limited ammunition, and I'm not bad with a blade.

Plus creepy, potentially fatal outings into the unknown are sort of my thing.

audio;

[emasculates]

[She snorts.]

Name?

audio;

[whatfriendsdo]

Karrin Murphy, former Chicago police. I do moonlight shifts as a boogeyman hunter.

text; anonymous

[demon_brat]

[OHhh the no-children part ticked somebody. If he was more interested in joining an expedition of random people, he'd be stirring up the crapstorm directly. As is... well.]

There are children here that many of the adults would have trouble keeping up with.

audio;

[emasculates]

They are the exception, not the rule.

text; anonymous

[demon_brat]

Or the ones that adults have been forced, one way or another, to notice.

[And... yet. This actually does appease him, some. Enough to add, grudgingly,]

May your team return safe and sound.

audio;

[andaway]

I can keep up. I volunteer.

audio;

[emasculates]

Who are you?

audio;

[andaway]

Man of steel rings a bell?