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[recollecters]

hey. looks like you're all busy right now and joanne is down with a cold, so this probably doesn't have to be fancy. r&d doesn't report anything major for the next month so don't be dumbasses and make a problem of your own. don't fuck with the liaison, we're not replacing him. looks like there's some weird fucking stone at city hall now. enjoy that, i guess. pretty sure zee warned you about the stones, but if you broke it, that sucks and we don't know how to fucking fix it yet so good job, idiot. you might need to be a little proactive. r&d probably has something in mind, but good fucking luck getting a straight answer out of any of them but the kid. maybe they'll at least tell zee what they need, though. or if you're chill with the loss, whatever. that's about it. wait, right. joanne wanted to thank two of you for letting her help with holiday shit last month. thanks for not being assholes. the kid likes having stuff to do, i guess. and that's really it. later. Wendy Guo Security/Archivist Retrspec Incorporated Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Additionally, the heart stones from February are still in effect! They will be in effect until 3/3 and will be addressed on the event log. Thanks!

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[thebeastwithout]

THAT'S A NO don't say anything else James we're good here.

[frostythehitman]

You would fail out of Basic in half a second flat if you tried pulling this crap in the army.

[thebeastwithout]

C'mon, bro, we covered this, I'm gonna fail outta Basic for like, ten million reasons.

I should see how many rules I would totally fail and try to set a record or something.

...I still can't believe you made it in the Army, man, aren't you like, all about sticking it to the man?

[frostythehitman]

I'm not allowed in the army, because I'm one arm short of a full set. I just get to be a freeloader on post.

But being a freeloader's enough to know all about Basic, and all the ways people screw up in it.

[thebeastwithout]

[gar finally stops poking at his phone]

...Oh, yeah. For some reason, I forgot like, the arm was part of your past life, too.

For serious, though, what about the sticking it to the man thing you hate following rules.

[frostythehitman]

[ He shrugs. ]

Not when I live under their roof I don't.

[thebeastwithout]

Isn't Recolle like, their city, so you're technically living under their roof right now?

[frostythehitman]

Do you think the army just owns whatever city they've got a post in?

[thebeastwithout]

I'm talking about you and hating Retrospec, bro. You're living in their crazy city, right?

[frostythehitman]

[ He snorts. ]

Yeah, and that's gone great so far.

[thebeastwithout]

OK, so....

You listen to the man if he gives you a place to stay and if the place doesn't suck too bad?

[frostythehitman]

[ He actually bristles at that. ]

No, you listen to the man if not listening is going to ruin people's lives.

[thebeastwithout]

[it takes him a few seconds to parse that]

I don't get it.

[or not parse, as the case may be]

Isn't the government, like, kind of a dick a lot of the time, too?

this thread got really real really fast

[frostythehitman]

Well, yeah, but--

[ He makes a conflicted, grunting noise. ]

They are. But the people are good. Like, the lower ranks of soldiers and officers who are just trying to get by and do the right thing. They don't deserve to have shit messed up for them--but they're always the first on the chopping block. It's their job to be first on the chopping block. And if I pull anything, it's not gonna help anything but get my dad demoted--or worse, a dishonorably discharged.

[ He's never heard of a brat causing their parents to get discharged before, but he wonders sometime if his antics could make him the first. He's certainly the most troublesome brat in all of Fort McCoy. And wouldn't that just be the worst thing to be the best at. ]

you're welcome

[thebeastwithout]

[gar is definitely not qualified for conversations like this, but he can sense the shift in james's tone very readily

he will make an Attempt]

...Hey, sorry, I'm just BSing; you don't gotta justify anything to me. You do what you need to do, man.

It's just, like.

[He pauses.]

I dunno, we kinda talked about it before. I guess I just don't take orders. Even if I were gonna do it anyway, listening to someone tell me to do it just makes me... not wanna do it.

And the stuff you hear about in the news... I don't wanna think about it too much, but it never seems like we're doing as much good as we're supposed to be.

[frostythehitman]

[ James smirks, ever so slightly--not because he's feeling it at all, but just because he wants at least SOME levity in this discussion. Jesus. ]

Yeah, well...you spend your whole life on military bases, and all you know is taking orders.

[thebeastwithout]

...Hey, you're not on one now.

[He shrugs.]

We can do whatever the heck we want out here. And I dunno what you wanna do, but with all a' this crazy reality stuff, you don't gotta stay with the Army or military bases or whatever.

You're like, almost an adult, right?

[frostythehitman]

[ Hahahaha wow nope not touching THAT with a ten foot pole. The matter of what James is gonna do once he graduates is TOO MUCH for him. That's the sort of shit keeps him up at night, let's. let's not go there. ]

Yeah, I'm turning 18 this year. And trust me, I know how to not take orders well enough. That's what got us Zee's phone in the first place anyway, remember?

[darkinferno]

[Dante's snorting.]

For more reasons than just that. Look at him, can you imagine Gar in boot camp?

[frostythehitman]

[ He stares for a second at Gar, squinting, then shrugs. ]

I've seen shrimpier guys make it out of there alive.

But never anyone who reeks of Axe. They beat that out of you, week 1.

[darkinferno]

If you ask me, that sounds like a reason to sign him up. Maybe he'll learn something before he washes out.

[Pun entirely intended.]

[frostythehitman]

[ Now James snorts. ]

We'd be lucky if they wash him out. After the drill sergeant gives him a permanent fear of Axe, hopefully.

[darkinferno]

You don't think they'd keep him through the whole thing, do you?

[What do you mean, they'd be lucky if he washes out... surely there's no chance of anything else, right?]

I'd pay good money to be there to watch it happen.

[frostythehitman]

I'll set up a camera outside the barracks, then. We can take bets on how long he lasts.

[darkinferno]

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