TEXT: Day after the Festivities

[sociallychallenged]

Username: dpdhank@dualislink

My name is Hank Anderson, I'm a patrol officer with Dualis's police. I think I met a few people at the Dualis Days festival, many of them during the unfortunate opening ceremonies.

The police are conducting an official investigation but I want to conduct my own independent investigation. In my experience that usually solves cases a little more quickly. [That's how he and Connor made it as far as they did, superseding what was technically required of them. The end result was also the better result for the world, not the preferred result for the powers that be, too.]

I know some of you were close to the bombing. If you're interested and able to give me some information I'll be in the kitchen on floor six for the rest of the evening.

[Anyone that comes to find him will be lucky. For the moment he'll be listening to some jazz he loaded onto a music player and speaker he found in a thrift shop rather than metal. But you better believe when it's necessary he'll switch to metal if he has to. In the meantime he's also reading an actual paper book, a softcover novel that he was lucky enough to find.]

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[sociallychallenged]

I hope you tell me how you would evaluate the first battle you witness.

[Because Hank can guess how that'll go, and his face already says it. Small unit tactics is the best way to describe a bunch of idiots running around in a room making shooty noises at each other. And they do make shooty noises. Even on the guns that don't have sound effects, you will hear the occasional human "pew pew" or "shzap".]

[cadiastands]

[Mira shrugs minutely.]

It's just practice. I don't expect anyone will be particularly good.

[Her soul is going to leave her body, it'll be great.]

[sociallychallenged]

[Her soul is absolutely going to leave her body. His biggest regret is that he won't be there to see the first time she sees your average nerd attempt his first combat roll.]

I'm glad you're keeping an open mind.

[And low standards.]

You'll probably have fun with that eventually. [Who knows, in a few months maybe she'll be desensitized to foolishness.]