video | un: turk

[grandsparks]

Hey. My name's Rude. I'm looking for work.

[ It might have taken a couple of beers to muster the courage to post to the network, if the level 3 bar scene behind him is any indication. There's the steam and hiss of frying noodles, the glow of signs advertising other brands of alcohol, and a low murmur of general conversation. The bar he walked into might not be inside the red light district proper, but you wouldn't have to walk far to reach it.

What can he say? It feels a lot more like home. ]

Got a few practical skills. I can fix things. Move things. Done a lot of work guarding things. And people.

[ God, this is hard. How do you sell yourself without revealing that you worked for the evil megacorp? How do you even talk to a camera without hating every moment of it? He pauses to swig a mouthful of beer. ]

...doesn't have to be permanent. One-offs are fine, if someone needs help with something quick. I can, uh...generate chroma too. If needed. [ He pauses, searching for words. ] Oh - I can operate a helicopter too, if that's useful.

...again, it's Rude. [ Another pause, another drink. ] And before you ask, yeah. I've heard the joke before.

Comments

[sheisthewind]

They are a large organization devoted to research and restoration of this planet. They have about equal influence and power as the Moon Knights do.

[grandsparks]

Might be more useful than just being lawmen.
How dangerous is it, out in these wastelands?

[sheisthewind]

Less dangerous than it used to be, but you need to be wary of the whitesnakes. They hide in the ground and latch on to drain your chroma. I would recommend weapons that allow you to strike from a distance.

[grandsparks]

I usually use my fists. Guess I'll have to bring a gun, or some materia.
Thanks for the heads-up. Guess we're not just here to generate chroma for them.

[sheisthewind]

The Chroma we generate has been slowly but surely restoring life to this world. I arrived over a year ago, and I work in field research with Lunar Scientia. Life has begun appearing in places where it was a barren wasteland for years.

It's not so surprising that some of the world's more dangerous creatures would be restored along with the safer wildlife.

[grandsparks]

That right? So it's not just power.

[ That made more sense. There was so much to get your head around. Rude was never sure whether there really was a hidden agenda, as he suspected, or if it was just regular old paranoia. ]

Makes sense. I'm guessing snakes aren't the worst threat out there, either.

[sheisthewind]

Not at all, although the whitesnakes are somewhat large for snakes. They're just the most common threat. It makes me glad that my powers allow me to fly and carry a small group. Then all I need is physical contact to keep up my chroma reserves.

[grandsparks]

Sounds like a useful power. I'd need a lot more machinery.
Did you have that power before you got here?

[sheisthewind]

I did. The only difference is that here I need Chroma to maintain it.