005: Knife in the Back (Locked to the Adults.)

[tarnishedavenger]

[Yup. No teenagers allowed in this filter. Mac is only included after a very, very long and intense mental debate. The toys and the Easter Bunny, as odd as they are, are also in on it.]

So, I've been thinking. Jorgmund's doing a... job of getting everyone some sort of physical training, and there's some of us who don't mind getting a little bit of an extra hand. But we're going to be here for longer than I think any one of us anticipated.

One of the things Jorgmund isn't touching on, though, is education for anything that doesn't apply to missions. Some of these kids and, yes, some of the adults, have serious knowledge gaps.

This is going to be an unpopular idea for some of them, but I think they, and we, would benefit from setting up some sort of lesson plan, get some schooling going. Obviously not history or anything tied so closely to our worlds, but universal things like physics, math, computer skills, locksmithing, other things that could serve them later.

Any opinions? I should probably say that I'm not the most experienced when working with and educating young teens, my only experience is a few guest talks and 'field trips' with the kids at the Ravenswood Academy (I don't think Rowan's desire for secrecy there applies when there's no one from my world here) and Generation VIPER.

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[tarnishedavenger]

Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. I was prepared for what Cyberline would do, but there were others who got the treatments before me. That's more or less a perfected program, not exactly experimental.

And then there's... Other programs.

[just_rogue]

You don't have to say if you don't want to, but what happened to you?

[tarnishedavenger]

Me? Nothing bad. They approached me after I graduated college. Told me I could serve my country this way, since I was genetically compatible with Cyberline treatments.

Came out of it with your standard physical enhancement package. It's a pretty standard deal, they specifically crafted it for specific powers. The only downside is that my tolerance for alcohol is garbage now. But they told me all of that beforehand.

Of course, if I'd known where it had come from, I'd have probably spit in their face. But I was a kid, didn't ask the right questions. And the end result doesn't hurt anyone compatible enough to qualify for the treatments.

[just_rogue]

Yeah.

Yeah, I know what it's like to believe things because you're too young to know what to ask. And people tell you everything you want to hear.

It was like that with the woman who got me started using my powers the wrong way.