001: Group Introductions - TEXT

[tarnishedavenger]

[During a lull in the party, Armstrong taps out a quick message to the network. Not that private one, he doesn't trust it. They can answer whenever they like, so long as he gets an answer. The trick would be wording it.]

So, we're all in this for now. You've had your welcome cake, but you can't meet everyone in a party, no matter how hard you try. But, since we've all been encouraged to sign up with Jorgmund, I figured now would be a good time to get some introductions done. Talk about any specialties we might have.

Share information that we feel comfortable sharing. This isn't to pressure anyone or to force out any dark secrets.

[Not where watchful eyes can see, at least.]

Besides, I prefer doing this to making a cute information sharing game.

So, please, make your own threads within this post to keep everything organized.

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[passifloraincarnata]

[Oh. Setsuna knows this kind of demeanor. This man is almost like a Labyrinthian technician, in his approach: the clear, technical specificity and the underlying eagerness to be given reason to perform optimally. So many people here are so much more familiar in how they act than she was expecting them to be. It leads her to engage despite, well, the reservations she feels are obligatory to actually provide him, for ease of communication's sake.]

I would like to be able to cooperate with the scientists on the Rig so I don't know if I should talk to you at all.

I was however raised to be useful in executing some of the practical applications of your particular specialized fields of study and if you do not find more suitable resources available to you it would be rude of me, being capable of potentially making your research efforts, whatever they may be, less inconveniently inefficient, not to offer my abilities as an assistant despite this.

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[googledox]

I do appreciate the offer but it's perhaps best if you don't affiliate with me on any attempts at scientific inquiry lest you might be banned from the labs as well.

But perhaps there might be others here that they allow into the labs and if there's any guidance I might be able to offer to any of you, you're certainly welcome to it.

[Translation: He's noting her desire to help. There might be knowledge he can offer the scientists and their potential aides to make the best - and most rebellious - use of their time there. But they'll have to be careful about it, so they don't get banned too. Best to verbally dance around it right now, but keep assisting each other in mind.]

You said you were raised to do such things? This catered to your personal interests, I hope.

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[passifloraincarnata]

I thank you for your consideration, and your courtesy. I will keep it in mind.

In a sense, it may have. I learned as much as I was provided an opportunity to be taught because I desired to be more useful to serving whatever purpose I could be selected to serve and expected to excel in than others, and thereby to be more deserving of whatever further resources I had proven myself capable of exploiting more efficiently than they could. That was, for most of my life, the only thing I cared about. I don't think those are the kind of "personal interests" you mean, but they were mine. I like donuts, and making new friends, and dancing, nowadays, but I don't know if those are exactly what you mean either?

I can assure you that I've only recently been given much chance to enjoy applying the skillsets I've spent my life acquiring, however, and it is always my pleasure to be able to put them to use for any goals I might find myself personally invested in the results of.

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[googledox]

I ask because I wasn't always shown consideration when I was a child when it came to others caring about my preferences.

Whenever someone speaks of being raised in an environment with focused interests I'm always somewhat concerned over whether their wishes had been respected.

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[passifloraincarnata]

That's very kind of you.

And I believe it's safe to say I know what you mean. It sounds as though our childhoods may have had that in common ...