shitposting rave 4: (almost) anything goes

I think if she had any say about how her crew was chosen, Academy- or other similar higher-education-registered qualifications didn't come into the equation at all.

 

...I should snark less at her.

 

"As I'm not involved in the diagnostic process, I'll be happy to explain them. Conditioning in its broadest sense is simply learning or training, but the way Alex was using the term means specific methods of training designed to program the organic mind to respond to certain stimuli in certain ways immediately, rather than through thinking or feeling it through. Overshadowing is when a noncorporeal being is closely linked to an organic mind and is able to influence that person's thoughts and actions. Possession is when a noncorporeal being takes complete control over an organic body, so that the actual owner is not in control and may not even be aware of what their body is doing."

 

Snarking at the explosives specialists is generally a bad idea, yes, especially if they're in charge of you for any length of time.

 

[He nods, frowning. Not what he thought, at least, even if it is arguably worse.] Your assistance is appreciated.

 

-Mab is still listening to music, and has taken a book out of thin air to read.-

 

Ha! Yes, but it's one of the least harmful habits I'm unlearning.

 

Fair enough! Backtalk rarely served us well so it's actually something I picked up instead of having to unlearn, but different situations and all that.

 

Yeah. So anyway, I'm never going back to Devisiun, but that's fine! Turns out there's all SORTS of cool junk out in space. People, too.

 

That there are. [Lacuna has earned a genuine smile???? Treasure it, that doesn't happen in public often.] Have you run across anything or -one interesting recently?

 

Weeell...

-She leans in, grinning.-

Wanna see the scrap I traded for? It's all alien stuff! So cool! The people at the station tried to shoot us later because Cap N and Cloudcrusher were counting cards, but I still got away with my stuff! And also Cloudcrusher got a... person? He lives in med bay now and yells at people.

 

I'd love to see your scrap if you don't mind explaining what it is; I'm decent at guessing body parts, but that's about it!

[His smile goes a little brittle at the mention of winning a person, but. Nichrome's a 'Con. Even if Cloudcrusher somehow managed to talk himself around to accepting slavery, Nichrome would do something about it. The mech's probably fine.] I hope he's recovering well. Medbay isn't a very private place to live.

 

[Lil]: NOPE.

 

The privacy problem tends to go the other way, even if he doesn't like it neither. He picks up comms and it's not under his control, I think? I don't know details and it's not my place. But his room in medbay is like, specially fitted out as a black room so he has a quiet place. Of course Cloudcrusher doesn't own him, but when you win a person in a card game it's probably a good idea to get them a ride outta there before dropping them off.

 

... so, I'm guessing that you heard me and Sunshine going at it...

 

exactly howv vwas that relevwant in the slightest and vwhy did you havwe to say that so loudly.

 

She and her sister are in the same medbay as me as Sunshine. Not the same room, but the same medbay, and she just agreed with that pink bot about medbay not being very private. So yeah...

 

[Lil]: I was just generally referring to sharing medbay space, but thanks for the reminder: yes. Yes we have.

[Kas]: -facepalms so hard it can be heard across timelines-

 

*sighs* ... damn... why did I have to be right?

 

How rude of you.