text; @CURSE

[gimu]

hello.

i have several questions for the outsider populace and i require truthful answers.

1. what are your abilities in battle?
2. what is your estimation of your skill with your own abilities?
3. who are you?
4. what was your proudest moment?
5. what was your weakest?

answer as you see fit. i’m not your boss.

[ this isn’t how one goes about making work acquaintances but it’s direct, it’s simple, and choso can’t be bothered to care if it meets industry standard. ]

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[gimu]

i suppose you can be excused.

[wheft]

Thank you.

1. I know how to use a harpoon, but back home I usually use a mace and shield. I also used E.G.O which are basically equipment from the mind. It doesn't have to come from my own; I also use E.G.O extracted from monsters called Abnormalities and use their abilities in battle.

2. Good question. I used to be a sailor, so of course I'd be good at using the harpoon. But for E.G.O there is a chance of me corroding if I use it for too long or my sanity dips too low. That's when I will enter a berserker state where I will thrash everything in my way, friend or foe. Anyone back home can use E.G.O so it's not like I'm doing anything special here.

3. Call me Ishmael.

[ she... still doesn't know who she really is, but her name should be more than enough. ]

[gimu]

[ e.g.o huh? it isn't so difficult to draw comparisons between ishmael's equipment and cursed techniques, but that backlash, hmm. ]

call me choso.

in the event of your going berserk, what is the most effective method of subduing you?
respectfully.

[wheft]

[ respectfully? wow, what a gentleman. but that's probably a low bar. ]

Just... start running?

[ she wishes she were kidding. it's the same thing she told wrio a while ago. ]

Luckily, corrosion doesn't usually last too long, so you may as well stand back while I ride it out.

[gimu]

i don't run if i don't have to.

[ he really doesn't. it's just not necessary. he'll get where he's going one way or another. ]

can corrosion be directed in a particular direction without incurring your berserker wrath?

[wheft]

Not that I know of... The reason why it's fine for my our teammates to take considerable damage is because

[ oh. right. she can't just tell a person she just met this. maybe next time. ]

Because they're a lot more durable than the average person. How about you?

[ nailed it. ]

[gimu]

i, too, am durable. i can possibly weather your rages as needed, if it comes to it.

are your teammates human or otherwise?

[ that tends to cut to the meat of the matter, he'd found. humanity sure was a handy tool on occasion. ]

[wheft]

They're as human as can be, like me. Most of us back home are just ordinary people who are only living their lives. Some of them also happen to be a lot more powerful than the rest.

[ hi, vergilius... ]

I almost forgot to mention that I used to work as a sailor. My experience at sea has helped a lot, especially in the recent kaiju mission.

[gimu]

[ sailing... ]

that seems to be the norm for most experiences, i am noting.

what was it like, on the sea?

[wheft]

It was nightmarish. But that was par for the course in the City, so you have no choice but to get used to it in the long run.

I hear the oceans in other worlds aren't as terrible, though.

[gimu]

not so terrible.

[ he thinks. memories are all he has to go by, all this information that wasn't his to begin with. an entry in an encyclopedia that came into his possession the day his vessel ceased to exist and choso began. ]

apparently pleasant in the summer. if you need company to go to the sea around here, i don't mind filling that roster.

[wheft]

Er, thanks for the offer, but... I don't think the beach has been cleared up yet. It's still full of debris and the water is a little red from all the blood from last month.

[gimu]

gross. did you fall in?

[wheft]

I wasn't the only one, but yeah. I've fell in worse liquids, though.

[gimu]

what could possibly be a worse liquid?

[wheft]

Ones that melt you, for instance?

[gimu]

magma!?

[wheft]

[ ... ]

Sure. Let's go with that.

[ pretty sure they fought abnormalities with magma-like powers back in the city. pretty sure she'd died plenty of times trying to suppress it too. yet here she is, right as rain. ]

[gimu]

[ woah. ]

was it at least interesting?

[wheft]

It's... hot? Idk what you want me to say here.

[gimu]

it's a unique thing to fall into.
with luck, i never will
but i'm curious about what it's like if you have and are still somehow here to talk about it

[wheft]

[ uhhhhhhhh ]

Like I said, I'm the resilient kind. But I guess this place didn't let me bring that ability along with me here.

[gimu]

now that really does suck.
i'll keep it in mind.