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I need advice!

( Hello network, here's your friendly neighbourhood Stampede about to fully launch into something with no forewarning and no introductions. It's how he makes friends ... and also enemies, don't worry. ) So, we have to get jobs, right? But I'm not exactly sure what I'd be good at. I usually just do whatever people need around the towns I'm visiting, which means I know a little of most things. But I figured this place was new and people might be a little more cautious about that. So I made flyers!

( In one hand - metal, blue sometimes sea green - Vash holds up a stack of leaflets. )

Only when I was trying to give them out I got a lot of dirty looks so can someone tell me what I've done wrong! I really want to be useful while I'm here.

( Turning the flyer around so that his ( unfortunate ) captive audience can see. The design is obviously home made, and probably in a rush. On the paper it proudly proclaims

VASH THE STAMPEDE
RENT BOY
WILL DO WHATEVER YOU NEED
COST: ???
Below that is a crude drawing of the man himself - a stick figure with a triangle body ( his coat, sadly missing ) and a mass of spiky hair. It has a crude beaming smile on the circle of a face. )

Is it the drawing? I could have done better I guess, but I was in a hurry. ( A pause, a slow dawning realisation. ) Aw, shoot. It's the name, right? I didn't use my civilian name! Crap, that's probably a no-no.

( Nothing else could be the issue.

... Right? )

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Yeah, that one sucked.

[ Pouty. ]

You can probably go back whenever you want for now? Especially if they get the teleporters working properly.

Do you think they have boats?

( Did he see one? Maybe. It's entirely possible he just didn't notice. )

Wait, do the teleporters sometimes not work? Isn't that a little dangerous?

I think so?

[ They had boats with the kaiju, so… ]

They only just started working, but I had surgery when they first appeared so I didn’t want to risk it.

You had surgery?

( Immediate concern for a boy he doesn't know, but that's Vash for you. )

Here? Are you all right?

Yeah? It's fine, I asked for it.

[ People are always so shocked! ]

It was an upgrade.

( Perhaps surgery should be avoided. )

An upgrade? ( A beat and then a frantic backtrack. ) You don't have to tell me if you don't want. Sorry, I guess I'm just curious about this place.

It's fine, I don't mind talking about it since I was one of the first.

[ Both times. ]

I have healing and teleportation.

Teleportation?

( You'd think with how often Vash or the people around him get hurt he'd be more interested in the former, but no. Through the screen his eyes get wide and interested. )

That's so cool! How far can you teleport? Do you need to know where you're going to manage it? Can you take people with you?

Not super far, like ten kilometres? And it's just me so far. I imagine the place I'm going, but I don't know if I need to?

That's super cool. Ten kilometres is still a good distance if you can clear it instantly. Maybe with practice you can get further!

Maybe! The upgrades usually have those limits built in, though, so unless they change it in the future I might be stuck.

Oh.

( Disappointing! )

Was it a hard surgery?

I don't think you should get it unless you really need it.

[ Yes. ]

Oh, no. It probably wouldn't work on me anyway.

( At least he's assuming. )

But it's kind of neat. I get why some people would.

I didn't think it would work for me, but both have worked fine. The surgery is just really, really painful.

( He's already pretty much human-shaped roadkill. But he doesn't think any of his friends would take kindly to him doing something weird and rash like that. So instead he just laughs, bright. )

I'll bet. At least now I know not to challenge you to a race!

I could already run fast before that!

[ Yuji laughs brightly. ]

My 50-meter track score was 3 seconds!

Oh hey, you could give me a run for my money and I'm known for that!

I think I'd be even faster now, but I haven't tried!

Maybe you should! You could race people, take bets!

That feels like cheating...

Hm. Maybe?

But I guess you could always make people aware of your skill first. And then it's like a strongest man competition! I did that once, I had all sorts of big, beefy guys lining up to try and beat me in an arm-wrestling competition. You just need to have someone else look after the money you make because boy do fellas like that get mad when their pride is wounded.

Yeah, I bet...

[ Why were you wrestling big strong guys, Vash-san... ]

Maybe we can do something like that for fun after the next mission.

( Don't be fooled by the spindly legs! He's a real tough guy. )

Yeah! If you want I can help. We could make an event of it. Team building!

I think that would be cool! Maybe we can ask LILITH if they'd be okay with us using the SIM rom for it...

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