ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Badger]

"On the subject of Eremit though, have you ever see him... Happy?"

[Ad Bot]

[Qwepir]

"Do you miss their company?"

: No.

"Huh," Jaakko responds, "I don't know his name, I think he was Imperial."
He pauses.
"That was probably him,"
And again.
"What do you do all day? You don't get deployed anymore,"

: I do not exactly have a schedule. It is mostly just whatever I can do to stay out of the way. For a while I was consulted on matters involving renegade holdouts on your continent, but I have not been approached about that in a long time. I think you have already killed them all off.

"On the subject of Eremit though, have you ever see him... Happy?"

: Now that you mention it... I don't think so. Of course, it's hard to read an expression when half of it's covered by that thing he needs to breathe.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"I mean what do you occupy yourself with- I don't imagine you're allowed off base,"

[Qwepir]

"I mean what do you occupy yourself with- I don't imagine you're allowed off base,"

: Weights are a useful distraction.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko looks to Gus.

"She's just like you," he banters.

[Badger]

Walter thinks to himself for a moment about Eremit then speaks up again

"I'm not sure what to fully say about him, other than I feel bad for him."

[carolcat]

: No.

"Would you prefer them to humans, though?"

[CypherX]

"Some vices are more interesting than others," Gus says sarcastically with an easy smile.

"The stitches don't help, though. I feel like I've been in the medbay more than I've been out of it lately. I think some of the doctors know me by name now."

[Mr. Hurricane]

"I've noticed something similar. PT and the likes seems to be a form of stress relief. I didn't really notice until I got shot and couldn't do much," Jaakko replies.

[CypherX]

"That's certainly how it is for me. The repetition and the routine help to clear my head."

Gus laughs and wipes his mouth with a napkin.

"My 'Fortress of Solitude'* is the area directly in front of a heavy bag."

authors note: consider reference to be an equivalent structure from reliquary universe comics

[Qwepir]

Walter thinks to himself for a moment about Eremit then speaks up again

"I'm not sure what to fully say about him, other than I feel bad for him."

: ...Why? His problems aren't your problems.

"Would you prefer them to humans, though?"

Elu makes a stilted, overly precise attempt at emulating a shrug.

"That's certainly how it is for me. The repetition and the routine help to clear my head."

Coaxoch nods in agreement.
: You would be surprised how much of your life you can skip over by doing the same thing every day for a long period of time. It is like your brain just turns off for years.

[carolcat]

Elu makes a stilted, overly precise attempt at emulating a shrug.

"Man, we really gotta work on your gestures," she says, eyebrows raised in amusement. "You gotta be more fluid with the shoulders, like this." She stops what she's doing and demonstrates a more relaxed shrug. "See? Try that."

[Mr. Hurricane]

"I hope you find something better to do soon. Drudgery isn't necessarily healthy,"

Jaakko rubs the back of his head.

"A couple of time I had to suck it up and do something aside from wallow around. Of course I wasn't confined to an airbase while my country disappeared though,"

[Qwepir]

"Man, we really gotta work on your gestures," she says, eyebrows raised in amusement. "You gotta be more fluid with the shoulders, like this." She stops what she's doing and demonstrates a more relaxed shrug. "See? Try that."

Elu repeats the exact same motion he just did.

"I hope you find something better to do soon. Drudgery isn't necessarily healthy,"

: Sometimes it can be. Depends on what kind of drudgery you are referring to.

[carolcat]

Elu repeats the exact same motion he just did.

She just stares for a moment. "...right. We'll work on it."

Cualli turns back to the part she's working on. "So what's your favorite thing to do around here?"