ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko wonders if he butchered another conversation.

"Still up for a trip to the bar later?" He asks.

His tone shoes hints of how tired he is.

Surely if Raiden had wanted me to go, they would have asked, he reasons. He remembers how he'd volunteered to be with the ground team. Perhaps they would be cordial with him, and if they weren't, then the gesture never mattered anyway.

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[Tayasaurus]

Tippy stops and looks over her shoulder.

"Yeah, that's still on. We'll meet up later when its time to go. In the meantime i got to go clean up."

[Deoxys And One Noob]

Hilbert finishes his shutdown checklists and climbs out of the plane. Although his discipline makes him look like he never cared, he has a lot of things on his mind. Important things. Private things. He needs to talk to himself about it, and soon. It's not good to keep thoughts bottled up, after all.

He overhears Tippy say that the post-mission bar trip is still on. He slightly grins. "Glad to hear that's still happening." he says to himself.

[Qwepir]

In the meantime, Virvel and Walter are inspecting his jammed cannon.
: ...So, does this happen to you often?

Before Walt can respond, Frisk walks up behind the two.
: Hey, Virvel. I hear they're looking for help tending to wounded and cleaning up and such at that POW camp the others went and liberated. Wanna volunteer?
: Um, no? Not even remotely?
: Lemme rephrase that: Wanna get first pick at the goods Izzy left behind when our boys kicked 'em out?
: Oh. Ohhh. Hmm, when you put it that way... Sure.

She looks over at Walter.
: What about you, you interested?

[Badger]

"If I don't have to look at this cannon anymore I'm alright with that. When are we heading out?"

[Gojira]

Yui finishes shutdown and climbs out of the roosterpit, giving the Foxbat a visual once-over before handing it over to the ground crews. She takes off her helmet, spots Nagato, and heads over to see what she's up to.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko watches Tippy walk off, and goes looking for Raiden's leads to ask about heading to the camp.

[Qwepir]

"If I don't have to look at this cannon anymore I'm alright with that. When are we heading out?"

: About an hour. Keep in mind though, you will actually need to, y'know, help out.
: Aw, are you serious?
: I'm absolutely serious. We're not only going there to loot the place, that bit's just a bonus.
: Who are you, and what did you do with Illarion Frisk?
: I'm still here. It's just if the boss finds out we spent all our time scrounging around, he'll be pissed. Then next time there's an opportunity like this, he'll give us the most irritated and verbose "no" ever spoken by a human.

Jaakko watches Tippy walk off, and goes looking for Raiden's leads to ask about heading to the camp.

She and Xiaomei are having a smoke break outside one of the hangars, talking to each other in Kintharian.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko approaches Xiaomei and Yamashiro.

"Hello," he greets.

[Badger]

"Any wounded people you meet are going to know where the goodies are anyways."

[Operator¹]

Ellie goes to see if any of the planes assigned to the Svirask mission were damaged as badly as her Tukreb

[NoZoner]

Lorens watches the maintenance techs finish unloading the last of the Warthog's payload for the return flight. The ordnance is carried away to the forward base's stockpile. Satisfied the A-10 is clean, he goes off to find the others to kill time.

"Major Kirves," Lorens calls as he approaches Jaakko, "Glad to see you're still in one piece, sir." He smiles. "How'd things go on your guys' end? I listened in on some of AWACS' call outs, sounded like you guys had it kinda rough."

[Qwepir]

"Any wounded people you meet are going to know where the goodies are anyways."

: Eh, that's a fair point.

Jaakko approaches Xiaomei and Yamashiro.
"Hello," he greets.

They pause their conversation, and Yamashiro looks at you and nods to acknowledge your presence.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko looks briefly to Lorens.

"Good to see you're back too. I would say that operation was pretty smooth except for my end," he comments.

He looks to Xiaomei and Yamashiro.

"Tippy- mentioned to me that you guys were going to the POW camp. I was wondering if I could come along- if there's space, that is," he says reluctantly.

[Qwepir]

He looks to Xiaomei and Yamashiro.
"Tippy- mentioned to me that you guys were going to the POW camp. I was wondering if I could come along- if there's space, that is," he says reluctantly.

They glance at each other.
: Er... I don't see why you have to ask our permission to travel to a base your people have secured.