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fandomhigh2017-09-07 03:46 pm
suitably_heroic) wrote in fandomhigh2017-09-07 03:46 pm
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How To Get By In A Hostile World, Thursday
"Hey, kids."
That was Atton, leaning casually against the wall at the back of the Danger Shop. "Welcome to Introductions Part 2: Rolling With The Punches."
He waved at two doors at the end of the wall. "Go."
That was Atton, leaning casually against the wall at the back of the Danger Shop. "Welcome to Introductions Part 2: Rolling With The Punches."
He waved at two doors at the end of the wall. "Go."
Rolling Those Punches
Rolling Those Punches - Part A
Then a guy pickpockets your wallet.
What do you do? Do you try to catch the guy? Go to the incredibly apathetic and unhelpful police officers watching from afar? Beg the store clerk at the nearby 7-11 for store credit? If you do get your five bucks back, what do you get that'll stretch you two days?
Re: Rolling Those Punches - Part A
Her plan had obviously been to hide that she was an ancillary, but instinct kicked in. She spun around, quickly located the thief and ran, faster than a human, pushing aside the crowd in her way. When she reached the thief, she grabbed her by the neck, slammed her into a wall and said: "Give. It. Back."
She got it back. She still held her by the neck. "Why did you steal it?" Breq hissed.
The thief was nearly choking. "Hungry," she managed. "Food."
Breq slammed her into the wall again, then let go. "I hardly have enough for myself. Go find a richer victim."
The thief quickly scampered off.
In a nearby supermarket Breq found something called cup noodles. Two of those would last her for two days, even if she would end up being hungry. They needed hot water, but cold would have to do. At least a bottle of water wasn't too expensive.
Rolling Those Punches - B
You're supposed to make an easy trip from the space station your ship is in down to the planet below. However, as soon as you try to start up the ship, alarm bells start going off outside - and the hangar bay doors start closing, while a voice announces you're being impounded.
Should you make it out, a few fighters will start firing on your ship. Try and make it down to the planet's surface without dying horribly and Atton might be vaguely impressed.
Re: Rolling Those Punches - B
And yes, she died horribly before making it down to the planet's surface, but she at least managed (mostly out of luck) to pull off a kind of flashy maneuver that got two of the fighters to crash into each other and then spin off into a third, so yay?
Re: Rolling Those Punches - B
So. Upside: she wasn't totally unfamiliar with how to operate a flying vehicle. Downside: the flying vehicle she was familiar with was Slushious, her family's flying car, which had been designed by a creature who had only the barest passing familiarity with cars and had made do with whatever he happened to find on the dashboard in order to make the controls.
Upside: she was reasonably sure that on this ship, setting off the horn wouldn't make the hood catch fire.
Okay. So. Strange spaceship. Goal of trying to get to the planet for a space station. Girl who had taught herself how to drive at age eleven by nailing soup cans to the bottoms of her church shoes so she could reach the pedals.
She could totally do this.
Somehow, alarms going off and people shooting at her only made this whole situation feel that much more familiar and comfortable. . . .
She was definitely going to die horribly in this simulation. She was also going to make it remarkably far before that happened. Mostly, it would seem, on pure gumption and luck.
Re: Rolling Those Punches - B
She didn't die horribly, but one of the engines was definitely on fire when she landed.