Laughing to the bank and snickering from it.

[i_like_shades]

[Yet another new pilot for the Chalice. His late entry saved him the lovely repair bill the other Ravens got to enjoy and thus was laughing his way to the banking website.]

Down 800 credits for two shots fired... I'll be charging interest on the next job, Crest.

[He wasn't down by much compared to the other two and much less compared to what he had in the bank but losses to one's savings always hurt regardless when built up from scratch.]

Looks like I'll be here for awhile. May as well make the best of it. I wonder what the people here are like...

[Adapting to change. A sign of being an old crow.]

Comments

[not_the_deer]

The guy who appeared out of nowhere during the fight! ...And then hit on the XO when it was over!

[i_like_shades]

Nice to meet you too. Name's Castellan. I wasn't being serious with the XO.

[Not that you could tell. His tone is always the same.]

We'll be working together for awhile so is there anything I should know about the rest of the Chalice?

[not_the_deer]

...Oh, right. I'm Tobia Arronax, of the Crossbone Vanguard! Glad you helped us out there.

Well, the Chalice is full of all kinds of people, from different factions and places. And some of them are pretty damn weird! You should probably learn who's who.

[i_like_shades]

Good to know. I haven't seen much of the outside world or universe but have heard plenty of it. I also hear this place is... Notorious for bringing quite a bit of those together so it will take me awhile to find out who's who.

[He's quite interested in how much power can negate skill because ACs were never about power.]

[not_the_deer]

Don't let the bad rep fool you, though! We're good guys. Well, most of us.

[i_like_shades]

Hmmm... While that sounds good, I'll have to admit I'm not qualified to be a good guy.

[not_the_deer]

Because you're a merc who only works for money?

Did anyone pay you to help us out there?

[i_like_shades]

Not because I only work for money, but because I've already killed far too many people. I may have killed civilians because they were directly in the way and avoiding them would have resulted in more deaths but it is a fact that I was the one who chose to end them regardless of my reasons.

[By that he means in the thousands since he started working.]

As for your second question... Not quite. I'm paid to keep my fellow Ravens out of trouble.