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Another day, another thing to do.

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[Castellan, intrigued by you and/or your background approaches you.]

Mind sharing tales of your exploits, what its like where you're from and the like? I'm interested in broadening my horizons as I spent most my life underground.

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[You see him in a shady corner of the bar mumbling to himself.]

Need to pay for more repairs... Must not enter reds...

[Its obvious at this point that he entered the Chalice as if he started with zero credits despite having a healthy bank account, regardless he's overreacting about the petty cash needed to get his expendable junk repaired.]

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[Who better to approach than a (former) world-traveler?]

Oh? Well, okay. I've been to lots of places. Any specific one you wanted to know about?

Your best memory then.

Morocco was beautiful. All of Africa was, but Morocco especially had so many cultures and people.

I see. Anything particular that I should visit if I ever go there?

Tangier is nice, with all the cultures that had been there at one time or another. It actually looks a little more like Greece in some areas. Rabat and Casablanca are very modern, but just outside Rabat are the ruins of Chellah, if you're interested in history or archeology.

Oh, and be careful if you visit during Ramadan because of the fasting. A lot of restaurants and everything will be shut down. Some are open for tourists, but with the way I was living when I visited, I tried to respect and follow the customs of the people I stayed with. It was a little harder than I expected.

Good to know. I can cook so it isn't a problem. I know quite a bit of what you speak of. Best to stock up in the wee hours before the fasting session or at night once its time to feast. Regardless, I believe they respect outsiders to a degree as well since we don't have to abide by it as strictly for as long as we don't do things like eat something that looks really good slowly in front of a starving faster because we can and he/she can't yet.

Exactly. It's less of a problem in larger resort cities, since they attract people from all over the world, but if you go to smaller towns like I did, you'll probably want something to help you through the day.

Eh? [Well this was unexpected.] ... I have time to kill, so sure. Where do you want me to start?

Where ever you wish. I may be a pilot but I'm into things like culture and economics too. Not just technologies and the like.

Rauha's one of many Titan controlled Colonies. Spacenoids have had it rather rough since the one year war, really. The only place that's relatively safe is Von Braun, and that's on the moon and was under threat of colony drop some months ago.

Really, the way I see it is this: "Go for the stars, leave 'fore the Titans gun you down."

Sorry to hear that but ah... Space... It may be the one place I would visit even if it was still plagued by war. I've heard much of space and the spectacles to behold once I was free from the earthen prison and I find sights like wolf rayet stars, pulsars and the like to be things I wish to see for myself. Do tell me more beyond the stars if you've ventured that far.

Sadly I haven't. The Titans don't really let Spacenoid Citizens do much in Side 5. [He sighs.] The stars are beautiful, aren't they? And Spacenoids get to live amongst them. If it weren't for the Titans, I'd bet we'd be able to focus more on what lies beyond.

To both our futures then. Perhaps being on the Chalice will do us all good. It's been interesting talking to you. Thanks.

Oh hey you're from underground too?

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Aye. How was the place where you came from? Mine isn't a very rosy place to be unless you're a war monger.

Dark, damp, dirty, boring food, boring people, boring everything. Never looking back.

I guess there are others who have it worse off than us.

Yeah it's better out here. There's actually room to be yourself.

What did you mean by being a war monger in your pit?

Its ruled by three corporations who wage war across the entire portion of the underground for supremacy. I belong to a group once known to be the elite mercenaries but like all things standards have fallen. We have arena rankings and matches for money, threats and assassination attempts from fellow mercenaries who refuse to believe they are inferior to you after you beat them in the arena, political backstabbing during missions where you see things you aren't supposed to thus need to be erased even if you successfully finish your job and the like. Basically you fight left right and center.

Sounds...

[He considers his time on the surface world.]

Not that different from up here, actually. At least it wouldn't be boring.

[He becomes very serious.]

Does that mean there's good money to be made here?

[The Chalice hasn't been helping his judgment lately.]

Eh? I dunno. I don't worry about that kind of thing too much.

That seems to be the only saving grace where I come from...

Lotsa money?

Aye. It's overcharged but money is money.

Well, whatever it was like, it's gotta be better up here am I right? There's no way a man can really be himself when he's cramped up in a cave!

Oh, me? I'm a cyberwarfare program developed by IDS for the britannian military. Foundation X tried to capture me, but I avoided them and escaped to here.

[There is a computer terminal talking to you now, whether or not you asked it.]

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Cyber warfare? I'm glad my unit doesn't have wireless. There seems to be some scary things in the world.

[Nothing a good smash or shells to the console can't fix or so he hopes.]

Well, you're hardly alone in that. Most machines have defences against that sort of thing.

Of course, there are ways around that.

Well, it'd be natural to be curious about why this small woman is obeyed by undead terminators, or why despite her seeming gentleness her coat sports the emblems of a green lightning bolt and a death's head.

"Oh, well alright if it won't b-bore you too much..." Also there's that stutter which indicates that you make her nervous. "I grew up in the former Alaska, in Green Storm territory, near the Stalker works there. I'd help repair them and this caught the base commander's eye. I spent a year as an assistant on the Spitzbergen Front, and then earned my license as a surgeon-mechanic." What she's not saying is that, at seventeen, she's the youngest person to have ever done so. "One day I found a predator city menacing a coastal town and no Storm forces were nearby. The Chalice rescued them and I spent some time here. After the unfortunate death of The Stalker Fang, General Naga reassigned me here permanently. I'm not much use in combat so I help in the infirmary instead."

Good to know. I'm only good with first aid and I don't consider myself anything special in combat but I try. Good to have someone to look for when there's trouble as we've seen in the previous missions already.

[Injuries are plentiful, no wonder hospitals make a killing.]

"Please, come in anytime you suspect something might be wrong, and for checkups. Piloting is stressful on the body and catching something early keeps us from having to ground you for long periods later."

Plus he seems nice. Little does she know.

Thanks for the advice. I have something to say as well. I believe everyone in the universe was meant to have a purpose. Some may be born to fight without any capability for other things such that heroes would never come to be without taking advantage of some villain or tragedy. Perhaps in a time of peace, there will be those who are born useless their entire lives, alas I shall not bore you with my philosophy.

Unconsciously, Oenone's hand went to the crucifix around her neck, a legacy from that time after her brother had...after she'd been forced to resurrect him.

"I believe so too."

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