[Open] Choosing A New Path

[kree_soldieress]

WHO: Lauri-Ell, Open
WHERE: Around Temba, Hospital
WHAT: Patrol and New Datapoint
WHEN: Mid-June to end of the month
WARNINGS: N/A

I. I Walk These Lonely Roads | Roads of Temba
No matter the decision as to whether her purpose here was changing or not, there was still some inherent things that were not going to change. After Lauri's morning work out she put up a sign at the civics center training area saying to contact her if someone wanted work out help. And then she set out to do the normal. Hammer in hand, Accuser armor wrapped around her, Lauri-Ell walked confidently through the early morning streets. It was time to do her patrols.

But she was getting started a little later today, and she was happy to see others around, raising her free hand in a greeting and offering them a smile.

"It grows warm in the mornings, yes? Very lovely."


II. Learning The Ropes | Hospital
It had taken time to come to this conclusion. Time and soul searching, and the kindness extended to her by Omega and Billy recently. And the realization that she did not need the weapons the Agrii provided to protect others. Which meant she could learn to protect people in more ways.

That didn't mean she entirely knew what to do with this knew knowledge. Lauri-Ell removed her hand from the datapoint and just... stood there for a moment.

"I still don't understand," she said, a bit frustrated before she turned and entered the hospital. "But I suppose I should see if there is a means to learn properly."

Comments

[tyrants_son]

"Provided that is not in the direction of the mountains," Felwinter nods. "Someone has told me he's traveled with the mountains as a reference point and gone out for several days straight and nothing to show for it." And then come back because it was boring.

"Do we know if a compass might actually work? We have assigned directions by Earth-standards, but we are anywhere but. Going by the sun and reference points may be more reliable."

[wearingthestars]

That makes him feel a little bit shy, not sure he's at all qualified to teach someone else, but he smiles, determined to do his best to help Lauri-El learn the ropes at least.

"Medical-El?" He tries not to snicker, not sure if she'll get the word play or not. "Why do you say that?" he wonders. There's plenty of valid reasons not to want to be involved at that level, but he worries it's self doubt that has her saying so.

[heeeyadora]

That doesn't sound nearly as fun as Lauri-El's grin suggests, and Catra looks a little bewildered by her enthusiasm.

"So no more security?" Who wouldn't want to get to play with the guns?

[renoreactor]

She'd be happy? That brings a rather excited grin to the silver-haired girl's face. "Alright! Just.. let me get a bit of room," said as she takes a step back.

Suddenly, arms slash to one side and in front of her and up in a well-practiced super sentai routine! With a shout of "Reno Henshin!", there's a flash, and she's suddenly surrounded at her sides and behind by what appear to be mechanically connected hull parts, gun turrets, and empty torpedo tubes of a World War Two warship.

All of which is fitted to her size. So, yes, still relatively tiny but possibly impressive! Hopefully!

[kree_soldieress]

Why is she flailing about? What is Henshin? Why was there a flash? What are these low-tech items?

"What is this supposed to be?"

[kree_soldieress]

"Mountains?" Lauri-Ell answered, frowning. She hadn't even known there was something like that. And yet...

"Would a mountain not be a good place to hide things that are important to be known?"

Still, a compass is a good question.

"I will ask Mister Stark if he can make one. If we understand how things work in relation to the city here, would that serve? Perhaps not. Sun would be useful as well."

[kree_soldieress]

Nope, she doesn't get the joke. "We tend to use full names with status, but yes, I suppose Medic El would work. But I am Kree, and I do not understands these healing methods you and Omega used."

[kree_soldieress]

"I can secure it is necessary, but I have this..."

She taps her hammer against the ground. "It is useful."

[tyrants_son]

The warlord nods, looking around a moment before pointing off in a direction. "They can be seen from a higher vantage point, but they are quite a distance off. But I would not disagree, if the mountains are what the ultimate goal would be, rather than to find anything between them and this city."

Stark has been creative in many sorts of things that he wouldn't discount the man's ability to make some kind of directional tracker. It still would largely depend on some kind of static reference point though, and he doesn't think that the world's natural properties have been a focal point of study.

"I wonder if any sort of information to that degree would have been part of any of the datapoints," he muses aloud.

[scienceofthearcane]

Viktor glanced over his shoulder at the alien Target.

"I've never seen so many different things offered in one place before. It's a little bit overwhelming."

[kree_soldieress]

Can they? She's been higher but stopped looking around so much as down. How interesting.

"If we had a reliable way to ensure we return here, I am willing to go quite far to see what is out there. For our potential return to our homes. But I have only touched Security and Medical, so I dont' know."

[kree_soldieress]

"It is a store," she says. "Or it was. I think. This was how I was told it seemed to be."

She has barely gone in there save for looking for things for her gym.

[buildingitsir]

York looks to her, trying to figure out what he should do. Go back to his factory and hole up there for awhile? At least he wasn't as angry any more. Ah to hell with it. "Wanna multitask by walking and talking?" He gestures to the road with his hand to indicate where to walk.

He starts off, hearing her fall in next to him. Maybe not in stride since she was was just... so much taller than him. God he hated this small body so much. "So who where you created to be?"

Not what, but who.

[scienceofthearcane]

That didn't exactly surprise Viktor, given how the store was laid out, but he did frown at Lauri-Ell a bit.

"What happened to it to make it close down?"

[renoreactor]

Reno was even about to show off her nifty mechanical gloves when there's a question. Oh. Right. "This is my rigging," she proudly states with a flourish towards said battleship parts. "Its what gives me my super sidekick powers! Not as much here since I don't have any ammo, but I still have the strength and sturdiness of an Atlanta class cruiser- er- warship! A warship from my planet!" There's a rather hopeful nod at that, maybe that explains things better?

[kree_soldieress]

Again she's staring, clearly confused.

"I do not understand. You are a person. Where does your crew go?"

This is impossible. She is too small for even a bathtub!

[kree_soldieress]

Seriously? She frowns at that.

"The Agrii left."

[kree_soldieress]

"Yes, that seems reasonable," she says, moving quickly to catch up. Not that it takes much effort. She's at a very easy, slow stride here.

"A warrior. The best warrior."

[tyrants_son]

"I've only taken communications, myself. Perhaps we should also consider most useful data points for an excursion, but even that is difficult to anticipate completely."

Felwinter folds his arms as he considers. "Agriculture might be informative but to some degree. Engineering will not be of much use unless we by some chance happen upon some lost technology. I suppose we can safely rule out piloting."

[kree_soldieress]

"Indeed," she says, contemplating. She could go back to her old security datapoint, but medical, to know to use resources to care for herself, may not be bad. Or Agricultural to find food.

[tyrants_son]

He turns his head back towards Lauri-Ell. "If I need to change expertise, I'll do so, if it will be to our benefit." If they're to work together then he wants to be able to support her as much as she's been willing to help support him in this endeavor.

"...but we have time to think this over. When shall we aim to set out? We can at least establish that much."

[wearingthestars]

"Maybe with your help we can incorporate more Kree methods?" Billy counters with a hopeful look. "And no one starts out knowing what they're doing," he promises, "I mean...except for...literally, in this case, I guess? We do start of with all the data point knowledge shoved into our brains, but...everyone's got to learn the hands on stuff."

[heeeyadora]

Catra eyes the hammer. She still wants to take a swing with it, fingers practically itching to try it out.

"Yeah, how come you get a big hammer, huh?" Not that Catra doesn't have her own share of weapons at this point. A whip. A buzz baton. One of the knives she'd stolen/never given back to Cayde. Still...no magic bigass hammer.

[buildingitsir]

Her stride was at least leisurely enough for him to keep up with. That's nice. York shoves his hands in his pockets and glances to her as they walk.

"The best warrior huh? What sort of shit were... are you guys fighting? Is that why you... I don't know if 'deviated' fits what happened with you, but that's the only word I can relate it to from mine. When you go off your designated programming."

[kree_soldieress]

"I will consider what might suit us."

Chances were he would not learn enough of medical to make use of it.

"Do you have weapon?"

Because if not, she would advise security.