revivalproject | [Open] Choosing A New Path

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."

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"YOu are a shapeshifter," she suggests. Maybe it's like that.

How it works? Well, Lauri-Ell tilts her head to the side to consider this.

"I am not sure there is any specific way that things work here."

"A shapeshifter?" Reno coniders that with a scratch of her head, "This is all I can shapeshift into, I can't shift into other girls but I guess it kinda does count?" There's a shrug at that, "And if there's no specific way, then I'm gonna have to feel this out on my own, then! Reno: Sidekick Alone!"

"That's new, but no problem! I can handle it!"

She's such a weird girl, which is a lot from Lauri-Ell.

"How will you handle it?"

Oh. Reno was so far out ahead, she hadn't even thought of that.

"Do you have some tips?"

"Sadly I do not. I am not as familiar with culture as many here practice it," she admitted with a shrug. "But finding a way to help others is a good place to start."

"Yeah!" See, she was on the right track! Eventually. "That's why I came out here, to see how I can help! I'm good at shooting things, but that's not going to work without an Eagle Union ammo depot. But I'm also good at making things too!" She flexed out her palms to show off her mechanical gloves and their glowy center. "Like these!"

"If you are good at shooting things, there is the security datapoint. This would allow you to use the Agrii provided weapons," Lauri-Ell noted. Perhaps that would help the girl.

But then she sees the gloves.

"Are those weapons?"

The mention of provided weapons brings a blink from the kansen. The thought of using something other than her own array of cannons hadn't ever crossed her mind. It was never a thing that she needed back home. "Security datapoint, right!" She'll ask how that works later, first things first.

"Cool, huh? Sadly, they're not the real thing, I'd need an arc reactor for that. No, see, I press this button and it lights up like this," which the glove does, firing off a blinking pattern of blue laser light off to the side with a sound very much like 'kshaw ksshhew'.

"Yes, that's correct," she said, nodding. The young woman could still be armed, could still protect others if that is what she's supposed to be. A protector.

"Arc Reactor? That's the thing Tony has made, yes?"

She frowns when the gloves make noises.

"Those look like toys."

"They are toys!" she nods, adding "Cosplay!" The lights are dimmed as the shipgirl continued, "My favorite ones too, so I'm almost always wearing them. I'll have to add some more useful functions to them while I'm here."

Wait a minute. Her silver-haired head perks a moment, and then turns quizzically upwards to Lauri. "... Tony?"

Toys she understands. Cosplay gets a confused look from her.

"Yes, Tony Stark," she says, though her voice does not make her sound happy to refer to the human. He was... a problematic person in her view.

And the jaw hit the floor. "You- You know Tony Stark!?"

This will be a short pose, all the ammo magazines in Reno's mind exploded all at once. Give her a moment for damage control to kick in.

"Of course," she says, gesturing in the vague direction of the distant forge. "He manages the forge. He can be a very confusing man. I do not think he wants people to like him."

He sure seemed to try and make her dislike him.

"He's really here," said almost dreamily as her gaze followed off towards the forge. What she said next took a moment for Reno to register, "Yeah, he's kinda like that." How do you explain a man like Tony Stark? That's not her priority right now. Priority is HOLY FREAKIN' NEPTUNE TONY STARK IS HERE OMG I MUST GO FANGIRL.

But there was something else. For all of the cruiser's fantasies, the mission always took priority. "Oh, yeah! You mentioned a security datapoint could let me use weapons? How's that work?"

That excitement is weird.

"You go to the datapoint and touch it. Without the contact, without taking the datapoint, the weapons the Agrii created aren't possible to use. I don't know how, but it is true."

For all her energy and youth, Reno has a rather knowing nod at that explanation. "A security measure, I'd think. They must've had it locked for only those with authorization, but now I guess we all get authorization." For all that excitement, she might know her military stuff?

A smile at that, "Thank you for that, though! I'll go take a look."

"We get the authorization if we seek it," Lauri-Ell answered. Better this way, because then people aren't likely to accidentally discharge weapons and hurt others.

"You should."

"I will!" Reno was good at making things, for sure, but she was created for one purpose. If she could use those talents here, she'll help out where she can! With a friendly enthusiastic wave, she thanked Lauri again before heading off towards the security point. "The Whale Comb Center? Since when did whales use combs?"

That's an interesting question, and one Lauri-Ell doesn't know how to answer.

"I fear I do not even know what a whale is."

Because he doesn't know what it might be and if it needs a comb.

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