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[ SUDDENLY VERY CONCERNED

~~somewhere out there airi remembers being socked by aloy and shudders~~ ]

I'd never try to punch you!

[A slight shoulder bump.]

Good. Don't forget that.

[ bumping her back, casually: ]

Besides, I could just disable your Focus instead.

Don’t do that.

[this is sort of an apology tour for disappointing beta yesterday, BUT STILL]

I won't, I promise.

[Steering her toward the movie theater.]

Bad enough that I kept ending up with spyware on it.

Could disable Sylens's focus.

Now, that I could get behind.

I tried to code in a mute button for him.

[ the movie theater is nestled between the denny's and what would one day be the arcade that Beta is probably going to lose her mind over, taking them around the corner to finally hit the right building-- ]

Gaia said it would hamper intergroup communication.

His personality hampers intergroup communication.

[When you might be becoming a friend with someone you want to stab sometimes.

Theater placement is lucky, they'll be nice and familiar with the route to Denny's.]

Knowledge should be freely shared. He's not better than anyone else for having it when it was purposely denied to everyone else. He's just a jerk.

Edited 2024-04-14 16:48 (UTC)

[Beta talking shit about someone...amazing.]

Maybe he'll change his tune once he understands you know more than him.

I'm saving informing him that a good amount of his knowledge is only at the level of older youth in the time of the Old Ones for if he's mean to Alva. It's technically true.

[ technically correct is the best kind of correct ]

[If Sylens tends to know more than Aloy, and he's only at the level of "older youth," then that means Aloy's at...]

I better not think that one through.

Well, you have to tell me how he reacts when you do.

[Not if.]

I will.

[ she skips forward to throw open the glass doors of the theater excitedly, ]

But now it's time for our delve!

[Aloy smiles after her, and will press her Focus as they proceed in, looking around before she decides where to go. This is where someone ran into Featherface, she recalls - but she hasn't heard anything new on them, so maybe that's in the past.]

Eager as an Oseram.

[She squats to peer at some stray popcorn on the floor. That's different.]

If it anywhere has something a little more advanced to experiment with, it's gotta be here.

[ it's not the popcorn that catches her eye, but the display case of candy ]

...Huh. Some of this looks new.

[She stands again, abandoning the popcorn to come look at the display. Best not eat floor popcorn anyway.]

Colorful packaging...something like some of the items in Foodland?

Looks like it! If we can find where it opens...

[ she doesn't have Aloy's coordination, so she's going to look for a way around the counter rather than hopping it ]

[Making her way over, and hopping the counter because she wasn't even raised in a barn.]

Things around here tend to have pretty simple mechanisms, right?

[ meeting her behind the counter-- ]

Usually! We could probably force it open if we had to.

I can probably break a panel, if if comes down to it.

[But she bets Beta can use an opportunity to solve it.]

[ nerdclone enrichment! she squatting down to check out the lock on the case ]
I think if you can find me something to do it with, I can just pop this open! Just needs force. Something solid, like a stick?

[She peers at it.]

Do you want my spear, or something a little smaller?

I can use your spear?

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