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Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#1122551: Jul 8th 2016 at 7:40:29 AM

personally I'm more curious about what your comrades were like

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122552: Jul 8th 2016 at 7:45:25 AM

-chuckles a little-

I've served with many over the years- and certainly... my old squad was quite- odd.

I remember telling- Tallis here, I think... about Zack. Now- Zack, he was the oddest of 'em.

Man was a good soldier- nothing special- except, he had this- odd aura about him. That not a single animal or bug ever wanted to be near him. On jungle operations- we'd all get mosquito bites, and what-not. But him? Never.

Not a single bite. He could be sitting in a swamp for hours, and nothing would try and bite him.

-sighs- It isn't that easy...

But- I get it.

We've all got our own ways of coping with things.

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TooManyIdeas Magical Princess From Another Dimension from Twilight Town (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Magical Princess From Another Dimension
#1122553: Jul 8th 2016 at 7:48:28 AM

Well, how do I go back?

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122554: Jul 8th 2016 at 7:49:56 AM

You want an honest answer-?

How to- get back the life you once had- even if things won't necessarily be exactly the same?

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TooManyIdeas Magical Princess From Another Dimension from Twilight Town (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Magical Princess From Another Dimension
#1122555: Jul 8th 2016 at 7:52:34 AM

(enthusiastic nodding)

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122556: Jul 8th 2016 at 7:59:30 AM

You have to fight for it.

I don't necessarily mean- like- grab a gun, go out and shoot the bad guys. That's not for everyone, and well- you're 16, and you have a whole life waiting ahead of you.

But- I mean- that you can't shut yourself in boxes and wait for it to go away. Because if everyone did that- then who would change the world?

You have to be the change you want to see in the world. Want peace-? Work towards peace.

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TooManyIdeas Magical Princess From Another Dimension from Twilight Town (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Magical Princess From Another Dimension
#1122557: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:05:25 AM

...You're right...I know you're right...but what can I do? I ended up here because I ran away from all the chaos back home.

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122558: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:17:03 AM

Pick yourself up- try to go back home.

And prepare yourself.

To not back down.

Maybe train yourself here in the meantime.

Self-defense, mostly I'm sure but- all the same.

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TooManyIdeas Magical Princess From Another Dimension from Twilight Town (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Magical Princess From Another Dimension
#1122559: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:24:19 AM

...Can you teach me how to defend myself?

Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
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#1122561: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:29:12 AM

-nods- Zack never owned pets, of course.

He always found that they had difficulties connecting to him.

But- sadly he passed away, rather ironically enough- to the one thing that did bite him eventually... it was a rattlesnake in America.

I can definitely help you yeah. I'm not- exactly a martial arts expert though.

I've got minor gunsmithing under my belt, but- well- I'm not the heir to the family business.

Ches is a better candidate to teach you. He has espionage, gun-handling and marksmanship as well as being a master in the martial art of Bartitsu.

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TooManyIdeas Magical Princess From Another Dimension from Twilight Town (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Magical Princess From Another Dimension
#1122562: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:31:29 AM

Bartitsu?

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122563: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:36:16 AM

It's a combination of Boxing, Savate, Jujitsu and the art of Cane Fencing.

So- y'know- as an improvised weapon, if you ever find a heavy stick, the principles from the latter bit...

But Ches has incorporated parts from other self-defense manuals.

My great great grandfather Sherlock Holmes famously used it.

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TooManyIdeas Magical Princess From Another Dimension from Twilight Town (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Magical Princess From Another Dimension
#1122564: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:40:03 AM

Your grandfather was...whatever, I want to learn this stuff right now.

Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122566: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:44:46 AM

Well- it'll take time.

But I'm sure you can find Ches pretty easily... he's- not exactly hard to find, if he's not working.

Y'know- bandages and all that.

-nods- Mmm...

Still. He was a good person. He had that kind of look- you know- the kind of people that just look threatening, the type you don't want to meet in a dark alleyway.

But he practically had the heart of a puppy. A puppy that had the nerves to serve in the SAS, but a puppy all the same.

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Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#1122567: Jul 8th 2016 at 8:49:15 AM

yeah, definitely sounds like a good friend

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122568: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:01:37 AM

Another chap was- Arthur. Bedford. He was one of the sons in the Bedford family. He was our engineer, as are most people in the Bedford family- inventors and the like.

He fumbled sometimes, but all in all- he was a good engineer. He managed to rig up a beaten up tank from WW 2 to help us when we were facing problems during an operation in Afghanistan.

Ammunition for the cannon was an issue, so he carved out the cannon to replace it with a small field gun that we managed to seize from the enemy.

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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#1122569: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:21:21 AM

-Amy is inside at a table, she's got some kind of tool and has pulled one of her antenna things off, working on it-

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Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#1122570: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:25:46 AM

Afghanistan?


-meanwhile with amy-

So thats your real body eh zaku?

RegularDefender MAYONNAISE from Blighty Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Singularity
MAYONNAISE
#1122571: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:27:49 AM

-nods- It was because of Soviet activity in the area.

It was a black op- but- I can comfortably mention it here I believe.

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#1122572: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:30:25 AM

-whoops meant to make amy gold-

-looks up at Kranz- Oh hey. Yeah it is.

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Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#1122573: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:44:34 AM

you're tanner than I expected.


oh right, the cold war

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#1122574: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:48:00 AM

...Tanner?

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Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#1122575: Jul 8th 2016 at 9:58:04 AM

Half expected you to be super pale or something.


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