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Texts From Folknight

Welcome to Folkmore's Texts From Last Night meme!

Because it's still April and Thoth is still amused, consider this round two of the Initial Misfire Edition. Initial messages maaaaay go to the wrong person! So not all hell breaks loose, replies carry forward with whoever you've reached, but you might be texting your innermost intoxicated or sleep deprived secret to someone you don't even know.

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Comments

[getscooperation]

The first thing doesn't sound all that different than any other day in the military.

[ 'Typical kid stuff', huh? There is literally no 'kid' that has ever said this that wasn't feeling something Very Deeply.

But, you know, stranger danger and she isn't about to mess with that. ]

I'm told that when in doubt on a multiple choice exam, you should always choose C.

[miniroth]

The Fox is 'magic' though, your average staff sergeant is made of more mundane things. What branch do you serve? I meant to send all this to someone else but in for a penny, in for a gil.

I was told to pick D. It's ALWAYS "all of the above".

[getscooperation]

[ ...wtf is a 'gil'? ]

Does it really matter if it's magic or not if the end result is the same? I was in an auxiliary branch, though I don't think I could call myself a soldier. You?

[miniroth]

[the only currency that matters!]

If I had to worry about my commanders launching me into new worlds I think I'd need to take a long break. Soldier for me, though it's usually all-caps. The fox interrupted my first real deployment, and left my whole team behind. :( very rude.

[getscooperation]

That is pretty rude.

Why SOLDIER? Is that the name of your unit?

[miniroth]

I'm glad you agree.

It might be an acronym, if I was ever told it wasn't important enough to remember. I have been assured many times that our unit is called "Team Glenn". Officially, there isn't one. Most aux branches I know of don't operate in units, does yours?

[getscooperation]

Is Glenn the name of a person or a place?

My initial branch didn't. I'm currently embedded in a team that focuses more on crisis management than my original training.

[miniroth]

A person. Though it wouldn't surprise me if he got somewhere named after him sooner or later.

I suspect, without much more information to go on, that were you from my world you'd be working for the Administrative Research Department. I might easily overpower all of them, but they tend to have other means to make up the difference. They are very good at crisis management!

[getscooperation]

Your commander, then?

Research isn't the main part of my purview. What do they do to manage a crisis?

[miniroth]

I'm the commander in this case. But there really is a point where it's not worth arguing about, if he wants it to be Team Glenn then so be it.

It's best to not really think of them as your average researcher. They are more of the intelligence gathering sort of 'research'. And reconnaissance and espionage. Among many, many other things. If a crisis is brewing, it's often they that will be sent to find the cause, and how it can be best prevented or contained with minimal disruption to infrastructure and civilians.

If they can't, we get called in, and SOLDIER is somewhat less adept at the minimal disruption part. Usually by the time we get the heads-up something's going on they've been aware of it and doing something about it for a while now. That got long. It's all common knowledge back on my world though.

[getscooperation]

[ ...Natasha has pretty clear views on the subject of child soldiers, and that view is that someone needs to be shown the pointy edge of her knife. But since she was... well, similar to one, and knows how the world works, she's only confused on why one would be in charge of a unit. It'd be pretty insulting to ask that, though, so she doesn't. ]

That sounds like a pretty well thought out system. Are the sort of crises you're referring to natural disasters, or some kind of invasion?

[miniroth]

[Shinra doesn't have time for things like allowing their weapons actual childhoods.]

It varies. There's been quite a lot of fighting the past couple of decades, so it takes up a lot of time.

What sorts did you handle, before being here?

[getscooperation]

[ What sorts of crises did she handle?

She could lie. But why bother? ]

My team has mostly been focused on defense. And after that, clean up. There seem to be a lot of people who think they can take over the world or wipe out entire populations with impunity. We try to actively discourage that.

[miniroth]

[and he, one of those doing the depopulating.]

Is global takeover that frequent? Are they all of your world or do you get alien outsiders and they're the ones doing it?

[getscooperation]

[ a terrible idea, best to rethink that ]

It's been a very strange decade. Although the participants may change, the motives are more or less the same. Sad, really, that so many powerful people are so small-minded.

[miniroth]

[Orders are orders!]

It definitely sounds strange, if you'll forgive me for saying so. Wouldn't you think the newest one would look at all the failed previous attempts, and decide this isn't going to work out?

[getscooperation]

[ again, please rethink that ]

You would think. But I don't think many people who want to take over the world and/or murder swathes of other sentient life suffer from an excess of sound reasoning.

[miniroth]

[Impossible!]

I can't really disagree with that. Our current war going on where I'm from mostly revolves around one company trying to put power plants down in places people don't want them.

Most figure it's kind of silly to keep forcing it on people and I suppose it is, but here we are.

[getscooperation]

[ perhaps consider why considering otherwise is impossible, then? closed minds, etc. etc. ]

Why don't they want the power plants? Are they harmful to the population in some way?

[miniroth]

[What's the point of brainwashing kids if they learn to make their own choices??]

As far as I can tell, differences of opinion. I can understand it, you have someone else come in and drop their stuff in the middle of your corn field and then tell you it's all theirs now.. and you can pay for the privilege of using their power..

[getscooperation]

[ So they can light their brainwashing institution on fire later and watch all the pretty lights? ]

Sounds pretty brutal.

[miniroth]

[That's a foregone conclusion!]

I am told the proper word for it is 'capitalism'.

[getscooperation]

[ a + (it's a joke, get it?) ]

That's a system, not a description of the system. How would you characterize it?

[miniroth]

[if sephiroth understands jokes, shinra denies all knowledge of it]

Predatory, but not without at least some measure of improving lives. With industrialization comes sanitation, better roads, better water quality, easier access to shipping food and so on.

[getscooperation]

Are better roads really a benefit if there are less people to travel on them?