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[falsesmile]

Who: Ves (falsesmile) and general!
When: Day 6, afternoon
Where: The Ruined Hull
What: General exploration post!

[ The Ruined Hull has been unlocked! The go-team has been in the area for a while, the stay-team members who are so inclined have probably meandered over here somehow by now -- time to go exploring, but keep an eye on those suit power levels ♥ ]

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[adamance]

Did it inspire fewer wars among your people? [It's a question that likely doesn't have an optimistic answer. But Lexa had been hoping to bring an end to the constant warring among her own. War itself is a subject that captures her attention whether she likes it or not (but that's because she's been warring since birth; she knows so little else).]

[dateme]

Well...in the main countries that fought, sure. But There's lots of them in the world you know? And not everyone gets along. [ Because there's a lot of crap going on in North Africa and East-Asia at the moment that's less than ideal to the notion of peace. ]

Fights are gonna happen.

[adamance]

My people have been at war for as long as we've been separated into clans, desperate to survive and create our own identities. [It's information she doesn't share lightly, but she doubts it's something that can be used against her.]

People do fight. Even with the casualties, sometimes it's all they know.

[dateme]

Yeah... That sounds kinda sucky though, sorry. How come you guys are all in clans and stuff? You don't use cities or police anymore? [ Lexa sounds like she's describing Yakuza or something when she gets into clans. That, or really old families too-worried about the main family versus the branch families. ]

[adamance]

Everything was destroyed. Humanity had no choice but to remake itself. That's how we chose to handle it. [They hit a hallway in the hull, and Lexa glances toward where to lead him. So far, so good—in terms of danger. She glances toward the power reading. Less good. That will be a problem.]

I brought the clans together, but people still struggle under unity. Old biases die hard.

[dateme]

[ His suit's fallen ten percent in five minutes which is less than ideal, yeah. But Inui's paying less attention to that and more to Lexa herself. ]

So you were some kinda ambassador or something?

[adamance]

Their commander. I led all of the twelve—and later thirteen—clans. I was in charge of all of the warriors, and I set the laws that would be followed. [Oral laws more than anything else, but just the same. Her ambassadors could challenge her, but she had the final word. Always.]

[dateme]

So you're like Ghengas Khan or something? [ She...probably won't know who that is, but that;'s not that point. It sounds badass. ]

[adamance]

[Accurate. On both accounts, really. All accounts?]

I don't recognize the name. [She offers him a glance as she leads on—the type that says, "please explain." Time to explain history again! (Sorry, Inui, she actually loves knowledge ...)]

[dateme]

[ IT'S ALRIGHT. He actually kinda likes...explaining stuff like this? He enjoys talking, but it's also fun to feel like for once he isn't totally out of his element and useless here. It's also a good way to pass the time as they work further into the hull, although he has to stop and hold out a pearl to her at a certain point. ]

--anyway, that's Ghengas Khan, and he was kinda awful. Here. [ he hands her a pearl ] We should probably top up, I'm at 13%.

[adamance]

I am considerably less awful, [she says, fingers wrapping around the pearl to go through the process of crushing it and powering her suit back up in the process.] My people are not fond of conquering or taking over what isn't ours. I unify for what can be a better future.

[Lexa wholeheartedly thinks it's a skill that will have some value here.]

[dateme]

So as long as it looks like you can call dibs, you do. Gotcha. [ That's what he's getting from that explanation anyway. ]

Wanna poke around in here for a bit? Since we already popped one of the pearls each. Save us some extra time to get back, just in case.

[adamance]

[That isn't how she'd put it, but she can tell already that Inui just ... is strange in how he phrases things. What if he could learn to be serious and spout off history lessons? It would be less disconcerting, at least.]

Yes. That would be ideal. [She motions toward a room where there are a lot of ... bins. They're metal, for the most part, but she saw it earlier.]

That may be a prime place to find things to carry, if the items themselves aren't too heavy.

[dateme]

Think we'll find anything that's actually useful? [ he asks, already heading over to start mucking around with things inside of it.

Will Inui ever learn to be a better person...? The answer is probably no. ]

[adamance]

[No, but if she can coax him into doing things—does it matter? Give and take, all in order to "survive."

She watches as he begins to rifle through things.]

How do you find something useful? [Lexa may just be dragging answers out of him to see how he views things. It's a way to pass the time, and she does enjoy needling people. (Too?)]

[dateme]

Well the first step is to open your eyes! [ He thinks of things like an annoying piece of sentient garbage! With a sense of humour. And here's hoping Lexa does too, because he's going to move on ahead of her to start pushing things out of the way and rummaging around. ]

[adamance]

[What did she expect? It's not that she doesn't stride in to double check his work—she most certainly does! No, the significant part here is that she is so long suffering at the moment that it's basically resonates in the room where they're shoving around metal containers.]

I was seeking a definition, [she says, but only when she finally speaks up. Lexa is fond of awkward silences when she can take advantage of them.]

[dateme]

[ Inui likes them too, if only because it generally means the other person is made to feel awkward. Right now? He's just enjoying himself and laughing a little. ]

Then I guess anything that'll make staying alive easier~ It's not too easy to carry supplies and stuff around when we find them.

[adamance]

[So much for the philosophical bent she had been angling toward.]

How simplistic of you.

[dateme]

[ He doesn't get philosophical unless there's a test on it. Or he really feels like broaching the subject, and right now he's thinking more about the time they have left on their power supplies than anything grander. ]

Sometimes simplest is best though.

[adamance]

I can't say that I agree. Little about life is simple. Your viewpoint will rarely match up with someone else's. [Too bad for Inui, since Lexa is like a walking fortune cookie half the time.]

[dateme]

Isn't it like a physics law though? The more you try to complicate stuff the less likely it is? It's Orchard's...whatever. That one. [ Inui wasn't really paying attention in that class tbh ]

[adamance]

[At first, she considers dismissing what he says, but she pauses, eyes pointed forward, as the knowledge provides itself to her. Thankfully, it's his drastically different name that drags forward the explanation, given to her by a commander who's long dead.]

Occam's razor. [Sometimes the simplest answer is the right one. However:] Given what I've told you about me, do you truly think I find many simple solutions?