[ OPEN ] here comes the boooooooy

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WHO: Yzak and you!
WHAT: Various "come, let's get CR balls rolling" things
WHERE: All over
WHEN: WHENEVER, he's new, so ~new guy time frame~
WARNINGS: n/a but will note if anything comes up!

( Top levels in the comments! Hit me up at gaignun or urtv @ disco for any questions/etc. Down with wildcards too so don't adhere to just the top levels if you've got an idea! )

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[ Brushing his hand over the top of the generator to clear off debris dust, Yzak takes a brief peek inside of the machine. While he doesn't look entirely practiced in this, he does look like he's gleaning something the longer he looks at it and sees what goes where. ]

Don't tell me you were just shoved into a combatant position.

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We're all shoved into combat positions. Like I said, I get by.

[ He peers over like he can make any sense of what's going on. He's a ye old, so all of the innards of that generator are beyond him. ]

Find anything exciting in there?

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Nothing exciting, but this shouldn't be too difficult to get working again.

[ He frowns. ] And if something like this needed repair suddenly in the middle of a battle, the ones able to fix it in a pinch wouldn't be able to if they were just, as you say, shoved onto the frontlines and expected to fight. Has anybody tried speaking to the top brass about that?

Negotiations with these creatures don't seem possible, sure, but I've heard talk of smugglers trying to make profit off of younger ones they manage to get their hands on. That sounds something more up your alley of expertise.

And soldiers can't fight without information. Information that can change at the drop of a hat, so sticking someone like you into a fight when you could be saving our asses if something rapidly started to change that we couldn't see it out there ourselves, seems like a bad idea and dangerous for all parties involved.

[icyspicy]

Goodness me, you have all sorts of ideas, don’t you? Perhaps you should consider speaking to the “top brass” yourself.

[ Winter has literally no idea who that would actually be around LILITH headquarters. ]

I will say the situations I’ve been in have called for more than brute force. Everyone does what they can, however they can.

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If you want to look at it that way, then sure. But everything I just said, that's all common sense to me!

But, maybe I will reach out and see what I can do! It sounds like some things around here could use some tightening up.

[icyspicy]

If nothing else, you have me curious just how much say we actually have. I'm no military man, so perhaps they'll be more inclined to listen to you, instead.

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If we're fighting for their cause, we'd better have plenty of say!

Even as someone who knows full well that there are times where you need your team to listen to you, you're not going to foster the trust you need for those moments if you don't show any openness to listen to them about anything else!

[icyspicy]

Just as much say as we had about being brought here, hm? Perhaps LILITH need only go so far to foster trust when we're essentially being held hostage.

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I'm not planning on just letting them off the hook for doing that - because it is bullshit that they just took us dragged us here without our say.

But they could do a hell of a lot more on their end to explain themselves if they don't want an eventual mutiny on their hands! Because I know I'm far from the only person pissed off about that.

[icyspicy]

You're not.

[ The only one pissed off, he means. ]

But I'd wager that they hold more cards than they've let on, so threatening mutiny, even as a hypothetical, might not work to our advantage.

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No, it wouldn't.

Which is why I'm willing to play nice ... for now. But I'd like more answers and a bit more effort on their end, at least where our voices and ideas are being heard and not just ignored.

I was a soldier before I gained command of my own team, and some of the leadership I used to be under was ... questionable. Which is why I do right by my own team, now. I don't want to feel the way I felt back then, even if back then I didn't always realize just how little was thought of me.