001 | One More Time Around the Merry-Go-Round | Voice Post

[loyalcommando]

[it's hard to tell whether he's just talking to himself or is actually aware that he turned on the communicator device and is purposefully allowing himself to be recorded]

Oh, man! I thought I was finally done with war. Now I’ve gone and been conscripted for another one? How did that happen

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[loyalcommando]

Heh. Happen often around here?

[pause for attempt at refusing to not laugh] Yeah, 'Plan B'. That's always my part of the deal...

[loyalcommando]

[coughs, obviously covering up something else] ...Fresh meat? Are you calling me green?

When do classes start? [<-he can't cover up the fact that he's amused/grinning and teasing now]

[loyalcommando]

Uh-huh. Sure~

Oh yeah? What are those things anyway?

[loyalcommando]

Sorry, lady. But where I come from...? The only people I trust are fellow Gears. Way it's gotta be. [<--he's both still slightly teasing, and oddly being 100% truthful about the state of things back home]

Yeah, I thought that name sounded familiar. 'Entropi.' Does that mean anything? Where they're from or anything like that maybe? Like, you could call me a Tyran because I'm from Tyrus. [pause] I dunno, or something else.

[equally sarcastic] Ooh, yeah. Very. I always like knowing there's a spy staring through my window at night. Very comforting.

[loyalcommando]

Yes, Miss Urd. I'm Dom. A Gear is a COG soldier--we're grounds troops mostly. COG is the government, just in case. Stands for "Coalition of Ordered Governments."

It's the main continent of Sera. Mm, I say main continent but I guess what I really mean is it's COG's main continent. I'm from Ephyra specifically. --At least that's better than coming from right underneath you...

[chuckling now] Yeah, I bet.

You think? Oh, boy. I'm so thrilled to be excepted by the welcoming committee. Can't you tell?

[loyalcommando]

It's just a standard polite title to use. Technically "Miss" is generally used for younger women.

Looks that way. --Gohpers, haha. Yeah, good one. I wish they were just gophers. No--grubs. The Locust. They're all kinds of nasty. The grubs are humanoid, but some of the bigger nasties are more insectoid. They've all but wiped us out from the entire planet...

...It's all right. I'll survive. Always do while everyone els--

[loyalcommando]

Sounds like the Pesangas. They all use similar honorifics, too. Never understood that but hey--I like being polite, too, when I can so I use what we got when it's appropriate. Can't blame 'em, really.

Fine. Just 'Urd' it is.

Well, just the last one. The one before that was with the Indies... the Union of Independent Republics. Human vs human. Eighty years straight--and yet still the last 15 years have been so much more close to Hell.

[loyalcommando]

I'll try to remember that in future engagements--er, dealings--with you specifically.

[sigh] Guess only when giant bugs start crawling up out of the ground...