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[regeneratesalot]

Sylar's in jail here. [ She pauses. ] But I can't see him staying in there for very long.

Is there anybody here that would mind teaching me how to defend myself? [ She pauses again. ]

And how do you lock things from people so they won't see it? [ Trying to get around the terms in that weird anonymous text-- ]

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[batmanmecha]

I can help you with the lockin' thing, but 'fraid I'm none too good on the self defense line. I can scrap pretty well, and I'm good with a gun, but I've never taught anyone anything like that.

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[regeneratesalot]

Scrap? [ What are your strange fightin' terms! ]

I'd appreciate your help with the locking.

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[batmanmecha]

Yehknow, street fightin'? It's not really a style so much as 'do whatever you can t' not get hit'. Never really learned in any actual fightin' styles, like all those fancy martial arts and whatnot.

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[regeneratesalot]

Street fighting? Isn't that illegal?

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[batmanmecha]

Pro'ly! Didn't have much of a choice, though. Growin' up on the streets, its fight and survive or get your ass kicked and die.

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[regeneratesalot]

Couldn't you get off the streets? I mean, that's what those youth centers in cities are for.

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[batmanmecha]

Tch. Here maybe. I wasn't that lucky where I came from.

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[regeneratesalot]

What city were you from? Or... country, or world. [ since this place brings people from all over ]

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[batmanmecha]

Well, could say "Earth", technically. But if you wanna get specific 'bout it, I grew up on the L2 Colony Cluster. That's in space. [he points up to emphasize his point]

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[regeneratesalot]

[ she raises her eyebrows in surprise. ]

Seriously? What was it like?

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[batmanmecha]

I get asked that a lot, and I still don't really know how to explain it to some one who's never been...

It's big, though. Makes you feel small, it's so damn big. I mean, the colonies are 'bout the size of a big city, but if you ever look out from 'em it's like the stars and dark never end.

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[regeneratesalot]

It's not every day you meet somebody that lived in space.

So were you in like a huge space station, then?

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[batmanmecha]

Yeaaah I'm pretty damn special, aren't I?

[hard to tell if that's sarcasm or not, but at least he's got a good humor about it either way]

Think way bigger, and way more advanced. Stations are small fries compared to colonies.

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[regeneratesalot]

This is probably a stupid question, but did you have something that brought gravity and oxygen to the colony so it was more like Earth? [ SPACE COWBOIIIS ]

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[batmanmecha]

Nah, not a stupid question at all.

Actually there's no way to make artificial gravity, 'least where I'm from. It's actually centrifugal force. [he moves a finger around in a circle here] Basically a giant rotating cylinder simulates gravity.

As for air... well we do have trees. But there's usually a backup C02 scrubber or two on the colony, depending on how big it is.

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[regeneratesalot]

[ She'll just nod and pretend like she knows that the hell all that means. ]

Cool. Looks like I can look forward to living in colonies in space once I get back home.