Fifth Edition; voice

[cowboy_newsie]

Oye, listen, I don't give a damn if you's gonna try and see the Core or not, 's up to you--  but don't get your damn head bashed in when you do go. Specially be careful if you's one of them that's loyal to one o' the companies-- not cuz I give a damn if you get hurt, but cuz I'm the one that's gotta fix you, and I ain't in no mood to help either

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[Voice]

[nurserabbit]

[Alice is a little curious.]

Concerned about someone, Jack?

[Voice]

[cowboy_newsie]

Wh-- no, just sick o' seein' everybody doin' the same stupid thin' all day. One o' them picks a fight over the Core, the other keeps it goin' and then we got another riot startin' up.

[Voice]

[nurserabbit]

True. It would be horrible to see another incident like the last riot that broke out on the island. So many hurt people...

[Voice]

[cowboy_newsie]

No kiddin'? What were it over?

[voice]

[mentis_reae]

Career going well, then?

[voice]

[cowboy_newsie]

Well, I got lots to do, so yeah, you could say that.

[voice]

[mentis_reae]

I do not speak in terms of workflow so much as competency.

[voice]

[cowboy_newsie]

[Paaaause, not because he doesn't understand-- well, okay, a bit of that-- but because he's talking to someone else in the ambulance.]

Oh, that's goin' good too. I think I picked the perfect time to join the squad, considerin' how much people've gone to the hospital lately.

Don't tell me you's gonna go out there too.

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[gaveherwings]

[Jack Kelly. My deepest gratitude for voicing plainly the grudging sentiments of the medical community, so that the rest of us don't have to.]

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

The riots in August kept us busy for days-

We should prepare to see similar volume, even if one would hope for some sensibility.

[Voice]

[cowboy_newsie]

Aw, Christ. I heard there were a couplea ones, but I didn't know they were that big.

What the hell were they over, anyway?

Re: [Voice]

[gaveherwings]

Petty rivalry, between the corporations. Over the heated suggestion that SERO didn't have the core.

This...has the potential to develop into something worse.

[axemeaquestion]

How about the neutral ones?

[cowboy_newsie]

What about em?

[axemeaquestion]

Hoping we don't get involved in any of the fighting and shit happening, I mean.

[cowboy_newsie]

Yeah, well, hopin' is one thin' and what really happens is another. Ya probably won't catch it half as bad as them who ain't neutral, though.

[video]

[wutaisrosegirl]

[Yuffie has dirt on her nose and plaster in her hair. Guess who is doing earthquake cleanup in the lower sectors? You can hear people shouting in the background and someone appears to be levitating a beam in the background somewhere.]

...This is all so crazy, I don't know where to be to be the most help right now, ya know?

How're ya holdin' up in all this mess anyway?

[video]

[cowboy_newsie]

[A pause before he switches to video for her.]

I'm fine. 'S everybody else who ain't. You know how many people've come in with a broken this or that?

You all right?

[video]

[wutaisrosegirl]

Yeah, for the most part my biggest problem is half the people we had yesterday helpin' with the clean up didn't show up and are causing trouble over the core an-

[Yuffie stops and glares just over the camera before shouting for someone named Micheal to stop what he's doing before he blasts out a load bearing support beam. She rolls her eyes and gives a helpless little shrug at the camera.]

....How bad is it down there? After this I could probably come and volunteer? I got a lot of practice?

[video]

[cowboy_newsie]

If you wanna. We ain't got too many here right now, but there'll probably be more soon. 'S mostly broken bones and bloody heads and all that-- nobody's dead yet, but.

[He shrugs, grimacing slightly, as if to indicate it's kind of an inevitability.]