Nothing to keep me from the storm [ O P E N ]

[blindinginstant]

Lightning was restless.

It was a relatively normal state for her to be in, especially since she felt almost like she stuck out like a sore thumb among the crew of strangers, not having found her "niche" yet. It didn't help she'd been lucky enough to completely miss out on a big and violent event, whisked off to run mazes instead.

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[morgan_knight]

Having long ago giving up on actually noticing when he had wandered into someone else's simulation before it became awkward, Morgan had simply mentally shrugged and grabbed a seat on one of those random projections to watch.

Still, he judged his moment very carefully to startle her as little as possible, when he said, "I don't think even sixteen of those guys are quite at your level."

[blindinginstant]

If her sudden visitor had surprised her, Lightning didn't show it. She paused the simulation with a word, before turning on her heel and looking at the owner of the voice.

"It got mad at me when I told it to start me off with a hundred," she replied with a slight shrug, sliding her gunblade back into its holster.

[morgan_knight]

"How terrible of --" --wait, what had that sword just done? It practically transformed to be put away!

He looked at it for a moment more, realized he might not look like he was looking at the weapon, and resolutely yanked his eyes back upwards. "Not that it's not a bad training technique, mind, but why quantity over quality?"

[blindinginstant]

"Mostly blowing off excess energy," she replied, shrugging a shoulder and moving forward a few paces. "I've been running mazes, I needed something to hit." As completely calm as she was when she said that, it was obvious that she still had a lot of that 'excess energy' built up, and as many simulated enemies as Stacy could throw at her probably wouldn't completely work it out.

[futureisclear]

"Impressive," Ildraniath didn't bother to introduce herself or otherwise apologize for barging in. If she'd wanted privacy, she should have locked the door. The Eldar swept forward, hands folded into the sleeves of her robe as she surveyed the simulated battlefield.

"For a mon-keigh, in any case. I have learned never to underestimate your kind - you are often tenacious and fierce when cornered."

[blindinginstant]

Lightning turned when she heard the woman speak, frowning a little at the word mon-keigh. She assumed that was some word for "human" but she couldn't be sure. It was still a little strange for her, adjusting to all the different sentient species that could look human without actually being human. After a moment's consideration, she paused the simulation and sheathed her weapon.

"That's probably why the ship kidnapped so many of us. Scrappy fighting can be an advantage."

[zouichi]

Oh. Zouichi paused at the doorway of the Sensoriums, trying to decide whether he wanted to stick around or just leave and try to find an empty room (doubtful). In the end, he decided to step in. "Hello."

"Hello," agreed the brightly colored parrot on his shoulder, hopping to the side a little to more closely evaluate Lightning. "Hair of massiveness!"

[blindinginstant]

There were probably a number of different ways that Lightning could respond to that, but the bird caught her a little off-guard. In general she didn't think much about her hair, so when a bird was commenting on it, it gave her pause.

"...Excuse me?"

[zouichi]

"Oh, I'm sorry," Zouichi said, looking a little embarrassed. "He's probably just talking about Lash. I was speaking with Starfire earlier, and the subject came up..."

Well, that was partially true. Mostly, Alan just liked playing with people's hair. And look! Lightning has lots of it!

[coldhardfisting]

A low whistle was let out from nearby, and once he had caught the end of Lightning's go-through, Snow took his steps forward to let his presence be known. Hands resting on his waist, he took a look around at the obstacle course she had created to spice the difficulty up. "Ten, huh?"

Of course, he didn't sound very impressed and the sarcasm could be detected in his voice. Ten seemed more like an easy warm-up for her.

[blindinginstant]

Lightning caught the sarcasm. She smiled slightly, before straightening her expression out as she turned around, sliding her gunblade away.

"I'm going easy on it. Don't want to overload the computer and blow up the ship."

[coldhardfisting]

"I wonder if these things can get overloaded," he wondered outloud with a small shrug of the shoulders. "I've seen some pretty hardcore things going on in here when other people are using'em."