@hafid.alghul

[batricide]

I'm just going to get into it.

First and foremost, we need a better means to discovering and mastering our abilities. I know many of us haven't activated them yet, and even those that do have incomplete control. Anyone with experience in these fields should speak up, the more hands we have on this the better. Strange made a good point. We're not utilizing all the tools we have at our disposal. Not everyone here is a fighter. If you aren't and don't want to be, I suggest you reach out to Strange or Griffin.

If you are, or want to learn, I've been compiling of instructors who are willing to teach. If you have skills worth imparting, share. We can discuss the logistics of a set training schedule and location afterwards.

Secondly, a meeting location. If nothing else I think we should have one for discussions on matters moving forward. Morningstar had - or has - a leak. And unless I'm mistaken, we don't know how much has been compromised.

Third and finally, regardless of the losses, what we did wasn't nothing. We saved lives. That has value. Remember that if you feel like you fell short.

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@keith.kogane

[secondnature]

We're working on the meeting place. I decided on pizza and a fake birthday party for now, but I think whatever place we pick for our new safehouse will be the default.

@daisy.johnson is helping people learn their powers. She said she has experience with it.

@matches.malone

[reneger]

really throwing yourself out there, aren't you

@giovanni.rammsteiner

[ofobedience]

So far mine has proven fairly easy to master, with only a little instability. But I believe this may be explained by it aligning with something that was taken from me on arrival. I'm unaware of whether anyone else has had a similar experience.

It was easier to master during the heat of battle, if that helps.

[But perhaps it's just because, for him, battle induces a level of intense emotion that other situations leave him lacking.]

@ojiro.juniper

[deicider]

I'm glad you brought this up again. During the operation, my power started behaving differently—way differently. I think it's grown.
Has that happened to anyone else?

[batricide]

If we do a fake birthday we're going to want to make sure it aligns closely to an actual birthday. Our IDs aren't difficult to look up.

@daisy.johnson, Johnson, do you know when you'd be capable of planning something?

[batricide]

No point in staying idle.

[batricide]

What was your ability, Rammsteiner?

[secondnature]

My birthday is coming up.

[batricide]

[ SQUINTS. ]

Then it's good cover.

[secondnature]

If we need it. We can always say it's some kind of engagement party.

With ... just pizza.

[batricide]

We'd need someone willing to potentially go through with a fake engagement.

If you're unwilling to use yours, I suppose there is mine.

[secondnature]

My birthday's fine. It's the 23rd of October. It might just be too far away if we need to have the meeting sooner. [A point he should have made in the first place, but realized after the fact. Still, a month away means that they can probably work it.]

Unless the party is early. No one will care as long as it's the same month.

Anyway. No one needs to get fake engaged. We just need someone to claim it for that day. Who makes a big deal of that stuff anyway?

[This is definitely a "Keith ..." moment.]

[reneger]

i've got your six
if you need it

[batricide]

[ Keith. ]

Mine is the 28th of this month. If we want to do it sooner rather than later we might as well make use of it.

Most people make a show of being engaged. To claim we're celebrating an engagement and then to have no engaged couple would be an enormous red flag. Our civilian identities should remain consistent and adding unnecessary lies we don't intend to follow up with will only make things more convoluted than they need to be.

[batricide]

I haven't experienced that.
Different how?

[batricide]

I know.
I've got yours.

[secondnature]

Okay ...

But how can someone tell that two people aren't engaged?

It's easy to just say two people are. Right? And then we can maybe ... keep using that.

[batricide]

Proximity to each other while in a room together.

Body language.

The presence or lack thereof of a ring.

Relationship statuses on social media.

[reneger]

cute

[batricide]

[ STOP. ]

You just clearly need someone watching you.

[reneger]

nah
i can handle myself just fine

[secondnature]

[Fine. So they probably need to be touching.]

Someone's got to be dating here, right? We can ask them to do it.

And hope no one cares too much about rings.

[batricide]

Hardly.
I saw how you looked without me to watch out for you.

[batricide]

[ He immediately thinks of himself and Kara and the bizarre relationship limbo he's fallen into. ]

There's an entire industry built on wedding rings, Kogane.

People care.

[reneger]

have you learned your lesson?