@hafid.alghul

[batricide]

My name is Hafid al Ghul.

For those of you who are new here, I will do my best to bring you up to speed with the current situation. You have been kidnapped, modified both technologically and perhaps genetically, and left stranded in an alternate future. There may be people from your world or worlds adjacent to yours here. I recommend you brush up on multiverse theory to save everyone the effort of explaining it.

You've been given new abilities. They may mirror the ones you had before if you had them before or they may be entirely alien. I can offer a space in which to refine these abilities. In addition to that, if you touch another displaced person you'll trigger an empathy bond. Using your abilities and activating this will also trigger a glow in your chest - we do not know the origin of this glow yet. If there is additional hardware in your chest, it's below or in the bone.

While your power mastery is up to you, I can teach combat. I'm looking for any additional instructors willing to put in the time to ensure all among us have a basic grasp of self-defense. Date for first lesson is still pending, let me know if interested. Expect to work. I will not be babying you. Do not expect other people to carry your weight for you.

Comments

@kate.bishop

[fledges]

i'm going to sign up as the nice instructor
you're welcome

[batricide]

Pointless.
You can teach sharpshooting though.

[fledges]

i'm going to take that as a compliment, which is very sweet of you

@prom.argentum

[mercurio]

i want the nice instructor

how are you gonna teach sharpshooting? i wanna practice

[fledges]

i've got a bow, if you want to learn with that. i can also teach you how to shoot a gun, but i don't have one, and guns are so
inelegant.

@daisy.johnson

[evite]

he won't baby you but please feel free to baby him
i'll give five dollars to anyone who can manage to annoy him more than me

[batricide]

If this is how you plan to conduct yourself then i rescind my offer to assist me.

[ He's not serious. Well. Mostly not serious.

Why is this his life always. ]

[evite]

you cannot possibly be this offended from one comment
my dude, you really need a snickers

@richard.grayson

[preceded]

i'll take that five, thanks.

[Not that he needs it? But he's annoyed Damian so much he literally got off the network so-

Gimme.]

[evite]

[ you asked for it ]

come and get it then
window's open

@keith.kogane

[secondnature]

I can help with the training.

[This is a conversation that is going to go badly, but for once, Keith isn't going to start off the bad part of it.

Or ... he's going to try his best not to.]

[batricide]

[ can they manage a whole civil conversation? time will tell. ]

What are you trained in?

@anonymous

[ofobedience]

And how does one go about brushing up on multiverse theory, exactly.

[Just bear with him, okay. It's a small miracle that he's got as far as using the neural network at all.]

[batricide]

[ anonymous? must be one of the newbies. ]

The neural implant gives you access to the internet.

@leo.fitz / PILES ON THREADS ALREADY

[retravel]

[ !!! ]

I can walk you through it.
Bit of a specialty subject.

@anonymous

[blyat]

1, how am i supposed to figure out whatever weird new ability i have? how does it actually work

and 2, can you turn the empathy bond off
its fucking annoying

[batricide]

The first instance is often triggered by strong emotion. Beyond that it's an unknown.

No. Invest in gloves.

@anonymous

[revlon]

[ She's just eyeing all these threads, thanks. ]

And what reason is there for civilians to learn combat here?

[batricide]

No one who has access to this network can be correctly classified as a civilian. We have no idea what we're dealing with in terms of our enemies. Everyone should be capable of basic self-defense.

@ojiro.juniper

[deicider]

It might be worth seeing who needs a course on common sense stuff like how to tell if you're being followed, where you can expect implant readers to be, etc.
It feels like a lot of us already know but it's only going to take one screw-up to blow the safehouse.

[batricide]

Good point.
We need a definitive guide to hand to new arrivals, maybe a bootcamp to get them up to speed.

[ He does his best not to think of his own big screw up and how that could have cost them. ]

@heine.rammsteiner

[whitehair]

too long didn't read

[ really, he's being a shit here. ]

[batricide]

A short attention span is a sign of a weak mind.

@prom.argentum

[mercurio]

all this time and i'm still like lol what power?????

you seem the type who'd train a newbie in combat and go ham the first time anyway

[batricide]

You're going to need to put in more of an effort to find out. If your ability is dangerous and you have no control then that's asking for trouble.
And if I could learn to fight as a toddler then you can learn as an adult without complaining.