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[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

Who: Rory, Lynx, Anyone
Where: The Lynx and Corvus area.
When: Day 145, afternoon
What: Look, some new people!

[There's a person in gray walking around the new buildings. He seems to be scanning the area around the two buildings, getting his bearings perhaps? Though he looks pretty calm and collected.

Bother?]

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[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Mm. Well, I managed to figure out something at least from the message I left myself. And I was lucky enough to get a memory back my first day... I bet if you thought about it for a while you'd find something in your message about you, too.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

My message was pretty generic. It sounds like I'm a worrier.

[And somehow gets metal melted on his body.]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*he laughs a little, in a friendly way*

But that's something about you! And you get to start over here, so you can always decide, at least for now, that you aren't one.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

I don't want to be like that. It's better to do something that just...fret. [Yeah, he wasn't happy with what he saw.]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

This is a perfect chance to change that, then. Just decide what you do want to be.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

I have. It's part of why I'm not that motivated.

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Oh?

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

Why would I want to become someone who was so easily...flustered?

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Why would that give you no motivation? If it were me, I'd be motivated to become someone... stronger...

*a very slight odd note to the last word*

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

But do I need the memories for that? I'm motivated to do other things, but not necessarily to win for the sake of getting them.

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Then win them for the rest of your team, and to learn what your wish is.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

...I could see doing it for your other team. It's just hard to feel motivated for something you have no clue about is all.

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Yeah... I can see that.

But maybe you're not always worried, too. You could have just been worried about coming here, when you left yourself that message.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

[Shrugs.] Maybe. [But he didn't look convinced. Mostly because he knows he's pretty easy to panic if he doesn't squash a lot of his feelings.]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

I hope you can figure it out for yourself.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

...thanks, I guess.

What did you figure out about yourself from the message?

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Mm... that I'm confident in myself and my abilities... whatever those are.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

That seems pretty common.

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Confidence? Mm... maybe with newer people. It seems like a lot of people wear down over time.

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Oh, not all of them though! Some of them are making it through pretty okay!

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

I mean for first messages. Someone on my team was pretty confident in their message too.

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Oh! Yeah, I suppose there would be a lot of that... this seems like the kind of place that would tend to attract confident people.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

It could be, depending how they advertise it.

It's common for people to become Jaded here?

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Eh... I think it's the way this place is. It's not really created to make us happy. Er, don't wanna make it seem awful on your first day or anything! But it's not easy.

But if you're prepared for that... I think you can find your way through and get stronger without letting it harden you.

[lone_centurion.insanejournal.com]

...I'm sure I'll be fine. It's better to know than to be caught unawares.