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[Devastator]

They are irrelevant, stop thinking about the bandits immediately.

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[Stirk]

Do you pull a trigger to walk?

I don’t have to answer that.

They are irrelevant, stop thinking about the bandits immediately.

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[King Zultan]

They are irrelevant, stop thinking about the bandits immediately.

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[Empiricist]

They are irrelevant, stop thinking about the bandits immediately.

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The girl approaches, bowing deeply. "Thank you for you aid Senior- ah I... I never asked for you name..."

It's Alex.

"...Just Alex?"

Yeah, just Alex. She nods deciding not to inquire any further.

"I'm Ada, um, Ada Batbayar."

Batbayar. Sounds foreign, barbarian even. You glance over Ada again. She's dressed in close fitting robes with straight sleeves and a floral motif, trousers are similarly straight, left arm is wrapped entirely in dark-colored bandages. Looks pretty normal to you. Eh whatever, it's probably not important.

"Um..." she fidgets awkwardly. You stare at her expectantly, at least, you think you do? You're not sure what your eyes look like right now.

"I was just thinking um... m-maybe y-you'd want to exchange... con-contact details..?"

Oh, of course! Not much point having vassals if you can't get in touch with them.

Ada reaches into her pocket and pulls out a strange tablet, roughly the same dimensions of a human hand. A mirror wrought from black stone, enclosed in a protective case with a peacock motif. Light pours from its surface revealing an incomplete grid of abstract sigils against a vibrant background. The image changes, showing a monochrome background with a single sigil at its center - a stylized scroll with the character for "chat" emblazoned upon its center. Soon it too is replaced, honestly you can't quite keep up with what Ada is doing, but eventually mirror settles on a single image, a bubble with the word "link" at its center and an arrow pointing upwards.

She holds the tablet out to your expectantly, the head of the arrow facing toward you.

You have no idea what that is or what she expects you to do with it. A second ticks by in expectant silence. This is getting awkward.

> [] Explain you have no idea what that thing is. You've been sapient for a grand total of two hours.
> [] Eat the tablet. If you know anything about cultivators it's that they like their drugs, she's probably offering some to you as a sign of fealty.
> [] (Write in)

[cronos5010]

Eat the tablet. If you know anything about cultivators it's that they like their drugs, she's probably offering some to you as a sign of fealty.

Not eating it, and at least pretending that we have been sapient and human for longer than 2 hours would be a sign of weakness, we cannot look too weak to our vassal.

[Egan_BW]

I don't know what this is.

[Devastator]

Shoot the tablet

We think with our guns, not any crazy magic things.

[Stirk]

Accept her tribute. Take the tablet and put it in whatever looks closest to a pocket or backpack. Explain that she will probably follow us around as a shadow until one of us dies, so if she really wants to communicate she can just raise her voice a bit.

[King Zultan]

Accept her tribute. Take the tablet and put it in whatever looks closest to a pocket or backpack. Explain that she will probably follow us around as a shadow until one of us dies, so if she really wants to communicate she can just raise her voice a bit.

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[BlackPaladin99]

Accept her tribute. Take the tablet and put it in whatever looks closest to a pocket or backpack. Explain that she will probably follow us around as a shadow until one of us dies, so if she really wants to communicate she can just raise her voice a bit.

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[Empiricist]

Accept her tribute. Take the tablet and put it in whatever looks closest to a pocket or backpack. Explain that she will probably follow us around as a shadow until one of us dies, so if she really wants to communicate she can just raise her voice a bit.

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"Ehhh?!"

Every single grub turns to face you, Ada quickly waves her arms, the message is obvious - it's okay. They relent.

"Y-you're not from the sect?"

A sect, that would be where cultivators go to hone their art under the tutelage of their seniors right? Establishments created to sequestrate all the inevitable drug-fueled violence and direct it towards the empire's ends.

No, you're not from the sect.

"Oh... M-maybe we should visit headquarters and get you registered. We can get you a new tablet too- ah, y-you can keep mine though! _{We'll need to re-attune it though...}"

Headquarters? Re-attune? You're still not sure what the tablet does or how to even use it, though communication seems to be one its functions.

Nodding slowly you move over to one of the fallen bandits, relieving them of their satchel. Bandages, a bottle of medicine, no coin, no room for coin either. Nothing of value. You empty it all out and place the tribute inside. Your body comes with holsters for your weapons and those magazine storage units, but no pockets. Nor do your robes, probably for the best - you're not convinced they'd hold anything too well being punctured by your jets however often.

Nine corpses. Five sets of functional armor, one working flamethrower (half-depleted), three revolvers, seventeen revolver cartridges, five spears (dropped in death or haste), two short swords (back up weapons for the spear wielders). Flamethrower and revolvers are likely alchemical, rest have arrays - enchantments built into them, or so Ada says.

You get first pick, you saved her after all. Whatever you don't take, she'll salvage, save for the flamethrower - too bulky. At the very least, you doubt you have much use for the armor.

After that "I was going to head back to the Tap District i-if you're okay with that I mean..."

Well, you have no idea for where else you'd go. You're guessing the sect headquarters is too far to travel to directly.

((Traveling to the Tap District will take some time, please vote on what you'd like to loot as well as any questions/conversations you'd like to have with Ada en route.))

[Devastator]

Nothing.  There's no food, no drink, we already have weapons and we don't need armour.

As for where to go next..

"Who is in charge here?  Is there someone near here who is supposed to be dealing with bandits?"

Other than that, lets find out about our new vassal.  What does she do other than fighting?  Since we've got the fighting part covered, after all.  What kind of social status did we claim, by being her superior?

[cronos5010]

Well, first things first, if we wear armor wouldn't our thrusters just make that really uncomfortable?

[King Zultan]

I say we take one of the revolvers as you can never have enough gun.

[Devastator]

Two hands, two guns.