((In my defense, I'm basically playing myself, with my unhingedness kicked up two notches. Trained combat arms soldier with a deep seated fear that he's in a forum game; worse, he's full of guilt over the fact that he loves every moment of it, and that apockase's will might be what brought the apocalyse down on the world. I'm doing my best not to have apockase do anything that doesn't make sense from his prespective, either as what I'd do personally (easily losing focus and being inane), as a soldier (loud and trigger happy, I'm having a little fun with apockase doing stuff nondoctrinally as he tries to cope for training not covering this), or to go with or fuck over the game (which he isn't sure if it exists and lacks any meta knowledge for)
I've got a soldier's knowledge and that of a student of forum games/tropes. And I'm more than happy to deal with Adwarf having a character like he does. People like that exist in real life, and it's delicious to think about how Apockase is going to react to someone who screams Trenchcoater, even if he's the one carrying an assault rifle and wearing a longcoat.
Also, I fully predict lots of sudden gunfights in a world like this one, especially for someone like Apockase. He's going to get bit in ass hard by ammo problems soon enough. ))
"Better and fucking better."
"If the fucking thing is monomolecular I'm . . . what will I do then?"
"You'll be fine. You could be missing your whole left toe and you'd still be okay. Describe the extent of your injuries and how you got them."
The former soldier steps forward, bends over, (while keeping an eye on Adwarf) and clears the firearms. Then he removes a velcro pouch from inside his coat (it's attached to the pocket by a long elastic cord) and slings his rifle behind him.