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[deicider]

if I had known you had a secret lab, I would have.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And punching in the access code in the keypad so they can enter that lab.

Flavor text is as follows: Across from the blank room, there is another room with a prominent lock-- this one a number pad lock. Like the rest of the dormitory, it's all done in white matte and silver metal. Across from the entrance, on the far wall is a singular table— a silver slab that hovers mid-air, locked in place unless the height is deliberately adjusted. A similar white slab chair also will float, seat wherever you choose to put it. Silver robot arms for holding things-- be it projects worked on or tools can be retracted or extruded from the walls. Despite how space-age the rest of it is, the tower computer that sits beside the desk seems pretty 90s, though it does come with a slick modern monitor.]

I was tired of working out of the hospital. Their computers were garbage.

[deicider]

[raising an eyebrow.]

Wow. This cost the standard 2000?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Hmmm? Were you unsatisfied with a dorm upgrade of yours?

[deicider]

Our first one is still processing.

[They just didn't know you could get someplace... useful.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[]

It's not fully functional yet, but it will be in time.

Feel free to have a look around.

[On the walls, he has taped the various notes from the meeting with Exael as well as some rough scribblings of his own.

The newest addition seem to be the puzzle answers of the last Exael game with the ordering of the units written next to it]

[deicider]

[Does walk around, eventually coming to that paper.]

"Adapt to all things"...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

The puzzle that we didn't solve in time.

And an odd answer, don't you think? Doesn't really fit with the whole Job theme.

[deicider]

[nods]

It is strange. Job was just supposed to suffer.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

But at the same time, Exael told us to find our niche. So maybe that's what it is referring to.

[deicider]

[Frowns a little because. Well. "Adapt to all things" isn't something they'd necessarily say, but in spirit it's something they'd... do, in a sense.]

It lends some credence to your theory that avante is neutral right now.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

As good knights should be. Or seem to be might be a better turn of phrase.

[deicider]

Good knights and good bureaucrats.

[Taisho had been the other team, after all.]

I wish Taisho wasn't a lost cause. [Amends,] Except for Maki. Who knows what that contract ability could do in the right hands.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Have you written off the rest of them completely then?

[deicider]

[hmmm. Takes a moment to put aside the fact that he just doesn't like a couple of them.]

I'm not expecting anything out of them.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I expect them to act in accordance with their own self-interests, everyone else's opinions on the matter be damned.

So then the actual work becomes a matter of where can we leverage where there interests and our interests align.

[deicider]

Do you know if they have interests besides keeping their own skin intact?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

They like being right. And they like proving to someone else that their right even more.

Stubbornness can always been an effective tool. Even dripping with selfishness. And especially considering their contract powers.