IC contact post for Mask or Menace

[timecapture]

Hey! This is Max. Sorry I can't pick up right now; I'm probably snapping pictures of cute animals or something. Leave a message! Or text.

Comments

[khajidont]

You're not! I think maybe you can start off with taking lessons or I can teach you and then you can go from there? I'm only going to be able to teach you the basics anyway

And I guess so. It wasn't fair to you though. You were taken totally off guard

[timecapture]

I'd like that. Thanks.

I've never even thrown a punch in my life.

[khajidont]

I'm glad you've never had to. But you had to have gone into the area with all the fires to help right?

[timecapture]

Of course I did.

[khajidont]

Kinda figured you did

Okay so here's the deal. You're new here so you probably haven't been filled in yet but we get attacked. A lot. A lot of people aren't happy about imports being here and the ones that are think we're the government's weapons

That leads to a lot of people trying out what you just saw. If there's something fishy like a fire and an explosion you'd better believe people will be there trying to take a swing at you. Or worse

[timecapture]

You mean this is normal?

[khajidont]

I know it shouldn't be. It's really messed up.

But it is anyway. Last Halloween there was a pretty big attack and that's why I wound up asking my friend for self defense lessons in the first place

[timecapture]

So now you're passing it on. It makes sense.

[khajidont]

Yep. Doesn't look like it most of the time but the country we're in is at war

Hopefully you won't need to pass it along too

[timecapture]

War sucks.

I sure hope not. I'm pretty sure I'd just be terrible at it.

[khajidont]

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Especially if you're going to be running towards the bombs

[timecapture]

I will. I can't just leave people to get hurt, especially if I know I can do something about it.

[khajidont]

Have you always been like this?

[timecapture]

Actually, that's sort of new.

[khajidont]

Yeah? What started it anyway?

[timecapture]

My best friend did. I don't really want to talk about it.

[khajidont]

[max is this how all their conversations are going to go]

Right sorry

Maybe you get to decide where conversations go from now on

[timecapture]

Don't worry about it. It's just going to take me some time to be able to talk about it.