Detective Ray Kowalski (
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inquiries & a challenge
Who: Ray Kowalski
Broadcast: Video
Action: Windrose, and space!
When: today and also whenever the races are happening
[Ray is looking bored bored bored. He has a toothpick stuck in the corner of his mouth, and he's throwing a ball from one hand to the other, sometimes scrambling after it when he misses- it's astigmatism, okay, he just doesn't see all that good.]
Alright, so I got a question. Not everyone here's from Earth, whatever, but most of you are from some kinda place with some kinda rules and laws. And I figure a bunch of you have gotta be law enforcement yourselves, y'know, statically. [sic]
Now me? I'm just a regular schmo, city cop worked his way up to Detective. I didn't always wanna be a cop, but I tried it out and it stuck. Chasin' bad guys, putting on the heat, lock 'em up. Bam-bam-bam. [He slams the ball into his hand three times, then sits forward and grins.] It's a job, right? Just like bein' an engineer in here.
[He misses it. He misses it a lot, actually; misses his partner and the job, the satisfaction of a puzzle and a chase and locking up someone who made the world a little more dangerous.] So the rest of you: what do you do? How's it work in your world?
[Added, a few minutes later:]
By the way: I don't have my ar here to race you in, but back home I'm the last guy you wanna get into a car chase with. [He may be exaggerating slightly, but who could contradict him?] Figure I gotta keep those instinct working. I'll be there in two hours, ready to go.
Broadcast: Video
Action: Windrose, and space!
When: today and also whenever the races are happening
[Ray is looking bored bored bored. He has a toothpick stuck in the corner of his mouth, and he's throwing a ball from one hand to the other, sometimes scrambling after it when he misses- it's astigmatism, okay, he just doesn't see all that good.]
Alright, so I got a question. Not everyone here's from Earth, whatever, but most of you are from some kinda place with some kinda rules and laws. And I figure a bunch of you have gotta be law enforcement yourselves, y'know, statically. [sic]
Now me? I'm just a regular schmo, city cop worked his way up to Detective. I didn't always wanna be a cop, but I tried it out and it stuck. Chasin' bad guys, putting on the heat, lock 'em up. Bam-bam-bam. [He slams the ball into his hand three times, then sits forward and grins.] It's a job, right? Just like bein' an engineer in here.
[He misses it. He misses it a lot, actually; misses his partner and the job, the satisfaction of a puzzle and a chase and locking up someone who made the world a little more dangerous.] So the rest of you: what do you do? How's it work in your world?
[Added, a few minutes later:]
By the way: I don't have my ar here to race you in, but back home I'm the last guy you wanna get into a car chase with. [He may be exaggerating slightly, but who could contradict him?] Figure I gotta keep those instinct working. I'll be there in two hours, ready to go.
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[Two whole hours?]
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I figured I'd let the good people of the Fleet get a shot at answering, but hey, you're up for it--
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hope it's ok to gloss over the actual race!
np!
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[Action]
Grinning in a way that should probably be worrying, come to think of it.]
Okay, let's go kick some ass.
[She's totally still allowed to do this, right? Maybe she should have asked a doctor first. Maybe that's the reason she very carefully didn't ask her doctor.]
Oh and you asked about law enforcement, right? We have the Order of Justice. They were kind of run down for a while and the militia did a lot of policing, but the general got them back up and running because she thought that was a bad idea.
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They fly around in little spaceships, or what?
[He'd want to know, usually, but you know-- racing, racing.]
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[She shrugs, vaguely.]
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Video
You never told me you were a detective!
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Yeah, I-- Fifteen years, I guess, just about.
Video
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video
I am an adventurer, but there are many titles I hold now that may work like...law enforcement?
[ Hmmmm. ] I am a soldier of the Immortal Flames, and a member of the Scions. I used to be a mercenary. All of those sort of fall into that. I think?
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And I dunno what the, uh, Immortal Flames are. Or Scions.
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video;
I shall see if I cannot make you a prize for said win as well.
[ He's smiling warmly at the other man, their moments on the beach far from forgotten. ]
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[He sits back, then, grinning a little, cheeks flushing.]
Yeah? What, you gonna gimme a kiss on the cheek, hand me some flowers?
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I work many jobs as an adventurer, yet I fear the one that holds the most weight as employment would be that I am a second lieutenant of the Immortal Flames, the grand company of Ul'dah.
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Sounds like it's more military than police work. That about right?
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15 minutes late with discbucks
ur in space it's still starbux
spacebux
commit to this joke anne
jokebux
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video;
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Am I talking to a fucking penguin right now.
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Video
Hello, "Stanley." [Obvious attempt to poke fun is obvious.] I remember you mentioning that you worked in law enforcement. I suppose you could say we both had similar jobs.
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Hey, Wanda.
Yeah? Tell me about yours.
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[Video]
I was a top Imperator for the Immortan. We upheld his law and protected his property. [Except, of course, when she did the exact opposite, but that's not the point she's trying to get across now.]
A position like mine is gained from overcoming the competition, and comes with great respect and responsibility. You get enough of that under your thumb, you can do nearly anything.
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It makes him grin, a little sharp but still friendly enough. He appreciates a little edge in a woman.]
So what'd you do? [Because that doesn't sound like she just had it for kicks.]
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[or however that must have gone. he shoots a lazy grin at the screen from where he's sitting in his captain chair.]
Law enforcement where I'm from is kind of a scramble. Severely understaffed. I wasn't on government pay or anything like that, but my group got unofficially contracted for help maybe a couple times a week.
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[Like that was completely intelligible.]
'Unofficially contracted?'
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I'm going to hide that ball, one of these days.
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