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Who: Robin and YOU!
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Action: If you want it. She gets around
When:8/19

It seems there's never a lack of people coming in or going out. No wonder the rosters get updated weekly. Still, I hope everyone's enjoying their stay as much as they can. It's a bit of a unique opportunity, don't you think? In the vein of getting to know you, I'm curious what class of augment everyone got when they arrived, and whether they think it suits them. I've had to do a bit of thinking on this myself, actually, and received some insight from an unexpected source. Perhaps a discussion such as this may lead to similar results for others- if, indeed, there are others out there who felt that their augment was a bit misplaced. Yours truly, Nico Robin

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Hey, Robin! How are you? :D

I think you know I'm an engineer by now, and I like it a lot! I did a LITTLE bit of making stuff back home, but not as much as here. It's REALLY fun thinking of new things to build for everybody on the Caprine, and it's another way to make people happy, right?

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[Robin stares at the screen, blinking in bewilderment. Yes, Pinkie did answer her question and she probably ought to continue the discussion as prescribed, but...]

How do you type with hooves?

[... It seems there are more important questions that need answers.]

[If she had ten credits somebody in the fleet thought of that question, she'd be the richest pony in all the multiverses.]

Oh, the buttons on my comm are a bit bigger. AND mine has one of those stylus thingies too.

[That still doesn't make any sense. Robin shakes her head and does her best to just accept it and move on.]

I see. So the augment did, in fact, augment your talents. It took something you love and gave it a more practical spin.

[You're part of the same crew, you can probably go see for yourself if you're curious.]

Yeah, I guess it did!

How about you?

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It is a singularly strange one - but not entirely unpleasant. As to the Augment, I believe mine is for... ah... personnel support? Or something of the sort. Which does me well enough, I suppose. I am not entirely certain what the benefit is, but it allows me to mostly do my own thing, as it were.

Curious. What sort of skills did they implant during augmentation? Did they enhance or expand skills you already possessed?

So far as I can discern, there is nothing new in terms of skills for "personnel support", as such - certainly, I can do many thing I have not learnt, but few of those seem to have any use as "support". It is possible, however, that I have not yet discovered what other things I have been granted.

Hm. A frustrating conundrum. Knowing you've been given new skills but not knowing what those skills might be until the moment they are needed. Have you faced misfortune as a result?

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I haven't found mine to feel out of place. I received a Communications augment, which seems to follow some measure of my skillset - though it stops at the programming side. I can't seem to get any of the alien tech working properly.

As for it being a unique opportunity, I have to disagree. I had enough to do at home without questioning what it'll be like when I return. The idea that nothing will change at all is... not convincing.

It's unfortunate there's no way to know if that part is true or not. But even if time does move forward while we are away, what can we do about it? Do you know how to return at will?

Not at current, but I have every intention of attempting to find a way. I have entirely too much to do to stay here, time stop or not.

The very least we can do is to keep up whatever routine we had before, in preparation for whatever may come.

Training, you mean? I'm curious what your regimen looks like.

gotta admit it's been better than i thought it would be

i got a personnel support augment. civilian or something like that. it feels like i'm not really that important as far as helping the ship run or whatever but i guess that's okay?

they could have let me do security i guess. that might have been more helpful dunno about fitting or not. but back home i'm pretty much a combat mage.

A combat mage? I've never heard of such a thing, though I suppose the basics of the job are easy enough to deduce. How does an artist such as yourself become a combat mage?

well it's not like an official job name or anything. it's just more or less what it is. the order's supposed to help protect the people and that's who taught me. so i know how to fight and i've mastered fire and explosive magic.

the music part of life's the more fun part! and i didn't go to school for that. just taught myself.

I can't imagine why they might not have wanted to encourage fire and explosive magic while flying through space. How very short sighted of them.

[It's too bad Robin hasn't yet learned the art of the emoji. ;P]

I see. Well it's quite a talent, then. Have you been able to arrange anything more formal to do with it? That was something you were considering the last time we spoke.

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I'm a pilot, but for how fitting it is? I'm not sure. I wasn't the worst driver when it came to cars, but I wasn't great. But motorcycles? I was terrible at driving those. Crashed nearly every time. So maybe it's not very fitting after all.

Perhaps the hope was to give room for improvement. What augment do you think would have suited you better?

I haven't thought about it that much. Maybe communications? I have an amazing voice after all.

Ohhh? Do you sing, as well?

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Pilot suits me just fine. Heck of a learning curve, but it's fun.

Ah, at least they can get something right on occasion. Do you think the augments are assigned at random, perhaps, and those who find that theirs fits with their existing skill set have done the intergalactic equivalent of winning the lottery?

No idea. They probably do it either randomly or with a distinct purpose in mind for their show. Making me a pilot just meant I spent time learning how to chart stars instead of oceans. I'm sure it's interesting for somebody.

Ah well. At least mine seems to have a specific purpose. And it isn't as if I'm a stranger to firing a gun. I think Franky would adore this job, though. And Usopp. Power armor and laser guns of varying calibers seems very them, wouldn't you say?