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Our Ruin, Our Truth - Prototype Human Weapon Quest

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[X] Do something to help Red with daily work in the Commission.
[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.
[X] Misunderstand an event on the streets, and be used politically.
 
Gargulec said:
The prototype girl looked worn down when retrieved from that cruel cell; but now that the suit is off her body, what remains of her is a wraith, skin blue-pale, eyes sunken deep into skull, shadows between them no longer a metaphor, but crescent bruises impressed into her face. Sweat, cold and sticky, covers her head to toe, making for a sickly sheen in the station's dim lights. Olwen looks for blood, for some kind of a wound, but finds none: just a body dragged far past the point of exhaustion. Only Sophia's eyes still burn bright and vivid, their strange glow almost fevered. She sways on her feet, hand finding support on one of the screens, but only barely enough to hold her up.
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Well, was the villain not getting the data worth it? Especially since it seems to mean that they don't have data themselves? Data that could be essential to her continued health?

[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
Identity in the Image you choose to present. Classic.

[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.
Cake and Cocoa are balms for the soul.

[X] Misunderstand an event on the streets, and be used politically.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.
[X] Misunderstand an event on the streets, and be used politically.

I want to end up in three hundred and fifty street fights about politics before the quest ends thank you very much
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.

Snazzy jacket!

[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.

Coffee is love, coffee is life.

[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.

This feels like it would be a really interesting scene to read.
 
[X] Do something to help Red with daily work in the Commission.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] End up the object of a political argument at a polite dinner.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[x] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[x] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[x] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Find solace in art in the temples around the Prince Karvasa's Square.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.


I mostly like the latter, but... I also thinkthe art is more interesting than a library, here. We have that other world connection going on, shapes and sights she doesn't have a word for, and I feel like connecting to art is the start of her being able to express that better?
 
[x] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[x] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[x] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Do something to help Red with daily work in the Commission.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Do something to help Red with daily work in the Commission.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Do something to help Red with daily work in the Commission.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[x] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[x] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[x] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Find solace in art in the temples around the Prince Karvasa's Square.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.

The jacket sounds cute, art is an interesting thing to explore for a character with a perspective like Sophia's, and violence sounds like the most visceral angsty option so let's go.
 
[x] Do something to help Red with daily work in the Commission.
[x] Find solace in art in the temples around the Prince Karvasa's Square.
[x] End up the object of a political argument at a polite dinner.
 
[x] Spend a pleasant day in the museums and palaces of the Princely Quarter.
[x] Find solace in art in the temples around the Prince Karvasa's Square.
[x] End up the object of a political argument at a polite dinner.

Being completely outvoted is no reason not to vote for what I'd like to win!
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Find solace in art in the temples around the Prince Karvasa's Square.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.

I'm really liking this so far. I hope at some point she meets the person that called her cute online.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
[X] Do something to help Red with daily work in the Commission.
[X] Fight off boredom with the help of a local library.
[X] End up the object of a political argument at a polite dinner.
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
Defining her identity, a statement to the world of who she is. Not the weapon, but a person, one of her choosing. A declaration of self-hood, if a small one.

Also, it's cute.

[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.
A connection to the world, to people outside of the morass of politics and violence. A place she can go to and just be, the connection of social contact without the obligation to engage in it.

And a nice recurring environment with character and personality. I like libraries, but they've rarely felt defined to me.

[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
But the past never really goes away, and scars don't go away just because they're not visible. Can she really be just a person? Or will that invisible distance, not because of what she's done interpose itself forever?

Unlike the other two, it's personal. It's not about who she is, or what she represents, but about what she's done. Herself. And, also unlike the other two, it doesn't mean that the participants have to know her identity. Broader range of possibilities (and emotional trauma).
 
[X] Get herself a nice jacket, a bit like Olwen's, but without her help.
[X] Make herself familiar at a nice cafe.
[X] Show too much familiarity with violence to a potential friend.
 
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