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[truesight]

So... Hi.

[ man it's tricky starting these things, isn't it? well, it wasn't the first time. but that was before she turned into a manic not-zombie for about a week, so. eh. anyway! she's not sick anymore, but she still looks a little worse for wear. she sounds tired, voice rough from screaming once she really started to lose it. she almost only went on voice instead, but she's not really the type to hide. even if the right side of her face is marked up still, dark scars of long scratches she gave herself while she was sick, trying to get the buzzing noise in her head to stop. the nanites might've amped her body's ability to heal, but traces of the Flare aren't completely gone just yet. STILL.

Rachel's been stuck in bed for too long, and if she can offer something helpful? she's going to do it. and no she's not thinking of the long-term, but she probably is going to leave the offer open for more than just this. compensation? what's that? ]

I know everybody's busy cleaning up and getting things back to normal, and I'm not, um, there yet with the being able to help thing, so... I thought I'd offer something I can do. [ taptaptaptap her fingers drum on the flat of her sketchbook, off screen ] The Porter, or whatever, gave me the power of being able to pull the things I draw off the page and make them real. Only stuff, and food, not animals or anything too complex, but. If anybody got reckless while they were sick, like I did, I guess I'm just offering to replace anything that might've gotten broken or destroyed because of all this.

Or- anything, I don't know. Clothes, food, supplies for rebuilding. Pretty much anything. I'd just like to help. [ she pulls on a grin, her hand moving up to absently scratch her face but aaaah no nope not doing that ] Just let me know, yeah? I was thinking about heading to the park later on, so I can meet people there, or- Wherever. Just let me know.

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[schrader]

Well jeez I didn't just mean furniture, that just popped into my head. Hell, if you were skilled enough to make some real geodes, I'd pay you a pretty penny. Or a thousand.

If the limit's your drawing skill, you could sell whatever you want. I mean just as a side thing, why wouldn't you?

[truesight]

Geodes like... crystals? Are you a collector?

And I can definitely see the merit of it, I'm just not a very good business woman. I don't think I could handle it.

[schrader]

[ Well she didn't say rocks. ]

Something like that. Also kinda relates to my imPort power. Has to do with minerals... Jeez I was kidding though, no offense but it's a little more complex than a sketch on a page.

[ Sure he can insult right after complimenting why not? ]

Yeah, starting up a business is a big enough of a pain in the ass without the superhero factor around here. Could sell your junk on Ebay when you're short of cash, though. Or uh... What's that artsy site. Etsy.

[truesight]

[ she's usually pretty levelheaded about handling people's opinions of her and what she can do, good and bad, Rachel laughs the laugh of a teenager trying not to say "forreal??". it's fine though it's cool. she can handle dudely dudes saying things like "it's not that simple" ]

True! Etsy's pretty user friendly. But hey, what's your power? I'd usually wait for it to just come up directly, but I'm too curious now.

[schrader]

[ Bless her little heart for not taking a clean shot at him for even knowing about Etsy. And anyone who can handle his rudeness also gets a gold star. Let's be hoping a dudely dude is something like a manly man. ]

Oh it's just, uh... They put mineral manipulation as the name. So it's...whatever the hell that means. So far I guess I'm also making stuff out of other stuff.

[ Wow he sounds so blase about it. He loves minerals okay he just is...not exactly sure how to talk about his own weird super powers to people and in public ummm. Dudely dude is awkwardly awkward. Maybe not mentioning the uses in battle because...they are talking about Etsy wtfbbq. ]

Made a skate ramp once. Little, y'know, figurines I guess. Haven't done that sort of crap a lot, but people don't really ask for the parlor tricks much.

[truesight]

[ "mineral manipulation" reminds her of Hades' power, the way his demigod kids can seek out precious metals, but she's pretty sure there's no tactful way to explain that and why she thinks its cool, so she'll keep it to herself ]

That could be awesome, though. I hope you get to use it someday, in a totally epic way.

[schrader]

Uh, well describe epic. Would it involve dragons? 'Cause I've done that.

[truesight]

-- Details, please!

[schrader]

Was during the dragon attack last weekend.

[ Because we have so many??? ]

There were plenty of other imPorts that were actually able to handle that she-demon, I didn't take her down, but she came snappin' my way a few times while we were evacuating the civilians. Can't blame her, I'm a real treat.

Her fire could melt just about anything I had on hand to work with, though, no joke. The steel lasted longer than the sidewalk, but if only I'd had some fuckin' diamond or something, huh? Could've made that bitch a real classy prison.

[ Yeah he may have destroyed some property in making some fire shields, oops. Just blame the dragon please. Sadly nobody else can be blamed for his language. ]

Was able to use it to tie her down, too, but it only slowed her. Gotta be someone who got video of her fight with the other imPorts, I mean it was something out of a monster movie.

[ Assuming anyone who took the video lived through it. ]