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Characters: ALL.
Location: Valparaíso Shatterdome, Chile.
Date/Time: February 15th-28th.
Summary: The first shipment of recruits into the new Jaeger Academy program arrive. Some are staggered throughout the month, but they all have the same basic greeting. Here you are, there's where you sleep, here's what you wear, get going.
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The Shatterdome didn't look futuristic, swatches of metal and concrete transforming a portion of the harbor into five enormous bays. Nevermind that only two were currently in use. The stark greys stand out against the colorful face of the city, a hulking monolith that's been carved into the face of the city that had once upon a century been termed the Jewel of the Pacific.

Note: Players are welcome to start their own interactions outside of the three main prompted scenarios. Go wild!

Comments

[karearea]

Ngaio scrunched up her nose, torn between how awesome the flight would be (there were tricks she could do in planes that couldn't be too hard in a chopper) and how fast they'd get kicked out.

"Might as well go out with a bang," she settled for, her bravado a little false. Even though it wasn't serious, she didn't want to get in trouble at all - but still, she'd rather get kicked out for something fun that people would still be talking about after she left than just not making the grade.

[secondtry]

He looked at her consideringly before starting off, "So... how about we make a deal. If it looks like we're both about to wash out, we take a jumphawk joyride to commemorate the occasion so we can go down like badasses?"

[karearea]

Despite herself, Ngaio laughed. "Deal." She perched her pen behind her ear and stuck out her hand to shake on it. Hopefully it would never happen, but it was nice to have a wash out plan that wasn't just slinking back to Tolaga Bay with her tail between her legs.

[secondtry]

Mike shook her hand heartily, grinning. "Awesome. Maybe once we both pass, you can take me for a flight, anyway." Good stuff both ways.

[karearea]

Once they both pass, not if! Ngaio can't help but beam. "I'll ask! Could be good for the city to see some gear out and about: We're here, we're protecting everyone, get used to it."

[secondtry]

"And it's not like we can walk a jaeger down the street without causing way too much damage. Jumphawks are a lot safer." He couldn't even imagine it - sure, jaegers had been in parades, but on crawlers. Those distributed the weight a lot better and prevented impact damage.

Yeah, he knew some stuff, anyway.

[karearea]

"I don't think a Jaeger would even fit," Ngaio said, thinking back on the streets they'd gone past on the way to the Shatterdome - some of them had seemed pretty narrow. (Why, yes, this was the only kind of damage that was occurring to her.) "It'd have to be a bloody wide street to take a Jaeger for a walk."

[secondtry]

"Got a point. I mean, maybe one foot per street, but that would just be awkward." His nose wrinkled just thinking about it. "I hope a Kaiju never makes landfall here. That would just suck."