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[hyperverbose]

Question that I'm already sure I'm going to regret asking:

Is someone actually expecting us to wear these uniforms?  They're not exactly GQ, and the fact that one seems to keep magically appearing in my closet when I try to toss it out is starting to scream cult dynamic.  I'm not gonna wake up sewn into one next week, am I?

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[hyperverbose]

He knows I can read this, right?

[expatriates]

Cut him some slack. He's a senior citizen.

[hyperverbose]

Right, there was no intercepting calls from one tin can to the other in his days, I forget.

[flagwaver]

Neither of you are as funny as you think you are

[expatriates]

Good thing we all have day jobs.

[flagwaver]

Exciting new ones, even. I'm less concerned with the uniform and more concerned with what they want us to do here.

[expatriates]

Save the world? I can see how you'd consider that outside our wheelhouse.

[flagwaver]

Saving OUR world is our wheelhouse. We're out of our element here. Who knows what we might find out there. Or if the guys we're fighting for are even on the side we want to be on.

[expatriates]

I didn't think a potential extinction event was the place for moralizing, but if you'd like them to fill out an application before we save their civilization, I can put something together.

[flagwaver]

I'm not saying we shouldn't help them.

What I'm saying is that we should be careful. And alert.

[expatriates]

They're our ticket home.

[flagwaver]

I just start to wonder if this was the right call.

[Because this was a choice they made. Volunteers. But almost instantly Steve wonders just what they got themselves into.]

[expatriates]

Call implies there was a viable alternative.

[flagwaver]

They didn't twist our arm, Nat.

[Unless I completely misread bc I thought this was a voluntary thing.]

[hyperverbose]

[ oh, it totally is, Tony's just an overdramatic person. Please contain your surprise. ]

[expatriates]

[ this speech indicates participation is voluntary, but that there's no real alternate option if you ... want to go home. and do anything besides sit around. nat's really just digging into "is it really free will if you don't have a good alternative" ]

They set compelling terms.

[flagwaver]

Maybe. But they're only compelling if they're telling the truth.

[He's just in a 'trust no bitch' place ever since the various global authority figures back home turned on them...]

[expatriates]

Do you really want to knock on those doors?

[flagwaver]

I didn't say I was knocking on anything.

But we can be smart about it. We can stay alert.

[expatriates]

You have a habit of riding the line between alert and action a little too closely.

[flagwaver]

I'm not trying to cause waves. And if this place shapes up to be everything it claims to be? I'll be the first to admit I had them pegged wrong.

[expatriates]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[flagwaver]

What's that supposed to mean?

[expatriates]

You don't back down easy.

[flagwaver]

Only if I still feel like I'm right. But if they can prove it to me, I'm not too proud.

Unlike some people.

[Tony. Tony is some people.]