mercenarymayhem | Test Drive Meme

The city of Gulch is a bustling place, a haven for criminals and rogues, yet a cherished home to its natives. You might be a native, well familiar with typical, day-to-day life here. Or you may be from off-world, here for some opportunity you think you can't get elsewhere.

Or, you may have been dragged here by the dimensional portal known as the Transponser™— an outsider, confused and weary.

What will you do while you are here?

1) New arrivals: Maybe you're a mercenary who just arrived from off world. Or maybe you're a visitor who came through the transporter. Either way, you're new, and it's time to explore.

2) Taking a job: Everyone who comes to Gulch needs to have a means of making income. Maybe you've taken a job as a mercenary. Maybe you become a lowly store clerk. Either way, you need to make contact with customers.

3) Avoiding the plague: The clouds are descending and it's time to find shelter! Make your way through the streets with the others who have found themselves vulnerable.

4) Touring the city: It means a long train ride but you want to see the sights, so you pay for a token and off you go!

5) Wildcard: Whatever you want to play out! Tag around and have fun!

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There was context. That you would know about if you had been there. Trust me. I'd rather have him hate me than dead.

We're good now. Everyone's going to stop dumping everything on Delta. You are going to clean the downstairs bathroom or arrange for someone else to clean it. Someone who is not Delta.

Nice way to turn things on me not being home. Really. Now, why don't you give me the context so I can judge? Or would you rather I get that from Delta?

The bathroom will be cleaned by someone other than Delta. I've got it.

I got a new job offer, it's a little dangerous, he was upset that I brought up the possibility at all and decided to scare the piss out of Sigma by declaring he was moving out and dropping off the face of the planet. I had to call out the Marines to get him to hold still long enough to get it through to him that I had not, actually, made any promises, and since I had to take the kids to school as a result of his hissy fit, Ed fired me for not showing up. So I took the job.

Now, I suspect some of this was precipitated by the fact that Delta has been lying to us for years about how okay he is with playing housewife, which he has always said is enough for him, may I remind you. But go ahead, ask him for context. I'd love to hear what he thinks happened.

...

I see I missed a hell of a mess. And I will talk to Delta, because had I known? I would have been home more.

Trust me, I will do my part.

None of us knew, number four. And I'm going to be home more too. Talk to him, because apparently he lies to me.

I know you'll do your part. I figure, give you the bathroom, and then none of them can complain I didn't hand out you an assignment like everyone else.

Do you want cheese on that sandwich?

I can try to get truth from him. I can't promise anything...

Thanks for trusting me that far.

Sure.

Hey, we gotta look out for him. He's been looking out for us for a long time. It's his turn.

Oh, and so you don't freak out when you come home. Sigma got cut up.

Also the twins got light-up sneakers. Be excited for them. I'm covering envy.

It is.

... What happened?

Tex bought them light up sneakers.

I meant to Sigma. What happened?

Sneakers are not a priority to me.

One day, you will develop a sense of humor, penguin.

First, he's okay. He's going to be okay. Let's get that clear.

He was helping a lady find something she'd lost when she was set upon by some ruffians. They roughed him up a little, then his boyfriend brought him home.

Do not panic when you come home. But maybe fuss over him. It's been rough.

I have a sense of humor. It gets put aside when I'm hearing that my younger brother was attacked, Omega.

I won't panic, but I don't like this at all.

Well, yes, I would think you're not a fan of any of your siblings bleeding. But it wasn't his fault. He was just doing the right thing at the wrong place at the wrong time. I hear those responsible have been taken care of, too.

Which I suppose is for the best.

Understood. I won't get on his case about it.

And I'm glad it was handled...

Handled by someone else.

So are you coming home for dinner tonight? I'm making mystery meat. I mean, I know what it is, you all get to guess. Whoever's right gets to clean the kitchen.

I figured as much.

I guess I could be home tonight. Start getting used to being home more.

Surely we're not so horrible to be around.

It's not anything with you guys. You're my family.

What did Alpha always tell us, though?

...

Omega.

What? There can be other things on the list. Just for now, we need to take care of four and five, and that means suck it up, buttercup. Do you think I don't have things I'd rather be doing than evicting Gamma's mushroom kingdom out from under his bed?

I understand, Omega.

You don't mind me continuing the courier work, right?

Of course not. Keep working, keep going to school, and if you can't be home more often, make it count more. Bring groceries with you, I don't know, you figure it out. You live here too.

Or are you trying to move out?

I understand. And I'll see what I can do.

I'm not moving out. I'm not leaving you guys.

Okay, good. Someone's got to stop thinking about boys for two seconds.

...

please tell me you have not met a man or a woman. I won't judge. But your timing needs some work.

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