Short-Term Planning

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He has eaten and napped. It was now officially time for Paco to get some socialization going. Fortunately, he had allies.

Or at least other people who were interested in doing something fun.

Paco parked himself in one of the Sensoriums, transforming it into a living room populated by couches and beanbags and other squashy sitting furniture, send out a message over the comms, and sat down to await the appearance of his people.

Enough crap had happened lately. Time for some low-key fun.

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"Excellent. May he pop out of the pods sooner rather than later," Paco said with a grin.

" 'Good' being in sarcastic quotes, obviously," Paco said. "But you know, it could be worse. Jaime and Brenda once got transported to a world that was actively trying to kill people. Brenda almost got eaten by squirrels."

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"I do hope so," she says with a tiny smile.

She tilts her head to the side with a quizzical expression, her wavy, long white hair sliding over one shoulder. "She was attacked by small Earthan rodents?" Now that is certainly a queer situation, but not as queer as some of the things that the Legion has encountered in the past.

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"Alien squirrels," Paco amended. "They showed her a statue of herself, and then they tried to eat her. Then she got rescued by a speechifying guy in a loincloth with a forehead full of justice. Then more stuff happened, and they blew up the thing that was making the planet homicidal." He made a face. "I got all of this second hand, 'cause I was back home doing research."

Laaaaaaame.

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"Oh! R-really?" Nura quickly attempts to cover her mouth with her hand to keep back the giggles that threaten to come out. Because finding amusement in another person's misfortunes is not kosher (no matter how humorous the idea of a small Earth rodents with sharp sticks and a pseudo-Tarzan really is.) "That's alright." She reaches and pats his knuckles reassuringly. "I've been on status-report duty myself." She cocks her head to the side with a bright smile, hair sliding off of her shoulders. "It really isn't as fun as actually being where the action is, but it's a job that I have to do."

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It's totally kosher to find amusement in someone else's misfortunes when it turned out all right in the end anyway and that person now gets to brag about blowing up a planet in who-has-done-more-cool-stuff exchanges.

"Yeah, I know," Paco said, sighing. "I just wish that my space adventure didn't involve tentacles and brain slugs and space pirates."

And losing an arm. No matter how cool the cyborg-arm is.

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"Awww..." Nura feels bad for Paco. He's so very sweet and kind and she doesn't like it when kind people get into the Downer moods. So, she get up out of her seat, comes over, and gives Paco a warm hug. "If you went against those types of foes, then you are epitome of...what was the 21st century term...cool?"

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"I already was," Paco said, forcing a grin. Well, not really 'forcing'. It's pretty easy to smile when you're getting hugs from hot chicks. "I defeated the ex-Wrath of God and fought off an alien invasion armed with a stick. Not this one," he adds, patting the length of wood that he's got in a holster-like pocket across the back of his plantsuit. "That one got destroyed by space-crabs."

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Nura pulls back a little, arms still around Paco. She smiles an easy, warm smile. "I'm sure you were an utter terror with that piece of wood. You must have scared the sprock out of the entire enemy battalion."

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"You have no idea," Paco said with a much bigger grin. "The Reach had no idea what they were getting themselves into."

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Hope you don't mind Paco, but Nura's going to sit on the same couch as you.

"The Reach?" Her arm brushes against his as she leans forward and turns her head towards him in interest.

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Now why would he mind a thing like that?

"Evil world-conquering buggy aliens," Paco said. "They go around acting like they're all above-the-board nice guys and all that, but they were secretly putting mind-control drugs in our water and plotting to blow up part of Earth and sell all the humans into slavery. That was after they figured out that Jaime hadn't been brainwashed into being their mook."

Paco liked telling this story. It was a damn good one, if he said so himself.

"So while Jaime's up in outer space, slapping them in the face with their own technology, they send an army of their big guys down to kill us -- me and Brenda and Jaime's family. Needless to say, it didn't work. We had a little help from a few super heroes, but it was mostly us kicking carapace and taking names. Me and Brenda took out a guy about Master Chief's size all on our own."