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[counterstep]

how many people need a primer on survivalism for this mission?
general headcount and identifications would be useful, so others can keep an eye out for you also, once we're in.

( to be helped, of course. )

gathering some info on this already, so I'll edit a bit later to add a basic guide below.

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[counterstep]

( it's what he gives people he doesn't know. )

or use the nickname if you're pressed

( never stops people from being overly familiar anyway. )

that's the game plan
I don't intend to stick with experienced parties for very long

between tracking and survivalism, things are pretty stacked against the average person succeeding

[mockingbirdy]

Tracking is pretty good from SHIELD training but I'm more of a safehouse with a bed kind of girl.

[counterstep]

yeah I'm pretty sure most people prefer being safely indoors with a bed

I don't hate the outdoors, but sleeping on the ground is rarely pleasant when it's outside
on account of all the small creatures that like getting up in your business when you're trying to get some shut eye

[mockingbirdy]

Sounds like my ex.

[Which one? Probably all of them.]

[counterstep]

I meant the insects but I'm assuming you'd probably call them that also, in this case

[mockingbirdy]

Last I checked it was rude to call British people that but you're not wrong.

[counterstep]

technically rude to call anyone an insect, really

[mockingbirdy]

What about Ant-man. Or the Wasp?

[counterstep]

last I checked, they're still people
they just work with insects

[mockingbirdy]

Maybe. Could be aliens.

[counterstep]

Lang? and alien?

yeah he wishes

[mockingbirdy]

[She was thinking about Hank literally being one but hey. That works.]

I don't know Scott very well so I can't speak to it.

[counterstep]

what, then Pym?? he's retired, as far as I know

[mockingbirdy]

Dead, but still a jerk.

[counterstep]

never met him so I'll have to take your word for it

[mockingbirdy]

My words always good for it, promise.

[counterstep]

how do we know each other?

[mockingbirdy]

Are you asking how I know the version of you in my world?

[counterstep]

yes

[mockingbirdy]

Avengers.

He came back from being presumed dead for years around the same time as me. No one knew he was the Winter Soldier and no one knew that I had been kidnapped by Skrulls.

We were relatable to each other cause of it.

[counterstep]

so he really is an Avenger then, huh

( based on what he's heard from several people now. he's not...a fan of that. but it's different version of him. so it's not his problem. )

yeah, nothing like bonding over trauma

what are Skrulls?

[mockingbirdy]

For a while. He was Captain America until the trial.

Be glad you don't know what Skrulls are. But they're shapeshifting aliens that can learn your memories and replace anyone you know.

[counterstep]

right
guess he'd have to be when he was Cap
or people would freak

wow well that's all kinds of awful
what's their motive in kidnapping or replacing someone?

[mockingbirdy]

Probably. He got mad if you called him Bucky-Cap though. We've stayed in touch since we both left for a long time. He's a good dude, helped me out of a jam with a hostile SHIELD takeover before he fucked off to the moon.

[Bobbi doesn't talk about Skrulls because Bobbi's not over Skrulls so it's rare but she answers that too.]

To take over earth.

[counterstep]

why wouldn't he? 'Bucky-Cap' is an awful nickname

he went to the moon??

( the terse response sort of indicates as such. )

are there any aliens that don't want to take over Earth? like
what's so great about it anyway
even without aliens, we keep trying to kill ourselves
that's like getting an ant farm were the ants just actively threaten each other with nukes and end up destroying the entire ant farm anyway