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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1494936" data-attributes="member: 13737">EPIC HQMichelle"Yeah, you really screwed the pooch on that one. You are heading to the hospital with me shortly, to check on Rene and Tracey and appologize," he says sternly. "You gotta use that area blast with more care, missy. That's the second time you caused a lot of damage with it. Glass doesn't stand up well to things like that." Vincent"Partner, it's time to get your head out of your ass and start taking responsibility for your actions like Michelle. What you did wasn't heroic, and it sure wasn't a calculated risk. It was reckless, dangerous and nearly cost Nurse Ogawa her life! He may have used a stun gun before, but what part of you was remembering when he killed the Mag-Lev pilot in cold blood? What part took into account Nurse Ogawa's husband and two kids? And you'd do the same thing again? This isn't like the comics, kid. People die when you put them in harms way. "And listen close, partner. Nurse Ogawa is not here for the same reasons as you are. She's not going out in the field doing investigations and battling crime. She's not battling mutants and normals. She's a nurse. She has nothing to do with combat. Her life isn't expendable like you seem to think it is! None of the staff here should be treated that callously! There is a difference between a bystander and a combatant, and you better learn right quick which is which.  "I thought you had a handle on it really. You take down those thugs at the mall to stop them from shooting more people. You took down the Murphy feller and stopped him from hurting more people. But Split gave you a chance to not have any bloodshed, and you just passed it up. You got enough experiences under your belt to make a better decision than that. "I'm gettin' darn glad that all the cameras have data chips installed. A few outside got erased from Michelle's magnetic field, but I downloaded the rest back into ARIS now that she's up. And seein' the footage, I'm gettin' a picture that you think you're faster than someone who just needs to pull a trigger to kill a hostage. "If at any point you decide that being in EPIC aint what you want, that saving people, mainly people you don't know, and fighting crime and terror, usually for governments or causes you don't care about, isn't what you want to do, just say the word and we'll scratch your name off the list. It's that easy. But if you actually want to be here, you learn from your mistakes, and this one was a doozy you don't want to make again. You aint the only one to get people hurt by making stupid mistakes, and you won't be the last. In fact, you'll make lots more, I guarantee. And you'll find out that getting crap from me or Thunder is a cakewalk opposed to the crap we normally have to deal with from the press. "Here's a good file for you to read before bed. I'll download it to your e-mail. Now get goin', and it'd probably be a darn good idea to start sucking up to Ogawa asap, or the next time you are in the infirmary, she may run out of oral thermometres. Or worse yet, confuse them. She likes black orchids," he finishes, lighting up another cigarette. He rubs his forehead. "Ah, there's that vein." Just for when you look at the file, the file itself is a wondefully huge collection of news reports bashing EPIC for mistakes they've made. The standard big news ones about Titan are in there, when he really blew it in front of the cameras. But you find one particularly interesting, from Europe a number of years ago, when Trailblazer made a far worse mistake than you did in similar circumstances, that got six people killed foiling a bank robbery in Germany. Apparently, someone else thought they were faster than trigger fingers.  It's a huge file, several hours long in fact. Might just give you some benefit to read and watch it all... Michelle"I wouldn't blame Vince for scaring the girl. In fact, frightening her probably stopped her from escaping back into the network. Cosmo told me what he did, but it was better than hurting her still. And don't worry about her. She'll be fine in the holding cell. We aren't M-Tac. She got a change of clothes, fed and a cot to sleep on until she calms down or Grandmother or Angelique get back. Maybe we'll get lucky and get an actual lead on where Split holes up. ChinaRaisa"I get no joy from this," he says, his rasping voice making it hard to tell what his emotions are. He stands and comes over to you, stopping your swings. He takes the staff from you briefly. "But he will not regain control if you do not wear the monster down. Strike him here and here," he says, delivering two sharp blows to Jackal's thighs and calves. "As well as here, and here," he says, striking his upper and lower arms. "And here, with a thrust," he says, jabbing the staff into Jackal's stomach, causing the slavering wolf boy to double over. "You need not use so much force. Tire his muscles, wind him, and he will yield," he finishes, handing you back the staff. He turns and walks towards his mat. "He will remember it all," he says as he walks, "and be thankful to you for helping him regain control." You notice a tatoo on the back of his neck as he walks away, due to your superior vantage point. It is partially covered by his collar he wears, but you can figure it out easily enough. X3.</blockquote>

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