>>5617116
Though the surprised shout from the odd bystander who saw you or heard your necessary earth bending took you out of the mindset, and the night was not entirely peaceful. The sounds of the city were still everywhere, and you had to thank it at least a little for covering your own noise, but it was still something you weren’t used to. You charged on, and saw the blue masked thieves drop down into an alley. Slowing your approach, you looked and saw that the building that you had stopped near was one of the new corporations that had recently arrived. It took you a bit, but you soon recognized the name was the same as the one leading the construction work the protestors were against. Down in the alley below, you saw the collective thieves gathered at the side entrance to the building.

There were about 6 of them, none of them very big, clearly athletic from what little you could see from their dark clothing. Each of their masks was slightly different, but only if you looked closely. Closest to the door, a thief crouched down at the door and began to press their hands along the door frame and heat it up. So there was more than just air benders in this group.

Two kept watch down each entrance to the alley, while one stood guard next to the one working. It looks like they were settling in for a heist, but if what you weren’t entirely sure.

>Watch and wait, see what they were planning tonight?

>Hop down and ask them what they plan to do, while being ready for a fight.

>Attack them while you have the element of surprise. They are well known thieves, and even if you aren’t just a special cop, they were all just right there.

>Head off to phone this in, to let the police know what was happening, then wait for them to arrive.


Sorry for the short post, ran into a bit of a block and settled on this.

>>5617118
>>Hop down and ask them what they plan to do, while being ready for a fight.
Well hello there

>>5617118
>Hop down and ask what they plan to do.

I mean. . . It's not like we need to intervene, but we do need to LEARN

>>5617118
>Hop down and ask them what they plan to do, while being ready for a fight.

>>5617118
>>Watch and wait, see what they were planning tonight?
I anticipate they are going for vandalizing, and if that's the case then:
>>Hop down and ask them what they plan to do, while being ready for a fight.

>Sorry for the short post, ran into a bit of a block and settled on this.
Don't be QM, we're all still enjoying this!

>>5617118
>Hop down and ask them what they plan to do, while being ready for a fight.

Y'all got any of them archives?

>>5617118
>Watch and wait, see what they were planning tonight?

>>5617118
>>Watch and wait, see what they were planning tonight?

>>5617118
>Watch and wait, see what they were planning tonight?

The last thread hasn't been archived

>>5617343
>>5617762
Yeah I tried to archive it but couldn’t find the archive site I recognized. Anyone able to help with that?

>>5617118
>>Attack them while you have the element of surprise. They are well known thieves, and even if you aren’t just a special cop, they were all just right there.

>>5617118
>>Hop down and ask them what they plan to do, while being ready for a fight.

>>5617163
>>5617172
>>5617182
>>5617343
>>5618168
5 for hop down

>>5617212
>>5617412
>>5617436
>>5617762
4 for watch and wait, with one of those being conditional

Hop down it is, writing.

May not be able to get the post out today but I will try.

>>5617780
The site you're looking for is https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/

Just input your OP (for example archiving THIS one you'd put in this one; >>5617116 ), name it, give it tags, bada bing badda boom.

>>5617780
Tell me what tags and description you want for it and I'll archive it for you.

“Careful, I hear they’ve been upping security on these new office buildings. You’re sure you won’t trip anything?” Tashi asked, her mask shielding her eyes as she stared at the burning flame her friend was producing to cut through the door. This would be their second hit tonight, and their tenth this week, and judging from how the building held the Logo for Cabbage Corp they'd likely be making a decent haul tonight. Maybe they could even get some early prototypes or expensive equipment to hock on the black market with this one.

Lee nodded, letting out a grunt as he kept cutting into the building “I’ve been doing this since before I met you, it’ll be fine.” he said, slowing as he got near what Tashi assumed was a circuit, then after doing whatever it was Lee did, he kept going. The air bender let out a huff and crossed her arms, before turning around to just move as she impatiently waited for the job to actually begin. This synced up with a thud as someone landed on a large pile of sand, and looked straight into Tashi’s face.

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You had spent some time watching them from above, hoping to gather any names or proper goals from the group but after awhile you had to simply accept that the group was at least professional enough not to explain their entire plan out in the open, which made investigating this crime both harder and more tedious as you simply waited and watched for as long as you could manage. That is, until you decided that it was best to handle this as directly as you could and to be prepared for the consequences should they arise. You had no idea what they wanted inside the cabbage corp building, but if it was dangerous or particularly illicit you decided it was best to stop them early rather than wait and see.

You then dedicated a solid thirty seconds working yourself into the right mood for your first appearance as the Avatar and your first real action as the Avatar. Sure you wouldn’t be declaring it outright, and you doubt they’d believe you anyways but you knew and that’s what mattered. It wasn’t very glamorous, especially with the trash and refuse lying in the alley way and the fact it was the middle of the night, but you would still face it head on.

With a quick exertion of control, you guided the sand within your container out and down to the alley floor below, creating a serpent like rail that you could then slide down gracefully while also making a minimum amount of noise. Doing just that, you listened as the two by the door spoke, one a young girl and the other a young man that clearly had some familiarity with one another with how their tones were so this wasn’t a group that had been pulled together last second or anything like that.
(Cont)

>>5620377
As you pondered what events had led all of these people together to don blue masks and cut through the night with practiced grace and speed, the girl turned on you and made you freeze as your eyes met hers. Both you and her were silent for a time, before you raised your hand and waved “Hello, Safiyya here.” You said, awkwardly and unsure of just how to continue this interaction despite having willingly come down to confront the group. As soon as you spoke, everyone except the boy at the door turned to you, taking various stances that looked like bending so you took your own. “So uh….Blue Spirits huh? Fans of history?” You asked, trying to break the ice a little and to keep them off balance so they couldn’t immediately shift to aggression, but also it was a side effect of you yourself being a little off balance as you felt yourself now deep in an unfamiliar situation.

There was an extended silence that you wished had never settled in, as it left you standing in the middle of a group of benders who were total unknowns. Since they were thieves and hadn’t been known to cause harm to others, you hoped that they wouldn’t try to attack you or kidnap you in some bid to make a profit or protect their still quite hidden identities. After a minute passed, and you had firmly prepared yourself for a violent confrontation of some kind, the girl in front of you spoke as she lowered her raised hands.

“Uh, I mean he is.” She said, thumbing at the young man still cutting through the door “...Wait, did you take this from a book you read?” She said, looking back at the boy and placing her hands on her hips in a bit of exasperation.

The boy shrugged “Yeah, Fire Lord Zuko used to run around in this outfit and be a total badass when he couldn’t operate in the open as himself.”

“Why are you making us cosplay as some ancient Fire Lord?” She said, throwing her hands up in the air and actually sounding a bit frustrated, the other blue masked people dropping their aggressive stance and staring at the two.

“He’s not ancient, he was like two or three fire lords ago! He helped Avatar Aang end the war!”

“Yeah, an ancient war. Great, I thought these were cool too.”

“How does them being based off of-”

“Stolen from,” interrupted the girl

“BASED off of a historical reference makes them less cool?” challenged the boy, who finally looked away from his work as he met the gaze of the girl. You could see he was also frustrated, but the door he had been cutting slowly opened inward, a silent victory and flex on the girl showing his skills and confidence.
(Cont)

>>5620380
The girl locked eyes with him and the two sort of entered a stasis of not backing down from their points. Not wanting to deal with another awkward silence, you cleared your throat. “Uh, sorry to interrupt…” You said, everyone looking to you as if they had forgotten you had even been there, which you couldn’t help but feel a little insulted over. “But I’ve heard you guys were thieves…Kiiind of a obvious question, but what exactly do you plan to do there?” You asked, gesturing to the open door.

You tried to keep a serious face, but you weren’t used to this. Crime was something that occured in the Si Wong desert, but the penalties for that were communal shunning and in bad enough situations banishment from the clan watering holes. Here though there were codified laws and law keepers and legal punishments, all of which you had no real inkling of. Still you were here, and if perhaps they had a good reason to burgle this place you could do some good and he-

“Oh we plan to steal whatever we can from here, whether it be tech, information, or important documents. Hell, maybe even blackmail material for later if we’re lucky.”

You stared at the girl, shocked at how forthright she was being. Apparently this was shared by her team, as a collection of groans and the boy behind her slapped the back of her head lightly.

“Why the hell are you telling her? It’s none of her business! You don’t just tell people what crimes you plan to commit!” he said, shaking his head as the girl rubbed the back of her head.

“Well it’s not like it isn’t obvious what we’re here to do, she was probably just asking to be polite. Besides, what’s she gonna do about it? There’s six of us and one of her,” she said, then looked at you “Sorry, I doubt you can take us all on. If I knew you'd follow us I probably wouldn’t have tried catching your attention earlier.

A third voice spoke, this one from the pair at the north side of the alley “Well I mean she’s here already…Wanna join up with us?” They ignored the questioning noises from her crew and continued on, her voice an odd monotone “The blue Spirits are just thieves, we only really steal from the big corporations. No one gets hurt, and we get cool costumes and get to run around and do what we want.” She said, giving a thumbs up to the young man who pumped a fist. “Honestly, might as well extend the offer to her. Worst case scenario she says no and we tie her up until we’re done here.”
(Cont)

>>5620381
The group murmured their thoughts and some agreements, and you were left to think on your options here.

>Take them up on joining. This corporation was working against the workers you befriended earlier anyways, plus the money could help you on your journey.

>While banditry wasn’t forbidden, it had always been frowned upon in the clans. You wouldn’t take part, but you wouldn’t stop them either. They seemed to just be honorable thieves, if such a thing existed.

>Take a combat stance and try to stop them, while they’re distracted. You had your Pressure point martial art and your highly proficient bending skill. In this tight alley, you had as much of an advantage as you could ask for.

>try to divert their attention, then run to the streets to try and get the attention of the authorities. You could simply let the locals handle their local laws in their own ways, and not take things into your own hands.

>>5620251
>>5619034
>>5617343
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5580037/

Thanks to that link I was able to do it. Thank for Y’all’s help.

>>5620385
>Why would you commit banditry?

I'm quite interested in the reasoning behind it. If it's wishy washy, then we should probably alert the authorities.

If it's more community focused, as would appeal, then go with
>While it isn't forbidden, it's frowned upon.

>>5620385
Okay but why are they doing this? Are they poor? Ill? Unfortunate? We need to understand.

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>>5620377
>You then dedicated a solid thirty seconds working yourself into the right mood for your first appearance as the Avatar
I love this.
>>5620381
>Wanna join up with us?
YES YES YES
>>5620385
>Take them up on joining. This corporation was working against the workers you befriended earlier anyways, plus the money could help you on your journey.
My mind says Safiyya is too much of a goody too shoes to even consider this. But this is too hilarious not to do.
QM If we join up, do we get a spare mask? I don't really want to incriminate the Avatar.

>>5620452
My money is on they're just shit kids.

>>5620385
To justify >>5620453 We could always just say she's still just a little drunk/hungover to think properly.

>>5620385
>>Take them up on joining. This corporation was working against the workers you befriended earlier anyways, plus the money could help you on your journey.

>>5620406
>>5620452
>>5620454
Sorry, I thought I had gotten that in there but I must have forgotten to be clear.

From the conversation, you get the vibe they’re mostly doing this for themselves. Profit and fun for the most part. Though their choice in target implies they‘re at least targeting the corporations connected to the labor dispute specifically. At least for now.

>>5620385
>>Take them up on joining. This corporation was working against the workers you befriended earlier anyways, plus the money could help you on your journey.
I like the idea of a somewhat looser Avatar, after goody two shoes naive kid Aang and uptight weight-throwing nose in the air Korra.

>>5620385
>>Take them up on joining. This corporation was working against the workers you befriended earlier anyways, plus the money could help you on your journey.
Naughty avatar go

>>5620662
Yeah fuck em. I absolutely do not have a single reason for why she would go along with this.

Full steam on >>5620406 "it's not forbidden but frowned on, duck out".

>>5620662
Alright

>>5620385
>>While banditry wasn’t forbidden, it had always been frowned upon in the clans. You wouldn’t take part, but you wouldn’t stop them either. They seemed to just be honorable thieves, if such a thing existed.

>>5620385
>While banditry wasn’t forbidden, it had always been frowned upon in the clans. You wouldn’t take part, but you wouldn’t stop them either. They seemed to just be honorable thieves, if such a thing existed.

>>5620385
>>Take a combat stance and try to stop them, while they’re distracted. You had your Pressure point martial art and your highly proficient bending skill. In this tight alley, you had as much of an advantage as you could ask for.

>>5622752
if you change to banditry isn't forbidden, it'd be a tie.

Without, we're going the crim route.

>>5622752
Yeah but don't listen to him>>5623164 Crime and villainy is more fun.

>>5620385
>While banditry wasn’t forbidden, it had always been frowned upon in the clans. You wouldn’t take part, but you wouldn’t stop them either. They seemed to just be honorable thieves, if such a thing existed.

>>5620406
>>5621611
>>5622403
>>5623311
4 for bow out

>>5620453
>>5620651
>>5621090
>>5621566
4

Well we're on a pretty hard tie here, any last minute switches or votes?

Thanks again for being patient with my whole weekend thing guys.

Gonna try to get three updates out this week, stay on my schedule

>>5625484
>>Take them up on joining. This corporation was working against the workers you befriended earlier anyways, plus the money could help you on your journey.
Can't remember if I voted or not so if I didn't, then add this to the tie.

>>5625496
looks like you are the tie breaker, so criminal time. Writing, will try to get it out today

>>5625496
>>5625596
I'm excited for crime! And for character to feel bad about it later LMAO.

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>>5625596
Guess it's time to do some crime!

As the blue spirits discussed and argued over the merits of their options, you did your own thinking. On one hand, these thieves were committing a crime in this land, and thought banditry was accepted in your homeland it was still looked down on. Working with them would have you committing that slight taboo, and likely make you an enemy of this corporation if you were to get caught. However that was the thing, you didn’t really care if you made enemies with this corporation since they weren’t able to do much if you didn’t get caught, and what they could do if you had been caught would be easy to avoid if you just kept moving. In addition to this, while banditry was looked down on, it was accepted because sometimes you needed to take things to survive and it was even better if done to outlanders. While that likely didn’t translate entirely in this land, where you yourself were the outlander, the spirit was roughly the same: You needed money to survive and continue your journey as the avatar, and this Corporation was a free target you would have assistance with the theft.

In addition, this was one of the corporations that had staked its claim in the local construction market, pushing out the locals from reliable work which included the friends you had met earlier who had treated you to the local beer. While you didn’t care for it, they still shared drinks and broke bread with you and accepted you into their group, which made you feel a bit connected to them. The significance wasn’t likely the same for them, but such an act was how clans met and made friendships, and you weren’t about to turn your back on that even if they didn’t feel the same.

Honestly, the more you thought about it, the easier it proved to justify and the more you became interested in what you could get away with in this brief time of your life where obscurity was not only your ally but your foreseeable future. The world didn’t know you were the avatar, and would hopefully only find out when you were good and ready. You didn’t even have to worry much about accidentally revealing yourself, as your fire bending skills were purely theory at this point and you still required an actual teacher to really set into practice what Avatar Agni had told you.

While the Blue Spirits were still conversing, you nodded your head and crossed your arms “Alright, I’m in.” You said, cutting everyone off and having them look at you, most with surprise but the one who had suggested it just seemed to nod sagely, as if it was obvious you'd accept the offer, or maybe that you had agreed with them and they just enjoyed that.

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>>5626704
“Really? Just like that?” Asked the girl in front of you, who seemed to be the leader, who you think was the air bender who had caught your eye from before and motivated you to even leave your room tonight.

You nodded “Just like that. Though I have two conditions.” You said, holding up two figures cause you felt the visual was appropriate for the moment. “First, I need a promise from you guys that we’re just stealing from corporations or big businesses, not individuals or people. I’m fine with this, but I won’t steal from a person or a family's business.” You said seriously, looking the leader in the eye and gauging their responses.

She hummed a bit, then came up with a question “What if that person’s an asshole?”

You thought for a bit, then waggled your hand in uncertainty “case by case basis there, but it better be a good case.”

“Fair, and the second?” She asked after a shrug of acceptance.

“Second: I get a mask too, cause they look really cool.” You said, giving a thumbs up to the boy by the door, who returned it with a smug chuckle directed at his leader.

Said leader let out a melodramatic sigh and nodded “Fiiiine, we have a deal. Someone toss her an extra so we can get going on this, we’re burning moonlight now.” She said, though she was clearly enjoying the direction the night was going at this point.

You caught the mask and looked it over. After confirming it was indeed not just a poor quality mask bought from a discount bin, you put it on and followed the crew into the building. You were kept in the middle of the pack, watched and corrected as you infiltrated the building so that you didn’t mess up or trip any alarms. Over the course of going through the building, you came to understand that they had known the layout of the building prior to breaking in, and enjoyed a smooth path as you went deeper and deeper into the building, first going up its levels before, around the third floor from the top, you began to go down again.

“What we’re looking for is kept in a pretty isolated area inside the building, they built it to be annoying. “

“What are you even looking for? I thought you weren’t planning to steal anything specific.” You asked in a whisper, stopping at their signal then moving forward as you caught sight of a mirror at the corner of a hall that showed a guard walking away.

“Well we aren’t, but also I lied and we are. We’re here to steal whatever we can, buuuuut we know there is something really good here today, and we’re not gonna pass that up.” The leader said then stopped and turned around to face everyone “Speaking of which, this is where we split up. Me and mister historian will go get the thing, you guys take the new girl to grab whatever.”
(Cont)

>>5626705
Everyone nodded and began to move, guiding you to follow them while the leader and her fire bender friend went off in a different direction. You were tempted to try and go after them, but the others made sure you didn’t break from their convoy as they moved with purpose.

Soon, the girl who had recommended you join them stopped the group and turned to face you “Alright, up ahead is where they store the good stuff. Documents, schematics, general data. Just above us is R&D, where they keep their toys they aren’t ready to share, and the ones they won’t ever sell. And just below us are the executive offices, where they tend to hangout and gather to discuss business or enjoy whatever they can get away with. Which tickles your fancy?”

>Go to R&D, you might be able to find something cool or useful, or at least something that could sell well.

>Go to the data storage, you can learn some information about the corporation in general, maybe learn their plans for the area or find some dirt that could prove valuable either as blackmail material or to use against them.

>Go down to the executive office and see what you can find there. Plenty of expensive trinkets and toys left behind, plenty of personal files, and possibly less than legal personal effects free for the taking.

>While you agreed to be part of this, you don’t need to really steal anything to help. You offer to stand watch and be prepared to cover their escape or warn them if security starts to sniff around.

>>5626706
>Go to R&D, you might be able to find something cool or useful, or at least something that could sell well.
Avatar + Experimental equipment = Fun times.

>>5626706
>>Go to the data storage, you can learn some information about the corporation in general, maybe learn their plans for the area or find some dirt that could prove valuable either as blackmail material or to use against them.

>>5626706
>>Go to the data storage, you can learn some information about the corporation in general, maybe learn their plans for the area or find some dirt that could prove valuable either as blackmail material or to use against them.
Our goal is to help our beer bros. I wonder if any of them are our thieves friends? That would be neat.
>>5626704
>Honestly, the more you thought about it, the easier it proved to justify
I love her mental gymnastics here to justify crime.

>>5626706
>>Go to R&D, you might be able to find something cool or useful, or at least something that could sell well.

>>5626706
>>Go to the data storage, you can learn some information about the corporation in general, maybe learn their plans for the area or find some dirt that could prove valuable either as blackmail material or to use against them

Makes sense that she'd be against the corporation, since their invasion of the local economy could be compared to the outlanders trying to fuck around in OUR desert.

>>5626706
>Data store
Knowledge is power.

>>5626706
>Go to the data storage, you can learn some information about the corporation in general, maybe learn their plans for the area or find some dirt that could prove valuable either as blackmail material or to use against them.


I really want to pick R&D but as >>5627180 pointed out this makes more sense IC

>>5626706
>>Go to R&D, you might be able to find something cool or useful, or at least something that could sell well.
I could see her choosing this as a nod to 'knowledge' given that she grew up under Wan-ts to Shit On-you's wing, the overgrown pigeon

>>5626706
>Go to R&D, you might be able to find something cool or useful, or at least something that could sell well.

>>5626754
>>5627184
>>5628052
>>5628101
4 for R&D

>>5626899
>>5627180
>>5627231
>>5627262
>>5627598
5 for data storage.

Data storage wins, time to go rummaging for blackmail.

Writing

You considered your options from those offered, and felt yourself drawn to the records and data storage wing of the building. While you could appreciate the idea of digging through the personal effects and files of the upper ranks of this corporate office, you had no doubts that it would largely be frivolous items such as drugs, incriminating rumors, and personal matters and information that would not only paint a target on you by those people but also involve you with whatever they did. At the very least you didn’t want to see what they had hidden away.

The R&D lab was equally as attractive a choice, and almost pulled you towards it, but the technical nature of the section would have been above your skill level, as you never really dedicated any time to studying invention, engineering, or the use of machines. WHile you could probably figure it out with enough dedication, as it stood you would be entering a world that would be more foreign to you than the earth federation was.

So it came to the data storage, where you could possibly find information that could aide the protestors and local workers against the corporations, could perhaps find information that could be used as blackmail without it being to personnel of a nature to an individual, or maybe even documents describing a possible invention that given time you could figure out and study to branch your skills out or sell to another company to make a profit.

“I’ll take the data storage.” You said, gesturing to the room and moving towards it, the girl who invited you followed after you while pairs went off to the other rooms and the remainder of the group stood guard in case security suddenly arrived to interfere with your heist. You felt rather thrilled at this action, breaking the law but doing it against what you could honestly tell was a destabilizing force in the region at least economically. You were sure it was much more complicated than that, it always was more complicated than it needed to be with outlanders, their inability to simply accept their plenty and live without conflict with their other clans. It’s no wonder the Si Wong nomad’s were largely ignored by the avatars and the world at large, the conflict was inherent to the world outside.
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>>5630085
As you moved into the filing room that had some bulky looking machines that your comrade blue spirit went over to begin accessing their data, you wondered if it was the inherent abundance of resources and space that made fighting over them so easy for the outlanders, or if it was something else. Clans in the desert fought rarely, as there was more concern with survival than a desire for conflict. What unified the clans was their mutual need to survive and the help they all lent one another to do so. Yet out here in the world they had some many different cultures and ways of doing things, with so much space, perhaps it allowed one to lose sight of what was truly important, the most basic of things and thus they find it easier to be envious.

You also considered that maybe it was not an issue of too much, but an issue of how the plenty was distributed. In the desert, all the oasis were shared and spread all over the desert. All the food was spread out and could not be fought over. All the monsters and creatures hunted everywhere. Meanwhile in the outside world, some places had what others lacked yet they lacked what others had. Some had more dangerous monsters, more variable weather, more volatile landscapes.

You for a moment were lost in your musings, before you were shaken from your rambling thoughts on the nature of conflict “Find anything yet?” Your comrade, the one who had invited you to join the crew, had asked.

“Oh uh, one second.” You said, blushing beneath your mask as you heard her laugh.

“Keep focused alright, we’ll have to get out of here fast when we get what we need.”

You nodded your head, and focused on your task as your comrade seemed to be pulling data from the mainframe, a computer if you had to guess. Top of the line, it only needed a single large room to house itself, though you assumed its data storage was somewhere deeper in the building to keep cool and give it space.
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>>5630086
You looked through the filing cabinets, and the files, and searched for what your prize would be.

>Documents concerning the deal between the mayor and cabbage corp over some of the construction rights in the city. Details such as where they could build, who they could hire, and how much they would have to put into the city in exchange for the right.

>A schematic for something called a Shan Suit, a skin tight suit made of an insulating material partnered with devices meant to create and store electricity that it could possibly direct. Looks like it was commissioned by the fire nation, in partnership with some republic city power companies.

>Plan for the primary construction project for the Cabbage Corp office, the one being currently focused. It was large and spacious, and looked to be a floor plan for some kind of manufacturing facility, but it depicted multiple entrances to a lower level that you could not find the schematics for.

>A portfolio concerning dates and locations of cabbage corp execs in the next few weeks for business meetings and talks, one of which seemed to be taking place in a few days. A perfect target for the protestors if they could get the information.

>other

>>5630087
>Documents concerning the deal between the mayor and cabbage corp over some of the construction rights in the city. Details such as where they could build, who they could hire, and how much they would have to put into the city in exchange for the right.

>>5630087
>>A schematic for something called a Shan Suit, a skin tight suit made of an insulating material partnered with devices meant to create and store electricity that it could possibly direct. Looks like it was commissioned by the fire nation, in partnership with some republic city power companies.

>>5630087
This is a really tough choice.
The first option is hopefully blackmail material, or more likely just technical business jargon. The most I could realistically see that could be damaging is just a preference for a specific group of workers. Super unlikel we see a detailed account of bribery, cause why would someone write that down?
The second is cool, but a far cry away from being usable for us. We'll need BIG help to even get an idea on how to make it, let alone use it. And I'm sure our Owl friend would be very angry at us for developing what is probably going to be used as a weapon.
The third one sounds like it will be a secret lab/area of some kind (whether illegal or just not something the company wants exposed is up in the air).
The fourth one seems like the most immediately useful to our beer bros, but is somewhat boring. And feels unlikely to go anywhere.
QM, what is the length we are able to go for "OTHER"?
I assume we can't write in something like,
>You find a map to an ancient avatar artifact
Or something dumb like that.
Is there data related to plans for our desert, or info on those guys that mugged us outside the library? Were cabbage corp involved? I need to think on my vote. but I like where this is going.

>>5630338
For the other, I’ll need to basically tackle it and see what I can do.

At the bare minimum is has to be something that a satellite office to cabbage Corp would realistically have, so likely something related to the local area, or a neighboring area at the very least.

Cabbage Corp is mostly a tech company with some fingers in Construction and trade, but you could try finding stuff relating to their conflicts with spirits since big corporations are the ones commonly clashing with the spirits now adays.

>>5630087
>>A schematic for something called a Shan Suit, a skin tight suit made of an insulating material partnered with devices meant to create and store electricity that it could possibly direct. Looks like it was commissioned by the fire nation, in partnership with some republic city power companies.
Can't resist the urge to wear skintight suits

>>5630087
>A schematic for something called a Shan Suit, a skin tight suit made of an insulating material partnered with devices meant to create and store electricity that it could possibly direct. Looks like it was commissioned by the fire nation, in partnership with some republic city power companies.

>>5630087
?Corp construction rights

Knowing your enemies plans is paramount.

>>5630087
>A schematic for something called a Shan Suit, a skin tight suit made of an insulating material partnered with devices meant to create and store electricity that it could possibly direct. Looks like it was commissioned by the fire nation, in partnership with some republic city power companies.

>>5630087
>>Plan for the primary construction project for the Cabbage Corp office, the one being currently focused. It was large and spacious, and looked to be a floor plan for some kind of manufacturing facility, but it depicted multiple entrances to a lower level that you could not find the schematics for.
I don't see how a schematic like this would be useful

>>5630087
>>Documents concerning the deal between the mayor and cabbage corp over some of the construction rights in the city. Details such as where they could build, who they could hire, and how much they would have to put into the city in exchange for the right.

>>5630087
>>Documents concerning the deal between the mayor and cabbage corp over some of the construction rights in the city. Details such as where they could build, who they could hire, and how much they would have to put into the city in exchange for the right.

Hey guys still alive, i'll be counting the votes and writing something up today. But it'll be after i sleep instead of before cause i'm exhuasted.

Last minute votes if there are any

>>5630101
>>5631750
>>5632535
>>5632939
4 documents

>>5630139
>>5631359
>>5631595
>>5632233
4 schematics

Since this is a tie, I think i'll just let you grab both files, so we can move on.

writing now

>>5634498
Nice

Searching through the cabinets, you made quick work quickly finding and searching anything that caught your eyes. It was tedious work as while there was no doubt something interesting in these cabinets, they were completely buried beneath mountains of spreadsheets and documents that either required some contextual knowledge to parse or was too mundane to even bother digging into. Most of your attempts at snooping within the content of files was met with a wall of numbers that may have been shipping or may have been some obscure data point that you could have spent weeks on and still have found no means of understanding its use or meaning. There was a couple HR complaint documents that were needlessly thick as various employees complained about noisy coworkers, missing break room food, or other mundane things that painted the business world as not some shadowy underworld operating behind the scenes but as a dry and normal collection of people stuck in a repetitive occupation.

It honestly almost forced you to fall asleep out of sheer boredom and annoyance at the failure at novelty, though fortunately for your standing with the Blue Spirits and your own interest you managed to find at least two things really worth your time.

The first were a set of documents related to the purchase Cabbage Corp had made of the construction rights from the city. It was directly handled by the mayor, which made enough sense to you since a mayor was like a caravan chief. What stood out though was the frequency of payments made, with a large some being done initially and then smaller less substantial transfers of money being seen. The last of which was about a year ago, when construction truly began and Cabbage corp had invested enough to begin their work. You didn’t know what this meant but it seemed odd to have to pay a frequent fee after buying the construction rights.

In addition to this, there were other documents in the folder placing a specific individual of Cabbage corp in the company of the mayor for the period of all those transfers, and even now if the last update from last month was accurate. It painted a closer relationship between Cabbage Corp and the Mayor than you thought was proper, and believed that perhaps your friends in the protestors might find the information useful. If not, you could at least use the second thing you found.
(Cont)

>>5634832
It was a skin tight suit, the idea of which made you blush at the idea of wearing it based on the diagram showing its wearing on both male and female users. It was a highly insulated piece of equipment worn and used with various devices to harness and direct electricity. You had no real point of reference, as electricity was something you knew about but never had the time to really study or go out of your way to look for as you worked with your clans, but looking at the numbers of the low and high estimations this suit could be effective for anything where power was needed. It was as if they were trying to make it so anyone could become a lightning bender, a profession and trade dominated by only those rare few able to learn and practice the bending art. You quickly recognized some pieces of the equipment as looking similar to the lightning guns of the mercenaries who had attacked you, and began to wonder if perhaps the Shan Suit was a progression of that technology.

The idea of dozens of people able to wield the cold fire art without even the ability to bend fire made you shudder at the idea, but it also made you curious as to what you could do with such a suit if you had the time to construct it. It would certainly allow you to skip past the training necessary to control lightning, if you were even capable of such an art, and would give you also the even rarer ability to redirect it should a lightning bender or someone with an Arc gun fire at you. The main issue would be your rather basic level engineering knowledge and your current lack of resources, but given time it was doubtless you could figure something out.

Besides personal use, you could simply use the schematic as a means of getting money for your avatar journey. There was no doubt plenty of people who would pay money for such a design, and you could maybe sell it to the people in charge of training lightning benders. You heard there was some kind of organization that mostly dealt with their training, and you were sure they could very likely be interested in a suit that could render them obsolete.

Whatever you decided to do with it, it was a tool that could do great harm or great good or simply be a great tool. Its existence reminded you of Wan Shi Tong’s distaste for weapons and using knowledge to cause harm, and a brief pang of guilt was felt as you wondered if this was something you shouldn’t try to claim but destroy? Knowledge that despite its potential for good, should be wiped utterly from the world to prevent its possible evil? Was it even as bad as you imagined, you didn’t know and didn’t have the time to answer your own question as you turned to look for your comrade, and saw she was gone.
(Cont)

>>5634833
You quickly exited the data room and managed to see your comrade turn and corner at the end of the hall and you gave chase, only to hear a “Hey, what are you doing here?!” From behind you down the hall. Your quick careful shuffle down the hall became a mad sprint as you heard the security guard behind you begin to make a call on his radio, and you felt the tension of the air grow as you turned around a corner and saw the rest of the blue spirits running for the exit.

You sprinted after them, sliding past a security guard who nearly plowed into you and flinching as the building began to ring with alarms. Panic began to rise in your guy, and your thanked the spirits that you had a mask on as you saw several camera along your path you had no time to carefully avoid.

Luckily for you, despite your lesser skill in free running, a life time of hard work and exercise in the Si Wong desert had kept you fit, and soon you caught up with the rest of the Blue spirits, your comrade turning briefly the wave at you as you ran alongside them “Good you caught up, I was worried for a second!” She said cheerily, likely able to imagine your scowl behind your mask.

“Why did you ditch me?! I could have been cornered by that guard!” You said, frustration pretty clear. Your comrade just shrugged

“I gave you a quick warning and slipped out, but to be honest if someone like that rent a cop was able to catch you, leaving you behind as a scapegoat would have been the best option. Glad you’re better than that though, means you’re an official spirit and someone owes me 20 wan~” She said, her head turning and her hand quickly picking the pocket of the man in front of her, who simply let out a curse but didn’t stop her.

General shock and surprise stayed with you as you raced out of the building to more sensitive areas, but you could see the turns were slowly bringing your group back towards the entrance you had come from. The escape plan was relatively simple, and likely would have worked, if not for the two men who stood at the end of the hall in your group's path dressed in pure black tactical gear and masks that covered their eyes and mouths.

On their breast was a symbol you recognized. A sword with a winged snake coiled around it, held within a circle of chains. The same symbol that the mercenaries had who attacked you. One of your fellow Blue spirits let out a low shocked and frightened curse “Why the hell is Cabbage corp hiring Serpent Hunters!?”
(Cont)

>>5634835
One of the twins shrugged as an answers, then surged forward as lightning engulfed their arms and danced across their gear as their double took a defensive stance and swung their arms, forcing fire to form and rise behind them and behind your group, forming a wall of flames as the one with lightning surged forward to attack.

>Charge forward at the attacker and try to hit his chi points, block off the chi to his arms or leg or anywhere to slow him down and maybe make him unable to properly control their lightning bending.

>Call upon your sand and send a wave of it at the attacker, using it to grapple them and keep them at bay while you and the blue spirits find a means of escape.

>try to use what you learned from Avatar Agni to compress the wall of fire behind you so your and the Blue spirits can escape.

>try to cut your way through the ceiling so you can find another route out with sand, as below you are basements and above you will at least maybe have windows.

>other?

>>5634836
>>try to use what you learned from Avatar Agni to compress the wall of fire behind you so your and the Blue spirits can escape.

>>5634836
>try to use what you learned from Avatar Agni to compress the wall of fire behind you so your and the Blue spirits can escape.

>>5634836
This option first:
>>Call upon your sand and send a wave of it at the attacker, using it to grapple them and keep them at bay while you and the blue spirits find a means of escape.
Or this in case of tie breaking:
>try to cut your way through the ceiling so you can find another route out with sand, as below you are basements and above you will at least maybe have windows.
We definitely don't want to express we are the Avatar now. In addition to being bad looks for us to be a thief, I don't think we want our Blue Spirit Boys to know that, and /possibly/ use that as blackmail on us.
If worse comes to worse our hunters have found us, so maybe be careful with our sand bending? I don't know if we can make it look more like traditional Earth style? My final vote is some sand/earth bending attack at range.
I like: >Charge forward at the attacker and try to hit his chi points, block off the chi to his arms or leg or anywhere to slow him down and maybe make him unable to properly control their lightning bending.
But considering our group just ditched us a moment ago I don't think they'll have out backs in that attack.
Real cool shit QM, I'm digging this!

>>5634836
>>Call upon your sand and send a wave of it at the attacker, using it to grapple them and keep them at bay while you and the blue spirits find a means of escape.

>>5634836
>Compress the fire

Lets not use chi blocking. This isn't a case of self defence.

>>5634836
>>try to use what you learned from Avatar Agni to compress the wall of fire behind you so your and the Blue spirits can escape.

>>5634836
>try to cut your way through the ceiling so you can find another route out with sand, as below you are basements and above you will at least maybe have windows.

>>5634836
>>try to cut your way through the ceiling so you can find another route out with sand, as below you are basements and above you will at least maybe have windows.

>>5634836
>try to use what you learned from Avatar Agni to compress the wall of fire behind you so your and the Blue spirits can escape.
Avatar state yip yip!

>>5634836
>>Call upon your sand and send a wave of it at the attacker, using it to grapple them and keep them at bay while you and the blue spirits find a means of escape.

>>5634836
>try to use what you learned from Avatar Agni to compress the wall of fire behind you so your and the Blue spirits can escape.

Still alive, just been busy this week. I’ll try to get a post out in the next couple of days

>>5634895
>>5634926
>>5635077
>>5635170
>>5635623
>>5636813
6 for compress the flame

>>5634927
>>5634989
>>5635801
3 for use sans.

Fire compression wins, writing

You didn’t have the time to hesitate, you didn’t have the time to look to see what the rest of the blue spirits were doing, all that came to mind was the symbol etched into the chest of the charging enemy. You remembered the mercenaries that had attacked you before, and knew that running would be better than directly engaging with them as they no doubt were far greater combatants than any of the blue spirits or yourself. So you turned on a dime and ran towards the wall of flame as you reached out to it with hands and heart.

‘To compress fire, one must master the balances of emotion and focus. To focus purely on the fire and attempt to push it into a singular point, would be to snuff it out. To use only passion would feed the fire, and only make it grow. One must do both, feed and crush, until the fire begins to compress. This is why Fire compression is both powerful and dangerous, as the sheer act of fire compression creates more power, and should focus or passion become too weak or too strong, then it can result in a deadly release of energy.’

Avatar Agni’s lesson echoed in your head as you focused, and with a deep breath that nearly pulled your gut into your chest, you applied your will to the fire. At first it resisted, its fuel the will of another. However the fire then began to pull to a center point in the hallway, and though fire would occasionally lash out or a spark would strike a surface, you felt your will and emotion fighting the flames and feeding it all to a single point.

“R-Run!” You called out, moving to get past the point of light that was growing tighter and hissing more violently, a ringing noise being heard as the power within rose. The longer you did this, the more powerful the fire would become, the more dangerous it became, but you had to do it, you had to open the path. Had you any training in fire bending, you might have been able to simply part the flames, but this is all you had to work with.

The blue spirits all ran, one of them sending a burst of air down the hall to slow the charging mercenary, who stumbled but quickly regained their speed. The Blue spirit air bender jumped up and let themselves be pushed back by the gust of air, landing next to you “I thought you were a Sandbender!” She said, the voice being one of the two leaders from the ally.

The words broke your concentration, the reveal of what you were to her briefly bringing up thoughts of what she might think or do, and that’s all the fire within the point of light needed.
(Cont)

>>5639101
It happened fast, the expansion of the ball of fire as only emotion from you and its creator fed into its already critically energetic mass, the feeling of being pulled back as your mind went foggy from the exertion you had performed, and then the air bender standing between you and the explosion and blasting air at it. She slammed into your chest and both you and her flew down the hall, as a roar of fire and the shaking of the earth rocked the building. You briefly saw the shadow of the lightning bender mercenary be engulfed in the light, then you struck the far wall and everything went black.


By the time you came to, you heard sirens and felt the wind blasting past your face. You tried to move but found you were being carried by one of the blue spirits, a rather stocky man you thought as you shook your head “Wuh hapn?” You asked, catching the attention of the blue spirit running behind your carrier, who caught up and gave you a thumbs up.

“Whatever you did back there bought us some time, but damn you’re crazy. That’s gonna set Cabbage corp back for years.” She said, pointing a thumb back the way they came and directing your attention to a large pillar of smoke rising above the city and surrounded by flashing lights and helicopters.

You went pale at the sight, then looked around “is anyone hurt? I didn’t mean to do that, it’s all I knew how to do for the fire, Oh by the spirits I-”

You felt someone tap your head to silence you, looking to your left to see the air bender leader of the group, her mask gone and revealing her face to you. “Hey chill out, as far as I can tell no one got hurt. Which is lucky for me cause I had to pull us out of there. You’re welcome by the way.” She said, her face youthful with a sharp chin, though she had a mix of earth and fire nation features. Her hair was black and tied into a tight bun that likely helped it stay out of the way, though there were a few stray hairs poking out right now. “Now though since you’re awake, I should say you owe us an explanation…But you just saved our buts, and likely set our rep for life. So I'll give you a choice. “ She said, making sure you were fully awake before continuing.
(Cont)

>>5639102
“You can come with us to Omashu, since we can’t linger here anymore with this much heat on us, or we drop you off back at your Inn. You stay with us, we treat you like an actual Blue spirit instead of a tagalong. Actually teach you our signals to run away and leave instead of leaving you behind, cut you in on our profits. You answer my questions, so I know what I’m bringing into my crew. Or,” She said, shrugging to herself as they began to slow their movements across the roofs “We ditch you at the Inn and we never talk again. Doubt we’ll meet up again, and you get to keep your secrets. But you don’t get our help with what you got from the job, you don’t get a crew, and I get to sit on what I’m sure is the truth until I think I need to use it.” She said, looking you dead in the eye as the big man put you down and let you stand.

The rest of the blue spirits were staring at you, most looking confused from their body language but you could tell that the fire bender second in command was standing with the air bender leader. You thought about your choices, and though you could imagine that she had figured out you were the avatar she had no proof and that information would be useless to anyone really you’d be on the move and you were sure eventually word would get out that the avatar was a sand bender. Still, the longer you stayed hidden the less likely you would have to deal with those who wanted to control your path.

On the other hand, if you went along with the Blue spirits, you could no doubt have some company as you traversed across the country, at least for a time. You could earn money and get supplies from their contacts, and most of all have backup in a fight if you needed. Plus, you liked the energy of the group, as most seemed to be on good terms with the others and it felt as if this group had formed together over time, just picking up members as time went on and jobs pulled in attention. With the variety of bending here, you were sure you could pick up some techniques or lessons in the bending styles, if you were willing to fully reveal to them who you were.

“Well, what’ll it be?”

>Agree to join the Blue Spirits as a full member, and agree to Answer the leader’s questions in private once they had the time.

>Head back to the Inn and part ways with the blue spirits. The benefits don't outweigh the risks, and you weren’t sure you could entirely trust them.

>>5639105
>Agree to join the Blue Spirits as a full member, and agree to Answer the leader’s questions in private once they had the time.

>>5639105
>>Agree to join the Blue Spirits as a full member, and agree to Answer the leader’s questions in private once they had the time.
Considering she "likes the energy of the group, as most seemed to be on good terms with the others" this seems the most straight forward. Doubly so considering they're going where we want to. I assume we'll have time to get our animal?
And QM, will we have time to deliver/drop off our corruption documents to our Beer Bros?

>>5639105
>>Head back to the Inn and part ways with the blue spirits. The benefits don't outweigh the risks, and you weren’t sure you could entirely trust them.
Cool experience but we should find better mentors

>>5639105
I don't know. I don't really like being a criminal, but eh.

Decent transport. We'll have to give some info over and move.

>Agree to join them

>>5639105
>>Agree to join the Blue Spirits as a full member, and agree to Answer the leader’s questions in private once they had the time.
I'm down

>>5639105
>Agree to join the Blue Spirits as a full member, and agree to Answer the leader’s questions in private once they had the time.
We're in, boys

>>5639105
>>Agree to join the Blue Spirits as a full member, and agree to Answer the leader’s questions in private once they had the time.

>>5639105
>Head back to the Inn and part ways with the blue spirits. The benefits don't outweigh the risks, and you weren’t sure you could entirely trust them.

>>5639146
>>5639165
>>5639338
>>5639472
>>5639482
>>5639675
6 for join

>>5639189
>>5640344
2 for head back

You are joining the blue spirits,

>>5639165
And yes I’ll make sure to include that.

Writing

Not dead, just trying to finish the post I have written up. Sorry for the wait

>>5641832
Any progress?

>>5643049
He sleeps on the weekend. So we probably won't hear until Monday. But that's cool QM.

The instinct to simply cut your losses and go back to bed was not absent from you, in fact it came screaming forward as soon as the offer had been made. However, the instinct stood little chance against the two main forces arrayed against it: The reality of them knowing who you were and the reason you had left the Si Wong desert in the first place.

With them knowing you were the avatar, and their willingness to use that information if they had to, they could easily create obstacles in your path across the world. While you would likely be moving too fast for their information to lead directly to you, it would give trackers and those that sought you like the White Lotus a starting point in which to pick up your trail. Such a trail would have been lost in the desert, but out here where so many can spot your path and see your mount, your trail would be child's play to follow.

As for why you went on this journey, it was to r Lieren r the world, meet people, immerse yourself in the lives and flow of the world and go on a journey. And while you were sure this wasn’t the best journey for an Avatar to take, you couldn’t ignore your excitement at the idea of joining and becoming one of the Blue spirits for at least a time. The fact that they were already going the direction you wanted to go was just icing on the cake as the locals would say.

You still made an effort to look like you were mulling it over, not wanting to look too eager to simply sign up with them and lose whatever cool you had in their eyes. Once you were reasonably sure enough time to consider had passed, you nodded “Well guess you have a new Blue spirit.” you said, extending your arm and, surprising the air bender leader, grabbing their forearm and pulling them into a hug to seal the deal as Si Wong tradition dictated. It offered both parties a chance to backstab the other or allow the embrace to encourage good will.

“Oh wow okay, guess we have another hugger.” She said, pushing away after a second as another of the blue spirits silently did a triumphant fist pump at the news. After that the day moved on rather quickly. You returned to your hotel and slept, as much as you could before the rising sun and volume of the city made it impossible, then you set to work to right your affairs.
(Cont)

>>5644946
You excused yourself from joining the Protestors that day, apologizing and explaining that you got a call from some family and needed to head back. When they questioned why you bothered to come to the city for work if you were just gonna leave, you shrugged and said “That’s what I said.” Then gave them the documents you found, and wished them luck. You left before they could open it fully, but you managed to see their faces light up just as you dispersed into the streets. You had no doubts that they would use the documents well and make some executives of the cabbage corp’s lives even harder, something they’ll definitely find annoying after their regional headquarters went up in flames. Upon mingling with the surging crowds of the city, you found that the fire was on everyone’s minds. Planet of people were happy to see one of the corporate faces bloodied that way, showing a general distaste for their invasion of the city's way of life, but there was also another group that stood against the act, saying that it was not proper and needlessly endangered lives. The fact that it had been an accident wasn’t on anyone’s minds, which was good in its own way, it meant that those seeking you if they connected you with the event would be wary. But also, it would convince people that you had some personal vendetta against the corporations, which at least currently you didn’t.

You put the thought aside though, as now what mattered was moving on from the city with the rest of the Blue Spirits, packing it up and heading to one of the oldest cities in the earth federation, Omashu. Said to be the birthplace of Earthbending, you hoped that you could either find a teacher there to help you master the elements, or you could find easy passage from there to the Fire nation. Whatever came to be, you had to get there first.

You and the Blue spirits met up along the path to Omashu, all leaving at different times and taking different routes, with plans to meet up along the main road as time permitted. Since you were the most limited in your bending and means, you were the goal post for the meet up while everyone took more and more out of the way or difficult paths based on their confidence with their bending. Anyone who fell behind would just have to meet up at Omashu, and a priority was to make sure no one was followed. So you had the pleasure of having to change your clothes, take some impromptu acting lessons from Nina (apparently the girl who had went with you to the data center, who took some time to explain some of their signals to you to avoid another abandonment), and set out alongside Salkhi, who pouted beneath a mass of fur and empty bags to look like a Ox Yak. It took a lot of treats and persuading to get it to work, but eventually you got them to cooperate, though you doubted it would last the whole trip to Omashu.
(Cont)

>>5644949
With all you owned now in your bag, including your brand new Blue Spirit mask and black outfit, you left the city for the mountain path that cut through towards Omashu. It was a gentle incline at first, a well worn road that had been used since likely before the avatar had even existed. However despite this smooth start, and the road remaining relatively well maintained and traveled, the incline grew harsh eventually, then dipped down, then fluctuated as the mountain demanded. There were of course long stretches of flat area made by earth benders in the past and by companies in the present in order to facilitate goods and travel, but the sheer nature of the mountains and the needs of the local villages along its path made a straight and even road impossible to consider. It didn’t take you long to understand why there was such a demand for a new road being made back and Huang city.

You moved like that for most of the first day, taking breaks every now and again to let Salkhi rest and to let your sore feet get a chance to stop throbbing. While the firm ground was nice in comparison to the sands of home, the hard and harsh stone was not kind and you found yourself constantly having to adjust how you walked in order to keep yourself from getting sore quickly. You wondered if you had been stomping the whole way here, and determined that it was a habit you would have to break for both your poor feet and to lose another hint of your origins. You contemplated how much you had already shed of home already, and how much you would shed before you returned to your parents as a stranger, and the people of your home took the form of strangers in return.

You would be seeing so much, experiencing so many cultures and meeting so many people, none of which will be similar to the isolated and temporally untouched ways of the Si Wong Nomads. You would have to pick up certain ideas, certain mannerisms, just to survive and be accepted, not to mention the ones you’ll pick up simply because you like them or unconsciously. That, you thought, must be why your people had stayed the same for so long, their very isolation and xenophobia made it impossible for new ideas to take route unless they were supported by ideas that were already present. Even the very idea of an Inn, a place for travelers to pay for lodging and food, was foreign to your people. They knew of it, and used it on occasion, but such a thing would never be created by the clans. Each Clan was a family, and they moved as one. Each enclave was more tent than building, and what few buildings there were were used for important things such as food storage or clinics. To dedicate an entire building to rent out to lone individuals was almost obscene for the resource conscience Nomads.
(Cont)

>>5644951
The image of your friends among the protestors came to you, the fun you had with them and the warmth of the tavern as you all sang and drank the night away. It brought a smile to your face, a bitter one as you imagined how easy it would be for the clans to trust and befriend one another if they did such a thing, how many friends you would have had if there had ever been a place for such a time of revelry away from family. Instead, the Nomad’s life was one of constant work and motion, with what little time you have to create social ties being dedicated to finding a partner or forging a bond with your work crew as you all waited for the next task that would be waiting after a small break.

The Blue spirits caught your thoughts in that way, how they were clearly not from similar clans or backgrounds or even regions. Yet, they had come together by choice, and though it was a limited show, you were sure they were friends. Especially the Airbending Leader, Tashi, and her fire bending partner Lee. They showed signs of vastly different lives, clear to even someone as disconnected from the world like you were. Tashi had an incomplete air bender tattoo poking from beneath her hair, the lines drawn but the inside not filled in. You thought perhaps she left before they could complete it, but you didn’t know why. Lee on the other hand, hand a burn scar across his mouth and covering his neck, as well as a few scars across his arms that indicated he had been on the receiving end of a knife at some point.

Nina was the smallest of the crew and was a water bender, apparently one from republic city. Petite and bubbly, she moved with a dancer’s grace and you had to assume she had some past with the theater with her acting lessons. She was commonly near the biggest of the team, Huang the earth bender. Huang was, funnily enough, from Huang City and had been the newest recruit to the team. He was big, a result of the physicality of earth bending and his own efforts, and was a massive flirt. He had tried to put the moves on you actually, but Nina had kicked him until he left before you could really reply to it. The sight of the big guy stumbling and running away from the relentless shin kicks still made you laugh.
(cont)

>>5644955
After that was a non bender, a girl named Anhua (Ann according to Nina) from Ba Sing Sei who despite not needing to, dressed in all black and commonly had a bored expression on her face. Your stumbling attempts at making a good impression on her fell into ambiguity as you managed to get no reaction, and were left unsure whether she liked you, hated you, or more likely didn’t care. After that, you bumped into Chin, maybe the oldest of the team. He left to go hide in one of the rooms of their hideout before you could get a word out, and were still unsure where he came from or whether he was a bender or not. You only got the Name thanks to Ann, who simply said “Chin.” Looked you in the eyes for a few seconds as you tried to translate her statement, then left as soon as you started to understand it was Chin’s name and not her talking about your chin.

It had been an eventful day, and with all these thoughts racing through your head, you nearly passed the turn off to the first village. You waited here for a few hours, the first rest stop you had been told to make in order for the Blue Spirits to catch up to you. Taking off your hat and packing away Salkhi’s disguise, you sat down and let the mountain air blow past you. You had prepared for the cold, and thanks to the cold nights of the desert, you were ready for the chill that came.

As you waited, about three hours into your break, you saw a car drive up. It actually caught you off guard, but it was very clearly a delivery truck. It honked its horn at you, forcing you to pull Salkhi out of their way as they continued on, skipping the village entirely. As the dust cleared, making you cough briefly as it got into your mouth, you saw someone come from the cloud and step in front of you. “Tashi?” You asked, standing up in shock.

Her tattoo was colored in a bright blue, and she was wearing the clothing of an Air Nomad, even carrying a glider staff across her back. She smiled and nodded “Yep, sorry for taking so long. You the only one here?” She said, looking around, then sighing as she shook her head “Bunch of slow pokes, I even took the farthest and most out of the way path to give them a head start. Slackers.” She said, smirking to herself as she knowingly shifted her glider staff on her back, before looking back to you and gesturing towards the village “Come on, they’re gonna take all day, and I hear this place has a great inn.” She said, walking down the path towards the village, with you soon following beside her with Salkhi following from behind.
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>>5644957
Night came, with you and Tashi simply getting a room with a window facing the outside edge of the village, eating some food, then bringing up Salkhi’s disguise to line the ground of the inn with bedding. “There, that way whenever they get here, they have a place to sleep. Beds go to the goal post and the first one to arrive.” She explained, hopping onto the bed and letting out a sigh. “Everyone gets a turn being the goal post, so next time you’ll have to earn it by beating me. Once we’re all together, we’ll just be getting normal rooms or shelter however we can manage. Only rule is that no matter what, everyone has a place to sleep.” She said, taking off her shoes and placing her staff against the wall.

You placed your sand gourd by the bed and, a bit hesitant, took what you guessed was your bed for the night. Before you could get comfortable though, Tashi hit you with her question “Are you the Avatar?” she leveled a stare at you, and you opened your mouth to reflexively lie, but you saw in her eyes that she knew already, and that she was giving you a chance to explain in your own words and on your own terms.

You let out a sigh and nodded “Yeah, I guess so. You said, laying down onto the bed and settling in but turning to lay on your side so you could continue to talk to tashi.

“You guess so?”

“Yeah, sort of just happened, well me discovering it, around…I think a month ago now.” You said, Tashi briefly raising her brow in surprise “Man, lot’s changed. But yeah, I was on a scavenging run with my clan,”

“Clan?”

“Si Wong Nomad, we travel in clans. We found this old temple buried in the sands, dug up by the winds and a recent storm. Always able to find something of worth, either to use or sell. “ You said, then proceeded to tell how you discovered you were the avatar. You skipped over the turmoil of choices you had, the run in with the mercenaries, and your dreams with your past lives, and merely moved on to “After I came to terms with it, I decided that I’d rather walk my own path, rather than just do what everyone said.”
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>>5644958
“Huh…Wow…To be honest when I left the monastery, I never even considered there was a chance I would meet the avatar. Ha, take that Monk Shen!” she said, flopping onto the bed and tucking in. You opened your mouth to probe a question, but she interrupted “Well, welcome to the Blue Spirits Avatar Saffiyah. Here, your past doesn’t matter. You can say whatever you want about your past, just make sure you respect when someone doesn’t do the same? It’s just polite.” She said with a smile aimed at you, before pulling the covers over herself.

You were silent for a second, fighting down your curiosity, before you sighed and nodded “fair enough…Thanks for having me Tashi.” you said, and saw her smile and nod before turning to her side and you supposed turning in for the night. The long walk today made you do the same, and soon you drifted off to sleep.

You dreamed once more:

>Of a man sitting on a massive wall, drinking tea next to a young man. The man was old, but his power was real. The young man was inexperienced, listening to the older man’s words but you knew there was ambition and youthful ignorance still within him.

>Of a hunter in a frozen wasteland, wearing the pelt of a Polar bear dog as they moved silently. They held onto something precious, an item that would save her people. It was warm and hungry.

>Of a forest whose trees grew into the sky, and the spaces between their trunks seemed to lead to strange and unknown places.


Sorry for the long pause.

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>>5644960
>Of a hunter in a frozen wasteland, wearing the pelt of a Polar bear dog as they moved silently. They held onto something precious, an item that would save her people. It was warm and hungry.

>>5644960
>>Of a hunter in a frozen wasteland, wearing the pelt of a Polar bear dog as they moved silently. They held onto something precious, an item that would save her people. It was warm and hungry.

>>5644960
>>Of a hunter in a frozen wasteland, wearing the pelt of a Polar bear dog as they moved silently. They held onto something precious, an item that would save her people. It was warm and hungry.
So strange for her to dream of a frozen wasteland. A place she has never seen before.

>>5644960
>>Of a forest whose trees grew into the sky, and the spaces between their trunks seemed to lead to strange and unknown places.

>>5644960
>Of a hunter in a frozen wasteland, wearing the pelt of a Polar bear dog as they moved silently. They held onto something precious, an item that would save her people. It was warm and hungry.

>>5644960
>Of a forest whose trees grew into the sky, and the spaces between their trunks seemed to lead to strange and unknown places.

>>5644960
>>Of a hunter in a frozen wasteland, wearing the pelt of a Polar bear dog as they moved silently. They held onto something precious, an item that would save her people. It was warm and hungry.

>>5644960
>Of the frozen wasteland

>>5644960
>Of a hunter in a frozen wasteland, wearing the pelt of a Polar bear dog as they moved silently. They held onto something precious, an item that would save her people. It was warm and hungry.

>>5645043
>>5645504
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>>5646009
>>5646035
7 for the Hunter in the frozen wasteland. Writing

They were marching through a darkness that reminded you of home, a sky without light and an expanse of slipping hills masked in a thick night. They held no light, knew not to as it would attract predators and ruin their night vision, and they could not afford to be attacked while she carried this precious package. She had left her village with a whole hunting party, brave men and women who understood that the mission was more important than themselves, people unwilling to let their young avatar go out on her own when she had so little training. She hadn’t even finished her water bending training, and was a skilled but inexperienced hunter, she would need their help they said.

She had needed their aide, and they had given it and more. Only she could have communed with the spirit, only she could have appeased it and accepted its challenge. New life, a reprieve from the storms, a return of the fish…all of it and more if she took its’ child somewhere warm. Become its guardian, learn the value of life to have it granted, protect a life from the hungry storms to make them fade away. She tucked the bundle closer to herself, and for a brief second, her eyes flashed. Aide, from the only people left that could help her now. She let out a breath, and blue fire expelled out and warmed the area, before she breathed in the warm air and took it into herself. A rush of warmth formed in her core, and it staved off the icy death that clawed at her. It kept the bundle warm, but it didn’t sate its hunger. It didn’t sate hers either, but that would be handled. She walked the same path she had taken to the spirit, and her eyes flashed again. She stopped by a section of snow, and cleared it away with a wave of her hand, to find the body of one of the hunters. They had been the last to succumb to the blizzard, giving her all the supplies they had left, and marching as long as they could before collapsing. He had said that she had to make it, that she needed the food more. She had.

Soon she was moving again, marching off with a full stomach and rations, the bundle in her arms sleeping satisfied. She hoped it didn’t know what it had eaten, that she had made the right choice. She knew it didn’t matter what she hoped, she could not change it so she continued to March on.

In the span of the dream, you saw her March through an endless blizzard, never sleeping, never stopping save to tend to another fallen comrades body. She marched for a week, eventually not needed to call on the avatar spirit to warm herself or to find the bodies. It was something she figured out.
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>>5647167
She didn’t return to her village. She walked past it, and onto a boat. And she sailed off, taking the spirit bundle to somewhere warm, somewhere green. Once she did, she’d return to her village. She’d check with them, then all the other villages as well. It was too early in their history to fade away. A mere 2 generations after they split from the north, her people had come here seeking a better life, but they found it through hardship. Now, she could end the hardship, appease the spirit whose land she had invaded, and give her people a home.

“That was the hope, and it came to be,” Said the Avatar as her spirit appeared next to you as her past self sailed off into the sea, the water carrying her away “But my village did not survive. They scattered to the other villages, those that survived, and after a year I returned to find the ruins buried beneath the ice.” The image shifted to show an older version of the woman standing in a circle of almost entirely frozen over huts and buildings. “With no tethers, I went on my own journey, like you. And every day the village I was born from faded away just a bit more, as I changed and adapted to my surroundings.”

Your anxieties from earlier rose again, the fear that you would become a stranger to your people, that every day you got closer to never being able to go home. The avatar placed her hand on your shoulder, and she smiled at you from beneath her hood “No matter how I changed though, no matter how much the ways of my village were forgotten, The southern pole was still my home. No matter how far I wandered, or how differently I dressed, or how long I went without practicing the ways of my parents, as long as I held them in my heart it was never lost to me.”

The vision showed a now much older avatar once more returning to the south pole, and through her leadership and connections with the world, helped fully establish the southern water tribe as its own people. She brought new practices, protected some old, and though it was not all the same by the end, you could see the spirit of the people who first came to the pole still lived within it all.

It brought you hope, and quelled just a little of your worries of the future. Then the nature of the vision caught you as odd, so you turned to the water tribe avatar and spoke “These visions, these looks into your lives, they seem so random sometimes. But other times, it feels like you all are trying to teach me lessons through your own lives…What is happening? How am I able to speak to such ancient spirits, Avatar Agni was unsure why herself, and Avatar Dhargey was the same.” You asked, hoping this Avatar would have some possible insight

“I’m not sure, those Avatar and myself should have faded into the mists of time, so far back in the cycle that it would require great effort to call us forward… I sense something lingers upon our soul, our shared spirit in tune with Rava’s own,”
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>>5652621
“Who is Rava?”

“A spirit that works in tandem with our own spirit, they are much like me or Agni are, echoes of consciousness resting beneath many others. Yet, the damage caused to the Avatar spirit in Avatar Korra’s time must still linger. The partition of our souls is weak, the unity damaged…” She frowned, then looked around. You followed her gaze, and saw many hundreds of people wandering without purpose, a lack of unity and cohesion evident.

You felt them all, and for a second you were overwhelmed before Avatar Ora pulled you away back into her memories. “You must be careful young avatar. The power that grants us the avatar cycle has been damaged, to the point that it is near shattering completely. Avatar Korra was fortunately weak in matters of the spirit, so she was able to skirt by without risk. However, your awakening has agitated the balance, and tossed you into the storm of old spirits.” She explained as the sensation that she was sheltering you from a blizzard that sought to consume you, filling your mind.

“Whenever you rest, whenever you seek our aid, whenever you skirt the edge of the spirit world, you put yourself at risk and risk straining the balance further.” She explained, creating an image of all the avatars standing in a swirling formation, similar to the temple where you had awakened, then showing it shattering and the cycle breaking utterly “...This was never her intent, never the wish of Avatar Korra. Even now, she and many others work to try and hold it together, while you stumble into our lives and witness ancient memories and strain their efforts.”

Avatar Korra, Avatar Aang, and Avatar Roku all worked in tandem, exercising what willpower they could to stabilize the avatar spirit and keep its lives from fraying and wandering. “I’m afraid, much like many of your past lives, you must contend with the scars of your own past. You must find a means to repair the shattering of our collective spirit, to heal permanently the damage done from the last two cycles.”

An Image of Avatar Aang dying while in the avatar state, and being dragged back into the living was shown, and the cracks it had left on the avatar cycle, which only grew worse when he had forced his way into the Avatar state against the Pheonix King Ozai. Then It showed Korra’s own trials, the near destruction of the Avatar spirit and cycle, and it being left in its current state unknowingly. “The avatar spirit has been on the brink of destruction so often in recent times, that it has left us fragile. If a way to mend these cracks is not found soon, it may be that you are the last Avatar. That one day, it will all come crashing down on top of you…I can’t say what that might mean, only that it sounds bad.” She said, her words showing the ends of her wisdom, and just leaving uncertainty.
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>>5652623
“How do I do that? I just started a month ago! Where do I even begin on fixing all of this?!” You said, the sheer scope of the problem, grander than anything you could have imagined would be yours to deal with “I was already afraid to deal with whatever I would have to do to keep the balance, but now I have to worry about our very soul?”

Avatar Ora was silent for a time, then shook her head “I don’t have the answers for you now but… I believe that the answers may arise on your journey. Through our many lives, we are gifted with the ability to glimpse the echoes of fate, and I believe that you being the one who must repair the damage is not a coincidence. Your awakening brought you into contact with us, Avatars who helped set the foundations of our world, Avatars who dealt with the spirits when they were at their strongest, Avatars across the ages. I think this may be part of the answer.”

As she Spoke, Avatar Agni and Avatar Dhargey appeared beside her, in order of the Avatar cycle, and you could feel the imbalance heal slightly. “Continue on your journey Young Avatar, grow as yourself, find your own path.” Avatar Dhargey said, a genuine smile shown to you as he comforted you.

“Your will is strong Saffiyya, and you have the chance to forge the path ahead. You have the strength to do this.” Said Avatar Agni, the armless woman standing behind you, supporting your efforts.
“You have awakened us, and we shall do what we can. Keep up your journey, learn what you can, and explore what fate has prepared for you.” Avatar Ora said, as all three began to fade away, going off to aide in the repair and stabilization of the Avatar Spirit.

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Eventually, you awoke to the physical world, rising up and shielding your eyes from the light as your mind processed what it could. You saw a bunch of bodies strewn across the ground, and briefly an image of Avatar Agni’s entourage flashed in your mind before you snapped back to your own life.
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>>5652624
The rest of the blue spirits slept on the ground, some bunched up in their own space while others were piled on the other. It was still early in the day, and everyone was sleeping deeply, likely all tired from the trek they had to make to get here.

The worlds of the Avatars rang in your head, but you shook them away as you focused. You could not do anything about it now, and their wisdom was to continue on, to learn your ways as the Avatar and through that find an answer eventually. However Now, you had to decide on the immediate motions of the day.

>Go into town and collect some supplies for the journey, as well as breakfast for the team. You still had some money, and you felt that it was a good idea to make a good impression on the team now while you were still a fresh recruit in their eyes.

>Go and train your bending in a nearby clearing, honing what skills you had and expanding on your efforts with fire. Though you still lacked formal training, you still had something to begin on and expand from through the basics you knew and Agni’s own tips.

>Go and practice your martial art below, working with an invisible enemy to refine it and try and expand what moves you could effectively perform, in case you ever need it in the future.

>Other

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>>5652625
>Go and train your bending in a nearby clearing, honing what skills you had and expanding on your efforts with fire. Though you still lacked formal training, you still had something to begin on and expand from through the basics you knew and Agni’s own tips.
just caught up
won't be much of an Avatar if she doesn't learn to bend other elements

>>5652625
>>Go into town and collect some supplies for the journey, as well as breakfast for the team. You still had some money, and you felt that it was a good idea to make a good impression on the team now while you were still a fresh recruit in their eyes.

>>5652625
>Go into town and collect some supplies for the journey, as well as breakfast for the team. You still had some money, and you felt that it was a good idea to make a good impression on the team now while you were still a fresh recruit in their eyes.

>>5652625
>Go and train your bending in a nearby clearing, honing what skills you had and expanding on your efforts with fire. Though you still lacked formal training, you still had something to begin on and expand from through the basics you knew and Agni’s own tips.

>>5652625
>Go into town and get some supplies.

>>5652625
>Collect supplies and drop them off before training in a clearing.
I think we’d have time to get some basic stuff at least, it won’t be as good as devoting all our time to it, but something is better than nothing.

>>5652625
>Go into town and collect some supplies for the journey, as well as breakfast for the team. You still had some money, and you felt that it was a good idea to make a good impression on the team now while you were still a fresh recruit in their eyes.

>>5652625
>>Go and train your bending in a nearby clearing, honing what skills you had and expanding on your efforts with fire. Though you still lacked formal training, you still had something to begin on and expand from through the basics you knew and Agni’s own tips.

>>5652625
>Go into town and collect some supplies for the journey, as well as breakfast for the team. You still had some money, and you felt that it was a good idea to make a good impression on the team now while you were still a fresh recruit in their eyes.

>>5652625
>>Go and train your bending in a nearby clearing, honing what skills you had and expanding on your efforts with fire. Though you still lacked formal training, you still had something to begin on and expand from through the basics you knew and Agni’s own tips.

>>5652698
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>>5654752
4 for training

>>5652729
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>>5653178
>>5654664
5 for getting supplies.

I'll starting writing

>>5655582
Just a heads up, the thread's close to being archived.

3rd from the bottom
I'd recommend archiving it asap

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I archived it