[OPEN LOG]

[aprettyflyboy]

Characters: Poe Dameron and You~
Date: All July
Location: Various (specified below)
Situation: Various (specified below)
Warnings/Rating: None at the moment, will update if needed


[All around the city]

[Poe hangs around the Metal Sector the most, as he’s interested in Stark Industries, but he can be found anywhere in the city. He’s either trying to collect pieces to build his new astromech, looking for new available jobs, doing groceries or just visiting the shops.]


[The Mightnight hotel.]

[....Or what is left of it. Poe is in the building checking the structure and deciding what rooms needs repairs more urgently. If he’s not doing that, chances are that he’s fixing the stairs, a wall, or generally working on something.]


[Outskirts of the city.]

[Poe is setting up a training course for the police Force.  If you are a police force officer, you need some exercise or you just happen to be around, come say hi.]


[Animal time | July 21-29 | All around the City]

[The pilot had been affected by Zattana’s magic potion bottles and now he’s a small sugar glider, really confused and trying to find a safe place to hide and avoid being stepped on. Please mind the tail.]
 

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Outskirts

[ten_zero]

Mag is going to be doing some police training herself, but she's very interested to hear what Poe's course is going to be. As a soldier, most of her training is military rather than law enforcement, and she's looking to get as many points of view as possible both for her own purposes and how she teaches others.

She sits quietly as the lesson begins.

[aprettyflyboy]

[It took him a few days to get everything ready and finally Poe had divided the training course in two.

First there’s the most educational and less taxing part of the course, classes about: First aid, teamwork, self-organization, weapon handling and shooting, strategy and field craft.

The second, the obstacle course training involves physical tasks like: climbing different obstacles, monkey bars, running, weight lifting…it's especially focused on skill and strength development .

He wants to start easy on the newbies so today's lesson focuses mostly on how to effectively lead small teams in simple operations. Poe smiled up at Mag when he spots her.]

It's good to see you here. Have you ever lead a team operation?

[ten_zero]

The class had been an interesting experience. Showing some familiarity with the weapons of this area was useful, although she could have figured out most of that on her own. The first aid was extremely useful, however - despite what you might think, being a biologist didn't prepare you very well for human medicine, and neither did channeling void energy into warframes. For the exercise portion, Mag merely went through the motions - she didn't want to outshine the other students, but they were trivial to perform for her warframe. She spent most of that segment watching the other students performance.

Nonetheless, it was a lesson filled with lots of useful information, that Mag eagerly absorbed. Her visor spun with a subtle extra vigor as Poe approached her.

"For routine missions, with rookie Tenno," Mag admitted, bashfully. "In most cells I tend to take on a more supportive role. It's important to me that we never leave a Tenno behind."

She would often use Trinity for those types of missions. A warframe specializing in healing and warding. Mag was a bit more offensive in her abilities, although she could still use her polarization to revitalize her ally's shields in a pinch, or deflect incoming fire.

[aprettyflyboy]

There were a lot of different species in the city and Poe had tried to include them all in his teaching, the problem was that he still had to do more research himself. All in due time, there were more classes in the future after all.

Poe gave her a smile, wondering if he was looking intimidating in any way by accident.

"I like the philosophy, no man left behind." It couldn't always be accomplished but as far as Poe was concerned it was as important that everyone mad it back home in one piece as it was to complete a mission.

"How big were your units?"

[ten_zero]

"Four Tenno to a cell, although for particularly intense missions we often pair cells to form teams of eight. There aren't many of us, so we operate on the concept of mobility and surprise."

The raid on Jordas was one such occassion. The strange infested Cephalon was a frequent visitor to her thoughts.

"You?"

[aprettyflyboy]

"The Pathfinders, his Father's unit, operated in a similar way." Poe listened carefully and then looking at Mag's design.

"They were lightly armored, though, and used guerrilla tactics to infiltrate areas. When it comes to combat, it's important to know when to be stealthy and when to cause a ruckus, hopefully in this city things won't get as serious.

As for me, I was a Commander for the New Republic Starfleet but then I joined the Resistance and became the lead of The Starfighter Corps. Our combat missions typically broke the squadron into paired fighter elements. We coordinated in battle, splitting into two primary X-wing squadrons one defensive while the other served as support. I...honesty miss flying. Now the war, just being in the air."

[ten_zero]

"That's very true. The Grineer and Corpus greatly outnumber us, so it's important that we never get into open war with them. The syndicates generally keep the bulk of the fleets away from our Relays, but occasionally the Grineer put together Formorian Battleships and intimidate away the opposition. We've lost two relays that way."

Flying...

"Me too. I wonder..." Mag just washed up off the turtle's shell... she wondered if her archwing might wash up one day too.

[Animal Time]

[looksfine]

[Poe wasn't the only one who'd been affected.]

[Ironically, Aya was one of the few people who should have been immune. She neither ate nor drank, and had absolutely no reason to visit one of the offending cafes. However, what she was was social. And always eager to stop and chat with someone long enough...for a young child to run past, knocking the cup of tea from her acquaintance's hand, spilling it all over her front.]

[At the time, Aya thought nothing of it. Her synthetic fluoropolymer coating was waterproof, and the offending liquid merely wiped off with a few towels and plethora of apologies from multiple parties.]

[...half an hour later, she was a tiny, glowing green ball rolling down the street. And right passed a certain sugar glider.]

[Animal Time]

[aprettyflyboy]

[It would be nice if something made sense. Poe was doing groceries and suddenly the whole word shifted and he was at the same eye level as everyone's footwear. It was a miracle he managed to not get stepped to death yet.

He rolling ball got his attention and Poe followed it. Maybe if he walked close to the thing there would be fewer chances people will accidentally squash him.]

[looksfine]

[It wasn't long before Aya realized that something was following her. She stopped, rotating just enough to properly face the little creature. "Staring" for several seconds before her voice seemed to echo:]

Hello there.

[aprettyflyboy]

[Oooops. Looks like being stealthy isn't one of Poe's best traits, at least not when he's an animal who barely knows how to walk. He stopped all of sudden, tail going up and ears flattening before he lets out a small, startled screech.]

Oh, hello. Can you understand me?

[A a big stretch, probably, but maybe if he was lucky...]

[looksfine]

[If it were possible to blink, the little 'eyeball' would have done so. The round circle in the center of her singular line of vision appeared to move up and down several times. Taking in the sight before her. It was unclear whether or not she had heard, and without a face to express any current thoughts or emotions, several other things in the moment were unclear as well.]

Do you have a name? What manner of species are you?

[Questions. So, so many questions.]

[aprettyflyboy]

[Poe was used to reading BB-8's expressions even thought the droid had no face and only a pair of lenses of different size as 'eyes'. He sort of got the eyeball's body language...for a wide definition of 'body.

The sugar glider nodded, unsure about if the other could understand him at all but making it clear that he did comprehend the questions.]

Poe, I'm Poe. And I'm human...usually. Now I am not sure, I don't know what happened..

[He creature sat on his hunches and raised as paw, trying to explain that he was usually taller.]

What's your name?

[no_light]

[ Please mind the tail?

Ben almost doesn't. Almost. But he throws himself back just before he can step onto the fluffy tail of the little... something that has darted out onto the street right in front of him, and lands on his ass. ]

Hello. What are you?

[ He knows Jedi can talk to animals for real, but he's not a Jedi yet, he's just nine years old and really skilled at floating down the cookies from the top shelf where Threepio hides them because oh dear, sugar makes you excitable.]

[aprettyflyboy]

[It's alarming how many people doesn't pay attention to the ground in front of them. Poe is now very acquaintance with it, unfortunately. He was trying to get back to the Sky sector and try to find Rey but everything looks too big now and he's got completely lost.

He lets out a short, startled screech but stops himself from running away when realizes that the kid had noticed him. He looks up at the boy, raises a small paw and chatters softly back at him]

Hello. I'm Poe, can you understand me? I need some help.

[He clearly understood your question, kid, isn't the little animal weird funny?]

[no_light]

[ Ben's eyes go comically wide when he can actually understand the chittering.]

Wow! Is that you? Uncle Luke said Jedi can talk to animals, but I thought he was making fun of me!

[ It hasn't occurred to him that this isn't an awesome hidden Jedi power at work at all. He might catch on later. But for now he's just happy that his Jedi power is talking to cute furry animals. Because best Jedi power ever, right? ]

[aprettyflyboy]

[Poe's ears go up and he moves closer until he can be reached if the boy wants to.]

Oh, thanks the Force. No one paid attention to me bef... [Wait a second.] You are part of Luke Skywalker's family or some other Luke...?

[Should he be worried?]

[no_light]

[ If the Skywalker family is involved, being worried is always a good idea. ]

Yeah. [ He's a bit worried now, nursing his bottom lip with his front teeth. ] I'm Ben. Luke's my uncle. Mom's twin. Do you know him?

[aprettyflyboy]

[Yup. Poe likes the Skywalker clan but he knows they're trouble. He can't help but stare at the boy, it can't possibly be older than then. And he can't really be Ben, Ben, right? Maybe he's before Poe's time, like Luke.]

I know him, he's around, but maybe he won't recognize me now. I am not usually this....thing, whatever I am. [Poe pulls at the fur at his side. Force, isn't he fluffy, how strange]

I am a person like you but somehow I got turned into an animal. Did you just arrive here?

[ animal time! ]

[sensitively]

In the Sky Sector Rey has worn herself out searching for Poe; combing their neighborhood, interrogating their neighbors and other foreigners and kedan who live nearby. But there's been no sign of him, and with a heavy heart she's begun to think that he may have disappeared from Keeliai entirely.

She returned from a particularly long search for him to find a small, wide-eyed animal by the front door of their residence, and with curiosity Rey knelt to examine it further. It was such a tiny looking thing. What was it doing by itself, out here?

Gently she clucked her tongue at it, kneeling and holding out fingers to pet it, if the animal wished.

[ Yaay ]

[aprettyflyboy]

[It had taken Poe a lot to get to their home and once he did, he couldn't find a way to get inside or open the door. Door handles were impossible to operate when you couldn't reach them. He was startled when a shadow loomed over him but Poe's mood improved immensely when he saw who it belonged.]

Rey, Rey! [The sugar glider rubbed his head against her fingers then hold onto one with his tiny paws.] Force, I am so glad to see you. It's me, Poe!

[sensitively]

[ Rey's jaw dropped. The tiny little creature was speaking to her. Sure, she'd instinctually understood nearly every language she'd been exposed to - and even some she hadn't, like Shyriiwook - but this was just bizarre, and - ]

Poe?? [ she exclaimed unbelievably, careful not to move too suddenly as the little animal rubbed its head against her fingers. ] How can this - how is this possible? What happened to you? Some sort of magic?

[aprettyflyboy]

Yes! I don't know what happened but I turned into this...furry thing. [He's still not sure what he is. Similar to a Kneeb but those are yellow so...not.]

I was leaving work when it happened, I barely made it here without getting squashed.

[sensitively]

Oh, Poe. [ she was genuinely concerned, now — what if he was unable to turn back? what if he was to remain like this for the rest of his life?

gently she scooped him up in both of her hands, cradling him gently to her chest. if he was going to stay in this vulnerable state for very long, the least she could do was protect him. ]

...I've got you. I'm not going to let anyone squash you, don't worry.

[aprettyflyboy]

[He’s trying not to think about that possibility. There are too high chances he would survive for long. The world now is too big, and he’s such a small, fragile little creature…it’s very frustrating.]

I’m sorry that you have always look out for me, Rey. [He curled into her hands, trying not to sound as miserable as he felt.] Whatever I got doesn’t seem to be contagious at least.