[ Did your character bet on "which new crew member is most likely to recklessly poke a forcefield"? Was that bet on Shinn? Because he is getting thrown across the room with a yelp, barely managing to land in a crouch rather than on his ass. ]
Shit--!
[ That lesson about not grabbing energy constructs with bare hands is never gonna sink in. ]
2.0.
[ Wait, people are supposed to have positive associations with snow? Snowy lakes in particular? Shinn grew up on a subtropical island and then moved to space, so he didn't have any experience with this kind of weather before the Minerva was ordered to wintery Berlin. And that sortie had been one of the worst days of his life. ("You promised you'd protect me--")
So Shinn is even more sullen and withdrawn than usual as he trudges along the shore of the lake. From a distance, he just seems downcast; closer up, a character will be able to tell that he's looking for something on the the ground at the edge of the water. The snow makes spotting them difficult, but after a while he bends to pick up a freshwater shell. It's very small, very ordinary, but so was the original gift.
Without interacting with people actually enjoying the weather (unless he's interrupted by someone who will ignore or smash through an aura of hardcore broodiness), he slogs back through the snow to the memorial, and drops the little shell into the offing plate. He turns his back on the memorial immediately, rather than waiting to see what does or doesn't happen. The shell is a wish for a dead girl who never set foot on this station -- there's no reason for the magic to work. ]
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[ Did your character bet on "which new crew member is most likely to recklessly poke a forcefield"? Was that bet on Shinn? Because he is getting thrown across the room with a yelp, barely managing to land in a crouch rather than on his ass. ]
Shit--!
[ That lesson about not grabbing energy constructs with bare hands is never gonna sink in. ]
2.0.
[ Wait, people are supposed to have positive associations with snow? Snowy lakes in particular? Shinn grew up on a subtropical island and then moved to space, so he didn't have any experience with this kind of weather before the Minerva was ordered to wintery Berlin. And that sortie had been one of the worst days of his life. ("You promised you'd protect me--")
So Shinn is even more sullen and withdrawn than usual as he trudges along the shore of the lake. From a distance, he just seems downcast; closer up, a character will be able to tell that he's looking for something on the the ground at the edge of the water. The snow makes spotting them difficult, but after a while he bends to pick up a freshwater shell. It's very small, very ordinary, but so was the original gift.
Without interacting with people actually enjoying the weather (unless he's interrupted by someone who will ignore or smash through an aura of hardcore broodiness), he slogs back through the snow to the memorial, and drops the little shell into the offing plate. He turns his back on the memorial immediately, rather than waiting to see what does or doesn't happen. The shell is a wish for a dead girl who never set foot on this station -- there's no reason for the magic to work. ]