Garrus Vakarian (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
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vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
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Back to what I said. I'm not gonna be that person. I'm not gonna do those things. I'll watch and listen, but I'm not going to play games.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
They make me in their image and I've lost.
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Then all I can advise you to do is watch, listen and learn from the pros. I would say for you to start with the unit leads or the instructors.
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Yeah, already had one instructor pull something. Though the Green unit leads aren't people I'd watch for this sort of thing.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
There any unit leads you'd suggest?
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I know and trust my own unit and unit leads, but we Oranges thrive on intel. We keep in touch constantly.
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
Start with the blues or the reds. Reds will know certain things we don't, but blues will know of plans in advance or so I would imagine.
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Asking for who plays games, not asking for who has advanced info. Yeah, Red and Blue probably have more of a head's up, wouldn't be surprised. But that doesn't mean they all play things.
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Hm. There's your first lesson: be specific. Leave no room for errors or for interpretation in your words. I am one of those who plays those games and we will absolutely find loopholes to our advantage.
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Why do you do it?
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To survive. To thrive.
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
As a thief, I follow and I listen. I learn what I can take and what I can't. As someone who lived on the streets, it taught me how to be smarter than everyone.
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Playing games made you smarter? Or did it make you think you were smarter as you gave people just a part of the picture and of course they didn't get the rest?
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You are so terribly single-minded.
FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org
I never gave a picture. I simply painted around what was already there. It's not so hard to learn how people work.
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I snipe, Devan. I make a nest, I wait for my target, I take it out. Single-minded is what I know. Hell, even when I was a vigilante I would hunt one target down and take it out.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
I know I need to adapt. And I know how some people work. Thugs. Slavers. Mercs. Saboteurs, drug dealers, the people who seek to harm others.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Maybe if I start to look at them that way, it'll start to make sense.
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That's all you need. Just watch and learn. Everyone and everything eventually has a pattern.
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So profile them. Like a cop would. Don that, a lifetime ago. Just... didn't expect to need that perspective.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Live and learn.
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It's more than simple profiling but yes, your observational skills are one of the few things that can and will save your arse.
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Then I better get to work on covering my ass.