Sanity – Training and Equipment District
With the help of Sanity’s training facility, AD7 relearned some of her old skills quickly- really quickly. The whole ordeal was quite different than she had expected. Back in her day, both a physical and mental strain was needed to relearn techniques after so long. However, the “training” she’d received up to this point had been more like unlocking old consciousness with a computer.
The change made sense to AD7 given the new technology of the day. She had quite literally been brought back to life from a burn corpse. So a little memory reconstruction was more than plausible. Unfortunately, the machine and its magic couldn’t do everything. Although she knew how to do some of her more basic moves, only brief portions of her past came to light.
Instead, AD7 was reminded of more changes due to the past. Her old pride and joy, the Engineering Talent Set, was no more. Instead of building odd machines, there was a Mech Talent Set that used mechanical suits. She could make and alter another suit. However, she already knew that her friend Eighty-Seven would get very jealous.
Currently, AD7 was taking a break from the whole training ordeal. Her pulsing head had long since told her it was time to stop. She had followed Keyanna’s excited suggestion to look at weapons and walked with her to their next location.
Keyanna seemed to know more about AD7 than she knew about herself. That in itself was disturbing, but Keyanna only got more and more excited about sharing what she knew as they talked. She even knew everything about AD7’s old weapon, more than what was comfortable.
As they talked, AD7 tried to be polite and maintain a bit of normalcy, but Keyanna made this very difficult. Instead of walking beside her and talking normally, she hopped sideways while facing AD7. AD7 could see the excitement in her eyes with a single glance but tried to look foreward. Honestly, Keyanna was so giddy that AD7 was surprised she hadn’t already been tackled by a screaming fan.
“Past videos had shown you using weapons like this,” Keyanna smiled and almost screamed like a fangirl.
AD7 managed a look at Keyanna. She looked down to see that Keyanna had a large weight in each hand that she was quite proud of.
“It’s strange,” Keyanna started again. “They’re very famous but very difficult to duplicate and are very, very hard to use,” she paused to take a breath, “but we managed it.”
AD7 took what was a replication of this famous icon. This “weapon” was nothing more than, two large and very heavy spherical weights connected by a chain that had to be at least more than a decimeter long. One of the weights had an enchant on it that looked fiery and explosive, slightly slippery and warm to the touch. The other weight seemed a little heavier and was much colder.
The chain was very thin- thinner than it should be. She measured out a centimeter of chain and decided to give it a test swing. One swing was all it took for her to judge the weapon. She was certain that if forced to use this thing as a weapon, she and many others around her would really need a healer.
“I don’t think I can use this,” AD7 said simultaneously disappointed and frustrated.
“What’s wrong with it?”
“I… I can’t use this.” AD7 was on the verge of tears. She had relearned her talents. She knew this weapon was used with her talents. It felt familiar but incredibly unwieldy. Why couldn’t she use it!?
“We’ll have to try something else then.”
“No,” AD7 sternly corrected, “the weapon is fine. I’ll just have to learn to use it again.”