He gave what he could, avoiding personal comments that would seem out of character if they didn't know about the Archivist, but the last question actually made him pause.<br/><br/>He stopped and frowned, as he tried to bludgeon his brains onto the correct path, before taking a seat. "Since I am being covered for food and board, which is mostly just food as I stay in the RV, AND I am 'assuming'..."<br/><br/>He paused and gave Natalya a significant look. "That this... 'employment' is meant to last a while, at least a year, I am able to be a bit more flexible than I usually am.<br/><br/>A better idea would be to determine what I am actually expected to do for the team before I start quoting figures, money and materials. Am I primarily a combatant or an outfitter?"<br/><br/>He paused, clearly marshaling his thoughts, and coming out of 'debrief' mode, as Archivist had called it. "What I mean is that am I going to be a back line support, primarily focused on giving other people the tools they need to meet whatever threat they are expecting to deal with, armor, weapons, utility items, or whatever they might need, or am I going to be hot dropping in my Altus mech to fight Godzilla beside Star and Wilding? I understand that I will have to do both jobs, likely at the gravitationally induced curvature path of a cranial covering, but it will at least give me a place to start working.<br/><br/>I am unusual in that I can, as I proved with the Altus mech and the Godzilla knockoff, fight beside instead of merely support from the rear like most outfitters. I am not sure if you are aware, but in DOMINION's roster, that I was aware of, we had only one combat outfitter, and that was me. All the other outfitters couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag, even with appropriate equipment."