<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e8/2560x1600_wenjun-lin-oruzhie-devushka-gorod.jpg)</div><hr/><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Alexandra "Kaze" Gurlanovich (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=217186.msg10676824#msg10676824)</span></strong>Female Elf<br/><strong>Physical Damage</strong>: 0/10<strong>Stun Damage</strong>: 0/10<br/><strong>Commlink</strong>: Hidden<strong>SIN</strong>: Alexandra Gurlanovich<br/><strong>¥</strong>: 12,000 +500 Mission Allotment<br/><strong>Ammunition</strong>: 5 clips of stick-n-shock (Ares Predator V)<br/><strong>Edge</strong>: 1/5<br/><hr/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Total of 4 attempts before getting 2 hits</div><div class="spoiler_body">Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 5d6<br/>First Target Number: 5<br/>Comment: <br/>Result: 4, 6, 1, 1, 3, <br/>For: 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, <br/>Total: 1<br/><br/>Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 5d6<br/>First Target Number: 5<br/>Comment: <br/>Result: 4, 1, 6, 1, 3, <br/>For: 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, <br/>Total: 1<br/><br/>Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 5d6<br/>First Target Number: 5<br/>Comment: <br/>Result: 5, 4, 6, 3, 2, <br/>For: 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, <br/>Total: 2<br/></div></div><br/>Back home, Alex had a pool where she could practice her swimming.  It wasn't truly hers since she shared it with a number of other people according to a particular time-share, but it gave her a strong indication of what she expected water to be like.<br/><br/>Her expectations didn't quite hold up.  Not only were the waves unsettling, not only was she unused to having a weight at the small of her back for carrying equipment, but the conditions were slick and slippery.  If the ladder to the pool could be designed for easy access, why wouldn't the boat be the same?<br/><br/>The question burned through her mind in annoyance as she grabbed and fell time and again, which would hopefully get edited out during the final cuts.<br/><br/>Once she did finally make it on, she snuck into a corner to get herself ready.  The sunglasses slipped easily over her eyes, linking rapidly to the guns in the pack, and she slipped on the subvocal microphone as well.  The contact lenses she wore saw the different readout for each eye, left for left and right for right, as they displayed on her shades.<br/><br/>Some people found it disorienting, but she'd had enough practice and experience that it was just second nature.  Her guncams activated as well as she slipped out the pistols, displaying a microcamera's view wherever she pointed the weapons.<br/><br/>All this information went straight to her feed, as well as the agitation in her nipples and the chill of her body from the cold water, the slow ache in her lungs as she caught her breath, and the feel of her hair plastered to her neck, shoulders and back.  She didn't actually need the contacts or the extra simrig, but she had no real objection in using them.  Still, she might point out the lack of necessity if they ever became an actual issue.<br/><br/>Hopefully the extra time it had taken for her to get on board and prepare wouldn't cause issue for the others.