He has checklists. He loads up the truck with everything on the Water Dungeon Checklist and off they go.

Lucy takes notes on his checklists because honestly that seems relevant to her own backlash.

He's bringing guns that are specced for working underwater - "I think possibly you should expressly not learn to fire guns, seems risky" - and flippers and spare towels and goggles and waterproof lights and such things.

“Oh that would be such a bad idea.”

"Good thing you have not already pursued a shooting hobby!"

“Yyyyyep. Talk about a bad thing to have been in the middle of when I started awakening.”

"You probably would've been fine, it's not like most people who shoot solve their non-person problems with bullets either, but."

“Yeah, but they have the concept that other people exist and, one, could be accidentally hurt by careless gun usage, and two, can judge them for making terrible life choices.”

"I don't think those motives are generally operative in me not shooting my alarm clock but I haven't spent long enough with my solipsism mode to find out."

“I admit I don’t have the best model of gun hobbyists even at zero backlash.”

"Yeah, I wasn't into it before I awakened, would've been very dangerous with the dyspraxia."

“I’m just really not into being able to kill stuff. I mean, that’s probably uncharitable, but guns don’t really have any practical purpose other than killing things. Which, like, obviously dungeons and some dungeon monsters need to be killed, but that’s not recreational.”

"I think some people get into it on the same level as people get into being good at video games, which also has limited practical application. I'm mostly guessing though."

“Oh, video games are fine, it’s just, the fact that a gun can, in fact, super kill people, is offputting. I guess if this fact did not feel super salient for some reason shooting would be fine, although even then I would generally prefer pastimes with plot or pretty colors or something.”

"I actually do have an offensively usable power that I don't advertise but it's very expensive so I mostly shoot stuff."

“Yeah, I—well firstly I don’t in fact want to be mean to people who do like guns, they’re just emphatically not to my taste—but I’d learn to shoot if it were practical for dungeoning. The fact that it’s not is a fact about my backlash, not the general appropriateness of guns.”

"Yeah, I get you."

“It can be really easy to conflate subjective opinions with objective facts and not doing that was important even before I got this specific backlash.”

"Do you have more examples in mind?"

“Sharp cheddar is better than mild cheddar. Iceberg lettuce is a waste of chlorophyll. Giving up fun toys like bubble wands just because you’re an adult is asinine. Some colors are just bad and nobody has ever looked good in them.”

"I have to be honest with you, I didn't find bubble wands interesting for more than a couple minutes at a time even when I was like six."

“Well, then it’s not because you’re an adult! I don’t usually think about bubble wands that much but they’re, uh, the kind of harmless, low-person-engagement kind of entertainment that it seems like a good idea to have on hand for backlash purposes.”

"I think I'd go with drawing if it were me, do you draw?"

“Not historically, and until I build up enough habits around it I don’t expect my too-backlashed self to care, since the reason I want to get good at it is to show other people cool animal vision stuff.”

"Makes sense. I don't draw either but I think I could develop an interest in it that was mostly self-oriented."