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Musoka gets yoinked into the Survivorverse
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<Okay!>

Floaty float float-

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Oh jeez.

<Careful! Your right arm is going to smash into the side of the door!>

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 <Whooooops.>

She corrects her course and floats outside.

<...This thing is massive. That's, uh, going to take some getting used to, thanks for the save.>

She turns it on, stimming excitedly.

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And it goes on, taking only a few moments to rumble to life!

She is now superhumanly strong; a heads-up display either projects information about the world around her and her armor's capabilities onto her translucent faceplate or projects information and a picture of the world around her onto her opaque faceplate, depending on the setting. All of her movements are - in some respects - as if she weighed nothing; in other respects, they feel like she's moving a lot of weight around - all her motions have momentum, and even if she arrests it there's a little bit of lag; she isn't quite as fast as she is, out of armor. It'll take a little getting used-to, to know how to move without breaking anything.

Since this is non-tinker powered armor legally available for purchase in the United States without needing to go through a lot of bureaucracy, it does not have integrated weapons systems, though they do install them for you if you can display all the licenses. (And I would say "she can move very very fast", but, uh, she's Blue Lantern, so she walks a lot slower in this than she flies.)

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This is AWESOME!!!

She laughs and tries to twirl on one foot and almost trips but the falling is so obviously happening and she just -(she hopes she'll be as good at this as she feels like she will instinctively) - catch herself, float herself back upright, lift one leg up and twirl herself with her ring, giggling -

<Oh this is great.> she tells Ceru, laughing. <Is this what tinkers are capable of?>

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Awwwwwww. <Actually, this is mundane power armor! there's a tinker set in the works for you, but those take time to build.>

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!!!! <...and what will it be able to do??>

<So, uh, I can know what to practice and what to wait to learn.> She adds very convincingly, half a beat later.

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Flight! Way easier maneuverability! 360 degree vision and no headache! Bullets don't just dent the armor, they bounce off without hitting! Energy weapons aimed at you turn into battery life! Functions controlled via mumble mumble microexpression nonsense let's just call it telepathy! Integrated stunners in the shoulders that automatically zap your enemies while you focus on more important things! Denser, tougher, and lighter, so it's half the thickness of armor and twice the durability! The ability to pick fragile things up without breaking them even if you don't have three years of experience precisely controlling the gauntlets! Color you can change by thinking at it!

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...TWO WEEKS IS SUCH A LONG TIME.

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Well. She still has POWER ARMOR! (Even if she's going to get EVEN COOLER POWER ARMOR!!)

She practices running, and jumping, and switching to ring flight mid-jump, and she laughs, and does a loop, then another, then flipping upside down, reaching her armored finger a quarter inch above the ground, flying far away from anything fragile. And she flips herself, and then releases her flight aura and stomps the ground, hard-

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This does not break any part of the armor, since she does this from a fairly reasonable height! (It suggests in the manual not to do it from a higher height; non-tinker powered armor weighs far too much, and doesn't have any magic that can suspend the square/cube law.)

There's a little shock going up her legs, that's all, and the ground cracking where her feet land, and she's still in POWERED ARMOR.

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Wheeeeeeeeeee!

<...can I go to SPACE???>

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D'awww. <Let me check with Minerva? But it should be fine.>

Musoka wants to take her power armor up into orbit. I don't expect any problems from mundane hazards, but are there exotic threats we should worry about or other reasons we're missing why this might not be the best idea?

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Not presently, no, Minerva says. Go right ahead.

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<You're clear! Let's head on up.>

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She's going to SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

She jets upward, orienting herself face-down so she can watch the ground shrink away from her.

It happens fast; she's traveling close to Mach 10, and she's further from the ground than she's ever been in under six seconds.

The view is amazing; her mouth opens steadily wider as more and more of the globe comes into view. <The Atlantic Ocean is huge!?!?> 

Then the edges of the globe come into view and she gasps.

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And she can see a world. 

(There are differences from the world she knows; if she knows it - there are far more satellites and stations, more points of light over oceans and deserts and Antarctica, cities that shine brighter and scars that no other world has seen, and a great silted-up trench into the empty Sahara where a city died - but this is a tiny dash against the vastness of Earth, for this is Earth and against its greatness all such tiny scars are as naught).

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<It's... beautiful...>

She spends some time just... staring, floating in the void. 

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After a while, Ceru starts pointing out the visible differences between their Earth and this one and explaining what's caused them. When Musoka starts getting bored of that, she suggests making a powerful telescope construct to check out the Moon and Mars more closely.

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Moon bases! Mars base! They're all these tiny self-contained complexes with little domes for people to live!

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This is sufficient to entertain a Musoka for several more minutes! 

...then she starts playing with her new armor's built-in computers. Does whatever wireless internet system built into this thing get a connection up here?

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Looks like a no!

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Awww. Well, she'll spend a few more minutes just looking at all the stars.

Then she descends, rapidly, and checks her email and skims a few headlines once she hits the ground.

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