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[Nightfall]

Hello, my name is Irini Mikhailova, and I am wondering if anyone could help me. I have recently come to America from Russia, and I would like to know if anyone is looking for a nova to hire.

I am a controller of gravity. I can fly and make things float or move as I wish. My body also adapts to changes in enviroment and I am a little tougher than I was before.

Could anyone please help me? I am sorry about my English, but I am learning more every day.

Thank you,

Irini.

[Sphere]

Best people to go to are DeVries, they'll see you straight and won't try to brainwash you with their agendas like Utopia and the Terats will. Devries'll give you training with your powers and probably offer you a decent job. If you don't want to do the whole Elite thing they'll happily find you alternatives.

Good luck, mate. Let us know how it turns out, and stay clear of those Directive pricks.

[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

Try NASA (you are tailored made for moving stuff into orbit).

Utopia wouldn't be a bad choice either.

[Zima]

It is strange that you were unable to find work in Russia. There are many institutions who would have been most happy to employ an individual of your talents.

It is truely unfortunate that so many of our best choose to leave.

[Sakurako Hino]

Irini, welcome to a much larger world.

Now, don't be in a hurry to make your choice. Learn about where you think and feel you want to go first. Your answers will pop up when you do just that. I understand you want to make a living for yourself, but don't shoot for the big leagues first. Ther are several smaller firms out there that'd just love to have a nova-sized windfall land in their lap. Also, with your gravitational manipulations, construction work might just be your ticket. Yeah, it's not glamourous, but you will make money and will leave a mark on the landscape. Literally.

Another thing, you say you can adapt to different environments. While David reccomended NASA, I don't. Why? You don't know the full extent of your ability yet. Here's what I reccomend. Learn how to SCUBA dive, and find a lake. Stay in the shallows, and dive in, without your regulator in your mouth and just sit there. The reason why I say learn to scuba dive, is if you eventually need air, you got an air supply with you. Also staying shallow (Around 10 feet), won't endanger you if you need to come up quickly. Just make sure you take proper precautions (flotation devices, a spotter, etc...) if you go to this level to see if you can adapt to such circumstances as being in water.

Why go through all the trouble? If you can adapt to being in water without an air-supply, you can probably be in space just as easily.

But, I implore you, and any other novas that want to try such things to be careful, and don't do it alone.

[Nightfall]

What is there in Russia but Zukhov or Directive? I want nothing to do with either.

I hear about Utopia and DeVries. What would they want me for? I float stuff and myself, big deal. Still means I got to make my living the old-fashioned way for a woman.

I can breathe underwater. I erupted after my head was shoved in a bucket and I wished I could float away so the pain would stop. I risk one flight into space and do just fine there.

Thank you for help,

Irini

[Sakurako Hino]

Oh. O.o;

Well, my advice wasn't needed. I didn't know that you erupted that way... Sorry to hear.

[Nightfall]

It is alright. You did not know.

[Sakurako Hino]

No problem. What gets me, is why most Novas I know have less than... comfortable eruptions?

[Nightfall]

Maybe it is God's sense of humour?

[David 'Dr. Troll' Smith]

It's a combination of stress, and bragging rights. Big bad novas (and their PR departments) have been known to re-write their client's histories.

"Someone was trying to kill me" sounds so much cooler than "I dropped a hammer on my foot and lost my temper", or "A computer virus deleted my hard disk", or even "I broke up with my girl friend".

[Nightfall]

Honesty is best in most cases, I think.

Of course, it is much harder to remain so.

[Alex Craft]

You ask what Utopia or DeVries would want you for? Well, gravity-based powers are always a good bargaining chip. They're very rare, and pretty powerful. While you may not be able to do much now, you will grow, and these groups know how to invest in people.

That said, welcome. ( :

[Zima]

What is there in Russia but Zukhov or Directive? I want nothing to do with either.

It is most unfortunate that you feel that way - for we then have little to speak of.

The Directive is indeed a problem, and its behavior in Russia reprehensible. However, I believe your negative feeling toward the Organizatsiya should, perhaps, be reassessed.

What gets me, is why most Novas I know have less than... comfortable eruptions?

As the mercenary said, between an understandable desire for dignity and the degree of stress most often required for eruption, many dramatic stories emerge.

Personally, I found myself in a firefight - through no fault of my own, of course. I do not recall how the situation resolved. In truth, I do not recall most of the following several days. However, I do appear to have survived, so it would seem that things turned out OK.

[Jager]

By Irini Mikhailova

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Honesty is best in most cases, I think.

You could be right about that. It is best to look at honest like any other weapon. It has its uses, but isn't the Universal Translator.

By Leonid 'Zima' Lov

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However, I do appear to have survived, so it would seem that things turned out OK.

It's always good to look into those things. Sometime the nature of your survival may not have been the greatest thing. Not knocking you still being here with us, but its always good to know what happened, who died, and who got away. Keeps things nice and tidy.

[Nightfall]

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The Directive is indeed a problem, and its behavior in Russia reprehensible. However, I believe your negative feeling toward the Organizatsiya should, perhaps, be reassessed.

You will have to excuse me for my attitude, Zima. I 'worked' for the Organizatsiya for a good deal of my life, doing things for men I would sooner forget.

Irini

[Y.T.]

To what ever you do,remember you will have to look in to the mirror,every once in a wile.Do not do anything you will dread seeing in the mirror.

You may be one of the few who can do what it takes to change the world.But just because you have the abilities to do something,that doesn't mean you will have the will to do so.

I could show you few tricks on how to destroy with your abilities.

Lastly,you have the abilty to take power,but remember power is worthless if you do not use it.

[Zima]

You will have to excuse me for my attitude, Zima.

It is truly sad that a great opportunity for both parties should be lost because of old business.

I do understand your attitude, but I must ask. What would you have done if you had not worked for the Organizatsiya? Unpleasant as it may have been, where did you come from? You must have been in a most unfortunate position.

I apologize, of course, for any insult given.

It's always good to look into those things.

My employers were generous enough to sanitize the situation.

[Jager]

Zima, as long as you are happy being bought and paid for, go with it. Don't try to sell your friends as anything more than butchers and murderers, though. That's what they are. They like the money to keep coming in, the world to be afraid, and a nice, fat, and happy lifestyle built on the suffering and death of others.

That upfront honesty is one of the things I like about the Organizatsiya.

[Zima]

You are not Russian, my friend. Through two major economic collapses, one change of government, and the arrival of those such as you and I - the Organizatsi have been synonymous with stability.

I was not 'bought,' as you say. I gave my loyalty long before I erupted, and my reasons are my own.

[Hugin]

Irini, some basic questions.

Can you travel internationally without worry?

Are you currently wanted or under investigation (that you know of, of course) from any law enforcement agency?

Are you willing to sign a non-disclosure contract?

What is the max weight you've been able to manipulate with utmost confidence and for how long?

Are you simply creating a static low gravity field or is it possible to move those objects you've floated?

Depending on the answers to the previous questions, do you prefer payment in American Dollars, Japanese Yen, Euros, gold, or service?

[Nightfall]

I do not understand all of what you mean, Prodigy. I float things and myself. I can move them or turn them away from myself. I do not know how long I can do it for, or how much I can lift. I do not use my powers often, so I cannot tell you that much.

Zima, I do not wish to discuss my past. I have probably said more than is wise about it.

I cannot travel without worry, I am afraid, Prodigy. I am... not legally in America, to be honest.

Irini

[Jager]

Zima, as long as you can walk away anytime you like, with no hard feelings ....

As for not being a Russian ....

Oh, really? I may not be ethnic Russian, but none of us Finns are.

The Tartars were also synonymous with stability, as were the Cossaks, the NKVD, and the KGB.

Freedom = Standing Up for yourself

Standin up = Risking having your head chopped off

The Yoke fits some people better than others.

Zima, Jager was the name given to me, not the one I originally went by.

Irini, if you are having problems moving around, I know some people who can help. Just don't use these contacts for criminal enterprise, and you should do fine.

[Eddie Cyclone]

Madame Mikhailova is a pleasure to make your acquintance even over so anonymous a medium as the opnet. Ah, but enthusiasm belies my normally good manners. Pray forgive me and permit me to introduce myself; I am Edward Cyclone, proprietor and sole owner of Adamant Securities headquartered in Havana Cuba, though I have offices or affiliates in nearly every major city of Western Civilization. And please call me Eddie. Everyone does.

I understand and symphathise completely with your precarious legal circumstance. Further more, I find it is within my ability to sooth the more troublesome aspects of your situation - and intend to do so - as I charmingly demonstrate the the mutual benefits of working together. Should you choose to avail yourself of the opportunities with Adamant, I think you will find it very nearly the opposite of that which you knew with the Organizatsi.

Please consider the matter carefully and contact my office at the Carleton-Ritz in Manhatten.

[Sakurako Hino]

Hmm. You got quite a pallette to chose from miss.

I envy you. ^.^

[Eddie Cyclone]

A woman that worked for DeVrys, walked on a moon other than that circling our own cordial planet and possesses sufficient resources to own her own submersible and avail herself of my company to hone martial skills finds herself envying someone?

[Edward]

I notice that many people have not been here in a long time.

Do novas move away so quickly?

I am curious, what happened to this lady? Or the one with the blue glow? And Y.T.?

Did they die? I know many novas die, but did they? Or do they just get bored? Were you mean to them like you are to Jager, Vanguard and me? Did they leave because you are mean?

[Nightfall]

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Originally posted by Cull:
I notice that many people have not been here in a long time.

Do novas move away so quickly?

I am curious, what happened to this lady? Or the one with the blue glow? And Y.T.?

Did they die? I know many novas die, but did they? Or do they just get bored? Were you mean to them like you are to Jager, Vanguard and me? Did they leave because you are mean?

I am busy with my personal crusade to save underage girls from prostitution, Cull. You and I have that in common, except that you work to save the environment.

[Preston]

An effort I am both aware of and truly appreciate, Ms. Mikhailova. You are a bright star in a dark and forbidding night.