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I'll support when I need to. I think my best support is Zennyatta, though his healing is pretty pitiful.

I love wrecking everything when I get nanoboosted while playing Reinhardt. Angry German man swinging his hammer at anything that moves? What could go wrong? *charges off a cliff with an enemy*

I bought a good gaming PC from Ironside Computers because I don't have the knowhow nor the time to learn how to build one of my own. It was worth the price. $800 for the tower, with an extra $100 for a new monitor since my old one's base was cracking. It was long overdue.

I can run every game I'd ever want to play on high graphic settings. Most of the games I play aren't super graphically demanding anyways.

It's a day off for me. I did a few chores and have been asleep for a few hours. Just woke up randomly. I don't usually sleep well. Wake up a lot.

And I'm having a lot of fun with this! I haven't been this engaged in a roleplay for quite a while. Not that previous RPs I've had or any of the current ones I'm doing are bad, but this one just has so much more substance to it. It's satisfying.

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How goes your day?

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Angela worked tirelessly to heal the wounds of those she could, and it wasn't until she knew that the other medics could take care of them that she took a moment to breathe. They had retreated to a cave system, a simple shelter that provided protection from the sun. The omnics seemed so far away now, but the Swiss woman knew better than to let her guard down. They could appear at any moment.

She took the moment of quiet to approach Fareeha. She could tell that the Captain was tired. Exhausted. Weary. But her sense of responsibility kept her awake. She was an incredible leader in the ESF, one Angela had much respect for. Some military goons lost their sense of purpose, but Fareeha never did. Angela admired her determination.

"Fareeha," she said as she walked over, Valkyrie suit scuffed and stained with the blood of the wounded.

"You should get some rest while you can. There's no telling how long we'll be safe here... and I apologize for not being able to bring reinforcements from Switzerland. The fighting there is much more tame than it is here. Zurich is mostly safe. But the Swiss would never weaken their defenses to aid others. They're selfish in that sense though I suppose in these circumstances, no one can be too careful."

Angela clasped her hands infront of her, polite and calm. "Those who are wounded are being watched, but they should be able to heal if given time to rest. Your medics are great people. I commend their hard work. How is your shoulder?"

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As expected, Fareeha disregarded the treatment of her arm. Stubborn and proud. Angela followed the Egyptian woman inside the building, gasping quietly at the injured who lay in rows upon the floor. She'd expected something horrible, but this? This was a lot. She watched briefly in silence as the other medics rushed about, tending to wounds and moving those who couldn't move themselves to safer locations. She then turned her blue eyes to gaze upon Fareeha.

"Let me treat your wound, Fareeha. Then I will help whomever I can. My nanotechnology has its limits, but it can heal most wounds quickly." She stepped close to the other woman. "Take of the armor on your shoulder. It will only be for a few moments. Then you can continue your duty and I can continue mine."

Finally, it seemed, Fareeha would listen. Angela helped her peel off the section of armor around her wound, revealing what was a ragged and painful-looking entry wound. It seemed the bullet was lodged in her shoulder, with no exit wound in sight. No matter, the bullet shrapnel would be pushed out by the nanotech.

Angela focused the energy of her suit at her hands, each of her fingers becoming like its own biotic field. Nanoparticles surged into the wound as Angela pressed her gloves to the taller woman's shoulder, doing as they were intended and filling the gaps left by the bullet's course. Anything not meant to be inside the body was slowly pushed out, rejected by the healing technology. Once the wound was gone, Angela lifted her hands. She brushed her fingers across the skin to rid it of the remains of shrapnel that had been extracted.

"There. Good as new." The Swiss woman said with a small smile. "You can put your armor back on, I will tend to the others." She now turned and began hovering over the bodies of those who had the worst wounds. It was time consuming, and her suit only allowed her to heal so quickly. Near-fatal wounds took much time for the nanotechnology to sort out. There was only so much she could do for some people. She would heal the deepest and most frightening wound to the point where the other medics could work with it, then move on. It was an exhausting task, requiring much focus and stamina.

The Valkyrie suit was a marvel of modern medicine, able to create healing streams from her hands with focused nanobiotics. When paired with her Caduceus Staff, she could project those nanobiotics to a person standing many feet away, through a steady stream that was visible to the naked eye. That was what made her one of the best doctors in the world; the ability to touch someone to heal them, the ability to save people from what otherwise would kill them, without need for excessive tools.

The effort it took to maintain the focus to project the nanotechnology properly was immense, but she was the only one on the world who could use this suit. No matter the strain it put her under, this was her duty.

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So she was still insisting they didn't come. Angela was quick to defy Fareeha's wishes for them to stay passive. Eventually the fighting would get to them regardless where they went to hide, no question about it. When they recieved the coordinates of the location, the Lieutenant pulled up a map of the area on the dashboard console. He pinpointed the area and sighed.

"They're in a bad spot... Doctor, are you sure you want to do this?" Florian looked to the woman beside him. Angela nodded her head in affirmation.

"Don't make me start second guessing myself, Lieutenant. Get this helicopter off the ground. I'll use my suit to descend to the ground safely. You find a better place to land the helicopter and join up with us. If it's too dangerous, I give you permission to abandon the mission and leave me here. I will be fine." Angela instructed, returning to her seat.

Florian seemed unsure, but followed orders without hesitation. He started up the engines again and lifted off, flying the short distance to where Fareeha's coordinates were. Florian hovered over the area. "Go quickly!" He urged.

Angela opened the side door of the helicopter, taking a deep breath and jumping from the edge with her gear. Her suit did incredible things, and gliding through the sky was one of the main ones. The Swiss woman peered at the area, then spotted a familiar female rocketeer on the ground. Directing her suit to carry her to the woman, she drifted down to the ground, landing perfectly. She'd done this a thousand times. She was just thankful that the omnics were busy with other targets on the ground rather than shoot her out of the sky.

"Fareeha..." The name left Angela's pink lips in a tone of bittersweetness. She was thankful to see her, but this was in the midst of combat. It was no storybook reunion.

"I know you told me to stay but this is my duty. Just as it is your duty to protect these people at all costs..." Her eyes drifted to the wound on the younger woman's shoulder. "You're hurt. Come here, let me have a look. Soldiers are no good held back by wounds." Angela stepped closer to inspect the bloody mess that had become of the injury. "You haven't let a medic take a look at you. This is a bad wound."

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I don't play Mercy much unless I absolutely have to, so I'm not going to waste the currency on a skin I'll never use. Won't complain if I get it out of a loot box though. I got D.Va's gaming emote from one of the 24 I got. Don't really play her either, but the emote is definitely cool.

Believe me, I sit there and judge other Reinhardts when they aren't playing as well as I would. I'm no pro, but I like to think I know what I'm doing, you know?

Ana is so hard to play effectively. I've always enjoyed the challenge and I love her design and lore. Her Halloween skin is pretty cool!

I'm on PC. Usually I'm actually a console gamer when it comes to FPS, but I have more friends who play on PC. It can suck to play solo. So I adjusted and learned the ropes of a PC FPS, and I'm probably better at Overwatch on PC than I ever would be on console. I've played console shooters since I picked up a controller as a child. Call of Duty was my daily thing up until I bought Overwatch.

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I bought 24 loot boxes. And as it turns out, you can buy the event's loot with currency now! Blizzard realized how unhappy it made the fans to make the Summer Games skins exclusive to loot boxes. Some people just don't have good luck (aka me. I got Lucio's Seleção skin 4 times. I don't even play Lucio). So, if there's a skin or an emote or something that you want that you don't get with loot boxes, you can save up currency and buy them! I'm very happy with it.

Thankfully, I got most of the skins I wanted from the loot boxes, then with the currency I got from the duplicates and from the currency drops, I got the only other skin I wanted that I didn't get from the boxes; Reinhardt's. I'm a Reinhardt main, but I loooove all of the skins. Also, you should take a look at the unique emotes and highlight intros! They're great!

And Ana's Trick or Treat spray is unbelievably adorable. It made me go "awwww" aloud.

Also, I posted a reply. And a question; are you on the NA servers? If you want to, send me a friend request. My name on Overwatch is DeweyVolkov. Not sure if there's a space or not (can you even have spaces?). I just logged off, but I'll be back on later.

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Angela waited anxiously for a response from anyone, listening closely. She gasped and turned her head to the cockpit when she heard a very familiar voice. Fareeha was stubborn as always, not accepting help from outside. Sure, she was an incredible rocket trooper with responsibility for the safety of those around her, but even Angela knew when to accept assistance. The Swiss woman stood up and went to the radio. "Stay on that frequency, Lieutenant. That's Pharah on the other end. If she can hear me she'll listen."

Angela took the mic. "Fareeha, this is Doctor Ziegler. Listen to me, I am here to help save lives, not sit back and wait for the wounded to come to me. Tell me your location, and I will come to you with my squad. If nothing else, we can help hold your defenses, and save the injured. I will not retreat. I came all this way from the safe haven of my home to help here in Cairo."

Florian seemed visibly surprised by the stern tone that the doctor spoke with. If Fareeha was going to be stubborn, then two could play at that game. Angela wasn't going to go hide and wait for the omnics. She was here to do her duty and save lives where it mattered most. There was no doubt that the ESF was desperate and weakening. Any help they could get should have easily been accepted, but Fareeha was proud, and would never admit to weakness. She was like her mother, in that sense. Ana was the type to never admit her own pain, or back down from even the heaviest odds stacked against her.

Angela could remember Fareeha as a child, so protected and so cared for. It was a precious time, something not to be taken for granted. Overwatch had just been a budding flower at the time, Angela still quite young in her twenties. All these years she'd dedicated her life to the the healing of others, the tending of their wounds before hers. Some would call her magic, but she had simply developed very effective nanotechnology for the purpose of mending wounds. She had been around the young Fareeha quite often, and watched her grow and grow... and grow. She certainly had been exceedingly tall, and even now she towered over most women, and even some men. Reinhardt sometimes joked that Fareeha would eventually be as tall as him, but that was a stretch. Angela had watched Fareeha grow into a strong and highly independent individual, and when the Egyptian girl left to return to her home... Ziegler could barely admit to herself how much she missed the presence of the other.

Angela shook her head to clear her mind from her drifting thoughts. She would save reminiscing in memories for later, when the situation wasn't so dire.

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I'll get to work on it while Overwatch patches. The Halloween event has started! All the skins look amazing!

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No worries, take your time. :)