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Suspicion
Things quickly settled into a routine over the weekend. I would wake up early and start making breakfast, Bia would wander out bleary-eyed and barely dressed before remembering that I wasn't Sienna, and I would do my best not to ogle her until she woke up fully. Then we'd eat and go work out. The rest of the time, we spent getting to know each other because Azure completely ghosted us both for three days.
"So what brought you to Atlas?" I asked her over dinner on Sunday. I had gone shopping and pulled out the stops for the meal as a thank-you for the hospitality. …And yeah, I can admit to myself that I'm trying to impress her — sue me, even if it can't go anywhere, Bia ticks all my boxes. Going by this standard, canon Jaune is nuts for not being enchanted by her cousin on sight.
She swallowed her bite of pastitsio, clearly enjoying the lasagna-like dish a lot, and took a sip of wine before she answered. "Well, Mistral doesn't have anything quite like the Specialists. While I always wanted to be a Huntress, the truth is I function better with a bit more structure and discipline than is usual for independents."
I hummed. "I get it. Personally, I wouldn't mind being in charge, but you can't get to the top of the heap without starting at the bottom, and I hate being told what to do," I joked.
Bia chuckled. "Anyway, one of my uncles had a contact here in Atlas, and he helped arrange my education at Atlas Academy, and I qualified for the Specialist program at the end of my first year. That was when I partnered with Sienna as my mentor, and I haven't had any cause to regret my decision."
"Mentor?"
"Specialist partnerships aren't formed within the same cohort," Bia explained. "Rather, there's always a senior and a junior partner. Sienna is six years older than me, you know. She trained a few of us at the Academy, but our career trajectories were different — Viola went into operations and Winter joined the officer track. I was the only one staying in field ops, and we made a good enough team that I ended up becoming her permanent partner."
"And where does Azure figure into it?" I asked.
Bia shrugged. "She moved up here to go into research and development after graduating; from what she's mentioned, she was never that interested in fieldwork compared to engineering. We met because I was working with Sienna, naturally, and she decided to treat me as a little sister. Even though I'm taller than both of them," she added, covering her mouth as a giggle emerged.
"You're taller than most of my family, though not by much," I said. "Out of heels, anyway." Bia seemed to be the same height as Indigo, who stood even with me in her boots or an inch shorter out of them. "If anything, you fit in with us, we're all above-average."
"You should have heard Winter complain when we started going out," Bia laughed. "She's of a height with Azure, so she needs six-inch heels to look me in the eye. Good for a date, not so much in combat."
"Have you been seeing each other long?" I asked, curious.
She shook her head. "Just the last couple of years, since we don't work directly together anymore," she clarified, "We got close in the Program, but the fraternization policy meant we couldn't date while we were both under Sienna. Fortunately we're in different chains of command now, so there isn't a conflict of interest. Not that it stops her from pulling rank to tell me to take a vacation," she grumbled good-naturedly.
"Well, I hope I've been enjoyable company and helped you relax," I grinned, then got to my feet as a timer went off. "And I hope you're ready for dessert, because I worked hard on the pastry for the galactaboreko."
"Galaktoboureko," Bia corrected gently.
"Ga-lak-to-bou-re-ko," I repeated, focusing on the pronunciation.
[You have remembered the skill [Linguist]!]
[Linguist (Passive) LV 5 EXP: 0.00%]
[A skill that represents your ability to learn and communicate in spoken or written languages. As this skill increases, you will find it easier to code-switch, and to identify loanwords and language patterns.]
[Passively increases INT by 5%.]
[5% easier time learning new languages.]
[Eagerness to learn caused your INT to increase by 1!]
Huh, been over a month since I gained or remembered a skill, I thought, dismissing the box. I've been so focused on stats; I need to remember to grind more.
"Much better," Bia praised me as I left to get the dessert. I quickly retrieved the pastry from the oven and the syrup from the fridge, ladling the latter over the dessert and bringing it to the table on an oven mitt. "That smells amazing," she added. "I haven't had galaktoboureko since I moved to Atlas."
"Hopefully it's up to standard," I teased, carving out a slice and passing it to her, along with a dessert fork.
She took a bite, and her eyes fluttered. "Mmm~"
I dropped my eyes to my own plate, cutting a piece for myself. Glad I was already sitting down before she made that noise.
The dessert was good, though; the cold, sweet syrup contrasted the warm, flaky pastry nicely, soaking through without getting soggy. I nodded in satisfaction, and Bia looked at me seriously, her plate already empty. "If you keep cooking like that, I'm going to marry you," she told me seriously.
I laughed, reaching to cut her another piece. "Don't threaten me with a good time."
On Monday, after our workout, Azure was waiting on the couch when we got back to the apartment. I grabbed a shower, tossed my weapons and Scroll into my [Inventory], and followed her down to the street where she hailed a cab and chattered all the way to our destination about what I could expect and what I wasn't allowed to ask about.
She rushed us past the desk, deposited her gun harness and Scroll in a locker, waved merrily to coworkers who looked entirely unsurprised to see her on her week off, and finally pushed me into a windowless lab on the second floor. Azure locked the door, and started typing into a keypad in the corner. The camera above her retracted into the ceiling, and a vibrating hum filled the background.
"There, we're all secured, so let's see it!" Azure bounced over to me, picking up a tablet and some kind of scanning device that I mentally labeled a tricorder.
"See what?" I asked patiently. "My Semblance covers a lot of powers. [Inventory], [Stats], [Equipment], [Skills]…"
"Character sheet," she decided.
I rattled off my current level, title, job, class, and stats, then had to explain what each one did and how the secondary stats were calculated. HP and MP were based off my level and my CON and INT respectively, and the latter was also boosted by [Gaia's Pulse]. HP Regen increased by STR, and MP Regen by WIS. The various boosts from my skills required a spreadsheet to keep track of, which Azure was more than happy to create.
"Now, what's this about a curse?" Azure added, when we'd finished listing all fifty-odd skills I'd acquired so far.
I shrugged. "Not sure. I've had it since I woke up." I tapped the status to pull up the description of curses again.
[Yellow Death]
[Debuff - Curse]
[Experience is the teacher of all things. One must find the path, or make it.]
[Current level: High]
…That's longer than it used to be, isn't it? I know it dropped from Highest to High when I killed Krios. Is it tied to the Taking Names quest, somehow? Or just a function of leveling up? Or is there some other
"Anyway, it seems to prevent my Aura from being unlocked," I finished. "When Indigo tried, it hurt her. The status effect read Geas Conflict."
Azure seized my hand, pointing the tricorder at herself and recited the same chant that Indigo had. I thought I felt a flicker this time, but once more I got the popup.
[[Yellow Death] prevents this action!]
"You're right, that does hurt," Azure complained, shaking her hand out as if electrocuted, and poring over the device's readout. "Well that was a bust. It's acting like you're a rock or something; reads like I tried to force Aura into something that's not alive. Which doesn't make sense, because I got an Aura reading from you."
"Animals have Aura, right?" I asked, and she nodded absently. "Can you awaken it?"
"Sure, it tends to lead to longer lives and higher intelligence. Dogs are the most common recipients, ever since they were domesticated, but a few people have Hunting snakes or pigs or whatever. And there was that one lunatic cult who awakened every animal in a zoo over in Vacuo; they're still trying to clean up angry tortoises that are immune to bullets out there."
"What about plants?"
Azure frowned. "I suppose you could, though I'm not sure why you'd bother. It doesn't make them move or anything, and I don't think they'd ever gain enough power or experience to demonstrate something like a Semblance." She shrugged. "I can look into the records though; I bet someone here has worked on that. Anyway! You have some free points, right?"
"Sure, fiftysomething," I nodded.
"And you said you get a skill for raising a stat over fifty. You've got enough points to do that with two different stats right now. I want to see if I can detect a difference."
I folded my arms, considering it. "I was planning to grind my physical stats that high on their own, but I've stopped getting points in a reasonable span of time," I admitted. "Yeah, all right, I can boost CON and DEX. Do you need a baseline for my speed?"
Azure indicated a treadmill in the corner. "Just run it up to however fast you can maintain a sprint." She recorded the number, and then gestured grandly, bouncing on her heels again. "Go on then, let's see it!"
I snorted. "There's nothing to see." I pulled up my [Stats] page and deliberated for another moment, then dropped fifteen points into CON.
[By raising CON to 50, you can select a new skill!]
Robust (Passive)
A skill that represents your ability to heal from damage more quickly.
Passively increases CON by 1%
10% increase to HP Regen.
Tough (Passive)
A skill that represents your ability to withstand damage without injury.
Passively increases CON by 1%
Reduces damage taken by 10.
Let's see… Technically it's better to not take damage, than to take it and need to heal. But it looks like the damage reduction is a flat number rather than a percentage. That could still be worth it if the reduction increases as the skill levels up, but I don't get a hint about how it will level. Shit, I wonder if I screwed myself by not taking [Clever]. If it does scale, I could have been casting spells for free.
Grimacing, I dismissed the previous decision. I'd already taken [Enlightened], after all, and I couldn't say I was unhappy with the bonus EXP gain. In the end, I made my decision based on the fact that having my regen be higher meant more healing I could share.
[You selected the skill [Robust]!]
[Robust (Passive) LV 1 EXP: 0.00%]|
[A skill that represents your body's ability to heal from damage, recovering from stress and injury more quickly.]
[Passively increases CON by 1%]
[10% increase to HP Regeneration.]
"Your available Aura just shot up," Azure commented, eyes on the tricorder. "Was that CON first?"
I nodded, then put another sixteen points into DEX.
[By raising DEX to 50, you can select a new skill!]
Fleet (Passive)
A skill that represents your capacity for swift movement.
Passively increases DEX by 1%.
10% increase to move speed.
Nimble (Passive)
A skill that represents your improved reflexes.
Passively increases DEX by 1%.
10% increase to evasion.
Damn, another good tradeoff. But since DEX gives me some movement speed either way, I think I'd generally rather avoid damage than run faster in a straight line…
[You selected the skill [Nimble]!]
[Nimble (Passive) LV 1 EXP: 0.00%]
[A skill that represents your improved reflexes, meaning you are better at avoiding hits.]
[Passively increases DEX by 1%.]
[10% increase to evasion.]
Still don't have enough points to boost up both INT and CHA. I can't even get CHA to 50 with all the points I have left. Is that important? I've got a relatively strong bonus to it with my buffs active, and I'm already a bit more of a generalist than I expected. INT is still gaining naturally as I learn languages, and I am still planning to go to school, so most likely I can just study that one up, still. Since I got the EXP boost from WIS, I can't imagine the INT skill being something critical that I need to start grinding immediately to stay alive in the same way as the physical stats. This is going to have to be the last bump DEX is going to see though, at least for a while. I've been splitting my stats too much; I need to focus mostly on STR and CON from now on.
Part of me wondered if I should even have spent the points for DEX, but it was too late now to regret it.
"Well!?" Azure prompted.
I recited the skills I'd chosen, then climbed back on the treadmill. I was definitely able to sprint faster than before, and it felt like I could maintain it for much longer.
Azure hummed. "Looks like you're about 48% faster, which lines up with your new passive score," she said. "You're way faster than I was as a freshman, I'll tell you that."
"DEX is my highest score right now," I admitted. "Since I'm up to three different passives buffing it. It won't stay ahead, but I think this is a respectable amount of DEX." I was never going to be the fastest in my class, anyway. "What are you reading for the CON change?"
"Also a fortyish percent boost. It definitely reads you having more Aura than before, though…" She trailed off, frowning slightly.
"My MP hasn't changed since last night," I disagreed. Then something occurred to me. "Actually, without Aura, most Hunters aren't noticeably more resilient than civilians, right? Like, if you went into Aura Shock, a bullet would shut you right down, but it would only hurt me for a few seconds. Maybe what I'm reading as HP is more like the Aura set aside for protection, versus what you spend on Semblance?"
"Maybe! We should test that," Azure perked up. "What's my HP?"
[Observe]
[Name: Azure Arc]
[LV ?]
[Title: ?]
[Race: Human]
[Age: 25]
[Job: Researcher]
[Class: Artificer]
[Semblance: ?]
[Background: Fifth daughter of the Arc family of Vale. Researcher and engineer; moved to Atlas to work for the Center for Logistics, Engineering, and Ordnance (CLEO). Has an irrepressible sweet tooth.]
[Status: Geas Conflict – The Emperor Moth]
"I can't see your stats, you're too high level."
"Awww…" Azure pouted, before she straightened up. "Well, next let's–"
She was cut off as a beep sounded from the door, followed by the lock disengaging. I frowned, vaulting the table we'd been working at to land next to Azure. As the door swung open, I had to force myself to keep my hands in sight as a vaguely unsettling melody started up, and someone I hadn't expected stepped in.
[BGM Unlocked! Image Song: Arthur Watts – "Finale Toccata" by Michiru Yamane]
He was a thin middle-aged man with olive skin, of a height with me, wearing a buttoned labcoat over a yellow sweater. He also wore four rings, one on each of the first two fingers of each hand, which glinted in the fluorescent lights. His salt-and-pepper hair was thinning on top, but made up for by an impressive walrus moustache.
‹?›
LV ?
Arthur Watts
Watts pulled up short as he spotted us. "Ah, please forgive my intrusion, Miss Arc. I hadn't expected to see you this week," he said smoothly, sharp green eyes flicking from Azure to the workstation in the corner before settling on me. "And this is?"
"Hey Doc," Azure chirped, missing or ignoring the slight tightening of his eyes at her casual response. "This is my brother Jaune." She slung an arm around my shoulders, forcing me once again to lean down six inches because she was still stronger than me. "Jaune, this is Doctor Arthur Watts! He works in the next lab over. Whatcha need over here, Doc?"
"Ah, classified, I'm afraid," Watts replied, moving into the room and letting the door swing shut behind him, ratcheting up my tension. "A pleasure, Mister Arc. Are you intending to join us here at CLEO once you graduate?"
He won't try anything, right? He's stronger than me, but so is Azure. Is he stronger than her?
"I hadn't considered it," I said honestly. "I think I'm more of a frontline guy, but Azure wanted me to see how the other half lives, as it were."
Watts' eyes narrowed, but he smiled. "Well, we can always use more people focusing on the sciences, even if the muscleheads get all the attention," he drawled. "We have not met, by chance?"
"I don't think so," I shook my head, extending a hand to shake.
He took it, though his attitude said he didn't believe me. "Perhaps in passing, or a picture."
"Must have been," I agreed. "Can I ask about your area of specialization?"
"Robotics. At the moment."
"Yeah, Doc's on the Paladin project right now–" Azure cut in, before Watts raised an eyebrow at her. "Buuuut you're not allowed to know what that is, yet. It should be announced pretty soon, though!"
"True enough," Watts allowed. "I suppose there's no harm in saying that much. I was moved back to CLEO from FIGARO last year…" Anger flickered across his face. "So I thought I'd take the time to check on my old work on Project CRITIAS."
"Is that old work also classified?" I asked, taking mental note of the names that were probably acronyms.
Watts hummed, apparently judging my actual interest. "In the interest of spurring you toward the more cerebral pursuits, I suppose it's safe enough to tell you that it involved computer security."
"Atlas' firewalls are legendary," I offered, seeing a chance to stroke his ego. "That's your doing?"
"Indeed." He sounded pleased. "Well, it was a pleasure meeting you, Mister Arc. Miss Arc, I do hope you'll take some time to enjoy your vacation."
"Seeya, Doc!" Once again, Azure seemed to miss Watt's irritation as the man inclined his head and left. "Ready to get back to it?"
I let out a deep breath, thankful to [Gamer's Mind] for keeping my hands from shaking. "Sure."
"Sweet! I need you to burn all your MP; I'm gonna try again to unlock your Aura while you're empty. Then, whether it works or not, I'm gonna monitor your restoration rate while you meditate."
"Yeah, okay, that makes sense. If I trigger all my buffs it should drain me in about… four minutes?" My mental math was rough, but my Semblance gave me enough of a feel for the numbers that I usually knew how long I could keep things going.
"Whoa, I felt that!" Azure said, scribbling frantically in her notebook.
"Really?"
"Yeah, it's–" she paused to record something from the tricorder, then resumed. "Your Aura reserves dropped by about a quarter, but you feel stronger. Not really in a way this thing can measure, I can just sense it. You're not draining now, though, you're holding steady."
"My buffs are like a toggle," I explained, having tested this thoroughly myself. "I pay the MP cost to turn them on, and they're good for one minute. Once sixty seconds is up, they either renew or expire."
The buffs ticked over, and I kept them active, draining another big chunk of my MP.
Azure glanced from the tricorder to her wristwatch. "Okay, got it. Is it any strain to maintain them otherwise?"
"[Reinforcement] can break if I take damage, but other than that, no. They're strong, but expensive. Usually I'll keep one active while meditating; it extends my recovery time, but lets me make the buffs stronger in a safe environment."
"So you're practicing almost all the time?" Azure asked.
"Unless I'm asleep, I'm always grinding something," I admitted. "I've gotta catch up to kids who went through Combat School."
"You feel stronger than a lot of Atlas Academy freshmen," Azure said bluntly. "In terms of raw power, anyway. Maybe you'd lose on endurance or technique, and you'll get weird looks for taking hits that make you bleed instead of using Aura to deflect them, but that wouldn't stop you from keeping up. You've come a long way in a short time, Jaune."
"…Thanks, Azure."
I had resolved myself to be on guard when outside our lab, but I didn't expect to actually see Watts again. Then, on Wednesday, Azure got paged to check on something she grumbled about having signed off on the previous week. Rather than leave me unattended in the lab she'd reserved, she barged into the room next door, interrupting Watts exactly as he'd done to us on Monday, bulldozing his arguments, ignoring his much-less-hidden irritation, and chirping that she'd be right back, this would just take a second, thanks a lot Doc, I'll owe you one!
She shoved a chair under me, knocking my legs out and forcing me to drop into it, wheeled me up to a desk across from the workstation Watts was seated at, and vanished out the door before either of us could complain.
Watts' green eyes moved from the door to me, and I could only facepalm. "The whole family, Doctor. They're all like this. No brakes."
Though he still looked annoyed, his moustache twitched in amusement. "My sympathies. I understand there is another Miss Arc here in Atlas?"
Well, if he wants to make small talk, maybe I can get some information about that other quest.
"Sienna is a Specialist, yes. She's the third-oldest, followed by her twin. Azure is fifth." He raised an eyebrow, and I added, "I'm the eighth child."
"I see…" he drawled. "I had certainly heard of the Arc family, but–"
"There's a ridiculous number of us, yes," I nodded. "Now imagine growing up as the only baby brother of the Seven Sins of Vale." I didn't like giving him info that was bound to make its way to Salem, but on the other hand, this would hopefully make it clear how many people would be out for blood if I disappeared.
"Oho," he said, leaning forward a little, his eyebrows rising. "Now that's a name I haven't heard since the Beaufort Tragedy. Come to think of it, that is around when Miss Arc came to work here."
I shrugged performatively. "Not something they've ever talked about, as far as I remember," I said, which was perfectly true. None of my sisters had mentioned it in the last ten weeks.
Watts hummed, still looking intrigued. "Still, I would never have suspected. I shall have to keep a closer eye on Miss Arc in the future. And yourself, as well."
Fuck.
"I'll do my best not to disappoint." I forced a smile, and cast around for something else to talk about. My eyes alighted on the Scroll he'd connected to his workstation. He obviously had the screen transparency disabled — personally, I couldn't imagine ever wanting to allow people to see what was on my Scroll through the back of the screen — so all that was visible was an ornate golden W. "I know better than to ask what you're working on, but can you tell me more about your old Project? What did you call it, CRITIAS? It sounded brilliant."
The flattery was transparent, but Watts still looked pleased. "Well, staying away from specifics… the Caucus for Research Into Technological Interception and Security was a project I spearheaded to bring Atlesian ComInt to the superior position it occupies to this day. A standardization of firewalls and some other tools for technological security to ensure the military need never worry about malicious hacking attempts on either sensitive data or the Atlesian Knights. My work was even implemented into the Cross Continental Transit system," he boasted.
My eyes widened before I could stop myself from reacting. I hoped he would take it for being impressed, but in reality I was trying not to panic. Son of a– He must have written the worm Cinder used to bring the CCT down! Does it exist already? Even if it doesn't, if he wrote the whole security system, he's bound to have a backdoor…
[Quest Alert!]
[En Passant]
[Arthur Watts, a lieutenant of Salem, is responsible for Atlas' state of the art computer security via Project CRITIAS. He is also responsible for creating Pawn, a worm designed to exploit backdoors intentionally left in CRITIAS' defenses. Make sure Pawn cannot be used against Atlas and the world.]
[Bonus Objective: Obtain a copy of Pawn for your own use.]
[Time limit: Before you leave Atlas.]
[Reward: 20,000 EXP, 40,000L, increased closeness with Sienna Arc, increased closeness with Azure Arc, increased closeness with ?.]
[Bonus Reward: Access to Pawn, potential access to Atlesian military intelligence, skill book "?".]
[Failure Penalty: Exposure, possible arrest, possible death.]
[Accept/Decline]
Oh, sure, I finally get a little bit of information to go on for one quest and out pops another, I kvetched, mentally accepting it. Answers the question of whether it already exists, I guess. And I'm only here for the week, so no fuckin' pressure.
Aloud, I said, "That's really incredible, Doctor. It's obvious why they keep you around."
Watts nodded, not bothering to be humble. "Quite."
"Do you know what my sister's actual current project is? She hasn't mentioned."
"You can just ask me, silly," said Azure's voice from behind me. I jumped, not having registered her getting nearer since she never passed out of the passive range of [Detect Aura].
Watts smirked at my reaction. "Best to keep your attention on your surroundings," he drawled. "It will be very important if you do decide to pursue a field job."
I nodded, following Indigo back to our lab. Watts had gone back to his work, dismissing me the moment I stood up. Well, it's best he doesn't think much of me, I decided. Even if he is a jackass.
"I can't help but feel like I should recognize his name," I commented idly to Azure as she directed me for another test of my Semblance, this time to see if she could detect any difference between my Handy Haversack and using my [Inventory] directly. "Does he have an online handle or something?"
"He's not really the type," Azure mused, fiddling with the tricorder once more. "I mean, he uses proper capitals and grammar and punctuation in his text messages. And always signs his name at the bottom. He's more likely to just stamp or encode his emblem; it's like a fancy cursive W."
The one I saw on the back of his Scroll, no doubt. I mindlessly followed Azure's instructions as I thought about what felt wrong about that thought. …Azure. Azure has to carry a pager. She had to leave her Scroll in a locker, and told me not to bring mine at all. Watts shouldn't have what's obviously a personal device in here, connected to the system. Was he stealing data right in front of me? Holy shit, the audacity of this bitch.
And now for this quest, I would have to — probably by Friday — somehow figure out what he's done, report him to someone who would actually believe me and could make an accusation stick, and ideally steal his Scroll or get a copy of Pawn for myself, all without him realizing it was me. Better yet, without realizing I was involved at all, so he wouldn't just add me to his revenge list alongside Polendina and Ironwood, or worse, bring up my name to Salem for any reason…
Taking a deep breath, I forced myself to relax. There were no cameras in this lab, and even if he was stealing confidential Atlesian data right now, it wouldn't involve anything about me. Azure had taken my privacy request seriously and was recording her observations in a notebook that didn't have my name anywhere in it, which she gave to me to store in my [Inventory] every time we left for the night.
Every quest is doable, right? Otherwise, why bother telling me to do it. The reward for this is good, but not amazing; it's got to be easier than I'm realizing right now. I just need to think this through.
I can do this.
Name: Jaune Arc
Level: 18 (Next: 73.77%)
Title: Initiate
Race: Human
Age: 17
Job: Tyro Huntsman
Class: Paladin
Semblance: The Gamer
HP: 1602/1602
MP: 1230/1230
STR: 57.1 (51)
CON: 58 (50)
DEX: 67.5 (50)
INT: 41.0 (39)
WIS: 52.5 (50)
CHA: 35.6 (26)
Points: 23
Money: 3698L
Status: Cursed – Yellow Death [High]
A/N: Pastitsio is a traditional Greek pasta bake, not super-fancy but definitely hearty and filling. Galaktoboureko is a sort of custard pie drizzled with a sweet syrup. A lot of Mistral and the surrounding continent of Anima has Japanese and other Far Eastern leanings in the art we're shown, but I've always mentally incorporated Greek into Mistrali culture [and language] given Pyrrha's origin.
I know it's been a while since we updated. This arc just refused to coalesce for quite a while, but I think I [finally] have an idea of how I want this to go. I believe we'll be in Atlas for one more chapter, maybe two if things take longer than I expect.
I've also gone back and done a lot of editing, chiefly of punctuation, on earlier chapters of the story. Layering multiple formats (like bolding something already in italics) makes the rich-text editor want to space them out, and I have to correct it manually. Which isn't helped by FFN just not supporting some of the formatting I use to highlight Game terms.
