forgeabettertomorrow: (I don't really get it but...)
Darin Altway ([personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow) wrote in [community profile] thisavrou2017-05-31 07:12 pm

[VIDEO] // Open to anyone in Kauto area

NETWORK

[As the feed clicks on, quite intentionally, the viewer is greeted by a fuzzy, out of focus, green pupil. It seems to be focusing intently on something just beyond the frame.]

Alright...let's see here...this should...

Yeah...this should do it...

[A huff of satisfaction, and Darin takes several paces back. He's in his bedroom at Lion House, looking considerably more healthy after his stint with the virus outbreak from the asteroid. His room itself is a complete mess; there's scrap metal and various parts and components littered throughout the room itself. There's a desk off to the side with no clear space on it at all. Instead, the entire surface is covered by open books stacked five or six high, with notes and sketches and blueprints littered about and hung up all around the room. Atop that is a tablet with a holographic blueprint hovering idly above it. On the other side? A hammock. Why a hammock? Because it's easier and more space friendly than a bed is. But that's not the point. The point, is that Darin is currently wearing his heavy blacksmith apron and heavy duty industrial goggles. His hands and forearms are covered with armored mitts, that he excitedly claps together as he looks at the camera.]

Alright, so it's been over half a year since I've been whisked away from my technologically stunted world. I think my first day aboard the Moira, I started a fire in Ingress engineering because I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Well, I've been putting my nose to the grindstone, and I've been eagerly studying up on whatever tech I can get my hands on. And finally, I think I understand it well enough to start building with it.

[He grins and reaches behind him to grab what looks like a really long industrial grade flashlight.]

It took some work, but I think I've got all of the bugs ironed out. I think I can finally do a trial run on my newest work: The beam saber.

[Excitedly, he holds what can now be discerned as a hilt sans blade out and hovers his thumb over a pressure sensitive switch. With a grin, he presses the switch and, with what could only be described as a quite audible FWOOM the video on the camera is flooded with bright white light. What follows is a loud hum, then something that sounds like a knife scraping burnt toast. Also a string of curses and expletives that should in no way be repeated. There's another click, and the white light that's washing out the video fades...to show Darin sporting a rather intense tan. Also, his eyebrows are just gone and his bangs are on fire. And there's sunlight streaming in from a basketball sized hole in the ceiling...and roof.]

[Darin pulls his goggles off, which leaves a rather hilarious reverse tan around his eyes and stares up at his new skylight.]


...Huh.

...I have absolutely no idea how I'm gonna explain this one to Shiro.

Kauto Region 5

[It's a rather peaceful, almost uneventful day in Region 5. That is until a beam of light fires skyward for a solid thirty seconds, followed by a rush of heat in all directions. It's not enough to do any damage, it just feels like a warm breeze, but that light definitely came from a residence. And if you're close enough to Lion House, you can probably hear all of the cursing.]
shiro2hero: (NAILED IT)

action 1/??

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-31 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[You know for once? Things were actually quiet. Things were actually calm. Actually tame enough for him to lie down. And doze off. For what's probably been the first time in days.]

[He thought everything was going to start improving.]
kickeminthepistons: (I am a woman of science and ass-kickery)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-05-31 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a soft crunching sound, the kind you might hear when someone is snacking on popcorn. And then a woman's voice, spoken from a mouth that's not entirely empty.]

Ooh, ooh, ooh. Okay. Let me give you a few of my favorites.

"The theory was sound," always a classic. Or "the math worked on paper" -- uh, speaking of? If you didn't draw a blueprint or it's, like, more of a doodle on a napkin? Might want to draw up something all neat and covered in numbers.

You can also blame power surges, weather conditions, or anyone who was in 20 feet of your room.
Edited 2017-05-31 23:53 (UTC)
shiro2hero: (space prison's a hell of a thing)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-31 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[And then the whole goddamn house just rumbles and shakes and there's loud cursing and a FWOOM and what the actual fuck.]
shiro2hero: (Keith i said no wildcards!)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-05-31 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah no, forget sleeping, someone is going to vault out of bed and go bolting to the door. Wrenching it open with one hand, while the other one is glowing and ready to go.]

[Clearly, something is attacking. Clearly everyone is in danger.]


What happened? Is everyone okay!

[Clearly, it's time to go charging into danger.]
shiro2hero: (JUST BOND ALREADY)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-01 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[About now is when the swearing starts to register, so... sorry, Darin, he's going to shoulder your door in. With a metal arm. Because swearing must mean trouble, which must mean something awful is happening.]

[Through the door he goes! Ready for action!]

[Time to save the--]
shiro2hero: (did i leave the gas on)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-01 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

[Wait a second.]
shiro2hero: (this is it this is how i die)

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-01 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[That's a new skylight.]

[That's a Darin with all his limbs.]

[...]
shiro2hero: (BOOOOOOOOOOOONE?????)

done

[personal profile] shiro2hero 2017-06-01 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[His eye may have actually twitched.]

WHAT DID YOU DO?!
kickeminthepistons: (to hell with the first law)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-06-01 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
There you go! Say the arm's coordinate calibration frequency was completely throwing the theoretical dampening factor completely out of alignment and into stack overflow.

Second tip: Say more words faster, and it's harder to catch that they don't make any sense.
kickeminthepistons: (I think my reload's button broken)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-06-01 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes. The only time I had to worry about that was with my dad. And I mean, he didn't care if I blew up the shed by mistake, he was proud of the fact that I figured out how.

You could... be... honest...? [SHE SOUNDS SO UNSURE ABOUT THAT.] You said you had blueprints, right? What DID go wrong?
kickeminthepistons: (ugh country music exists)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-06-01 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I guess no one's taught you to wear goggles while you work on this stuff, huh?

Turn off the lights. It might come back quickly, but you should probably wear shades or something.
kickeminthepistons: (punk never dies)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-06-01 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Seriously?

If it was that bad, then without goggles? You'd probably never see again.

Not without cybernetic eye replacements, at least.
kickeminthepistons: (worry not citizen I'll save you)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-06-01 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
That'll do it, all right. If the lens even stayed on the hilt. You sure it didn't get blown off or melt down?

Look around and see if-- ... oh. Whoops.
kickeminthepistons: (the boys thought I was too nerdy)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-06-01 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
If you're looking for cost-effective, then yeah, homemade is the best way to do it.

There's places where you can buy the right stuff, but companies like to buy up all those lenses for laser cutters for manufacturing even more expensive parts.

In the end, you have to get corporate funding for projects like these -- or, you've gotta be willing to roll up your sleeves and get dirty.
kickeminthepistons: (I am a woman of science and ass-kickery)

[AUDIO]

[personal profile] kickeminthepistons 2017-06-01 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
How good's your chemistry? I can send you over some recipes. Some of them won't hold as long, but they're super easy to make. Like, baking cookies easy.

[whoops wrong series]

Oh, and I guess you should probably check the power output, too. I mean, dropping a zero in the right spot can make the difference between baby's first laser gun and an eridium fission engine.
Edited 2017-06-01 01:29 (UTC)

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