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Fang/Spar/Wind (be_my_chum) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2010-07-14 17:11:00

Entry tags:

!days 140-149, albert de morcerf, excel, gokudera hayato, minami ikki, nakayama yayoi, sumeragi kururu, wanijima akito, yuffie kisaragi, {il palazzo}, {kharg meleol nidellia}, {kirika yuumura}, {{{akatsuki chika}}}

Who: Anyone
Where: Outside of the angerdome
When: Day 148, noon
What:

[Scattered around the roof of Hydra are several crude tools made of bone, leather and stone and a few papers with rather technical designs on it. Claude's handiwork, for any staring at them, might be recognizable and lays largely untouched, however, in the margins, on the back, on several adjoining sheets are designs on implementing THOSE plans. Equations, materials, notes on experiments and results... all scattered throughout the pages in several handwritings and more than one language.

This obviously hasn't been an overnight project, nor anywhere near completed either...

However, what may have grabbed your attention is the groan of wood as they crank back the catapult for another test.]

... That might be the limit.. adjust the tension or just wait until we can really mess with the angle?

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	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 12:32 am UTC (link)
	[This is a PERFECTLY ORDINARY STALAGMITE. . . . it only moves when you're looking away.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	be_my_chum 2010-07-15 12:33 am UTC (link)
	... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 12:36 am UTC (link)
	[. . . . . . . . . scootch scooth.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2010-07-15 12:41 am UTC (link)
	. . . (Reply to this) (Parent)

	be_my_chum 2010-07-15 12:52 am UTC (link)
	[These? These are twin stares..] [Then loudly.] So Scowl, I bet we could put at least 50 more pounds of pressure on the wince here... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 12:53 am UTC (link)
	[ . . . !!!! Hop hop ho—!! . . . I mean. It's just a stalagmite. Pay it no mind.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2010-07-15 12:54 am UTC (link)
	[. . . hmmm] [Just as loudly.] Only 50? I bet we could go as high as 75. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	be_my_chum 2010-07-15 12:56 am UTC (link)
	75... Ah! I bet we could get something really heavy up with all that force... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 12:59 am UTC (link)
	[HOP HOP HOP— pause.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:02 am UTC (link)
	[This is definitely not a hand shooting out to grab the nearest full diagram.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:05 am UTC (link)
	[Lengthen the man arm . . . add two more pulleys to the winch, reinforce the locking mechanism* . . . coil-braid rope to support the strain . . . ]* (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:10 am UTC (link)
	[And that parchment definitely didn't just get put back with a neat "Net improvement: 37kg hoist, 2 sec. reduction/winch time" in the corner.] [. . . nudges it a bit further out. just in case.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2010-07-15 01:19 am UTC (link)
	. . . [picks up the parchment to examine] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	righthandsmoke 2010-07-15 01:19 am UTC (link)
	[—Whoa] Hey, Fang, look at what this rock did! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	be_my_chum 2010-07-15 01:20 am UTC (link)
	Ah... what a strange and random addition... [No matter what he's saying... the tone IS rather impressed reading it.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:21 am UTC (link)
	[Yes!] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:21 am UTC (link)
	[I mean. I am a rock.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2010-07-15 01:28 am UTC (link)
	It's really impressive . . . Who'd have thought a rock could do all this? [oh so casually leaning on the stalagmite, and if it's with a little too much weight and force . . . well. Whoops 8)] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:46 am UTC (link)
	[THAT WAS UNANTICIPATED AMOUNTS OF FORCE!!] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:46 am UTC (link)
	[Which is to say, KER-CRASH.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:48 am UTC (link)
	[Blinks. In the middle of the rubble. In her frilly too-short maid's dress. Peacock feathers in her hair catching the updraft before they settle.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:49 am UTC (link)
	[AND REASSEMBLES IT.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

	roadtothesky 2010-07-15 01:50 am UTC (link)
	[Into a perfectly ordinary if far less structurally sound stalagmite.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	righthandsmoke 2010-07-15 02:05 am UTC (link)
	. . . (Reply to this) (Parent)

	righthandsmoke 2010-07-15 02:05 am UTC (link)
	Hey!! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)