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Miranda (lilmissfired) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2010-10-11 21:14:00

Entry tags:

!days 170-179, sawada tsunayoshi, {kharg meleol nidellia}, {{{bianchi}}}, {{{miranda lotto}}}

Who: Pyxides and others
Where: near the Forge
When: Day 179, after noon
What: glass making

[manipulating a few thousand degrees of molten silica from a few feet away will give a person a healthy appreciation of the cooler temperatures of the regular cave areas. Miranda is wearing a light weight peasant shirt and her sturdy leather pants, and her hair is pulled back from her face with the headband from Red, while a recently acquired handkerchief is tied securely over her mouth and nose.

The glass that she's working with at the moment is a hollow globe roughly the size of a small cantaloupe and opened at the far end as she sets it back into the furnace to heat again so she can start spinning it flat.

Several other glass pieces are cooling down in a second oven from the day before.]

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	thegooddouche 2010-10-12 01:42 am UTC (link)
	[SUPERVISING...SORTA. Just making sure nothing catches fire, really] (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lilmissfired 2010-10-12 01:46 am UTC (link)
	[she seems to be doing okay... this time... as she moves the rod back out of the furnace spinning it rapidly to get the semi-liquid glass to open up] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thegooddouche 2010-10-12 01:58 am UTC (link)
	[impressed :\|a hot dang cave technology is AWESOME] It's looking good. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lilmissfired 2010-10-12 02:02 am UTC (link)
	[it is hot and hot and MOSTLY HOT but working it into a flat disk] I-if it doesn't break this time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thegooddouche 2010-10-12 02:07 am UTC (link)
	It's glass, it's fragile. If it breaks, we'll just have to try again. [dropping a few failed pieces back into the lava. That's sort of like recycling I guess] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lilmissfired 2010-10-12 02:44 am UTC (link)
	[doesn't want to think about the number of times she's done just that] Y-yeah. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thegooddouche 2010-10-12 02:47 am UTC (link)
	So don't stress about it. For all you know, this could be the one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lilmissfired 2010-10-12 02:49 am UTC (link)
	... Y-you're right. [nodding and checking the disk to make sure it's flat] Can you help sis with the hide? We need to get it into the oven, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thegooddouche 2010-10-12 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Sure. [tosses another piece into the lava before going to fetch the dry hide \o\] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lilmissfired 2010-10-12 02:58 am UTC (link)
	Thanks. Do you want to try another one next? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thegooddouche 2010-10-12 03:29 am UTC (link)
	Why not? Not sure if I'll be as skilled at it as you or Sis though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lilmissfired 2010-10-12 03:32 am UTC (link)
	I-it should be alright. It's not like we're very good still. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thegooddouche 2010-10-12 03:41 am UTC (link)
	Technically you're better than everyone else here, unless the other teams already have knowledge of the technique. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lilmissfired 2010-10-12 03:51 am UTC (link)
	... U-um... (Reply to this) (Parent)

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