Questing for an army of two

[electricyousei]

Who: Ruri, some monsters at a point, and open
Where: A couple locations around the city during the day and at night of the 11th. The park during the 12th.
Summary: Ruri is bored and while not an engineer, she's got schematics
Warnings: SCIENCE!



Build a robot model, she'd been pondering for a while, and after helping with the gundam, and the other giant robots she had a number of schematics. She also had the plans for a gravity wave engine power receiver and some left over parts but she wanted to try miniaturization. Mecha were large and ultimately not terribly useful if something got on the ship, but remote units that were say man sized, or at least Ruri sized would be quite useful. Spending most of the last week or so working up plans she decided it was time to collect parts.

Afternoon The 11th - Ruri is out in the Cancer and Virgo areas, she has a list of things, but other than a laser pointer which also tells distances she seems to be more looking over things instead of buying them. Occasionally she'll go into a store and make a purchase of some sort of circuit board or something but this seems more a scouting expedition.

The 13th Hour of the 11th - Ruri is out in the park, stalking a group of Chaos space marines and sorcerers, or perhaps robotic monsters. She's doing her best to hide, but she has that laser pointer out.

"Omoikane. Prepare all 6 tubes."

Afternoon of the 12th - Ruri is outside of the Nadesico at the park. She has a table set up and piles of various components purchased or won from monsters that she is looking over, categorizing and documenting.

"Hrm, I think that's enough, the only issue is I'm not an engineer, I'm a programmer."

Comments

[all_wound_up]

But things got better for you after that, right?

[electricyousei]

"When I was twelve I met Akito, then Yurika and Minato."

[all_wound_up]

I'm glad everything turned out all right.

[electricyousei]

"Turned out all right..."

There's a sigh and the sound of an electrode shorting out from a distracted bit of work.

[all_wound_up]

[Nano jumps at the noise, frowning.]

U-um, should I go...?

[electricyousei]

"Hrm? Oh, no, its all right. I just singed myself with the soldering iron a bit."

Her shoulders sag a bit, but her deadpan keeps on fairly well.

[all_wound_up]

I'll just watch you work for a little while if that's all right, then.

[electricyousei]

She nods a bit, "Its fine. I'd offer to share my lunch, but its terrible."

[all_wound_up]

Oh, if I'd known, I could have brought you something.

[electricyousei]

"I'm not a very good chef but I tried one of Akito's recipes. It wasn't as bad as some meals I've had, but its not good."

[all_wound_up]

What was it a recipe for? I wonder if it's something I could make.

[electricyousei]

"Fried rice. I have what I remember of it written down, but there may have been parts I never noticed. Its not like I can go back and ask."

[all_wound_up]

Oh! I can make that!

[It's a pretty easy recipe, after all.]

[electricyousei]

Ruri looks skeptical instead of deadpan, but calls up a holoscreen and flicks it towards Nano. On it is a list of ingredients, but several cooking techniques as noted by someone who has no clue about cooking such as fuel consumption rates instead of temperature, number of times the spoon is banged on the side to get the rice off but not the order the ingredients go in.

"This is what I got from observation."

[all_wound_up]

...Oh. I see!

[Well, that would definitely explain things.]

If you want, I can make these instructions a little easier to read and send them back to you.

[electricyousei]

"I still suspect it wouldn't cover for the almost no cooking training where this was made by a professional chef."

[all_wound_up]

Fried rice isn't very difficult to make once you learn how. It just takes practice.

[electricyousei]

She still looks a bit out of sorts, "Maybe some day."

[all_wound_up]

Mm. Okay.

[Nano nods, quieting down now to watch Ruri work.]