009 - Phone and Action (I AM SO SORRY FOR THE SPAM, GUYS)

[worstvikingever]

PHONE:[Hiccup has filtered this call from Klaus and Lucrezia, as well as the "usual suspects" and as many of Grady's cronies as he can manage, but since he's not great at this yet, it is NOT FILTERED WELL from Grady's cronies. That is, of course, assuming that anyone's actually taking phone calls at the moment.

Anyway he sounds pretty tense.]

Klaus Wulfenbach can no longer be trusted. He's completely under Lucrezia's control, and she's a crazy sadistic bitch, to put it lightly. Okay, to be fair, he's still in control of his mind and his own thoughts and whatever, but whatever she tells him to do, he has to do it, whether he wants to or not.

And usually it slides firmly into the "not" slot.

So just. Stay away from them.

Okay next. Quinn, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to kind of take over your forge. I'm not a good fighter, guys, and so as much as I'd like to help out there, I know where I'm useful. I'm useful at that forge, making and fixing weapons for you. Or armor. Or anything else you need. Seriously guys, just come on over, tell me what you want, and I'll do my best to make it for you.

I think... I think that's it for now.

ACTION: [Hiccup has set himself up at the forge and is working intently on... various projects. Swords, shields, axes, spears... he's even managed to get gun schematics from the library and is working on making his own firearms. If your character wants anything made/fixed or even just wants to chat with Hiccup, here's the place to go.

A warning, though. Hiccup is... acting a little differently than normal. He's far more confident, serious, and... intense than normal. Something happened, clearly. But he's not going to talk about it.]

Comments

[worstvikingever]

Okay, cool.

[He goes back to studying the diagram. VERY INTERESTING STUFF.]

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

[[Theta leaves it with him and heads off. About an hour or so later, she comes back dressed in her clothes from home, top hat and all, and riding on the arm of a four foot tall humanoid mechanical thing that has a large key in its back. With its other arm, it's hauling a car.]]

I brought Carry-It and metal for you~!

[worstvikingever]

[Hiccup's eyes widen and his mouth drops open at the... well. The robot.]

Wow.

Okay.

Uh... thanks.

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

The Post Office has all of everyone's regains open for the taking as long as you're contributing to the effort against Grady. This is support-type work, but...I think it counts.

[[She gets down carefully and moves over to the car to start taking things apart.]]

If I break this down into component parts, you'll be able to use it, won't you?

[worstvikingever]

[Hiccup shrugs.]

Yeah, sure. Probably.

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

[[And Theta busies herself with pulling the car apart. When she gets one of the doors off and gets it stripped down to the steel frame, Carry-It carries that over to him.]]

[worstvikingever]

[And Hiccup will get to work, making the parts to make this... whatever that Theta wants. It's probably going to take a while, there's a lot to make.]

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

[[Theta doesn't mind waiting. Once she's broken the car down into component parts, she sits around sketching more clank designs.]]

[worstvikingever]

[As parts are completed he'll give them to Theta to inspect and do what she wants with and then move on to making the next part.]

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

[[She has Carry-It take each one away in turn, and when he's done, she sends Carry-It after another car.]]

Here's extra materials as a thank-you. Do you want me to break it down for you or do you want to take it apart yourself?

[worstvikingever]

Uh... if you could break it down that'd be really great. Thanks.

[He offers a tentative smile, because he feels like that's what he should do, but it's not particularly sincere. As has been previously stated, he's not in a smiling mood.]

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

[[She smiles back, but she's not all that offended that his smile is forced. Just...anything to try to fight back, and helping Hiccup is her best shot at that.]]

[worstvikingever]

[Hiccup just nods and goes back to working on whatever is next. His smile fades and he goes back to looking... preoccupied. Serious. More serious than a kid like him has any need to be.]

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

[[Theta notes it and doesn't pester him any further, but she makes mental note of it, and she's determined to try to cheer him up........later when they're not in the middle of a crisis. Besides, time might just do some good for him, whatever caused that look.

She'll disassemble the car into component parts and leave all the pieces neatly grouped in piles. Then she'll head off and leave him with it, her offering to his efforts. She stops and turns back, though.]]

Just call for me if you need more metal, but that should keep you going a while. I don't mind bringing it for you.

[worstvikingever]

Thanks, Miss Buckley. I'll... talk to you later.