For the Techies

[staturity]

Most girls, when given the option, would rather go shopping for clothes. Even before she gained her powers, Cassie hadn't been much of a fan of that. Now that she could grow and shrink (sometimes involuntarily) it was just a bad idea. And until she could find any unstable molecules clothing was affordable (which would be never), it just wasn't going to happen. Well, she did buy a cute dress for the very rare occasion she might need one, and to wear if she went out later, but that was it.

But there was one thing she loved shopping for.

High tech, gadgets, the works. It was like candy. Currently she was lusting after staring at a set of magnetic bucky balls and was considering if there was enough tech on Stacy to justify buying it just to fool around with. She was all ready looking at some of the other gadgets with ideas on how to cannibalize them into parts.

But those bucky balls were awfully tempting. And come on, we all know Cassie likes her metal balls.

[This sucker is open to anyone who wants to go gadget shopping, you don't have to tag Cassie (although it'd be nice) if you don't want. I figured some people would want to send their characters over here anyway.]

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[staturity]

Of course he did. "Oof, hey." Cassie steadied herself. "I- huh." Well if he didn't look like he was straight out of a certain video game. "Uh, hey."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"Oh, scrap --" The impact knocked one of the cans loose from Axl's grip, but he quickly stuck one foot out in its path, just barely catching it and balancing on his other foot.

"Sorry! Wasn't paying enough attention to where I was going," he said sheepishly.

[staturity]

"That's all right. Uh, nice reflexes." Cassie brushed a stray lock of hair behind her ear.

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"I practice in front of the mirror," he joked, glancing at the can and trying to decide if he was cool enough to kick it back into the air and catch it again.

...nah, probably not. Maybe if he weren't standing next to so much very high-tech (and probably very breakable) stuff.

[staturity]

Cassie laughed. "My name's Cassie Lang." She said, offering a hand. "Are you looking for anything? I've been doing a lot of looking around so I might be able to help."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

Axl shifted the cans he was carrying all to one arm and shook her hand. "Axl, nice to meet you!" As soon as the handshake was finished, he reached down to snag to the can that was still balanced on his foot.

"I'm not really looking for anything in particular, aside from these. Kinda wish I had more money, though. This'd be an awesome place for a shopping spree."

[staturity]

Cassie nodded. "Yeah, same here. So uh, you mind if I ask what all those cans are?"

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"E-tanks. Usually my reactor can keep enough output to work right without much outside help, but I'd rather have some backup in case the scrap hits the vent."

[staturity]

"E-tanks. Right." Sometimes, the meatship never got any less surreal. Even when you weren't on the meatship. "I can carry some for you if you want. At least until you finish looking around here."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"That'd be cool! But only if it's not a bother? I mean, I don't wanna get in the way of you looking at stuff or anything."

[staturity]

Cassie grinned. "I'll probably be in here most of shoreleave anyway, it's no problem." She said, holding out her hands.

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"Awesome, thanks." Axl passed over some of the cans. "Definitely enough in here to keep someone busy, that's for sure. You into technology, then?"

[staturity]

She bundled them all up in her arms. "Yeah, mostly self taught although I've been learning a lot more nowadays. I've always enjoyed looking at stores like this. My dad used to have an electronics company and he worked at Stark In- at a tech company so I basically grew up surrounded by it."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"How advanced is it, back where you're from?" Axl had always been surrounded by tech, but for completely different reasons -- it was pretty much inevitable, for a reploid.

[staturity]

It was always weird trying to describe technology/civilization levels to people from other worlds because of how different it could be. "Well, technologically speaking we've got armored suits people can pilot but that's only for the really wealthy super heroes." Like Stark. "A few robots that have very advanced intelligence, a few androids, although one of them is from the future. We've been to the moon. The top of the upper class has access to some awesome stuff. But most people just have access to HDTV, some simple robots without very high AI at all, video games, cars, complicated but relatively simple stuff. If that makes any sense."

[gunslinging.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that makes sense. Sounds kind of like...ugh, I'm awful at history. I want to say, like..20XX or something, where I'm from. Except we didn't get advanced AI for like another century." Unless he was misremembering dates again. Which wouldn't have been any surprise, really; he'd never spared all that much thought for the world before he was in it.