We're gonna shop till we drop! [Open]

[thewunderkind]

Who: Open log that is open for all
Where: Planetside
Summary: Shopping extravaganza
Warnings: SHOPPING

Agrestic might have had might farmer's market and produce that would rival the best farms,but for a wunderkind, this wasn't anything she might have really liked. Food? Pah! She was content with the slop and whatever she could pull off in the sensoriums. After taking a stop at the weapons, she was busy looking at all the boutiques and large items and see what she could barter off and find. There were ingredients to collect and rare crystals to find so she could build more things that could be helpful to the war and dangerous to their enemies.

Maybe she could make something like the Black Obelisks again...only this time with less energy draining of the area. She had a feeling Stacy wouldn't be too happy about something taking away from her own energy.

Maybe even a hot tub...look, she had super important priorities, okay. Priorities that included hot tubs.

Comments

[thewunderkind]

"What about just training in general?" Lash offered. "Although I guess cooking can be a good hobby...not that I'd ever do it myself."

At the mention of the weapons, she turned around and shook her bag for effect.

"Oh man you wouldn't believe all the crazy ingredients I got. I know I'm gonna be inventing all sorts of neat stuff in the upcoming months with these! Tee hee hee and I bet imports will never even think twice about how dangerous these lasers could be in the right hands."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"I did it when I was living with dad, and I'm doing it now more for Sasami and Negi's memory more than anything. Training, well, I do a shit load of that when I'm not cooking or cleaning. Hell, I even have a cooking staff if you can believe it."

Mindy's eyes got big. In the battle of doing something like cooking or talking about weapons and their devastation, it was pretty obvious what was going to win out.

"What do you have in mind? I haven't even gotten to check their scrap yet!"

[thewunderkind]

"Not quite sure yet, but definitely some guns, probably install stuff on all the Giant robots if I can help it too...and then, well my mind's pretty imaginative, and I haven't gotten a real excuse to stretch it out lately! I think I might just do some brainstorming and see what I can come up with."

From the mind of Neotanks and Black Obelisks, terrible things were to be expected.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Good idea! I feel like I could find some really good alien gun tech. Just wish I had more time to get all the stuff I can grab, you know? I feel like I'm starting to get rusty with my projectile weapons, and I can't have that."

Actually it had probably only been a few days but to Mindy that was long enough.

"Wanna look for some stuff together?"

[thewunderkind]

"Projectile weapons," she repeated, stroking her chin and thinking about something before shaking her head as if out of a daze. "Uh yeah! Can't have that."

"But yeah! Let's look for stuff!" Lash, you were way too evident when your mind was wandering off somewhere.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"You totally want to go and get to those weapons, huh?" Mindy said, looking exasperated. Yup, totally a Lash thing to do. Not that she could blame her, really. If anything, Mindy was anxious to start looking after spending several hours asking for recipes and storage times.

"Check that one out!"

[thewunderkind]

"Ooooh," she said, looking at it over. "I can't help but think it would be even more dangerous with a double barrel, however. Less elegant maybe, but far more deadly!" She moved a little down where the weapons were stored behind a glass.

"Oh wow! this one's bound to make someone hurt!"

It had bright and shiny green glowy things. Instant love for her.

ha, that icon is perfect!

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Yeah, I hear ya," Mindy said. "I hate having to reload shit. Fucking lying movies, always acting like you have an infinite supply of bullets. What a load."

Yeah, it was really great to have someone to talk about that stuff with. The overlord barely used guns and Ruffnut was Ruffnut. At least lash could appreciate the kind of firepower needed to really shake things up.

"Oh yes, shit, I want that!" Mindy exclaimed, her eyes dancing. Or even something like this! It looks vicious!"

So old tho

[thewunderkind]

"Maybe if we could find a magical bandana of infinite ammo, that could solve our problems," Lash said, pondering out loud. "Of course that type of spell would require some sort of magical bullets, and a good merge of both technological and magical." She looked over at what Mindy was pointing to, and gave a quick nod. "Oooh that does look vicious. I bet you could easily take someone's arm out or two with it!"

She continued to look around until she came to a strange combination of a gun and a blade. "Pffft I wonder how many bullets you can put in that thing. Could be useful, mind you. I always thought the Ranger weapons had a neat aspect to them, switching between gun and lasso, but gun and blade? Way more deadly!"

Re: So old tho

[hit_girl_mindy]

"A bandana of infinite ammo," Mindy repeated. "Well why the hell cant we find a way to make something like that? There are plenty of magical people here on the ship, right? And we need to arm ourselves with everything we can to prepare for the war, right? Maybe it just takes getting someone with the right know how."

She would definitely be thinking about that now, and turned to look at the weapon. "I dunno, kinda unwieldy. The whole thing with swords are that they're quick, close ranged weapons and you'd need a gun long range. So it sorta fucks with the conveniences by having to learn a whole new way to fight with both on one plate. It might make more sense to have a hidden...OOH, are those grenades?!"

Re: So old tho

[thewunderkind]

"I bet it's only a matter of time. Actually I should think about asking around," she replied, pondering out loud. Lash weren't you going to ask Mindo something, OH RIGHT the allure of the weapons was too strong.

"I bet they're thermal," she said, taking one and dangerously bouncing it up and down with one hand. "They explode on contact and unleash a deadly flammable gas that can easily burn the target. Nasty stuff."

Re: So old tho

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Yeah, why not? Totally ask around, I feel so stupid that i've only been asking around for food. Let's find out how powerful shit can be!"

She grinned. "Dude, YES. I need to totally buy this. Hell, I'll fucking by this for you and we can experiment and find out how much better we can make them."

[thewunderkind]

Oh look, weirdly enough the thermal weapon was already in pieces when Mindy looked up, with Lash tapping at it, the seller looking surprised but unable to protest.

"Considering that he's got only a half heated thermal coil, it definitely got some improvements," she gave a tap at one of the parts, while the man ducked behind a desk. Nothing happened. "Huh. That's a new type of material..."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"You think?" Mindy was just glad nothing exploded when she tapped it like that: it was Lash, that had a tendency to happen. Then again, she was sort of an expert at this kind of thing, so she shouldn't have been so surprised.

"So at least its properly insulated," Mindy said thoughtfully. "Wonder how hard it would be to reproduce something like this on the ship."

[thewunderkind]

"Yeah insulation's a good thing, but I'd need to break down the material to see what its made of." She took the shell and twirled it around, the salesman looking like he wanted to die -- or was afraid too.

"Pffft," she added. "Gimme a few weeks tops and I'd have a model ten times better! This stuff's small fry." She turned over and saw another store. "Come on. Let's go to that one and come back to this later."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"You'll have to show me how that is," Mindy said, who made it a note in her head to see how Lash made that kind of stuff: she WAS going to have to make some weapons for herself, eventually.

Mindy did goggle here. Was the reason she said that because something didn't explode? In any case, if there was more weapons to take a look at, she was there!

"Anything else in the gun department you can spot?"

[thewunderkind]

"Hmmm," she began as they arrived at a new store. She peered at the counter until something did catch her eye.

"Hey! What about these? Recoil's gotta be a pain in the butt, mind you. This is why I stick to lasers and stuff. But it looks so...cute!"

Yes. Cute.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Double barrels. Nice. Mindy picked these up, testing the grip, spinning it with one hand and taking aim a moment. She smiled.

"It's good enough, yeah," she said, "but maybe i could give lasers a try. I've been looking for something with a little more oomph, minus the need for the bullets, you know?"

[thewunderkind]

"Yeah. Bullets are great, but they can only do so much. Laser blasts hit harder and depending on the internal structure, can be recharge near instantaneously. At least, when I make them."

Of course Lash would brag.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Man, there's so much I gotta learn when it comes to this newer tech," Mindy admitted, grinning. "Dad and I have gotten our hands on some ok shit, but you can only get so much on his salary, and in our world. So let's see...would something like that be all right?"

She would research this stuff into the night and until morning if she had to!

[thewunderkind]

"That looks pretty good to gut out," Lash said with a nod. "Let's get that and then uh...maybe I should ask you a favor in exchange."

Oh right she had forgotten about that part. Perfect way to ease it in.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Sweet," Mindy said eagerly, checking how the gun handled in her hand, spinning it and then taking aim. "I really should start practicing with this stuff!"

Oh, a favor? "A favor? Yeah, sure. What do you want?"

[thewunderkind]

"Well uh...I need you to shoot someone for me. Not kill mind you, we need all the people on the ship and I couldn't do that to him anyway. It's just with a dart."

[hit_girl_mindy]

Shoot someone?! That was just about the last thing she expected to hear from Lash, who she figured was a really good shot. Of course, the answer was to be expected.

"Sure, I can shoot someone for you. Just name the time and place. And, you know, who, of course."

[thewunderkind]

"Well first you have to promise not to tell anyone," she added, as she finished up with her purchases and began to walk out of the store. "I'm serious too! If Ruffnut finds out she'd tell everyone."