Rust in Peace [Open]

[zouichi]

Zouichi, for once, wasn't in the City on patrol. Instead, he was making a systematic search of the city's streets, looking for telltale stray robot parts that might lead him to what he was looking for. Unfortunately, during SHODAN's attack, not all of the crew (except him! okay not really) had been terribly judicious about the property damage they were inflicting on the nearby buildings.

So there was rubble everywhere. Oops.

But it had been in the middle of a robot attack, right? Sometimes you needed to break a few eggs to make an omelet, right? RIGHT.

[This is the log for searching for robot parts and a SUPER SECRET ENGINEERING PROJECT okay it's not that secret but IT SORT OF IS. Feel free to have someone try and peek in on the Engineering thread and have Lash furtively cover her test paper.]

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[youmissed]

"Good point." John fell silent for a bit as he went about his business collecting whatever scraps he could carry. He had to make a guess as to what could be used as weapons, seeing as they hadn't exactly mastered death bots back on Earth where (when, he had to remind himself) he came from. "Think this is enough?"

He wandered back over to Zouichi to show him his haul. He trusted the artificial human to have a better idea about this than he did.

[zouichi]

Zouichi raised an eyebrow at John's haul, giving it a cursory inspection. "I'm not an expert on robot parts, of course... but this should be a good start."

Half of this job was picking out the pieces that hadn't been flash-burned, smashed, or exploded, anyway. He plucked a small, black component up out of the pile. "In fact, I think you might have part of a power dampening device here. Just from what I remember of them, of course. Lash will be lasers thrilled."

It cool if I wrap up the thread?

[youmissed]

"Cool." John was glad he'd managed to pick up what amounted to a "good start". "Lash's the girl with the hair, right?"

He didn't think he needed to elaborate on what The Hair meant - it stuck out, even in a ship full of aliens and slimy membrane walls. Tended to make an impression, even if he didn't know the girl personally.