Helping Hand

[dolorous_sensei]

1. You are doing your own business, it might be somewhere private or secure, when suddenly you notice someone staring at you. It's Walt's offspring/unnamed mysterious creature/loose potential tentacled beast!

It stares at you silently for a while more, before finally saying something.

"Can I help?"

2. You see a bunch of technicians half-circling around something. In the middle of the circle, a huckebein is firing its machine gun toward a target far away. The huckebein is firing its gun for a second, two second, three second... and more. The magazine should've been empty by now, but it keep on firing! What's going on here?

3.The mysterious being is gnawing at a pineapple intently, and... well... fruitlessly. Help it with its endeavor?

Comments

2

[star_of_sad]

That machine gun... is that a new prototype with an expanded magazine?

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[dolorous_sensei]

*One of the technician replies.*

You'd think so, right? But no, as you can see, it's a normal magazine.

[star_of_sad]

Umm.

Why does it still keep firing, then?

[dolorous_sensei]

Miss, you know that... thing? The one that emerged from one of the pilot? It once folded a lot of metals into themselves. So... we let it tinker with one of our magazines. This is the result.

[star_of_sad]

You let it do that? Wait... does it mean the metal itself is folding time and space somehow?

[Setsuko takes a step back. This day just got a lot weirder.]

Does a lot of people know about this?

[dolorous_sensei]

Well, we tried to ask that thing how did it does this, but it's not really fluent in english, isn't it? Currently, we're the only one who know about this. But imagine the application!

[star_of_sad]

Yes, that'd be... I mean, no, we can't just do that without any precautions! It could be very dangerous!

[dolorous_sensei]

Well, we already gave that thing a lot of random things to tinker though.

[star_of_sad]

That's...

Please don't do something you'll regret later.

3

[deathflag_survivor]

Here.

[Albhard holds up a fruit knife.]

You know how to use these, right?

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[dolorous_sensei]

For cutting?

But they say this is food. They gave me this.

*The mysterious being points to a group of snickering technicians*

[deathflag_survivor]

Well it is...

[And Albhard's just going to shoot the techies a dirty look before turning his attention back to the mystery being.]

But the edible part's on the inside. You cut through the tough outer layer.

[dolorous_sensei]

Food holds many mysteries.

[deathflag_survivor]

Gotta learn somewhere.

If you want, I'll cut that open for you, or at least get you something less complicated to eat.

[dolorous_sensei]

Yes. Teach me more of food's way.

[deathflag_survivor]

Not sure how much I'll be able to achieve on my own. Normally I'd just have Elma whip up some things for you... buuuuut... he's a bit preoccupied.

[Read: still trying to make all those meals for the cats.]

But I'll see what I can do for you.

1

[cloningblues]

[Asagi's been busy trimming his bonsai until this interruption.]

This is a delicate art, you know.

...What are you doing in my room?

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[dolorous_sensei]

Seeing. Smelling. Hearing. It's great.

[cloningblues]

Well, this is not a blooming tree, so you won't be doing much smelling here, I'm afraid.

[dolorous_sensei]

...does it taste good?

[cloningblues]

It's not for eating! Don't even try.

[dolorous_sensei]

May I touch it?

[cloningblues]

...Yes, but be careful. Don't pull any leaves or anything! It takes a lot of effort to make sure the tree grows exactly the way you want it.

[dolorous_sensei]

It's valuable? It must taste very good...

[cloningblues]

I said no eating!

It's valuable to me. Not so much to anyone else.

1

[brought_it_back]

No.

[Eva sits before a table, where 52 cards are neatly laid out in four rows in front of her.]

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[dolorous_sensei]

What are you doing?

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[brought_it_back]

Practicing.

[Eva holds a hand out in front of the cards, and takes a deep breath. One of the cards below her hand starts to quiver slightly, and rise.]

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[dolorous_sensei]

*It watches interestedly. The mysterious being then puts its hand inside its pocket, and pulls out various things. A piece of string, some coins, a bit of fluff. Finally it finds what it's looking for. Some piece of paper that for some reason has a lot of fold mark,

It sits on the floor nearby, and tries to mimic what you're doing. Obviously it can't do that.*

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[brought_it_back]

[Eva watches the walt-child for a short bit, then goes back to her practice. Soon she's moving two cards, one near each hand, though the effort's making some sweat form on her brow.]

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[dolorous_sensei]

I can't do that yet?

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[brought_it_back]

You probably never will.

[Eva turns back to her thing for a while, before dropping her cards and turning to face the walt-child.]

Why are you here?

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[dolorous_sensei]

*It cocks its head*

Here? To watch... smell... touch... hear... taste...

*It caresses the floor, before moving toward

It's great here. May I touch you?

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[brought_it_back]

[Eva backs up against the table she's been working at.]

No.