Hammer to Fall

[lucidmutant]

Characters: Fawkes and you!
Setting: Floor Fifteen - Workshop, daytime
Format: Starting in prose, will match.
Summary: Fawkes grows tired of being unarmed, and goes to rectify this.
Warnings: Workin' in a workshop?


Between the various incidents that have gone on since he's been here, Fawkes has determined that this place, like the Capital Wasteland, seems like it will require a more violent approach - especially with the newer residents - namely, the monsters.

Lacking his weapons from home, the best thing to do in a situation like this is improvise.

Fawkes is currently rooting around the workshop for tools and parts he can use to craft a bludgeon of some sort - one of the tables has broken and warped metal bedframe pieces spread upon it.

...kind of a pity that the majority of these tools are sized for smaller hands than Fawkes', but he'll attempt to make do.

Comments

[akunomusume]

Rilianne's been poking around carefully, noticing the large man-person in this particular level. Quietly, she approached him, a tiny blond thing compared to his hulking mass.

"What is this place?" she called out.

[lucidmutant]

"It is a workshop," Fawkes answered, pulling a roll of duct tape and a mallet from a shelf, then turning around. He peered down at the young girl before continuing. "Where things are built or repaired, generally."

[akunomusume]

She seemed unafraid of the man-person, looking up at him curiously. "It is a place of commoners, I assume? The working community."

[lucidmutant]

There was a pause before Fawkes answered - he was considering the wording of that sentence, as it reminded him of the residents of a different tower back home. One he only visited once, and that was once too many.

This girl, however, she was a child - perhaps she simply knew no better. "I suppose under normal conditions, this would be a place for working people, yes." He stepped around her, back to the table he'd set his materials out on before, and placed the tape and mallet there, then began to look over the parts of the bedframe.

[akunomusume]

She didn't move from where she's standing, just regarding him, his size, and the tools he's working with. She had seen people work like this in her kingdom before, back when she was younger than this, but it was only from afar. Up close, it was an entirely different experience.

"What are you making?"

[metawoof]

The pieces of the metal bedframe were basically just inviting Echidna to investigate, and so into the workshop she creeped, looking at the metal pieces with curiosity. She knew basically nothing about engineering though, but that certainly didn't stop her!

What did stop her however was when she noticed a giant...green....thing. Rooting through the tools. Which caused her to immediately let out a yelp of surprise and ducked under the table, watching the...thing, with curiosity and amazement.

Seriously what was that thing

[lucidmutant]

Hey, hey, Fawkes is not a thing! He is a person. With feelings and stuff.

The yelp and scuffling noise got him to turn around, then scan the room for others - there wasn't anyone when he first entered the room... Failing to notice Echidna under the table, he frowns at the room at large.

"Is anyone there?"

Gotta make sure this isn't the tower screwing with his head.

[metawoof]

Well he looked very much like one of those freaky monsters, thank you very much!

Echidna watched for a moment and remained silent. Whoever or whatever it was, it was intelligent! So maybe it wasn't a monster?

Another moment of consideration and silence later, and Echidna poked her head out juuust a little from under the table. "Uh....h, hi? What are you?"

[lucidmutant]

...Jade?

No. Well. Maybe. If it is a Jade, it is not the one he knew. He frowns a little, both at that, and the reaction he got from the girl.

"Hello - I am a meta-human, and I have no intentions of causing you harm."

Ignoring the fact that he's here to make a weapon...

[childhero]

While he has been making sure to carefully explore each floor he comes across, he hasn't been on Floor Fifteen much. Today, though, the noise that catches his attention. Curious, Link creeps in to see what all the ruckus is about.

... wow. What a big guy. But he doesn't have a red collar from what Link can see, so he can't be all that bad.

"Hello?" he calls, a little cautiously because he doesn't want to startle this person or anything.

[lucidmutant]

The ruckus is about hammering at some pieces of taped-together metal to make them fit together better!

Fawkes looks up when he hears the voice, then waves the hammering hand a bit. "Greetings, little boy!" Fawkes' voice, however, lacks the caution, and is quite loud and boisterous.

[childhero]

How friendly! Link decides to go ahead and approach, though he keeps enough distance between them that he won't be in the way.

"What are you doing?" he asks curiously.

[lucidmutant]

Fawkes goes back to hammering, pacing his words to go between strikes. "I am attempting to craft a weapon, so that I might defend myself better here." He frowns a bit. "Things seem to be getting more and more dangerous as time goes on."

[guiltapalooza]

--Oh, Fawkes! [Willow has been rooting around for tools, too, though for a very different project. Weapons just aren't her, most of the time.

When she sees him she gives him a bright smile and a curious glance.] Nice to see you in person. What are you trying to make?

[lucidmutant]

[That voice is kind of familiar--oh!] Greetings, Willow! And likewise.

[He pulls down a mallet and tape, then glances back at the table he'd laid things out on.] I am attempting to make myself a bludgeon to defend myself with.

[guiltapalooza]

[She leans back against an adjacent table, bracing herself and giving him some room.]

That's a good idea. We are sadly lacking in weaponry around here, huh?

[lucidmutant]

[He nods.]

We definitely are. It would seem my weapons from home were too big for the trunk here, so I must make do.

[With that, he plods over to the table, and begins to sort through the metal pieces.] I do miss that laser I found, though.

[myblueskies]

Romeo entered the workshop, he saw the man who looked a bit like a monster but Romeo had seen him before and knew he was nice really. He smiled but didn't say anything as he went to the table where he had hid the things he had been working on. Bringing them out he grabbed a hammer, he was trying to make a knife, unfortunately he had no idea how to do this, so had mainly been bashing metal with a hammer.

It made him feel a little less angry, but it wasn't really working. "Sir?" He asked politely, "Do you know how to make knives?"

[lucidmutant]

Fawkes looked over, a bit curious about the request.

"I believe I could make a crude one. Why do you need a knife?"

[myblueskies]

"Really?" Romeo looked back at the mess he had made and sighed, "The bad people took Molly, I need to get her back but I don't know any magic and I'm not big or strong so I need a knife. Can you show me how to make one sir?"

[lucidmutant]

"...took her?" His tone grows a bit grim as he steps over to Romeo, and squats down. It's a little tricky to see, but his face is troubled. What he'd discussed with Erik before seems to have unfortunately come to pass sooner than he thought. This kid isn't like the ones in the Wasteland... He seems to be willing to learn, though.

"I shall," he answers, standing back up. "There's a grinding machine on that table," he adds, pointing. The thing's safety parts seem a bit ricket, though - but if things get bad, he can attempt to take over.

"Let me see if I can find you a pair of goggles."

[deadliestberet]

Of all the things that Preston had expected to run into in this strange building, a being like Fawkes was not one of them. Then again, he supposed that he should have expected to find something as strange, and a bit scary looking.

"...Aren't you a big guy?"

[lucidmutant]

Fawkes looks up from hammering at the comment, though given his height, he's still looking down to a degree. He nods a bit at Preston.

"I am!"

[deadliestberet]

Well now wasn't this a conversation starter? He started to look around the workshop for a moment before focusing his gaze back on the big guy. "So...is this place yours?"

[lucidmutant]

Fawkes shakes his head. "It is not - it is a public workshop, far as I am aware. No one has come in to tell me I should not be here yet."

There's a pause before he looks back at the man. "I am Fawkes, by the way."