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.

[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]

"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]

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]

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.

[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...

[metawoof]

"Meta-human?"

That sounded both cool and confusing all at once! Echidna wasn't so sure she was willing to come out from under the table just yet even though he seemed friendly, but she did take a seat more calmly and looked up at him. Luckily she had no idea what he was doing with those metal pieces above her head. "What's that?"

[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?"

[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]

"A weapon," he answers, taking one of the longer pieces of bedframe, and bending it slowly, then bends it the other way. He continues doing this, working it enough so that it will eventually be broken into two smaller pieces. "This place is dangerous, and I was not fortunate enough to have any of my own weapons come with me."

[akunomusume]

Rilianne cocked her head to the side, hands behind her back. Interesting. A man of his size still needed a weapon to protect himself? "A weapon. What sort?"

[lucidmutant]

"A mutated human, where I come from."

Fawkes turns back around briefly to gather a mallet and duct tape, then moves to lay them on the table. He pauses, then glances down toward the girl. "You may wish to move, this could get a bit loud."

[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?

[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]

"A bludgeon."

Those pieces were placed against a center-piece, and taped tightly to it. The ends of both pieces extended past one end of the center part, and were folded outward, giving the thing a general T-shape.

[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.

[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?

[metawoof]

"Mutated?!" Whoah. That was both cool and horrible all at once. She had heard plenty about the consequences of radiation in some of her classes and they did not some pleasant. Unless it was adaptive mutation, but that definitely didn't look like an adaptive mutation.

"--Oh!" Echidna looked up and quickly shuffled out from under the table, standing on the opposite side of it from Fawkes. "Um, are you...OK and stuff...?"

[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.

[lucidmutant]

"Yes. The experience itself was quite unpleasant, but that was a very long time ago. It has been a difficult life afterwards, but livable."

He starts hammering as he talks, attempting to space the words and hammerstrikes so they don't overlap.

[lucidmutant]

Fawkes looked over, a bit curious about the request.

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

[metawoof]

"O-Oh, wow." She frowned slightly. "I'm sorry for bringing it up." Now she'll...just kind of fiddle with the edge of her sleeve awkwardly for a minute.

She watched him hammer for a minute, doing as he did and talking in between the hammer strikes. "At least it is not too bad though! You kind of remind me of those one guys from one of the games I played with my friend back home."