Kraken Campfire, Later Tuesday Night

[the_merriest]

Rikku hoped it wasn't too dark that people wouldn't be able to see that she now had purple hair.

Aly was on her short list of Favorite Teachers Ever.

She hoped the Kraken bathroom had recovered from any possible dye-related mishaps.

Rikku sat in front of the campfire, bouncing to herself. Ready to chat the ear off anybody and everybody who dropped by.



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[the_merriest]

Rikku grinned. "I love stuff like that. I mean, my roommate's more a nerd than I am - not in a bad way! - but I love, like, technical stuff? You know, machina - oh, sorry, machinery. Taking things apart and putting them back together. I usually can't get them to go back together right, though. Getting better at it."

[turtle-techie.livejournal.com]

"Seriously?" Donnie's eyes widened further. "I mean, when I say nerd? I mean tech-nerd. Taking stuff apart, making new things, that's what I do for fun!"

[the_merriest]

"Really!?" Rikku bounced excitedly. "That's what I do! Broken bits and wires and you can take it all apart and even if it doesn't go back together you, like, learn from it? And I have all these books on engineering and gears and all of that in my room from the library and ... that is so great. What have you made? I haven't done anything interesting in ages. Well, I suppose the weapons count, right?"

[turtle-techie.livejournal.com]

"Made? Oh, man, I used to just make computers and play with things like toasters - make them work better or fix them or sometimes make them explode, but before we came here, I was working on a GPS to track specific non-human life forms on a wide scale with pinpoint accuracy," he said, speaking more quickly as he got excited. "And I was kind of thinking how I could modify the van to be better used in assault as well as defensive situations. Which weapons were you working with?"

[the_merriest]

"That sounds so great!" Rikku was squeeing. "Did you make them explode on purpose or was it kinda like a bad wiring deal? 'Cause I've had a couple times where you got this wire crossed over that plate and you didn't even notice until you're all 'whoa, something smells AWFUL.' Dude, like, you mean a turtle-finder? That'd rock!"

She considered. "The van ... a van's like a car, right? What kind of guns does it have on it now? You could do a lot with something retractable if you had room on the inside to stash it, so it didn't look too noticeable while you're trying to drive. Or maybe you leave it on the outside so you don't have to worry about the retraction deal being a possible weak spot point of entry kinda thing."

"My weapons? Oh! I customize them. Like, okay, there's something called a Lunar Curtain, and it can put up a magic kinda shield in front of you, while it lasts. Nice, but temporary. Unless you take, like, eighty of them, and burn them into a bit of armor, which can then project that shield permanently, like, it's just on there. Stuff like that."

[turtle-techie.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I did a lot of bad wiring," Donnie said. "Many appliances died before I figured out how to do it right and even then sometimes they died later, when you didn't expect, and sometimes kind of freakishly. And yes! Yes, a turtle-finder, that's amazing, Mikey and Master Splinter just looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to explain it, not that that's unusual," he said, pausing for breath finally.

"The van's a type of vehicle like a car, yeah, and right now it doesn't have any," he said, grimacing. "I don't actually like guns all that much, so I was hoping to only add them as a last resort and use other sorts of weapons first, or just reinforce the entire thing so nothing that attacks it will even matter.

"Magic?? Seriously, wow, I don't know anything about magic, really. Is that something you learned how to do?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku grinned. "Trial and error, you know? Where I'm from we kinda don't have, uh, instruction manuals, or anything else. You have to make it up and see what works, or, you know. Try to figure out why it didn't, which is way more common. And dude, a turtle-finder would be perfect for you guys, 'cause if one of you got lost after a fight, you could just tool around until you picked them up, right?"

She was bouncing now, because oh, how she loved weird tech stuff. "Not guns? Have you thought about spikes, maybe? If you kept them flat enough it'd be safe in case you bumped into it while walking, but you could still use the van as a souped-up battering ram." She chewed her lip. "Reinforcing is always a way to go, too. And oh! I only know a little magic, like, basic elemental spells. I'm not a mage or anything. But some of the items I have are kinda - charmed, I guess. Fiends drop them, or you can steal them, and then you do neat stuff with weapons and armor. Or, well, I can, anyway." She blushed a little at that.