Kazoo Day 19

[sciencegirl]

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Hi, everyone!

[It is Entrapta, and she's had a strangely difficult past two weeks. But she's doing what she can to cope, and she copes with obscene amounts of productivity.]

First, I have a couple of big favors to ask! I'm working on a project to supply mission teams with a couple of healing snipers and a few healing grenades per team. If your world has access to healing potions that could help with this or plants that can be used for them, contact me! Maybe we can work out some item trades or something!

Our non-magic users definitely need the option to help out, and from a distance, if they have to.

Second, I want to work on security monitoring for rooms for people with sensitive items. While we're mostly a trustworthy crew, considering how Void activity can influence our minds having some sort of security system for cabins might help, even if it's only optional.

I'm planning on consulting with a few of my friends on that but if you have tech experience and are interested, please get back to me!

[She'll have to hit up a few people. It's important to be there for Kaiba after what happened, and taking the weight off him for this is the least she can do. If her face is on it, along with all her other projects, then it's less like he's challenging someone to get by him. Her friend just wants to be safe!]

Also would anyone mind if I use the corner of the gym car to start putting together my robot skeleton? I promise I'll keep it behind the climbing rack and out of the way. I just don't want to crowd the quiet car.

[Oh oh before she forgets!]

AhhhhA! Tidus! Roland! I need to talk to you two, too! I have ideas. And I got some stuff to help.

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[wisdominshadows]

There are such potions in Hyrule- magical potions, more mundane herbal remedies, and also particular forms of cow's milk which can restore health.

[Said with the immediacy of someone who has been giving some thought to this issue for a while.]

Unfortunately, my knowledge of how to create the most potent potions is, at best, second-hand. Nor do I have the ingredients or tools to make them.

[sciencegirl]

Cow's milk?

That's new, but color me interested. That seems very simple.

[And maybe a way to trick the train into removing some status effects if they have a shift in milk source.]

Would it be possible to get some samples?

[wisdominshadows]

From the train shop?

The simplest route would be best- we could order a sample from Lon Lon Ranch, the largest in central Hyrule. Their herds are famous for the quality of their milk.

[sciencegirl]

Yeah, and some samples of the healing potions. I may be able to replicate some of the substances inside of them, if I'm given time to analyze.

[wisdominshadows]

At the moment, I only have the points to order one. Do you have a preference?

[sciencegirl]

I'm in no significant rush, how about the potions first?

If you need any repairs or anything made for you, I'd be happy to!

[wisdominshadows]

I can certainly manage that.

Hmm. I'm unlikely to need much, though... you're an artificer, correct?

[You know, judging from everything else Entrapta said.]

How much scrap metal do you expect to have when your project is complete?

[sciencegirl]

I should have some leftover, or I can purchase some if it's something unique. What did you have in mind?

[wisdominshadows]

Nothing complicated. A dagger, or perhaps a set of throwing darts. Should we ever find ourselves on a world without magic, I would like to have a few more ways to defend myself.

[sciencegirl]

Throwing darts would be easy, I can do that! I actually have a few of the demon daggers from the last mission, too. I'd been planning to use the metal for magical conductors in my robot after I had them purified. But I could give you one.

They were owned by demons, but they used them for casting. I bet one would work if you purified it.

[wisdominshadows]

I may be able to do so.

[She tries not to guarantee these things on the train, but judging from the use of dark magic on the mission, it shouldn't be that complicated.]

May I see the daggers in question?

[sciencegirl]

After I get done in the gym I can come find you with one. Where will you be in a few hours?

[wisdominshadows]

I think the rock garden would work. Shall we meet there?

Action from here?

[sciencegirl]

That'll work! Thanks. I'll try to pick out one of the nicer ones.

Think so

[wisdominshadows]

And thank you in turn. Good luck with your work.

[When Entrapta ends up at the garden, she'll find Zelda sitting on a bench near the pond, nose in a book.]

[sciencegirl]

[When Entrapta shows up, she's carrying one of the demonic knives wrapped in a washcloth to keep it as unscathed as possible.]

Hi! I forgot to get your name. Sorry about that! I get really enthusiastic about research.

[Painfully so. She's lucky that her friends are so tolerant and patient with her.]

[wisdominshadows]

[Bowing her head.]

As I never asked for yours in turn, please consider us even in rudeness. I am Zelda of Hyrule, madam. It is a pleasure to meet you in person.

[sciencegirl]

[Ah! Formalish introductions! But everything about Zelda seems pretty formal. It does kind of remind Entrapta of some of the more traditional folks at home. Big Bright Moon energy.]

I'm Princess Entrapta of Dryl.

[She offers her the wrapped dagger.] I got a few of them. I've not been able to get them purified yet.

[wisdominshadows]

[It wasn't all metaphor and purple prose, so this introduction is going pretty straightforward by Zelda's standards.]

A name I shall keep in mind for the future. [After accepting the dagger, she adds] Would I be wrong to suspect you don't insist on the title?

[Gingerly unwrapping the dagger, she takes a few minutes to study the energy that radiates from it.]

Yes, this shouldn't be too difficult to purify.

[sciencegirl]

You would be correct. I- I admit, I mostly use my title here hoping I will encounter other Princesses from my world. A Princess is usually gifted with powers, sometimes from an elemental runestone.

[Entrapta moves her hair, splitting it off into locks and holding them out separately as a further demonstration of her power.]

So maybe if another Princess arrives, someone will tell them that they know of another Princess here.

[It's a long-shot, but that's an attempt.]

Do you think you could purify the other daggers as well? Or would that be a lot of work?

[wisdominshadows]

[Now that news catches Zelda's attention. Her gaze becomes just a bit sharper, and she considers her response afterward for a very noticeable moment.]

That is quite curious. There are royal lineages and magical lineages in my world and many of them overlap, but often it takes generations for such powers to reappear.

[Case in point, her own. Pity the late King of Hyrule, who for some reason didn't take his daughter's prophetic powers seriously and lost his head for the mistake.

Her brow furrows as she watches Entrapta's hair do its thing, clearly a little intrigued.]

There have always been a few of royal birth aboard, but I don't believe I've heard anyone speak of runestones. [Sighing.] I'm sorry. It can be very lonely to be the only one from home on the train. An old friend from my world arrived at the most recent station, but before that I was in the same position.

[She looks down at the dagger again, then shakes her head.]

No, it shouldn't be particularly difficult. How many do you need purified?

[sciencegirl]

I have three others aside from those, but I can bring them later after you've seen how purifying that one goes.

[She brings up to locks of hair in the shapes of hands, poking two 'fingers' together while she tucks her real hands behind her back.]

I'm used to being alone, so that's okay. And I have a lot more train friends than I have friends at home. But sometimes it's just nice to have someone that knows.

[If Zelda was like that, possibly she gets it?] I heard our planet's Queen was here for a while. Glimmer is her name.

[wisdominshadows]

[She frowns, clearly thinking, but then shakes her head.]

I'm afraid we never met while she was aboard. But some people do return to the train- my friend was here before me, though he doesn't remember it now.

[sciencegirl]

Well, if you ever see her? She's about my height, short pink hair with sparkles, stockier than me. Also she's very loud. She would let you know she was Glimmer.

[Not that Entrapta is quiet, but she's not Glimmer's level of aggressive.]

We never know who will show up on these platforms.

Do you think it's the same timeline for your friend? I think sometimes the train decides it needs more than one or another timeline. I don't know why. I wish I did.

[She'd really like to find out.]

[wisdominshadows]

Ah- I think you might wish to consult with some of the larger groups for any discussion of timelines.

[Most of the Eldar are gone, barring Curufin... and he's absent too, technically, though there seems to be another group related to one Master Parker....]

My friend is... no longer of the same timeline that I am. That was the case before either of us arrived here.