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Who: Coil Lenn and you!
Broadcast: Text, open to all
Action: Anyone visiting the SS Red Fish
When: mid-June

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[it's maybe not as attention-getting as an audio or video broadcast, but a sort of quiet advertisement goes out over the network anyway.]

Engineers or anyone with construction/mechanical skills: your assistance is required aboard the SS Red Fish. please reply if interested. or come to the Red Fish. Thank you.

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[and Coil leaves the door unlocked for anyone who might happen by.

those who do happen by, or live on the ship to begin with, can find Coil feverishly tinkering away in the lab. and it appears that he has kind of rearranged things. he hes redecorated a bit.

some storage cabinets and other things along one wall must not have been that important, because they have all been dragged away or removed entirely, and he is currently struggling to remove pieces of the wall panel itself. he doesn't have the right tools for it, but that certainly isn't going to stop him. and who knows what all off this scrap metal lying around in hazardous-looking piles is supposed to be for...

so, yeah. watch your step. don't get tetanus.]

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We have no engineer, so bad tools. bring your own, please.

[That explains why he's asking for help, then.]

I will be by shortly.

[and he'll leave the door open, but won't be there to do the greeting. hopefully his visitor will think to just find him in the lab, because that's where he stays, continuing to work until someone shows up.]

[He's still a little unfamiliar with the layouts, being a new arrival, but eventually he finds his way over to the lab area. The Windrose doesn't have a lab, so he's interested to see what it looks like in the first place.

When he arrives, he sure is a tall maroon guy with a cape. Yep. The lab is in a state of disrepair, but his idea of a tool to add--a holographic display much like Tony Stark's that can be manipulated by touch to design things before they're put into production--doesn't seem to be present. Good, that should give him a nice concrete goal to work on.]

Hello.

[oh, what he would give to have a fancy piece of tech like that installed in his lab. he was just hoping for a useful set of restraints, but he lacks imagination.

he also has never seen anything like his visitor now, so the Vision gets a scarred-up kid glancing up from his work, to do a full double-take when he sees him. and he doesn't answer at all.]

[Imagination and close personal experience with Tony Stark, perhaps. But he's been stockpiling interesting bits of the bug ship anyway, might as well see what he can do with them.

The Vision smiles ruefully at the reaction, though. It's like people here have never seen maroon-skinned humanoids before or something.]

Yes, this is my natural appearance. [Sort of. He's made clothes since then, which is surely appreciated.] Is there a particular place you'd like me to begin working?

[he nods slowly, still half distracted by the man's appearance, and it takes him a moment to step over and fetch his notes. there's only a little bit of wariness in the way he moves when he finally approaches--though he does continue to stare once he's handed the notes over.

the notes themselves are definitely drawn out by someone who does not have an engineering augment, but they're easy enough to follow. it seems like most of what he has sketched out is an attempt to make a few extra workspaces for himself, reinforce the table and outfit it with restraints and other features, and create an area near the wall for observation... and possibly also restraint.

that's as much as he's come up with so far.]

Thank you. [This one is very wary, isn't he? The Vision hopes he doesn't resemble anything in particular, though if they really are pulled from many realities it's a possibility. Either way, he resolves not to start floating inside if he can help it. That might really send him over the edge.

He pages through the notes thoughtfully. Restraints aren't his cup of tea and it's concerning that they're in the plans at all, but then, there are some times when they're necessary for medical research. Still. He selects one of the sketches that displays the extra workspaces and hands the others back.]

I will begin with these and add some tools you may like to use as well. Is that acceptable?

[avoiding floating is probably a good idea. Coil already seems at the edge of his tolerance for the strange.

--which might be a little hypocritical coming from a one-eyed necromancer, but the fact remains.

and he nods, looking pretty relieved, and follows up with the sign for 'thank you.']

[Each to their own. The Vision would consider "necromancer" pretty damn weird himself.

At the sign he raises his eyebrows, unfocuses a moment as if thinking about something, and then returns it with a "welcome" sign of his own.]

[oh! and that kind of... stops him short. he's used to having his gestures of thanks ignored or generically answered, since it's a fairly self-explanatory sign, but very rarely is he ever answered with an educated response.

looking a little less wary suddenly, he points at the Vision questioningly and forms the sign for 'sign language?']

[The Vision's eyes soften and he smiles - well, no wonder Coil had seemed so wary, if he usually has difficulty communicating.

Little, he signs back, slowly but smoothly. Can learn more. Yes?]

[normally, he wouldn't be so ready to agree, but with how frustrated he's been with conversational roadblocks lately, he only hesitates a little bit before he nods.

and then, as an afterthought, he signs 'trade knowledge' and traces a little question mark in the air with his finger.]

[That's an offer he's happy to take, and the Vision nods with a light smile. He has a feeling Coil will like the holotable he plans to construct, so that should be a start.]

I would be glad to. Though perhaps this takes priority, so when you have some free time perhaps you could contact me?

[he nods, and then suggests 'while you are working here maybe' after a moment.]

[Yes, he signs back, still smiling. That sounds like a very reasonable trade to him.]

[and there's another one of those lighter, not-quite-smiling expressions as he nods.

this might easily be one of the most positive interactions he's had with a stranger in a while.]

[After that, the Vision gets to work for a while. He's limited by the quality of the materials he's been able to scavenge, but there were some simple projectors on the Iskaulit he's been able to repair to working condition. Add in a little motion-sensing and he ends up with a 90s-graphics version of Tony Stark's holotable. When he's done he smiles to himself for a moment and then gestures to Coil from wherever he's at.]

This should be useful. Here, let me demonstrate.

[being not tremendously skilled in the mechanical arena, Coil has been left to mostly drawing up plans and ideas, and working on simple building. he can at least turn a screwdriver. so, it might take twice as long, but he'll get that restraining and study area set up on the far side of the lab eventually.

and he is very glad to abandon it for something more interesting. he climbs right to his feet and heads over--all previous wariness long forgotten.]

This is a gesture-based holographic interaction system. You can load a file from this port, or place an object in this area. [He demonstrates with one of the more broken mini-projectors he wasn't able to use. By gesturing from the object to the center of the table, it causes a fully 3-D hologram to pop up.]

You can manipulate it with your gestures. [He spins it, brings it to a stop, and magnifies the image.] Then you can examine in detail which parts need to be repaired. [See, it's the bulb that's broken, once he strips away a few layers of covering to reveal it. He "picks up" a working bulb from the tooltray on the bottom and replaces it on the hologram, then layers the pieces back on. The color has changed, indicating it's been modified in the hologram but stays the same in real life.] If you were to make this repair, see, it would become functional again.

If you load a file, you may work on theoretical designs and see if they would function before building the object itself.

[he's more than a little awestruck as he's watching, but this gradually becomes slightly despairing. this device will help in multiple instances, but his mechanical and electronic knowledge is so low that he can already see all of the ways that this will still fly way over his head. he's imagining what he'd need to know in order to even build these programs to begin with, and he doesn't know if he can translate whatever information he starts with into something that he can actually use...

and so there's a hanging pause after the Vision's impressive demonstration, where he begins to frown.

until something suddenly clicks. and as the thought hits him, his brow lifts again, and he glances over to hastily gesture a few unconnected signs at him.

'medicine,' 'anatomy,' and 'chemical,' followed by a question mark traced in the air.]

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Certainly. Here--

[He closes out the current project and places his own hand in the scanning area, and the resulting hologram he demonstrates how to bisect it to view the bones and vessels underneath his skin. There's that odd change from the vibranium, but it more or less looks human.]

[his brow furrows in disbelief as he watches this wizardry. and it takes him a minute to think of signs that would make sense together to convey what baffles him.

all he can really do is put 'see in' together, and point at the device questioningly.

though, if it's using some of the scanning equipment already included in the lab, he supposes it might make sense.]

[It takes him a moment to interpret that, but when he realizes what Coil is asking he nods and indicates the scanning area.]

The labs are equipped for medical imaging. I'm not entirely sure how they all work, but I've integrated one here. It should allow you to see inside both organic and inorganic materials, though I can't verify its accuracy until further tests are made. It seems to be working well enough, though, doesn't it?

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