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[mortalcoil]

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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oh sure!

[mortalcoil]

[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.]

[unbearablynaive]

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.

[mortalcoil]

[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.]

[unbearablynaive]

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.]

[mortalcoil]

[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.]

[unbearablynaive]

[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?