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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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[It's...still weird, but someone working here would know better than him, right? Coil probably knows what he's doing better than Yuya. So after another moment of hesitation, Yuya nods and sets down his toolbox.]

Okay. I'll put in the chains.

[and he doesn't exactly smile, but he does look relieved. and he follows it up with the sign for 'thank you,' which is a pretty gracious-looking gesture even if Yuya doesn't know sign language.

finally, someone is cooperating.]

[Yuya gets the gist of the gesture, and it's...well, kind of embarrassing.]

Don't thank me yet! Save it for when I'm done.

[And if he does it right, but he doesn't want to actually say that part.]

[really, Coil is happy that anyone is cooperating and helping out at all. who knew that getting people to agree to install creepy restraints would be a challenge. hmm.

and so, Coil will just busy himself with buzzing around and bringing over any tools or supplies he thinks might help with the project. also all the rudimentary plans he's sketched out.

most of it really isn't necessary, but he wants to be thorough. and he also has no idea what is and is not needed for a project like this.]

[Yuya sets to work, but everything Coil brings over starts to make him feel a little overwhelmed after a while. Augment or no, he still has to stop and think with every new tool or sketch - do I need this, is it going to help me install the chains - and he's really starting to doubt his understanding of the project. When it gets to be too much, he stands up and asks Coil directly.]

Um, hey, is all this really...am I supposed to use all of it?

[and Coil stops too, in the middle of looking through some of the standard tools that come with the ship. the one he's currently holding looks something like a pipe cutter.

he looks down at everything kind of scattered around his new engineer friend and... points to himself and shrugs? how is he supposed to know?]

[SEND HELP. But as far as Yuya knows there isn't any help coming, so he just makes a face to himself to work off some of the nervousness and tries to keep going. He has to study the pipe cutter for a moment before...]

Well, I don't think we need that thing.

[Coil looks down at the tool in his hand, considering... but tentatively puts it back.

and then he's looking back to Yuya expectantly--clearly waiting for the next instruction or hint.

because Yuya is obviously the expert here.]

[Yikes. Give him a minute, Coil. Yuya looks back to what he's doing and tries to figure out where he was going with this installation, but knowing Coil's there watching is really making him nervous. Somehow he accidentally ends up picking up a small blowtorch, dropping it in shock once he realizes what he's done.

Great.]

[Coil tilts his head when Yuya immediately drops something that he thinks looks important and helpful. is the blowtorch no good?

he points at it curiously, taking a half-step forward like he might... want to help? or pick it up for him?]

[No! Well, maybe yes. Possibly? Yuya's feeling very intimidated right now, and he turns to the wall hurriedly.]

Just a minute!

[Just a minute to figure out what needs to be done, right. He's going to spend at least twenty seconds of that minute panicking before he starts to settle down and focus on the engineering.]