Urge to Kill... Rising...

[namisan]

Who: Nami
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport.  Or the planet's surface, I guess.
When: Now

[So Nami had been intending to grow her hair out again, but recent events have proven it's gonna take a little more time.  As of a week ago, her hair has been carved back to its short status for reasons she hasn't bothered sharing, and she's been in a terrible mood for the entire time.  Which has much less to do with her hair and more to do with her two temple runs and the treasure (or not) that she found.

On the other hand, this sponsor delivery she's just found in the Bloodsport's cargo bay really just rounds off the feeling she's being picked on.] 

...cute.  At best, you're late.

[Sup, Flooters.  This is Nami kicking a crate-sized box over, sending glittery, silky hair ties and ribbons and combs and assorted accessories bouncing across the floor, her voice that cheerful sickly sweet that will rise the hackles of anyone who's spent too much time in close proximity with her.]

Free to a good home!  It's in the Bloodsport cargo bay, come and take it by all means.  [Be warned, though, this pile of hair accessories are the kind you'd expect to find in a kiddie aisle that's been painted obnoxiously pink.]  I'm not gonna be here.  I hope they're all gone by the time I come back.

On that note, I'm going up to the surface.  I doubt anyone else is heading up that way, but I'm going up to test some stuff and that'll make the area hazardous to suddenly turn up in, so.  Fair warning, just avoid the area around these coordinates.  [Coordinates given.  It's a freaking planet of water, there's plenty of surface area, but her luck is inconvenient at best so let's avoid anyone haplessly surfacing in the middle of a lightning field, yeah?]

I hope everyone else is having a better week.

[Now excuse her, she's off to vent her frustration with a waver and a glorified storm stick.]

Comments

Video;

[namisan]

[Or science as according to One Piece, anyway. IT WORKS...I GUESS... ]

See you up there, then! I won't start until you make an appearance. [Wavewave.]

Video > Action

[alwayscomeback]

[CLOSE ENOUGH ]

I'll be there soon!

[And as promised, it's noy long before a shuttle breaks the surface of the water and Sokka hops out excitedly. ]

Hey, Nami.

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[namisan]

Hey! [She's sitting atop her own shuttle, and waves at him with all three climatact pieces in hand.] You made good time.

Action

[alwayscomeback]

[He waves in return, coming over. ]

Great! I got to admit, I'm really interested in seeing what it can do.

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[namisan]

So am I, to be honest. When I got my first piece back it was pretty clear it had been tampered with. [Not maliciously-- well, probably not maliciously-- but poked at by someone who didn't know what they were doing out of curiosity.] I figured wide open space with nobody else around was the safest bet.

[She snaps all the pieces together to make a staff slightly taller than she is.]

I'm guessing you've never seen weather technology?

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[alwayscomeback]

You never know with Atroma, if it's been tampered with, there's a good chance they did something to it to make it act differently as it should.

[He folds his arms, standing back, looking at it, impressed. ]

I absolute have not.

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[namisan]

Okay, well. There are three sections that do a variety of things, but mostly they can be divided into-- [She'll tap top, middle, and bottom] --heat, cold, and electricity.

I got the heat and cool sections back a while ago, but I can only do limited things without all three pieces. I can make it rain on a small scale, but I can't make it storm. Which is what I'm gonna test here. [She glances out to mark Sokka's shuttle place. It can probably survive being struck with lightning, but just in case. Then she flips the staff once to hold it in both hands, sweeping it sideways!

...to...

...apparently spit a whole bunch of bubbles from the tip. Very impressive.]

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[alwayscomeback]

[It's okay, Nami, the Blue Fish have like a billion shuttles. They'll be fine. ]

Oooooh, that's pretty impressive. Think what you could do with a storm in your hands!

[I would be like watching benders work together, that's always...pretty intense.

...Except that? The bubbles? So not intense. At all. Sokka leans in with a stage whisper.]

Is it doing it yet?

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[namisan]

[L-lmao she just. Twitches a bit, staring suspiciously at the bubbles as they go up and pop, one by one.]

...no.

[She swears if the Atroma have turned this weapon into a giant bubble maker-- DOING IT AGAIN. For more bubbles. It's not the bubble factor, it's the fact that the bubbles aren't doing anyth--

fzzkt.]

Ah. There we are!

[NO THEY STILL LOOK LIKE BUBBLES.

...only the tiniest little dark masses can be seen coming to life within. And a few seconds later, they start sparking with electricity.]



[Like so!]

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[alwayscomeback]

Nami, they're not doing-

[And then they start to darken and spark, and Sokka' scientific mind races, trying to understand what the hell is happening there- what process he can put a name to, to explain their actions.]

...Anything. It's like a little storm cloud inside it.

[namisan]

Right? [She turns to grin at him, more relieved than she'd care to admit that it seems to be working. The bubbles start popping behind her as the tiny storm clouds grow and start kind of merging with each other.] This is the slower way, but it's more wide-reaching. I wanted time to duck if it was out of control.

[It's getting dark overhead. Cue rumbles of ominous thunder?]

[alwayscomeback]

[That is pretty damn neat. Sokka turns his head up a little, grinning as he watches the storm start to roll in. ]

Thank what it could mean. If we got to another planet that got teraformed real bad, we could do something. Give them rain, give them a chance for life again.

[namisan]

Yes! I would have loved to have the whole thing back on that poisonous moon we visited. I couldn't fix the problem at the source-- not with this. [She changes weather, not core terraforming accidents.] But I could clear the air for them for a while, maybe, and in places where there's drought--

[She breaks off at a flash of lightning just to double-check it's a safe distance, and frowns, ducking down.] Shield your eyes.

[Because it's about to get really bright and really loud. Multiple lightning strikes a second after a huge crash of thunder from overhead. We're safe, it's just not great on the senses.]

[alwayscomeback]

Knowing our luck, we'll probably come to another planet like that some day. Atroma do love bringing that theme back into our lives.

[Jerks. He laughs, raising a hand up to do just that, squinting at the lightning. ]

Seriously, I need to repeat it: so. cool.

[namisan]

A little off base. [She squints up as the clouds start to disperse.] But I think any kinks in it are gonna be straightened out easy enough.

[SHE IS PLEASED.]

Is there anything else you want to see?

[alwayscomeback]

Sure, you got time, after all.

[He's like a kid at Christmas, honestly. He BEAMS.]

Does it do more?

[namisan]

[Sokka, she is only too happy to show off for someone showing such glee. Seriously. She holds up a finger.]

Pick a weather effect! Any weather effect!

[alwayscomeback]

Snow!

[Because of course he's going to pick snow. Water Tribe and all that.]

[namisan]

[Handy. She didn't need the third part for snow, so she already knows that part's fine--]

Watch closely!

[She swings the staff up to launch something small and egg-shaped up into the sky.

...which then cracks and explodes outwards into roiling dark snow clouds up above. She can't exactly cover the whole sky or anything spectacular, but there's a good football field's worth of cloud cover now scattering snow over their heads.]

[alwayscomeback]

[He watches with unhidden glee, raising a hand, palm-up to the sky to catch the falling flakes. Wow, they're cold and everything. It's like a little slice of home. ]

Wow, this is me, officially impressed.

[namisan]

I don't have a lot of opportunities to actually play with weather, to be honest. In a lot of ways, it's a bad idea; if I create a rain storm in one place it can alter patterns in another. But here... [She gestures out to a horizon of ocean.]

Guess it doesn't really matter so much.

[alwayscomeback]

Course not. You don't really have to worry about hitting anyone or anything here. It's the perfect practise ground.

[namisan]

I'll say. [She swings the staff out again, only this time she's just testing short range, the tip of the staff crackling with bright electricity as she sweeps it around a little.]

I don't think there's anything wrong with it, anyway. Not that shaking loose the cobwebs a little couldn't help. So you really like snow, huh?

[alwayscomeback]

At least Atroma didn't break it. That's weirdly decent of them.

[He smiles, nodding.]

I come from the South Pole. I was born and raised in the snow.

[namisan]

I guess they had more fun sending it back to me in pieces.

[South Pole, huh? Even with her world's view of weird-ass geography, she knows how extremely cold that would be. She peers at him with interest.] Is it hard getting used to all these warmer climates?