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[monolike]

Who: Sorey, Mikleo & y'all!!!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Selvin-9
When: Early January


[The video starts out jostling and blurry, like some kind of snowed-in Blair Witch project. There’s even screaming- oh no, that’s just excited screaming, and it’s more like breathless squeaks than screams.]

Mikleo- Mikleo! Get it get the- you got it?

I’ve got it. I still think this is ridiculous…

[There’s a jostling movement as the communicator is transferred from one to the other, and for a moment it lingers on a seemingly-empty wolf kigu, its wearer invisible but sounding as unimpressed as the costume’s expression. It’s gone in a flash, and Sorey suddenly darts into view, wearing a goblin kigu, running through the snow with the clumsiness of a person unaccustomed to winter weather, over to a truly ugly snow sled…with wheels.]

Do you see this?! [Sorey seems unable to contain himself, gleeful and giddy, posing in front of the sled with a peace sign in front of a rental shop on the slope.] This is the coolest thing ever- ohhh, I wish we could buy it!

[Sorey suddenly gets closer to the camera, grinning a grin that precludes any rational decision-making.] Hey Keith! I challenge you to a sled race! Or anybody, anybody who’s game! I’ll bet rental fees and hot chocolate that I can beat you!

[There’s a long-suffering sigh - albeit mildly affectionate - from behind the camera. Mikleo’s done this song and dance before, it’s old hat.]

Comments

[video]

[monolike]

Please, Lord Mikleo, will you grace us with ice cannons on our super awesome sled?

[tsunergy]

[hmmmmmmmmm.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.]

How will you make it worth my while?

[monolike]

[THINKS.]

...I'll build you that sectional bookcase you wanted for your cross-referencing projects.

[tsunergy]

[....!!!

holy shit he was just joking but]

For real?

[monolike]

[lmao buddy] Yeah for real. With the plates on it so you can swap out labels, right?

[tsunergy]

[loOK you can't judge you're a fucking book nerd too]

Yes, exactly! I'll draw you up the specifications of exactly what I want later.

[monolike]

We should get the lumber while we're here, too. I think I saw a few stores selling building supplies off the main street.

[tsunergy]

Yes! They had some beautiful supplies on display- like that one with the deep, dark mottled grain...

[they are going shopping later and Sorey has literally zero choice in the matter now]

[monolike]

I remember that one, it looked really nice. I wanted to try making something out of it anyway. [like sorey would refuse, HE'S JUST AS GUILTY he wants 2 try]

[tsunergy]

[HELLA]

We can get extra, then, if you'd like some for your own projects. It's best to have a decent margin of error for these things anyway.

[monolike]

What, you don't trust my carpentry expertise?

[tsunergy]

I'd hardly call you an expert.

[acceptably competent at best! although he is much better than he was... and better than Mikleo, though he doesn't have to say that much.]

[monolike]

You'll see, this bookcase will be my masterpiece. [Only the best for Mikleo.] And since you're an ice expert...if I requested, say, an ice cannon...

[tsunergy]

Hmmm... well, I'll hold you to it. Let's have a look.

[Lord Mikleo is appeased! Okay, so he would have done it anyway, but now he gets a bookshelf out of it, too.

He wanders over to the sled, circling it thoughtfully.]

It's not very study-looking at the front... do you think it'll support the weight of that much ice?

-action

[monolike]

Yeah, of course! [he has no idea] Plus I'll be sitting more towards the back, so my own weight will steady it also.

[tsunergy]

[Mikleo steps back around to the front of it, leaning both hands on the front experimentally, then uses it as leverage to heft himself up on top of it to see if it tips at all. It's not the greatest of tests since he weighs like five pounds but it's a good start.]

You'll need a place to carry ammo as well- snowballs, I'm assuming? Maybe those could help balance out the back if the cannon ends up too heavy. ...Come over here, will you? Right there-

[he points to the ground right in front of the sled.]

[monolike]

[Sorey goes as he's ordered, grinning as he watches Mikleo fiddle about with the sled, his own hands on his hips. The engineering augment is exclusively for the inner workings of the ships, but Sorey can't deny he hasn't started getting used to problem-solving mechanical issues on reflex after these past two years.] We can find other ways to weigh down the back too, if you're worried. Though if speed is still a concern, wouldn't it be wiser to make the front heavier?

[tsunergy]

Sure, but balance is important, too. Speed's useless if a bump ends up knocking the whole thing over.

[When Sorey is closer Mikleo climbs from the sled to his shoulders, legs dangling, one hand resting in Sorey's hair while the other begins to glow with seraphic energy. Sometimes his human being tall comes in handy, like when he needs to be at a proper height to build up a big cannon right next to himself.

Ice and snow begin to gather in tufts, then shards, then creeping sheets on the metal surface, rising into a vaguely cannon-esque shape. The air smells sharp and sweet, not quite like normal- this planet's ice is weird.]

Try to stand still for a bit.

[monolike]

[Hangs onto Mikleo's legs, probably looking quite the fool to any onlookers. Sorey's way too involved in watching the cannon slowly form to really care about that though, staring in fascinating as the strange 'water' of this planet crystallizes differently from how Mikleo's artes usually do.] It looks like rock candy! I kinda want to break a piece off and try it...

[tsunergy]

I'm not even finished and you already want to break it...

[How very Sorey of him.]

At least wait until you're done with your race.

[monolike]

Just make a little curly thing I can snap off! I just want to test my hypothesis. [Taps it. tink tink. It kinda looks like rock candy, if rock candy looked like ice]

[tsunergy]

[Mikleo sighs and gestures, and a shard of ice stretches out beyond the rest of the cannon to form a little stick, fragile and easily broken away.]

I get half.

[He goes back to what he's supposed to be working on. Edna's right, he does spoil this idiot.]

[monolike]

[YAY!!! Sorey grins and breaks off the stick at the thinnest section, biting it in half and reaching up so Mikleo can suck on the other half of it. It is sweet, but more like frozen sugar water than like rock candy.] Mmm...are you putting y'r own water in there, Mikleo?

[tsunergy]

About half, yeah.

[His voice is a bit muffled, spoken around the stick slowly melting in his mouth.]

This snow stuff isn't exactly water, so I have to improvise. Luckily, the two seem to work together just fine.

[And the cannon is coming together nicely, though it's predictably more intricate and fancy-looking than is necessary, because it's Mikleo and he's an aesthetic snob. It has the familiar curl and shape of at least one ancient style they've studied, with engraved glyphs to go along with it.]