(Before the Attack against the Hellions, Nexustime is Weird) Show and Tell! (Locked to Lucca)

[armedandwinged]

There's something to be said about two machinists from different worlds, because they always have to compare notes.

Such as the case now, as Arabelle PINs into a sideroom, leaving the door open so Lucca can see which one she's in. At the moment, she has a neat little black box with several buttons on it and a little light on the top of it

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[hot_engineer]

Lucca herself is announced by an unsteady tapping sound ahead of her. Rounding the corner ahead of her, is a small bipedal brass robot, not even knee-high, that teeters like a toddler and occasionally ejects a burst of steam. It stops once in the doorway, leans back and swivels its head-dome in Arabelle's direction, optic sensors flashing in an approximation of a curious blink. o_o

"Hi Ara!" Lucca follows the little creature, helmetless and stripped to her oversized green shirt and shorts. The shoulder-bag at her side is conspicuously stuffed with things of her own. "Didn't leave you waiting too long did I?"

[armedandwinged]

"Oh cool--Hiya Lucca, nah, ya didn't. You got it all?" She steps behind the other girl to close the door once she and MiniRobo are both inside. She grins, though, "Looks like you thought th' same thing I did--bring more than one thing." As Ara brought her own little bag of tricks, and the PINjammer is on the table next to the bed.

Ara is, for the record, still wearing what she previously was: Backless dark green shirt, cargo pants with like ten million pockets, and her sandals. She crouches down to get a better view of the little robot. "Hi there."

[hot_engineer]

It isn't capable of much in the ways of showing emotion, but MiniRobo does raise a hand in greeting with a small amiable hiss of steam. ^_^

"He can't talk just yet. It's amazing how difficult a simple voice-modulator is to reverse-engineer..." She adds, dropping her bag next to Ara's. "Anyway, yeah, I got a few things, the Gate Key, some of the schemata for the Epoch Mark II and the Wondershot, but MiniRobo here is the one I'm really proud of. That's the PINjammer you were talking about, over there? It doesn't look like I expected it to..."

What does it look like?

[armedandwinged]

Arabelle gives a little wave back to the MiniRobo, grinning and standing up with a bit of a content stretch, "It's over there on the table." The PINpoint Jammer isn't really much to look at for all that it does, it's a basic black box with several little indicator lights to tell the user what it's doing when. Right now, none of them are lit, as Arabelle hasn't turned it on. "Like I said before, it's Eiko's design, I just made the first few--and had some friends of Grif's make the rest of 'em in a manufacturing setting."

"I did alter the design a bit, myself, though. When it's not turned on, I can remote trigger a PINpoint I put in it to send it anywhere I want." Ara grins, and her cybernetic eye flickers from green to blue for a moment. The black box flashes away in a PINportal, and appears in her hands.

Showoff.

[hot_engineer]

"D'you plan on using that offensively? Cuz I can't think of any other reason you'd want to throw a dead-zone generator into another world."

MiniRobo has toddles off to a corner and is now poking curiously through their collective bags, unbeknownst to Lucca.

[armedandwinged]

"Really, it's so I can set up an entire field of them and keep a bunch of those invading guys from PINpointing around and bouncing around like mad, yanno?" She grins, "I just set it up so I could set the field of 'em up subtly, without drawin' attention."

Arabelle's bag is a backpack! It is also closed, and there are several oddly shaped objects inside, as she had to get creative with object positioning.

[hot_engineer]

"Setting up a perimeter... That's pretty smart." She admits with a grin. "I saw that those things can use some kind of dimensional transport device, yeah. Hey ya never know, just containing them may be enough to get them to stop what they're doing."

[armedandwinged]

She grins back, "Or at least make life a hell of a lot easier for those who can kick their asses out, if it has to get to that." In a testament of Laziness, or showing off, Arabelle PINpoints the PINjammer back onto the table. "What all did you bring? Aside from your little friend, who seems to be interested in my backpack." She grins, amused, and goes to sit on the bed, kicking her sandals off and crossing her legs in the Indian fashion.

[hot_engineer]

"Huh?" She turns and looks and lurches towards MiniRobo when she sees his little bronze butt sticking out of the top of her backpack. She lifts him up by the leg and places him back on the ground, and when it rights itself into a sitting position they exchange a meaningful glance. B|

"ANYWAY, yeah, here we go." She goes to rummage through her own things. "I showed you Wondershot, right? And you got a good look at the Gate Key but I don't think there's anything in there you haven't already seen. Here." She scoops up some rolled drawings from her bag and tosses them onto the bed. "Y'ever seen schematics for a time machine before?"

[armedandwinged]

She looks thoughtful, given the Nexus, it's probably telling that one has to think about whether she's seen a time machine schematic before, "Actually, I think at this point that's one of the few things I haven't seen." Ara does reach over and drag her bag closer, mainly to keep an eye on it a bit better. She shifts a bit on the bed so Lucca can have space to sit and spread out the schematics, and so her wings aren't in the way.

Given the zipper's open now, there's several visible objects inside, including a bizarre looking blue gun-like weapon, Ara's laptop, and a few other things.

[hot_engineer]

She picks one of the rolls of paper and uncurls it on the bed then. The schematics draw out an ion-propelled flying machine, 360-degree cockpited, capable of hover takeoff, with a flux capacitor temporal distortion phase-generator practically built into the power supply. The interior design and material specs are, for lack of a better term, very very weird. Crystals built into load-bearing frame composites? Electrum plating on strange points in the interior? Redundancy power generators drawing from wing vibration?

"I didn't build that. I only wish I could make something like that... I only drew up the plans from the original just in case I needed 'em."

[armedandwinged]

"Oh wow." Arabelle leans to look at the schematics, "And it can fly too?" She regards it closely, leaning down to get a good look at the paper, "Good god, this thing's impressive." Her wings flick and resettle a bit.

"I'm gonna guess that is what causes the time travel effect." She taps the temporal distortion phase-generator bit, "'Cause it looks a littlebit like a Flux Capacitor."

A beat, "..which is a pop culture reference you'll miss, innit?"

[hot_engineer]

She was just about to say something about not getting it. "Heh, yep, sorry. Epoch originally was stationary but it had wings retrofitted to it in another era. A crazy king had stolen it and was going to use it as his personal transport." That's the short version, anyway. Everything but the wings, though, was created a few hundred years in my future."

[armedandwinged]

Good-naturedly, "Man, time travel makes everything confusin', doesn't it?" She grins, though. "Although I bet flying on it's awesome. Flying is always awesome, if my biased opinion has any merit." Her wings flick up, then back against her back. "How fast can it go?"

"A Flux Capacitor is what makes time travel possible in the movie Back to the Future, more or less, and it looks a bit like this." She taps the schematic.

[hot_engineer]

"Incredibly fast. I've broken the sound barrier multiple times. It was almost as though the fuselage was made for it to be able to fly, y'know? And yes, flying is always cool.

"A flux-capacitor... name doesn't sound like it means very much..." She muses, pushing up her glasses. "What kinda time machine used it?"

[armedandwinged]

"God damn. That has to be fun." To be able to go that fast, damn, as for Lucca's second question, Ara holds up a finger in a one-second gesture and pulls the laptop out of her bag and boots it up.

The wallpaper, amusingly, is a Matrix-ish looking image in red and gold, letters and symbols. She loads up the browser, and one google search later, she has the image here.

"A DeLorean." She grins.