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Danny -- 34

May 31, 2010 00:06

Who: Cid and Danny
Where: Cid’s Garage
Style: EITHER.
Status: Cloooosed sorry.

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“Cid?”

Danny pounds on the garage’s side door, taking a brief moment to savor the familiar raucus. After all, it’s been a while since he’s been by here, and in spite of the very real reasons he had for taking a break, it’s nice to be back.

Moment gone, Danny opens ( Read more... )

!location: somni, cid highwind, danny fenton

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smokesinspace May 31 2010, 17:10:16 UTC

There was a loud bang followed by the sound of various metallic objects clattering to the ground. A colorful stream of cursing came not too long after.

"God dammit--DANNY is that you? Fuck kid just get in here and quit yelling!"

The voice came from the far side of the garage near the office. Several of the NPCs that had seemed to take employment there only gave a quick glance at Cid's direction before returning to their own projects. They had grown quite accustomed to such small events, apparently.

smokesinspace June 8 2010, 08:13:46 UTC

"Huh?" Cid just grunted as he took the wrench. "Stand over here and hold it up so I can see back there. Damn thing is loose and it had ta be in the shittiest of places."

As he waited for Danny to give him the light, he then answered the kid's question. "If yer askin' about flyin', it's always been my dream as a kid to be the first man inta space," he said before starting to work again.

phantomfenton June 10 2010, 06:01:35 UTC

"Did you say here?" he asks, clicking the light on and shining it where he thinks Cid was working last.

"It was?" He asks, leaning against the workbench. This might take a while, but if the small, 'oh man this guy is just the coolest ever' grin is anything to go by, he doesn't really care. "So because of that, you made sure you were?"

smokesinspace June 10 2010, 08:15:03 UTC

Close...but not quite. Without even looking, he grabs Danny's hand and moves it just a little more to the left and up. "That oughta do it."

Returning to work, he continued to answer Danny's questions, if in a very brief manner. "Wouldn't have gotten anywhere if I just sat on my ass and did jack shit. There weren't even any planes around durin' my time." Man that made him sound so old. But it was true. "Hell, I designed the first damn plane. The Tiny Bronco, first propeller plane in all the Planet. Went on ta design the Highwind -- first real airship ever made."

Cid took a moment to pull out a cigarette and light it, all with just one hand. It was obvious he was used to performing such a task.

phantomfenton June 10 2010, 22:14:13 UTC

Once Cid's adjusted his aim, Danny keeps the light steady, leaning over to watch.

"Wow..." Danny says, imagining a much younger Cid in a workshop similar to the pictures he's seen of the Wright brothers'. (Cid looks nearly identical, except shorter.)

"You know, in my world, it took people forever to just get past propellers."

smokesinspace June 10 2010, 22:48:40 UTC

"Probably 'cause they don't have Mako," Cid just answered as he tightened a few a bolts, tapping it a few times to make sure it was right. With a a satisfied nod, he pulled out and started scrounging around for some more tools.

"Took me two years ta make an airship that would run on oil."

phantomfenton June 10 2010, 23:48:29 UTC

"What's Mako, again?" Danny asks, getting out of the way.

"Some kind of magic?"

smokesinspace June 11 2010, 00:32:49 UTC

"The Planet's energy," he just said as he started attaching some parts to the piece he was originally working on. If Danny looked closely, he would see something that looked like a small, iridescent cylinder with some strange fluid in it.

phantomfenton June 13 2010, 04:20:57 UTC

"The planet's energy?" Danny repeats. His attention gets caught by the small cylinder, and he leans a little closer, studying it while he talks.

"Is that anything like thermal energy?"

smokesinspace June 13 2010, 05:33:11 UTC

"Sorta, only it's a hell lot more powerful. Without it, the planet would die and we'd be up a creek without a paddle." He continued to assemble what was now turning out to be a rather large engine. "ShinRa used ta use Mako to fuel everythin'. Problem was it was suckin' the planet dry and things weren't turnin' out so pretty."

He then tapped the mysterious cylinder with his wrench. "This planet's probably the same, too. Only with dream energy."

phantomfenton June 14 2010, 21:22:29 UTC

With the larger pieces added to the workbench, Danny is forced to stand instead of sitting on a corner, like he has been until now. "Sounds familiar. In my world, everyone's saying that we're sucking our planet dry of all its oil."

Danny frowns. Then his eyes widen, and he stops shining the light to point at the cylinder. "Are you telling me that that's liquid dream energy?"

smokesinspace June 14 2010, 21:25:51 UTC

Cid gave a short laugh. "Funny, we're only now returnin' back ta the basics with our own natural resources. Took a while ta get that old oil rig workin' again."

He grinned at Danny as he picked up the cylinder in question. "Ya got it, kiddo. These things aren't really hard ta find. Look inside any machine and you'll find a couple of these in place of a regular battery. I still remember a few things durin' that crazy week."

phantomfenton June 16 2010, 06:33:36 UTC

The kid rolls his eyes, also finding humor in the otherwise a dark situation. "Is it just me, or is that somehow incredibly ironic?"

"So they're what powers everything, here? Dreams, turned into that stuff?" Danny says, nodding at the liquid inside.

"How does this stuff get formed?" He adds, holding a hand out cautiously, as though the container might shatter or explode on contact. "Is it the Dreamberries?"

DAMN NOTIFFS ARE DEAD. smokesinspace June 16 2010, 07:00:59 UTC

Cid just snorted. "Nope, it ain't just you. The worlds're just full of 'em."

"Seems like it. This world is just chock full of it, and it pulls it from all over. Dunno the full specs of it since I was mainly just the head engineer, but from what I remember, all our dreams give off some kinna energy like light does. Just so happens Somarium has a nice chunk concentrated in it. Still don't know much. Seems like it was an ongoing research. Who knows, might be more "wells" out there somewhere."

As the kid reached for the cylinder, Cid just sighed and shoved it into his hands. "It ain't gonna break if ya touch it. That glass is stronger than the ones ya use for ships. Could throw it on the ground and the best ya'd get is a small ding. As for how it's formed, that's what those labs and factories are for. The energy's gathered up and then converted into liquid form like that. That little bit right there can power an 18-wheeler."

THEN I'M GOING TO POUNCE AND SAY THAT NOTIFS MADE ME LATE, NOT RL. 8| phantomfenton June 16 2010, 07:16:29 UTC

"More 'wells'? As in, more cities like this place out there?" By the looks of it, he hadn't really considered the idea before.

Aaand Danny almost really does drop the thing when it's suddenly thrust towards him. He doesn't, luckily, but it was a close call. At the last part about its energy capacity, his eyes widen, and he looks at the miniature cylinder with something akin to awe. "That much, out of this? But it's smaller than the Fenton Thermos!"

"Hey, what would happen if it did crack? Would it blow up?"

...Except that totally blew your cover. smokesinspace June 16 2010, 07:56:13 UTC

"Dunno, but maybe. Wouldn't ya think it weird if there was only one city in the middle of this whole damn world? Place can't be all desert, can it?" Not that it was impossible but...still the chances were pretty slim, at least in Cid's eyes.

"S'why this thing is so damn efficient also dangerous." He pointed at the cylinder with a wrench. "Thing breaks and yer dealin' with somethin' similar to a nuclear bomb."

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