smashrising | The hills are alive with the sound of EXPLOSIONS

The hills are alive with the sound of EXPLOSIONS

Who: Ryzey Goldfuse and those brave enough to meet her
What: A goblin tinkerer arrives. Three guesses what happens next.
Where: The machine shop
When: Wednesday, February 15
Warnings: E for EXPLOSIONS

Okay. Okay, her latest invention probably had a few kinks to work out. Building an interdimensional portal was turning out to be a bit more art than science, but what kind of experiments didn't have a few minor setbacks here and there? Like, you know... getting stuck on the other side of a portal she opened in space and time. On the plus side, it worked! On the negative side, the portal closed before she could get back to her workshop. Great. Just great.

A short, curvy goblin girl with wild strawberry blonde hair stood in the middle of the machine shop in the mansion. Nobody else was up at this hour of the night, which was perfect for her to get to work without interruptions. She unshouldered a bazooka on a strap, lowered a pair of goggles into place, and set to work, rummaging through the materials she could find, trying to pick out anything that could be used in her new invention. She needed to build a way to get back to Azeroth! There was money to be made! Unfortunately, despite her desire for privacy, she wasn't exactly quiet or gentle about what she was doing, tossing parts around and making quite a lot of noise, both of machinery and of cursing.

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A very goblin thing to ask indeed, profit matter very highly on the list of important definitely needed things list for goblins. "No, not as far as I know. They did used to have currency before we all got thrown into this dimension but there's always trade. At least that's how it's been done so far if anyone wanted exchange of goods that weren't just given to the community."

Ronnae was by not means tall, being a shortie herself but still taller than the goblin for sure. It did bring a small timid smile to her face, seeing even more Azerothian's gave her hope that at the very least, this world was linked with home and that meant there was a chance. She offered and placed her hand on hers for a nice handshake. "D-deal."

"Ugh..." Ryzey rolled her eyes. "No currency? Great... I guess I COULD set up a... barter system..." The thought was anathema to everything she'd ever been taught. But if there was no currency here, a smart business goblin would have to learn to adapt. Despite how unpleasant it was.

Ryzey smirked up at Ronnae. Up close she was even more well built than she thought seeing her from afar. And the shy look was cute on her... "So tell me, what're you doing here at this hour? Looking for a bit of alone time?" she suggested deviously.

"Barter systems were the originators of currency, it's really not too bad." she shrugged. So far there really hadn't been a particular need for currency. Most of everyone was happy to lend or gift or donate items needed around the place, but there had been some who traded items that were more comodity or luxury, so there could really be a market for a goblin she thought.

"Huh? No, n-not really. I was just working on some more tinkering and trying to convert more junk into useful items. Mostly rebuilding our stock of necessities and transmuting the scraps into usable parts and sprockets and such."

"I get the need for some privacy while you work," Ryzey said, shrugging. "I do it all the time in my own workshop." But she followed it up with a playful elbow to Ronnae's side, smirking. "Also helps when you want a bit of 'privacy' to take care of other business," she suggested, looking forward to seeing Ronnae's face darken again.

"Privacy yes, it... it does help to keep up with focusing on the tasks at hand." She replied trying to turn it into a less flirty conversation since the follow up made it certain that her new friend wasn't referring to privacy for work and it cause her face to surely darken further with the heavy blushing it induced.

"Yeah, I bet it does help you focus," she smirked broadly, Ronnae's attempt to make the conversation less flirty only making things worse. This was far too fun for the goblin, who needed a good mood lifter after being stranded here.

"Huh?" You lost her Ryzey, or she at least pretended to be lost not wanting to dig herself deeper.

"A-anyways I... I had just stepped out to grab a snack and some coffee before working for a bit longer then turning in for the night... There's enough there if you're hungry? I could also go and cook something more up if you need more too."

"I'll tell you when you grow up," Ryzey teased with a laugh. "If you got any more coffee, I'll take some of that," she suggested, going back to her debris pile. "What kinda grub have you got in this place?"

That did get a rise out of Ronnae whose face reddened but she turned away a bit embarrassed. "Y-yeah, I have some more. And as far as food there's plenty of vegetables, we have a decent farm now outside thanks to some of the people here. As far as meats we've managed to hunt down quite a bit so our stores are fairly good."

"Least there's something decent here," she replied with a nod. She took a look back and noticed Ronnae turning away in embarrassment. Now it was time to figure out just what her deal was. "Lord you're a shy one, aren't you?" she asked. "Don't tell me you don't like talking about more intimate things."

"A-ah no, that's not it. It's... I'm timid by nature, not by inexperience. You d-don't just blurt out those things you know!" she meeped sheepishly. "Besides, I mean, we just met and I was t-trying to be a good host... I mean, not... many people from home here and all..."

"I do," Ryzey corrected her with a chuckle. "First thing you're gonna have to learn about me, I like to speak my mind. Don't worry, you're doing just fine as a host. You are just WAY too adorable not to tease."

Ronnae's blush was going nowhere at this rate and from the looks of things the goblin gal wasn't going to quit so she just accepted it. "Right... t-that's not something I haven't heard before." She sighed and shook her head. "As long as you're comfortable and hopefully adjusting to what just happened, then at... at least I know I've been doing alright." Because at least she knew Azerothian's came mostly with tough skin, she knows Ryzey would roll with the blows and adjust. We all have had to many times.

She shrugged. "I've seen weirder," she said. "Besides, ingenuity's gonna win the day. It always does! Every problem has a solution."

"It's been trying..." Ingenuity, that they had in bounds with the astute denizens of this place. It wasn't lacking and still.... and still they remained stuck in this place.

"Hopefully a new set of hands will help out."

"Then luckily for you, you've got the best set of hands on Azeroth. And I know my way around machines too," she grinned, unable to resist getting in another flirty remark at Ronnae's expense.

Right over her head Ryzey, at least for the time being. Ronnae beamed happily, "I'm sure the rest will love hearing that. Having more people who can help us try to get back to our respective homes will be a great thing." With that though, she did pour some coffee for her as well as split the snack platter for them both before sitting across from Ryzey.

"I guess anothers misfortune is someone elses boon... Sorry you ended up here but I'm glad to have another engineer around." Especially from home...

"Careful when it's my misfortune you're talking about," she pointed out, taking a mug of coffee for herself and taking a hearty swig. "Aaah... I needed THAT."

"So... What've you tried so far?" she asked. "One engineer to another, I wanna get up to speed ASAP."

"Right, sorry sorry... I didn't mean it that way I just... Any blips on the radar from home are like... small miracles I guess..." Bad wording and bad moment, better step away from this and focus.

"As far as where we're at and what we've done." she goes through some files in a cabinet and pulls out a large folder.

"You can go through the failed attempts, none have even come close to getting us out of here though some have proven useful and been turned into other devices to improve quality of life around." Better water system, irrigation, basic automation etc.

"Hey, nothing personal," Ryzey chuckled. She took another swig of coffee, flipping the folder open and starting to examine the information therein. "Yeah, yeah, I can see that," she commented. "You're also limited by what resources you've got available here. I don't suppose you've got access to magitek around here," she suggested. "As much as I love traditional tech, any device that's capable of generating a portal like that is going to need a power core that gives off a nice big jolt of extra-dimensional energies that can be focused. So unless we can find something like that here, we're stuck at square one."

"We have access to some magitek," she started as she crossed her legs and relaxed a bit more in her chair. "I've made a few of my devices using what I've found but like you said, we're limited to what we have around here. Though, sometimes being able to get help from magic users to harness that power and use it in our devices is a boon." Though it wasn't something she liked doing often.

"You've got magic users around here?" Ryzey asked, resting her chin on her hand. "That'll be a big help. What kind of magic users are we talking about here?"

"All kinds really, I'd like to say that they also follow some of the megical methods and mechanics of Azeroth and other planes we've explored but that'd be putting it lightly since there's odd variations and even further things in some cases." And that was an understatement. There was immense power talent in this location for sure.

"Oh yeah?" she asked again, leaning closer and practically lifting herself out of her seat to get closer to Ronnae. "Tell me. What can they do, hm?" she asked curiously.

The closeness made Ronnae's face turn a shade darker and she stumbled a bit back on her chair. "O-oh uh, well you know l-lots. Like there's even some that can shapeshift and use elemental powers kind of like dragons but not? Though some do seem to be dragons too..."

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