SPRING CLEANING [OPEN]

[lovely_wind]

Who: ALL OF YOU NERDS
What: CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!!!
Where: ABSOLUTELY FREAKING EVERYWHERE
When: RIGHT NOW
Warnings: Chemical burns??? IDK


There was no escape in sight. As far as anyone could tell, they were all stuck here on this mysterious floating island for the time being, and they would have to make do with what they could find. You'd think they would be well off in an AWESOME MANSION, except that the mansion is... a little worse for wear. Okay, a LOT worse for wear. The place was a mess.

Flurrie would not stand for it.

A woman of her tastes and sensibilities would be all for living it up in a huge, fancy mansion, but certainly not one in this state. And so, she took some initiative. Early one morning, she found a megaphone and stood outside the front of the mansion, barking orders loudly to the other inhabitants.

"EVERYONE GET OUT HERE, PRONTO!!"

Once everybody was gathered (as gathered as they were able to at this time of day, anyway), she yelled a little less:

"All right, everyone! I think we've been lounging around long enough! This place is an absolute disaster, and I cannot abide it another minute. Today I proclaim that we're going to make this mansion spic and span! And we're not going to stop until it sparkles! Now who's with me~?"

[HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: Step 1: Pick a location. Step 2: CLEAN THAT SHIT. Step 3: Tag around and help clean the mansion YAAAY! OR, you can do none of the above and screw around the entire time! YAAAY?]

Comments

Tech Dungeon. Of course!

[shiest_sunbeam]

Easy pickings for Ronnae to go and clean up and out the tech dungeon. No only would it be useful and productive, but she's already getting first picks on a lot of the stuff down here! Her mind was going a million steps a second and she was having way more fun than anyone cleaning should really be having.

Re: Tech Dungeon. Of course!

[infinitelychewie]

Chewie had only just heard about this part of the mansion. He'd been sleeping in his busted spaceship, but still had a need to fix the thing.

"Hrrrrr." he purred in greeting to the green skinned Humanoid as he entered. (Huh. Those proportions made him think Twilek. But the pointed ears, lack of head tails, green skin and tusks were definitely not customary for that species. More like Gamorrean? Cross bred, maybe? He'd never heard of that before but whatever. It was nowhere near his place to judge.)

There was a lot of stuff down here but.... why did it look so DIFFERENT to the technology he knew??

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae was so involved in her scavenging and procuring cleaning that when the newcomer announced his arrival she jumped a bit in surprised and laughed nervously before smiling. "Oh, hello." She greeted with a quick bow and very much covered in soot, dust, oil and whatever else was down here. It was clear that she'd been down here for a good bit now.

"Didn't think anyone else was going to come here and help out, but thanks!"

[infinitelychewie]

"Gruh?"

Help?

Oh. Now that he was paying proper attention, he could see that she was cleaning down here. That wasn't WHY he was here. In fact, he'd noticed some other people cleaning on his way down... but really hadn't paid them much mind.

If Han were here, he'd say 'Look, lady. Just because you're cute, doesn't mean I'm going to clean house with you!'

....but Han wasn't here, and Chewie was far more inclined to be helpful than his little Human pal.

"Grr-hrr." he said with a shrug, walking over and picking up a dust rag.

[shiest_sunbeam]

It's alright Chewie, you don't have to help but it was appreciated.

"Careful though, this place has a lot of varied debris." And she knew just how annoying it was to clean up all that stuff from all the fur. She had Tauren in her family and friends so yeah!

She went back to going through the rubble and disaster that was down here always setting aside things for her, for the house and tossing any unuseables into a bag... Which was very little considering she can make use of just about everything.

Everynow and then she would look back at them curiously. Looked like a Worgen but... Worgen could talk and had longer snouts. Maybe a different kind? A halfbreed even?! That'd be exciting for her.

[infinitelychewie]

It's fine. He'd found the lake.

Chewie just busied himself with dusting the stuff in the boxes.

It was... weird technology. Some of it had a basic structure he recognized. (Screen. Keys. Power cables, though, different ports than he was used to.) But the bits and pieces were unfamiliar.

As he dusted, he sorted, grouping components into roughly similar groups so that he could better understand them once he was done cleaning.

He caught her looking at him every so often, and so he looked back. It wasn't really a Wookiee's way to be shy. Eventually he just waved and gave the girl a smile. Maybe his kind weren't common around here? He'd certainly never encountered a Humanoid like her before, either. There was nothing odd or wrong with being interested. His entire Galaxy thrived on cultural exchange, after all.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Him turning to look back at her and smile with the added wave made her blush since she felt silly for having stared curiously back. She smiled a bit sheepishly before turning back to the work at hand.

After a few more minutes of silent trudging and cleaning and cataloguing, Ronnae stood up and wiped her brow with the back of her hand and smiled. "Lots of really neat stuff. This will help the house a lot for sure." As well as her own ventures with the tech.

Looking over, she grabbed a clear bottle from one of her belt pouches and offered it to the newcomer. "I'm Ronnae, Ronnae 'Mash Belore Ryllos. Can't say I've seen you before, but thanks. And nice to meet you." She added before grabbing a bottle of water for herself as well.

[infinitelychewie]

"Grrrgggggh. Hbbbrrrrroooooo...."

The House? I guess. I'm hoping it will help me fix my ship.

He just kept dusting and sorting. His hands were large, but surprisingly nimble fingered, and it didn't take him long to get these bits and pieces looking shiny, if not new. He had an obviously discerning eye when it came to cleaning electronics.

When she offered him the water, he was a little surprised, but he took it.

"Grrb. Wooorrrr, groooo. Hrrrrrrugh. Brrrooo, oooo."

Nice to meet you, too. I'm Chewbacca. I'm going to feel really dumb if you can't understand me either.

Because so far, no-one could.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae raised an eyebrow and offered an apologetic look before rubbing the back of her head. "You have a very interesting language... wish I could tell for sure what you're saying..." But that was never an issue for the techie, and she looked excited again. "I bet I can build another universal translator like I did back home!"

[infinitelychewie]

The huge Wookiee shrugged and grumbled out a chuckle.

Figures you wouldn't know what I was saying, either. A Translator would be useful.

There were technologies like that which he'd seen. Not any for Shyriiwook specifically, but other languages.

Suddenly, an idea took him. There had been a little pad of paper and some writing implements in one of the boxes. He'd set it aside while cleaning because he didn't think it was anything useful. He hadn't even been thinking about communicating.

He leaned into the box, picked it up, and started writing.

....now hopefully she could read. Not everyone could.

His writing was clumsy - not something he did a lot - but at least the letters and words were familiar to anyone who could read Basic.

'Hello, I am Chewbacca. It is nice to meet you. Thank you for the water. I was kind of thirsty'

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae perked up as she leaned over to see what he was up to. Even as he was writing, she smiled knowing just what he was doing and when she read it again she nodded and smiled.

"Not a problem and nice to meet you too Chewbacca and I'm really happy to see we have a common language because that means the translator should be a ton easier to make now." Since she didn't have to focus on the mental brainwaves and essence of communication and instead forcus on basic.

[infinitelychewie]

He started writing again.

'I guess there are no protocol droids around here? I know one, fluent in over six million forms of communication. He's never around when I need him.'

C-3PO was annoying sometimes, but often useful.

[shiest_sunbeam]

Ronnae smiled but shook her head. "Not that I know of, but I can prolly whip up something similar. Nowhere near as many languages, but enough for them to be useful!"

Any excuse for her to tinker was very welcomed!

[trustycrowbar]

Oh my god...

[Gordon had eventually followed her into the tech dungeon himself, carrying a box of cleaning supplies. There was dust caking everything down there, and enough spiders to form their own tiny little conquering nation.]

[These were not the reason for his exclamation, however.]

Is that an old BeefyComputer 1500?

[He picks up a grimy gray box, the light of recognition and nostalgia in his eyes.]

Oho my god, it is! I haven't seen one of these in decades! When I was a kid, these were the shit. I'd blow up demons on it for days on end. Hm, I wonder if it still works...

[shiest_sunbeam]

[Ronnae smiled and shook her head before raising an eyebrow curiously.]

So some of this stuff is familiar to you? Good! We need everything we can to get things running the best we can for all the survivors.

Beefy Computer 1500 huh? [She had to giggle a bit.] Sounds like your world has Gnomes and Goblins naming their inventions too.

[trustycrowbar]

Nope. Just humans who know how to brand-name.

[He sets the thing down and dusts off the monitor.]

Let me see if I can power it up.

[Click, power, monitor... BEEP!]

Holy crap, it works! Let's see. See-colon-backslash-doomguy.exe?

[BEEP, RAWR!]

Alriiiight! Good to know this pocket dimension knows what's good!

[You might want to pull him away from that, Ronnae, or he's going to get lost chainsawing mechanical demons.]

[shiest_sunbeam]

[Psh pull him away? More like sit down besides him to look over his shoulder very much interested!]

So what do you do with it?

[Even as she just watched him booting it up, her mind was going miles per second, taking in everything and it even looked like she was reading everything the machine itself was doing. Well, if you were paying attention anyways!]

[trustycrowbar]

[Unfortunately... he isn't. He's more focused on the game options.]

It's a pretty simple game. Let me show you how this works.

[BANGbeepSPLAT, ARRRGH, UFF UFF UFF SPLATTERgib...]

No real storyline, beyond you're in a place filled with demons, and your go is to survive get to the next level. You move with these keys, shoot with that, change weapons like so.

[One level down, and he resets the game and looks over. He was going to offer the controls to her, but he catches the tail end of her attempted communion with the machine. He has no idea what's going on, but it grabs his attention for a second.]

So, uh... give it a try?

[shiest_sunbeam]

[She's glued, her long ears at an excited angle as her eyes shimmer with curiosity and intrigue.]

Sure seems safer than being in the field with all of them!

[An excited comment, much different than the usual timid talk. That's what tech does to this girl... Through the whole level she's taking every bit of detail in, no matter how simple it is and is oddly enough already running all the different scenarios and real time battle tactics that aren't really needed in this game... Probably.]

Huh? Really?! I'd love to!

[Move over Gordon, she's ready for this! And once her hands are in place and her eyes focus on the screen... well let's just say natural is an understatement and she's loving it!]

[trustycrowbar]

[BAMratatatboom--]

Damn, you're pretty good at thi--

[RARGHsplatterdeath, mutilation and bullets--]

Yeah okay, that's called the BFG, what you do with that is--

[KABLAMM!]

--Um, nevermind. I think you've got the idea already.

[shiest_sunbeam]

This is so much fun! [Ronnae giggled and continued on her massacre, all smiles and her focus darting this way and that.]

I'm going to replicate every single on of these! [These being the weapons and while many of them were mundane, you probably figure she's referring to the more techy-looking weapons...]

Yes! [She looked over at Gordon and was all smiles before letting go.]

[magicdancer]

[OH LOOK! Two of her favourite people ever!]

Hey, guys! What are you up to?

[OH GOD DON'T LET HER TOUCH THE COMPUTER DON'T LET HER TOUCH THE COMPUTER RED ALERT RED ALERT]

[trustycrowbar]

Alright... [He cracks his knuckles and takes a turn.] Time to make these demons remember who they're dealing with...

[In a way, if one were to imagine Gordon as a scrawny teenager with huge glasses and anger issues yelling at a VGA screen in the middle of the night, it really explains a lot about him now. It doesn't take him long to get back in the habit, either:]

YEAH! EAT IT! Oh you want some too don't you--HA! Didn't expect a grenade, did you?! Well there's more where that came from! Fresh-picked, just for you! Oh you floaty motherf-- GAHH! DIE DIE DIE! Haha! Looks like it's clear who the superior foe is here, isn't it squidface?!

[This is what you walk in on, Shantae. Was it worth it?]

[shiest_sunbeam]

[Ronnae's face is red but she's smiling and she's not very vocal but she cheers whenever Gordon makes an impressive play. She's definitely having more fun than she should and that's probably why the sudden appearance of Shantae makes her spin around in surprise and probably just whipped Gordon in the face with her very long ponytails. Whoops!]

Shantae! Oh ah, h-hi!

[trustycrowbar]

[Ronnae's pigtail hits him with audible force and a muffled grunt of surprise. By the time he sweeps it away, his gun-toting alter ego on the screen is already half-dead.]

Oh nononono-- [BOOMsplorch.] Aw man... Now why did you go and-huh? [Now be notices the genie girl, and turns in his chair.] Oh, hey, err, hi Shantae. We were just, you know, checking out some of the stuff down here.