voice, @Doc Knock

[paintjobs]

A quick question — does anyone among us have any background in synthesizing? I know the finer points of the science are probably a little beyond your evolutionary pay grade, and I’d usually know better than to run this by a bunch of humans and humans lookalikes, but, well… desperate times, as they say.

I’ve heard from the Qorral Mayor that their species hasn’t had much success with synthesizing argecite, but synthetic materials just so happens to be one of my specialties.

[ And sure, he’s had disastrous results before, but they were still results! He probably won’t accidentally make any vampire zombies here, it’s fine. ]

If any of you think you’d be of any use to efforts to engineer an artificial compound to replace argecite — synth-ar, you could say — feel free to speak up. The only hitch being that this backwater planet doesn’t have much in the way of laboratory equipment. The local blacksmith has been told to expect us stopping by with equipment requests, but I have to wonder if even that is enough. This is a ground-up operation if I’ve ever seen one.

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[paintjobs]

[ there's kind of a pause here, because this is the third person to offer help, and that's kind of
really weird??

a little hesitantly, like he's expecting her to spring a catch on him: ] What do you have a background in?

oops audio | un: lucina

[tolight]

[ Helping people is !! Important!! ]

Nothing to aide in the ... er, more technological side of things. I'm a soldier, primarily. [ And a princess, but again, not useful. ] If you require any grunt work to be done, however, I have plenty of experience in that.

[paintjobs]

There will be plenty of that, particularly in the beginning stages. It will all be intricate work, though. How well do you follow direction?

[tolight]

Well enough, I imagine, as long as I'd be given enough direction. I wish for this to succeed.

[paintjobs]

Do you, how nice. I was only interested in this operation because I'm such a fan of tedious labor.

[tolight]

Er— [ Oh Gods, she messed up didn't she. ]

I apologize if that came off crass. I wanted to avoid giving off the impression I was treating this lightly. [ She just wants to help. ]

[paintjobs]

Crass? No. A little redundant, maybe. [ and jeez stop being so earnest, you're throwing off his asshole stride ]

[tolight]

Ah. I apologize, then. [ Never. ]

In that case, I believe there's not much for us to discuss — please don't hesitate to contact me once you require the assistance.

[paintjobs]

Let's say tomorrow afternoon. We'll have a few odds and ends to be hefting into place by then, I imagine.

[tolight]

( we can handwave the actual ordering around, but!! )

Understood. Please send me the location once it has been determined.