(closed) it's amazing what you can do when you're stupid and hard to kill

[knaval]

Who: tailgate and riptide
When: the afternoon of the 12th
Where: their room (nomo deck 15-16)
What: they decided to try and build an xbox. somehow, they manage to build an explosion instead
Warnings: robots



[ooc: continued from here]

What, you'll roll me onto the floor yourself? [he snorts.] Tell you what, if you can do that, I'll stay down there. No arguments, no picking you up and putting you on a high shelf.

[tailgate's hands are so tiny the Threatening Finger has no effect!]

I mean, liquid is usually pretty good at conducting, right? Weird, neon green and probably radioactive goo can't be that far a cry from it.

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[daintylegs]

[He'll have his day someday Riptide, just you wait and see.]

You win this time.

[Looks like there's going to be some snuggling going on. Somehow, deep down, Tailgate sense that he's not going to have his own bed after this.]

Oh pfft, I forgot to bring tools! You wouldn't happen to have any built in, do you? I mean, I have a, um, fire finger. [Shoot, he's completely forgotten what it was called.]

[knaval]

[that hasn't actually crossed riptide's mind...

he frowns down at his hands for a moment.]

I don't think so... I have a set of bolt cutters, though!

[daintylegs]

...Yeah, I think we should go hunt down some tools.

[Looks like he's going to have to make another trip to the cargo bay. There are loads of tools there.]

What else do we need?

[knaval]

Electric... dealing, stuff. Screwdriver?

[damn it's been so long since he built anything.]

You know what, just grab whatever looks like it might be right. Or one of everything. We can figure it out as we go.

[daintylegs]

Awesome! I'll be right back.

[And so he goes on his merry way.

About an hour later Tailgate stumbles back into the room with an armful of various tools and computer parts. Pleased with himself, he dumps it on top of the other stuff and steps back to let Riptide inspect his find.]

I think I've got just about anything we could possibly need! Let's starting throwing them all together and see what happens.

[knaval]

[riptide is laying back up on his bed when tailgate comes back. he looks up, not yet getting up.]

You wanna take the first step? I think you have more of an image than I do.

[daintylegs]

[Um excuse you]

You go to movie nights too!

[So get your lazy boat self off your bed and help him!]

I can figure out how to do the casing and whatever, but I think you should do the actual programming. I haven't the slightest clue where to start there.

[knaval]

Pff.

[he honestly didn't expect tailgate to be so serious about this.]

Alright, alright. Bossy boots. I'll give it a shot, but I'm not promising anything amazing. [he says, getting up. your life is so hard, riptide.] I think I have a basic idea of where to start. You thought up any games yet?

[but first: the operating system.]

[daintylegs]

[That's silly! Tailgate doesn't even wear boots!]

I didn't actually think that far. Maybe some kind of arcade game? Like the ones you see in the movies all the time!

[He bounces excitedly and grabs two chunks of metal. His plan is to mash these together until they form some kind of box.]

How hard can they be to make?

[knaval]

Not hard at all. How about the main character is a little white truck that shoots blue lasers? At...

[he taps his chin with one hand, while using the other to pull some circuitry and other Computer Stuff towards himself.]

What have you pulled a gun on recently? Anyone after Megatron?

[daintylegs]

I haven't pulled a gun on anyone in a while.

[MMMM.]

How about space ducks? I hear those are majestic.

[knaval]

I have no idea what those are, but sure.

[he'll just... do Tech Stuff with the circuitry. sticking stuff together. the works.]

So I'm thinking we slap some neon on it. Everyone loves neon. [he gestures at tailgate's shoulders with a circuit board.] You got some on you!