Let's Play: Building a robot very very slowly (pt 2?)

[2hell_weride]

Characters: MarKus Haley and Ales Mansay
Where: Magitek Research Facility
When: December 3rd
Summary: MarKus is assigned a task to dismantle some of the mechanical guards there.  He brings along another tech-head for the adventure
Warning: Language?

Things were nothing but looking up for the mechanic. Business was thriving, but he's learned that a different 'job' would help him get something to help in the long run. And in hi request to get a new job assignment, he's gotten an amazing task. 

Quickly MarKus wrote to Ales about it; he had a change to dismantle the mecha at the Magitek Facility.  The job required he bring stuff back but, the morale of the story was, well, robots, parts, and crystals. 

With his buddy in tow, MarKus begins his job!

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[2hell_weride]

"I got your back!" he says, literally holding up either his back for balance, or pieces as they're undone so they don't go crashing down.

[umslay]

"Can you hold onto those two beams?" He gestures at two thick steel beams in the framework near MarKus. "I'll need some support there."

He begins unscrewing.

[2hell_weride]

And so he holds them up, while looking over, and into the mechanical guard.

"Man... I'm so used to seeing this stuff being a TON bigger... It's... weird."

[umslay]

"Bigger?" There went one bean. Ales put the last of the screws in his pocket and lifted a small beam out of its place. "I'd say these are about as big as the ones I made back home."

[2hell_weride]

"Yeah, yanno, big as some of the buildings. But hey, that just means it won't take ten people and cranes to move stuff around." he says then looks down.

"Really, screws?" he laughs, though hydraulics and gears seem more likely, shit don't work without a means to hold it together. "Haha... nothing is off limits. This is their dumbest idea ever. All for the sake of getting robotics for ourselves!"

[umslay]

"What?! What are those robots even for?" That was no machine, but some sort of transportation!

He lowered himself inside the robot. "Might as well keep all the parts, screws and beams included. The inner workings may be only used for certain types of robotics, but there's so much we can do with just the basic parts."

[2hell_weride]

"Well, sounds like we failed to disable the first one without destroying it then." he says, reaching into the crate and opening a false bottom. Triiiicky!

"Didn't we talk about this already. War. Fighting giant monsters and aliens. There were machines as big as a tower, and a few as big as whole cities. That's what our battleship was for. Imagine a machine as tall as one of these buildings, fitting inside an even bigger ship!"

[umslay]

"That's...." he fiddled around on one of the hydraulics systems. "Amazing. How many people do you even need to build one?"

[2hell_weride]

"When I made the TechnicaII, it took... a team of ten to get everything assembled. But we also had cranes and lifts meant just for this kind of stuff." he explains.

"And mine was in the middle range of stuff. There were smaller machines that you could ride in, then stuff that was just, mechanical armor that fit right around you."

[umslay]

The hydraulics were taking a while to remove safely.

"It's certainly more impressive than what I've built! Biggest machines I made were for manufacturing or for housing!"

He climbed up the robot and tossed a piston, wires and tubing still attached. "Catch. There's more I need to disconnect."

[2hell_weride]

"Well I intend for us to start small but eventually I want a full-sized Mobile Suit for us to use, yanno, in case shit happens." he explains.

Easily MarKus catches it and stows it away in the fake bottom. "But we gotta figure out that damned Crystal problem. But hey, I'm working on it, and I'm sure I can bribe a few more thieves to get in on the hunt eventually."

[umslay]

Ales goes back to disconnecting the wiring. If all goes well, he might have enough to rebuild one of his mechas.

"Good work, then. Once we figure out how to use Crystal energy, then I can start working on redesigning my inventions."

[2hell_weride]

"I think we just need to first figure out how to... yeah... That." he says realizing he's about to say the same damn thing.

"Hopefully we can somehow reverse-engineer this guy's power source." he says looking up at Ales, remembering how he used to climb over machines too.

[umslay]

Ales pokes out his hands to toss a few more pieces over. "That won't be too difficult. I've done a bit of studying of other civilization's technology, so this'll be no sweat!"

His confidence surges more and more as he successfully removes robot parts. "I've moving onto the control mechanism! Got anything soft we can store this in?"

[2hell_weride]

"Uuuh, shit. No..." he admits. "I didn't even think of that! I guess..." he sighs and takes his bandanna off. "I've got this but really I don't have anything else."

[umslay]

Ales shook his head. "That's hardly large enough to carry delicate instruments. Don't they carry rags in this place?"

He goes back to work on the control mechanism.

[2hell_weride]

"Well, are you going to be fine by yourself? I don't want this thing to fall out from under you."

Otherwise he'd go look for something... Maybe some tapestry or some left-behind coat... or rags, sure.

[umslay]

"Nah, I'll be fine. I've built mechas just as complex as these; taking them apart will be easy!" And while there's no one to toss parts to, he can always put them in a pile and put them away later.