[OPEN] "These shallow waters never met what I needed. I'm letting go; a deeper dive."

[mviw]

Who: Ford (mviw) & YOU! | Closed prompts for Fiddleford, Wendy & the kids, tiny!Rick and Frisk, and Bill Cipher
Where: Around Neverland
When: Through the Neverland event + the Aftermath
Rating: PG-13/R for violence, swearing, limb amputation
Summary: Ford tries to protect his best friend, his nephew and niece, his friend's daughter, and his brother. It goes horribly awry. (You could say the casualties are about half his armies.)

(This log is corresponding to the events in THIS log.)

The Story:
[ooc: Prompts are written! Have at it.]

Comments

[mcgucket]

[Fiddleford will trade his notes with hers here, where she'll be able to see that his list includes one or two similar ideas, but stand outs might be the possibility of installing a feature that can be used as an alarm clock of sorts, and one written as "A built-in shield or weapon of some kind for protection??"]

I gotta say, your notes are very impressive, especially in regards to the communicator detailed here. [Also why hadn't he thought of a pen? Considering how much Ford likes to write... actually--] If we make it so that one of the fingers contains a pen, do you suppose we should add somethin' inside of the other fingers too? Like... a lighter, or a swiss-army knife that could be used in a pinch?

[sciencelizard]

[She can't help but smile at the alarm clock. That's cute. It would be good for him. He pulls her out of her thoughts with his suggestion, and she immediately brightens.]

Oh, a swiss army knife and i-it's components would be incredibly useful! I bet he'd appreciate it, too. He sort of i-implied to me that he was really interested in us running wild with it, so.

[And that he trusts her enough to even be a part of that is incredibly important to her.]

Okay, so... a normal swiss army knife has a bunch of stuff, but not all of it m-might translate well to a finger component. I'm thinking the small knife, screwdriver, and t-tweezers are a must. What do you think?

[mcgucket]

Yes, that sounds right to me! [One sec, he'll add it to his notes here for reference.] Now, I was wonderin'--what d'ya think about a built-in defense system, like a shield or weapon of some kind that can be activated when dealin' with a threat?

[Granted, Ford seems to always carry some kind of weapon on him anyway, but maybe it would be handy if he ever ends up in a situation without one?]

[sciencelizard]

[She thinks about it when he suggests, because dang, she'd love a shield of some kind when the going gets tough.]

Well, he t-tends to carry a gun on him anyway, and I'm not sure anything we can b-build that'll have to fit would be better than anything he likes to, uh, fire. But a shield would be useful! Or anything for blocking. We could do, uhm, an energy generator or just go l-low tech and have extendable plating.

[mcgucket]

... What if we had both, somehow? There could be an energy generator to provide a shield, but if he ever ends up in a dire enough situation where the arm has run out of energy for the more fancier functions, there's extendable platin' to provide some momentary cover until we're able to recharge or replace the battery component.

[Does that sound like something that could be feasibly done?]

[sciencelizard]

[She taps her claws lightly against the scales on her cheek, then slides her hand over the table and pulls over a page of blueprinting paper, beginning to sketch.]

If we can put the shield generator in the wrist and then, m-maybe a spring loaded mechanism out the top to cover the joint? Like... h-here, if the generator can be protected but additionally to reinforce the arm... I think that could work! I used magical generators like this in Mettaton's design.

[Oh. Wait. He doesn't know who Mettaton is. Dial that back.]

Er, uhm, Mettaton is my robot. I built him y-years ago. He's here, actually, uh, he's kind of bright pink and hard to miss? Anyway, uh, h-his power cores have self-generating magical fields, I bet I could do something similar here, or uh... something?

[mcgucket]

Is that right? [He watches Alphys sketch with interest.] "Mettaton" huh... I must admit, I'm curious to see this robot for myself sometime.

[But then he frowns, thinking about something here.]

These ah, "magical generators" of yours that you speak of, though... d'ya mind if I ask what kind of magic you're referrin' to here?

[Or maybe just a better explanation in general. (It's not like... black magic or the sort, right...)]

[sciencelizard]

He lives, uh, on this f-floor too! Right across the hall. Or uh, he's around a lot, and he's really tall. You'll p-probably get to meet him soon.

[He mentions magic, though, and she remembers again. Right. Humans. Many different types of worlds and magic and it's not automatically assumed.]

Oh! Uhm, well, it's monster magic. In my world, uhm, the b-big difference between monsters and humans is that monsters have, uh, magic. We can generate small amounts of it into, uh, bullet patterns, for greetings and conversation, or, uh, s-self defense. I don't, uhm... use it much, though.

[Because she's pretty weak for a monster, but... doesn't wanna talk about that.]

But uhm, I can get the generator started with a little bit of my m-magic, and then it can replenish over time.