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 Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:58 am
Sometimes being a genius inventor and a master tinkerer meant taking the time to really work out the kinks of ones inventions and gadgets. After all, to build something was one thing, to have it work was another.
And to have it work as intended was a different thing entirely.
The point of building for Painite was not to have a pretty display piece: it was to have a usable tool for her duties, be it a trap or a weapon, a distraction or whatever else she could build. When she was at home that was a different story: things didn't have to work there. It wasn't a matter of life or death when she was sitting in her back yard and designing a new sprinkler system.
But this was different. She had been perfecting a trap she hoped to use to quicken the capture and release process for gathering energy, and to lessen the chance of being interrupted. She knew that sometimes it was good to try and think of how to disengage or shut off her own inventions, or free herself if she was in the victim's position, just so she knew how to avoid those things happening in practice.
Or, like right now, when she managed to get herself trapped in her own rig.
She was hanging upside down from a fire escape, dangling from one leg. She was trying to figure out how to cut herself down, a cloth rope tight around her ankle. Cloth wouldn't leave suspicious bruises, she had imagined. At least this way she could see how sturdy it was.
Quite.
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:46 am
She moved with a tiredness that exuded from her very bones, a wearyness and an ache that stemmed from sleepless nights and long days and driving oneself into the ground, even then she had to stop and stare at the young woman dangling like a snared rabbit from the fire escape.
"....well done." She said hoarsely and rubbed a spot of... something off her cheek as she stared upward. Another lieutenant, like herself...she wondered if she volunteered like so many. She thought it likely and her lip curled in a sullen fury, but if she didn't help...there might be consequences.
"I suppose you need a hand there."
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:53 am
"I certainly wouldn't mind one, if you're offering!"
Painite didn't see who was talking to her right away, twisting around to spot the other Negaverse Lieutenant down below. She smiled brightly, shifting, though she really couldn't help the other get her down from her own trap. If she could, she wouldn't have needed the help in the first place.
She'd already be down and fixing things.
"Do you have a knife or something? You could cut the rope for me, maybe? It's tied up, ah, over there, on the edge of the fire escape, see? Do be careful, though. I'll fall if you let me, and I'll bash my head in!" She didn't exactly sound concerned about this happening, trusting the other girl straight off, no questions asked. After all, Painite had never done anything to her, having never met her before.
That meant they were friends until proven otherwise.
If you couldn't trust people on the same faction as you who could you trust?
"I really appreciate your help!"
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:53 am
Tempting, it was so tempting to get up there and cut the rope just to watch her fall, she hated the uniforms, senshi...nega... just pure blind hate. But there were consequences for hating the Nega uniforms so she gritted her teeth and made her way up. She didn't have a knife like this.. true...
but She could at least pull her up or some such.
"No knife...just hands." She said trying to find the leverage to start drawing her up.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:15 pm
"Oh! Hands work too, thank you! Yes, this is good. Are you sure you can... no, wait, I suppose we're stronger than we look, hmm?"
She was still a fairly new Nega, and she wasn't actually that used to meeting others she could actually talk to, rather than attack. She was assuming they all ran on the same feelings, that they were all now dedicated to the cause. Since being corrupted, she had never questioned her allegiance.
When she was pulled up enough she jerked and bent herself so she could grab hold of a part of the fire escape, stretching and untying the cloth rope from around her ankle, which was now aching from the strain. Her body got heavier than she anticipated once she was free, and she fell down to the fire escape level below.
"Oomph!" she breathed, winded, pushing herself to her hands and knees. But she looked up at Moonstone with a bright smile regardless. "Thank you for that! I might have been dangling for some time if you hadn't come along. Lieutenant Painite," she said, offering the other her hand once she was up on her feet.
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:59 pm
Moonstone glanced at the hand but didn't take it, her fingers did flex though as though there had been some inner war as to weather she should or not.
"Moonstone..." she replied glancing over the 'new girl'
Way too perky, way too happy with what she was doing, then again, maybe she never had to kill, maybe she never wondered why it didn't bother her nearly as much as it should.
"I'm guessing your new." She said tilting her head with a serious expression, almost dead really.
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:07 am
Painite didn't seem too concerned about the other Negaverser's attitude. Just as it was within the theatre, the job took all kinds. She didn't expect everyone to be just like her, and she certainly wasn't going to look at them in a lesser light if they simply had a more depressed or angry attitude than her generally over-enthusiastic one.
She continued to smile, holding out her hand just in case Moonstone decided she did, in fact, want to shake it. Just in case.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Moonstone! Are you not new, then? I mean, I suppose it is a bit obvious that I am, but ah. Was it the hanging upside down from my own trap that gave me away?" She grinned broadly, willing to laugh at herself, at least for now. Since she hadn't been trying to do anything, just testing and building, she didn't have to take the mishap as a loss, or anything more serious than an honest mistake. And those she could just laugh off, without the intense need to go bigger and better to vindicate herself.
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Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:58 am
"That... and I hadn't seen you at meetings." She replied with a bluntness that would have done a sledge hammer proud.
She eyed the trap rope.
"... do you hunt?" She asked suddenly, latching onto something she did in her civilian life that had never seemed so evil till it was applied to humans.
"It's a good trap... but, normally I associate it with the woods."
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:48 am
"Oh, right. That works too!" Painite laughed jovially, nodding her head. It certainly made sense: she hadn't been to any meetings, so either she was just anti-social and anti-establishment, or she was just a newbie.
And she definitely wasn't stupid or brave enough to rage against the proverbial machine.
"I think hunting would be... a generous way to describe what I do," she laughed, "I mean, I've never hunted animals. I do like these traps though. And machines, gizmos. Just things to help me catch people, you know? So I can get their energy." She smiled proudly, thinking it was the best idea ever and, not only that, but she had been the first to ever think it.
She liked to bolster her ego.
"Yeah, that's true. It would do better in the woods, but you have to adapt to your prey's natural habitat, don't you? And mine so happens to live here."
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:33 pm
"I suppose you could prey on -drunks-" she said bitterly, flinching slightly at the word 'Energy'.... kids these days, had no idea what it meant to be 'old school' negaverse.
She hoped Charonite was spinning in his... well...grave?
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:36 pm
Painite chuckled, nodding her head.
"Hey, they've got energy to spare, just like anyone else. Plus, they're easier to trick and more likely to fall into traps. Dumb when drunk, you know? Not that you have to be dumb to fall into a trap, as I just demonstrated."
She thought for a moment, then laughed at herself, face splitting into a big grin.
"Or I did I? I might be the dumbest of all, trapping myself. In any case! Thank you for the help, I do appreciate it. I'm going to tinker a bit more with this, but at least now I know to keep my attention up a bit more." She chuckled.
She was in a good mood, for just having to be rescued from herself.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:58 pm
"...Rrrrright." Moonstone turned to go, rather perhaps more quickly than she normally allowed herself to retreat from another Nega.
"I'll um... see you around." She said and waved without waiting for an answer.
Then again right now, if she had her wait Painite would NOT see her... a little -too- cheerful all things considered.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:14 pm
Painite nodded, offering a wave.
"See you around, then!" She called jovially, imagining she recognized the look Moonstone was giving her, but that was fine by her. She smiled, and nodded, then turned back to her trap.
Just a few tweaks, really, and it would be good. Maybe.
Then she could test it out properly, on someone that wasn't... herself. As that hadn't worked out so well, by accident or not.
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