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 Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2025 8:14 pm
Ekstrom had set up on the top floor of an abandoned construction site this time. It was a thousand times creepier than setting up at the park, but it felt a lot more practical. She set up a large blackout tent, set up her work lights, and laid out the various blueprints, tools, and parts they had to work with to make one of these satellites. And this time, she figured she could recruit a good friend with an engineering background to try and get one together, because that was practical and felt like a “work smarter, not harder” sort of move.
So she cornered him at school and, after bribing him with a small basket of baked goods, gave him a time and place to meet her, then got there early to get everything set up. She was already getting started, nose buried in the blueprints for the moment as she again worked out the beginning steps to this construction.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 8:41 pm
Truthfully, Belmont hadn’t needed the bribe at all. It wasn’t just that he could get baked goods at his cousin’s bakery–but those definitely put him in a good mood, anyway–but he’d also been invested in trying to help build shields to help defend Earth. He’d examined the blueprint once received and dissected it, but despite his best efforts he wasn’t sure how to use the information there in any other way.
His skill with robotics, and the fact that he was pursuing a degree in engineering, definitely helped.
The blueprint looked easy enough to follow for someone who wasn’t even an expert, so things were looking good for him.
He felt her energy signature well before he saw her; she’d given him instructions on where to meet, so he’d packed up some of his own supplies in subspace and made sure to arrive on time.
“Wow,” he said, once he finally made it past the blackout tent. He almost needed to raise a hand to shield his eyes from the brightness they hid.
“This place is creepy, how did you even find it? The nearest building with any lights on is like five blocks away, easy.”
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