[ 002 | VOICE/VIDEO ] late at night

[spah]

Howdy, folks.

[It's fairly late at night. You may have heard that drawl around. Or maybe you heard about a guy with a Texan accent setting fire to a pile of lingerie in a sex shop by accident. Either or.]

So. This ain't my first time around alien technology. Last extraterrestrials I met wrecked my property and tried to kill me. Then me and some other fellas stole their guns and forcefed 'em beer until they crashed.

[nOW WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO UNPACK ALL OF THAT--]

But these folks are alright by my standards. And all this... cybernetic enhancement and augmentation business has me curious:

Anybody here got something similar in 'em? Prosthetics, bionics, cybernetic enhancements... anything along them lines. And since it wouldn't be fair if I didn't meet ya'll halfway--

[Video comes on. It's a downward shot of Engineer sitting at a desk chair, his device's camera pointed at his skeleton-like metal hand. He open and closes the fist, splays fingers out, turns them over - and wiggles them.]

This here's the Gunslinger. Pretty as you please. Designed by my grandfather, built by me. Oh, and there's my heart too, but... can't exactly pop that open for y'all. Heheh.

Anyway, I'm just curious. I been thinkin' about how different places come up with different ways to fix the parts we've either lost... or wanna improve on. One way or another.

[And, after a pause--]

While I'm at it... can anyone tell me a decent area to buy garage space? [Prismagram is: Now Looking For Recommendations.]

Comments

[pidgeypidge]

Pretty sure it's in the job description.

[There was a pause, and then:]

Do you ever miss your hand?

[spah]

Hm. [He has to think about that.] Not no more, really. The lack of feeling took some getting used to... but that was on purpose. This hand won't flinch, even if I stick it in a blast furnace. You can't beat it for welding work.

Long story short, it took a lot of gettin' used to, but... I think of it as an upgrade. Human body can always be improved on, one way or the other, and a little help from Mother Science can always give 'er a kickstart.

[pidgeypidge]

That's fair. [Maybe some people just weren't as attached to their hands as others. She'd certainly seen weirder things.] Do you do a lot of welding?

[She could see where it'd be useful for something like that, but maybe it was just the thought of willingly replacing her hand that she couldn't wrap her head around.] That's a good way of looking at it.

So it's just the hand and the heart, then?

[spah]

Sure do. Comes with bein' an engineer.

So far, yep.

[pidgeypidge]

Ahaha, touche~

[Not that she'd done a lot of it lately, herself.]

Looking forward to replacing something else~?

[Pidge, why?]

[spah]

Uh?

[pidgeypidge]

Maybe the other hand or something?

[It'd occurred to her, how odd that probably sounded, but she was really just curious about how many more upgrades he was going to make.]

An arm?