Samusicus Office Logicus [action]

[icequeen_aran]

[What's this? Samus doing a normal office log? Yeah pretty much.

She's been a little mopey lately and seeking PRIVATE TIME to work out this residual mope. So any time this week after class-hours you might find her holed up in her office or her classroom with the door slightly ajar, probably working on a huge piece of mechanical what-the-heck-is-

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Sept 10th, after EVERYONE ELSE

[pitticus]

Wandering around the school after classes were done, Pit was finally headed back to his dorm, a laundry list of homework and small chores lining his head. His thoughts were dull and unexciting to the highest, so when he heard a faint clank echo somewhere nearby, he immediately became distracted.

It came from Samus's classroom. It must be her! Finding a good way to stall himself from the tedious arrangements he had planned for himself later (naughty naughty), he slooooowly wedged the door open a bit more and peeked in.

Yes, she was in there, working on... something. Deciding she knew he was there, he widened the gap and showcased his presence with a "Hi! I thought that was you making that noise!"

heeeeck yeah

[icequeen_aran]

Samus' angel senses were tingling and sure enough it was difficult to miss the brunette and his luminous personality enter.

"Pit." Not an unwelcome sight, even if she had convinced herself she could use some time to herself and despite the previous visitations in the past couple of days.

"I'm not disturbing you, am I?" She asked rhetorically.

[pitticus]

His head shook from side to side gently. "No." What a funny thing to say. "Why would you be disturbing me? I'm the one walking in on you!" A quiet bit of laughter came from him. Almost as if there was a magnet on the opposite wall tugging at him, he was soon engulfed by the doorframe and had fully entered the room.

"...Whatcha makin'?" His eyes lingered on the indecipherable mechanical chunk Samus had been working so diligently on. He liked to imagine it was some kind of brand new state-of-the-art weapon or highly advanced piece of armor, something along those rows.

[icequeen_aran]

"It was a rhetorical question." She explained while trying to hide an amused smirk and ultimately failed.

"I'm working on an angel magnet." She set down the tool she had been working with and re-examined the unfinished product in front of her, as if she hadn't taken a step back to look at it since started on it. "It's a..." Which probably wasn't far from the truth. "...work in progress." She knew that answer was going to hardly satisfy Pit's boundless curiosity but she was willing to see how far it'd take her. "I've been working on it for the past few days." Especially while she was trying to inconspicuously move blue prints that clearly said 'PLASMA CANNON beta' off the desktop and therefore out of Pit's eye sight.

[pitticus]

"But what is it? And what does it do?" By now he had dawdled very close to the weapon-in-progress indeed. Even while not knowing what in Palutena's name it was, he still felt impressed by her work.

[icequeen_aran]

Samus was still trying to scoot the blue prints off her desk. "...a plasma hand-cannon." It proved a moot idea however as she then decided it would be better explained to Pit by making a gesture. Her hand formed a first, and she held her arm out straight, then raised her other hand--the one securing the blue prints--and brought it to rest over her forearm, as if to steady an imaginary arm cannon. Or hand cannon, as she was implying. "One that might be powered by ammunition it's wielder creates."

[pitticus]

A good enough explanation for Pit. The last sentence caught his ear especially. "The wielder creates it? So it comes from within you."

[icequeen_aran]

"It..." She crinkled her nose for a moment. "Is being designed with one particular person in mind." She seemed to just realize now she had the blue prints in her hand and, if a little awkwardly, returned it to her desk.

Although, now that had Samus wondering if she couldn't try designing a more universal model and she quietly voiced her thoughts aloud, "It makes me wonder if I can't try designing a more universal model..." She flipped the blueprint over so it was on it's blank side and searched across her desk and drawers for a writing utensil. But none seemed to be had...! She could of sworn she just had some...

[pitticus]

"Need a pencil?" His eyes roved the desk too, then took off across the room. A student had left one of their writing utensils behind on a desk. He walked over to examine the object and found it to be a green crayon. On the floor next to it lay a purple one. Solutions abound! He scooped them both up and called out, "Miss Samus! Do you want green or purple to write with," waving the crayons in the air.

in Kat can't draw mechanics part 1

[icequeen_aran]

A pencil would have been far more preferable. "..." Crayons were waxy and imprecise! But barring getting up and tearing apart the supply cabinet, Samus reached for the purple crayon. "This will do for now."

Samus set forth to draw something small and fast in one corner of the page to try and get her point across to the angel.

"Something like that, with the straps around the arms here..."

[pitticus]

Pit craned over to get a better view of her drawing, but it didn't make much sense to him, even when he tipped his head upside-down. Was she drawing a gun? Or was that a cockpit? No no noooo, that couldn't be it. Nobody was talking about cockpits around here! Oh, wait. That was an arm. Now he could see the picture. It only made sense considering she was drawing an arm cannon...

"It looks bendy," he observed. "Like you could move your arm around and the gun would bend, just like it had a joint!" Did Lash ever think of something this ingenious and potentially fun to play with?

[icequeen_aran]

Bendy. Yes. At this point Samus realized the subject of this conversation had primarily been on herself and upon that realization she felt a little awkward. She never really liked being the subject of conversation for very long so she, after thinking about it for a moment, slid the paper towards Pit.

"What would you do?" She knew he was familiar with bows and arrows but Samus suddenly became curious to see what else might ticking in the angel's mind. "If you could design any kind of weapon."

[pitticus]

But the possibilities were endless, he thought! "Any weapon ever, huh?" He took his green crayon and pressed the tip to the paper, face twisted a bit in thoughtfulness.

"I don't know. But it would have to be something lightweight so I don't sacrifice movement. Like...ah!" He began scribbling down his thoughts.

"Actually, I've always wanted to throw a wide curve. How to describe..." He drew the trajectory he was talking about. "Like all you have to do is wave it at your foe- really hard, and the whole force comes lunging out at them. Maybe it should be a sword so you can have two in one close range and far range. I like that!" Scribble scribble.

[icequeen_aran]

"A wide curve...?" Samus tilted her head and waited for him to elaborate on what started out as a vague description but became more clear as he drew it. "Oh! Weapon projection." Her mind immediately set to try and figure out how to possibly make that work with a sword-like weapon without bulky, heavy ammunition--relying on some sort of slashing action that continued to carry the slash through the air, away from the sword at the foe...

Her eye naturally drifted over to the little foe Pit had drawn. It looked... almost sort of like a floating jellyfish? Samus couldn't help but draw comparisons and pointed it out, recalling a bike-washing conversation from long ago. "Is that one of Medusa's monsters?"

[pitticus]

"Yeah. It's a monoeye," he clarified. "Good... eye!!" Pit thought this bridging comment of his was funny so he chuckled a bit and began to add a detailed stick warrior to the picture. "They're everywhere. Well, in the Underworld. They come in fours and hover in the air, but aren't very good at hitting you because their movements are... inaccurate? I think that's right."

He flipped the paper over and began to draw a bigger one for Samus.

[icequeen_aran]

"Probably because they have poor depth perception with that one eye." Samus was thoroughly enjoying watching Pit draw and explain and added a little one of her own in the corner. She tapped the tip of the crayon on the beast's eye.

"The eye also makes for a good target."