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New Start (Complete)

Dec 13, 2006 19:17

Character(s): Chad Yasutora, anyone who feels like saying hello
Content: Chad steps on board the Hajimaru.
Setting: A small harbor in Panama
Time: Wednesday afternoon.
Warnings: None.

Chad squinted up at the large galliot and wondered for the hundreth time what the hell he'd gotten himself into He'd gone from being a freelance mechanic and occasional ( Read more... )

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gouingmysoul December 16 2006, 00:39:04 UTC

Masaru was glad to finally be docked again. It wasn't that he hated life at sea, he just hated not being able to do anything. Being a boatswain (which he still wasn't sure about, but decided it was best to just do whatever the hell he wanted until someone complained about him not doing his job) turned out to be pretty boring. Maybe he should have applied for a different job, at least something mildly-exciting. Not that anything really happened on the Hajimaru, aside from Grimmjow.

So the street fighter was glad to see a new face when he came up deck. He was a tall man, muscular, seemed interesting enough. Hopefully he wasn't actually a girl. Not that a girl would need that effective of a disguise to get past the captain.

"Hey there!" he cried cheerfully, grinning. "New crew member?" If not, he would probably just kick him off. The guy looked strong, so a small part of the back of Masaru's mind hoped that he was an intruder. He would probably make a great opponent.

amore_emorte December 16 2006, 02:34:27 UTC

Chad snapped back to attention when he heard a voice. Ever a curious person, he'd been checking out the shape and mechanics of the battery the ship had been using to store solar energy. He had been actually pretty impressed, it was a solid piece of equipment, if not a little old, but it would only take a few minutes of tinkering with it to make it a little more efficient. He stood slowly from his crouch and looked at the teen carefully before answering in a monotone voice, "Yes. I am."

Chad looked from his bag to the new person and then back to his bag again. "What am I supposed to do? The captain told me to come here this afternoon, but he didn't say anything else besides that."

gouingmysoul December 17 2006, 05:34:43 UTC

So much for that thought. Oh well, fighting wasn't everything, right? "Well, I wouldn't really know much about the captain's plans," Masaru replied. "He keeps to himself, I guess." He hadn't really seen much of Kai since they set sail. Then again, he hadn't really seen much of Kai before they set sail, either.

"Anyway..." He walked over to the new guy, eliminating the distance between them. "Daimon Masaru, Boatswain! What about you?"

amore_emorte December 17 2006, 19:29:30 UTC

Chad held out a massive hand to shake. "Chad de la Roza. I was an apprentice cooper and now I'm mostly a mechanic. I don't know which job I'll be doing here, probably a mechanic."

He opened his bag and took out a toolbox, opening it to show an array of tools. Plucking out a screwdriver, he began to open up the control panel on the conduit linking the solar panel to the battery. "I may as well work on this then. If we don't know what else I should do. Does your palm pilot need any work done?"

gouingmysoul December 17 2006, 22:20:54 UTC

"Mechanic, huh?" Masaru said. "Well, it's good to have you aboard, Chad!"

Then he started opening up the control panel of the... solar whatever-it-was. Masaru wasn't very good with technology, despite his father's career in computer sciences, but he was pretty sure that the solar-thing powered the ship. "Uh, are you sure you know what you're doing?" he asked, a bit nervously.

amore_emorte December 17 2006, 23:11:37 UTC

"Good to be aboard, Masaru." He answered, giving him a faint smile. "This'll be interesting."

"I'm going to replace this copper wire with a metal polymer hybrid." He said solemnly. He took a spool of wire out of his toolbox and carefully cut it to length, stripping the ends. As he disentangled the one older wire out of the bundle he replaced it with his new piece. "This wire is about 30 times stronger than the copper and it's about 50% more efficient. It's also cheap in Panama because several ships buy too much of it in their home ports and then get rid of the weight, they sell it here for almost nothing." He carefully screwed the panel back on. "Easy fix."