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[vermified]

[It's been like five days since this whole mess of a holiday started, so surely that's enough time for people to start going back to normal, right? Right? Right. ....R-right.

He's been noticing some... weird things. Very, very weird things. Certain people are quiet or not talking to each other or both, and there is a lot of noise on the journal

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[slatebreaker]

[ the first respondent sounds vibrantly excited. pleased. charmed. curious. ]

You make...armour?

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[vermified]

[And he is curious about her curiousness. It's strange for someone he doesn't even know to respond to a rather specific shout-out, and-

Why in the world does he think it's cute?]

I do, yes. You're interested in such things?

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[slatebreaker]

Well -- of course. Knights wear armour, don't they?

[ voice ]

[vermified]

Naturally, yes. Otherwise their lives would be in even more constant danger.

[Action]

[crytearsofjoy]

[Winry will be waiting for when Edward is ready to set up those posts and vests. Until then she'll be drawing bats and hearts and bats inside hearts; a little different from her usual doodling, if Edward has seen that before (usually diagrams and ideas for prototypes are the usual).]

[Action]

[vermified]

[He's still waiting on a gun, so out of boredom he happens to glance sidelong at her sketches. ...Hmmmm. That's different.]

...Why bats?

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[crytearsofjoy]

[With a yelp she quickly hides the clipboard against her chest.] N-no reason!

[Action]

[vermified]

[Oho, it's like that, is it?]

What? I can't ask about why you're drawing strange things when you're usually here working?

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[the_soother]

Alright, I'll be there soon.

[It's nice that they live so close to the smithy. One short walk later, Capell pushes open the door of the smithy and steps in.]

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[vermified]

[Edward's at the front desk of the shop, polishing the chestpiece; the rest of it is on a styrofoam mannequin, all polished and pretty and a lovely shade of red. It's roughly the same amount of armor as Sigmund's, but with a slight variation of style; it's a little lighter, and it's been trimmed down a little to make it easier for Capell to move in. Hopefully that'll help without getting him killed.]

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[the_soother]

[Capell takes a moment to admire the armor on the mannequin before addressing his friend.]

This is just the prototype? [It looks pretty spiffy as is from what he can see. Not that he knows anything about armor to judge, but shhhhh.]

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[vermified]

Is it not to your liking? [He can totally make it fancier, dude.]

[Voice]

[derek_bliss]

...I have a 9mm. I'd be willing to hand it over to Winry for a bit, as long as you don't need the bullets, too.

[Voice]

[vermified]

...What's the point in having a gun without bullets?

[Voice]

[derek_bliss]

To study the mechanism, possibly.

...What do you need the bullets for?

[Voice]

[vermified]

We're testing a special sort of armor.

[vermified]

[What a strange name. ...Actually all of that was pretty strange.]

I... have no idea what any of that means.

no sweat |D

[vermified]

[Oh dear. That is a little more complicated than the simple "I have a gun" that he was hoping for.]

My world is likely very primitive by your standards- our most advanced weaponry are simple catapults.