Karkat Vantas (
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milliways_bar2012-05-29 10:04 am
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Karkat is one of the first to discover Cubefall this year; it begins just as he's beginning to get sleepy, nocturnalways. At first he is diverted by the toys; trolls have a natural instinct and a cultural obsession with construction from a very early age, and some of these are new even to him. Eventually, though, he visits the bar for a refreshment, and is faced with a choice
It doesn't take very long.
The main thing he is working on is a huge clockwork mechanism that takes up most of a table, but he keeps zooming out around the perimeter to experiment with different gadgets that mark twelve equidistant locations around the edge. If you thought it was a clock, you would be... closer to right than wrong. But you would still be wrong.
Feel free to kibbitz. For once, he will probably not take it the wrong way.
He is, moreso than ever before, signed in as chirurGeneralist.
Pony images swiped from fanart--originals are here and here.

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"That's pretty elaborate."
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"IT NEEDS AN ESCAPEMENT." The robot doesn't look up, because he is busy rummaging through a chest of weird science toys for what he wants. He comes up with a small, dense ball of white plastic, hundreds of tiny little connectors all piled up on each other in intricate ways.
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"Clockwork isn't one of the things I've looked into a lot. I usually end up building a small fort or something like that."
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Or not very, very tiny.
"YOU ARE LOOKING AT SEVERAL HOURS OF QUIET ENJOYMENT COMPRESSED INTO A FIFTEEN MINUTE BURST, I AM BEING EFFICIENT AS HELL WITH MY HOBBIES TODAY. IT IS PROBABLY BEING THIS AWESOME ROBOT THAT DOES IT."
He toss the Hoberman sphere up into the rafters; when it floats back down, it has expanded to a skeletal sphere a couple yards across.
(He is not very good at mechanisms, really, but the challenge is keeping him occupied.)
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"A robot with superspeed is pretty awesome."
As opposed to fangs for the backup power system that runs on blood.
"Are your eyes different than normal? I have extra colors today."
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He clicks through a variety of visual options. "HOLY SHIT."
Wow, that is some... impressively obscene graffiti only visible in the ultraviolet wavelengths someone scrawled all over that wall.
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Well, and a black and white intensity level that ignores most of the wavelength issue.
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Even if it leaves her wanting a bucket of soapy water and paranoid about what is actually on that white wall for a while.
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Karkat forcibly disengages the UV-vision and looks back down at his machine. "YEAH SO THIS IS A PRETTY FUCKING AMAZING HOLIDAY."
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Which is too bad.
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AMECHNICANO...
FUCK THIS SENTENCE, A PLANET OF SPONTANEOUSLY EVOLVING ROBOTS, WHICH SEEMS FUCKING MORONIC BEYOND BELIEF, WHAT IS THAT BULLSHITERY ALL ABOUT?"
While he talks Karkat peers at something up in the rafters, then kneels under the table to rapidly swap out a couple of gears driving the zoetrope/pinhole camera/project in the 9th position.
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Or even most of them.
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Fortunately, he's a tin can right now. Robots don't have feelings.
On the other hand, robots move and think fast. He blurs around the table and jams on the brakes up close. "MY ROBO-PROCESSERS OR WHATEVER THE HELL ARE REPORTING A NINETY-NINE POINT A SHITLOAD OF NINES PERCENT CHANCE THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY SOME ASSHOLE TEMPORARILY SHAPED LIKE A TROLL.
Y/N?"
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Whoops that is suddenly a lot more awkward of a thing to say.
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"BUT OF COURSE YOU ARE A BRINESUCKER, THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE WHAT I WAS TELLING LUNA THE OTHER DAY."
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Shut up Karkat everyone knows you would get involved.
"YES, THAT LUNA, WE HAD A MULTICULTURAL EXCHANGE ON WHY I HAVE A RAGING BEEFGRUB IN MY CRAW ABOUT CASTE SYSTEMS EVEN WHEN THEY ARE REPORTEDLY BENIGN." If by multicultural exchange you mean 'window-rattling screaming match,' which he pretty much always does.
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Houston, we have a facepalm.
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"ANYWAY THINGS GOT PRETTY TENSE, BUT IT IS ALL TAKEN CARE OF NOW. THE DARK MAJYKKS OF PONY FRIENDSHIP CLAIMS ANOTHER PAIR OF VICTIMS."
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