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[arkadia]

Operation Goldilocks, as Adelle named it for reasons that are entirely unclear to Eden, is well into the planning stages back in Daybreak Town, so Eden's looking ahead to what comes after -- and in this case, that means he's spent the last thirty minutes meandering around the garage.

A little bit of wandering takes him to one corner of the garage, to a locked door behind a few boxes. All it takes is a tap of his keyblade to unlock it, and the door opens to reveal a workshop of sorts, with large tables, a few pieces of heavy equipment, and lots of boxes of parts, most of which seem to have come from robots of some description.

Catch him exploring the workshop, or back in the bar an hour or so later, sipping on a milkshake.

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[iprotectyou]

Oh, a milkshake! That's an awesome idea. Baze makes a detour to the counter to pick one of the treats--strawberry, actually--and then approaches Eden with a smile.

"Hoi, Eden! May the Force of others be with you!" Baze says, indulging in his ice cream with a long pull on a thick straw. "What have you been up to lately?"

[arkadia]

"Planning on sneaking into Ursus and stealing their combat data; discovered a robot workshop down in the garage," Eden chirps. Beat. "How're you?"

[iprotectyou]

That's a lot packed into one sentence! Baze boggles for a bit.

"Wait, back up. A droid workshop here?" he says, lighting up with a grin. "Well, up you get, lazybones; show me."

He doesn't lay a hand on Eden to help him up like Baze would do with Chirrut, but the large man will if the boy looks like he wants the help... Or takes too long.

"What's this about stealing combat data? What good will that do?"

[arkadia]

Eden makes a series of deeply anguished, protesting noises along the lines of having just got his milkshake, but he does stand up, with his milkshake in hand. He sips it mournfully.

"I can input it into training robots to make them mimic the behaviour of Heartless. Ursus has the most extensive data in town, after all," he says. "And then everyone at Leopardos will have things to train against. Chirithy disapproves, but it's not like there's a rule against theft."

[iprotectyou]

"Milkshakes are awesome, aren't they?" Baze says, cheerfully ignoring any deeply anguished, protesting noises. "Jay introduced them to us. I bet Bodhi would love them. Have you met either of those people?"

Baze whistles at the description of Eden's plans. "Well, that's fantastic. How do they collect this data?"

[arkadia]

"They are the wisest of all drinks," Eden says, with a voice heavy with the deepest sorrow. "I don't know any Jays or Bodhis. I would remember anyone who liked milkshakes."

After all, people who like milkshakes are twenty percent more likely to steal Eden's.

"Their Chirithys record them, and then the data's disseminated to their Texts. Leopardos, Unicornis, and Vulpes all share data, but Ursus and Anguis keep theirs to themselves."

[iprotectyou]

"You should meet them," Baze says, beaming as he starts leading the way to the garage. "I bet they'd get a kick out of you."

Baze does, so why wouldn't everyone else?

"Why don't Ursus and Anguis share their data? You'd think they'd know how to do that; most people learn how to share when they're children," he says, shaking his head. "Then again, they have all lost their memories... But that still doesn't explain it."

[arkadia]

"Well, you know. Ursus is really competitive and doesn't want to help anyone else out. Anguis is weird, and nobody from it even really talks to anybody from outside it," Eden says, meandering along after Baze.

[iprotectyou]

Baze sucks on his straw, humming pensively. "That is weird," he says, and blows bubbles in his ice cream. He may be in his fifties, but no one ever said he had to be mature. "Both of those things are weird. I know you mentioned rankings, but what are those good for, again?"

The larger man takes the elevator down to the garage. "Okay, so, where is this workshop of yours?"

[runningred]

A floating drone peeks in around the door, scanning with interest. It chirps excitedly at Eden before vanishing back out to the garage.

A few minutes later a man appears, wiping grease of his hands, the drone perched on his shoulder. "Hello?"

[arkadia]

"Hi!" Eden says, without stopping what he's doing -- which, at the moment, is investigating a box of parts. "Come in. Mind the dust."

[runningred]

"Ringo wasn't kidding! You've got quite a stash here. Are you open to trade?"

[arkadia]

"Naaaah," Eden says, happily, drawing out the word about as long as he can. "Help yourself to whatever you like. I just found this place and unlocked the door, that's all."

[runningred]

Ringo makes a sound that can only be defined as Yippee! and vanished into the piles of stuff. Jay chuckles and shakes his head. "You'll never get him out now!"

He offers Eden a hand. "I'm Jay. I keep the workshop over there." He gestures back towards the lift.

[arkadia]

"Your name is known to me," Eden says, his voice suddenly dropping into a deadly serious, even ominous tone. Then, full of puppyish good cheer again: "Someone told me you introduced them to milkshakes!"

He shakes Jay's hand, very enthusiastically, then jabs a thumb at himself. "I'm Eden!"

[runningred]

Jay raises an eyebrow at that, shaking his head when Eden jokes. "Chirrut or Baze? Baze, right?"

"Nice to meet you, Eden. Are you a techie?" He gestures to the roomful of stuff.

[arkadia]

"Baze," Eden confirms. He glances back at the room, and gives a quick shrug. "I guess I must be. I know how to use all this stuff, at any rate, so that's sort of like being a techie, right?"

[childofrebellion]

Cassian's down in the garage when he hears something and follows the sounds to the workshop, his hand on his blaster when he opens the door,

"Eden? What's in here"

[arkadia]

"Dust, robot parts, dusty robot parts," Eden rattles off. "Should be useful. There's loads of stuff in here."

[childofrebellion]

He picks up something and laughs in surprise,

"You're right. I've never seen one of these in parts. Its from a better quality serving droid."

[arkadia]

"See? So useful. Now you can build a better quality serving droid! Maybe."

[childofrebellion]

"No, but it can be used somewhere else," There's so much including pieces he's never seen before.

[arkadia]

"Like giving yourself robot limbs," Eden says, very gravely. "I understand."

[childofrebellion]

"Yes, if you wanted to."

[arkadia]

"Robot limbs wouldn't suit me, but I support you getting them."