Multi-pup post

[imthepilot]

There's a few people working down in the garage today.

Bodhi and Galen are fixing up an Epsilon-class Imperial cargo shuttle. Floating near by is a repainted Parrot Droid, fetching and carrying tools on Bodhi's command. There's still some glitches and the thing stutters and drops things from time to time. Watch your toes!

Not far away, Jay has the parts of a personal field generator spread out on a table, cleaning the parts before he starts to put them back together. Every now and then, he calls over to Galen for help to confirm he has the wiring right.

{ooc: All three are open for tagging, let us know who you're after.}

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[galen_erso]

Galen is, at the moment, testing some hydraulic part for the shuttle's wing hinges. There is grease on his nose, some green gunk on his fingers, and he looks happy as a clam.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi calls from inside the ship. "I'm getting green lights in here. Looks good. Let me know when you're ready and I'll try for an unfold."

The droid chitters at Galen, dropping a tool on the panel next to Galen's foot.

[galen_erso]

"One more test here!" Galen shouts back, picking up the tool and measuring the next repeat of his action quite precisely with it.

[imthepilot]

The droid chitters again and flies over to Bodhi, bouncing off the plexiglass. Bodhi shakes his head. "You still need work!"

[galen_erso]

"She came with the ship, right?" Galen calls over to Bodhi.

He finds the droid kind of cute, if a tiny bit over-eager.

[imthepilot]

"I found her stuffed in a locker." Bodhi watches the droid tumble back. "I think she glitched out and the pilot couldn't be bothered fixing her. Not sure I did a better job."

[galen_erso]

"She brought the right thing," Galen says. "Perhaps the drones can help her?"

[imthepilot]

"That's a start at least." He runs another diagnostic and nods. "They look like they're busy with Jay. We'll ask them after."

Jay for his part is busy arguing with Lock about the field size adjustment mechanism. George however, floats over to see what they're up to.

[galen_erso]

Galen tests the hydraulic hinge controller again, then gives a double thumbs-up to Bodhi. "Test away!" he calls out. "Do you know what her designation is?"

[imthepilot]

"Give me clearance, just in case." Bodhi waits till his husband and the bumbling droid were well clear, George following them.

He fires up the controls, the wings creaking loudly as they contract and fold upwards. Then stop with a shuddering groan.

"Stars!" He swears, and lowers them again. "Right rear actiuator's jammed." That wing sticks where it is.

He comes out to climb up on top, trying to fan away smoke as the actuator burns out. "We're going to have to rip that out and rebuild it."

The droid chitters again and lands perched on Bodhi's back, looking over his shoulder. Bodhi turns to read the lettering. "ES-0R." He shrugs to Galen. "Esther?"

[galen_erso]

"Okay, we're going to make the new actuator, then, Esther and I?" Galen suggests when the smoke clears. Stars, that looked nasty for a moment. "And George, can you try and ask Esther what ails her?"

[imthepilot]

Bodhi grabs a tool kit so he and Galen can start removing the busted actuator.

George nods and beeps a happy positive but before he had strike up a conversation with Esther, the parrot droid zooms over towards Jay's workshop.

There's muffled shouts and Esther comes zooming back with a small fire extinguisher. Which she drops on Bodhi's foot.

Jedha has no native language so the locals uses swearwords from all over the galaxy. Some of the best Bodhi uses now.

[galen_erso]

"You stole that!" Galen tells her, shocked. "That's not nice. Not nice at all, Esther."

He hurries over to Bodhi. "Are you hurt? Stuff dropping on your toes isn't trivial. Lyra once broke her little toe because she dropped a candle on it, in our apartment on Coruscant. A candle!"

[darkeryetdarker]

Gaster's always felt most at home in a lab or workshop.

He can't lend a hand in this state, but he's happy to watch and learn about new technology, and offer insight if needed.

(ooc: open to any of the three. :))

[runningred]

Jay activates the field generator and yells as it knocks all the tools off his bench. Growling at his own stupidity, he turns it off and steps back from everything to try again.

He spots the figure lingering between the workshops and nods. "Hey mate. Can you do me a favour and monitor how far off the ground my feet land?"

[darkeryetdarker]

Gaster jumps a bit at the force of the generator, but composes himself and nods.

[runningred]

Jay flexes a few times before lunching himself up in a jump. He activates the shield at the top of his arc, landing with his feet half a metre off the ground. He floats down slowly, his weight easing down like someone landing on a large balloon.

"Hey. That's cool!"

[darkeryetdarker]

Gaster's eyes widen, and he breaks into a smile. Getting out his laptop, he begins to type,


[That's incredible! You were at least a meter in the air!}

[runningred]

"Nice!" Jay grins. "I wonder if the lift is relative to the velocity of the fall." Without taking too much time to think about it, he runs at the nearest bench, jumping from there to the top of a car and up onto the RV that forms one wall of his workshop. With no fear (or self preservation,) he launches himself off the top of the RV.

He aims for the ground. And misses, by about the same distance.

[darkeryetdarker]

Gaster gasps silently. He rushes over, to see if he's alright.

[runningred]

Jay lands slowly, laughing. "Oh, I like this! Definitely going to come in handy."

[darkeryetdarker]

He doesn't seem to be too badly hurt, so Gaster pulls over his laptop and begins typing.

[What is that device? Is that what was making you hover like that?]

[runningred]

"It's a personal field generator." he points to where Galen and Bodhi are working on a small starship. "It's from their world. It's incredibly useful."

[darkeryetdarker]

Gaster inspects the device more closely.

[How interesting. So it generates a barrier of sorts?]

[runningred]

"Seems like. It creates an inertia field of some kind." Jay does a few test bounces, trying to work out at what velocity it kicks in.