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Ray had a fairly disquieting thought earlier today and wound up spending most of the afternoon in his room. He comes downstairs in search of food and actual conversation, since let's face it, it's a mess up there.

[Summary: Martin Miggs comes around and talks to Ray about food. Because, well- FOOD. But not pixy sticks.

Scribble the baby raptor comes by with her toy! There is tug-of-war and then the rope is torn to bits, so Ray deploys one of his flashyballs and gets himself some protection against pointy bits, and then there is feeding time for the ickle Mesozoic deathbringer.

Lysistrata also pops up, and there is some discussion of things like rings and faked deaths and Spartan idiocy, and on the idiocy theme Ray reveals that he's currently having an envy/jealousy problem, and can't quite seem to get over it. Even though he knows it's stupid.

Scary scary Tim Hunter comes by to ask about borrowing a PKE meter. Ray is somewhat reluctant at first, but when he hears what happened to Ace, he hands the meter over without a quibble.

Hurley comes around to ask Ray what he knows about freakydeaky numbers and good / bad fortune combinations. Ray adds another item to his research queue as a result.

And finally, Akito turns up, and there is discussion of ID cards and communications gaps before Ray boggles a little at the name of Nergal Heavy Industries. Give the man a break, he's been studying Sumerian for the past week...]

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"Bonnie has her blowtorch here and... she's ready to start work whenever. She... taught Tony to weld last night," he mentioned with a little curiosity.

"Tony?" Ray asked curiously. "He a friend of yours? I don't think I recognize the name... anyway, I'm ready when you guys are. It'll get my mind off things, for sure."

"Tony is... technically a friend of Karr's, but it seems he's gotten on with the rest of us as well. He needed a distraction, Bonnie said. So she taught him to weld. And... really, we're quite well ready any time."

Ray nodded. "All right, then," he said, coming away from the table. "Lead the way."

Kitt made to turn - but then he caught sight of Bonnie and Karr talking rather closely. He paused, and he glanced back at Ray before... trying not to grin too much.

"...Perhaps I should amend that. I'm ready. It appears Bonnie and Karr have other ideas."

Ray blinked, turning in the same general direction. "Oh," he said. "Well, then. Far be it from me to intrude on a personal moment or twelve."

"They'll be upstairs before too long," Kitt chuckled. "But if I know the schematics I can relate them to Bonnie when she comes back down."

"Not a problem, then," Ray said. He fished his PDA out of one of his pockets and turned away for several moments, eventually returning with the thing switched on. A few pokes of the stylus later, and the schematics were laid out on the device's screen. "Not as detailed as I'd like, but this is only the first draft. Do you need a printout, or will this be enough for you to go on?"

Kitt looked at the screen and then, holding up a finger, he quickly went for his sketchbook. There, he began to sketch out what he saw, as efficiently as a printer. "All right... It does look easily enough to replicate... She should be able to finish most of the actual assembly tomorrow."

((And with that, I must pause.))

(( Fair enough. It's near 2 Am for me, and I should really sleep anyway. ))