Voice; Looking for a few good arrows

[arrowminded]

Anyone here good at fletching and tech feel like taking on a little project? I can make these things myself but I'm kinda used to more of a... custom deal.

Show me what you can do and I'll show you what I'm looking for.

Comments

voice

[agirlonfire]

I know how to make arrows.

[ she's not sure what he means by "tech" so she just ignores that bit. ]

voice

[arrowminded]

That's a good start. What types?

voice

[agirlonfire]

...the kind you hunt things with. It would depend on what types of wood are available.

voice

[arrowminded]

Uh... huh. Ever made a footed arrow?

voice

[agirlonfire]

Takes a little longer, but I can do it. Yeah.

[knightoflight]

What's 'fletching'?

voice

[arrowminded]

It's a sacred ritual where the greatest weapons known to man are made.

[knightoflight]

Greatest weapons? As in the most destructive?

[If so, your kind has a strange thing to make rituals about.]

Do you know how to do this 'fletching'?

voice

[arrowminded]

As in the most awesome.

I can design 'em, and make prototypes, but they're nothing like what I'm used to from back home. Also, resources are a little tighter here.

[knightoflight]

[He can't help but laugh.] Most awesome. Indeed.

I'm afraid I don't think I can help but I'd love to see some of these weapons you make.

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

That sounds neat. I mean, not that I've done it, but I've figured out every other stupid thing I've tried to make.

voice

[arrowminded]

Yeah? What kind of things?

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

Well, this one time I made a dart gun out of a paint gun and a toy car and some other junk. And darts, like, from the game. It worked better once I started dipping the tips in the poison you can pull out of rad scorpion tails, but it was still pretty neat. Mechanism-wise, I mean. Kind of a crossbow with pistol action. Or maybe it's the other way around...

But what about a Railway Rifle Indrani hmmm?

[arrowminded]

Okay, yeah. You're on my team. Congratulations.

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

[Indrani's not good at teams, but she doesn't feel like arguing.]

Sometime I'll tell you about my Rock-it Launcher. Or the deathclaw gauntlet, for when hands are too boring.

[So she and Moira might have come up with marketing slogans over a Nuk-a-cola one afternoon.]

[Voice]

[nodavinci]

Bag of tricks running low?

[Voice]

[arrowminded]

I'm actually contemplating using sharpened sticks again. That should tell you something.

[Voice]

[nodavinci]

That you've returned to your wild-man roots, and should be expected to start wrestling bears barehanded in the next week or two. Can I sell tickets?

[Beat.]

Come by tomorrow. We can debate the meaning of overkill.

[Voice]

[arrowminded]

80-20 on the profits.

I'll be there.

[Voice]

[nodavinci]

You're killing me here.

[The feed dies, then picks up again, with a scrolling signature along the bottom of the screen that indicates channel encryption.]

Speaking of joint ventures, there's a kid you should look in on. Goes by Kurt. Apparently, he's actually paid our jackbooted overlords a house call. I'm sending you his comm ident...now.

[And there it is.]

video.

[fotlenke]

[ An excited noise and a thrilled Vanir pops up on the screen. ]

An archer!

voice

[arrowminded]

Huh. Usually it doesn't get that kind of reaction.

... But I'll take it.

video.

[fotlenke]

[ She clasps her hands together. ]

I will make you the greatest bow and arrows arrows to be seen outside Grandfather's war room. You only have to ask and I shall grant any request you may have.

voice

[arrowminded]

Um. Just some arrows would be fine. [Can you actually hear blushing?]

voice

[fotlenke]

What kind.