requiresssacrifice: Rex is doing something with his hands (hands)
Dr. Rex Lewis ([personal profile] requiresssacrifice) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2012-01-16 09:51 pm

taking care of business

Who: Rex Lewis & Open
What: Getting business in order.
Where: Various.
When: Various times/dates this week.
Notes: Rex is due for some encounters with Alter Ego, Tadhg, Ana, Will...? ANYONE ELSE IS WELCOME, TOO. Just go ahead and start a thread at any location and any date this week, and I'll drop Rex in.
Warnings: None yet.


Now that the move from Griss Twist (which he will never, ever set foot in again... except, perhaps, to pass through to another location) to a new, two-bedroom apartment-- a proper apartment-- in Flyside has been completed, Rex is settling back into a routine. Work, work, more work, the occasional contract job, partner, sister, cat, research project... On the one hand, it's exhilarating, being busy again after so much idle time wasted in a cosmic prison, but he's finding it difficult to juggle his side projects with his obligations. For nearly two years, he suffered from an abundance of free time, and now he can hardly find enough hours in each day. Time management, it seems, is a skill that can indeed atrophy with disuse. Still, he manages as best he can.

With long hours, inconsistently scheduled shifts and only two days off each week, it doesn't leave much time for his research project into magic-- really, he can only devote one day a week to it, and beyond that, he just has to find gaps in his schedule where he can and work from there. As a result, it's moving slowly-- not that he expects expediency, not with how very little he knows about magic. It's still largely academic at this point, learning magical theories and hypothesizing, brainstorming. By now, Rex is no stranger to the University library. From time to time, there are minor experiments, generally conducted in his modest workshop in Brock Marsh, which he managed to find at a reasonable rate.

When he has a contract job for his budding side-business, Rex has to shift his other projects and commitments to the side and focus on hammering out whatever needs to be done-- repairs and upgrades to technology, mostly. Hardly stimulating, but whatever it takes to build up his reputation. It can be frustrating, trying to juggle these unexpected projects with his routine, but he's finding his groove now.

When he can, Rex shops around, trying to create something respectable out of his workshop. Proper equipment being as rare and expensive as it is, however, he's learning the fine art of, well, scavenging for discarded components and bargain-hunting. Sometimes, he simply explores... and winds up in strange or awkward places. Baedal's full of surprises like that.

Luckily, Rex doesn't have enough of a personal life to sacrifice at the altar of science. Ana and Iago aren't needy sorts, and Rex is accustomed to getting by on minimal sleep, so they find time with each other where they can, but it doesn't seem to be causing any sort of strain when Rex is occupied with his experiments and work for days on end.

Then again, if it is, he's hardly perceptive enough when it comes to the feelings of others to notice.

Depending on when one finds him and what he's doing, Rex can be found in varying states of dress and exhaustion. Bags under his eyes aren't an uncommon sight. When he's out making contacts, he's professional and polished, hair slicked back as he wears a suit. When he's scavenging or bargain-hunting, he's dressed down in jeans and tees, wearing hoodies for warmth, leaving his hair unruly, looking more the part of a poor college student than a brilliant engineer-slash-weapons-developer with megalomaniacal tendencies. Sometimes he's wearing scrubs, which are just a touch too big and make him look smaller than he really is. Work days. Which are practically every day.

Well, at least he can't complain about boredom now.
phreak: (can't get better than this)

[personal profile] phreak 2012-01-17 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
In one of the smaller scrap technology stores that specializes in unknown objects that appear through mirrors or the fog, Rex might come across a young woman chatting with the owner about arranging a bit of employment. It seems that provided she can keep her promise of being able to identify just about anything that comes into her hands, she's got the job.

To test it, the owner, Pwe'kek, calls out to Rex and asks him to bring over any three things in the store.
phreak: (can't get better than this)

[personal profile] phreak 2012-01-19 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
"If I do well, I get a gold star," Alter says, stretching and cracking her fingers before starting to identify the various items. She seems to be work through a mix of touch, intuition, and a deft hand with a tiny screwdriver. After a moment of fussing and some gently whisper encouragement (or general tech-nerd mumbling) the insect's wings quiver and she nods before putting it aside and starting in on the other two.

"Got it. It's a piece of a hiveminded AI thing, search and recon, you don't wanna meet the rest of the family. The stickthing is weird as hell and won't do a damn bit of good until you've got the right sort of power," she says, looking it over but not entirely sure how to make it do whatever it's been built to do. "And the last one blows hot air."
picksflight: (Welp.)

[personal profile] picksflight 2012-01-17 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Doyle was a fan of scavenging himself. Not for anything in particular or for any specific project, but more for the joy of occasionally finding a jewel in a heap of garbage. He never really owned many things or had much money at his disposal as a kid, so it's how he'd gotten his pocket change before he could find jobs -- or sometimes inbetween trying to find them. People threw away all kinds of things that were still good or just needed a few tweaks to them to be good as new.

When he was a kid he used to tinker around with spare parts, make inventions that were large, obnoxious and didn't really do anything useful. But it was a hobby, and it'd taught him a few things about how mechanical pieces worked. He could repair his own watches, fix his own bikes, usually with parts he could find laying around. It was about the only useful skill set he'd ever gotten out of his childhood exploits.

But he continued to explore none the less, looking for odds and ends. He knew his free ride wouldn't last for long, and it'd be good to find a way to get some pocket change to rent a place for as long as he could afford it. Maybe he'd even find a real job.

It wasn't a complete surprise to find someone else wading through the garbage, but it was a bit of one to find someone that looked relatively clean and well-dressed, even if he was a little visibly haggard. Dressed casually, but his clothes fit well enough that he was a dead giveaway for someone who wasn't homeless or a beggar. A college student is what he would've guessed back home. Those kids ate worse than he did most days.

"Hey," He offered a hand up in brief greeting along with a toothy smile. "Looking for anything specific or just looking?"
goodsoldier: (pb || rocket eyebrows time)

potentially the shortest thread ever but doin' it anyway

[personal profile] goodsoldier 2012-01-18 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
The time Arthur had come to let Jason out of the arrival room, he'd been dressed casually. For Arthur, anyway. So it wasn't a three piece suit, not that it matters; to Jason, Arthur emitted a suit-ness regardless of what he was wearing. So spotting Rex out making contacts in his suit, perhaps he can be forgiven for what happens next.

Or maybe not, it's Rex.

He by no means knew Arthur well enough to wander up from behind until they were side by side, then bump him with his shoulder, but he's doing it anyway because Arthur also emitted a certain dignity that Jason finds irresistibly troll-worthy. And admittedly, even if he'd known it wasn't Arthur, he might have done it anyway. "Don't I owe you a drink?"

So enjoy this six foot, kind of burly, leather jacket-wearing dude all casually talking at you, Rex.
goodsoldier: (pb || I'm glad you asked!)

at least they won't be stuck in the shower this time. (unsure)

[personal profile] goodsoldier 2012-01-18 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
That's different. That's very different. But Jason plays it dumb, because this is sort of interesting: either Arthur is fucking with him because Jason trolled him, or this is just someone who looks like Arthur but isn't.

"I guess I'm not very memorable. But surely the crowbar rings a bell?"

He says that a little loudly, for the sake of public entertainment. He does not, however, actually have the crowbar with him.
gifted_hands: (Horse 02)

Echomire

[personal profile] gifted_hands 2012-01-18 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Tadhg paces through the worn, unearthly statues of Monster Garden, the gray of his stallion-form's coat looking not unlike shadowed stone itself. His ears flick back and forth and his nostrils flare as he searches for sound or scent that might indicate the approach of the man he's supposed to meet here.

No sign yet.

He pauses at last by a moss-encrusted fountain, their designated meeting place. The horse makes a circuit around the fountain, head swinging to and fro, taking in every detail of his surroundings that he can. Only then does the horse rear, shimmer and shrink into a dark-haired, jeans-clad man.

Tadhg shivers slightly, and not from the dank chill in the air. There is power here, power that makes the back of his neck prickle.
charismatic: (serious face)

[personal profile] charismatic 2012-01-18 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Will's excited. This is the first real flying machine he's been slated to test, even if it doesn't look like anything he's ever seen before. If anything, it looks vaguely reptilian, with gauzy, insubstantial wings shimmering on its sides. He's not sure how it's supposed to fly, actually, but he's looking forward to trying. The enclosed cockpit makes him a little nervous, because it'll be harder to get out when something inevitably goes wrong, but he tests the exit latch a few times before the test run really gets under way.

It does take off, surprisingly smoothly, and that's the last thing that goes right. After fifteen minutes of trying to level out the spiraling, smooth the jerky acceleration, and overall questionable handling, the fairy crocodile starts an un-asked-for descent, nose-first. Luckily, the emergency latch is still working fine and, somewhat more surprisingly, the makeshift parachute glider Will's wearing works okay too. The siren hasn't gone off, so no one's running, and Will watches the machine crash into the earth with a puff of dirt and metal shrieking while he floats down after it. Well, so much for that.
charismatic: (face)

[personal profile] charismatic 2012-01-22 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Will lands, competently if not necessarily gracefully, and it takes him a moment to reply because the scientists are already swarming over the metal corpse to do their postmortem. He disentangles himself from the parachute glider and pulls his helmet off, letting it dangle from its tether as he steps out of the way. “Uh, yeah,” he says, looking at the guy who's asking. Looks like a scruffy kid. He edges further out of the way of the excited chattering going on behind him. “Too bad it didn't work,” he says, mostly to himself, glancing at the wreck over his shoulder.
charismatic: (broing it up)

[personal profile] charismatic 2012-01-27 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
He most certainly did not,” someone behind him says, and Will laughs. He can't tell who said it, because no one's bothering to look at them, but someone must have sensitive ears.

“No,” he confirms. “I'm just hired to try driving these things.”
charismatic: (possibly trolling)

yours is still better than mine :V

[personal profile] charismatic 2012-02-07 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
“Not that I've seen,” Will says agreeably, shifting a little farther away from the scientists in case one of them takes offense at that. “Are you looking to start up your own workshop?”
studious_snake: (Thinking)

[personal profile] studious_snake 2012-01-19 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
In Tinker's Lot, Jay had found an unused space and begun to dig out his own little nook to work on and test his ideas. Currently, he was building something that looked like a steampunk version of the rat traps from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that was just the right size to catch a pigeon. He was completely wrapped up in this project, and didn't really seem to notice the world around him.
studious_snake: (Smile)

[personal profile] studious_snake 2012-01-22 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," he said, smiling back before glancing down at his project. "I'm thinking of scrapping the legs for wheels, but I'm not sure. I'm also trying to figure out how many volts a crystal has."

As of yet, he'd made the machine, but hadn't quite finished the part the crystals would wire into, not knowing how many he should build it to hold. His plan was to estimate their voltage by getting a lightbulb, taking two wires and attaching them to said light bulb and seeing how bright the light bulb lit. From that, he'd try to estimate how many crystals it would take to power a pigeon trap.

"I'm going to need a light bulb."
studious_snake: (Annoyed)

[personal profile] studious_snake 2012-01-26 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh...no." If he had had one, it would save on buying store rats...although he'd probably still buy them anyway. "Outside, and I'm not completely sure of the terrain, which is why I'm having trouble with the wheel versus legs debate. They're going after pigeons, though, so speed might be good because of the flight thing, but on the other hand, pigeons don't usually fly away, which is why they're so annoying. They just stare at you, creepily, and walk away all slow and confident like--"

Jay paused, realizing that his rant, combined with the increasing anger in his voice as he talked about pigeons was a bit odd, so he cut himself off, looking embarrassed at the moment, trying to think of something to say that would diffuse the weirdness.

"And they look a lot like tiny hawks, which are vicious murderous bastards."

Okay, that wasn't it. He then settled for sitting there, looking awkward.
studious_snake: (Thinking)

[personal profile] studious_snake 2012-01-26 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh...wings? Beaks? General body structure?" Okay, they were pretty different. Hawks were far more terrifying, where in comparison, pigeons only bothered him. "I mean, they're not as bad as hawks, I'll give them that. They won't fly up into a tree and eat your entrails out."

As hawks did to humans all the time. All right, so he did see the flaw in that statement, too. Jay cleared his throat.

"But yeah, I should do that. Stick with the legs, I guess, because they can travel over any type of terrain...unfortunately I'm not going to be able to make this as quiet as a cat, but maybe I can make it able to jump. It'll probably need two more legs to have the balance to land properly."
studious_snake: (Looking)

[personal profile] studious_snake 2012-02-05 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Jay rolled his eyes. "I had a bad experience with hawks when I was younger, and all bird flapping sounds the same when you get down to it. And no, I don't identify with rodents at all, but last I checked, they're not the only things hawks eat."

Because naturally, it made perfect sense to be concerned over the other things hawks may eat while Jay was quite clearly human, which definitely was not on any hawk's menu. Despite the fact that Rex wasn't being serious with his suggestions, Jay went back to looking at his device thoughtfully.

"I don't have any use for live pigeons. I could do venomous darts, though."

Because that wasn't excessive for dealing with pigeons at all.
studious_snake: (Default)

[personal profile] studious_snake 2012-02-06 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Jay shrugged. "I can probably get venomous darts, so why not? And aside from train stuff, I don't have anything else to do with my time, so again...why not?"
seeyaduke: (Come're Rex)

[personal profile] seeyaduke 2012-01-19 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ana is meeting her brother for lunch. She's loving the freedom of the city, and at the moment she's fitting in rather well. Of course, things are always changeable, but at the moment she's happy. There's something heady about freedom after so long in various prisons, and it's very nice to be her own boss. Of course, that will come with unexpected pitfalls eventually, it always does.

Arriving at the Italian restaurant, Ana looks well. Despite the way her eyes move over the area she's relaxed (somethings where just too far ingrained in her to ever completely go on vacation) and clearly happy to see her little brother in an area that doesn't have Barges, a warden or a concern that they were going to once again seem a sudden call to return to the ship.
The honeymoon phase is still in effect for her, but then again she's always been far more happy-go-lucky than he has.

Speaking of happy-go-lucky, Ana is carrying a large bag over her wrist. A large loaf of bread is sticking out of it, but mostly it's dominated by a large, elaborately wrapped present, complete with red swirly bows. Ever since she was a little girl, Ana had loved giving presents, and wrapping them was one of her favorite things about it.
seeyaduke: (A happy family)

[personal profile] seeyaduke 2012-01-22 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn right he stands to greet her, and as he does so, Ana wrapped her hand around his neck and gave him a quick hug. Now that they were in the 'real' world, Ana was going to be doing their relationship more like the one they'd had been before there'd been faked deaths and evil organizations and post-death barges. It was nice to have a bit of normalcy.

"I know it's past it, but this is a housewarming present. I saw it in the bazaar and I couldn't help but think of you." Sitting in the chair across from him, Ana watched him for a moment, seeing how he looked. After all, it was her job to look out for him.

But that could be done while she handed over the package and the sign that it contained. It was wood, and had been carved in fancy calligraphy. The words on it? 'The Cobra's Nest' of course, complete with a snake on it.