Fifty Shades of Gunmetal

[tempus_fixit]

[Lucca's been especially scarce during the stinkbomb incident, content to work outdoors where the smell was... lessened. But now she has a reason to be searching the city and the rooms of the Deeps in particular.]

[Video]

My books are missing! The entire library is GONE! Ohhh gosh, if I don't find them soon... If, if anyone finds any books on robotics, circuitry, solid-state engineering or magiteck, can you bring 'em over? Please!?

[She sounds a little panicked. Everyone has their mote of security, and it seems that was hers. The books are scattered EVERYWHERE, tucked in planters, up trees, in bathrooms, being held by statues, in decorative tureens in the palace district, in coiled ropes down near the docks...]

[Also of note the drier texts are sometimes paired up with some interesting companions. Things bearing titles like "Tangled Pistons of Passion", and "Lust and Superfluids: No Resistance to the Heat." Oh my.]

Comments

[tempus_fixit]

[She gasps a little.]

I, uh-- I think that might be mine! It's ah... something I picked up when I was looking around int he marketplace and of COURSE I was curious, I mean who wouldn't be, and I figured what could it hurt if...

[departed_child_of_gods]

Geez, stop waffling and just take it already. I didn't even want it anyway.

*She hands it over.*

[tempus_fixit]

[She takes it, fumbling a little, then fidgets with her glasses.]

Thank you, uh... what's your name?

[departed_child_of_gods]

I am Soga no Tojiko, a loyal servant of the great Toyosatomimi no Miko, who for reasons unknown was not similarly chosen for this expedition. Charmed, I'm sure.