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]

He thought it was vacant? Come on, you had ta at least slept in there!

...right?

[orewagundamda]

[Doesn't really find this to be odd, so it appears explanations are in order.] My machine is supposed to be one of the best kept secrets in the world, so I don't really feel comfortable leaving it alone when in unfamiliar territory. So I tend to sleep in the cockpit.

[tempus_fixit]

Oh. Well, at... least I'll know where to deliver the book now when I find it!

[Ahahah... hah...]

But I don't think you're in danger if you leave it overnight. This can't be that unfamiliar to you by now, and I and the other mechanics are... we wouldn't dream of doing anything to it without your say-so!

[Well... nothing that altered it, anyway.]

[orewagundamda]

[Just sorta... coughs awkwardly.] That was actually why I went to the apartment in the first place. [After giving that spear to Nier. How the Monkey King slipped that into the cockpit he didn't know, but it would mean that he'd need to give it the old once-over when all was said and done.]

I thank you for the assurance, Lucca Ashtear. I feel that you and Shion Uzuki will be able to care for my Gundam properly. In turn, do not hesitate to ask me for assistance in maintaining the other units.

[tempus_fixit]

We'll be sure to ask if we need clarification! Though between Shion and me I'm sure there's nothing in that unit we can't figure out!

[Because othing can escape the tech prowess of the bespectacled purple-haired gadget girl brigade!]