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Weapons Testing For Fun And Profit (But Mostly For Fun) | [OPEN]

Who: Darin Altway

forgeabettertomorrow & anyone who wants to have fun testing experimental weapons!
When: IC: 8/13 | OOC: 7/27
Where: Outside of the Spoon Smithy after business hours!
What: Ever since Darin's arrived in Cerealia, he's seen all kinds of fantastic things. He's been documenting them in a notebook and in his spare time, he's come up with a few prototype weapons! Come test them out!
Rating/Warning: There's no way any of these weapons will work or will be especially effective. Hilarity will ensue.

[So maybe you're on your way home from work and you see a sign posted directing you to the spoon smithy. Or maybe you just got home and you see a flyer tacked to your door directing you, once more, to the spoon smithy. Or maybe you are home and the aforementioned flyer gets crammed haphazardly into your mail slot. Guess where it's directing you? The spoon smithy! Regardless, they all look like this: ]

Hey you! Yeah, the one reading this! I know what you're thinking: 'How did the flyer know I was reading this?' Because you're still reading out of curiosity, that's how! And you're wondering what the point is! Well, you know what else has points? Weapons! That's right! You know, Cerealia's a dangerous place...and no one knows what's going to happen next. Wouldn't you want to be on the forefront of weapons research so that you can better prepare yourself for the next incident that arises? If so, come on down to the spoon smithy after business hours where you can help test the latest innovations by Master Blacksmith Darin Altway, whose hammer and expertise in the field of weaponry are legendary! He's got some amazing prototypes that need testing and he can't think of anyone better to do it! Seriously! So come on down, test some weapons, have some fun, and have a few snacks! Disclaimer: There will be no snacks.

[Kind of hard to pass up this opportunity, am I right?]

-TEST I- HOOKSHOT

[Ever since he had the chance to use one in ViViD, Darin's been attempting to make the digital weapon a reality. After a few weeks, it seems he's finally succeeded! The test area is full of all kinds of targets and patches of grating that the user can grapple on to. However, the torque and speed of the hookshot varies since it's been calibrated specifically to Darin's weight, strength, and build. You might find yourself hurdling through the air much faster. Or not at all. That piece of grating might be rocketing towards you. Try and hook onto an item or a training dummy? You might end up pulverizing it completely!]

-TEST II- BEAM SABER

[This stylish looking saber is sleek and sexy. There's a concealed button on the hilt that, once pressed, activates the industrial cutting laser embedded in the guard. Voila! Instant beam saber! There's training dummies and all sorts of debris scattered around this test area for you to cut into. However, the laser might not be the most stable thing. Swinging around something like this might cause some structural damage. And overheating. Also, the length of the blade is determined by how hard the button is pressed. Press it too hard and...well, you can imagine, can't you?]

-TEST III- BAT'LETH

[Darin saw this in a space travel sim in ViViD and he basically fell in love with it. He has no idea how it's supposed to be used in battle, but doesn't it just look super sweet? There are training dummies all over the place here and there's even a second Bat'leth in case you bring a sparring partner! Or want to challenge Darin directly. These are razor sharp though so make sure to put on the special armor that Darin forged to go with the set! Luckily, the armor is strong enough to withstand direct strikes of this fearsome weapon]

-TEST IV- RAILGUN

[HAHAHAHA WHAT? OKAY, so this is an arm mounted railgun that somehow found its way into the testing area. It is by no means stable. Darin got drunk one night and thought this was a really cool idea guys seriously. The design in his sketchbook literally reads: 'Pull trigger, annihilation comes out.' Feel free to try it at your own risk. It's going to explode.]

-WILDCARD- PICK YOUR POISON

[Swordchucks, yo. Got an idea for a terrible weapon? Feel free to make a prompt for it! Or just berate the idiot for sponsoring a weapon testing session and not having the decency to leave cookies.]

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...That's it? You were engaged? Sounds like a really boring life, if you ask me.

As for the soldier? He's a retired captain of the guard. Old friend of my biological dad's. He'd always talk about how he always regretted not being able to give more for the kingdom. I mean...he gave everything he had short of his life. I think he did his duty, you know?

It was not boring. Frustrating, certainly, but I was not bored. [Mostly because she's the kind of person that never spends even a moment still, constantly wandering, looking, watching the world in which she lives, talking to people and learning all that she could. There's no place for boredom in her world. Not when it was so interesting.]

I would think that he did more than even that. I....realize that perhaps it is strange if I say it, but there...is more to life than living...for your country. I always told Rida so. I wished for her to live for herself. I wished for her to be able to live freely. Is it...odd if I think so?

No...not at all.

Who's Rida? A friend?

She is my guard. But I have always thought of her as my friend. [Though she hadn't been able to tell her so at the time.]

She is a truly wonderful person. Though I used to cause her quite a lot of trouble, I think.

Your guard?

Wait...are you some kind of noble? Like an ambassador or something?

I am the Princess of Zerestria. [Therefore not exactly a noble.]

But Rida is from the Rasazare family, and is a noble.

[/RECORD SCRAAAAAAAAAAAATCH]

YOU'RE THE WHAT?!

The princess of Zerestria.

[Pause...]

Is something wrong?

YOU'RE A PRINCESS?!

I LET A PRINCESS GET HURT?!

AM I GONNA GET ARRESTED?!

I THOUGHT I WAS DONE WITH THE WHOLE 'GETTING ARRESTED' CRAP?!

I am a princess. But you did not let me get hurt, it was an accident.

[And more importantly:]

I will not let you get arrested. [She pauses, certain there was more of a story to it, but willing to put the fact that "getting arrested" was something he did often in favour of something much more important:]

I will protect you, I promise.

Oh man...Oh man, you're really a princess, aren't you.

This is just my luck...

Are you sure you're okay, Veroni--...

...Lady Vero--...

Um...Your Highness?

Crap, I should be kneeling, shouldn't I??

[He tries to kneel despite the fact that she's still looped around his arm.]

[Despite being unsteady, she still tries to hold him up.]

Do not kneel.

[She dislikes it when people kneel to her, as if she's done anything worthy of this kind of deference. All she's done is be born as a princess. That's hardly anything.]

You need not call me Lady or Your Highness. Call me Veronica.

...Really?

Every royal I ever encountered got their britches holed up in box canyon when I did that.

[wow]

Holed up...in a box canyon? I am not certain what that means, but I do not want you to kneel or to call me Lady. I am Veronica. I wish to be called by my name. I do not like seeing others kneel.

Uh...don't worry about it. It's an expression.

...That you probably shouldn't use.

...But hey! I can get behind that! I gotta say though...the fact that you're a princess kinda really puts some things you say into perspective.

I see.

[She gives him a blank look which is her promise that she's definitely going to worry about it, research it, and then try her best not to use it. Since he said she shouldn't.

Unless it is really apt for a situation she's in, then all bets are off.]

May I ask why it puts the things I say into perspective...?

Well...you have very little regard for yourself, and really put your all into caring for others. Even things you say have a sweeping generalization towards the general public and very little to do with yourself.

At first, I thought it was just you deflecting but...in the end I can see that it's because you just...really love people. You want to serve and protect them like a good princess should.

I think I understand you a little better, Veronica.

[There was not much she could give besides herself, and she's quiet for a moment before she smiles at him.

Because he understands. Because he wanted to and tried to understand.]

I do not know if it as a good princess should. I have known a few princesses and I think they were not quite sure what to think of me. But I have always thought that there is good in everyone. If you will give them a chance, they will surprise you. I do not want to be served or protected. And if I must be, I wish to be given the chance to return the favour.

Thank you, Darin.

Don't worry about other princesses. In my experience, a lot of royals look down on the little guy. Sure, they do their duty, but they do it out of obligation...out of birthright...rather than just because it's the decent thing to do.

You ask me?

It's that mentality that makes you better than any other princess I've ever known. And you're right. Everyone has the capacity for good, they just need a chance to show it.

HEh...I doubt it means anything, but if I lived in your world, I'd serve you without question. I'd probably fight for the chance to!

I see. [Was that the case with her brothers, too?] I do not think it is a problem to do things out of a sense of duty. It is their choice, is it not? Sometimes it is difficult. You can only try as best as you can, I think.

[Even royals had the capacity for good, after all.]

I am trying my best. To do what I think is right. I do not know if it is correct or not, but I was told by my teacher that it is all right. That both choices, whether it is to conform or to go against the flow, both are correct in their own way.

And it means very much to me. Thank you. Though rather than serving me, I would like for us to be friends. [She laughs as she says this.] You need not fight anyone. Not many serve me, so I would be happy to have you.

[Because she's just the youngest of three extant royal children. A bit of a forgotten princess with no political sway (as far as she was aware), housed in a remote castle in a corner of Zerestria.]

Well, of course we're friends. We've been friends since I pretty much first got here.

And I think that...in the end, however you decide to live your life is right. As long as you do good by people and don't forget to make yourself happy...I think whatever you do is right.

I am glad to hear it. [And she hadn't wanted to assume.]

You do sound very much like my teacher, Bishop Monston. I respect him very much and I do miss him. I think he would have liked speaking with you very much.

[He snorts?]

Really? Me? A teacher? Hah...! Man, that sounds so weird...! Usually I'm the one learning things!

We are all teachers just as we are all students. There is always more to learn from the people around you, that is what I think. I do not think it is such a leap of logic for you to be a teacher. You are a blacksmith, you are wise and you are from a different world with a different history and a different geography. I am certain there is much that I could learn from you.

G-Geez, Veronica...you really know how to flatter a guy.

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