Chaotic System - Playground 1, *triumphant music* Options

[Dantrag]

OOC: I expect that you have read the background in the planning thread and have a character listed on the character thread. If not, please do both. . Also, do as we do in the other RP, and list character name and location above each post.

Let the games begin!

IC

Rann and Syke Viann, Research Space Station, in orbit around Mars

Rann stood by his workbench, creating some unkown object that might make it to the coveted spot in his 'used' pile, meaning that someday, he just may find a use for the invention. But more than likely, this, as over half of his other creations, will go into the scrap pile to be made into something else.

"What are you doing?" Syke asked Rann, coming to a halt beside his younger brother. He picked up a black metal object and inspected it. "What is this?"

Rann slapped his broter's hand without looking up from his work. "No touching!" he scolded, accepting the object back from Syke and putting it back down; still not looking up.

"What are you making?" Syke asked again, more insistently.

"Nothing." Rann answered as he put on a proctective mask, not to protect his eyes, because they couldn't be hurt, but just his face in general. He began welding two pieces of the black metal together, drowning out any conversation for the next minute or two.

Syke was getting extremely frustrated with his brother. "What are you making?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"It's for the ship." he answered, holding up the finished product. It was black and sleek, obviously to match the metal interior of the engine room of their ship.

"What does it do?" he asked. The object had a series of pipes protruding from a box, which had a pump inside. He scratched his head, utterly confused.

"Look." Rann said, pointing to the pipe on the top. "Here is where our engine coolant is going to go; because it leaks anyway. Anyways, it goes down through this box, where it's pumped back out into the main hold where it belongs."

"Why didn't you just patch the leak?"

Rann blinked a few times; Syke couldn't tell if he was turning on the record option or the zoom. "Because that isn't as fun, and it wouldn't allow us to do this." he replied, pointing to a smaller pipe that Syke hadn't noticed before. He turned a valve on the end and smiled. "It will also make the coolant drinkable; I put in a series of filters and lined the inside with some toxin-neutralizing chemicals."

"That's useless." Syke said with a scowl.

"We'll see how useless it is when we get stuck in space with no water." Rann answered as he pushed by his brother with the invention in hand; all that was left was installation.

Syke sighed and followed.

When the installation was complete, and Rann had a sip of coolant, they went into the Research Area to look for their sister.

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Rann and Syke, at home

"'Night Satyana." Syke called after her.

Rann merely yelled "We won't be late!"

When she was gone, Rann looked over at Syke. "She knows about school, huh?"

"If not, then she will. Then you may want to leave the system." Syke answered with a laugh.

Rann interrupted his mirth with a punch to the arm. "Not funny." he ran a hand through his hair. "Oh yeah." he said, getting onto his sister's computer and changing the time he had written as his math test. "Well, at least one thing is safe." he mutttered.

"How much trouble would I get in by sending a fake document from the school?" Rann asked.

"A lot." Syke answered, telling him that he had better not think any more about that.

"Damn, damn, damn." Rann continued, pacing. "Alright, before we leave for Mars, I'm just going to ask to take the final, then tell Sis that I passed, which I would have then, and then apply to a college or something."

"And then not go?"

"Exactly." Rann answered with a smug smile.

"So you're going to make Satyana pay all of that money for you not to go to school?"

"I'll have a scholarship." Rann answered confidently.

"Just finish your pizza. We can talk more on the way to Mars."

"I'm not hungry; I just wanted to change the subject earlier."

"Where'd you put it?" Syke asked referring to the cargo they were supposed to be transporting.

"Follow me." he answered. He walked into his room, and into his closet. "You know how the place right beside us isn't lived in? Well, I cut a hole through my closet and put it all inside there. How do you think I broke my blowtorch?" Rann kicked in the wall in the back of his closet, and it fell over, revealing two large crates in an otherwise empty house.

"What are those again?"

"I have no idea." Rann answered honestly. "They tell us not to look, and I don't want any trouble."

"Good idea." Syke said, glad that his brother was showing at least a little sense.

They each grabbed a crate and loaded it on the ship before exiting the station, and entering open space.

"So, you think the exam idea is good?" Rann continued as his brother piloted the ship.

"sure, but if you go to college, you had better actually go." Syke answered, almost threateningly.

"Fine then, no applications."

The conversation continued until they began enteringthe atmosphere; the flames were enough to make anyone silent out of amazement, no matter how many times you do it.

When they landed, Rann looked to Syke. "I forgot to talk to the teacher before we left."

"Just do it tomorrow."

"But she'll find out before tomorrow!"

"Just send a request to the teacher's computer from the ship once we deliver this."

"Alright."

They called for a taxi and got into the hovering vehicle with their crates and made their way to the delivery spot.

This post has been edited by Dantrag: Oct 5 2005, 10:16 PM