Second Verse, Same as the First

[ceasetoexist]

 [Well, those last two weeks certainly sucked. Halloween, at least, was pretty cool as usual, but even Pokey couldn't pretend it exactly made up for being burned to death in his home. He'd tried not to think about it as everything had gone on, since it wasn't like it was the first time he had died here. But he couldn't. He couldn't stop thinking about how he'd died essentially afraid and alone, and that pissed him off.

It didn't help that he apparently had another group of people stalking him, because of the devices BLU Engie had taught him to make. And in part, that was something else he didn't want to think much about either. A lot of people he'd known had gotten droned in the past month. Engie had just been the most dominant in his mind. Though really, he should be kicking himself for caring, because it was obvious that Engie was going to leave. And all he had wanted from the guy was knowledge about how to build things, right? Right.

He needed to get his mind off everything. Get his mind off everything and start protecting himself. And what better way to do that then to make a Sentry gun like Engie had taught him?

So yeah. Feel free to notice as you go about your day that there's a kid on Ricardo Street who appears to be making what's pretty clearly a weapon on his front lawn.]

Comments

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, people could use a way to learn to defend themselves.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

'Specially after the stuff they like to pull here. I dunno if it'd be much help, but it's not like I got much better to do with my time here.

Can I ask where ya got the materials to build stuff? Someone recommended I start scavenging cars. I guess that's really our only option.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what you're gonna be going after, yeah. That and any other junk piles you can find. This is kinda simple, really. Mainly uses junk metal.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

If the town really resets them, then it's a good deal. You can just harvestin' them for parts. Whatever, I can deal with whatever they got here. If all I had was popsicle sticks and paper clips, I'd MacGuyer something together.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

....Whose MacGuyer?

herp derp i spelled it wrong.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

[Ah, right, blue-skinned kid is probab;y not from Quinn's world.]

Oh, yeah! MacGuyver was the old TV show, the main character could build stuff out of anything. Bombs out of bubble gum and toothpaste, completely ridiculous stuff like that. But totally awesome too.

...I guess we're about 25 to 30 years off from it being created though here. Ah well.

Still, good work on this kid! Gives me some hope that I might be able to find enough parts around here to build stuff too.

Re: herp derp i spelled it wrong.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...That's the stupidest thing I ever heard.

[Although, still pretty bizarrely awesome. And it's not like weird crap like that didn't happen in his world all the time anyway.

AND he is being praised. This guy may not be so bad after all.]

Heh, yeah. I'm pretty awesome.

[techno-mancer.livejournal.com]

It is, but still worth watchin' sometimes for the laugh.

[He laughs at that. The kids in this town all had pretty high opinions of themselves, that's for sure.]

Well good luck with it, kid. "Don't shoot your eye out" as they say. Take it easy! [Off he saunters]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[And he'll just watch Quinn walk off. Weird guy, but at least he didn't seem to be one of the worse people in town. And he sounded like he knew something about technology. Maybe he could take advantage of him somehow in order to see if he could learn anything new later, possibly.]