Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 1 Nov 2015 8:58:16 PM No.41133587>>41133592>>41134488>>41134493
>>41131176 >Crap...! Maybe this guy wasn't as ill-informed as he thought, or maybe Max had underestimated his capacity as a businessman after the ease of which he dropped the price of the actuators. The rest of it was barely worth any money yet still important, so his only hope now was the crystal wire. It was the most expensive of the bunch, so he only had to get it to drop a certain amount. Then again, did he really need 20 meters? If he wanted to do maintenance on his boots, definitely, but if he could skip over that... maybe as a last resort.
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 1 Nov 2015 9:07:45 PM No.41133592>>41134488>>41134493
>>41133587 >Hrrm. Nothing immediately obvious. It was good quality stuff, but then if it wasn't then the cable wasn't worth anything to begin with. If there were chips in the crystal or breakages in the wire, the energy wouldn't be able to go anywhere, making it useless. The only question remaining was what kind of crystal was used to make it.
>This would be very difficult to tell with wire, because the crystal had been shaved to the point where most of the imperfections wouldn't be obvious. So, the best way to test it would be to...
>Taking out a crystal for a moment, he channeled the lightning energy through the wire. This took barely any effort to do, as crystal energy naturally wanted to move through crystal before being unleashed. And judging from the electrical sparks at the other end of the wire, he was seeing...
Looks like it's flowing at about two charges per second at maximum. Not bad, but for this price? 30 Cert a meter... I'll take it for 25.
Hikage and "The Guy"!aLEJudith. 2 Nov 2015 12:54:53 PM No.41134493>>41134497
>>41133587 >>41133592 >>41134488 >Watching do this test the merchant sighs internally. Clearly this one wasn't the one of the average customers he'd get that would just buy whatever junk he'd shell out to them.
>That was kinda getting annoying.
You know what, that's fair. I'll do 25.
>Now for the love of all things pricey just give me my money!
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 2 Nov 2015 1:29:48 PM No.41134497>>41134504
>>41134488 >>41134493 >Score! That took a little bit of swindling, but he managed to round everything down and get everything he needed! Hell, he even had a little tiny bit of cash left over! Maybe he could treat himself to a fresh iced bun or something.
Alright, that makes it 10.20 Certani!
>Happily fishing the money out from his bag, he passed over the various larger and smaller coins to pay for the group of items, glad to have achieved what he set out to do. Hopefully he'd manage to carry everything back to his little workshop without dropping it or dragging it around.
Hikage and "The Guy"!aLEJudith. 2 Nov 2015 3:12:13 PM No.41134504>>41134554
>>41134497 Hehehe, thank you.
>Finally that was done with and it didn't lose too much in the purchase. Though he'll have to have more cation the next time he tries to give someone parts of less then optimal quality.
>Lucky for Max, the box to carry it all in was more or less free and he could use that to haul his new items back home.
Huh... and I thought only Yomi could do that. You really know what your doing huh?
>Quiet until now, Hikage finally speaks up and comments on his duel with the merchant.
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 2 Nov 2015 6:38:59 PM No.41134554>>41134634
>>41134504 >Free boxed shipping yeaaaahhh! >Except that he was the delivery boy. Shit. >Ah well, now he could re-make his gauntlets and maybe not break them this time around! Still, for Janet's explosions to consistently dent his Seasteel like this... it left him with a lack of determination.
Good doing business!
>Max piled a fair few things into the box and stuffed some of the other parts into his pouch, namely the actuators and the padding. Better to protect those delicate pieces until he got home. Leaving the store with the green-haired girl, he hoped to hell he'd managed to get out of these back-alleys with all of this stuff.
Huh? Oh, well... not really! I just know a lot about this tech stuff. Trouble is, with how popular it's becoming, some stores like to sell the cheapest stuff possible to people who don't know better. You kinda have to get used to checking what you're buying in Alaestus.
Hikage!aLEJudith. 2 Nov 2015 7:32:34 PM No.41134634>>41135559
>>41134554 >Following him out the girl nods as he explains why he was so intent on inspecting his stuff.
That makes sense.
>She didn't really do that sort of thing, then again, getting her mad by cheating her was something most people around here understood was a very bad idea.
But I'm glad you got what you wanted.
>She usually didn't get the chance to help people out. Usually they got too frustrated trying to explain to her the whats and whys... >Though now that her brainpower was not focussed on trying to follow technical stuff. It jumps to a rather strange conclusion. They walked around together, they spent time talking to each other, and even bought stuff together.
...
So is this what a date is like?
>Yomi told her about them once, and this sort of seemed to fit the bill.
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 3 Nov 2015 1:30:19 PM No.41135559>>41135570>>41135599
>>41134634 >Nodding in agreement, Max continued to wander with her through the alleys. Part of him remembered the route out, but the other part was unsure enough to worry what might happen if he got lost. She'd really been a big help today.
<So is this what a date is like? Huh? Yeah, I guess so.
>A simple answer to a simple question, he supposed. He hadn't even really thought about the response, it just kind of slipped out as though it were natural.
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 3 Nov 2015 1:37:26 PM No.41135570>>41135599
>>41135559 WAIT, WHAT!? SHIT-
>CRASH >THUD WHAM >CRASH
>The pile of stuff that was Max and his magitek parts poured onto the floor, tripping over a completely flat path and spilling out onto the passageway like the spaghetti currently pouring out of his poor little ego. Actuators flew left and right, metal plates slid towards the drains, and the poor sod of a mechanic just sat there slightly dazed.
>As soon as his consciousness regained its focus, he wheeled his body around to face her, still blubbering out excuses.
B-but why would you say that, you're like, 3 or 4 years older than I am, why would I- why would you- I mean look at those things! They HUG- I mean, uh, I gotta pick this stuff up!
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 3 Nov 2015 5:22:43 PM No.41135741>>41135919
>>41135599 What does age have to do wi-!? It has ever-
>Wait, did it? Well, it definitely had some bearing because it was wrong to take that question too far, but he didn't even know how old she was. For all he knew she could've been 15 or 16 herself rather than the 20 he was assuming because of her appearance. Why was he even thinking about it, anyway!?
<Guys think about dating girls at your age don't they?
Well, uh...
>A direct question like that wasn't something his mind could ignore. An image floated into his mind of a small red-haired girl he'd been chasing around for a while now-
NO! No we do not! Guys like me think of fighting them and giving them a bloody good sock across the face because they're so frustratingly strong you can't help but want to defeat them!
>Even if the answer was a weird one, he was so adamantly serious about the answer it was hard not to take it as the truth - mostly because it was, in a sense. Having gathered his equipment back up with the help of the girl, he continued to stumble over his words, trying to fit most of it back into his pack.
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 3 Nov 2015 9:30:57 PM No.41135965>>41136684
>>41135919
Well it's only violent because she's violent... and weird.
>Sighing, he tried to shake off the nature of the conversation surrounding him. Max couldn't risk dropping the parts again, he didn't even know if any of them were already broken. Instead of letting that bother him, though, he did his best to stifle the blush that had come over his cheeks, nodding to her in response to her answer.
Right, sorry... Max. Maxwell Bolzen.
>That felt like an awfully formal yet informal introduction. In order to try and rectify that so it was a little more friendly, one arm let go of the box and he stuck his fist out towards her in the typical fist-bump fashion, assuming she knew what a fist-bump was.
Hikage!aLEJudith. 4 Nov 2015 2:37:57 PM No.41136684>>41136913
>>41135965 >Oh, so it was one of those relationships Bigboss told her not to get into. That was fine, she didn't like the whole ropes and whips thing anyway.
Well I hope it works out between you two then.
>She looks at the fist held up to to her and blinks. She knew it wasn't a punch, but some kind of gesture...
>Roll 1d2 = 2 >1) She realizes what it is and fist bumps him back with an attempt to make a smile, but doesn't really get there.
It was nice to meet you too Max. ============================= >2) She thinks if one of those games Yomi and Boss play then they fight over how to spend money and covers Max's hand with her open palm.
Max Bolzen!pR.BaFF/uk 4 Nov 2015 5:32:05 PM No.41136913
>>41136684 Works out? What?
>That was an odd thing to say. Was she cheering him on? As nice as the gesture was, it was ruined by the fact that his chances were very slim. Still, it didn't mean he had to disregard what was being sa-
...
>Paper, of all things.
...
>Paper.
... alright, you win.
>Completely befuddled at her action, he withdrew his fist and passed her one of the coins from his sack before turning on his heels and stumbling away from the alleys, into the much more friendly open street. He'd probably need time to recover from that one.