Thread 32 - The Meeting of Minds

Caitlin Whiteberyl!aLEJudith. 14 Mar 2016 10:17:41 PM No.41289693>>41292794


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Fucking idiots! Keep tell em that no matter how much I patch up those damn pipes they're just gonna find another place to leak! Or burst! We have to replace them before some poor granny turns on her taps and her kitchen floods!

>For Caitlin Whiteberyl, that was part of her job an an engineer. Keep things running around here so the higher ups can stroke themselves about how advanced this city is while pipes needs to be replaced and the main cargo lift needs it's elevation gears serviced again. Can't send all the supplies they needs down here with subs, that's inefficient and she won't allow this place to become inefficient! Even if she'd rather be working on her diving suit or making something that wasn't run by freaken crystal down here.

Damn lazy arse. Don't know who he had to suck off to be the lead engineer around here...

>Now she didn't have a problem with crystals, they were extremely beneficial to have and made life down her possible. But her father always to never fully trust something you don't fully understand, and nobody fully understood crystals. We knew what they could do and how, but we don't know the why's, where's and what. Why can they hold magic in the first place? Where does crystal actually come from? What exactly is crystal really? Without knowing everything there was no way to be ready fully for what could happen down the road.

Need a drink after that bullshite.

>But that was neither hear nor there, Cait as now riding the monorail towards the expansive residential areas of Kantarus away from the noisy systems and workshops that keep the city. Her destination was a bar where she could have a pint of ale and not have it taste like someone pissed in it and get a decent meal to go along with it. Joey's Bar and Grill, common hang out for engineers because of it's location right in the station that dropped them off close to home. Cait watches as endless snaking pipes, winding maintenances tunnels, and busy machinery of the Systems District (shortened to just "Systems" by most) gave way to grassy tree filled parks, compact apparent buildings, and busy people of Residents below her and her minds starts to wander.

....Maybe if I reduce the weight by using a lighter alloy instead of just straight Sea Steel for the frame... get better mileage... but might compromise the strength... maybe a composite material will help? Gotta try one of those fancy ceramics when they finally go down in price...

>She'd been in a bit of a rut trying to make improvements in a newer more efficient model of Diving Suit. The one's right now worked pretty well still... but they were bulky, heavy, and hard to move around in. Plus the current model didn't have many attachments to go with it. And her experience doing work underwater made that clear when she had to fight off one too many Viper Fish with nothing but a high-torque Power drill and a rivet gun. Then again she was surprised at how disturbingly effective it was shooting at things both in and out of the water.

...

Probably could tool it better to have better range and accuracy though.

>Normal weapons weren't exactly something you had the luxury of bringing around on your tool belt underwater. So tools had to pull double duty. Her thinking almost made her miss her stop and it was five seconds after the monorail came to a stop and the doors slid open before she realized it.

Oh!

>Don't want to be run from the next stop over, that would be a pain. Quickly getting off and making her way past the folk getting on to go else where or to their shift at Systems, Cait makes her way out of the loading platform, down the stairs, and making a right towards Joey's. Finally, salvation was close at hand...

Caitlin Whiteberyl!aLEJudith. 19 Mar 2016 6:54:12 PM No.41294783>>41297457


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>>41292794
Probably want to get the newest actuator models AlaesTech put out when I get paid next... left leg's getting sticky again...

>Closing in the dive bar, the engineer was absorbed in her thoughts until she was called out be someone.

Huh?

>She spotted the person quickly and she waves to the woman.

Regine! Hey! I see you're done work for that day too!

>The two had a chance meeting when something needed fixing at the college and Cait drew the short straw to go and repair it. There she meet the scholar and the two hit it off pretty well. Or at least she hopes so, being raised by dwarf and having a colourful vocabulary herself didn't exactly make it easy to make friends at times.

Nothing flooding over there?

>Given the state of the piping recently from what she'd seen, that an honest question instead of a joke.

Caitlin Whiteberyl!aLEJudith. 24 Mar 2016 10:20:42 PM No.41300039>>41304928


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>>41297457
Yeah, good point, forget I brought it up.

>She probably didn't want to talk about work just as much as Cait would. Probably had her own idiots to deal with while on the job.
>The offer to go inside with her and have a drink gave her chance to swing away from that though.

Sounds good to me, not gonna say no if you're buyen.

>She could be cheap when she wanted to be, but you needed to be when you supported a hobby like hers.

Caitlin Whiteberyl!aLEJudith. 30 Mar 2016 2:27:49 PM No.41305049>>41305633


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>>41304928
>Following after her Cait manages to push her way past the people, many of them her co-workers, and takes a seat opposite to the other girl.

It has hasn't it? But now we get to have a drink and enjoy ourselves!

>Sure she was still annoyed by the fact her boss could be a lazy idiot, but that wasn't gonna stop her from having a good time here.
>Then they'll be energized and get back to it once again. Or at least that's how she looked at it, better to be optimistic about it... right?

Caitlin Whiteberyl!aLEJudith. 3 Apr 2016 2:39:57 PM No.41309082


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>>41305633
>Oh wow, were things really that bad over there for her? Never mind a drink, she needed a vacation topside ASAP.

Get those too often huh? I were in your shoes, I'd probably be doin' more then screaming...

>To her credit, Regina handled it better then Cait ever would have. She'd have gone and said some things to people that not ever her father would approve of his little girl saying.

Guess taking a break for a bit isn't an option am I right?

>She knew the work was important and often challenged be the other eggheads over there... But still it had to afford some time to recharge right?

Caitlin Whiteberyl!aLEJudith. 16 Apr 2016 2:42:42 PM No.41319248


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>>41311262
>Taking her own mug of ale and indulging in a big swig of the stuff inside, the blonde mulls over the other woman's situation. It was a shitty thing to be stuck in that's for sure. Needing a break form it all yet not being able to do so because she was too busy trying to defend her research from other scholars.
>Real shitty situation to be in.
>But as that was floating around in her mind, Regina asks if Cait was going to enter the Crucible this year.

Yeah I am. Finally got my prototype diving suit in working order.

>Now it was time for the gushing about her own work to begin. Her eyes light up and an expression of pure joy starts to grow on her face as she talks.

Did what I could to improve it from the base models, made it less cumbersome, reduced it's overall size and weight, been working on producing a stronger yet lighter frame for it,looking into new tool attachments, even alternate power sources! Oooooh if I get the funding, I'm going to get some of those fancy new fancy ceramics to try out! And propulsion systems! It takes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to walk underwater all the time!

Caitlin Whiteberyl!aLEJudith. 25 Apr 2016 4:31:18 PM No.41326389

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>The comment about neglecting fields causes the blonde to huff.

Yeah, it's nice to have ambitions but people gotta remember that keeping what we have already in working order us just as important. Ugh, we got one idiot over at Facilities that doesn't know their arse-end from a rivet gun. Says he's gonna by my boss one day, told him he better start working at it if he wants to get there before I retire and die of old age.

>She gulps down the rest of her ale and sighs.

And thanks for the vote of confidence, look forward to yours as well.

>Whatever it may be exactly. Give her a machine and generally know what to do with it but she could never wrap her head around what the eggheads over there got into.