[open] may catchall

[techmaturgy]

Who: Viktor and special guests and YOU
When: throughout May
Where: Cadens, the Horizon
What: open stuff, closed stuff, quest stuff, general nerdery, horizon visits, whatever I WANT
Warnings: the usual references to terminal illness, will list additional warnings as needed.

[open and closed starters in comments! If you want a custom starter or something specific, just hit me up. full horizon details are here for any and all wildcarding needs. For everything else, I’m on plurk at whitticus and on discord at whitticus#8139.]

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[hextechhead]

[ Jayce closes the window right about the time Viktor says it, so it's closed by the time he finishes the sentence. They do that sometimes, like they share a hive mind. He thinks he only understands about 90% of what Tony is saying, but vernacular is different in every world. So he's going to ignore the words that don't make sense to him and roll with the rest.

Viktor is always better with the precise work, Jayce the heavier big parts. He peeks over Viktor's shoulder, not for the first time, to get a look at the inside. His hands might not be made for little screws, but his mind is working just fine. ]

I don't remember seeing any, I'm not sure they knew what could go wrong. No testing procedure.

[ He sounds disapproving but that's only because he is. As if he and Viktor don't test things as they go, whoops. Jayce turns his head toward Tony though, he is headed to the other ones. ]

Anything helpful in there, Tony?

[industries]

I dunno, your definition of "helpful" might vary wildly from mine, [ Tony mutters, as he goes elbow-deep into the crate. Although he delivers the kneejerk insult, there's no particular bite to it, and his lack of objection to Viktor cracking open one of the things speaks way more volumes about his level of respect for the orphans' industrial era, pseudo-magical knowledge of... well, industrial era, pseudo-magical stuff. ]

Hey, you. [ He pushes some of the devices out of place to uncover one toward the back of the box – whose (aforementioned non-crack-resistant) bulb glass appears to have shattered in transit.

He picks it up by the metal body and gingerly brushes off a few granules of glass, then calls over his shoulder. ] If you call another broken one "spare parts" then... sure. I've got good news. [ He grabs a small screwdriver from his apron as he strides over to Viktor and Jayce. ]

Lemme guess – feedback circuit got disrupted by the radio transmitter? [ He peers down the open glass section and reaches a finger in to tug up the exposed panel. ]

[hextechhead]

[ Jayce takes at face value what Tony says, it's logical that they have different versions of what is helpful considering their time differences. He thinks it a lot stranger that he talks to objects and hares the same way he talks to people. Nicknames and everything. ]

It would explain the sound, it had to be pitched for a frequency only their hearing could pick up on, so for it to go up to ours, there had to be a miscommunication with the pulse. It must be designed in a way that if one detail is off, the entire machine acts differently.

[ It makes sense to do it that way, otherwise you could easily miss mistakes within the machine if it appeared to work the way it was supposed to, and then wasn't. He's seen that happen before. ]

Look for a twisted or worn wire, it might not be actually broken.

[techmaturgy]

Did you break one? Ugh.

[They're going to have to make note of that, but Viktor is never going to say no to cannibalizing something for parts. He lets Tony set the other device up side-by-side on the table, figuring that four hands will be faster than two.

It doesn't take long to diagnose the problem--Jayce and Tony offering suggestions is not unwelcome, and between the three of them, the issue is found and corrected, with the help of donated parts from the other device. Once he screws the panel back on, he holds it up to Jayce.]

Try it now.

[hextechhead]

[ Jayce takes it and steps away so that if it does go off again, it's not too close to the other two. Not all three of them need to be shrieked at again. Instead when he activates it and lo and behold, it works. It immediately seems to get to work in moving around the room and Jayce smiles over at the other two. ]

Good job, team.

[ He's a nerd, don't mind him. He moves back over to the box and glances at them. ]

Let's split up and get the other ones done.