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Who: Chrysos, anyone
When: Day 89, early evening
Where: Outside HQ
What: He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on the flying---

[ so anyone observant passing by parts of the third floor windows or lower today, or possibly just romping around in the foliage outside the building, might see or hear a few things. A blur of movement swooshing through the leaves. Light, periodic thunks and scrapes of something against wood. Heavier thumps against branches, swaying them a fraction, the scrape of heels against a wall or two. The creak of a rope.

The odd muttered curse. ]

--detach, won't you, lightdamned son of a--

[ Or yelp of surprise, followed by crash crash thunkWHUMP. ]

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[ walks up along the branch until he's standing right above the rope's location, looking down at it and watching it swing...

...steps off the branch :x ]

[Oh that looks smart!]

[ ttly. As he drops he twists his body in the air as the rope reaches the height of its swing towards him, and his human hand whips out and snags onto the rope, like a pro

pulls the rest of the rope below up with the other hand, till he can grab onto the metal thing weighing it down at the end ]

[fascinated by this enough to stand there like an idiot!]

[ THE EVENING SUNLIGHT SPARKLES THE DROPS OF SWEAT BEADING ON THE BLONDE YOUNG MAN'S FOREHEAD AS HE MOVES LITHELY ok no

flips a lever on one side of the device and there's a click and whirrrr, the coil spinning as it winds up the excess rope. Eventually he lets go of the rope itself to hang off the device, metal fingers gripping the handle firmly ]

[~~Shut up Claude.~~

If I couldn't just sparkle up to places, I would find that very useful.]

[ yes well we can't all be sparklepeople and so!!

grabs onto the handle with both hands and swings his legs up over his head, hooking onto the branch with his feet, and then doing a few more twists and limbholds to finally get most of himself on top of the thing. Arm still draped over the side, he presses something on the device and there's another click, and he yanks at the rope--

...and yanks.

... ]

Not working for you?

[Here let me just join you up here out of nowhere.]

[ blinks-- there's a moment where he tenses instinctively-- but then glances at you. ]

...

[sits on the tree branch comfortably]

I'm not going to push you off.

[ ...shrugs lightly and sits on the branch crosslegged, inspecting the mechanism in his hands. ]

Force of habit.

What is it supposed to do?

...to propel a set of grappling hooks and undo them when desired.

[ digs in a beltpouch and pulls out a screwdriver, tinkering with one side of it :T ]

Though as you can see, the second function remains somewhat imperfected.

And thus you keep throwing yourself into the trees.

...it seems reckless, I'm aware. But there's no danger of a fall I can't recover from, if that's your concern.

That makes good hearing. Your body must be very strong.

...it was something necessary of my line of work, once.

[ pockets a handful of screws and pulls the entire thing apart into two segments, examining them ]

[keeps an eye on what he's doing, just because the more he watches the more sense it makes, and that's something he can use later.]

Heights are of no consequence to Servants. Still, for those who are not so prepared for falls, your work will be more than valuable.

Edited (icons plz) 2012-11-05 06:00 (UTC)

[ there's a coil where the rope goes, that much is obvious, and a system of wheels and gears and springs to wind it up with. The rope runs threaded through a nozzle of some kind on one end, with thin metal pipes running out from it, leading to a little tank of some kind inside the mechanism. The rest of it however just kinda looks like a mess of parts to the layman. ]

...do you teleport or fly, then?

Something in between. As I am a spirit, I simply cease to maintain a physical form and materialize again where I wish to. My agility parameter is also quite high, which helps even if I am holding my form.

It seems it would be quite an advantage in combat.

[ tinker tinker tinker ]

It could be, but generating physical form takes prana, so it isn't something to overuse. It would also be rather underhanded.

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