Event | Satellite | Salvage & Repairs

[ironwood]

Characters: Any and all!
Date: May 22 - 26, 2013
Location: Keeliai, turtleside, ARSHEPHELIOS cluster remains
Situation: The fires are put out and repairs around the city have begun. With life preserved, eyes turn now to what exactly crashed down into the ocean.
Warnings/Rating: Please put CW in your subject lines

Satellite Crash Event

Crash Landing | Salvage Party | Shocking Spectres

Questions | Keeliai | Repairs | Salvage | Other | Oceanside | Shellside | ARSHEPHELIOS-side | Coralside


The majority of fires are reported as under control and repair crews start forming up to bring Keeliai back to her pre-scorched splendour. This is all well and good, but there remains a cluster of debris that crashed into the ocean drawing the attention of salvagers and Foreigners alike. Boats and teams form up and head up to scour the ocean, where the cluster rests upon an expansive and ancient coral formation and can be reached within ten metres of the surface.

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[beganwithamask]

[Wherever there's a market for something, Bucky will try to hit it up. It isn't that he's greedy, or that he necessarily wants to be rich, but he's trying to support himself and Toro, and put some juulan away for a rainy day. So when it comes to salvaging, he's right there, digging out scrap metal and those strange cylinders from rubble and wherever it might be hiding. He's trying to find anything that might be worth something to someone, basically - the more sci-fi looking, the better. The time capsules in particular are interesting, he thinks.

He's currently trying to dig something out from a pile of rocky rubble, wearing his army pants and dirt-smeared white undershirt. He's sweating and a little smudged from the effort, but he's stronger than his wiry frame would indicate, and though he moves carefully, he's not having too much trouble.] C'mon, almost...

[urbanmagic]

[She wasn't much of a treasure hunter, even if souvenirs from her various expeditions were a norm. However, she was quickly learning here that acting smarter was a better choice. With the limited rations they have, just keeping herself energetic was going to be a challenge. With the way the kedans were running around and making cash out of everything though, she figures it can't hurt to salvage what they haven't gotten to see if she could trade them for something useful.

The trinkets were nice, even if some others kept snatching the ones she had her eye on and quickly scurrying away, but she managed to get a hold onto a few that might be worth something.

The musicbox she found was hers to keep though, that one she decided. The music was lovely after all.

That's when she notices him, pausing long enough to assess the situation before making her way towards him, the bag of things she collected weighing on her shoulder lightly (she didn't find much she figured would sell) as she tries to figure out how she could help.]

Need a hand there, mister?

[beganwithamask]

[He pauses, foot on a large chunk of rock, hands busy trying to work another capsule out of the pile without collapsing the whole thing, and flashes the girl a smile. On one hand there's the instinct to immediately deny help and possibly show off a little, because he's a twenty year old male from a time when guy bravado was a common thing (he spent a lot of his formative years around soldiers), but at the same time...]

If you could just- hold this chunk here steady for a bit while I wedge this out, that'd be great. [He motions toward the chunk in question with a shake of his head - it's a little wobbly stationed up toward the top, more so when he starts jimmying the capsule out.]

[urbanmagic]

[Charming, and she appreciates a man who isn't afraid of asking for help. Heaven knows that's rare in a lot of cases. She nods at that though, moving to hold the chunk mentioned, careful not to jostle anything, though she wasn't sure how much moving she actually needed to do.] Like this?

[beganwithamask]

[He does try. The charming part, at least, not so much the asking for help part usually. Bucky Barnes has his pride, but he'd rather not suffer a concussion from falling rocks - that blow to said pride would be considerably worse.] Yeah, that's good, just keep it steady. [With her holding up some of the loose rubble, he manages to wedge the capsule out and tuck a rock back in to keep the whole thing from toppling over. Leave it for someone on cleanup duty, he's got the good stuff out of it at least.]

Thanks. You out scavenging too?

[urbanmagic]

[Once she's sure it won't topple over, she lets go with a smile.] Isn't everyone? Most of the good stuff seem to have already been raided though, so it's tough work finding something new.

What is that thing anyway?

[beganwithamask]

Just about, at least anybody with more sense than money. I'm findin' more the farther away from the Metal Sector you get though, they're the ones going nuts for this stuff. [And he is most certainly someone with more sense than money.]

I dunno, they're containers of some kind. I opened a couple already, found some little toys and pictures in them - stars, mostly. Someone'll probably buy them. [He takes hold of the capsule and starts working to pry it open, carefully.]

[urbanmagic]

Don't I know it. I live in that sector, and it's like a black market right now with how fast they're buying and selling the goods they got. They're merciless with grabbing your stuff too.

... Stars? [That's different. Weird.] I wonder what they're worth?

[beganwithamask]

Yeah? Try Water, then, they don't seem to really care about the stuff all that much. I was over there earlier lookin' for scrap metal, less competition. [His coin stash is already looking healthier, happily enough.

He finally manages to wrench the capsule open, and is treated to another little handful of toys and starscape photos.] Yeah, like these. Don't look like any star systems I've ever seen though, y'know? I've just been taking whatever I can get for 'em.

[urbanmagic]

Thanks for the tip.

[Those were... pretty, really, and that fascinates her.] None I'm familiar with either. It's not a bad plan, not when there's plenty of things to sell. It's better to get rid of them now than when they lose what value the kedan has for them.

[beganwithamask]

No problem. You're pretty new around here too, right? [He doesn't remember seeing her around much anyway.]

That's about how I'm seeing it. I wouldn't know what to do with this stuff anyway, y'know? The idea of things being up in space is kinda mind-blowing.

[urbanmagic]

Completely new. Been here for a week before our guests decided to crash the party.

Never been in space either, but considering they just crash-landed here, I think it's not so surprising anymore.

[beganwithamask]

Seems to be how this place works. I showed up right before they started rationing everything. [It's not as hard for him as it is for some others, but it's still worse than what he's generally used to. He wasn't a civilian during the war - the rationing was to get more and better food to soldiers like him.]

When I'm from, space travel is just somethin' outta Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon strips. [Man won't even land on the moon for another 24 years from his time.]

[hugmagnet]

[Carol's been lifting rubble, saving people from buildings and doing general superhero stuff since the crash. While in civvies because really her costume means nothing here. She approaches Bucky when she sees him and kneels down a bit to be closer to his level]

Need some help?

[beganwithamask]

[Bucky makes a face when he sees Carol. It's not that he doesn't like her alright, at least as much as he's liked anybody so far, it's just that... He really doesn't want to ask for help. Not from a superhuman he doesn't know, at least, because he's always tried hard to prove that he can stand on their level.] No, I've just about got it, I think. [Nah some of the rubble on top is starting to wobble as he tries to wedge the capsule out...]

[hugmagnet]

[Carol responds to the face with a good natured roll of her eyes and then stands aside to let him work. She understands. She remembers what it's like to be someone without powers trying to do things for themselves]

Okay, if you say so. Just as a warning though, some of that rubble looks kinda shaky. You might wanna be careful pulling that out. [She's prepared to catch it if it falls]

[beganwithamask]

[He makes another face at her and keeps yanking the thing out in small increments, reaching up to steady a large rock occasionally. He doesn't want to send the whole thing toppling, and it's a waste of time to move everything on top just to get to one capsule that might not even have anything valuable in it.] I know. I've got it handled. Ain't the first disaster scene I've seen.

[hugmagnet]

[She shrugs at the face, completely unbothered. She's already decided that Bucky is probably gonna be prickly at her every time she sees him. He's prickly when he's older too. Maybe less so than this but still prickly]

Hey, I'm just trying to make sure you don't have a wall falling on your head. But if you say you've got it, I believe you.

[beganwithamask]

[Prickly is a bit of an understatement with this one, he's still young and arrogant and feels like he knows everything, but... Well, that pile is wobbling pretty disconcertingly now, and he stares at it frustratedly, pausing for a moment.]

Not a word.

[hugmagnet]

[She grins and traces an X over her heart with her finger before floating up to hold the rubble pile steady]

Go ahead and grab it. The pile won't fall now.

[beganwithamask]

I hate you. For the record. [But he does finally dig out the capsule without entombing himself in a pile of rocks, so. That's got to be a win.]

[hugmagnet]

That's just because you barely know me. [Much like Rogue, she's going to make you like her. Deal with it] Give it time. I grow on people. ...Which makes me sound like a fungus or something but eh.

[beganwithamask]

[He makes a face at her as he busies himself trying to crack it open, hoping for something better than a bunch of little toys and pictures of stars.] Did future me think you're this annoying too?

[hugmagnet]

Actually, I'm pretty sure future you finds all of us annoying. And by "all of us" I mean "The Avengers". [He sure complained about them enough] Future you is also weird about babies, by the way.

But he also still let us stay in his apartment when we needed a place to hide.

[beganwithamask]

Well you are annoying. [He keeps prying at the capsule, deft fingers working it over to find a weak spot to try and crack open.] I ain't good with babies. [Well, he has a baby sister, and he vaguely remembers holding her and taking care of her a bit, but she wasn't that young when their mother died, so he isn't exactly experienced.]

He sounds nuts. Hide from what?