godbent | 29th: The of Haruhi Suzumiya

29th: The of Haruhi Suzumiya

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[So Haruhi got home last night - later last night, and after looking at the bracelet she earned and putting it away, she sighed to herself and went to bed. Thus, it is the next morning after she got up to make breakfast out of some force of habit despite everything that she opens the journal to let everyone know-]

I'm back! About time too, that run a little longer than I was expecting... oh well! It was interesting, at least! Those TPs might be psychos, but they have some neat stuff, even if those pictographs don't really make any sense [she took some notes on them. She could recreate some from memory. But that's another matter] I definitely could have done without the spike pit trap again though, jeez... I even brought a fedora, expecting a classic like a giant ball or arrows in the wall, but no, all I get is some lame spike bit and a bear trap. [Both of which she avoided, but this might not be clear in context]

Well, whatever... I miss anything? Brigade! ...Everyone else! Report!

[When she hears about certain goings on she might be more excited. Like say the cultural fair or if she decides to get a Hanami up or making Miyabi her shrine. As it is though she just says this, leaves the journal open, and goes back to making breakfast.]

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Nothing at all?

Well, I guess there's the cultural fair at school. I'm sure you'll hear follow-up announcements, so you didn't technically miss anything there.

More New Feathers, New Feather party... Nothing too surprising.

New feathers of interest? Requests for that alchemy thing you were doing with Sokka? Scientific achievements?

Lots of adults, from what I've heard over the journals. Law enforcement types, I think.

As far as achievements, nothing interesting. Just keeping up on checking my crests for any vandalism and whatnot.

Looking for a new assignment, Leon? I've got some things that need doing, after all.

[Law enforcement... huh]

Depends on what it is. But if it's chores, I'll just redirect 'em to my lookalike or something.

You have a lookalike?

Minus the ears and the brains, yeah.

Oh so he's just worthless. No, I want you to look into something neat.

[Pretty much his thoughts. He doesn't even have to get into the whole 'butler' thing!]

Something neat?

Okay, so you've made fireworks and those teleporters and electricity and that teleporting bag I drafted for Ed, right? So I've got a new proposition for you: I want you to figure out how to make a submarine. Or at least a way to survive water pressure. Also an engine for a boat, that'd be cool too, not not as necessary as this first part.

[A beat]

...Oh and specific sample jars for deep sea animals.

Edited 2012-04-01 22:05 (UTC)

[... ...Well, that's a ton of requests all at once.]

Wait, wait. I thought you had asked about this stuff during that town meeting awhile back?

I did, but I only got Helios as a response.

And he wasn't able to help with anything?

He can - theoretically - get us to breathe underwater. And this other guy offered a very small form of SCUBA. But neither of those does anything for the pressure.

Okay... So dealing with the water pressure in itself is separate from the submarine. You'd either need an individual suit method or the actual submarine. I'd ... probably prefer a sub, if simply because there's ways to keep people from being exposed to deep water altogether.

[...] But that has a whole lot of issues, the least of which being it's not my kind of expertise.

Are you telling me that you can't handle that, Leon?

[He scoffs.] You're talking to the guy you asked to build you protective armor and gave you a doll as a solution.

There are ways I can manipulate water and air pressure, but I'd have to experiment. And even when I get something workable, it's dependent on something I can't personally make. An engineer would need to be involved for the making of a vehicle.

Geez, you don't like to make things easy... Bypassing flight altogether and going straight to underwater exploration.

If there was a castle in the sky i'd tell you to build a zeppelin. As it is, though, that's not the priortity.

A simple hot air balloon, maybe. You'd run into the same problem with a zeppelin as you're running into with the sub -- engineering isn't my specialty. I can't clap my hands and have a perfectly-working machine.

[He hums thoughtfully as he thinks aloud.] Diving... Water pressure... If we knew how deep we were trying to go, even something like ... what's it called, an atmospheric suit would work. A hard suit like that would offer room for applying crests, too. But then there's the materials problem again. Tch...

I'm willing to tax the Brigade's participation points to get more if necessary.

It would help if we could figure out how deep the ocean is, and what exactly you're expecting. How many people are you expecting to dive at once?

[Even as he asks that, he's already coming to his own conclusions.] Well, I guess you'd want more than one person at a time, which is why you asked about a submarine... Because you could probably request deep diving equipment from the Malnosso if you really wanted to, right?

I'm expecting sea life and who knows - we could take a survey geologically, right? I mean... the ocean goes out for maybe... 160 kilometers at most. Maybe we can estimate from a slope?

[A beat]

As for SCUBA, that's definitely out. Those are really dangerous if you don't have training.

Anything at that depth would be really dangerous, Haruhi. And that's not counting mental strain from being in those conditions for ... however long it'd take to descend to that depth.

SCUBA can kill you from error. Ever heard of the bends?

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