Science Grandpa

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One day, after Darien had begun living on Haligan there suddenly came a knock on his door. The sun high in the sky, a little after midday.
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Jun 30, 2019
"Just a minute!"
There was a bout of shuffling and walking and Darien opened the door to find a Pookan half-breed on his doorstep. "Did the Chief have need of me?" he asked, wiping at an ink stain on his cheek and looking at his fingers in dismay.
Jun 30, 2019
She shook her head smiling kindly. "No." She said still staring at him.
Jun 30, 2019
He cocked his head a little, like a confused owl. "Oh. Then...uh...can I help you with something else?" he said hesitantly.
Jun 30, 2019
"Well actually..." She said as she pushed her way past him and into the house. "Ah there they are." She said as she saw his notes. "I came to help you."
Jun 30, 2019
He rubbed his temple in bewilderment, watching her invite herself in. “You’re not from the Squadron, too, are you?”
Jun 30, 2019
Her nose twitched as her brow furrowed. "The what?" She asked. Before waiting for a reply she turned and started leafing through the notes. "Anyways, I'm kinda just bored. I'm waiting for a reaction back at my lab but it takes foreverrrrr. So I thought I'd pop in and see what was crack alacking over her, and if I could be of any help, hey."
Jun 30, 2019
Oh, dear gods, I am getting old.
“Careful, please, the ink is still drying.” He hurried over to watch her closely as she inspected them. “Everything is actually written down, I simply need to...put it into a digestible format, as my personal notes tend to be...sporadic, and cryptic, at best.” He took in her appearance, going over her words. “You’re a scientist, of sorts, I assume?”
Jun 30, 2019
She grinned. "Oh yeah,def!" She declared. "I designed that windmill back there." She pointed back with her thumb. The windmill was nowhere near that direction. "I figured, hey it's tough for the animals to pull the mill, what if we got something else to pull it. So I started think what else could push the mill, then I was eating a sandwich cuz I couldn't think of anything and-"
Jun 30, 2019
“That’s...wonderful,” he said distractedly, picking up a fresh page of his notes and putting it out of her reach protectively. He feared she wouldn’t stop if he didn’t do it himself. “I don’t mean to be rude, but though you seem to be a very capable inventor, I don’t know if there’s any more you can do to help the plans go from here--” he tapped his temple with his quill “--to here.” He tapped the papers across his desk with the tip, making a few tiny ink blots. Darien did feel a bit bad about saying it, though, and he followed it up with, “But I welcome a break from a like-minded person such as yourself. Do you use any magic, or is it all purely mechanical and chemical?”
Jun 30, 2019
"Oh! Yeah check it!" She said as she cupped her hands, both a few inches apart. After a few moments electricity arced between her fingers. After a second or two she pulled her hands apart and shook them out. "Pretty cool huh?" She asked. "I've been trying to find some real world applications for it outside of just blasting a fool, but so far I haven't come up with much."
Jun 30, 2019
“What!?” He quickly moved around the table and crouched slightly, watching the sparks of energy dissipate from her hands, adjusting his glasses. “Hold on, would you do that again? I rarely get to study arc energy up close, I’ve done...ah, it was forever ago, but I studied this for a while!”
Jul 1, 2019
She grins. "Sure, but you gotta show me whatever notes you have on it." She cupped her hands again and the electricity jumped across her fingers again. She held it for as long as he needed to.
Jul 1, 2019
"Ah, incredible." He stuck his finger in the web of energy and hissed as his arm seized up and zapped with pain, shaking his hand out. "I'm afraid my most extensive research was lost with...well, with High Central, but I was tracking the man that brought me here, he had a curiously enormous well of magic similar to this." Without looking away, he fumbled for a fresh page that wasn't already covered in writing. "What's the highest amount of energy you've generated?"
Jul 2, 2019
"No don't touch-!" She winced as she was too late in her warning and stuck his finger into the electricity. "Oh um... I got up to about 500 joules before is my highest so far. I'm working myself up incrementally."
Jul 2, 2019
"Fascinating..." He notated the amount along with a guess at how much she had produced just then. "How long have you been doing this? I assume you were born with it?"
Jul 2, 2019
"I think it's Maybelline actually." She laughed at her stupid joke. "Actually I asked Nala for them." She scrunched her brow slightly. "Do you not know about demon possession?"
Jul 2, 2019
"Ohh, I see." He made a slight sputtering indignant sound. "Of course I know about demon possession. I was held hostage by several." He began writing a very long, messy sentence that intruded on the corner of a map he had drawn earlier.
Jul 2, 2019
She shrugs, "Well sorry not everyone is as close to a demon as we are here." She defended. "Can I stop yet?" She asked, lightning still jumping between her fingers.
Jul 2, 2019
“O-oh, of course, yes, sorry. Thank you.”
He lifted his quill from the paper, pausing and looking at her. “You are...close to the Warden, then?” he said curiously.
Jul 2, 2019
She made her hands into fists, breaking the circuit, before shaking her hands out. "Yeah, she was good friends with my father." She said with a sad smile." She's basically like my aunt.
Jul 2, 2019
Darien nodded thoughtfully, looking down at his desk. “That’s interesting,” he said. “I hold no such...familial love for any of the demons I know, but that...sounds interesting. She seems much different from when I once knew her.” He scratched the back of his head, giving an apologetic chuckle. “My apologies, when it comes to being out of the loop, as they say, I have been...excelling at it.” This wasn’t entirely true, as he did his best to hear what the word on the wind was through his travels, but there was only so much one man with no power could learn by himself.
Jul 3, 2019
She snaps her fingers at that. "Oh right, you made the dungeons. You set her up in the Grounded Dungeon right?" She sat on an open spot on the table. "Yeah you actually knew her way back when. I think you can thank my father and Stonegit for that change." She smiled as she recalled the story. "Where did you go btw? I kinda assumed, well, everyone kinda assumed you were dead, along with everyone else that was leading Central at the time."
“That is a fair assumption,” he laughed. “I might as well have been.” He quickly recounted where he had been during Ragnarok; he’d gotten good at summarizing it over the past couple days. “After Tezzeret rescued me, I…was everywhere, I suppose. Everywhere a man can go on his own two legs while avoiding everyone, that is.”
Jul 3, 2019
She nodded. “It must be nice, being able to stay in one place for once.” Jari said with a smile. “I know you’re mostly doing this for protection but, once everything is said and done with Central, maybe you can settle down here. It’d be nice to have a like minded person on island. You’d probably be better to bounce ideas off of instead of my brother or sister.” She laughed slightly.
Jul 3, 2019
A little flustered, the man looked down and shuffled his notes around aimlessly, echoing her small laugh. “I am truly flattered. I am used to people being rather scared, instead of endeared to me.” He felt an unusually large swell of emotion upon telling this to her, and felt a slight lump grow in his throat. “Well, I would…I may consider it, though I have enjoyed traveling, too. I do not know if I can part with that so easy. I’m…I’m sorry, I never caught your name.”
Jul 3, 2019
“Oh duh.” Jari said as she realized. “Jari Ericson, scientist extraordinaire!” She exclaimed with a grin.
Jul 3, 2019
With a genuine smile crossing his face, Darien reached out a hand to shake almost in jest, looking at her over his glasses. “Well then, Darien Whiteland, at your service, Jari. I’m sure there’s a lot you can teach me about your work.”
Jul 3, 2019
She laughed as she took his hand. “Are you kidding me? You probably know more than I do. I mean you’re so….. Experienced.” She said not wanting to say old.
Jul 3, 2019
He grinned and took his glasses off, putting his fists on his hips. “Old. You were going to say old.”
Jul 12, 2019
“Whaaaaat? Nooooo.” She said waving her hand. She quickly tried to change the the subject. “Uuuhhhhhhey I made this real cool explosive powder.” She said quickly.
Jul 12, 2019
“Oh, you did?” He chuckled at her enthusiasm. He hardly knew anything about her and already he could tell her methods of science were significantly more chaotic than his own. “And what do you use that for, pray tell?”
Jul 12, 2019
“Well, um… No, reaaall applications yeeeettt. I was thinking it could be used for mining in smaller, more controlled amounts, but my sister prefers to just use them to blow up stuff.” She says bitterly.
Jul 12, 2019
“Ah, I knew someone like that, once upon a time. Not that either of us were in the right, mind you, none of the three of us were, but his methods involved more war and weapons than I knew what to do with.”
Jul 12, 2019
She frowns as she leans back against the table, crossing her arms. “It’s just so frustrating because, I’m not against doing my part to help the Rebellion by inventing things, but that’s all she cares about.”
Jul 12, 2019
He tested one of his maps to make sure it had dried completely and began rolling it up. “And what do you care about, Jari?”
Jul 12, 2019
She sighs and looks down. “I care about helping other Half-Breeds and taking care of my family and friends.” She pushes herself off the table. “But I also care about science. I care about learning how the world works and making people’s lives better with my inventions!” She says passionately.
Jul 12, 2019
“I see. That’s very noble of you,” he said kindly. “It seems like perhaps your sister shares your ideals, but disagrees on how to achieve them. But maybe…” He tapped the end of his papers on the table, turning over his next words. “Maybe there is something to be said for securing the safety of the present in order to be able to explore the future. Does that make sense?”
Jul 12, 2019
She sighs. “Yeah it does. It just gets frustrating some times ya know?” She leans back against the table, arms crossed again and looks back at the ground. “Anyways, is there anything I can do to help out around here?”
Jul 12, 2019
Darien looked around apologetically, scratching the back of his head. “Honestly…company is help enough. Though I wouldn’t want to distract you from…you have a lab, you said?”
Jul 13, 2019
She nodded with a little half grin. “Yeah, but I don’t have any expierements planned with the raid coming up. Didn’t want to have to drop one midway through.”
Jul 14, 2019
“Well, let me know if I can be of any use, then. I may not have access to High Central’s research any more, but I was in charge of it, once upon a time. I’m sure something I learned can be of value to the Rebellion.”
Jul 16, 2019
Jari began bouncing on the tips of her toes. “Oh definitely. And if there’s any expierements or something you want to do, my lab is always open to you. We can be like lab partners!” She exclaimed.
Jul 16, 2019
“That sounds wonderful, Jari.” He couldn’t break the broad grin from his face. “Maybe I will stay longer then planned, then.”
Jul 16, 2019
Jari grinned. “Cool, you can be my science grandpa then.” She teased as she stuck her tongue out.
Jul 16, 2019
The smile on his face faltered, but not in a bad way; he seemed to lose a slight bit of his composure and he ducked his head in embarrassment with a breathy laugh, nodding quickly to assure her that he was fine. Why were his eyes so wet and itchy all of a sudden? “Ha-ha, absolutely hilarious,” he said, quickly recovering. “We should probably get a hold of a meal while we’re both on break.”
Jul 16, 2019
She hopped off the table. "Come on then gramps, before they serve all the good stuff." She said as she rushed out and towards the hall.
Category:BOTGD 2
Category:Events
Category:Act I
Category:Jari Ericson
Category:Darien Whiteland