sixthiterationlogs | I work hard, I work hard every day

WHO: (Who is making the post)
WHERE: Inn & House 63
WHEN: September 4/5
OPEN TO: Kat, Constantine
WARNINGS: Discussion of time travel, swearing, tobacco use?

Inn

Now that walking isn't half so much a bitch and he's got a fair amount of work in his back pocket (figuratively) and hand (literally), Tony's better able to get a solid assessment of how much shit he can manage in a day. Which isn't near as much as he'd like but more than he probably should considering the whole 'healing up' thing he should be doing. But. He's got a meeting, supplies for what should prove to be an interesting interview, and a desperate need for anything coffee adjacent. He sets up at a far table, laying out the micro tools he'd managed to form the night before, the clock, and a sketch of what he hopes to make.

House 63

At least this time he's not hauling anything bigger than a lighter. Tony makes his way to Constantine's house with a notebook, a spool of twine, and something close to hope. Maybe. Workshopping timetravel isn't something that should be done he knows rationally but-

He has questions. It can't do any harm to ask, right? Right.

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Normally he didn't attend interviews so much as crash them and use his better judgement one way or the other RE a hiring choice. There's not much going on now by way of hiring but extra hands are useful and he'd probably need to sit down, outline who's helping him with what and actually name this business mess of his. Organization charts, ugh. He'd rather, and did, focus on the tools and toys in front of them that would need repairing. Or. Reworking.

"Not that long, no-" He stood to meet her, because that was a thing, and offered his hand because that, too, was a thing and he was trying to be better at the whole working with people...thing.

All in this shit together, etc. A lot of his fuckups in the past were tangled up in not communicating effectively and he's starting from scratch here. "We're taking a clock apart and building something with the components. Call it a working interview."

Kat took his hand in a friendly handshake though she was quick to pull away. She didn't mind the general concept of handshakes but touching always made her a little nervous. She was strong but there were parts of her past that continued to caution her.

"Okay. Do you have an idea of what function you'd like what we're building to perform?" She slipped her bag from her shoulder and placed some small items on the table for Tony to take or not take as he chose. Her dark vibrant green eyes didn't leave the parts on the table as if she was memorizing and sizing each component.

Kat didn't have the same technical mind that Tony did but she was precise and talented with delicate work. She'd also come here to learn and even if she isn't adequate for what Tony needs, she plans to take something away from this interview.

"Simple clockwork system, nothing too complicated-" He pulls out a sketch, a diagram of a palm sized clockwork spider. "Turnkey spring, tension on the wires having it skitter forward or back, maybe turn? Nothing too complicated to start. If we leave enough room in the gearbox so I can update it later when I have more time, that'd be ideal."

Simple straightforward creation. Not something that's needed, not something that's even all that useful but- Peter's been alone.

this isn't bringing in Ned or May or any kind of grounding influence, it's not Karen or even more of his time but it's...something. Something a kid might like, because he is a kid. And being allowed to be a kid should be a thing.

"Since it'll be small- delicate work. But I think we'll be able to manage."

Kat let her eyes scan over the plans before gently nodding her head in silent understanding. It was a simple design and very similar to the sphere she'd put together to help Dante.

"Okay. So we'll start with this here." She took the outside casing that would hold most of the gears and began to carefully put it together. Kat's hands were steady and her motions practiced as she began to follow Tony's plans. She didn't forget that Tony was watching her or that this was something like an interview but Kat was used to intense working conditions. It didn't bother her.

"I have a question." She leaned over the plans again and pointed to one of the gear segments. "If we push this here, it'll have room to move and give you a little space for later. Will that effect the torque of the gears?" Kat didn't know. By her standards this technology was very old.

"A little." He made the adjustment, sketched out the math just to double check the tensile strength of both the wire and the posts of the gears- and it all evened out. Good. "Not enough to be a risk on the mechanism. Good eye."

Leaving little pockets like that was part of how he tests for initiative- and she caught it beautifully. He'd begun threading and arranging the gears and loops for the legs, the wire spooled and ready to be cut to proper length whenever the main body was prepared- it wouldn't be a difficult build, but tedious.

And she already showed quite a bit of promise. "You weren't kidding about being good with delicate work."

The work that Kat did before her arrival at the village involved devices and materials that helped cross over to, or effect, Limbo. Those powers as a medium have been diminished in this world but she can still use the skills she'd picked up along the way.

Many of her projects back then had been life or death and mistakes couldn't be afforded. It was kind of nice working on something playful and while Kat would put the same effort forward regardless, she found the task to be relaxing.

"I've had to create clockwork like devices before. Everything had to be in the right place so that as I turned it, chambers would connect and mix different substances." She pulled back after placing a small gear in place and gave Tony room to see her work before reaching for one of the small bolts. "I also have small fingers."

"Clockwork timer for chemical reactions. Huh. Get a good system down and it'd be more reliable and safer than a long fuse and hoping it doesn't burn too quick." therefore: useful skill worth keeping no hand. The longer they work the more certain he is that she'll be an excellent set of hands to keep around when he gets deeper into clockwork mechanisms. Right now the only difficulty is having enough metal and sheeting it out to cut/punch out the gears.

He'll get it figured out. It's as good a puzzle as any.

Tony tilts his head to the side, squinting down at her work before nodding, pleased. "And a light touch. Good for working on delicate materials."

"I would also inscribe runes on the outside." She didn't look up at Tony but spoke like this was all completely normal. "It allowed me to release different parts of a spell in the correct order very quickly." Sometimes Kat didn't have enough time to cast a spell and she came up with these little trinkets to help.

"Thank you. I like being able to work on things like this."

Kat paused in what she was doing and looked up at him. "I miss it. I used to do this in the city for various reasons. Not exactly this but have a clear goal in mind." It's nice to have it again.

Huh. Magic. But Magic with some kind of logic to it, so. He'll allow it. "So engraving's something else I can have you handle. Making things that work- that's fine. But what makes something a Stark Product? It's gotta be stylish."

Delicate floral chasing on a teapot, carefully engraved lines on a flatiron. The devil was in the details and Tony kept his work as meticulously functional and fashionable as he could possibly manage given his tools and time. "I know the feeling. This is a little low tech compared to my usual work but it's soothing to get back to something more tangible than a hologram."

To have the gratification of something coming together under his fingers.

Kat looked up at him and shook her head. "I'll need tools that are made of something harder than the material I'm engraving." Which was her way of saying that she could do that except that right now she didn't have the tools that let her do that. Right now she couldn't engrave anything that was made out of metal.

"You worked with holograms?"

She hadn't had that kind of technology in Limbo city though she'd seen reflects of people between planes before.

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