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♤ Cause and Effect

WHO: Cayde-6, OTA
WHERE: The Library, the Hangar, the Clocktower
WHAT: A bored Hunter is a restless Hunter
WHEN: Now throughout the week
WARNINGS: N/A
NOTES: Will match tagging preference!

The Library (Closed to Jon and Tony)
If there's one thing a Hunter's good at, it's sneaking around. He's scoped out his destination, made sure key parties were present. It would be a wasted effort if he went through so much trouble and found himself without his intended audience, after all.

And so it is that Cayde hauls along a couch, of all things, which might be an odd sight in itself considering he's seen pulling it out from the Whale Comb Sent Her. He has it resting over his back part of the way, and by the time he gets to the library itself, he's simply dragging it by one end, rather noisily once its feet leave the weed-ridden, patchy earth and start to screech across the smoother floors. But his intention is not stealth, not now. Now? He's clearly asking for attention.

He pulls that couch right up into the most open space of the library, looks around, and then sets it right down. Then picks it up and turns it about to adjust it just so after consulting his hidden Ghost for something or another. And just like that, he walks right back out.

The Hangar (Open)
Some time later in the week one might find the Exo skulking about the hangar. Mainly he's prowling around the Starduck if not ineffectually pawing at the door hatch. His Ghost hovers nearby, watching.

If no one comes around to open the thing up for him, then he'll be wandering around the other ships, holding his tablet as he squints between the screen and each ship he passes as he looks for a certain one.

The Clocktower (Openish?)
Cayde's been seen with a giant coil of rope slung over an arm, fresh from the replicator. He's made a beeline for his tower (not the nest of buildings the bar's in), humming along. If Ikora's about the lower levels that she's claimed, then he wouldn't be surprised if she'd try to hold him up for questioning. Which is why he goes up to his own levels the usual way- jumping. Dare someone brave the Warlock's domain to head up those stupidly tall stairs to find him? -it's fine, she won't bite.

If you catch up to him at the top floor of the clocktower, you'll find him setting the rope down as he looks on out of one of the gaping holes that face the neighboring tower by the flood plains, stroking his chin thoughtfully. After a moment he turns to you, grinning as he picks up the rope and starts pulling half of it loose before tossing the rest over. "Hey, do me a solid and hold onto that. -and make sure to keep feedin' me some line!" And then without further explanation he leaps out the hole, somehow jumping again in midair just before he can hit the ground and break his ankles, rope winding out in his wake.

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Terra is out scouting. He knows he needs to find Lauri-Ell at some point and talk to her, but right now he's just out and about. It isn't long before he finds himself at the clocktower and he started looking at it. Sure it wasn't the first time he'd seen it, but he hesitated before moving.

Sure it wasn't the first time just going in to see a place, but in the end he went inside anyway. As he went inside and looked up well it was a long way up but Terra wasn't afraid. So he diligently went up the stairs one at a time and made his way up to the top. There he saw Cayde who seemed to be picking up a huge rope.

And suddenly the other is asking him to hold on which he nodded to. "Where are you going?" Surely he didn't mean...but then he was gone and he held onto the rope, trying to do as he'd been asked which was to feed the rope a little bit at a time.

The Exo was satisfied to find that the rope wasn't falling short as he started forward. Terra would be able to see him run across to the adjacent tower, pausing at its foot as though to size it up. He glanced back towards the clocktower then, waving enthusiastically at Terra before giving a little tug of the rope and motioning with his hands in admittedly a confusing manner.

Looking back up at the tower he stood by, he gathered himself up then to jump, looking for foodholds, ledges and windows, the rope continuing to trail along, potentially pulling a little taut if Terra hadn't let out more line before Cayde started jumping.

He had no idea why Cayde was waving at him, but it half amused Terra. And of course he kept feeding the rope so that the other could land safely. He had no idea what the other was doing or what he hoped to accomplish, but he would help on his end to the best of his ability.

But then he couldn't see Cayde as the man moved upwards, but he could feel the tension on the line, and Terra continued to carefully feed the rope. And he just hoped that the other was being careful.

Terra was turning out to be an excellent helper! Cayde reached the top of the tower, clambering in through the window. He vanished inside, although it seemed that the rope ceased to get pulled by him any further for the moment. It was maybe several minutes before the Exo called out from the window.

"Whaddya think? We got enough rope to double back?"

He was really trying his best and just hoped somehow he was helping..whatever project Cayde was working on. Though what one could involve jumping around with rope, Terra couldn't even begin to guess.

So he was a little startled when the other called to him and he wasn't sure what to do with or about the rope. Holding onto it though as if it were his own lifeline seemed to be the best option.

Hearing the other's voice, Terra nodded as he checked how much was left. And he raised his own voice just a little. "We're good, come on back!"

"Woo! All right, let out as much as you can! Otherwise you'll get a rope burn!" Cayde replied. He gave Terra a moment to actually comply before he went leaping down from the window again.

The rope started moving again, and once the Exo came into view it would be very clear as to why. He was still holding onto his end of the rope, although it appeared that it was still loosely attached somewhere as the rest of the rope continued to go up towards the tower even as he came bounding back. Soon enough, Cayde was leaping back up the side of the clocktower to come back through the hole he'd initially vaulted out of.

"Nice job, buddy!"

Terra nodded and let the one gloved hand take the brunt of the rope. He still had no idea what Cayde was up to, but soon enough he came into view. This of course gave him the time to ask what he had tried to before.

"What was all the jumping around for? Were you..looking for something?" Though really it was one heck of a way do go searching. And in the back of his mind he wondered why the other did all of that, and then it hit him. So he stayed quiet.

"Searching? Oh yeah, kind of," Cayde replied nonchalantly as he gestured for Terra to hand him the rest of the rope. He turned to pull his end of it a little more, nodding to himself in satisfaction that the other side was holding.

"Hmmm...might have to fix this up higher to work," he mused as he peered back out across, and then leaned out the hole to look up at the roof of his own place.

Carefully he looped it into a small circle and handed everything back to Cayde. The man's words made him wonder some more until he watched the other mention having to fix the rope up higher.

"Do you need help to get the rope up higher?" Here Terra was just trying to be helpful and half of him wondered what would've happened had he not been there when he was.

Surely the Exo would have improvised. But he certainly wasn't turning down an opportunity if it made things easier, and Terra was practically asking to help just coming on up here.

"Eh, getting it higher's not the problem," Cayde admitted as he hung onto the wall so he could lean out just a little farther, not that it changed his perspective much. "I'm going to have to scope out the top, but I'm sure there's something to loop this around."

He looked around for a place to secure the rope for the time being, dragging over the chair he had there to loosely tie the ends around.

"So you're trying to get to the top of the tower." Or at least that's what it seemed like to him. He nodded and extended his hand. "I'll see what I can help with, and if you need me to take some rope up I can."

What the other was trying to accomplish, Terra couldn't say. But he did know for sure that he wanted to help and if he could use some of his own skills in order to get this done, he could at least do that much.

"Oh, it's easy getting up to the top. Do it all the time," Cayde grinned. Given his earlier jumping spectacle, it probably wasn't too difficult to figure how he managed that. "But if you wanna come up, maybe you can help me figure out if this'll work or not."

He walked over to the larger hole in the wall, one that had eaten a small portion of the ceiling with it. It made it easier to jump up to the roof, and he used the uneven edges of the wall as footholds to leap up. It wouldn't be impossible for Terra to find a way up, the outer wall pocked with plenty of places to use as handholds if he didn't want to attempt following Cayde's example.

"Oh." Terra replied, a little puzzled. And then he was kind of surprised to get invited to go somewhere, but he wasn't going to turn the opportunity down, so he nodded. Help. Yes he could do that.

Following Cayde over, he looked at the space that his companion was. And since he the other was having no trouble with the hand holds and spaces, he figured it would be good practice to get into to see if he could do the same things the same way.

It didn't hurt to try new things.

Cayde was waiting up top, ready to offer a hand if Terra needed it. He stepped back once the other was on the roof, slightly dizzying for its height and lack of any real barrier to keep someone from a misstep and taking a tumble.

There were a few twisted bits of metal here and there that might have been the support for some sort of structure to top the clocktower, but most of the material that had been covering it had eroded away. Leaning against one of those remnants was a crude wooden sign, the message carved into it reading: I charge by the hour.

He didn't need a hand, but he still reached up for Cayde's hand anyway. After getting up to the top, Terra's blue eyes scanned around. "Wow, this is a pretty great view up here. No wonder you wanted to come up."

He then turned to look and saw the sign and then looked at his companion. "Did you make that sign?" Charge by the hour for what?

"Yep. Was one point where I had a bunch of people coming up here out of the blue- well, not all at once, but I mean, come on! This isn't the only roost with a view!"

The Exo looked out across to the other tower he'd gone jumping over to, folding his arms thoughtfully as he considered the setup.

"Might be the first one they see though." Terra wasn't sure if this was helpful or not, but he was trying to figure out why so many would want just this one spot when Cayde was right. There were others and quite a few other buildings, now that he could see them from up high.

He turned and watched the other curiously and then gave the other a nod at the rope. "So you're just jumping from high place to high place?"

"That, I don't believe for a second," Cayde said, but he was still grinning.

Cayde shook his head, looking around at what he had to work with on his side of things. "Not jumping- jumping was just for the initial set-up. Once I get the other end of the rope tied up over here, just need something that won't cause too much friction to hang on to, loop it over the rope and just-" He gestured with his hand, dipping it forward and down into a slight curve as he pushed it outward. "-slide on down to the other end."

It was the only guess that Terra had, but if he was wrong he was okay with that much. But he listened as Cayde went on with his plan with the rope. "What are you looking to do?" Was he just looking to explore things or was he just bored or was that the way they did things back in his home world?

This was just a puzzle in Terra's mind but he was interested in whatever this was all the same.

"See, I got a soldier pal who's taken up that tower as his outpost. So I thought this'd be a fun, quick way to pay him a visit now and then."

Maybe people might think him crazy, or if they knew Cayde well enough, probably not even be all that surprised. But really, that was all there was to it, just following a thought on a whim and no one objecting or otherwise. Well maybe Echo might object, but so far, he didn't know.

"I see." Terra replied. "Well let's get started." He wasn't sure why Cayde had decided this when he could just walk, but if this would be faster and it was safe then he couldn't really say anything.

Besides, everyone did their own thing here pretty much and he wasn't going to judge it.

The response was so surprisingly accepting that Cayde had to pause a moment to see whether Terra was joking or not before he laughed and patted the guy heartily on the back. "Now we're talking!"

He went to retrieve the rope, then pointed at some of the bare rebar. "Think that'll hold?"

He didn't understand what the pause was for, but soon he was being patted on his back. Well that was a good sign right? It was the first time someone had acted this friendly towards him since he got here. So he couldn't help but smile.

The smile faded quickly as Cayde started getting the rope and pointed. Terra nodded. "It looks like it should. I can tie it if you want."

Well, if Terra was offering then who was Cayde to question how well he could do the job? The Exo happily passed over the ends of the rope before giving his blessing in the form of a thumbs-up. "Go for it," he said. At least this way he'd be able to have a better visual for the angle if it turned out it wasn't working, but he had a good feeling about it.

He nodded and started tying the rope as well as he could. This would be interesting no doubt, to see what Cayde could do. And of course Terra made sure the knot held because the other's safety was depending on it.

So after a moment or two, he looked up at his companion. "Should be all set."

♤ Cause and Effect

Clocktower

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