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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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"Yeah, sure seems that way," the Exo sighed, scowling a bit. There was probably an easier way to do this, but Cayde liked to be direct. He wasn't sure anyone had taken the ships out since...whenever the crew lists got shuffled around, but he was anxious about the things potentially left aboard.

"They kick you off this boat too?"

"Yeah, I was kicked off this one. I have no idea if there was a reason for the ship shuffle."

He looked up at his old ship. Not that it would do much good.

"Who knows. A little warning might've been nice though. I haven't cleared out all my stuff!"

Cayde sighed, giving one last pound on the hatch before he turned away from the ship. "Well, let's see what ship we're on," he said as he pulled out his tablet.

"Yeah, I didn't really know about it either. Just you aren't allowed on this ship."

He sighed before nodding at Cayde's comment. "Mine is the Bishop. At least that's the ship that lets me on without a fight."

"Bishop- oh hey! Looks like we're ship buddies again!" Cayde said as he finally found the crew rosters.

"Weird thing, the whole not letting anyone but the assigned aboard a ship...but I guess that makes sense?" He shrugged, turning to look around for their new assignment.

"We are? That's great!" More time hanging out together.

"Seems odd when we are just sitting on the ground, but perhaps it reduces the chances of theft as any visitors would have to be allowed by someone staying there. Also would prevent unfriendly people from boarding."

It was just like old times, hanging with a Shiro. Except this one only had one metal arm, but that was fine. Cayde grinned at the enthusiasm, holding up a fist to bump.

"Yeah, good point. And there are a few people who've been living on these things. ...huh, wonder if they got magically moved into a new ship during all this," he mused. "...I also should have paid better attention to what ship is what but they all pretty much look the same on the outside so at least I feel a little vindicated in that."

He brought his hand up to do a fist bump with him as well. Always good to hang out with Cayde.

"Yeah, on the outside, they do look the same. It's once you get inside that they are different. I did live on my ship for a while. It's kind of familiar."

"Being stuck on those things got boring pretty fast. They didn't travel nearly as fast as the ships I'm used to. I'd rather not have to live on 'em if I don't have to."

Cayde tucked his tablet away as he considered the ships. "Well, all else fails, we can just run by each one and see which one opens up for us. One already down."

"Yeah, they certainly aren't faster than the Castle of Lions, but then again that ship has the ability to create wormholes to travel through. So its hard to beat it places. Also the Castle of Lions was far larger."

As one might guess by the word castle.

"I'm up for it if you are."

"Wormholes? No kidding? -and when you say 'castle' do you mean an actual castle like them medieval ones with the pointy tops and things?" Ship castle? Now that he had to see!

The grin was as good an indicator as any, and Cayde turned to dash over towards the closest ship then, expecting Shiro to be right behind him. "Mmnope, not this one."

"Yep, wormholes. Pretty much. I mean, it is a officially a space ship, but it could qualify as modern looking version of what a medieval castle would look like."

Shiro was definitely right behind when he did though he was a bit slow on the first one as he wasn't immediately expecting him to run for a ship. "Me neither. Let's go for the next one."

"Damn. I really wanna see this thing now!"

There wasn't much point in hanging about a ship that wouldn't open up, so Cayde nodded and started on towards the next. "Wish they parked these things in alphabetical order or something," he muttered.

"I wish I could show it to you. It would be hard to that though."

Shiro followed Cayde over to the next ship. "Maybe I can bring it up at the next staff meeting." He said it with a smirk, a little bit of a joke.

"Unless we suddenly get a weird Agrii detour like that last trip we took. Not sure how that would work out." And yet Cayde couldn't help but be interested as to the how's. Would it be in the past again? Or some strange alternate reality? At this rate he figured anything was possible.

He grinned at Shiro's comment. "I'll hold you to it. See about gettin' some cupholders installed too, while you're at it."

As they came up to the next ship he brought his hands up expectantly as though to trigger the door to open, not that it did. Maybe they were just out of range. He never did figure out how ships knew when to open for a person.

"I'm not sure how that would either. I'm not sure if you'd really want to right now. The Galra are ramping up to their fighting at the moment. Not a good time to come for a visit."

He chuckled at that. "I'll right that down when I get back to my room, so I don't forget about the cup holders."

Shiro walked up to the door as well, but the ship didn't respond. Which... made sense when it wasn't their ship, but... "How can these ships tell who is who just by walking up to it?"

"Excellent. We'll get this place shipshape in no time."

Cayde frowned as the door remained shut, lifting his shoulders in a shrug. "Sensors, maybe? I'd suggest a DNA scan but..." He gestured at himself. DNA would definitely be a problem with Exos. "On to the next one?"

"Literally and figuratively."

Shipshape... because they are ships.

"Perhaps. I wonder what they are looking at that would allow it to tell. I mean, not sure if it would open up for me if I pretended to be someone else. Yeah, let's check the next one."

The Exo shrugged again as he turned to move towards the next ship. "Then there's the whole not letting anyone in unless someone from that ship says it's okay. The tech here's weird as it is so I wouldn't even know where to begin with working out how all that functions."

He was a little less eager to hurry over to the next ship. The novelty of rushing between each one had quickly worn off. He'd be a little annoyed if it turned out that the Bishop would be the last ship they tried.

"Yeah it is. I mean I thought it was weird back home too, but it is weird here as well."

He can see that Cayde is getting less excited about checking all of the ships. Where he'd been running the first time, now he seemed more subdued about it. "Hey, shall we just go check out the Bishop? Try the other ships later?"

"Mostly the weird thing to me is having to download the know-how directly to your head to do anything."

There didn't seem much point for the latter if they wouldn't get past the door, but Cayde nodded anyway, just to prove he wasn't a quitter. "Yeah, let's do that," he said, gesturing for Shiro to lead the way. Maybe he had a better idea of where it was parked.

"Well, yeah, that's weird too. Helpful, but weird."

It was nice to know pretty everything immediately... but that was still weird.

"Sounds good." He would head in the direction of the Bishop, already knowing the general area where it was parked.

Cayde followed along, pulling out the tablet again to peruse the crew manifests. "So you're our pilot?" he observed. "You get to pilot one of these yet, or was that recent?" There was a lot of time between the few instances they'd been able to use the ships, so he suspected the latter.

"Haven't really had the chance to take it out yet. Keith was commenting that we should take our two ships and see where we are able to get them to go."

Joyriding in spaceships? Sure why not.

That got a grin from the Exo. "Sounds like fun. Even if we can't fly them off the planet, seeing how they handle within gravitational bounds would be interesting." And not just to maneuver them into a more favorable crash-landing.

"That our ship?" he asked, pointing ahead once it was more clear as to which one they were heading for.

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