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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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"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.

"Yeah, it would. I think Keith has actually piloted them before so he's more familiar with it than I am." Not that he didn't have all the same information thanks to the data point, but there was still real world experience.

"Yeah, that's it," he said as they headed over. "That one we will be guaranteed to get in."

"Keith's been here longer," the Exo nodded. He hadn't flown with the guy but he knew there were at least a few instances that they'd had to man the ships, so there were definitely opportunities for previous experience.

"Finally!" Cayde didn't take any further encouragement to bounce over to the entry hatch, pleased to see as it opened up. He grinned over at Shiro before bounding inside.

"Yeah, he has. I think he was here even before it was here." It sounded strange to say that, but Keith had told him about it when he had arrived.

Shiro grinned before following Cayde inside. "I think this is one of the older ships, but still seems like it is in good shape."

That took a moment to wrap his head around, but Cayde started to nod again. Keith was one of the ones previously absconded by a force other than the Agrii, if he remembered correctly.

"Aw, this ship isn't as fun inside as the Starduck was," the Exo huffed as he looked around. It was still a little better than one of the other ones he'd visited, although the name escaped him. "If you see any knives lying around, those're mine," he said as he ducked down the hall, making a beeline for the bunk room.

"Yeah, this one is not as exciting, but I'm sure we could make it that way if we really wanted to. Add some lights if we are able to get those."

Yes, he really was suggesting hanging Christmas tree lights in the spaceship. Made about as much sense as anything here.

"I'll be sure to keep any eye out, especially since I don't want to step on any of them." He said this as he followed after him.

"Lights!" Cayde snapped his fingers, pointing back at Shiro. "Yes, great. Let's do it." He was an easy sell, but then maybe he was of the mind that lights made everything better. Just look at his bar!

In the bunk room, he'd be found shoving up the mattress on the captain's bed, looking at the underside of it before dropping it back down and then poking around the other beds. Well, that was probably as good a hint as any as to where he usually hid his stuff on the other ship.

Yeah, that was true. The bar did say he was an easy sell at that. Shiro didn't mind though. Meant that the crew could make this ship more their own. A private space where no others could come in unless they were with someone else. "We'll just need to find some then."

Shiro watched him, standing in the door way. "Looking for something that was hidden on the other ship?"

"Well, if we can't make some or replicate 'em, we can always take a chance with the supply box," Cayde nodded. He liked chancing the supply box, if only because it amused him for whatever the Agrii might come up with for their requests.

He stood back from his bed searching, tapping his foot. "Yeah. I used to stash all the weapons I got from the few places we were able to visit off-world. Don't know if everything got moved or if they're still aboard the Starduck," he said, stepping over to the small storage lockers to start opening them up.

"Hmm... you know I have not tried a supply box yet. I wonder what I would get with one."

He had heard about it so he was aware it was not necessarily what you asked for that you got.

"If they were trying to make things convenient, they'd be here now. If they weren't, they'd still be on the Starduck." He moved start checking the lockers as well. "How many of them do you have?"

"Do it! It's fun. I tried to make a game of it once and gave them a scavenger hunt list. It was kind of disappointing though. Nothing nearly as weird as what other people seem to get."

Cayde opened up another locker, the garbled sound he made wavering between joy and shock. "Well, they moved something!" he said as he pulled out a sock stuffed with a couple of knives. "Not sure I'd call this convenient though..." He tucked the knives into his belt and looked sadly at the overstretched sock. "How many? Uh...at least....five, maybe? And a few guns... maybe a thermal detonator or two..." he murmured as he started looking elsewhere.

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