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Oh Yes, I'm Goin' To The Hardware Store

WHO: Reno and any and all of you wonderful people. (Yes, even you, York.)
WHERE: Her new workshop in southeast Temba (Orange 8)
WHAT: The resident cruiser opens up her new workshop to the public!
WHEN: Mid-July
WARNINGS: N/A

Reno had been created for a purpose. A purpose she was rather no longer entirely needed for, nor did she have the ammo or vast expanse of unfriendly oceans to effectively use them on. While she had taken Lauri's suggestion to pick up the security datapoint and now could properly be a sidekick again, it wasn't the same if there wasn't much to sidekick about.

Fortunately, she had a particular set of skills she had picked up whlie with the Eagle Union. So it was that, after her initial explorations, she decided to establish herself a 'home port' and offer those skills up to her fellow exiles here.

So it was, some time later, that there were hastily scrawled flyers left about Temba:

RENO INDUSTRIES
Tailoring, crafting, welding, lighting
More than just cosplay
We Can Do It!
Southeast Side Strip Mall

Visitors to said 'strip mall' will find the storefront now adorned with 'RENO INDUSTRIES' hastily painted up top. Inside is a small orderly mess of assorted fabrics, plastics, and sheets of metal that's she scavenged so far from across the city. A workbench has been set up, along with some well-worn basic tools that she's also managed to find. Already she looks to be hammering out what appears to be a shield of some sort, a sign nearby labeled 'Example Work In Progress!'

Reno herself isn't out front, though one can hear singing from the back. "Go Go Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangeeeeeeers o/~"

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Well it'd be a shame not to come and visit a new neighbor!

...granted there's like, two roads and a lake in between them but hey! Same area as the bar, roughly!

Cayde has to grin as he sees the painted name across the storefront, undoubtedly enthusiastically done. Really, there's no chance it wasn't. The girl had even put out flyers! Man, he wished he'd have thought of flyers when he made the bar, but he went for the cool internet route.

"Heehee, this already looks promising," the Exo says, glancing down at the hen tucked in the crook of his arm. "Sounds like she's in, anyway."

He takes his time in wandering the shop, looking at all the things Reno's managed to gather up. It's an impressive collection to be sure. Eventually he makes his way towards the back area that Reno seems to be.

"Helloooo? Anyone home?"

A customer! The song abruptly ends as Reno spins about, and who would it be but the nice giant armor suit and his battle hen! "Cayde! Colonel! Wow, you're really here!" said with Agri's biggest smile and arms open wide. There's a moment's pause as she realizes just then that there might not be a guy in the armor suit, but not that it matters. Vision's a hero too!

"I have been thinking of both of you," said as she hurried over to a pile of brown leathers. "I tried to find something that might look like it'll match your hood." What might have been a sleeve once is held up, "All I need now is measurements, and maybe scratch down that pattern on the side if you'd like! I might be able to find some dyes and a brush!"

Aw, he's not that giant! Cayde's a modest (?) six feet or so, dressed in worn leathers and a tattered cloak with a hood- yet he still wears it so well. Those may be knit socks tucked between his boots and armor trappings there. He grins- somehow that metal face of his conveys enough expression despite the obvious restrictions but there's enough movement to get emotion across.

"Got your flyer, so of course we hadda come see. Looks like a fun little place you got here!" He follows Reno eagerly, studying the piece of material she holds. "Well then, that shouldn't be a problem at all. Colonel, I'm gonna put you down for a bit, all right?"

The chicken is set on an empty area of the workspace, not bothered in the least as she merely fusses at some feathers.

The nice and friendly faces here in Agri are a welcome relief to the kansen, she's already eagerly taking off her gloves so that she can better handle the measuring tape. And not spook Colonel, of course. "Wooow, this is the first time I've ever had to measure a hen! It shouldn't be too hard!"

With that, cautiously and surprisingly quietly, she measures out the length and height and width of the chicken's head. All measurements are written down, its not real science unless you do! "While you're both here, is there anything else I can do for either of you?" A nod is given toward Cayde, "You might be a little more advanced than what I'm used to, but I still can do some basic stuff!"

Watching Reno work, Cayde folds his arms, leaning casually off to the side so as not to get in the way. Colonel seems quite patient about this but then she's probably had to deal with plenty of nonsense, including nosy and adoring Guardians who always come to say hi around Cayde's little spot in the hangar back home.

"Me? Don't you worry 'bout me, I'm good. But..." He thinks, then brings out the scrawled out flyer, tapping at the words. "What's this about lighting?"

At that, Reno just beams even more and holds up her metallic gloves to a side. A button is pressed and no sound is made, lest she disturb Colonel, but her palms light up in a soft blue laser light show. "I can do stuff like this! Not so sure with the sound effects with what I've found, but I think I found what look like LEDs that shouldn't be too hard to wire up." She flicks them on and off, "Harmless, but they look awesome!"

The Exo's eyes seem to brighten at this light display. "Where were you when I needed a neon sign for the bar!" He laughs.

"I can always do for more mood lighting though. You been there yet? I know I wanted rustic but it can get pretty dark in there sometimes! Most of the light is coming from the windows and that's all filtered through water. But I would especially love some fancy lighting for my stock shelf behind the bar. ...maybe I should upgrade the shelf too, it's kinda lopsided but I'll admit, I am no carpenter."

The thought of bar lighting has Reno furrowing her brow for a moment, "I haven't tried anything like that, but if its as simple as chaining lights... It shouldn't be too hard, we can do it!" All smiles again, she steps over to a container and peeks inside, "We'll need a lot more lights, though, I'll have to search through town if I can find some more. And enough of the same color too, unless you want it to look like a party!"

"Something like backlighting. I'm sure there's lots of places that still haven't been scavenged. I'll admit, I haven't been looking specifically for lights so maybe I've just glossed them over." Cayde grins again. "Who doesn't like a party! -although that might be a bit much for the bar. Don't want to start getting tacky, right? I run a respectable establishment!"

Reno plays it straight with an "Of course!" and a thumbs up. "That shouldn't be too hard at all, some nice backlighting will really make the place... light up!" A pause, and then a moment of sheepishness, "I'm not really someone who really goes to bars, though they're occasionally in movies! So you'll have to help guide me a bit!"

Cayde chuckles then. "To be fair, I'm totally playing this all by ear myself. But I definitely think we can make the place pop if we put the lights in the right places. I'm sure we'll get it figured out."

"That's the spirit!" With that, she brought over the box of lights she did have over to Cayde, all sparkles and eager energy. This is going to be fun! "Now, the ones we do have, which ones do you think look the best?"

Making sure that Colonel wasn't about to peck anything important or inedible, Cayde leans on the worktable to poke his head over the edge of the box.

"Ooh, I like the look of this," he says as he reaches in to pick out a blue-green light. "I think it'd go great with the whole underwater theme. Oh, oh! How about like...under the edge of the bar counter- uh...underlighting?" He paws through the box. "Maybe mix it up a tiny bit for the backlighting of the shelf- just not too much..."

"Underwater?" Cayde had mentioned something about water earlier, hadn't he? "Yeah, a Bar Under The Sea theme! I can go find more like those," said with a nod towards the blue-green. "And I think I was at your bar not that long ago, talking to Bucky and Steve. Yeah, those would look good under and ... hmm." A blue and an orange light was pulled out, "And this can go behind the bar so it looks like a sunset! I could even put a little wooden beach together!"

"Well, under something. The lake outside the window already provides most of the ambiance," Cayde laughs. "Had a guy step inside once and go green as soon as he saw the fish swimming on the other side of the glass. Guess he had some issues with the underwater theme."

He's glad to hear that his bar's getting some use even when he's not around, but he'd never meant to do fulltime maintenance. "Oh yeah? That'll explain why some of my stock is low..." He smirks. Cupping his chin in a palm, he's happy to wait and see what Reno's thought of then as she digs around and pulls out a couple more lights.

"That's a fine idea!" He might also be a bit partial to the colors, given that they practically mirror his eyes and the light that spills from his throat every time he opens his mouth.

"Oh, there was drinking." Said as if there was quite a bit of drinking. Which may eventually be the case when we finish up two war veterans meeting a fangirl who's also the reincarnation of a warship of said war. A sheepish grin, "And you think so? Yeah, it'll be really cute!"

A thought. "Do you have those little umbrellas from cocktail drinks? Maybe we could decorate it with a few of those!"

That's what the bar's there for! At least Steven isn't Captain-ized otherwise the drinks would've gone a lot faster and with less effect. But that's what the red stuff is there for.

Cayde almost makes a face at the thought of his bar being 'cute'. He wants to be chic! Well okay, maybe not exactly. He smiles lopsidedly, shaking his head. "Alas! I do not. And as amazingly crafty as Tony is I don't know if he'd ever forgive me if I asked him to make dozens of tiny paper umbrellas."

Aw. Reno's not exactly the hardest of drinkers, not much a drinker beyond oxy-cola anyways. "I guess it wouldn't be the best use of resources," said with a thoughtful nod. "Though I wonder what the Agrians put in their drinks to make them look special." A shrug, "I guess we have our plan then! Was there anything else you think would look good in your place?"

There's tea and coffee too! Gotta give Jon a reason to visit, after all. None of the local fruits have seemed very enticing to juice so far, though.

"Yeah, true. I don't think the drinks themselves need to look all that fancy though. The glasses and mugs I have already do that." Surely she must have seen the mismatched collection of whimsical drinkware Cayde had scavenged from the alien shopping center.

He reaches over to put a hand out towards Colonel, waiting until she wanders closer so he can pet her. "Can't think of anything else at the moment. I don't really wanna overdo it, you know? Sometimes less is more."

Cruisers who had every inch of deck space devoted to an anti-aircraft cannon of some sort are not quite what one would call a believer in 'less is more'. Especially one as effusive in her kansen form as Reno. Still, its not her bar, so there's a slightly disappointed nod of affirmation in return. "Its not a problem. And how about you Colonel," her violet eyes turning to the battle hen. "Anything else you'd like or are you good too?"

Cayde's a hypocrite in that. He's got caches and hordes of weapons and materials he'll probably never actually use and he's not above continuing that trend here. But it'll be over his dead body that his classy rustic themed hangout turns into a tiki bar.

The chicken lifts her head, jerking it this way and that in that almost mechanical movement that poultry tends to move. "Bawk." She goes back to pecking at the table.

A giggle, "Yeah, they're good!" The hen is given a salute, and a thought, "And next time I should bring a bit of chicken feed, its almost as if they're looking for seed or corn." You'll have to forgive her, she's a bit unused to poultry.

"She probably is. I'm still looking for something better for her but alien planets, am I right?" Cayde grins, then scoops up the chicken in his arms.

"Anything else you need from us? Method of payment upon services rendered?"

"Payment?" Reno blinked rather suddenly at the notion, "I wasn't even thinking of that, I didn't even know we had money!" A smile again with a shrug, "I just wanted to open the store to help out where I could. If you and the Colonel are both happy, then that'll do!"

"I mean, I love getting free stuff but I figure it's only right to offer. There's not really any currency system here so we get by throwing favors at each other." Cayde grins. "I'm sure will be ecstatic. But you just let me know if there's anything that comes up that you think my skills'd fit the bill for."

Reno's lips start to move before the words even come. Which leaves it rather awkward as no words do come. She rather forgot something important. "What skills do you have besides running the bar?" There's a cant of her head, gaze flitting between Cayde and the Colonel. "I'm guessing you're a soldier like me? More of a sailor myself, actually, but yeah?"

Oh, right. Cayde blinks and then chuckles, giving a nod. "Yeah, something like. I'm the Hunter Vanguard for the Last City, which means I have to be in charge of a bunch of other Hunter Guardians as they go out all over the Sol System, making sure nothing makes too much trouble for humanity. Of course, I'd rather be out on the field too. A lot more fun."

"That does sound fun!" Reno rests her arms on the table, leaning forward as her imagination heads skyward. "Traveling across the stars, saving the world? Wow, I'd love to do that someday! Back home, I do the same but just across the oceans and seas. You've seen the Atlantic and Pacific a few times it gets pretty boring. But up among the stars?" Violet eyes lift above, "That's a real adventure up there!" A chuckle, "Though now that I'm up there- uh- down here, I'm getting something of a taste of it! It would be nicer if I could use my own weapons, but still!"

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"Haven't done much seafaring myself, but I probably wouldn't do very well in deep water. I'm sure you'll get a chance to do some actual traveling among the stars though. It's not often, but we do go out on occasion and actually put those ships to use!"

Cayde tilts his head. "The Agrii do have some issues about weapons and violence. I'm lucky I managed to keep my hand cannon," he says, patting the oversized gun at his hip fondly. "What kind of weapons do you normally use?"

And everything had been going smoothly.

Admittedly, Reno had sailed into this one herself, not even realizing that she might have to explain a few things to her new friend. Her cheerful countenance takes an awkward turn, cheeks turned back in something of an uncomfortable grimace. "Everyone else I've told here has given me weird looks when I show them, but I guess if we're going to be blasting things together..."

There's a glance to the hen, "Before I show you, you might want to make sure the Colonel doesn't scatter off."

Cayde arches a brow at the reaction. That's certainly not a response he'd expect about being asked about weapon preferences. "Reno, I'm sure whatever artillery you're toting isn't the strangest thing I've seen. Guardians back home get their hands on some pretty crazy stuff, lemmee tell you."

He chuckles a little, patting Colonel. "She'll be fine. Battle chicken, remember? She helped me take out some Red Legion Cabal when we went to infiltrate and take back our city."

"From what I've been finding out, nowhere else has as crazy as I have, but..." There's another glance to Colonel before she nods to herself and takes a step back. "Here goes!"

In an instant, she's surrounded by segmented parts of what appeared to be a ship's hull. Mounted on them were several turrets, anti-aircraft cannon pointed at the sky, a shotgun mounted at her hip with another turret underneath, torpedo tubes on her other hip, and were those funnels behind her?

"Don't say I didn't warn you."

The Hunter's eyes widen, brightening in surprise. Whatever he's been expecting, that definitely isn't it.

"Whoa!" He carefully sets Colonel back down, stepping over for a closer look before he catches himself. "-er, are those... Guess that'd be kinda awkward. Aherm." He 'coughs' into a hand and leans a hip against the worktable. "Are those like...magical guns or some kinda transmat thing? More importantly, do they actually work?! Wow! What do they shoot?"

He's curious? Amazed? Reno can't help but to hold her head a little higher with her brightest smile, someone's actually impressed! "I don't know the details on just how it works, but they are real guns that use real ammunition! These are the five-inch dual purpose turrets that fires high explosive and anti-aircraft, and these behind me are the 40mm anti-aircraft cannons, these down here are the tubes for Mark 15 torpedoes, and this," finishing with a tap of the shotgun, "is a little something extra~!"

"And they do work... when they have ammunition, which I don't have here," her high coming down with a disappointed sigh. "I still have all the other powers I would have with my rigging up, just no fireworks show."

Cayde appreciates all weapons, but guns especially. So these guns are kind of mysteriously attached to this girl, which, okay, a bit weird, but still interesting! His grin broadens as Reno goes over her artillery in detail.

"Anti-aircraft, really? And torpedoes?! Sounds like you've got everything!" His excitement deflates a little when she mentions she has no ammunition- not as down as Reno herself as he can't be surprised that the Agrii have kept that from her. "Ah, that's unfortunate. Guess that sort of ammo would be a lot more specialized than bullets." He finally does sigh as well. "For all that the Agrii expect us to help 'em out, they sure put a big limitation on what we can do to protect ourselves and others with the weapons."

"Yeah, there's also, uh." Her brow furrowed as gears whirred in her head on just how to explain it. "See, these," gesturing to the turrets, "Are five-inch cannons. They're not that big now but they still fire and make explosions like five-inch shells. And that's not even getting into how big the warheads are on the torpedoes! I don't think the Agrians wanted any risk of stuff blowing up that shouldn't."

The Exo brings his hands up at either side of his head before splaying his fingers as he mouths an explosion. Mind. Blown.

Shaking his head, he chuckles a little. "Wow. Yeah, definitely not something the Agrii'd approve of. Then again, Felwinter could probably blow up plenty of stuff without any warheads so..." He shrugs.

"So if things got a little hairy here, would you still be able to fight somehow, or would you need an external weapon? I'm not sure how crafting ammo for you'd work out here, otherwise."

There's a giggle at the explosion, Reno's smile broadening at that. For once, someone here appreciates her rigging! "I talked to Lauri, and she directed me to the shiny... datapoint, was it? The one for security so I could use the guns." A finger-gun was made, "I'll need one of those, but my aim's always been good! And I still have everything else, like my armor," said with a pat of her right half-hull. "And my speed on water!"

"Well then! Those fancy weapons you needed to download instructions for should be in the same building, I think. There was like, a panel of the wall or something that opened- I don't remember. I probably still have one of 'em too, I can totally bring it by since I'm not using it." Almost shot off his own face with the thing, who needs that kind of a gun?!

"I'll be sure to leave any water rescues to you, then," Cayde grins.

"I'm the Navy, not the Coast Guard," she winked playfully as if Cayde would understand that rivalry. "I'll still do my part, regardless!" With that, the rigging vanishes as Reno found it easier to walk around her workshop without her hull knocking things over left and right. "And I didn't know about the instructions, I'll make sure to find those! It's always important to read the manual!"

"Oh, don't worry about that. Or worry, cuz it's super weird. You probably got 'em all up in your head already if you took security though," Cayde says with a tap against his own head. "You'll probably just know, once you pick up the gun."

"Aim and pull trigger, it can't be that hard!" Reno winked with another finger-gun. "You- uh- touched the datapoint too, then? Wow, we can do security stuff together!" She wasn't sure about doing the security stuff with Lauri, given the taller woman's lack of personality. But doing stuff with Cayde and Colonel sounded fun!

Cayde tosses his hands up. "You'd think! Somehow they make that complicated! It's a crime, really." He blinks, then shakes his head. "Oh no- I haven't. I stay clear of those things. But I've got my Ace of Spades and plenty of other surprises so I can still technically do security things, just not the security things."

Her lips part as if to ask, then Reno catches herself with a rather cheeky grin. "I wouldn't want you to give away your surprises," said with a wink. "I guess if you do need someone to take care of shooting for you too, you know who to call!"

The Exo gasps at that. "Are you trying to put me out of the job?!" He shakes his head before giving her a laugh as he reaches over to scoop up Colonel.

"But if I need another gun handy, I'll let you know."

"Alright!" Reno flashes them both a thumbs up at that. "And I'll keep an eye out for any more colorful LEDs too!"

"Sounds great! You do that. I'll see you around, kid!" Cayde says, chicken tucked under an arm, flashing a two-fingered salute with his free hand before he's off.

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