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Tony Stark ([personal profile] in_extremis) wrote in [community profile] revivalproject2022-09-10 04:11 pm

Harrow

WHO: Tony and Celty, feat. Cayde, Echo, Jon, Dustin, Gladio
WHERE: Wherever you can be found!
WHAT: This is another delivery post. Some characters are getting gifts! If you want them instead of whoever's name is on the tag, you can try to intercept. Celty's delivering now, though, so you better be clever.
WHEN: As the plants calm down.
WARNINGS: None.


The forge wasn't in such a terrible state. It wasn't all the way out here, at the edge of the city, where Tony was stupid enough to have encourage mutant plants to take over the whole place. In fact, it seemed like some of the work had already been done for him when Tony started his pruning, and what was left was easily fed into the kiln or the furnace as he got them roaring again. It was only natural then to get distracted by what was uncovered as he swept out tangles of brambles and withered flowers. There was a lot more cleanup for him to do than just the housekeeping.

By the time he sent a message to Celty (offer still stand?), there was a pile of packages already gathered by the heavy, metal door of the forge, looking disappointingly small in the reddening light of the sunset to Tony's critical gaze. Back to work, then.

...to Cayde
Bundled in a waxy banana-type leaf, tied with its own stems, is a neat stack of long, slim bullets that look like they belong in a rifle. There's no way that diamond shape debossed into their pointed tips is functional. Right? With them is a tube that looks like it has some rifling in it, that the bullets fit into. Maybe there's a way for Cayde (or a curious thief) to find out.

...to Echo
While this is folded up tightly like a fist inside of a clay box, it's not a hand exactly. There's way too many silver fingers, and a plate of flat glass for a palm. It does look like Echo's scomp link will fit into it.

...to Jon
Tony must be really confused about hands, because this glove doesn't have enough fingers. It could be an archery glove. Is the right name on this silky net of petals? It's not leather, but a very fine, gold mesh that knits denser together along the underside of it.

...to Dustin
In a small, paper box is what might be the worst deck of cards. There aren't very many of them, and they are all made of brass, slim enough that it seems like they might fracture. Their backs are all imprinted with NO FUN, and only one of them appears to have anything on the other side. It looks a lot like braille. As soon as the package is opened, they all vibrate.

...to Gladio
This is a flat package, folded in papery leaves. It's a slim, silver frame with filigreed edges along the pane seated in the centre, where Tony appears to have given Gladio...a picture of himself? Wait a second, and it turns out to be two. Three. He's visibly holding his communication device in all of them, so he must have used a mirror. Maybe it's a suggestion.
beholding_archivist: Do not take. Thanks. (If you're listening to this...)

voice

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-11 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Meanwhile Jon has been wondering why Tony hasn't returned to the library with him, but in some way this new present explains it. While not explaining it. Because if it's an explanation, then this explanation will either be that Tony's new workplace in the library is lacking or imply that he doesn't intent to return.

Pondering these possibilities, Jon turns the item over before trying it on, which quickly draws the attention of several mothcats that were helping him clean out the library in their own way.

The message is send a few minutes of mothcat wrestling later. ]


I don't suppose this was intended to be a cat toy?
beholding_archivist: (Could you just not?)

[Jon remains voice]

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-11 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
...what's that supposed to mean now?
beholding_archivist: (Holding my breath until you go away)

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-11 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Me playing with m- Tony!

[ It may not be visible, but the tone should be enough to give Tony an idea of exactly which shade of red Jon's face has just assumed. ]

You didn't seriously send this to me for me to--

[ He cuts off there. Pensively, perhaps...? ]
beholding_archivist: (Mighty Frown)

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-11 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Pauuuuuse. ]

I-interface with the lab? This? How?! It's just--

[ Insert protesting mothcat noises and the flapping of moth wings about here while Jon retrieves the cat toy. ]

...Christ, why am I even surprised anymore...
beholding_archivist: Do not take. Thanks. (Much Doubt)

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-11 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Data...

What exactly does this thing do?
beholding_archivist: (Mighty Frown)

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-11 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. So it's more than just a glove. It's... A device.

[ To track gestures. Tony, how are you simply making these things? ]

I- ah... I will go try it, then. Anything I should know? To- To avoid damaging it?
deal_me_in: (So everything is gone)

[personal profile] deal_me_in 2022-09-12 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
There were drying and wilting bits of plants here and there around the Deep End, swept in varying piles that sat around on the floor, the broom abandoned against one of the tables as someone had decided to take a break or had simply gotten distracted. Knowing the owner, it was most likely the latter.

Cayde was parked on the other side of the bar counter, perched on one of the stools with the leafy wrappings spread out in front of him as he studied the strangely thin bullets, inserting one experimentally into the tube. He wiggled it around before holding it up to peer into, you know, as one does.
beholding_archivist: (This is nonsense)

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-12 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
W-well, I asked, didn't I.
beholding_archivist: Do not take. Thanks. (I suppose this was a bad idea)

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-12 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
If I had any piercings, I want to assume you would know by now.

[ This might be different had he had the money for these things when he was younger. ]
ziedrich_bearer: Gladio from FFXV (Default)

Okay But Tony Why?

[personal profile] ziedrich_bearer 2022-09-12 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
A package. It wasn't something Gladio had been expecting when he had been setting himself up as Noctis's roommate. He offered the woman in the helmet a nod in thanks for the delivery and then opened it. And was left staring. What. The actual. Fuck?

So Gladio sighed, made his excuses for delay, and found his way right to the forge.

"What the fuck man," he said as he entered.
ziedrich_bearer: Gladio from FFXV (Default)

[personal profile] ziedrich_bearer 2022-09-13 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, actually working metal. Well, Gladio can tone down the cursing for now. But he is frowning.

"It's not theological. Unless I'm asking what the fuck is going on in Bahamut's mind, and Astrals know I'll never be pleased with that answer. But you know what I'm asking about."
quark_assassin: (Paranoid | Side-Eye)

wtf Tony (starting out with network shenanigans)

[personal profile] quark_assassin 2022-09-13 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It takes more than a day for Dustin to start to investigate Tony's 'gift' for him in earnest. Not because he doesn't recognize that there's more to it, or because he's missed it somehow - no, he definitely got that package from Celty, and even was comfortable enough with it coming from her to open it in a controlled environment several minutes later. It's the fact that he's found himself genuinely wanting to figure this out that has him so thoroughly distracted for the next thirty hours.

Not a mystery: Who it came from. The packaging and contents mirroring a deck of playing cards makes the culprit obvious, and the embossed text just rubs it in. Tony, the only guy who caught him at the Eorzean version of a casino. Dustin would assume an elaborate prank, considering that opening the package makes him nearly drop it when the cards start vibrating, but this seems entirely too high-effort for that. Plus, there's some kind of...pattern? On the back of one of them? It takes a bit of mental cycling for Dustin to recognize it as a delicately-stamped QR code, of all things. He could take the time to decode the sucker by hand, and starts to do so for a bit before realizing, with a jolt, that it would take way less time if he just made an app on his tablet that would do it for him. It isn't until dusk when Dustin puts together that the knowledge for how to do this isn't entirely his, and the compulsion to solve this puzzle is likely playing exactly into Tony's hands. Neither discovery dissuades him from putting the finishing touches on his impromptu QR-reader app when he wakes up before dawn.

There are no bells and whistles or security measures taken in this bare-bones program; if Tony had the inclination to trick him into installing malware on his tablet, not only does Dustin not keep any documents on it nor conduct any conversations through it (save one, done anonymously), but he also has no attachment to the dumb thing anyway. Worst case, if he can't scrub it after, he'll just toss it into the mineshaft. Good fucking riddance.

Ever so gently, Dustin takes the thin, shivering plate of brass with the code on it, clips it between two electronics clamps to hold it still, and holds up his tablet to scan it in.
beholding_archivist: Do not take. Thanks. (Your complaint is being ignored.)

[personal profile] beholding_archivist 2022-09-13 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Well. For now you will have to believe me. Besides, I have been wondering why you haven't returned to the library yet.
ziedrich_bearer: Gladio from FFXV (Default)

[personal profile] ziedrich_bearer 2022-09-13 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh a very complex relationship with his Astrals. Especially given the fact that the leader of them had seen fit to create a fate where Noctis must be sacrificed to save the world.

"Yeah, it's not a big deal in Eos to give someone your pictures in a nice frame either. You know, if they're family or you're dating them."

Which was why he put them down on a clear patch of space here. It should go to Jon, not to him.

"And given Jon is definitely dangerous, I don't imagine that I'd come out on the good side of an exchange if he got jealous."

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