Mark I - [action + video]

[gold_titanium_man]

(please refer to his third-person sample for what's happened immediately before this.)

[he woke up a second time. It was unexpected, but extremely welcome. He expected to feel little pieces of metal stabbing away at his heart since his arc reactor was missing. But strangely, he didn't feel any different than normal. Just groggy.

Deciding to take advantage of this reprieve from death's embrace, Tony flipped open the little communication's device and activated the video function. As an after thought he grabbed the little card]

So, this is a new one, kidnapped by insane cosplay enthusiasts? Your jokes can use some work, though. Really, the Tin Man? Is that the best you could come up with? What do ya want, anyways? Money? Weapons? My armor? I'll tell you where to shove it, but you won't listen until I have a better microphone.

And who is this... [he mouths Yaldabaoth, trying to figure out the pronunciation, gives up and continues] Who is this Yogi Bear character with a name that looks like it belongs to something Lovecraft invented? I'm not living with a tentacle monster, am I? [he looks really unsure about that]

Is there anyone who happens to know where I can get 1.5 grams of palladium and a few other odds and ends? [even though it was a bad design, he would be more comfortable with his Mark I reactor in his chest than a great gaping hole]

Comments

[madeinneochina]

I heard that someone who's already been here a while was trying... I'm not sure who it was. I'm pretty new to this place myself.

But if you want to try and crack mine open, I'll hand it over. [If anything, he can borrow Domon's.]

[gold_titanium_man]

I think I'll take you up on that. [if there was anything technological, he could figure it out. He was a firm believer that all this "magic" was really a form of technology]

[madeinneochina]

Great! Where should I meetcha?

[Already determined that he's going to go visit Tony. The question is where.]

[gold_titanium_man]

I'm apparently in Violet district house 4. [he only recently found this out. But Sophie's tour was helpful]

Video -> Action and Perma-action

[madeinneochina]

Okay! I'm in the Rose district, so it says. It shouldn't take that long to find you!

[And the feed cuts off.

A few minutes later, there's a knock on the door of the fourth house.]

Video -> Action and Perma-action

[gold_titanium_man]

[he shuts the compact and pockets it. He decides to try to imagine up some tools. It takes a few explosions before he gets a set that will work, they're not as high-tech as he's used to, but he should be able to pry the screen off at the very least.

When the knock comes to the door he heads over and opens it]

Hey, kid.

[madeinneochina]

[And Sai is hanging from the top of the house, so that he's hanging upside down in the doorway. He gives Tony a displeased look.]

I'm not a kid! I'm seventeen!

[gold_titanium_man]

Fine, not a kid, Tarzan. You coming in, or are you taking to the trees?

[madeinneochina]

I have a name, y'know. And it's not Tarzan.

[But, Sai does hop down pretty easily, and stride on in.]

Huh. All the houses must be the same, this is what mine looks like.

[gold_titanium_man]

Can't really use your name if I don't know it.

[he rolls his eyes and shuts the door behind the kid]

Can't image that the people who made this town had much creativity considering everything is painted the same five colors and the districts are named for those colors.

[madeinneochina]

It's Sai Saici.

[Well la-tee-da. He's just going to find a comfortable flat spot to sit on, and sit cross-legged on it. Never mind that it's actually supposed to be an endtable.]

I guess it makes things easier, in some ways. [A pause.] You got any roommates, mister?

[gold_titanium_man]

[he snorts, yep, that gave him the perfect nickname for you, kid]

Apparently. Haven't met them, yet. They're name, though, seems to fit better with Japanese porn.

[he takes a seat in an armchair]

[madeinneochina]

[So he doesn't like sitting in chairs much. That doesn't mean it's weird to sit on flat surfaces.]

I've got two - my bro, and a girl named Sora. She seems nice enough, I guess.

[After another moment, he pulls out his compact and tosses it over to Tony.]

So what're you gonna do with it? Can I watch?

[gold_titanium_man]

If you're quiet. [he looks closer at the small object, there really didn't appear to be any seams on it]

Nano-engineering? Doesn't appear this place would have the technology.

[madeinneochina]

Of course I can be quiet!

[And quiet he is, watching Tony mess with it for a while... though he's kind of having to lean to the side to see. He still is pretty short.]

It definitely shouldn't. There's not even any electricity on the island, except the stuff in these houses. It's almost like these houses are the exception...

[gold_titanium_man]

[he makes a noise that indicates he heard] I could make something like this in my workshop back home.

[madeinneochina]

Where's home for you?

[gold_titanium_man]

Malibu, California. [he's now running a piece of metal that resembles a tooth pick along the device]

[madeinneochina]

Dunno where that is. [He gives a little shrug. Hey, can you blame him, he's lived in only two temples for as long as he can remember. Also, one is in space.]

[gold_titanium_man]

On the west-coast of America. [he isn't finding any cracks to try to lever the little tool into]

What about you? [he said no talking, but here he is making conversation as he opens the compact to look at the screens and whether he could pry one off]

[madeinneochina]

And is it... nice there? [He didn't want to say "unpolluted" or "intact" because then he'd have to get into the whole discussion he had with Sora all over again.]

Well, I'm from N... [Don't say Neo, don't say Neo] China. The, uh, Chicolin Temple and the Shaolin Temple are where I spent most of my time growing up.

[gold_titanium_man]

Almost always sunny, highs tend to be in the mid-70s. I have a house on a cliff with my own private beach. Ever surfed? [he does love the Malibu house]

I've heard of the Shaolin Temple, some sort of place for martial arts monks, right? You a monk? [somethings were cross-universal constants]

[madeinneochina]

That sounds really nice. Nowhere near what it's like back home [He pauses.] What's surfing?

Hehe, yeah, I guess it was still well known back then, huh?

[Then Sai sort of realizes what he just said, and decides to quickly change topics.] W-well, no, but I've trained there almost my whole life. I'm just a Gundam Fighter, like my Grandfather was. But Zuisen and Keiun, they raised me, and they're monks!

[gold_titanium_man]

You don't know what surfing is?

Back then? You're from the future? The temporal anomalies associated with this place... [he's considering them serious, you didn't change the subject fast enough for him]

A Gundam Fighter?

[madeinneochina]

Chibodee talks about it all the time, but I've never thought to ask him what it was.

[But since this man seems to not be surprised about Sai being from, well, the future... Sai thinks it's okay to give away a little more to this guy.] Well it seems like people are from a lot of different times and places. Nobody's heard of space colonies, except Domon and me.

... guess you haven't ever heard of what a Gundam is either, huh. It's a big robot for military purposes. Every colony and even some of the earth nations have 'em.

[Then he motions to the compact again.] How's that going?