Then I'll be outside the engine room in five minutes or so.
[ Nana's wearing her high school uniform as she makes her way to the engine room. It wasn't a deliberate choice, per se—it was the first batch of clean clothes she grabbed because wow does she not want to wear any of her nasty grimy clothes she wore on the other boat. But she can make it work.
When she reaches the engine room, if Jedao's not outside, she'll give a quick little knock on the door. ]
He aims for seven minutes, which lets her see him coming, lets her know he hasn't had a chance to hide things before she arrived.
"It's Nana, is that right?" he asks, as he opens the door. The room isn't as opaquely dense or as massive as the Orlop, but it's certainly cluttered with tons of mismatched looking machinery: 80s-style arcades next to banks of blinking lights and switches, crystal arrays, brass cogs, all of them contrasting oddly with the herringbone flagstones of the floor. There's an air hockey table made of bronze and marble. The steam boiler is glowing and puffing softly, and something mechanical shaped like a cat - all made of beautifully ornate, silvery steampunk-like gears - sits on top of it. She sits up and turns to look at Nana immediately.
"It's alright, Gliss," Jedao tells her, giving her a couple of fingernail taps under the metal of her chin, halfway between scritching a living cat and tapping a champagne glass with a fork. "She's just looking."
The cat - Gliss - makes a sound like if wind chimes could chirr, then hops down and walks freely toward the doorway to inspect her.
Nana looks down at the cat and gives her a little nod. "Does the cat live in the Engine Room full time?"
She then turns her attention back to the room. It looks like there aren't any frogs in there. It looks like there's not much anything alive to begin with. But Nana can't really tell, especially just from the doorway. So, making sure not to actually step inside, Nana stays in the doorway, leaning in, trying to get a better look at the Engine Room as a whole.
Of course, there's a big obvious problem with trying to stand perfectly still but lean in as far as possible: you'll lose your balance. And Nana is straight up about to lose her balance and stumble forward into the Engine Room.
She falls forward - and lands with a woosh on the plain floorboards of an empty cabin. And she'll find that she hits an invisible wall, a cylinder about six feet in diameter in the middle of the empty room, where she's completely stuck.
Jedao locks the engine room back up and walks down the hall to get her out, opening the door to the empty cabin in less than a minute.
To Nana's credit, she didn't mean to lose her balance. She looks properly sheepish and more than a little bit freaked out as she tries to push out of the invisible wall. When she spots Jedao, she asks,
"You went over the threshold, and the protections whisked you away."
He comes to sit next to the invisible barrier.
"To answer your question, yes, Gliss lives in the Engine Room full-time, although if I'm in there myself, sometimes she'll wander the hallways for a bit. She isn't a cat, you understand. She's a guardian creature, and she's proud to take care of her place. But she's catlike enough to be curious."
"She's a magic robot. She likes learning tricks. She can pretty much beat me at air hockey, at this point. If you'd like to play with her the next time I have a long Engine Room shift, we can do that, if she wants. But I promise she's very capable of clawing my ankles if she doesn't like the amount of attention she's getting. Shen Jiye made her, if you want to ask him about specs."
The invisible barrier is still very much up, at the moment.
Nana gives Jedao a little nod. And then, she positions herself so that her hands are sticking out in front of her before she takes a few steps towards the room's exit. It's obviously someone who is expecting to run into yet another invisible barrier and at least is going to make it so she doesn't run into it face first.
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[ Nana's wearing her high school uniform as she makes her way to the engine room. It wasn't a deliberate choice, per se—it was the first batch of clean clothes she grabbed because wow does she not want to wear any of her nasty grimy clothes she wore on the other boat. But she can make it work.
When she reaches the engine room, if Jedao's not outside, she'll give a quick little knock on the door. ]
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"It's Nana, is that right?" he asks, as he opens the door. The room isn't as opaquely dense or as massive as the Orlop, but it's certainly cluttered with tons of mismatched looking machinery: 80s-style arcades next to banks of blinking lights and switches, crystal arrays, brass cogs, all of them contrasting oddly with the herringbone flagstones of the floor. There's an air hockey table made of bronze and marble. The steam boiler is glowing and puffing softly, and something mechanical shaped like a cat - all made of beautifully ornate, silvery steampunk-like gears - sits on top of it. She sits up and turns to look at Nana immediately.
"It's alright, Gliss," Jedao tells her, giving her a couple of fingernail taps under the metal of her chin, halfway between scritching a living cat and tapping a champagne glass with a fork. "She's just looking."
The cat - Gliss - makes a sound like if wind chimes could chirr, then hops down and walks freely toward the doorway to inspect her.
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She then turns her attention back to the room. It looks like there aren't any frogs in there. It looks like there's not much anything alive to begin with. But Nana can't really tell, especially just from the doorway. So, making sure not to actually step inside, Nana stays in the doorway, leaning in, trying to get a better look at the Engine Room as a whole.
Of course, there's a big obvious problem with trying to stand perfectly still but lean in as far as possible: you'll lose your balance. And Nana is straight up about to lose her balance and stumble forward into the Engine Room.
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Jedao locks the engine room back up and walks down the hall to get her out, opening the door to the empty cabin in less than a minute.
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"Um. What happened?"
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He comes to sit next to the invisible barrier.
"To answer your question, yes, Gliss lives in the Engine Room full-time, although if I'm in there myself, sometimes she'll wander the hallways for a bit. She isn't a cat, you understand. She's a guardian creature, and she's proud to take care of her place. But she's catlike enough to be curious."
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It's obvious Nana is pretty concerned about Gliss's welfare.
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The invisible barrier is still very much up, at the moment.
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"Um. Can you let me out of this barrier? Or do you have to get someone else?"
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And, to her credit, Nana does just that!
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"Alright, it's down."
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"Do you think I can come by again, if only to just give the cat a few scratches?"
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