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[myimmunesystem]

[Action: in town]

[Tali has a bag slung over her shoulder and one may find her padding through hardware stores and scrapyards, picking up seemingly unrelated bits of metal banding, rivets, screws, solder bits and servos. Or in stores with softer goods, eyeing the sturdier bits of fabric. Talk to her?]

[Action: in the park]

[It's a sunny day, and around the shallower parts of the park one may find Tali curled up on a faded blanket under the shade of a tree with her quarry of metal, fabric scraps and tools scattered around her. Using her omni-tool to temper strips into u-shapes, attaching rays... Just what is she making?]

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[action, park]

[halfgod_allego]

[Hector had more or less a very confusing week and who knows how long. He's been trying to piece what he should be doing when he notices a familiar figure]

Oh. Hello Tali, what you doing?

Re: [action, park]

[myimmunesystem]

[She gives an exaggerated glance upward, then fidgets with her cowl and shifts forward with her legs tucked under.]

Oh, hi Hector. I'm just... tinkering... [He adds distractedly, her accent doing interesting things to the word, as she finishes tightening an amber-coated servo into place.] --there. Well, actually, Makona suggested a beach trip soon and I... I had an idea that would make swimming a lot easier for me.

[She holds up the stage metal contraption, and with a click the tines shift and flick outward like... the rays of a fin.]

[halfgod_allego]

[He sits down to take a look]

Making swim fins? Wonder what design this one's based off it...

[Hector rubs his chin thoughtfully, curious now]

[myimmunesystem]

[She lets out a small embarrassed sound and passes it to him. The rays have a chevron profile; like the indented tail fin of a barracuda.]

I referenced a few pictures, and this looked to have least resistance for the strength of the tines I could install. This is just one, I'll have to make two obviously, and I'm still wondering whether I should add a reinforced fabric webbing, or metal spacers between...

[halfgod_allego]

Barracuda? Not a bad fish to pick a tail design from - I'd suggest the reinforced webbing, that would give you the extra push you'll need...

[Hector comments as he turns the rays over, careful not to poke himself]

[myimmunesystem]

Hn, so that's how you pronounce it... I had trouble with it. "Ba-RA-cu-da" was the closest I could get.

[She leans over to gather the fin back, showing him the mechanism for retraction. A simple switch near the heel. A single heel tap will extend it.]

Do you know a lot about ocean life?

[halfgod_allego]

Yeah... I recently remembered I had a BS in Marine Biology.

[He hands the fin over, drawing a leg to his chest]

It's kind of annoyingly random what memories return to you.

[myimmunesystem]

[She takes the fin and regards it with a respirator-bound sigh.]

I know what you mean. I have... I'm not sure how to describe it. It's like there are a lot of things just floating around in my head, ideas, terms, things I learned, all good but just scattered and disconnected and useless. It is VERY annoying indeed.

And yet, somehow, I seem to know what I'm doing when I build something. I don't need to remember much, I just... know.