006 - [Action|Accidental Voice]

[hageshii]

[This is day 2 of Goroh's debt to Hanekoma and three days until Christmas. Once again he's out and about dressed in his Santa costume seen here. He'll be hanging out in the market plaza today and will be in and out of the various stores, mostly to occasionally get out of the cold. If you want to make sure Hanekoma is getting his money's worth, be sure to pester 'Santa Claus' as much as possible.

He may or may not also have a present with him for a certain little girl. At one point his journal will be open long enough for a "HO HO HO!", but he'll be shutting the journal immediately afterward. You'll just have to investigate.]

Comments

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

[And have a Yellow 13 walking past. ...Wait, that guy in the Santa suit looks familiar. He looks to see that no one's around before approaching.]

...I don't suppose that's you, Goroh?

[hageshii]

[Since no one is quite around, he pulls down the beard.]

You caught me.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

[He'll chuckle, but his tone remains even.]

Didn't take you as the type to get into the Christmas spirit.

[hageshii]

Well you're right. I lost a bet.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

I see. That's unfortunate. But... there might be a silver lining from all of this.

[hageshii]

Oh yeah? And what's that?

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

Well, you might make the children that are stuck here happy. They don't really have a lot to celebrate for here.

[hageshii]

[...] Yeah, I was kind of looking for the silver lining for me.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

Well, there won't be much in the way of reward beyond making kids happy, no.

[hageshii]

Yeah, that's what I figured. [He just shrugs.] Well, not like there's anything better do around here, anyways.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

That's pretty true. ...I don't miss the war, but I miss my duties as squadron commander.

[hageshii]

Well I do miss racing. It's killing me that I'm stuck going only as fast as these feet'll carry me.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

...Have you thought about trying to set up a different sort of race?

[hageshii]

Yeah, but what is there to race with? And don't say bobsledding.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

Of course not. That's too seasonal. ...And I guess building something would be difficult.

[hageshii]

Yeah, actually I was thinking of building a boat. If I can get the materials together, even strap an engine on it.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

[Thirteen puts a hand to his chin and looks down at the ground.]

...That might actually work. There's a forge, so you could probably get an engine built. The issue is fuel and lubrication for it.

[hageshii]

Exactly. I don't reckon we'll be finding any fossil fuels around here. Which leaves us with two power sources. Solar and wind.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

Just wind, really. I don't think we have the materials we need for solar power.

[hageshii]

Maybe, maybe not. We got the materials to make mirrors to focus the heat. We don't have your typical kind of liquid for more efficient stuff, but that's enough to get you steam power with good old H20. Hard to say if that'll be enough for racing, but it beats paddling.

[yellowthirteen.livejournal.com]

You're really quite the engineer, aren't you?

[hageshii]

No, not really. Just been spending time at the library. The idea might not even be practical to put on a boat. But the way I figure it, a good engine can be used for a lot of things. It'll be useful one way or another.