Components and Mobile upgrades [Rafflesia]

[Atlas Steele]

As Atlas was busy going through the market square, he would buy a few tools that he had been told to get with a fake disguise on that was obviously him, yet at the same time with the amount of money he was forking over for the overpriced tools he required, nobody bothered to question him, as he would put mechanical component after mechanical component into his backpack with a tiny fake moustache pasted onto his mask with a smile.

"Hum~ I love the smell of progress in the morning~" He would sing to himself, realizing that he could buy so much with his new disguise that he had established!

Rafflesia

[Rafflesia]

If there was one downside to Chimera dropping her off on the surface and forcing her to take leave, Rafflesia was lacking in the materials she needed to conduct her own studies. She had a feeling getting a centrifuge or MRI from a local hospital would be more than she could manage with sweet words and asking nicely, so she'd have to jury-rig them up in the meantime. It would be her luck that there did exist an industrial hardware store in this otherwise suspiciously urban city. 

"Is this really the largest magnet they carry here?", Raff's brow furrowed as she held the seven and a half inch wide disc in her hands. If she was going to use these as the foundation for the magnetic ring she'd have to melt them down or buy a lot of them at this rate. With a shrug she threw it and nine others into the pull along cart she had appropriated from the employee's section of the building. "I suppose I'll just order more when I get to that point." Her cart had been filled quite substantially, giving her enough trouble when pulling it, but otherwise not proving impossible to move on its own. "I miss the motorized carts at the lab.", she whined to herself.

[Atlas Steele]

Noticing that there was a person talking to themselves too nearby, he would take a quick notice before something clicked within his mind, as he would channel his inner dad.
Slowly sliding overusing his days of practicing the backward slide by a popular musician from a few years back, he would move without showing much movement with his legs before bumping his behind against the cart and then turning around and snapping his fingers.

"Oh gosh, it seems that your magnets attracted me into your sight, seems that you are now stuck in a trainer battle with me." Before chuckling contently as he was taught this horrid joke by a certain lady at his own place before backing off a little.

"Are you doing alright? I heard you complain about carts. If you need a hand, I am bored enough to help you for a bit." Atlas would explain with a smile on his face as he would realize he could do a few more jokes regarding the magnets before just shaking his head. "Just give me a notice and Atlas is there to help anybody! Now, Who may you be, you little rascal?"

[Rafflesia]

All was going well for the time beings, is what Rafflesia would have thought to herself has her immersion in the moment not been broken by the most cursed of vocabulary... puns. "Look if that's your attempt at flirting you'd be better off with the poor girls on the corner, the dad jokes might solve their issues.", Raff replied with a slight grin creasing her lips, but not turning to face the man just yet. Settling her expression she would shrug and turn. "But if you want to help I wouldn't mind it, but please do try to keep the dialogue less... punny.", her eyes narrowed at the large man before she started to pull the cart once more.

"I need to check in on an industrial sized motor before I leave, if you happen to know the direction.", she would mention, glancing back once more before taking a moment to go over her mental check list.

[Atlas Steele]

Realizing that she had just returned his pun with an indirect pun of her own, Atlas would let out a bouldering laugh before then nodding contently. "An industrial-sized motor? Would you happen to know an exact measurement or do you wish to come to my farm and see the motors that Trent used to use in his experiments?" He would comment, wiggling his finger contently before then checking his watch, tied to a small string of silver and adorned with a few letters spelling out a couple of words of appreciation.

"Trent shouldn't be home at this point, he should be running for a few hours, So I can let you dumpster dive through his stuff, last I've heard he bought a few military jet engines that had been scrapped and were trying to see how they functioned for his own studies." As Atlas clicked his pocket watch shut and tucked it back into his pocket with a content smile on his face, before then stating. "Good enough without any punny comments, ma'am?"

[Rafflesia]

Taking a moment to gloss over some of the other components in the immediate area as the large man spoke, Rafflesia pondered if she would need iron filings for anything soon. Dismissing this she would turn back, raising an eyebrow at the notion. "whatever would best fit a Magnetic Resonance Instrument, or MRI. Normally I would have access to one, but I suppose I'm on my own for the time being.", lifting her finger to her chin she would think a moment and remembered the machinery at Chimera, she would be hard pressed to even hope to make something comparable to those, let alone better.

"It will take more than the promise of parts to convince me on that one. I've barely been in this city a week, I don't think a trip around the countryside would be immediately opportune.", she replied somewhat evasively, her eyes narrowed at the man and she continued. "I still barely have my bearings of downtown, I don't need to go and get lost in some cornfield with god knows what lurking in it." She shot a quick glance aside at this moment, recalling her superiors mentioning the release of some of her failed experiments not far from the outskirts of the city.

[Atlas Steele]

"Oh! Well, here you go!" The man would say, as it was obvious from the solid minute of dumbfounded staring that he had no idea what the machines she said could be, instead of going the way of the idiot and showing a few pictures he had in his wallet about Trent working with his hands on a few machines that seemed important enough!

But after showing this off, he would then ruffle in his pocket to take out the map that he had been drawing on when he met a mechanic a few weeks earlier as he would point at the fields on the outer rim that they weren't allowed to settle in anymore.

"You see, If you want to know where to go, I can easily show you where the direction is and where the places to find would be! A little expedition to see where everything lays and to show you where you can easily even sleep for a night, do you think that is not worth it? to save some on rent?" He teasingly spoke, before then also giving a proud yet strong gaze.

"Atlas Steele, Wrestler, and farmer, will never harm or misdirect those that he has taken interest in! Friendship is the best!"

[Rafflesia]

Strength:5/Endurance:5/Perception:5
Defense:15/Energy:20

RAfflesia

"Have you ever visited the hospital for an brain scan? That machine is an MRI.", Rafflesia would take the moment to reply with passive ambivalence. Shrugging before glancing over the images offered to her by the larger man, she would raise an eyebrow at some of them. "Was the metal for these machines stripped from a crashed plane or something? Because they are rather crude.", glancing back up at the other a moment before offering the images back. 

The map, however, was of overt interest to her, it was her first glimpse at the general layout of her surroundings without the need to seek out some derelict visitors center or something. "Your offer is flattering and all, but I believe I am well enough at the time. My benefactors are covering the fees on a rather large location for my work for the time being.", she eyed the man over some, keeping an inkling of suspicion in the back of her mind about him.

"I'm Doctor Bluewater, I'm with any luck only going to be a temporary occupant of this city, but it would be remiss for me to note that there is something curious going on here that seems lacking elsewhere."

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[Atlas Steele]

"Oh, the curious thing?" Atlas would start to poke at with his words before starting to think on how to explain this without making any mistakes too clearly, twiddling his thumb on the bottom of his lip for a moment making a few silly noises without realizing as he would ponder...

"Oh! I get it, You are probably talking about the fact that people with superpowers exist right? There is even this entire alternate dimension that is planning to take our city over and stab all of the occupants of this city." He would state with annoyance in his tone, shaking his head calmly, placing a few fingers against his forehead whilst leaned back.

"There is absolutely no reason that we have to be involved in these fights, but now people are starting to fight on our grounds and even go as far as to cause mass awakenings in our population, one of my friends even had her body permanently disfigured by the awakening of her powers." He finished, his tone getting angry as he would slam on a nearby lamp post, denting it rather heavily before calming down slowly...

"Sorry, I... I just want to keep my friends safe, and I've gone from the pan into the fire..."

[Rafflesia]

Strength:5/Endurance:5/Perception:5
Defense:15/Energy:20

Rafflesia

Rafflesia would raise an eyebrow at these comments in particular. "Now that is curious... in more ways than one.", she commented, lifting her hand to her chin, cupping it as she consumed the information the larger man had given her. While not quite what she had in mind these details were welcome none the less.

"I actually was unaware of that latter phenomenon. The rise of supernatural augmentation in individuals while a concern of mine. I was more intrigued by the inability to leave some have reported. As if something is tying them intrinsically to this locale.", she continued, probing over the contents of her cart once more as she awaited a potential reply from the man

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[Atlas Steele]

"Oh? The inability to leave this city?" Atlas would ask, before then thinking to himself, as he would remember a few comments that were made before then swallowing deeply as he would gasp a few times in absolute terror upon the realization struck him...

"I... I have heard of people without abilities trying to escape the city, but they would always come back, either in a bag or... do you think they are trying to lock the people in the city to one location so better control us all in this environment?" Atlas started to comment quietly as he would try to comprehend why nobody could leave this locale.

It was an absolute mystery he hadn't even thought about as he was visibly starting to grow a bit whiter upon realizing this information before rummaging through his pockets and trying to send a message to a few people he knew to make sure that they were safe, showing his unwieldy flip phone for his massive size, his fingers every so often mistyping.

[Rafflesia]

Strength:5/Endurance:5/Perception:5
Defense:15/Energy:20

Rafflesia

Rafflesia's brow furrowed some, contemplating the notion as she listened to Atlas. "All in all, something is amiss and I'm not entirely sure what it is." Her words stuck with her a moment as she lingered on them before turning back to her to be belongings and contemplating them.

"But what I do know is that if we hope to get any semblance of normalcy back the people from the 'Old World' may need be taken care of.", she shrugged with this thought, potentiall dismissing it as a pipe dream if worst came worse.

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