[Luceti] 4th Shuffle [Action]

[cajunspice]

[For the most part the item store was generally full of boring stuff. Useful but boring. He got his cards from it, items to slowly fill his apartment, but it was all practical. So it was a surprise for Remy to find a familiar pocket watch on a chain on one of the shelves, one he hadn’t seen for a long time. His father’s. God it brought back memories, how he first ran into the man as a kid, how the old man always carried it on him even during jobs, and how it was always open on his desk when Jean-Luc chewed him out for screwing up. Their relationship had been strained over the years, but never fully broken, and it was nice to have something of the old man’s with him.

Bringing it back home with him, Remy wound the watch to restart it, frowning as he saw it was running slow but left it slowly ticking away before calling it a day. He would get it fixed later.]

Day one:
[The next morning Luceti now had a new child dashing around, a little red and black eyed kid running between stores and getting into all kinds of mischief. Around seven years old, he is seen running between the clothing store to find something that fitted him, hiding in the bakery and snatching sweets when he could, hiding between the shelves of other stores, and around the seating of the bars.

While it was all fun and games, he was looking for his family. Had they left him? It brought back some bad memories of being stuck on the streets, and lil’ Remy was really looking for a friendly face to help him out. He had managed to find his Papa’s watch and was carrying it on him. If the watch was there, his father had to be too.]

Day two:
[Waking up in his apartment again, an older teenage Remy finds himself in a place he doesn’t recognize and is more concerned about the wings than his younger self was yesterday. He’s more use to being alone on a job, being in strange places, but he normally remembers going to those places, not just waking up there. Getting in contact with Henri or his father is his first goal… he may get a little distracted along the way.

Wandering around Luceti, in a trench coat that may be a little big on him (Dude! He’s got a trench coat! How cool.), Remy ends up scouting the area before taking it a bit more casual around the shops and scouting out any local talent. Just cause he was in a place he didn’t know didn’t mean he couldn’t have fun!]

Day three:
[Watch on his person and now ticking faster than it should, a much older, white-haired Remy takes his time exploring Luceti. No trench coat this time, but sunglasses still in place to cover his eyes as he takes a more relaxed pace through the village. It was strange to see some old, but young faces, unsure if he should interact with them or not. Too many memories, not all good.

He won’t plan to go out of his way to see those he knew, but wouldn’t avoid them either.]


(OOC: Answers will be given via sister account, aulebeau)

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Day One? 8D

[tearmeanewone]

[Elizabeth is still in full-blown wedding-work-mode, but after her strange episode in the Item Shop last week she's been a little nervous about going back. Finally, she gets up the nerve and starts back there looking through the shelves for odds and ends she can use. Mainly, she's still looking for those electric lights on a string.]

[While she's looking, she spots Remy hiding and tilts her head curiously.] What are you doing down there?

[aulebeau]

[Shelves were made to be climbed, specially if they held interesting stuff at the top of them, and climbing came naturally to this boy. However, he was getting himself back to ground level as Elizabeth spotted him, having found a pair of sunglasses, far too big for him and that threatened to fall off his face.]

What are ya doin' up there! [Smart ass, even at this age, but a large grin showed it was all very funny to him.]

[tearmeanewone]

[Elizabeth blinks, slightly startled by all of the climbing and jumping going on. Nevermind the boy was wearing sunglasses indoors...]

Looking for electrical lights...? Have you seen any?

[aulebeau]

[Remy twisted his mouth to the side, sunglasses sliding down enough to giver her a weird look before pointing up at the lighting in the ceiling.]

What ya expect? Candles? [He asked, before using the back of his fist to push his new glasses back up on his nose.]

Day 3

[searches_forhim]

Jane and Remy haven't met before, but that doesn't stop her from flagging him down in the town square, where she's attempting to reconstruct a phasemeter from memory. She's come to a critical point, and she needs an extra set of hands.

"Hey, do you have a minute? I need some help with this."

[aulebeau]

Wasn't the first time in his life Remy had offered a helping hand to a random stranger, much less it being a beautiful woman needing help. A weakness maybe, as god knows it normally led him to all sorts of trouble, but he hardly regretted it.

"'m sure I have several to offer."

[searches_forhim]

"Thank you so much," she said with a bright smile. He was an older gentleman but still handsome, with long slender fingers that would be perfect for what she needed.

"Could you just hold this here while I sauter it down?" She'd been lucky enough to find a sautering iron in a shop in the village, and after deconstructing several other pieces of equipment from her apartment, she thought she had everything she needed to put together a new phasemeter. With a few upgrades, of course.

[aulebeau]

"No problem chere."

Holding the item as instructed, Remy tapped a knuckle of his free hand against the device, casting a cool eye over it before questioning. "What it made of, 'nd how permanent ya want the welds?" He might be able to do it much quicker than she, and without fussing around with equipment. Enough heat fused more or less anything together.

[searches_forhim]

She noticed his accent that time, and smiled crookedly. She'd always liked New Orleans.

"Oh, bits and pieces of other things. And they need to hold pretty well. Why do you ask?" she posed back to him, wondering what he thought he could do that she couldn't manage on her own with the tools she'd acquired.

[aulebeau]

Possibly something faster than she could do, and without wasting materials she could use later. "This ol' man still got some tricks."

Motioning to where it appeared to need a weld, waiting on a confirmation from Jane, Remy pressed a finger against the site and let a spark of a charge run through it. Moving his hand back he tested the weld, making sure it was solid before offering a smile to her.

"Where else?"

[OOC: excuse the slight godmoding, just to jump us forward rather than call for an extra post]

[searches_forhim]

Jane's jaw dropped open, then her lips curled into a smile. The last person she'd met with a special ability had been Kurt, and she'd gotten along well with him.

"That is quite a trick. How does it work?" She pointed to the next few places that needed joined and watched more closely as he handled the welds. It didn't appear to simply be heat that he was generating.

"If you don't mind my asking," she said.

[aulebeau]

"'It'," Remy explained as he moved to the next weld, easily grasping it and letting a spark of energy travel through his fingers. "Be kinetic energy."

"Far as I know," He moved to the next spot. "Builds up in my body 'nd I can use it whenever I want to." Before glancing back to her with a smile. "Normally explosively, mais with the right control can do small things too. Heat up cup 'f coffee, crude weldin', melt glass, number of things."

"Certainly has made life interestin'."

[searches_forhim]

Kinetic energy. Off all the random things... Jane was starting to get seriously jealous that she didn't have a special ability.

"That's amazing. My name's Jane Foster, and I'm an astrophysicist. If you're interested, I can think of some interesting ways your ability could help me in my research. Feel free to say no, though."

[aulebeau]

"Remy LeBeau, nice to meet ya cherie."

The request caused him again to laugh, continuing on with the required welding. "Askin' me without buyin' me a drink first? For shame. I donno much 'bout astrophysics, mais sure can work something out."

[searches_forhim]

Jane laughed along with him and blushed slightly. So she had a tendency to jump the gun a bit sometimes. He would have learned that eventually, so why hide it?

"It's really not as complicated as everyone thinks. So how long have you been in Luceti?" she asked, figuring it be nice to learn a bit about him before asking him to become a human battery. That's what she saw in his ability - a power source strong enough to fuel her equipment.

[aulebeau]

"Oh, comin' up a year in a few months. Feels like it been longer."

"How ya findin' yaself here? Been here a few months, gotten 'nd idea what this place all be 'bout?" However before Remy gave her a chance to offer an answer, another question came to mind.

"Can ya experiments even work in here, we be stuck under a dome 'fter all."

[searches_forhim]

"Wow, that's a long time. I've only been here about a month and a half. But I know what you mean about it feeling longer." Lately she'd been incredibly homesick. She'd even found herself missing Darcy.

"I'm doing okay here. I was lucky, there were people here that I knew, and I've made some new friends too. I keep reminding myself that it could be worse." She could be back on the Dark World, for instance.

She shrugged to the question about her experiments. The point wasn't the results, it was the process of attempting. It made her feel like things were closer to normal.

"There's only one way to find out."

[aulebeau]

"That be very true. Never know, ya may be 'ble to find out something to help us all, hein? Someone might recognize what part of the universe, or what universe, we be in from what ya find."

"Ah, good for ya cherie," Remy commented on her mention of knowing residents of Luceti. "Hope they all be friends ya know here, can be a shock to find yaself 'mong enemies instead."

[searches_forhim]

Jane stopped a moment and looked up at Remy. She didn't recall having mentioned exactly what her euqipment did, or what she was trying to study. Yet it sounded like he had an inkling. Why else mention the universe? She could be making a high-tech bug zapper for all he knew.

"Do you know Thor? Did he mention me and what I do?"

[aulebeau]

He may not be the smartest guy around, but Remy took a safe guess what astrophysics meant, figuring out how the universe worked. That or he was hanging around Luke too much and had gotten use to the idea that space travel was a possible thing.

"Know of him, haven't had the chance to talk to the man yet. Pretty impressive on the battle field. 'nd ya just said ya were an astrophysicist." He backed it up with a smile.

[searches_forhim]

"Yeah, I did, but I didn't say exactly what I study, and that's what the dome would interfere with. But that's ok. Right now I'm just focused on data collection. I think I have the stars pretty well mapped out, now I just need to figure out how they relate to the ones on Earth." The real work would start when it came to the interstellar travel. But she hadn't gotten that far in her work yet. One had to know where they wanted to go before trying to find a way to get there.

With the welds completed, she slid the electronic board into the casing she'd made. She would have to wait for nightfall to test and see if the device worked.

"Thanks again for your help. If you want to see if it works, I'll be in the big clearing in the woods tonight testing it out."

[aulebeau]

"Call it readin' between the lines. 'm good at that." Among other things.

"'nd merci, I might just take ya up on that. Can't say 'll understand all that be goin' on, but can pretend I do."

[searches_forhim]

"I'd be happy to explain it to you, if you want. Most people stop be after a few sentences, though. I tend to get overexcited and start rambling." Jane may be self-absorbed at times, but she is also self-aware. Coming to Luceti has granted her perspective she didn't have before. Now she tries to curb her less appealing personality traits.

"Thanks again for your help. You saved me a ton of time."

[aulebeau]

"We all have our own passions, some of us just lucky 'nough that they be our jobs too. 'nd ya most welcome, glad I could lend a hand."

Giving a tip of an imaginary hat, Remy moved to continue along the path he took before stopping to help Jane. "'ll see ya later tonight then cherie, nice meetin' ya."

[searches_forhim]

[ooc: that seems like a good end point, oui?]

[cajunspice]

OOC: That was my thinking :) can handwave if we want him to show up that night, or leave it so they run into each other another time when he's young again.]