Sparky Repairs, Monday

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John opens Sparky and decides to spruce the place up a bit.

By dragging a lawn chair over to the reception area and a blanket and do his best practice of his solo while snoring. He can clean up the back later.

Sparky's is open!

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

And thank God. Billy knocked on the door frame with his ruined leg.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Just a sec!" John gets tangled in the blanket, not yet asleep, and manages to limp to the door, holding a reeeeally big stick.

He opens the door and stands behind it.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy's got a big stick too. However this is a business, and Billy, normally fairly paranoid about doors openening like this, might still be fairly out of it.

He entered, as gracefully as he could. Which wasn't too bad, seeing as he had ninja balance and all.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"OOoooooookay? IS this the part where we do the 'Crippled Masters' schtick, or are you here for business?"

[OOC teh first: Have you seen The Crippled Masters? Here's a small clip: http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/movies6/cripmasters1.mpg from http://www.badmovies.org/movies/cripmasters/index.html and I think I just found my new FH characters.]
[OOC teh second: How bad is it damaged? (completely rebuilt to just needs to be hammered straight). Is it mechanical with cool servos and iPod slot or is it basic wood pegleg? Does he want it fixed like new or supaaaleg (rockets not currently available)?]

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Didn't get that far in the training." Billy said. He held up the leg. "Any chance you can fix this?"

ooc: will watch clip laters, sounds funny. It's pretty smashed, a troll stomped the heck out of it, then it was used to bludgeon said troll to death. It's mechanical, more advanced than anything from the 1990's should be, but that's GIJoe for you. no supaaaleg, just fix like new. take as much time as you think john would need. I've no trouble playing the cripple for awhile.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Sure. Lemme see it." He zomg totally mods it outta b1lly's hands examines it, turning it over in his hand.

"This is pretty advanced. Where'd you get it?" John looks at it again, hoping that he won't find certain hallmarks.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"It was a gift." Billy said evasively. "Technology...military technology in my world's kinda wonky I guess."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Heh. In your world? In mine, this would be self-powered and attached to something that would be killing us all." It's not Skynet, but it's close.

Very close.

"If I find who these people are, they will not like it. I trust you know these people well? It's not Skynet, that's for sure. Almost the same."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"We're all hoping they're shut down permenantly." Billy said. "But they've bounced back before. Don't go biting off more than you can chew."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I've grown a third set of teeth specifically for that sort of chewing. They're massive. I have to keep 'em in a jar by my bed."

"So. Leg fix. If you want it done today, I can hammer on it for a few. It'll suck, but you'll be able to limp outta here in no time. You want it fixed right, it'll be a few days, a week."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy nodded. "A week. I can do that." He could. He was...almost certain. "...The good guys have a habit of bouncing back too." he sounded less certain that time.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"They do. We do. That is, if you're a good guy."

John starts limping behind the desk. He turns around. "You, uh, want me to fix you up with an interim leg?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy tried not to wince at that. He'd thought he was. Wasn't so sure today.

"Uhm, yeah. Okay....You okay?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Not really. Lotta shit, and I'm quite happy not dealin' with it." He gives a whistle, and some of the Dingbots come running out.

"Here, take this back to the workshop. Um. You two? Can you bring me that big bowl of clay?"

He turns back to Billy. "This is gonna sound very odd and I'm in no mood to be tactful, so... I'm gonna hafta ask you to stick your nub in some clay."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy gave the dingbots a look, probably similar to the one john had given billy's leg.

But he snickered at John's comment. "No problem." he unpinned his pantleg, and pulled it up to his hip.

He felt a sudden twinge as the stump of his left leg sunk into the clay. He remembered doing this once before.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Well, that went better'n I thought it would. I should be more blunt as hell more often. H'okay. That'll do it. Um. Give me about 30, and I'll have you a new nubstick."

John gave the clay to teh waiting dingbots and clumped into the back of the shop.

After about 30 minutes, some lathe work, plaster of paris, and some wierd foamy-gel shit, JOhn shuffles back with a leg.

"The hook hand is optional. Yarrrr. It won't be as comfortable as the old one, but the cushion should make up for it. Hell, it may be better than the old one."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Billy said. "Looks good."

It did look pretty decent. More, comfortable. He wasn't sure he'd consider it better though.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Lemme know how it works. I'm sure I can adapt it to the old one, or at least apply some of the things that do work. And if you're really hurtin' for traction, I've been working on a four-prong. So far, failure. But I'm motivated." He looks down at the crutch and cane. "Extremely motivated."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy began to strap on the peg leg. "Trolls?" he asked, nodding to John's own troubles.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Rescue mission last week with trolls this week. I'm taking the weekend off, I swear."

"Try not to pillage too much. And watch out for scurvy."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I've always been partial to vitamin C." Billy said. "Thanks for the help."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"No prob. Come back in about a week and your hook eyepatch parrot non-peg-leg will be ready."