Timestamp: Tessera (Autumn), 81379 Day 30 Character: http://shadowlack.com/persona.php?id=767Vac</a> Time of day: 7am Vac is trudging through the ice looking for the right spot. He is in need of new specimans, dead ones to be more specific. After searching this was one place he figured he could find some with ease. He looks up at the grey sky, and curses to himself, <span style='color:orange'>I hope he remembers to bring a coat, or he is going to freeze.</span> He kneel's down, and sticks his hand into an open ice hole. He grins and when he pulls his hand out, there is a dead ice fish, who had just died recently. It's colors where still fresh, a wonderful bright green, with yellow stripes. He says, to himself,<span style='color:blue'>Ah yes, this one will do just fine.</span>[/COLOR] He carefully wraps it up, and puts it inside his black bag, that he always carries along with him. He stands up and keeps an eye out, for any other spots, that might have recently dead fish or animals. He doesn't like to work with anything to old, unless he is working on his embalming.
http://shadowlack.com/persona.php?id=759Moren</a> Landed the Small sled on a small area of somewhat flat ground. He was bundled in a heavy Black jacket, with matching Black pants, boots, gloves and Hat. The wind picked up and Moren shivered. He remember when his Dad took him here to try to find some fish he Mother needed cure some thing that came though their town. It was as bleak as he remembered it. He was just glad that his freind Taren had lent him that sled other wise he would have never made it. He looked at the small Geo-locator, the point was out in the lake some place, he grubled to him self. He had got a stranges message from some one he had never met befor to meet him there about some information. Moren was a sucker for that kind of thing. Why this pulled him away from the nice warm fall weather of the Eastern hemisphere he didn't know, he just had a feeling. He started out on to the ice. It was very slick, even in the boots. Evey time he tryed to balnce him self his wings would try to spread out, but they where under the jacket, so it made for slow going. After he got a ways out, he looked back, he could still kind of see where the sled was. "I hope the battries last in this thing." he said looking at the geo-locator. He then saw some one off in the distance, The only reason he could see the preson was because of the bright Red hair on thier head, he started heading toward the person. He didn't know if he should shout for them or not simply cause he did know he was freindly or not. As he got closer he could see that they didn't have any heavy clothing on. "It must be a Yki, or just some who is insane." He went to wave at the Yki and call for him when he sliped. "Hey......ouch!!! By the Bloody Moons!!" He shouted as he landed square on his left wing.
He looks up from the specimen, he was trying to decide on and shakes his head. He says,"Well, I see you made it, and are wearing warm clothing." He stands up, looks at the specimen in his hand and throws it back in the icy water. After wiping his hands on jeans, he holds out a hand and says,"Hey there I am Vac, glad to see you recieved my message." He looks into his bag for a moment, and digs around. He finds what he is looking for, and hands it over, to Moren, who he reaches out to give him a little extra support. "Any idea what it is? I found it earlier, and haven't a clue to what it is. I thought you would have an idea." He turns back to his ice hole, and reaches into the icy water once again. This time he pulls out a red fish with black fins, which has just recently died. He mutters <span style='color:blue'>Oh this is a good one.</span> He carefully wraps it up and puts it into his bag.
The Yki stands above him holding a Dead fish. Moren thought this was different, but went with it. The Yki throws the fish back in the water, hands Moren a small Data drive, and offers his hand to Moren. Vac then introduces him self. "Nice to meet you Vac, I'm Moren. But I'm guessing you already knew that. How did you know where to get a hold of me?" Moren looked at the data drive, it was old, like 20 years old. But it looked to be in good condistion. Vac then asked what it was. "It looks like its an old data drive." Moren said over a gust of wind. "Where did you find this, it looks like it in good shape for how old it is." Moren truned it over and over, wondering what was on it, and what Vac wasn't telling him. Vac stuck his hand in a hole in the ice, and pulled out another dead fish, a fresh looking one. He said somthing to him self and wraped the fish. Moren shivred to look at him sticking his hand in the cold water. "Isn't that cold?" He asked vac. This Vac guy was going to be one who had a story, for sure. If nothing else, there was going to be a story coming out of this. "So you have place around here, or did you fly in? I'm thinking we can look at this data drive, some place a little warmer."
He raises an eyebrow, and looks at Moren. He stands up and stretches, and looks up at the morning sky, for a moment. He wipes his hands on his pants. He says,"I know you are new but, I thought you might have an interest in old peices such as that. I just knew how to contact you." He looks down at Moren and gives a strange laugh. "I found it on one of my searches, for new specimans. And I am sure the water is cold but, it doesn't bother me I prefer the cold. As for did I fly in, no. I hate to fly. I walked here." He picks up his black bag, and throws the strap over his shoulder. He lightly steps on the edge of Moren's sled, and turns it around. "Sit tight we are going to a place, so you won't freeze." Hestarts to walk, keeping the sled under control, with light pressure from his steel toe boot. They make it across the ice before the rigid sun comes out, offering it's fake warmth.
"well, I guess that makes senes that you walked if you like the cold. Its just a little too cold for me." He sat down on the sled and Vac walked along side, guiding the seld with his boot. The sky was starting to lighten up as the sun came up, this was an odd place, it was like the heat just never got to the ground from the sun. "So when you say specimans, you mean Dead ones, rlike ths fish you where pulling out of the water. What do you do with them?" he asked, wondering what one dose with dead fish, other then eat them or use there parts for treatments and such. He placed the old data drive in his pocket, to try to warm it up. "I hope you have some computer equipment where we are going, I would like to look at what is on this drive."
He laughs, it is a strange sound. Always sounds to him as if it is empty. He continues to guide the sled with his foot, across the still solid ground, which is beginning to turn back into liquid. <span style='color:orange'>Better get back on solid ground, if he falls in I have to go after him.</span> He speeds his movement up a little, and stops the sled just behind a large rock. "You should be able to move a little easier here. This is only snow, you should probably still use your sled. You should have enough battery power, know that it has recharged for a few minutes. He looks at Moren, and then looks around. The sun is getting brighter so, he pulls his sunglasses out of his bag and puts them on. "I use the dead fish, and other things when I find them, to practice Taxidermy. If they are not recently, dead I practice, Embalming. Yes, there is computer equipment where we are going." He stops talking and points to an hut, which is still a distance away.
The sun starts getting higher in the sky and After Vac pulls out his sun glasses, it reminds Moren to pull his out as well. They are more like gogles that are dark. He remembered how bad the the snow blindness could be here. "Taxidermy, I have never knowen any one that did that. So you do it for a living, or just fun?" Moren put is foot on the control of the slead and moved it out from behind the rock, slowly so Vac could keep up. Moren looked at the sky, it was starting to warm up to the point where the black of his jacket was working and sucking up the heat. That made it a little more bareable. "I'll follow you." Moren said to Vac as he got him self settled on the slead.
He laughs, and says,"Taxidermy is my hobby, which I do for fun." He quietly walks in the direction of the hut, carefully avoiding the super slick spots. ooc: Sorry for such a short post
"Well, its sounds like kind of a fun hobby." Moren says with a smile. They moved along the frozen ground quitly for a while, The slead making almost no noise as it moved and Vac's foot steps crunching in the snow. The only fur that was exposed on Morens was that around his face, which he was glad for. He could see that ice had started to build up on and he brushed what he could off. Vac came across as kind of a loner, but they where some times the most fun type to hang around. Moren had to admit to him self that he tended to be a bit of a loner too, but he just smiled at this. The sun cast shadows down on the cold snow of Vac and Moren on his sled as they moved. It was amzaing how quite it was, even with the wind. It was a nice change from the busy cities where Moren had been in the past few Quarters. Moren Just followed Vac enjoying the Quite of the tundra, and enjoy the little bit of heat the sun was giving up in this cold, deathly quite place. OOC: Not a Problem.
He quickened his pace, as they moved closer to the hut. He was in a hurry to get, to his make shift lab and put his new specimen's into there proper places. Within a few minutes they arrive at the hut. He pulls out a key and unlocks the door. "Go ahead and bring your sled inside. There is a spot where you can recharge the batteries." He steps inside and quickly moves into the area he uses as a lab.
Vac began to pick up his pace, so Moren push the seld control harder to keep up. They then arived at the hut, and Vac unlocked it and had Moren pull the sled inside. The Hut was large for Moren saw exposed. he pulled the sled forward and Vac pointed to a Plug in the wall, Moren pluged in the sled and look around. Vac and a nice little comm radio and some computer equipment set up on one side of a room, then a small bed and some food storage. There was a hall way and then a small room with a stove and some lab equipment. then a larger room. More Computer equipment, and a large bench, full of life looking, fish, and other formorly living things. Moren noded at the skill showen in some of them, you couldn't even tell some of them where dead. "Very nice work." Moren said pointing to a Red fish, with a yellow strip and black tail. He walked over the the computer equipment and started looking, keeping his hands behind his back. he had a very nice aray of gear for interfacing different things,very neatly keep. Moren then spyed a book self, it was full of old books, hand writen books and notes, and the shelf was packed very full. "what are all these books on, did you write the hand writen ones?" Moren asked as Vac came back from where ever he put the fish he had in his pack.
He smiles and says,"Thanks. It is good to know it doesn't freak everyone out." He takes one of his new specimans, and concetrates on placing one on a table, on a plate type thing. He looks over at the books, which Moren asked about, and says,"Yes, I wrote the handwritten ones. Feel free to use the computer stuff, you might find something on the piece I gave you."
"No, I think its kind of neat how you take the dead a perserve the look of life with them." Moren said as he took off his jacket, showing the t-shirt that was under it. He flufed his fur on his arms, as it would always get matted in the jacket, and layed the jacket on the near by chair. He pulled the drive out of the jacket pocket and started look over the computer gear. "thats very cool on all the books, you must do a lot of work on this. Do you get any money for what you do, do you sell any of it?" Moren started pulling the face plate off one of the units, looking at the device interfaces on the unit. "this one won't work" he mumbled to him self as he put the cover back on that and started to take off the next front panle.
He finishes putting away the new specimans. Goes to the refrigerator after washing his hands thouroughly and grabs a couple of sodas. He walks into the room that Moren is working and sits down in a comfortable chair and hands him a soda. "No, I don't make money off this. If anyone wants a particular piece I usually just give it to them. Anything interesting with the piece I gave you?"
Moren pulls the front cover off of the 2nd of the 3 units which Vac had there. This looked more like the unit that would work. He looked again at the drive to check the interface, then he started checking the mess of cables in the 2nd unit. Vac came in and sat down in a chair near by and handed Moren a soda and asked what he had found. "thanks" Moren said as he took the soda Vac handed him. Moren opened the soda and took a drink befor telling Vac more. "Well, it looks like the Drive has a MDFC interface, I think. It looks almost like the MDFC's I have seen, but some of pins look different. It looks like your base unit here has the right stuff for this drive." Moren grabed the cable and held out the connecter that was the right one for Vac to see. "So we just have to hook this thing up and see what comes up." Moren smiled and pluged the drive in to the cable and set it on a ledge in the unit, then reached around and fliped the power switch, and waited to see if it came to life or not.
He watches for a minute, and laughs. "Hang on it won't do anything at the moment forgot to do one thing." He stands up and moves around the room and plugs in the power strip, and hits the little button so that the little light is glowing. "Ok if that is going to do anything, it should do it know." He moves back to his chair and sits down.
Vac gets up and tells Moren about the power strip, "That would help." Moren says in a playful, mocking tone. As soon as Vac truns the power strip on, the units fans fire up and start to hum. The drives then start up, and the old drive Moren had just hooked up jerks as it starts to spin up. The display then come up and shows an old logo of a company that made Cargo-space ships. Moren truned to Vac and asked, Tguka Sakh? Where did you get a computer made by Tguka Sakh? These thing where only installed on large spcae cargo ships?"
Vac looks over and Moren and raises an eyebrow. "I don't keep it plugged in when I am not here. Just incase anyone comes around looking for things to try and walk off with things." He watches as Moren, looks at logo. "I got a computer made bye Tguka Sakh as payment for and embalming job, that I did. Can you find anything else out?" He picks up a pad of paper that is about half full, and continues to write, as he awaits Moren's answer.
"oh....That was a really GOOD payment then" Moren was shook his head and looked back at the screen. <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>New hardware found, Do you want to install?</span></span> Moren typed yes and the system booted up. He started looking thought the drive and found just an old file system for what looked like a tracking system computer. As he looked though he came across a program to read location file on the hard drive. He opened the program. <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>U.S.R.: Titsant sjukcemd omes. </span></span> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Shet titsan et vyj Gajtymul Sjukc pabekat. Sha emvyjnuseym et vyj OTJ gajtymal ymli.</span></span> Moren raised an eye browe and looked over at Vac, who was writing in his book. Moren looked at the screen again to make sure of what he saw, then hit enter and started moving though the menus till he found, "tracking information" He hit enter, and a list of locations came up. "Well.." Moren started off, not sure what to make of this, "it seems to be from a tracking station, and when i ran this program it came up with a USR warning and a whole list of locations. I don't know what they all are, any ideas?" Moren said, pointing to the screen.
