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[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

Who: DelPavo + anyone
Where: DelPavo
When: Day 276, evening, post-plotting
What:

[Whatever locks the Geardorm has on its main doors have now been very securely locked. And then re-locked, just to be sure.

A cranky tiny is scrutinizing them as if he's seriously considering adding more.]

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Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*unlocks and opens the door, yawning*

Come in.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

[ looks like he ran all the way from Cepheus, judging by his heavy breathing ]

Thanks. It won't take too long, I promise.

[ coming in ]

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*closing the door securely*

Is something wrong?

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

Something like that...

[ hesitates ]

That box you made for Queen's symbol--- could you make another?

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*nods and starts toward the Del side of the geardorm, motioning for Claude to follow*

Probably better to talk on this side.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

[ nods and follows, looking around uneasily ]

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*lets you into their side and secures the door there*

The best way to do it might be to handle it at your dorm, with your materials, so we don't draw any attention or need for a trade. Did Cepheus bring any pieces of the dorms from the East Block?

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

[ unslings his pack to the ground with a heavy thump ]

Yeah. I brought enough of it over with me.

I'd rather have it done here and now than ask you to come over. After what happened last night, there's no telling when the rest of Ophiuchus might come by checking all the dorms.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

If you've got it all here, that'll be easier than going back, and still shouldn't be too apparent.

*motions you over to the table... sitting on the ground with this leg wound isn't as much fun as it seems*

What sort of things might blend in and go unnoticed around your dorm?

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

Huh? Well... books, I guess, we've got a load of those... the usual dorm furniture... and the storeroom's always got a load of materials. Uncut mushwood, obsidian... even rocks wouldn't be out of place if I made a pile of those.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

A book would work. The seal won't be perfect unless I come to your dorm and close it up completely, but I can probably get something pretty solid for you here.

Dump that stuff out on the table, I'll be right back.

*hobbling into one of the rooms!*

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

Ah, wait-- the thing is, it's already...

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*and back from his room, with some lizardskin leather and wood*

Ah? It's what?

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

...it's already in something else. The book has to be big enough to fit in that thing, too.

[ makes the rough dimensions with his hand... a box-like shape, maybe about the size of the average journal ]

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

All right, I can do that.

*dropping his stuff on the table and sitting*

Anything else I need to know before I start?

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

[ digs into his pack and pulls out a worn but sturdy bag, emptying it onto the table-- nothing but chunks of dormstone ]

That's about it.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*nods and pulls out what he needs, piling it on the table with the leather and wood*

All right.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*and after a moment of consideration, bringing his hands together, then down on the table, transforming everything in a flash of light*

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*when the light fades, there's a book on the table, with a leather cover embossed with a fancy scrolled crown there may be some strange creatures in the patterning. It looks like nothing more than a simple book, any trace of the stone has vanished*

That should do it.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

[ --blinks... reaches for the book ]

The stone...?

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*slides it over*

Open it.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

[ takes hold of the middle pages and opens...? ]

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

*the middle pages don't open! but as his hand slips across them and catches the cover, that part does swing open, revealing a stone box nested perfectly within the hollow of the false pages*

The lid slides into place. It was the best way I could think of to close it up as much as I could without being there to do it myself.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[tothelight]

...it's perfect.

[ slides the lid open and closed, running a thumb along the seams... closes it up again ]

This oughta work better than anything else! Thanks, Ed.

Re: [backtimed!!1 276 morning ]

[clap_your_hands.insanejournal.com]

Ah, you're welcome! Do you mind if I keep a smaller piece of the leftovers in trade for the leather and wood? I've kind of been using a lot of it.