User:Khandivya/Oh Noes, Engineering

Khandivya walked into the guild hall on a bright, beautiful Sunday. She had just come in from another walk in the sun, and was just thinking that it didn’t seem like the day could get any better. As luck would have it, she was correct, as it was about to get worse.

Keishe stand facing away from her at one of the long wooden tables in the hall. She sat near the fireplace, which had no fire in it at this time of the spring, but Khan assumed that she’d gotten so used to sitting there during the long winter months that it was just habit by now. Khan walked down the rows of tables, her boots clomping in the hard wood floor as she did. Keishe didn’t notice this; whatever she was working on was obviously very exciting. As she got closer, Khan noticed an arclight spanner on the table next to Keishe, just in reach of her nimble hands. She must be working on some engineering.

Khan was so proud of her little sister. She’d grown up so well, despite a little petulance here and there, and was now well along the path of engineering that Khan herself had chosen long ago. She worked hard to help Keishe out when she needed it, but at the same time tried not to stifle the poor girls creativity and imagination with the profession. Engineering was, after all, about new and interesting things.

“What’re you working on Kei—“ Khan stopped mid sentence as she finally got close enough to the table to look over Keishe’s shoulder and see what she was working on. She did a double take. She did a triple take. No. That wasn’t possible. How could see have been so blind!

There, on the table, in front of the poor, deluded Keishe, was the beginnings of a Gnomish Shrink Ray.

Shock over came Khan. She did a quadruple take.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?!” Coming out of her state of shock the first thing that came to mind was to show her frustration and surprise in the most obvious manner possible.

Keishe looked up at Khan and responded calmly, “Oh dis? It’s not’ing. Jes somet’ing Oglet’orpe asked me t’put toget’er for ‘im.” She looked back down at her device in-progress.

“GNOMISH!!?” Words did not flow for Keishe’s enraged sister. They sputtered out, forced from within a mind lost and confused.

This time Keishe didn’t look up, she just continued working, “Yup.” A bug on the table would have seen her grin widely in victory, but she was careful not to show her sister.

The sparse stream of words available to Khan ran out, she stood there a moment sputtered and fuming, before she decided that she’d lost this encounter and stormed off to find something to blow up. Keishe started to whistle.

Hours passed.

Khan walked back into the guild hall. She clomped back up past the rows of tables. Keishe was still sitting at the end of the row, tinkering away. Khan reached the last table and stood at the head of it, peering down at the little troll.

“Hey…” Khan started.

Keishe looked up from her work, “Yeah?”

“You uhh….wanna show me how that works?”

Keishe smiled, this time not with victory, but from actual happiness. “Love to.”

Khan sat down next to her and spent the rest of the evening trying to convince Keishe to put a bomb in her design somewhere. She failed at that, but did manage to learn a few things while the two worked together.

''((I decided I didn’t want another goblin engineer. No reason to have two. But when I told Aku he was devastated and asked why. I told him OOC that I had no good RP reason for it, but that I just didn’t want two goblin engineers. He suggested youthful rebelliousness Smiley. I decided that Khan would eventually get over her incredible distaste for gnomes simply for the love of gadgets. Cheesy))''

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