( 001 ) voice | on board excursions with a slight twist.

[besiege]

[ There's a slight noise like thin metal yeilding somewhat under weight, followed by a tap and a hollow sounding bang and multiple wires sliding against and past each other. This is all topped off with a series of muttered obscenities as Cat struggles to get her communicator up to face level, considering that she is currently somewhat lacking in room. There is a pause in which all that can be heard are a few short, shallow breaths. This has been quite a workout. She sounds frustrated and incredibly reluctant; help isn't something she usually asks for. ]

Right.

Anyone here want to tell me the secret to untangling wires? 'Cause it's a lot harder than it looks, and it looks pretty damn hard from afar anyway.

[ It isn't very much to go on, but this is partially because Cat doesn't really want to tell anyone that she has gone and trapped herself in a rather narrow ventilation shaft, and has become caught up in some random, unexpected sea of wires. She's not idiot, so she's hardly about to just yank the wires out of wherever it is they lead. Not that she thinks it'd do much harm in the long run, considering she's found one relatively small set of wires on an otherwise enormous ship, but she'd rather not risk it.

... she was bored, alright? Crawling through ventilation shafts seemed like a really good idea at the time. ]

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[master_of_the_game]

Dividing the wiring is good. Using adhesive tabs, for instance, to color code them if they aren't already marked.

[besiege]

Yeah, I'm running low on the adhesive tabs, so I don't reckon that's an option.

[ She huffs, quietly. ]

Don't really have much light here either. [ ... ] Or room.

[master_of_the_game]

I can't help that. That's just poor planning, on your part.

[besiege]

[ Bristling: ]

This is a fucking spaceship, not an office stationary room or whatever. Where the hell am I supposed to find the damn things? [ There's some more of that hollow banging as she wriggles around in the vent. ] I wasn't planning on anything happen at all anyway, thanks very bloody much.

[master_of_the_game]

I guess it's just mercenary thinking. I always keep things like that on me.

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[65]

Where are you? I could help, if you'd like. [he's an untangling things expert, man.]

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[megamind]

Uh. Depends on the wires. What wires are we talking about?

[Thankfully, Megamind has crawled in a lot of those vents and --well, knows a lot of those sticky places to get into. But he's more adept at, well, getting out of them.]

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[stimulations]

Patience and steady hands, usually.

[besiege]

Good for you.

Now, d'you have anything in the non-mercenary, simple English category of advice, or are you just going to keep wasting my time by pointing out my shortfalls?

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[besiege]

[ 8| ]

Somewhere. [ That sounds pleasantly suspicious. Cat's not great at thinking on her feet sometimes. ] Just looking for advice, not help.

[ Wriggling sounds follow. ]

I'm fine.

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[besiege]

Of the wire-y kind. I'm not exactly a bloody expert, if you can't tell already.

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[besiege]

Don't have much of either.

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[stimulations]

A good pair of wirecutters, then. Though I'd question which wires you're attempting to untangle. On a ship like this, it probably wouldn't be wise to cut them without knowing what they are.

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[65]

[OMG IT'S NOT LIKE HE KNEW OK. But he's not going to pry, despite how sketchy this all sounds.]

Well, start with one wire and work your way through untangling it. Then the next, and so forth. Some people try to pull a little at all of them if they think they see a way for one to get out, even if they're working on the other. Does that make sense?

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[megamind]

Pictures?

I mean, how'd you get them tangled? Are you working in engineering? Are you working somewhere else? You're really not giving enough information here.

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[coarse]

[Hi, your voice and tone is familiar, but he'd do a better job at making sure if he could see a face. Since that option isn't available right now, I'M JUST GONNA DO WHAT I WANT COME AT ME BRO]

What's your name?

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[northerner]

[ oh hey it's the other ginger ]

Have you a dagger to cut yourself free?

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[besiege]

... Nope.

[ And yet it sounds like she might be shifting around to give whatever he just said a go, even if she didn't really follow it that clearly. ]

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[besiege]

No pictures.

[ She's not exactly good at helping herself. ]

Carelessness, that's all. I'm no engineer. [ It sounds like she might have followed that up with, "just a fucking moron", but it's not very audible. ]

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[besiege]

I have a knife, but I'm not using it for exactly the reason you just said. I know fuck all about spaceships or whatever, and I'm not about to explode this place just for cutting up some damned cluster of wires.

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[besiege]

[ Having only spoken to him once and being used to his face speaking with a different accent, she doesn't think for a moment that he is speaking to her. All the same, she's vaguely reluctant to respond to him. ]

Does it matter?

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[besiege]

[ She relaxes a little upon seeing his response, the irritable and restless snap leaving her voice somewhat, sounding a little more tired ]

Yeah, actually, but I don't know what the hell I'd be cutting here.

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[megamind]

Ah. Well, without knowing what you're doing I -- can't. Really advise.

Would you like to, ah, have me come-- help? [such a foreign word but he can try]

[coarse]

No, I just thought it might be fun to ask.

[.]

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[stimulations]

Sensible, then. Why do you need them untangled? If leaving them is possible, that might be the best course of action.