⚙ [open; building time is a go]

[morsecodes]

Date & Time: 4/23
Location: the training building
Characters: Leo and OPEN
Summary: Leo's destroying tinkering with things
Warnings: None~

Leo had started on ideas to fix up the training building before the first mission, but then he had gotten wrapped up with it, and....well, he got distracted. It happened so easily sometimes, he couldn't help it.

But with the mission over, and a little too much free time on his hands, he got back to work. He had already made a rock climbing wall (one that moved and shot out flames!), so now he was back in the training hall, trying to decide what to work on next.

So if you come in the training hall, you might find a male studying what he thought to be crude devices for training, or you might find him already tinkering on something, more specifically something of yours. Feel the need to bother him?

Comments

[bellonaborn]

Reyna hated this place more and more each day. Every day here was another that Octavian could be ruining all of her hard work back home. But she was doing nothing but wasting away in her Unit, and being alone was starting to get to her. She may as well take Jason's advice and socialize, try to make allies. If nothing else, she'd let off some steam by training with the weapon they provided her.

Upon entering the building and seeing the graecus, she had half a mind to turn around and walk out. She resisted, however. Jason trusted him, she should learn to as well... Greek or not. "What are you doing?"

[morsecodes]

Leo was busy at work, perfecting a motor for the punching bag he made (it totally fights back!), when he heard the female's voice. He spun around, surprised, and immediately began trying to rub some of the smudge off his face. He only made it worse, however.

"Oh, um-- hey Reyna!" Wow she actually spoke to him first! Was she finally coming to realize her true feelings for him??

"Just fixing up the training place, like I said I would. This place sucks for people like us, after all."

[bellonaborn]

If she had heard any of his inner dialogue, she'd be that much closer to beating him up. Lucky for him, mind reading was not part of the gifts her mother bestowed on her. She watched him for a long moment, then glanced at the punching bag... And back at him. "So we all seemed to agree."

It was pretty much painful, being so conversational and polite. Crossing her arms, she leaned against the wall nearest. "What've you accomplished so far, then?"

Her tone was not friendly, it was more like that of a superior checking in on progress. It could be worse?

[morsecodes]

If anyone heard his inner dialogue, he'd be a dead man. A very dead man. But fortunately, she couldn't so he continued to live another day.

"Knew it was only a matter of time!" He laughs, then shrugs, looking over everything in the training room.

"A lot, I'd say. Most everything I've tinkered with at least some, but there's still so much more I could do."

[bellonaborn]

Reyna surveys the room for a brief moment herself, then turns back to Leo. "Will you show me the biggest projects you worked on?"

Still, nothing personal. It was all business, and he really shouldn't think otherwise. He'll also note that she's left her toga back at her Unit, opting for yoga pants and a tank top.... It was far more practical than training in a ceremonial toga, at least.

[noble_nate]

If Nathaniel didn't come to the training facility every day (and had the path to the building down by heart), he would have thought he'd made a wrong turn and wound up somewhere he'd never seen before.

But the basic layout of the main room was the same as before, it was just what was inside that was different. There was a wall seemingly made of flames, and several other things that he knew hadn't been there before. His very first move is to head over to the archery range and make sure that it was still intact. If not, there would be words with whoever had desecrated his training area.

[morsecodes]

Sure enough, Leo was doing just that. Well, he was making it better, anyways! He was currently sitting on the floor, fiddling with a controller that made the targets move. The whole range was different than it had been before. More targets were added, all moving in different directions, turning to be missed, and more.

He heard the footsteps, but he didn't look up. He figured whoever it was was probably coming to thank him for being awesome. Plus he was almost done, he couldn't get distracted!

[noble_nate]

Nathaniel just stood there, stunned at how different the range now looked. Archery was his means of escape, a way of pushing away all the thoughts warring in his mind and just concentrating on the target before him. Now the targets were moving all over the place for some unknown reason.

"Maker's breath! What happened?"

[morsecodes]

Done! Leo grinned as he finished up the last tweaking he felt it needed, then looked up at the male, the grin just growing.

"You like? Thought it made it a little more challenging. Boring old still targets aren't any fun, anyway." Not that he could shoot a bow and arrow to know, but that wasn't the point.

[luxecareer]

Training. That was one thing Glimmer was good at. It was the one thing she was confident in. Double bladed staff in hand, she pauses at the entrance to the building when she notices the annoying boy from earlier.

She doesn't pause long, however, and ends up passing him by with long, powerful steps. She wasn't going to bother with him, she wanted to train and she wasn't going to let anyone being around stop her. If nothing else, she could show her worth against the dummy she was now about to face in an outfit much similar to her training uniform back home.

The dummy will likely not survive the afternoon.

[morsecodes]

Leo was fiddling with some wiring on one of the machines he had built when Glimmer came in, and immediately he dropped what he was doing to mosey on over to see what she was up to.

He watched for a moment, before intercepting, slipping between her and the dummy.

"Hey, Sparkles! Just.. stopping you, real fast. You'll like this." And he backs to where the dummy is side by side to him, reaches behind it and flicks a switch. The dummy sprung to life, taking a fighting stance immediately.

"Better? Well, duh. Course it's better."

[luxecareer]

Glimmer was aware he was watching her (after all, who wouldn't be?)... What she wasn't aware of was that he was going to come in between her and the dummy, which she was envisioning with the fire girl's face. The blade from one end of her staff sunk into the dummy, a spot dangerously close to his head. "You idiot!" she hissed, opting to ignore that he called her the wrong name.

If she was going to kill someone, she at least wanted a good fight out of it. Catching her breath, she watched him move away to the other dummy... Her lips quirked in a smirk as soon as the object moved on its own. "Much better... You did this on your own?"

[morsecodes]

"Whoa!" Leo ducked as the blade came at him, his eyes wide as it went into the dummy. That was certainly a close one, but he'd had a lot of close ones.

However, he acts like it was nothing, and he gladly shows off his creation.

"You bet I did! It's real simple, really. Just an automaton skeleton, mostly. Small amount of hard wiring to have it react, but no biggie. Even Harley could make this." Not that she would know who Harley was, but not the point.

[hunteresse]

Given who and what she was, it was hardly surprising that Thalia did end up quite often in the training room. They weren't the sort to sit around quietly and read books anyway and it wasn't as if trees moved around a lot... No, hardwired for battle, there were few and far moments between when not moving would be the norm, even if one technically didn't need to be.

Then again, this place made it almost more likely. There were things going on at home and here they were forced to wait. Thalia was by no means happy with that. Having worked with her knives for a time, Thalia eventually spotted Leo, and cautiously made her way over. "Working on something, I take it?"

Then again, maybe not.

[morsecodes]

Leo looked up from his work, grinning brightly. "Heck yeah I am!" He jumped to his feet, taking a few steps back to admire his work, as well as trying to smooth out his hair and look smooth. Which...didn't really work, considering he had oil splatters all over him.

"The training room sucks! Seriously, this stuff is no good, not for us. So I've been fixing things up!" He picks up a controller, points it to the treadmill he's been working on, and it comes to life. At first it seems pretty normal, but then he pushes a button and a device above it roared to life, causing blades and all sorts of things to swipe down at random.

[hunteresse]

Her own expression remained neutral, neither warm nor cold, although Thalia had spoken rather than ignore him. They were both demi-gods, but it wasn't as if Thalia had been in camp anytime recent, and her days there were done. Had never really started, if one thought about it, before she had joined the Hunters.

"So that is what you do with your spare time." It was hard to judge the tone of her voice but she did give a skeptical eye towards the treadmill. She can't say what she had been expecting, but it clearly wasn't that.

[morsecodes]

"Pretty much. I mean, there's not much more for me to do here. Not the best fighter. I can, but I can't fight like you or Jason." Leo paused, then shrugged.

"I've been making things for people, too. One guy had me forge him a sword. Pretty sweet, if you ask me!" And even though the treadmill appeared to be working perfectly like he wanted, his hands were still fiddling with the controller, as if they couldn't be stilled.

[stonefaith]

Bariyan didn't honestly have much of a reason to wander into the training facilities; the skills he wanted to train no longer seemed trainable. At least, not without loss of life. But his daily wanderings had taken him past the building and he'd heard activity from within, so he'd decided to take a wary look. Ready to back out should it be necessary.

But that did not seem to be the case, though he remained hovering in the doorway. From there, Bariyan spent a long while staring at Leo's new rock climbing wall before finally speaking up to ask about it.

"What did you do?" More curious than accusatory.

[morsecodes]

Leo was tinkering with another machine when the male came in, but he looked up, grinning when he saw what he was looking at.

"I made a rock climbing wall, duh. Not as sweet as the one back home, but it works." Yeah, he couldn't figure out where to get lava from. But fire worked! Fire definitely worked.

[stonefaith]

[ ooc: i'm working off the assumption that they haven't met in person yet, though they've spoken on the network! hope that's ok c: ]

It works? Bariyan was under the impression that the walls were there to... climb. It didn't seem like they had much work to do. Still, this one looked highly suspicious, so he kept his eye on it as he moved over to stand in front of Leo. Like he expected it to spring to life and attack.

When he was certain that it wouldn't, he finally looked down to the new machine that Leo was working on.

"Are you working on another one?" Bariyan asked, warily.

[morsecodes]

[ooc: totally fine by me! \o/]

When you're a demigod, you gotta make training more difficult. Clearly a regular, boring old rock climbing wall wouldn't do any good.

"Oh, this?" Leo asked, then shrugged. "Dunno yet. Sometimes I just start working and see what I come up with as I go." He didn't even have to pay attention to what he was doing sometimes, either. His hands just did all the work, like they knew exactly what they were doing.

...tl;dr

[ethos]

Percy decided he'd officially gotten bored with the training facility itself, having spent so much time there, but others kept it livelier than it'd otherwise be. Nothing like sparring with people from multiple universes to open yourself up to the possibilities. And ever since finally finding his netbook again (stacked amongst the clean dishes in the food hall, except he's not sure how it got there — harpies?), he'd had had a lot to think about.

The reports on the mission were looking good, overall. While disorganization was a major complaint, Percy wasn't sure if making their forces more organized would work in their favor. First of all, they couldn't have gotten more organized than the Romans if they paid the Romans their weight in denarii not to be. And second, a lot of soldiers floundered on one-to-one fights. The whole thing highlighted a big difference between the half-blood camps...

...which, as he turned into the main room of the facility, he'd found just the right guy to talk with about. The freshly constructed flame-breathing rock climbing wall was genius.

Knowing he probably should ask first, Percy tried to get a look at what the other demigod was doing. "Hey, Leo. What are you up to?"

<3

[morsecodes]

Leo was actually fixing the archery range up more for Nathanial when Percy came into the training facility. He heard someone in there, but he didn't bother to see who it was, instead opting to focus on his work. Until Percy spoke up, anyway.

He turned to the male, giving him a grin, before turning his gaze back to what he was tinkering with. "Just fixing up things for peeps. You know how it is."

[ethos]

Percy had only ever done basic stuff in shop class and some work on the chariot for the races at camp way back when. But from watching Beckendorf and Tyson, he had an idea of the sort of talent it took to make things of Cabin 9 calibre.

"That's pretty cool of you... especially since this can't be the ideal sort of workspace." He glanced back over to the rock climbing wall. "How long did that take?"

[morsecodes]

"Nothing like the forges back at camp, or even the bunker." Leo grumbled, but then shrugged. "Making due, though. Can't really help it, can I?"

But the grin came back as his eyes shifted to the rock wall. It was pretty sweet, wasn't it? "Been working on all this stuff the past few weeks? But maybe a week stops on just that. But I hop around between projects more than I should." It was that darn 'ADHD' that made him like that.