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Who: Shion Uzuki and Varon
What: Bike building or the start thereof...
When: the day after the Cupcake Wars
Where: in a small alcove between Thor and Odin districts.
Rating: PG for language.

The early stages in building anything was to start with a plan. Varon had drawn up three sketches; one for the chassis design, another for the body and lastly the finished product concept. He never built a motorcycle completely from scratch before but he has worked with kits which really helped him with understanding how to put it all together. He needed the extra help and the expert mind of someone that knows how to draft up and create something from the very bottom. This wasn't Lego's.

Once he settled himself into work mode, he sent out a text to Shion explaining where he was and to bring a pencil. It could be some time so he made sure that he had something to eat with him at all times. He still cursed his fast metabolism. His backpack was always his survival kit but he felt like a glutton.

Still, there were more important things to worry about than some idiotic ability that seemed completely useless and out of control for the time being. At least this way, building something would help him focus and he hoped internally that Shion would benefit from this build too. He looked up just as he was about to take a bite of his apple...

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It didn't take Shion too long to arrive after receiving the text. Shion was fairly decent with navigating, and even though she'd only been in the city a short time, she knew where most of the major landmarks were already.

"Hello there." She gave a short wave, and surveyed the surroundings. She appeared to be a little tired. In actuality she had slept well, but something about the lack of color left her feeling a little drained as well. She tried her best to appear completely normal, however.

"So, have you got anything drafted so far?"

Varon scratched his head in thought. "Yeah, but I think I'm gonna need help with the math part. I mean, I got what they look like and all but...hold on, I'll let you see it for yourself."

He shifted his weight to sift through his backpack that contained various fruits and found his notebook. "Ah, shoulda stuck it in the front. Guess I was in a rush this mornin'." It was pretty much true now that he always seems like he's in a hurry.

"Let's see-" he paused for a moment, "Ah, here."

He flipped the pages over and shifted the front cover to the back. "Now, I think the most complicated part is the carburetor. It's got several valves in it that allows for airflow and restriction when the throttle is either open or closed. So there's gotta be a means for the cable to connect. The engine's simple enough. Then there's the tranny. I'm thinkin' of goin' chain drive."

He doesn't realize that Shion may not know about any of these parts he's rattling off. He was just excited to get started.

Well, she's heard of some of these things before. Mobility is handled quite differently where she's from, so some of it's kind of foreign. But she nods along with what she does know.

"What can I help with?"

Hopefully something she can handle. She can wing it with a lot of things, but she doesn't want to ruin someone else's project.

"It's draftin' all these parts and makin' molds that I'm not sure how to do. Not unless they got a laser cuttin' facility around here, we might have to do them part by part, piece by piece to make it work." He could carve out the parts from wood if he had to in order to have some sort of working model to manipulate then make the casts of those parts.

"Ah, how good are ya with clay?" Making a scale model can work too. At least it would give a visual representation of what he has in mind.

"Hm.. I don't know." Ah, and here are some of the horrible inconveniences of "past" technology. Shion had never really had much of a reason to work with clay, since everything in her line of work could be made with computerized machines. And she had never been that interested in sculpting on its own.

But she did have an idea. "I wonder if there's a library here... If we had a network more like the UMN, we could look things up that way, but since we don't, we could pick up books with some schematics, or even just pictures of the parts we need. It would be much easier to cast molds that way, don't you think?"

"That's an idea." He never thought of that approach and the idea had merit. There was no need to go through unnecessary steps if there was a way to make things better. Still, the prospect of reading, research and taking notes had him feeling slightly out of his range but he really wanted his bike.

"I've only been there once but are you sure they'll have everything available for the build? I'm a bit worried that the gods might get the info mixed up." He certainly hoped that all of the information and schematics drafting would be there. At the very least, he'll learn it and he may be able to repeat it.

"Well, if you saw a picture, would you know if the part was correct or not?" She imagined everything must have a standard size and look. It should be easy to tell if a part isn't going to be able to perform the task they need it to do.

"Yeah. That's a given. Like I said, the trouble is draftin' the thing to build the forged molds which is why I asked about the clay. There's also parts within parts. Everything moves like the valves and gears. If the starter gears don't move, that means the distributor can't move to get its spark to the plugs. So really, it's all how they fit that makes it work. Hence...math. Lots and lots of math."

Working on the schematics was certainly going to be the challenge. Might as well roll up his sleeves and give it a try. "Any books on algebra?" Torque was another factor.

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