Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:30 pm**

Blaine moved a box into his and Vic's room, and quickly jumped onto his bed, hanging up posters of cars with engines and things.

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:12 pm**

Victor's body was mostly obscured by the stack of banker boxes he was carrying, as well as a couple of duffel bags slung over either shoulder. It wasn't until he set the boxes onto the floor that he really noticed that he wasn't alone in the room.

"Oh, hey, didn't see ya there. I'm Victor. This... is the right room, right?" He seemed a little unsure of himself, duffel bags slowly slipping off of his shoulders.

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:38 pm**

"Well, this is ~A~ room. Victor, was it? That sounds familiar from the sheet...

I'm Blaine."

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:22 pm**

Victor let the bags drop to the floor with a pair of dull thuds, offering his hand. "Nice to meetcha Blaine."

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:02 pm**

"Same! This is gonna be great--finally out from under the ol' parents thumb, right?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:13 pm**

"Heh, yeah I guess so. It'll take some gettin' used to, 'specially not having to get up at dawn. Now that I'm looking forward to."

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:17 pm**

"Ugh, dawn? What was that all about?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 6:35 pm**

Victor sat down on the edge of his bed. "Well, when you live on a farm, that's just how things work."

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:23 pm**

"A farm, really? How big was it?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:39 pm**

Victor thought for a moment. "Pretty big. I can't remember the acreage, but the bison need a lot of land. The chickens not so much. And then the hemp fields, but you can grow a lot in a little space...."

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:41 pm**

"You have any of those really big threshers?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 9:36 pm**

"We just rent one from a neighbour. We've mostly got livestock and regular veggies, so we don't need a thresher of our own."

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:11 pm**

"Oh," Blaine said, disappointed. "I like huge machines like that."

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:20 pm**

"Oh, a bit of a gearhead huh? You'd like my stepbrother then. He's always buying old junker muscle cars so he can fiddle with the engines."

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:24 pm**

"Definitely. I like putting things together and takin 'em apart again."

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:06 pm**

"I think he just likes making things loud and fast. He hardly ever does any body work or anythin'."

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:22 pm**

"There's nothing wrong with being loud and fast."

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:31 pm**

"There is if you shake apart. Or don't want to attract a lot of attention."

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:40 pm**

"That's just reason to go back to the drawing board."

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:59 pm**

Victor rocked a bit as he sat. "... naw. I prefer testin' stuff out first. Tried and true, dependable, subtle. If I'm tuning a car, I want a car that if I go street racin' in it, I can take an off-ramp or pull into a parking lot and blend in completely. Boring I know, 'cause normal cars are boring as hell, but then it's a bit like bein' a secret agent or somethin'."

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:01 pm**

"Well, as long as it performs when it counts..."

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:05 pm**

"Well of course. What use would it be if it didn't?"

Posted: **Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:28 pm**

"You'd be surprised what some people count as 'innovation'."

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:53 pm**

"That's probably over my head, honestly."

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:02 pm**

Blaine nodded.

"So, what is it you do?"

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:45 pm**

"Well, nothin' really. I'm still in school. I guess I farm, sorta."

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:50 pm**

"No, no, I meant...what do you do."

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:31 pm**

"Oh. Ohhh." Victor drummed his hands on the mattress as he sat.

"I get smaller. Like, really small. So that's good for sneaky recon stuff I guess."

Posted: **Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:43 pm**

"Woah! How small?"

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:10 am**

"As small as I want I guess. Half an inch is the furthest I've done on purpose, I don't wanna go too far."

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:14 am**

"And you can still breathe? And support your own weight? That's amazing!"

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:33 am**

"I guess I shrink the air too. Shrinkin' ain't the right word I guess, it's more... condensing."

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:35 am**

"That's really cool. How much do you weigh? Can I see?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:29 pm**

"I get lighter, but... you don't wanna see this. It ain't impressive. Not like what my sister does, she's the real impressive one."

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:31 pm**

"Why, what does she do?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:21 pm**

"Well she can get smaller too, but she also gets bigger. Like, really big. Like... footage on the news big."

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:24 pm**

"And you can't do that?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2014 11:11 pm**

Victor shook his head. "Not an inch."

Posted: **Mon Oct 27, 2014 11:47 pm**

"Well, that doesn't seem fair," he said, sympathetically.

Posted: **Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:06 pm**

"Not really, but she's got troubles too. I mean, no one's takin' pictures of my butt and puttin' them online.

"So, what do you do?"

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