[phone calls OTA] Technical Difficulties

[st_abby]

He'd passed by the alien, gleaming thing in his room a hundred times by now, or nearly must've done, and hardly stopped to examine it. It was strange, but so were most other things in this place. A shiny, awkward looking device attached to the wall by means of a long cable, set on one of the little tables that seemed to litter these rooms. It had neat rows of square buttons with numbers etched on, and a handle, so Vax'ildan had supposed it was meant to work some feature of the room in a way he could scarcely imagine. He didn't want to break it, but eventually the boredom and curiosity got the better of him, much like with the door locks. It would probably fix itself, if it came to that.

After the first few moments spent listening to the monotonous warble that came from the handle, Vax'ildan reached to jab a finger into a button. When it beeped but did no more, he pushed another. And a third...

OOC Note: If you would like a thread with Vax, please leave a top-level comment to this post and he will reply! No need to pre-arrange, but as one does when learning new technology, he may disconnect the call etc. accidentally or your character may tell him to leave them alone in very few words if they so choose - most of these threads are likely to be short.

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[st_reyofsunshine]

"Speeders, ships," Rey says. "The space kind." That much she's learned to specify since her arrival here. Spacehships didn't exist for everyone. Not yet, anyway.

"Can you do anything?"

[st_abby]

Her answer confused him, and Vax made a bit of a face. He didn't know what 'speeders' were, but more specifically, it was the bit about 'the space kind.' All ships took up space, after all. Didn't they?

But she'd already moved on to her own question, and that was at least something he could speak to. "I'm good at getting in and out of places quietly. Scouting, that sort of thing." He thought that sounded much more diplomatic than 'breaking in and stealing stuff.' "I can hold my own in a fight, if it comes to that. Not much use for those things here as of yet."

[st_reyofsunshine]

"Oh?" Rey said. The syllable hung in the air for a second before she finally continued.

"With a sword? Or with some other weapon?" A pole and a lightsaber were two very different weapons. While she managed to hold her own against Kylo Ren, it was only because he had been badly injured by Chewbacca. In a fair fight, Rey is certain she would have lost.

[st_abby]

"I prefer daggers," he admitted, since she seemed to have an interest. "Sneak in close, stick them, disengage quickly. I can do a lot of damage, and I can dodge well, but I can't take many direct hits."

[st_reyofsunshine]

For a moment, Rey is silent.

"Would you mind teaching me?" she asks. "How to avoid being hit, I mean. I'm sure there's something I can teach you, too, if you'd like. Maybe how to fix things, or salvage them."

[st_abby]

"Teach you to dodge?" Constance wanting to learn how to use a dagger seemed an easier thing to teach, all told.

"I suppose that I could show you a few things. Something of timing, how to read your opponent's movements, sure," he agreed after a moment. "But a lot of it's you - how swift and nimble you've got the ability to be, your reflexes - and a lot of it's time. I've been trying not to get killed for a good long while now."

[st_reyofsunshine]

"I appreciate it." And it's clear from Rey's tone of voice that she does. "But what's been trying to kill you?" There's plenty of things where Rey's from that could kill you -- especially on Jakku.

[st_abby]

"What hasn't been, would be the easier question to answer," Vax pointed out. "All sorts of people, monsters, dragons, demons," he rattled off easily enough. "A goliath with razor burn, on occasion."