tabularasa_rp | November Prompts

Perhaps that was in part why they seemed to be able to get along decently well. Being inactive would be tedious for the pair of them. Still, he could learn a little more from Indigo about easing up once and a while and... well.. being a little more cordial to others.

Passing by a few toasters, and a sofa cushion neither of which seem to be hiding chains beside them, he goes a little further off. Finding what looks to be a crowbar, he debates taking it anyway even if it has no immediate use. That gets placed aside when he hears her calling out. Sparing it a glance, he left the object in order to go see just what it is Indigo has found.

Once he arrives at her location it isn't too difficult to see that she's in a bind. A minor one, but a bind nonetheless.

"Well- you did find a chain." He offered not so helpfully, before moving towards the end still somewhat concealed by the terrain. Although it was a little distasteful, he set to work removing some of the wet sand around the chain first, before they could try tugging on it again. Had it been dry it wouldn't been nearly as heavy.

"I don't think a rope would last long out here, so a chain's all there is to find." Or a cable, perhaps? Wire? Still, a chain is the closest metallic thing to a rope and the easiest thing to use for their purposes.

He's not squeamish about getting sand on that pretty white coat of his, is he? Especially since there's an ocean right there for washing it off. There's not much room around where's digging at the sand, so Indigo stands back until he starts pulling. Then she joins in, planting her feet and pulling on the chain with all her might.

To that portion, Kaiba didn't respond. It wasn't necessary, even though he hadn't been expecting her to find much else. It might have been possible however given the pristine quality the appliances usually sported. The less said about natural weathering processes the better in this instance.

A bit. Kaiba was careful not to fling the particles onto his fussy person. When it looks like enough has been cleared away, he rights himself and moves off a pace. Then he gets a grip on it and tugs. "It's really stuck in there...".

With her aide it does seem to start sliding free.

"Well, see it this way," Indigo gets out between tugs, slowly but steadily pulling the chain free. "If it ain't breakin' even with all this, I bet that fluffy critter won't be able to break out of it either." They've pulled enough out to know that it's definitely long enough for their purposes, at least; not that a shorter chain is useless, but just not what they're looking for right now.

"Mm, it should serve our purposes.." Briefly Kaiba found himself considered whether this was the most humane way to go about this, or not. The monster was literally made of metal, so this chain shouldn't, in theory, cause it too much discomfort. Geeze, what was he saying. The beast was trying to tear into Indigo a few minutes ago and would have taken a go at him if it had been given half a chance.

"We could leave the rest of it buried, that way it would have an anchor point. Then we'd just need something else to fasten it to." Realizing that if it wasn't secured tightly it wouldn't do any of them any good. He stopped pulling on the chain.

"Lemme see what I can find." Dropping the chain, Indigo makes her way back to the pile of trash and digs around in it again. Eventually she finds a huge nail, easily the size of a large dagger, thick enough to wrap your first around, the kind you'd find on a railroad. It's slightly bent, and in her other hand she holds another find: The head of a sledgehammer. No handle or anything, just the head.

"That oughtta do if you can get it buried in somethin' solid like what the chain was stuck in. You do that, and I'll go grab the scissors, alright?" She hands the nail and solid chunk of metal to Kaiba, then waves before running off again.

What she returns with isn't in the most pristine condition, but he will figure something out. He tries not to look down his nose too much at a bent railroad spike and a handle-less hammer. It's not like either one of them had the luxury of heading to a store for obtaining anything better. So he accepted the items graciously. “Alright... I'll... deal with this.” Without the scissors the rest was pointless besides. As Indigo darted off once more, he set to work on straightening the nail. He rested it against some metal siding, before trying to bend it with strikes from the hammer head.

It was awkward and unwieldy, so he scanned for something to fasten it to. Some pvc pipe ended up serving this purpose. He temporarily sacrificed the access belts from his attire to fasten the hammer to the rod.

Great. He always wanted to live like he was in Swiss Family Robinson....not. The most pressing issue was fastening the other end of the chain. It wouldn't be able to be as imbedded as the other end which was problematic. Still he found something that felt solid and set to work on it. He would likely have it in place before her return, depending on just how far these scissors were located.

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