So You've Had A Bad Day

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Who: Samuel Oak + OPEN
What: Samuel got cursed by Viridi, and bad luck catches up to him.
Where: Various
When: After the Overgrowth event
Content Warnings: Various injuries, blood and gore in one prompt

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[blue_eyed_obsession]

Honestly it's hard to tell from the way the chair is now, and the way the instructions always were. Narrowing his eyes at the nonsensical text, he also is forced to give the images more of his focus.

"Even with only the images it should have been fairly straightforward," Kaiba agreed, in his own way without making it clear that he was. "If any of this.." Motioning to the wasted words. ".. made sense, I'm sure it would reveal whether it was intended to be a prank or not."

Not really, is what the brunette thought initially but rather than voicing it, he shrugged. "Sure. It's not like I have anywhere I have to be...". Genuinely meaning that and with words devoid of sarcasm. Besides, it was just a chair- how long could this take?

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"If we communicated with writing more, do you think this place would start understanding it?" It's an idle thought. Maybe they should start writing each other letters. But back to the matter at hand:

With the pieces all sorted -- and luckily enough, it seems, none of them actually broken -- Sam hands Kaiba the small screwdriver that came with the set, before sitting back. Oh, he'll help if he's asked, but right now he wants to see if Kaiba can do better. Besides, knowing his... prickly personality, he has the feeling that he doesn't really want help.

[blue_eyed_obsession]

"Theoretically. If you want to spend your time teaching this place the alphabet, be my guest," Kaiba would rather teach it networking and to have a steady supply of energy. There hadn't been much reason to write here, so he was likely on the right track towards improvement.

Accepting the screwdriver, he starts by inspecting the pieces. It's a lot less complex than what he's used to constructing so he's confident that this will be a snap. That was also an accurate assessment on the professor's part, Kaiba wasn't in the habit of either giving nor accepting help so this was a rare occasion in one capacity. "You should hold on to this after this chair is finished, tools like it don't seem to wash ashore nearly often enough."

Deeming the few glances he'd had of the diagrams enough, he set to work once he situated himself on the ground by the pieces.

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"I've already had some luck with the Smeargles, so the world itself shouldn't be much harder." Granted, the Void wouldn't be able to provide feedback confirming that it understood, at least not for a while, so there's that complication to deal with... but still, he's pretty confident he can do it. And maybe once it understands writing, teaching it other things will be easier, too.

"Wouldn't it be more useful for you?" Kaiba is some kind of engineer, right? "I've already got one, anyway." He pulls a small pocket knife from his labcoat, unfolding it to show the handful of tools on it. "If you don't have one already, you can have that one." How generous.

((BTW, up to you if you want Kaiba to succeed in rebuilding the chair or not! It might be an unhealthy boost to his ego if he succeeds, but then again, it would also be pretty funny....))