ON> 188604
Uso brought Tacitus to see the freespacer known as Truffleclub...
... this is not that story... mainly because we lost the JP...
This is what happened afterward...
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"COME ON OUT! SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!" Uso shouted. Tacitus had been repaired... but rather than coming to see it herself, Uso had setup a small stage complete with curtains cobbled together from the spare bits laying around in Truffleclub's keep. She had insisted that they make a production of things, and was eager to see what the Taur-robot looked like now that those broken parts had been swapped out for something a bit more working.
"I PROMISE I WON'T JUDGE TOO HARSHLY!"
"Why do I feel like this is a bad idea? Why a stage?" Tacticus questioned, a tuff of his hiar sticking out from where he was hiding.
Why a stage? He'd seen these things before and usually things on a stage were well..important. he wasn't important. Fiddling with his fingers a few moments, he gave a nervous sigh. His arm and leg had been repaired with the mot ease. His fur/skin though was a bit harder to patch up as well it wasn't metal or a piece of machinary. Oddly enough they had found a article of clothing that was in better shape than his old shirt. So that was currently on as well, though he glanced down at the new hand; well arm.
"fine fine...just, promise not to do that." Tacticus replied with a sigh.
A nervous step was the first thing to do an the rest followed with more ease than he had in a long while. His skin/fur was rather clean looking now, still the same red and white with harvest gold, the shirt though well it looked more like a coat than a shirt. It had a old look to it, nothing like the styles that were in current circulation but had more of a military look. A mostly red article of clothing with white in the front. In truth, it looked like a very old military uniform piece.
"H...happy?" he stammered.
"Very!" Uso replied, taking a moment to drink in Tacticus' new look.
"You clean up nicely... and I see you got a thing for the old finery. Did you find that coat somewhere or did you have Truffleclub fabricate it?
... You know, we could use a bit of that old military look for dress uniforms if you have any intrest in putting that particular talent to use.... Come over here and give me a spin. I wanna get a better look at the repair job!"
"Kind of both." Tacticus replied. "It was in good shape when we found it but, we both kind of worked together to make it look a little nicer. Though...maybe I should've went with a different color?"
He certainly was very red, though he still liked how the coat looked. Even if that meant there was even more red on his person. His head tilted a little bit at her request.
"Like...this?" Tacticus asked, taking a few slow steps to turn around an spin.
However he wasn't used to moving around still and the fact his front leg was undamaged now there was no way to dampen his speed. At first he didn't notice himself going a little faster that is, till a paw hung off the stage. A startled cry left him as he ended up going over the edge and landing on his back.
Uso god a decent laugh out of that,
"Yeah... close... close to that. Do we need to tinker with your movement controls? Maybe more visual sensors?"
She'd walk over to him, reaching for his arm... then pausing, "Uh... how do I help a taur get up exactly?"
Tacticus shook his head to get his world to stop spinning. It was hard to get oof his back though he managed to roll onto his side.
"I'm just not used to being able to move so quickly again. Barely got used to limping around." Tacticus said as he attempted to host himself up. "I don't know either, four legs are a pain with that."
Height difference was too. But he accepted her hand and managed to get up. Course he opted for sitting down now, his large tail twitched on the ground.
"So...what now?" Ha asked.
"Well, we need to figure out what you want to do with yourself. Just talking with us about getting repairs seems to have been a lot for you and... uh... well do you sleep? Or eat? Or recharge? ... Maybe just take a break for a bit and we can get started again tomorrow.... we also need to get you a place to stay! How do you feel about towers?" Uso asked.
"II recharge while turned off. So its kind of sleep." Tacticus replied. "Well...Jack wanted to do em and others too but with what he said at that meeting..I didn't know what to do. Even with his apology."
It was true, none of it helped.
"Never been in a tower before." Tacticus replied.
"COOL," Uso said, nodding, "Truffles, we're going to go find him a room in Nath tower...."
Some Time Later
188604 didn't really have public transport... though it did have plenty of gumdrop APCs, small wing-shaped boxes that could float or roll along. There was barely enough space in the back of one for Tacitus and Uso, but it was able to quickly make the trip from Truffleclub's brass kingdom to the glass and metal Nath tower.
Uso was first top hop out the back of the transport,
"COME ON! LETS FIND YOU A ROOM!"
Squeezing himself into the gumdrop APC was hard. It was part of the reason he struggled out of the box like mode of transport. Stretching his robotic legs, he swished a crease out of his tail before following after Uso.
"So what's in this Bath Tower?" Tacticus asked.
The glass was certainly different from the grass kingdom they left.
"Nath... though they have baths... come on.." Uso said, walking in through the front and heading right towards the back lifts. There was a statue of a horned woman that was setup in the lobby... at least for now, it looked like they were in the middle of making changes, "They have a hotel part-way up this place... I guess all the rooms ar ethe same... but you're welcome to any one of them!"
"Oh sorry, words got mixed up." Tacticus commented, a slight laugh left him st his mistake. "You sure a room here can fit me?"
He did have a odd body style for most places with his height.
"... no idea."
Uso would enter the lift and press a buttom for one of the floors about halfway up the tower. "Come on, lets find one... I mean, they are all the same so lets just take the one right next to the lift." Uso said, simply opening one of the doors and walking through. The room was typical hotel fair... a single large bed, a large TV, A sofa, table, and a bathroom area with shower and tub.... along with a view of Osman city and the nearby beach.
"So..." Uso said, "Is this enough space? Or do we need to knock out one of these walls?"
Tacticus followed along, his tail giving a twitch now and then. Course he humored her as they entered the room. For a brief moment it felt like the storage container. But as he glanced around, he took note of the room's more square appearance than rectangular. Even with the items in it, there was more space in it as well.
"Seems okay..doesn't feel like that container thankfully." He replied.
"Feel like the walls are closing in?" Uso asked, "... We can figure something else out... again, we can always break a wall down.... or a ceiling... or floor.... I mean we can really break anything we want here. We own this place."
"Its not that, it'll take some getting used to. The shape and size are fine." Tacticus replied. "Besides I spent seventeen years in a box. I'll just use this place to recharge at."
"Its not just a place to recharge at... I like to think its home... or close to it... walk around a bit. Get used to the area... if you find another room you'd like just let me know... You can always move.
When you're done, come track me down again. We'll... uh... I guess you don't eat lunch? Well there is always something going on. We can do that."
"Home?" Tacticus muttered. "Never had a reason to try and eat lunch...I'll try to find ya later."
With Uso gone, the place felt a bit empty. Sure that was due to him being the only thing in it. Still, he didn't know what to feel for it. The other rooms he checked had the same feel; except for the ones that had a crampt feel or just reminded him of the storage container in every possible way. The first room felt like the only okay option. Still...a home? He felt kind of like that when he was on that farm, with how that went...was feeling at home somewhere else a good idea? Didn't seem like it.
A couple of hours passed, finally Tacticus got tired of looking. It just wasn't that well tolerable after the first twenty rooms. It took longer for him to find Uso but he managed to do so at last.
"Hey." He greeted.
"HI!" Uso said, waving at Tacitus from her spot overlooking the ships on at the Spaceport.
Of course, spaceport was a generous name for what was setup on 188604. Really their spaceport was just a giant area that had been completely paved over to make a landing spot for ships.
"How'd you like your new room?" Uso asked.
"It's fine, I'm not really sure what to do in there. I looked at other rooms but i didn't like any of the other ones. So I guess my room will work." Tacticus replied "So what now? I know I ask that a lot but, it's the easiest way to ask about where to go next."
"That doesn't sound thrilling... how about you check out some rooms on the Queen's slave? You might feel a bit more at home with more people around? They are a bit smaller but its got some more proximity to stuff... Nath tower isn't exactly full up yet." Uso replied.
Tacticus felt uncertain, was this best? Or was it just a way to do please someone else? He honestly couldn't tell, though he found himself giving a small nod.
"Thrilling isn't really me, it's just well...I've just never done this before." Tacticus replied.
That and he was honestly a more simple person. He just didn't want the space to feel like that storage container. He spent a long time in that thing.
"Sure. Let's check out the Queen's Slave." Tacticus replied.
"You'll know it when you feel it... probably," Uso said, waving for Tacticus to follow her as she headed up the ramp into the Queen's slave. The ship itself was certainly not well kept. The main room was large and cirular, with a display table in the center. Chairs were built into the walls, and one of them had a half-dissasembled power armor belted in place. There were also gun parts strewn about from a pistol that had been rapidly dissasembled... then just left.
The rooms were similarly not well put together. Some had beds, some had people's stuff. For the most part they were smaller than the rooms in nath tower, but they were odly shaped and there always seemed to be someone around.
