1st Build

[rexthebuilder]

Who: Rex Salazar (rexthebuilder) & YOU
What: Rex asks people opinions on snowball fights, doesn't know how shopping works to save his life, and then manages to temporarily get crud in his eyes by trying to be cool while no one's even looking.
When: Early December
Where: In Town
Warning(s): Mildest of eye squicks in the third option (spoilered away)

1. Survey Says.... [OTA]
Rex is carrying around a notebook and pencil given to him from his brother, looking around the crowd in the town square for someone that looks like they might have a good opinion. César gave him an important assignment. It'll be a long time before Rex figures out César gave it to him as an icebreaker to meet and socialize with other people patient enough to give a teenager their time.

Eventually, he gathers up his courage and walks up to a random person with an enthusiastic smile. "Heyyy, what sort of forts and stuff would make the most epic snow battle ever?"


2. Shopping Montage! [OTA]
Rex has his hands in his new winter coat his brother bought him to feel the 100 Brass he's carrying again and again, a wide grin on his face as he walks around window shopping outside. César suggested he go and get himself somethings with the half of his first paycheck that isn't going to food. And as he goes around and starts walking back and forth, realizes he has no idea what to spend it on, and his enthusiasm wanes somewhat with absolute bewilderment and confusion.

"... what sort stuff can I even buy here that isn't boring?"


3. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... teenager? [OTA, CW: Immediately healing eye abrasion]

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Rex figured that flying with his Sky Slider without goggles would be fine because the cold killed all the bugs. Today, he learns learns chimney ash can be just as bad when he decides to fly through it in order to be cool and it immediately backfires.

"Augh, no, my eyes!" Rex covers his eyes with a hand as he hovers down onto the street and returns his legs back to normal, waving with his free hand. "Uhm?! Anyone there! Need help for a minute!"

Comments

[worstorganplayer]

"Huh." Snakes ponders this. He's still not sure he really gets it. "The modern world is something else. Seems like every day I'm learning something even more amazing about it."

[rexthebuilder]

Rex doesn't seem to mind whether he gets it or not, but he nods along to that statement. "I'd probably die of boredom if I was born in your time! ... No offense!"

REX?? Why are you like this.

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes just smirks. "I might too, if I havta go back there while thinkin' about everything I'm missin' out on in the future."

Really, there'd still be plenty to do back there, but probably most of it would involve a life on the run. Yeah, he wants a fresh start if he goes back to Earth.

[rexthebuilder]

"Yeah, hard to go back after you've had Flixnet, you know? Or being able to check out books from the library on your phone. I'd never get any reading done if I had to carry books on all my missions! They'd get like, constantly blown up. At least my phone's backed up on the cloud, you know?" Rex, no, he doesn't know.

[worstorganplayer]

“… Cloud?” He pictures phones floating on a cloud in the sky.

sorry I died for like all of Feb lmao

[rexthebuilder]

"Oh, uh, a bunch of computers. Like how clouds are like water droplets. The droplets being computers. And the computers aren't next to you like clouds aren't next to you, but they're together?" Rex is actually a bit proud he remembered someone else's analogy. "And my phone doesn't need wires to get that sort of information. Sorta like how you can see a cloud from the distance, and it can rain on you."

Rex feels smart right now.

That's okay!

[worstorganplayer]

"Uh ... okay." Snakes still isn't sure he gets it, but the no wires part sounds great. There's always so many wires with telegraphs and telephones. "That's ... pretty amazing tech. It must help people a lot."

[rexthebuilder]

Eh, close enough, Rex figures.

Rex laughs a bit, just a hint of nervous joking in his voice. "Yeah, it does. I go through a lot of phones at home. They're aways backed up. And you can send information from anywhere nearly, so you can get help in emergencies. Or talk to people. Or even see their faces."

[worstorganplayer]

"I sure wish I could see them," Snakes muses. "Why do you go through so many? They wear out fast or something? ... Or do they kinda ... get thrown a lot by accident?"

[rexthebuilder]

"I'm built to go through brick walls. Phones..... aren't."

[worstorganplayer]

"Ah. Oops. Sounds like they need to build stronger phones," Snakes remarks.

[rexthebuilder]

Rex laughs. "Those are Nokias. But those screens are too small for anything fun."

((OOC: Usually Generator Rex renames various companies but eh I'll leave Nokia as is.))

[worstorganplayer]

“They’ve got different size screens?”

Snakes has so much to learn.

“What’s a good size screen? If the thing’s too big, I dunno how you’d talk on it.”

[rexthebuilder]

"Yeah, Nokias are kinda like this." He does a small square using both of his hands after tucking his pencil and notebook under his armpit. "Fine if you're reading a short text message, but awful for anything else."

Rex then makes a larger rectangle. "But the phone I have right now has a screen size that big. Way more useful."

[worstorganplayer]

"Huh. Why would anybody want the small screen?" Snakes wonders. He can't imagine he ever would.

[rexthebuilder]

"Something something bigger screens break easier. My brother can probably drop an hour long lecture on the reasons why if you're really interested." Rex shrugs. "Some people just need phones as phones. And then there's Blueberries. They have a bigger screen but have physical keyboards so you can type faster."

[worstorganplayer]

"Huh. I'll ask him, maybe."

Snakes blinks. "The phone's called a Blueberry? What'd they name it after a fruit for?"

[rexthebuilder]

Rex shrugs again but much more dramatically this time. "Tech companies are really weird and bad at naming things because they're not that creative. Some nerds think Art isn't important."

[worstorganplayer]

"Huh. That is pretty weird. Any other oddball names like that?" Snakes wonders.

[rexthebuilder]

"Our main search engine is Goggle, and the second most popular is named Wazoo. And then there's Macrohard, which makes so, SO much software that Providence uses like Sentence and Overlook. And uhhh. HoneyCrisp, which makes the CrispPhone, the CrispBook, and the HoneyPad."

[worstorganplayer]

"... Those are all pretty weird," Snakes drawls. "Wazoo hasta be about the worst name I've heard for somethin' so far."

[rexthebuilder]

"Exactly!" Glad that Snakes agrees with him, Rex smirks in satisfaction. "Yeah, this is why I'm glad my brother doesn't name most of his stuff. He knows how bad he'd be at it! I'm way better at it."

[worstorganplayer]

"So what would you name the tech?" Snakes wonders.

[rexthebuilder]

Rex's mind immediately blanks. "I- Uh- Those sorts of things take time. I'd need like a whole brainstorming sess to get those sorts of things right."

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes laughs. "Well, let me know if you come up with anything. Guess it's a moot point while we're stuck here, though."

Meaning there's probably no point having such a brainstorming session.