A course in BOOM

[Trax]

It was just over halfway through their journey to Alderaan when Trax, needing a day off to heal from sparring with Nightshade...okay, maybe sparring wasn't quite the right word, beating, pummeling...

Whatever the word, it was time for a switch from the physical to the mental.  Keshani had whipped up two make shift grenades from droid power cores in about a minute.  Knowledge like that would be useful for the task ahead.

The girl seemed to spend a lot of time in the workshop so that was the first place he went looking.  And the last apparently, as he looked into the room and saw her tinkering on a workbench.  Trax rapped on the wall twice before speaking.

"Kesh?"

[Keshani]

She jumped a bit at the voice, being totally lost in thought and in her work but tried to hide her surprise.

"What's up?", she asked, try to keep her voice cool and not betray the fact that her heart was pounding rather loudly in her ears...

[Trax]

Trax leaned up against the opening.

"I was hoping you'd be up for a bit of knowledge sharing.  What you did with those droid cores was really impressive.

Thinking back, there have been a few times where knowing how to do that, and some related stuff, would have come in really handy.  And thinking about the road ahead, I can think of a few cases where it'd be just as handy.

I was wondering if you'd be willing to give me a few lessons on that kind of stuff."

[Keshani]

She blinked slowly, putting down what she was working on and turning to look at the man now standing in the doorway of her self proclaimed safe haven.

"You anticipate needing to blow people up?"

[Trax]

"People, maybe.  But I'm mostly thinking of hard targets, doors, walls, speeders that kind of thing."

[Keshani]

"Oh." She replied. "That's way more fun."

She paused and chewed her lip for a few seconds. "But I dont really know that much..."

[Trax]

"Not that much is still more than I know." Trax replied as he contemplated on the girl's remark that blowing stuff up was fun.  All a matter of perception he guessed.

"And I think it's also selling yourself short.  Someone who doesn't know that much wouldn't be able to turn droid power cores into grenades.  Well, at least not without blowing themselves up in the process."

[Keshani]

She shrugged at his words but hesitated before answering. Honestly she hadn't been sure the power cores would work. She COULD have blown herself up instead. But it hadn't exactly been a choice to worry about - either they had gotten away from the Imps and her free from that horrid place or she would have been dead. Either option had really been okay with her at that point in time....

But she didn't think that would be a good thing to say. There was no way anyone else could understand.

Instead she half shrugged again, feeling awkward because she had a feeling she had been silent for way too long for it not to have been obvious she had been thinking about something.

"Ok. When did you want to start?"

[Trax]

"I'm ready now, but it looks like I caught you in the middle of something.  I can come back in a bit."

[Keshani]

"No, um. It's ok". She pushed aside what she had been working on and leaned back on the stool. "It's just that - "she shrugged again. "It's kinda nice to have easy access to so much...it's kinda...nice to actually be doing something that I funny have to worry about getting in trouble for doing. I don't know if that makes any sense. "

[Trax]

"Oh I get it.

Trouble and I are far too well acquainted, it's nice when she leaves you alone for a while."

[Keshani]

She eyed him for a minute before letting out a soft snort.

"Something tells me you would be bored without trouble finding you wherever you go."

[Trax]

Trax couldn't help but let out a small chuckle.

"Can't completely argue, but not being bored doesn't necessarily mean having to be in trouble."

[OOC: Craig, Kellie and I are in agreement, neither of us know diddly squat about explosives used a long time ago in a galaxy far far away so we'll either need some third party input or hand waving as far as the actual lesson goes.  Someone's concerned big brother might come asking questions if they start googling how to make/the functional components of, RL explosive devices.]

[GM Craig]

[OOC: hehe, no problem. Not being an explosives expert myself (and having similar concerns regarding Big Brother), let's just do some hand-waving.

Keshani can teach you any skill she has. On the station, she was using Repair skills and Demolitions to make improvised explosives. She can teach you anything in the Technical group where you have fewer dice / pips than she does.]

[Keshani]

(Would love to trade for blaster skills but I don't think I have enough cps)