Like a submarine [salvaging, open]

[upupatomway]

Who: Atom, Donnie, Nephenee, whoever else wants a salvage thread
What: Exploring the Imperial ships crashed in battle in search of ether stones
Where: Wrecked imperial ship
When: End of month
Warnings: bodies of dead imperials that became fish food


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Atom looks perfectly calm for a rather small person ready to dive into deep ocean waters. He stands at the edge of the boat deck using his visual scanners to get an idea of how close they are to the sunken Imperial air ship. His clothes are folded neatly in a pile with his sandals stacked on a barrel save for a pair of black shorts. No need to get his clothes wet and dirty unnecessarily or add to the underwater drag.

"As you know, I don't need air. But if anything goes amiss on your end, please signal to me that you need to go up for air." He gestures upward and then towards his mouth to show them what he means. "I can help you swim back to the surface quickly. If it's urgent, I'll grab you around the middle and use my jets to speed up. If you're going up for another reason, just point upward."

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Atom smiles and gives Donnie a thumbs-up in return. He doesn't know exactly how lucky this find was, but it sure looks good. Donnie pulls out supplies and Atom watches to see what he's doing. A demonstration. Atom gives him another thumbs-up to say he understands.

He turns to the closest stone and gently pulls it out from its dock, pulling the coils back to release it. Besides the glowing it looks like an ordinary rock, but better safe than sorry when estimating how rough to be with it. He pauses to look over the stone once it's out, admiring the light blue color, before placing it on the canvas as instructed and moving on to the next one.

[purplexing]

Donnie nods and starts to resume removal of the stones closer to his side, glad he doesn't have to explain more than once. While he hasn't done much specific maintenance on airships, he's shadowed Corsair engineers and helped them with ether stone installations, so he knows his way around an engine. He'd greedily soaked up anything and everything they were willing to teach him that the Imperials would not.

Between the two of them it doesn't take too long to get the stones resituated in two rows, one over the other. Once the last one's been placed, the turtlekin folds over one side of the canvas to cover the first half, and then the other so they don't fall against each other or out of place when they roll the thing up and bind it in twine.

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Atom swims to position himself across from Donnie and reaches for the canvas once he's done with the initial folds. He starts carefully rolling it from his side, looking to see what pace Donnie takes the task at so he can match it and meet neatly in the middle. He's reminded faintly of folding a cloth to carry snacks or a bento box for trips out of the city he had gone on with friends at home.

[purplexing]

Again Donnie flashes him a thumbs-up once that's done. Securing it takes no time at all. He gives the package a pat, gesturing in silent question between them as to who should carry it. Otherwise, it looks like they're about done in here.

winding off?

[upupatomway]

Donnie already has a lantern to carry, so Atom volunteers to carry the package, tapping his chest and then holding out his arms to receive it. If they go back the way they came, they'll be above surface and able to talk soon. He is already eager to look at the stones closer and ask if any of them might work for his installation.

Okay!

[purplexing]

With something of a shrug, the turtlekin nods, scooping the bundle up to pass over to Atom's awaiting arms. He gathers his own things, taking one last look around for anything they might have missed before he gives one more nod and a thumbs-up, ready to follow the other's lead out.