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Who: Xue Yang and OTA
Where: Training carriage
When: For the entire week after the new arrivals
What: Xue Yang has decided to experiment with his new swords and making up some new techniques. Experiments with fire and deadly weapons. Proceed with caution.
Warnings: Xue Yang may accidentally set something on fire.

Scenerio 1: Double blade
Xue Yang is currently seated in the center of the training carriage. Two swords on the ground in front of him, various tools whose soul purpose is for attempting to cut through steel and several pieces of paper that are very clearly talismans.

He picks up one of the swords and studies the hilt and handle, he then places it on the floor alongside the second one but going in the opposite direction. He becomes quite intent with taping the two together with what appears to be some sort of medical tape that he likely stole from the infirmary while no one was looking. Once he is content, he stands up and picks up the swords that are now stuck together to form one very long blade.

He tests the balance of it first and then starts to swing it around with the skill of someone who is very used to using a double ended blade. After a few moves he stops and looks at the connection.

"It's not strong enough with the tape..and also wouldn't be very quick to assemble when needed." Which is a problem when one is used to the sword simply transforming in his hand.

Scenerio 2: Talismans
Xue Yang picks up one of the blades and a talisman, moving a little bit away from the rest so that he doesn't accidentally light his entire set up on fire. He has two ideas to try and make this work and perhaps it won't work at all but he at least has to try.

He takes the talisman and with one swift motion, slides it along the blade as he attempts to transfer the fire onto the steel. The Talisman lights on fire but the blade does not and Xue Yang tosses it away quickly before he can burn himself. Failure one.

Next attempt he writes the talisman design right onto the blade. The fire lights up the sword and when he swings it as he normally would the fire doesn't appear to make things unwieldy, but it also doesn't go any further then the blade. Second attempt is marginally better then the first.

"Decent but not exactly what I'm hoping to achieve." Time to figure out plan three.

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"I think change is inevitable when the circumstances we find ourselves in changes. It's just the degree of change is uncertain. Whether it is a lot or barely noticeable."

He shrugs. Not being particularly fond of such things or discussions himself.

"I guess I can't argue with that, but humans are adaptable, it's one of the greatest advantages our species has." Senku informed him, even if he wasn't sure he personally could be called such.

"It is. So we will see how we all continue to adapt to what the train tosses at us."

Because that is the key to their lives right now.

"I'm not overly worried about that fundamentally, I mean." Senku paused. "I'm pretty good at thinking on my feet, but then again I think you've been here longer than me, since I've only been on one mission, I might not have a full set of data points yet to make that determination."

Senku huffed. "The only thing the train is giving me, is boredom."

Xue Yang's time on the train has been anything but boring. But he also finds interest in things that are quite different from most. Plus he has had some rather unfortunate occurrences that have forced him into changing a bit of who he is.

"Every mission is different. Adapting to them can be difficult. Which is why I wanted this." He waves his hand towards the swords and talismans.

"Being able to adapt with a weapon that is useful for any kind of situation is what I need to be able to succeed." Which means his boredom had been alleviated because he gets this puzzle to figure out. "I cannot argue that the time between missions can be boring."

The same could be said for Senku, in his own way, but the way his mind raced made it difficult for him to keep busy with the resources at his disposal. He was much better with long term projects and back breaking work.

"I'll get the experience over time to know if I will find it challenging or not." He hummed slightly, tilting his head in Xue Yang's direction.

"I guess it's good to be able to defend yourself." Senku certainly couldn't, he relied on his quick wit and his combined words with Gen to keep them safe.

"At home I get up in the morning and work until bed time, and here all I'm doing is sitting around."

"You should just create your own entertainment then." Xue Yang certainly did that when he killed A-Qing on the train. Not that he particularly enjoyed the excitement that came after that.

"I have no interest in taking part of most group activities but there have been things that the other passengers have done in their spare time to keep their interests engaged."

Xue Yang by habit prefers to avoid large crowds.

"I study the things I pick up, and I've done a bit of cooking, you know that since you had the ramen and I've done a project for Roland, but apart from that." He sighed. It was mildly vexing.

He didn't like large crowds. "Sometimes I wander around and watch people do their training with weapons, like yours." Senku answered, not that he was desperate enough to try anything like that.

"Is there anything the train needs that you think you could build?" It's not like the train has everything that everyone could want and Senku knows at least some building skills. If there was something long term he could work on then it might alleviate his boredom.

"I mean, sure. It would be nice to have more storage space in the sleeper carriages, or even shelving in the halls or something, we need more books but I can't just whip that out of nothing - oh, and the communication system we have that we rely on but the train might be listening on? That seems like a poor substitute for something we could do ourselves." Senku listed. "And Roland's asked us to come up with some signals in case the language translation doesn't work again."

He just had a lot of energy, and little to build with. "If I had a forge, I'd probably never leave it."

"Doesn't sound like you have much reason for being bored." He already has plenty of projects to be figuring out.

He chuckled. "My mind is very active, I'll give it that, but I've got nothing to build with. That's why being on the train sucks the worst. I can't go anywhere and I can't get anything to do things with."

"And you can't just request the materials to create your own forge?" He's nearly burning down the training area, certainly a forge wouldn't be that frowned upon.

"I'd be somewhat concerned about the heat generated from the forge and the lack of ventilation." Senku hummed. "Last thing we need is everyone asphyxiating. I can't imagine that'll win me popularity points."

"So you figure out a way to ventilate it. Isn't problem solving what you excel at?" He is smirking, teasing the other a little.

He snickered. "Well I guess I can't argue with that. I'll have to think on it."

He stretched. "If you need help with anything else let me know. I'll do my best in my limited capacity."

He waves him off to go do whatever he needs to, "I think the rest I just need to figure out on my own. But at least there are some ideas I an try to put into place now."

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