[u][center][h3]Kuhaku Shiro - Team Swansong Dormitory[/h3][/center][/u] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/x91rRmJ.png[/img][/center] [i]'Why?'[/i] thought a sleepy Shiro. [i]'Why do we have to do things like [b]eat[/b] and [b]use the restroom[/b]?'[/i] Shiro complained, his stomach rumbling angrily at him as he tightened the blankets around him, trying to shut out the sound. [i]'Just let me [b]sleep[/b]!'[/i] Shiro stuffed his face into his pillow and growled. [b]"Agh!"[/b] Bundled up in his little 'tiger-nest/cocoon' of sheets and blankets, Shiro's alarm blared loudly at him. Grumbling irritably, he stirred within the cocoon of cloth until his own white ears poked out of the bundle. Bad mistake. He hadn't meant to but by unshielding his ears from the digital alarm clock app on his Scroll, that just made the noises louder. Poking his head out from the sheets, he glared at his Scroll and went to bat at his Scroll to shut it off. Having enough of the sound and feeling extra irritable this morning. [b]"Alright, I get it! Shut u-!"[/b] This was his second mistake. A swing and a miss. [b]"Oop! OH SHI-!"[/b] Tangled up in his sheets, Shiro couldn't stop himself from rolling over the side of his top bunk bed. The dramatic weight shift and gravity just working against the poor tired tiger-boy this morning. Sheets and blankets wrapping around his face, he couldn't see where he was going to orient himself. [i]"This is it. This is how I'm going to die."[/i] thought Shiro mid-fall. [i]Thud![/i] Sheets and blankets sliding off of his body, Shiro found himself on all fours and in good health. Blinking, he carefully looked around himself to see if anyone else had saw. But, thankfully, he was alone in their room. The others probably already having started their days early. Slowly standing up, he looked at the pile of sheets on the ground and scratched at his head. [b]"Huh. I guess...I really do always land on my feet."[/b] Shrugging, a pillow slipped off the side of his bunk and [i]boofed[/i] against his face. He grumbled. [center][u]Beacon Cafeteria[/u][/center] After having gone through his morning routine, Shiro found himself seated by himself with the usual big heaping plate of food in front of him for breakfast. Bleary-eyed and hair somewhat a disheveled mess, Shiro yawned as she blankly stared at his meal. Rubbing his eyes, Shiro slipped out his Scroll and opened up this 3D Holographic design app he found installed on it. More than likely something Gren had put on there prior to his transfer of ownership. The Boar faunas probably used it to come up with new gadgets and gizmos for equipment and weapons. But, for Shiro, it was just the perfect thing he needed to conceptualize future upgrades and redesigns of his own weapons. Creating gears and contraptions with taps and flicks of his fingers, he could even pull up designs he found on the internet and see how they functioned in real time to give him a better understanding of how he could either make his own or improve upon what already existed. Lazily eating and playing with his Scroll as he distracted himself. Today's subject being how to he could increase the efficiency and versatility of his sword and shield. He was thinking an internal box magazine stored within his shield. Perhaps even with an automatic loader/feeder like he knew some firearms used. He already had a basic idea of how he would forge and machine the parts he needed, the only issues he had were what everyone usually had. Time, and money. He didn't quite have the necessary 'skrill' to get the high-quality metal billets he wanted, so unless he was willing to wait longer to upgrade. He would have to save up his Lien. He didn't like the idea of waiting nor did he like the idea of compromising on 'lesser' metal types to machine his parts with. He had expensive tastes as well, desiring the geisteel/siderite alloy billets. It was all he ever used and worked with, and he damn near refused to work with anything less for his own equipment. Muttering and mumbling to himself between bites and swallows of food, Shiro browsed other patented designs and humored himself by shopping around for other 'lesser' raw metals. Scoffing when he saw how cheaply he could get some of them in bulk and skimming across articles defending the lesser materials and how they could be just as good as the higher quality stuff. [i]"Tch. Amateurs."[/i] Shiro rolled his eyes. [i]"Ohh-ho! Best bang for your buck! Pfft. Yeah, right."[/i]