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Level 10 Blazermate - (62/100) - 1 stored level up
A tour of Limsa
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[center][h3][color=0072bc]Blazermate's Day on the Town[/color][/h3][/center]

After some heated volleyball games, much like the rest of her friends, Blazermate went off to do her own thing. Seeing as the others were having fun on the beach doing what they did, Blazermate stuck around for a bit chilling before heading off to take a look at what Limsa itself could offer. It had been non stop fighting with only very small breaks recently, with terrors a plenty. And since it had been so high paced, there really wasn't much time to unwind and review things, especially compared to the last time she had gotten some time to rest and collect herself. Since then, Blazermate had gotten a lot of new parts, which both made her stronger, but also a bit... Well tripping on her new kimono if she wasn't careful was quite annoying. And her shield arm was quite... glitchy at times. So much so she hadn't really used it to hold much of anything since she got it due to how she didn't have good control over its grip.

Blazermate strolled through Limsa, looking at places where non ship girls gathered to see what kind of people even lived here now that she had the time. There were some neat faces, and as Blazermate looked through Limsa, it dawned on her. No one here had a medabot! Nor were there any medabots even moving through the city. Sure, it kind of made sense that with a massive fusion of worlds there wouldn't be too many medabots overall compared to everyone else, but having not met a single other one in a large city like this when almost every person had one from where she was from was still... concerning. Speaking of other robots, they seemed fairly rare outside of that one junkyard thing they had gone through what felt like years now. Thinking to herself, Blazermate came up upon a fancy looking restaurant run by [url=https://imgur.com/3pseBag]a chef[/url], who seemed to be giving orders to chefs under him to get food out to the clientele in the outside dining area looking upon the vast ocean. Hmm... There were cafe's like that at home, but not to this level of fanciness, even if the fanciness seemed to come more from the food than the location itself. Something she could only look at, but hey, it looked neat!

Blazermate kept touring Limsa, taking in the sights. Farther north from the eatery, Blazermate found a nice place where fighters were sparring and competing with each other for what looked like fun. It wasn't to the death or anything, considering either side could give up at any time, and everyone involved in the brawl got healed up by the nearby healers. That, and while they were shipgirls, they were giving orders to other shipgirls and others that seemed a lot more fresh faced, training them up to protect the city or the surrounding area? One of them a [url=https://imgur.com/PbhtLE3]big guy[/url] who, while big, seemed extremely clumsy. Seeing a group come off of the sparring ring, Blazermate helped out the other healers with fixing up the fighters, much like she did to other medabots in the aftermath of a robattle. (Assuming she didn't eject their medals themselves.) 

This went fine until her suffering arm, probably the weirdest looking part of her, started to act up again when the clumsy big guy tried to swing with a large mace, tripped, and instead landed on top of the living shield. The shield, getting whacked, decided to scream in the man's face, causing him to be pushed back and causing everyone nearby to cover their ears. Blazermate apologized for her shield arm, saying it just acted up sometimes. Considering its looks, while annoyed, some warriors nodded. Still, considering how finnicky this arm was, she'd need to go see someone about this so she could use this arm better. Sure she had a pocket engineer, but he was more for just fixing her up and maintenance, she'd need to find a non spirit kind of engineer for the more advanced stuff. After all, she did absorb the spirit of one of the abyssal commanders and if her shield caused a lot of issues even if she mostly kept it in control, something like the sun princess might have some other... complications.

After leaving the area with a few confused looks due to what had just happened, Blazermate asked around if anyone here was an engineer, and was eventually lead to the blacksmithing part of Limsa. Although compared to the Medabot Corporation this was more or less a cave where smiths pounded heated rocks into fancy shapes! Considering none of the areas she had been in had anything remotely at the technology level as her home, Blazermate wasn't surprised, but was a bit downtrodden at just how low the average technology level of this galeem land was. First Lumbridge then this... If she hadn't found that engineer so early on who knew his way around machines, she'd be in some serious trouble. Sure Tora knew some engineering stuff, but he was who knows where at this point so Blazermate couldn't find him anytime soon. And considering she was the main healer of the group, it would be prudent to make sure her new parts here didn't have any nasty surprises that might surface. 

At first, Blazermate talked with the smiths. Being a robot caught their attention, and as she explained her situation, many, many of the smiths didn't really get it. Sure they were looking at her with wonderment, and some were writing down notes as she pulled off the parts on her healing arm to examine them and maybe get them examined, but it was soon clear no one in this place had any clue about the advanced technology behind how a medabot worked. Some did offer some things based of Aether, or ether, or... Well, Blazermate couldn't really get a good idea of what the smiths were talking about as a small shouting match seemed to form, with the argument of Aether vs Ether. Apparently both weren't the same thing but vastly different types of energy used for smithing or engineering or something? Blazermate did hear Tora talk about this when referring to Poppi, but it was still weird. It was as if they were discussing using the Medaforce or something to craft things? When it was clear she wasn't going to get much in the way of help after the argument between the two forms of magical energy, Blazermate put herself back together and as she was about to leave, one of the apprentices of the smithy suggested a shop down near the plaza that might be able to help the medabot, a shop that seemed to make devices that defied reason. Blazermate figured this was some kind of 'magic' thing she had heard about, but decided to go take a look either way. Maybe she could find some cool parts at least.

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Making her way to the alleyway near the plaza she was told to go to, Blazermate found a shop simply named "Mimic's workshop." This shop didn't look too impressive on the outside, but once inside...  "Oh, a new customer? Welcome..." The man said, turning around to meet Blazermate's eyes. 

Blazermate found [url=https://imgur.com/kkoms4E]Mimic[/url], a big old man with a big beard. For some reason he gave Blazermate a vibe of being Tora's father, even if the two weren't related at all. Mimic looked at Blazermate with a keen interest, almost like the blacksmiths she had just seen. But looking around the shop, this guy was far more used to advanced technology compared to those people with devices around the shop going from staempunk to industrial to glowing magic tech, and the one that caught Blazermate's eye, an M-model tinpet. Watching the medabot look around his store, Mimic watched with curiosity, waiting patiently for her to introduce herself. After getting her look around, Blazermate said. [color=0072bc]"Hello, I'm Blazermate. Someone at the smithy said you knew a bit more about technology than they do?"[/color] 

"Yes I do. There hasn't been a technology yet that I haven't been able to copy. Its why I'm called Mimic you know." the old man said with a chuckle. Blazermate wasn't too happy about hearing that, but Medabots outside of their tinpets were extremely easy to maintain so... maybe it wouldn't be so bad? Considering what he had to show in his store, he at least was smart.

[color=0072bc]"Hm... Well, I kind of need some of my new parts here looked at. I can fix myself, but I got a feeling these parts might be a bit... buggy. "[/color] Blazermate said. While her medic parts and abyssal parts seemed to work just fine, it was obvious to Mimic that the creepy demonic looking shield arm of hers was very twitchy and definitely buggy. 

"Well, I haven't really seen one of whatever you are before, but I'm sure with a little intuition I can figure it out!" Mimic said with a gung ho attitude. Blazermate wasn't too... enthusiastic about this but if it was just her parts and nothing with her medal or anything it'd be fine. Probably, maybe. 

[color=0072bc]"Well, I guess lets get started... "[/color] Blazermate said. She'd soon cheer up though; while Mimic wasn't a medabots technician, he was much more aware of how her inner workings worked than the smithies. Sure he had to look over some of her parts a bit more, but he could point out the basic components inside them without much issue. And as Blazermate took off each part to be examined, Mimic noticed very quickly that her 'skeleton' was very similar to the one he had on his shelf, although a bit wider in areas and pink instead of blue. Considering Blazermate looked like a girl, he could put two and two together very quickly.

First she wanted him to look at her most used part, her medigun and now massive syringe looking sword hybrid. This was the part that Blazermate wasn't as worried about but it was a good idea to get it looked at. And much like Blazermate figured, Mimic didn't see anything wrong with it. Next was her leg parts, which Mimic gave Blazermate the courtesy to look away as she took those off. Seeing as these were only affected by her kimono bottoms, there wasn't much issues with this either, besides the kimono being a bit of a tripping hazard. 

Next was the glitchy part, her shield arm. And yeah, this one had problems. While Blazermate knew that this part was a bit... strange looking, it seemed good enough besides the fact that it'd often react to things that struck it without her input. But this part, out of all of her parts, was something that was especially something Mimic's skills could examine well. After a hard look he came to the conclusion that Blazermate would need something to help her comparability with this part; as he explained to Blazermate that this part had a bit of a corrupting influence, and that any demonic things would hold great sway on the medabot without a proper filter for its corrupting influence.

[color=0072bc]"Huh... That'd explain a lot."[/color] Blazermate said. [color=0072bc]"I did get that in a place where zombies and other weird things were roaming around. This one could control the zombies so I thought it was a really good thing to help my team out at the time. Less enemies on their side, more allies on our side and all that. And then it turned into a shield and that has been really helpful!"[/color] Mimic nodded at this, still concerned for the lady medabot, but she wasn't evil or anything so it seemed like she had some level of control over whatever this arm was. Still, as a courtesy he looked at the tinpet under that arm in particular and found that if she had some kind of filter or something, she could remove the glitchiness of this part in particular and be in full control of it at all times. This wasn't something he could offer right away, but he said he'd keep an eye out for a technology of this kind and asked Blazermate to come back later.

Finally was her head part, which as standard for a medabot, also contained her body and medal. Now she was able to remove the head part itself to have Mimic take a look at, the mechanic finding no problems but noting that due to the extra weight offered by whatever the abyssal sun princess gave Blazermate, she would be a bit slower in flying, something Blazermate had noticed. When it came to her body part though, she tried her best to keep her medal hatch and that whole area hidden. Seeing the medabot actually being sheepish about something, Mimic didn't push the issue having a Niece himself. Blazermate did tell him that she was sure that part wouldn't have any issues, and left it at that. Still Mimic was able to get a glance at all the extra features and downsides the medic spirit had given the medabot, and informed her that much like all the other parts, there wasn't an issue per say, but her plating in her shoulders and back was a bit light. 

With her checkup complete, Blazermate thanked Mimic. [color=0072bc]"So... how much do I owe you then?"[/color] with the mechanic saying. "Well, if you could tell me what this thing is, seeing as you have a pink looking version of it under your 'parts' I'll consider that payment enough." Mimic then brought up the male tinpet he had on his wall, flipping it over to reveal the spot that Blazermate had been hiding. With all her parts back on and everything, she was much more willing to at least tell him about that. 

[color=0072bc]"Oh thats the medal slot. Basically the medabot brain, soul, and power source. Without a medal you just have a super durable frame, but nothing else."[/color] Blazermate said. Mimic requested that Blazermate maybe draw him a picture, since she was unwilling to show that part and from what she said, justifiably so. Blazermate did so, and Mimic was taken aback by how simple such an important part looked. Talking with this man, Blazermate said. [color=0072bc]"You know, I have a mechanic friend that looks like a feathery onion. But I didn't need much of a checkup at the time so he hasn't actually taken a close look at me like you have. But the constant fighting probably didn't help matters much either..."[/color] Mimic nodded as Blazermate thought that maybe Tora would like to know all this too, in case Blazermate got another 'evil' part or something. 

The two chatted a bit seeing as there weren't any other customers coming in at the moment, Mimic asking a few questions about Blazermate herself, having not many opportunities to talk to the technology he was tinkering with, with Blazermate telling him what she knew when ti seemed appropriate. After a bit, she changed the subject. [color=0072bc]"So I am a support medabot, but these enemies we're fighting are getting stronger and stronger, and that last one we had to fight... It was like fighting a massive team of God Emperors with how hard it hit. And while so far I've been able to keep myself safe, I'm sure at some point things will act like they would in a medafight and start targeting me... So yeah, I'll need to make sure I'm at my best to handle that."[/color]

"Any reason you can't use more weapons to defend yourself?" Mimic asked, a prudent question, but Blazermate shook her head. [color=0072bc]"I can use some basic stuff, but I'm a support medabot, not a shooting or melee medabot, so most weapons or advanced acrobatics aren't really something I can do."[/color] He nodded, even if Mimic didn't fully understand what Blazermate meant. [color=0072bc]"Still... Knowing that these parts are working fine, well, besides this one."[/color] she said, raising her suffering arm. [color=0072bc]"'sigh', Its a load off my mind. Considering these parts didn't come from other medabots."[/color] 

Time passed by as the two talked, but eventually it had to be brought to an end. With a wave Blazermate said goodbye to the kind bearded fellow and said she'd visit later. Having done her tour around town, Blazermate went back to the beach to meet up with the rest of the group. On her way back, she bumped into Nadia, calling her over and running to her with a waving arm. Stopping in front of the catgirl, Blazermate said, her voice very chipper [color=0072bc]"How has your downtime been? Mines been great! Can't fight 24/7 you know!"[/color]