Mécanisme 003 [Video]

[horlogerie]

 [Hugo sits on the floor of his room, his steam engine on the ground in front of him as well as his father's broad silver pocket watch that always keeps perfect time both sitting amongst a few odds and ends the likes of screws, gears, springs, and rudimentary tools like hammers.]

I make things and I fix things... [He gestures to the stuff in front of him, the train in particular which sits gleaming the length of a man's arm now that he's just finished polishing and painting it.] Back home- Back where I am from I fix clocks and I know how to make them. 

I want to do that here. I can make or fix almost anything if it is a machine, if it's got parts like these [He holds up a gear and a spring] But right now I don't have any money, so I can't buy more parts. I guess that means I can't really make things so much as fix them until I can afford to make them. Unless there's something you want and you've got the parts for it. 

[He swallows awkwardly, frowning at his things. He's not used to talking this much or this...publicly]

So...how do you start a business? 

Comments

[true_renaissance_man]

[As Hugo explained Leonardo paid full attention, not wanting to miss a single detail. Then when the train actually moved! What a wonder it was! There had always been talk, theories that steam would be powerful enough to move machines, but in the future they actually harness that power. ]

I some how expected it might run slower than that but the machine is actually able to gain a lot of speed from the steam. The full sized versions must be very fast?

[horlogerie]

The big ones go faster than horses.

[Hugo sits back and watches his train speed along]

Faster than any animal.

[true_renaissance_man]

That is really impressive. People are able to come up with such remarkable inventions in the future!

[Leonardo too just sits back to watch the train for a while. It is kind of neat how the smoke and steam from the tiny engine billow out around it like that. ]

[horlogerie]

This isn't even the best of the things people make back home.

[He smiles distantly, thinking of all the things in his father's shop and the machines at the museum]

[true_renaissance_man]

No?

[His own surprise to hear that amuses Leonardo for a moment. He laughs and waves with one hand. ]

No, of course there would be other advancements! There must be so many things that are different.

[horlogerie]

The best is the movies. Thy are like making dreams come to life.

[true_renaissance_man]

The moving pictures? Si, I have heard of those. I should look into them more some time.

[horlogerie]

There is one where they fly into the eye of the moon... if you can find that one then you should definitely watch it.