[video] this may come as a surprise but I am not a mechanical engineer

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[There's a lot of crap going on right now, sure, and whatever the more overtly-powered people have done to subdue the recent catastrophe has helped, but that doesn't mean he can continue to put certain things on his to-do list on the perpetual backburner.

Continuing his mapping and documentation process, for one. Reach out to the populace with a completely innocent, well-meaning inquiry, for another.

Also avoid dying, but that's just a general to-do these days.]

This might be a weird question, but does anyone here know how to craft...small items? Like a smith, or a carpenter, or some combination thereof?

Asking for a- [There is an awkward beat as he tries to determine whether the statement is accurate.] -friend.

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[pocketspa]

[This is about the point he descends into wheezing laughter, because oh my god he can't handle it anymore. Nate's face is perfect. He'd hug him for how long he kept this joke going if they were actually next to each other.]

Too bad! You have it! Blessed with forbidden arcane skeletonfucking knowledge. You're welcome.

[Gods, Nate could hang up on him now and it will have been worth it.]

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Yep, I think that's enough of- everything. Okay.

[Bad.

Sure enough, Nate hangs up the phone.]