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       #Post#: 3490--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Star Catcher Date: September 16, 2014, 6:47 am
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       Star offered her usual gentle smile when it was announced that
       Bubo was alright, then waved her hoof back in greeting when he
       tried to move his wing at her. The conversation was soon turned
       to her, about how she was feeling after they rested, causing her
       to nod slightly in acknowledgement. "Yeah, I feel better. Pretty
       well rested I suppose, even though my body does feel a little...
       stiff. I get the feeling we slept for... a very numerous amount
       of hours." Her ears perked then, the noises of what she knew as
       the welcoming box catching her attention before causing her to
       look over to the doorway. The knock at the front then confirmed
       that for her, resulting in her lifting herself up from the
       ground just a little bit with her wings.
       "A visitor already! Today's really going to be a good day! I'll
       see to them, if you'd like to help Bubo a little while longer,"
       she offered, before flying over what she could to reach the
       doorway. Once there, she lighted herself on the ground as she
       opened the door, greeting the pony on the other side with an
       easy, relaxed smile and a, "Welcome to Tech Tock, where the only
       limit to creation is your imagination! Come in--I'm Star! How
       can we help you, miss...?" Star urged, hoping to catch the
       pony's name as she gestured inside with a hoof.
       #Post#: 3492--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Haywire Date: September 16, 2014, 10:43 am
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       Perk of ears regained and mood brightened, Hay was plenty happy
       to hear that Start was feeling better albeit a touch stiff, his
       short tail swishing a bit almost akin to a puppy happily wagging
       its tail before his ears swiveled towards the sound of his
       welcome box popping off outside his shops front door. Another
       visitor? And this one hadn't been invited by Star! Hay had to
       agree with the mare, that day was indeed already looking pretty
       good! Hay gave Star a nod and grin as she left to greet the
       visitor then returned his attention to Bubo. Noting how the
       metal bird was capable of remaining balanced on his own at this
       point, Hay was no longer required to use his hoof to keep his
       small winged friend steady, but he did not head off to meet the
       pony at the door right away. With Star already off to meet them,
       Hay figured now would probably be a good time to run to the
       bathroom real quick to take care of his teeth as he figured
       morning breath wouldn't be very fun for the visiting pony to
       experience. So, after helping Bubo up onto his back to keep an
       eye on him as he continued to recover from his lock up, Hay
       hurried off for the bathroom and got to work on cleaning his
       teeth, his excitement over having a pony come to his workshop
       causing him to rush some as he wished to get it done quickly and
       go meet them himself as soon as possible.
       #Post#: 3496--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Clarity Date: September 16, 2014, 3:16 pm
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       Clarity smiles and bats her eyes as the door swings open, ready
       to give the green pony behind it her jocular greeting again.  It
       sure was funny, wasn't it?  Except that the pony behind the door
       isn't the one she was expecting.  Indeed, looking at the level
       where she expected to see those orange goggles, she was instead
       treated a smooth white neck.  That can't be right.  Clarity's
       smile transfers from her eyes to just her mouth as she begins to
       take a step back to inspect this newcom-
       No, she doesn't want to appear rude.  After all, she's already
       been invited in.  So instead she meets the (rather tall) mare's
       eyes and gives her a nod.  "Mirror.  Clarity Mirror, Miss Star.
       Delighted to make your acquaintance, I'm sure," she intones as
       she walks in, head held high.  What is this mare doing here?  Is
       she some kind of new staff here?  This place didn't really seem
       to Clarity like the kind of place that would need, get, or be
       able to retain employees for any length of time, but from the
       way she'd been welcomed she doesn't really think Star's a casual
       visitor at the moment, either.  Either way, Hay isn't
       immediately visible, so maybe she knows where he is.
       "Would you happen to know where Haywire is, Miss Star?" she asks
       while feigning interest in some gizmo or other that looked like
       two elementary school art projects had slain each other trying
       to kill the other one.  And any other number of gadgets, all
       while sneaking glances at the tall mare in a way she hopes isn't
       too obvious.  "There is something I would like to discuss with
       him, if he is so inclined."  The first thing to strike her is
       Star's coloring.  Pure white coat, with three-hue mane and tail
       that go so well together it looks practically planned.
       Once she's gotten past what caught her attention first, she has
       to become slightly more obvious about it to discern Star's
       figure.  First off, she's tall.  So tall.  And she looks even
       taller because of how slender she is.  Combined with her
       coloring, she puts Clarity in mind of some kind of fancy
       dessert.  All in all, a rather elegant package.  She hasn't even
       seen her wings unfolded yet.  All in all...she finds her eyes
       furrowing.  This can't be right.  She came to Haywire's
       workshop.  The little green pony who's always covered in oil and
       gives the impression he doesn't know what a comb is.
       And she feels like she isn't the most beautiful pony in the
       room.
       This...this is ridiculous!  Why, she'd even considered coming
       here for the express purpose of feeling more beautiful by
       comparison!  And sure, Hay was fun and zany and all, but Star!
       Right there in the same place is somepony so slender and
       delicate that she finds herself wishing she'd worn something
       more elaborate to help conceal her little pudge that she's doing
       her best to hide now, and tall enough that she's unconsciously
       straining for every last inch of height she can muster.
       But the worst part?  It looks like Star isn't even trying.  At
       the moment she greeted her at the door, her smile was so
       genuine, so relaxed that even the idea of keeping her appearance
       as elegant as it is seems like something that would probably be
       alien to her.  Meanwhile Clarity, though certainly no pushover
       herself in terms of attractiveness, feels like she'd have to
       come up with an outfit specifically designed to outclass her if
       she even wanted to compete.
       Still.  She shouldn't jump to any conclusions.  The most
       important detail she can think of to keep calm?  The fact that
       there's no protuberance coming from Star's head.  A horn would
       practically clinch her negative impression of Star.  In fact,
       without it, maybe she could turn her opinion positive.  The most
       elegant Unicorns Clarity has met have been nigh-unapproachable.
       It's like they think they own the place or something.  But
       Pegasi?  Sure, most of them around here were pretentious and
       conceited, but that seemed mostly to be a symptom of living
       around the haughty Unicorns and they are (in her experience)
       actually easier to befriend than usual.
       So, she should probably stop giving her the evil eye.  Clarity
       corrects her composure with a couple deep breaths and a slight
       jangle of her coin purse.  She had come here for a reason, after
       all.  "And I must say, I find your coiffure to be most pleasing
       to the eye.  Tell me, are your colors natural or a rather
       impressive artifice?"
       #Post#: 3499--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Star Catcher Date: September 16, 2014, 7:22 pm
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       Much less concerned with beauty than Clarity was, Star continued
       with her smile, stepping back when the mare in front of her
       walked inside the shop. "Yes, I'm pleased to meet you, miss
       Mirror," Star responded before perking her ears up when she was
       asked where Haywire was. "I do; he's in the back here, near the
       bedroom, taking care of Bubo after a nasty lock-up... This way,"
       she said with a gentle toss of her head, unintentionally
       flipping her mane at the same time as she turned and lead the
       way back. The mare seemed to know Haywire already--from what, or
       where, she couldn't say, but she looked like she was surprised
       to see Star.
       Not to mention, she looked like she was giving Star some kind
       of... nasty look. Star couldn't say for sure why, as she'd not
       really done anything to warrant it, but she did notice. She
       shrugged it off though, her not considering it to be a big
       enough deal to pay any attention to yet. Then, her ears perked
       when Clarity spoke again and she looked over to her with a smile
       of thanks as she reached a hoof up to her mane, her large wings
       spreading out to keep her afloat and moving forward as her hoof
       left the ground. She was, of course, careful not to bap Clarity
       with her wings as she did. "It's natural! I'm not really sure
       why, either; the only mane color either of my parents had was
       this blue here... Same thing for the markings," she said,
       brushing her mane a bit to the side to help better reveal the
       purple sweeping pattern above her slanted eyes. "They just kind
       of... appeared. That sounds strange, I know, and likely a little
       silly."
       She followed this with a shrug however, and returned to the
       ground moments before they reached the back of the shop where
       Star looked around for a moment, attempting to find Haywire to
       no avail. So, she decided to do the next best thing. "Haywire!"
       she called out, knowing he had to be somewhere nearby. "There's
       a miss Clarity Mirror here to see you."
       #Post#: 3501--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Haywire Date: September 17, 2014, 12:19 am
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       Hay could never decide if he enjoyed the taste of toothpaste.
       Some days it was pleasantly minty fresh to the point where it
       was a fun experience going about his daily oral hygiene, but on
       other days it just came off as kinda bleck and overly intense.
       Today was... He paused his brushing to test the flavor of the
       paste, Bubo nearly toppling over the side of the sink and to the
       floor below after testing out a wing but hastily righting his
       balance once again. Hmm... Hay supposed it was mostly the former
       today? Just the right amount on the brush, or whatever it was
       that determined his tolerance, leaving his teeth clean, shiny
       and white and eliciting a refreshed sigh once it he finished
       brushing. He shined himself a gleaming smile in his mirror then
       lifted a hoof without looking to help catch Bubo from his most
       recent tumble and situate the bird back onto his back.
       "Much better," he told himself, satisfied with his work and
       feeling nice and ready to greet the visitor at his door. Or
       maybe they were further inside the workshop now if how far away
       Star sounded was any clue. Hay's ears swiveled at the mare's
       call and he spun on his hooves to trot on out the door, a lively
       bounce in his step as he exited the bathroom and then re-entered
       the main room of his workshop. He immediately felt a grin spread
       across his face when he finally had a chance to see who had come
       to see him, Haywire's lack of any reason to know of her more
       vain reasons causing him to simply recognize a friend straight
       away and half bounce his way forward to greet her.
       "Hi, Clarity!" and greet he did, cheerfully and with bright and
       happy eyes tinted orange behind his goggles, "Welcome back to my
       shop! What's up? Here to check out some gadgets, or do you have
       another party coming up that you would like some help with? That
       would be fun! I've had this idea for a giant mechanized party
       popper capable of blasting an entire party's worth of ponies
       with streamers and the like but haven't had an opportunity to
       test it out yet."
       #Post#: 3504--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Clarity Date: September 17, 2014, 2:39 am
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       So it is natural.  One more thing that she didn't have to work
       for.  Probably naturally skinny, too.  And how was Clarity
       supposed to compete with her in any of those regards?  She
       means, desserts are so delicious!  How can she possibly avoid
       them?  And then Star brushes her mane aside, revealing a set of
       marks underneath that.  Seriously?  Well...she could get a
       better one, but...that would...wait, they just appeared one day?
       "Silly is one word for it, yes," she replies, choosing her
       words carefully.  Unreal is another one.  Seriously, when has
       she ever heard of anypony just getting random marks somewhere
       other than their flanks?  Especially ones that seem as
       well-arranged as those.  She certainly hasn't, and she'd be
       inclined to disbelieve Star if her delivery of the line had been
       any different.
       Geez, even her walk was elegant and flowing.  Not that she
       expected differently, but it would be nice if Star had the
       decency to be just a little ungainly in her locomotion.  Not
       even her transition between walking and flying was in the least
       bit clumsy, and even looked like she'd modified it so that she
       wouldn't hit Clarity.  And it all looked effortless.  Thank
       goodness Hay came before she had to keep making small talk with
       that mare.  Sure, she could probably go on for hours detailing
       every single thing she thought was exceptional about her
       appearance and bearing, but before long she might start sounding
       sarcastic or ill-willed.  Might start being that way, too.
       She's much more accustomed to receiving compliments than
       dispensing them, after all.
       Haywire's grin immediately helps to put Clarity at ease, her
       posture relaxing and her gut stopping being sucked in quite so
       much.  "Hey, Hay," she greets with a slight giggle and bounce of
       her own, glad to get that absolute pinnacle of humor out of her
       mouth.  It's also so gratifying the way he greets her, like just
       seeing her again makes him happy.  And maybe it does.  That's
       not a thought she's averse to.  Her high society tone drops as
       well when she answers his questions.  "Well, I'm not sure it's
       anything you'd have made already, but I'm kinda hoping th- wait,
       did you say giant party popper?  An entire party's worth?"
       Given how large she likes her parties, that would be an
       impressive feat indeed.  "Just how big would that have to be?
       And where would we get all those ribbons?"  Her eyes glaze over
       for a bit as she imagines pulling a string out of a little
       popper, then having confetti and ribbons fly out until the
       entire school gymnasium floor was covered.  That *would* be
       worth it!
       But...there aren't any parties planned in the near future (maybe
       she could pull some strings, hehe), except the one she came to
       ask about, and that's a little...small-scale for something as
       big as that popper.  She imagines the same scenario, but this
       time the blast filling her living room instead, burying
       everypony beneath it until everypony swims up to the surface.
       She giggles again.  T-Mom would have a fit for sure.  She
       punctuates her laughter with a whick of her tail, whipping a
       nearby machine that looks sort of like an oven, but...not really
       at all like an oven, but it has lots of blinking lights, that's
       for sure.  "Oh, sor-" she starts before catching herself.
       What's she apologizing for?  It's just a machiney thing.
       "Anyway, sorry, but no, I don't really have need of that party
       popper yet."  Her eyes refocus on the begoggled inventor in
       front of her.  "I'll keep it in mind, though, sounds big.  No,
       I'm actually looking to see if, um...Do you remember Clair?
       White mane, grey coat?  You met him under the treat table at
       that last party?"
       #Post#: 3515--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Haywire Date: September 18, 2014, 2:04 am
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       "Yuh huh!" Hay replies as Clarity reacts to his idea of a crazy
       new party popper thing only to repeat the same answer a second
       time when she asked about the amount of pop the popper would
       promise.
       "I was thinking I would try to squeeze everything down as small
       as I could for convenience, of course," he went on to start
       answering Clarity's questions as her eyes seemed to become a bit
       distant, Hay's hooves moving this way and that to help express
       what he was talking about as his goggles seem to take on a
       bright new gleam, "but the trick there is figuring out how in
       the world to smush all the confetti and ribbons and stuff into a
       little popper - currently planned to use a shriekware casing,
       though I've heard good things about coppelum micro plating -
       while still finding a way to make sure that it doesn't get
       packed super tight to where it doesn't pop in the hoof like a
       colorful and less dangerous fire cracker, and even then I need
       to think of how to make sure the pop pops in the direction the
       popper's pony wants it to. The prototypes have been all over the
       place so far!
       "As for where we get all the stuff for shoving into the popper,
       that has to do more with its hyperjam condenser and interdime-"
       Hay begins only for Clarity to accidentally swat a machine with
       her tail, earning herself a growl and sudden puff of steam to
       lightly whistle out of a vent in its side as its blinky lights
       bleeped and blooped as though it was preparing to give her a
       piece of its mind for being so clumsy. Haywire noticed Star move
       further away from the machine after Clarity's swat, the mare
       moving much closer to him almost to the point of managing to
       brush against him as she tossed a few nervous glances towards
       the suddenly disgruntled machine, this earning a blush from Hay
       over her close proximity and causing his excitement from... the
       other day? Earlier? Whenever it was when they'd fallen asleep to
       return. Bubo, finally free from his lock up, hopped from Hay's
       back up to Star's then took off into the air and dropped himself
       down onto the machine with a small clunk, hushing the invention
       up before it could get started and then tweeting a hello to
       Clarity.
       "C-Clair?" Haywire echoed as he thought back to the party he'd
       helped Clarity pull off, needing a moment to prevent a slight
       stutter in his speech before remembering the table of treats
       with no trouble whatsoever as he wondered if Clarity knew of the
       recipe for those B.2s he'd enjoyed. Maybe if she didn't she'd at
       least have an idea as to who had brought them to the party?
       Hay's brain was becoming full of thoughts revolving around
       peanut butter bars as they danced about in his mind... Anyway,
       it takes a few seconds of trying to pry his thoughts away from
       sweets for him to recall the pony she'd mentioned, Haywire then
       giving a nod back to the young mare.
       "Yeah, I remember. Played around for a little bit before he fell
       asleep. I think he's part of your family, right?"
       #Post#: 3521--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Clarity Date: September 18, 2014, 6:56 pm
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       Haywire's technospeak flies right over Clarity's head, almost
       making a whooshing noise with how she missed its meaning and
       almost it entirely, focused instead on what she imagined it
       might turn out to be.  Party poppers that big would just be a
       recipe for disaster...what a delightful thought.  She'd store
       that in the back of her mind for later.  There are a few ponies
       she could stand to have a little more..."pop" in their lives...
       The machine's outburst goes largely unnoticed by Clarity, just
       assuming that it was just something that machine is supposed to
       do from time to time.  The mechanical bird got her attention,
       though, when it tweets its greeting at her.  She grins and gives
       it a little wave.  "Hey, Bibble, how are you?"  Oddly
       coincidental that the extra noise from the not-oven stopped when
       it landed...
       Oh well.  She shrugs and turns back to Hay.  "Yeah, he's my twin
       brother.  The resemblance is uncanny, isn't it?" she asks
       playfully, making herself look as small as she could and trying
       to adopt his unfocused eyes, with little success.  Whatever, she
       thinks as she straightens back out with a flip of her mane.
       "After your little...conversation, he's half-convinced you're
       more than a little touched in the head."  A bit of a smirk plays
       onto her face.  She wouldn't be too surprised herself, given the
       way he keeps a machine around that simply spits fire every once
       in a while.  "Regardless of whether that's true or not, I'm
       coming mostly for him.
       "You see, it's...well, it's getting close to our birthday.
       Birthdays mean parties, and parties mean presents, and..."  She
       sighs and blushes, rubbing at her right forehoof with her left,
       turning her eyes slightly.  It feels so strange to admit her
       shortcomings.  "I...don't have such a great track record with
       getting them for him.  I mean, last year I got him a paintbrush,
       which would have been fine if he used brushes, but he only ever
       paints with his hooves, and he still holds it while he's
       painting, and he likes everything I get him, but I want his
       present to be really special, and..."  She cuts her speeding
       train of thought off and clears her throat.  Enough rambling.
       Get to the point.
       "A-anyway.  I'm sure you thought it a little weird-"  Haywire
       finding things weird?  Bad choice of words.  "You noticed that
       he didn't talk.  That wasn't a choice, he just..."  Even after
       all these years, talking about Clair's...uniqueness...is
       uncomfortable for her.  Should she really be talking about this
       in front of Star?  Her gaze flicks over in the other mare's
       direction for a moment.  Well, she's already said enough that it
       could probably be inferred, and if she asks to have her leave or
       let her talk to Hay in private, that would just be confirming
       things.  "...can't.  Which is fine, most of the time, because,
       well, he doesn't get out much, but there can't always be
       somepony with him that he knows, and not everypony knows Morse,
       and...Could you maybe make something that could...let him talk?"
       #Post#: 3536--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Haywire Date: September 19, 2014, 6:25 pm
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       Clarity's apparent nickname for Bubo caused Hay to give the bird
       a brief but curious raise of his eyebrow, Hay wishing to learn
       when the two had had time to get to know each other well enough
       to work out such a thing. Oh! Did that mean Bubo had been going
       out without him knowing? That's great actually! Hay didn't ever
       try to make Bubo feel as if he was trapped in the workshop, and
       the idea of the mechanical bird going outside to stretch his
       wings and say hi to friends was a wonderful one! even if it did
       make Hay a little bit worried,mostly because of how shy he knew
       Bubo was when outside and how he suffered from his random
       hiccups. Still good though, or would have been at least if it
       had been true. Which it of course wasn't.
       Bubo only gave a slight tilt of his head in confusion at being
       called Bibble as he figured Clarity would have figured out last
       time she was around that it wasn't his name, Bubo giving a shrug
       of his wings to Hay when he noticed his raised brow in an
       attempt to defuse any silly thoughts running through his head at
       the time.
       Clarity's attempt to imitate her brother's appearance earned a
       patient blink from Hay as he kept up his smile, as did her
       mention of Clair's opinion of him after their last meeting, Hay
       not quite understanding what she meant by being touched in the
       head as he just felt the colt had just wanted to play due to his
       random sentences and names he'd tapped out and what not. He gave
       Star a quick glance to see if she knew what exactly Clarity had
       meant by it but only succeeded in again reminding himself how
       close she was to him and bringing another light blush to his
       cheeks followed by a turning away of his attention back to
       Clarity.
       Aha! Hay felt his grin return at the mention of upcoming
       birthday recaptured his full brain focus. Maybe he'd have a
       chance to test out that new party popper design after all! Just
       imagine the looks on everypony's faces when he blasts a whole
       congregation of party goers with his new invention! Anyway,
       Clarity went on to discuss presents, more specifically ones for
       her brother Beatrice, a paint brush being the example given of
       an accepted but less than spectacular gift she'd given him in
       the past. Hay didn't understand the issue. Martha appreciated
       her gifts and held the paint brush whenever he painted even if
       it did go unused, but that made it less special...? Maybe Hay
       was just not understanding what she meant.
       ... A mechanical paint brush. This would be a thing once Hay had
       a chance to work on it. A cartridge loaded pen like device that
       wouldn't need to be dipped over and over! Could even spray paint
       onto the canvas like a water gun! Or have it's bristles spin for
       a spatter! Though... Now that he thought about it, that would
       probably cause issues with cleaning it... and controlling how
       heavy the brush is loaded... and changing colors... He'd have a
       prototype by the end of the week.
       Giving a slight shake of his head to refocus on what Clarity was
       talking about, Hay waited for her to finish her explanation,
       leaning forward slightly and raising his eyebrows expectantly as
       he held his smile and waited for her to finish whatever was
       evidently difficult for her to talk about.
       So Bubbles was mute? Kay. That certainly explained the Morse
       code. Hay didn't understand why that was so slow in being
       explained, though... Maybe he was missing something here too? He
       wasn't so silly as to not understand that some ponies had
       disabilities, some of his ideas for inventions being centered on
       the idea of helping such individuals, so to him he didn't get
       why it was so hard for Clarity to come out and mention. Was it
       supposed to be a secret? Why? Or did it only happen to him
       recently and therefore was a fresh and sensitive subject? Well,
       either way, it didn't change much in Hay's mind about the pony,
       so...
       Her request, though, did cause his smile to falter some... A
       device that could let him talk... He sat down on his rump and
       brought his hoof up to his chin as he started to think, eyes
       narrowing and tongue sticking out a bit after a few seconds as
       he stared upwards towards nothing in particular as his gaze
       seemed to pierce through everything and go nowhere. Hmm...
       "... I donno for sure..." He eventually answered, though his
       tone didn't dip much from at his words, "That would take some
       time to figure out I think.. But! I can try. Maybe I could work
       up an ankle mounted type writer by then though? Can give it a
       display that has those spinny dealies for numbers and letters
       that you sometimes see in waiting lines and stuff. That way
       could type out words one at a time in case he has no other
       options. Giving Sniffles Hiddlepenny III a whole new voice
       though... Hmm..."
       What if... No... Or... Um... Could he maybe...? Nah. Boy, this
       was going to be a tricky one...
       It was rare that Hay ever thought about magic when in his
       workshop, this being a place of pure and honest SCIENCE after
       all, but... Or... Then again... His Thought Theater did have a
       very basic sound feature installed that was never properly
       refined due to it's retirement it had only so very recently been
       pulled out of. Sounded terrible in its current form though,
       everything being garbled, messy and often times incorrect when
       compared to what it was actually meant to sound like. BUt it was
       a start at least. A nice one in fact as it would mean only
       improving an already existing design instead of building one
       from the ground up.
       "I think I might have something that could help us start a
       project though... But first, what do you think about that about
       that first idea?"
       #Post#: 3613--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Being Made of Gold Must Be Nice.
       By: Clarity Date: September 23, 2014, 11:50 pm
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       Clarity smiles at the idea of the hoof-mounted stamp.  That
       could be a thing...he'd probably get covered in ink in no time,
       and that would be soooo adorable.  She sits and toys with a
       mental imagining of how it would be.  "That might..."  Yeah,
       like that one she...might have...tried to steal from the bank
       that one time.  Which is really nothing like what Haywire was
       describing, and she's totally off the mark, but...What?  She was
       really little, and it was so neat!  The little knob that pushed
       to change which letter it was changing and then turned to change
       the letter...uh...that might not work out so well, actually.
       "Uh...well, it's a good idea, but...does it have a way to say
       what it's going to make?  I guess I forgot to mention that he
       also can't see."  This admission...for whatever reason, it's
       easier to make than the other.  It has been for a long time, and
       she can never put her hoof on exactly why.  "If he could, he
       could just write, but..."
       She furrows her brow as she tries to think of what kind of
       mechanism it might use to translate to Clair what is currently
       selected.  "Have the opposite side in braille?" she mutters.
       Well, in the one she'd seen the sides opposite the inky area did
       show what it was, but it was also blocked off to prevent
       misalignings by accident.  "A chime or something to..."  He
       could recognize sounds pretty well, but that would require it to
       make at least 36 sounds or combinations of sounds to indicate
       what was being put down, not including punctuation.  "A side
       braille shifting..."  That would limit it to one letter at a
       time period, which would probably work just fine for Clair...
       ...But this is all a moot point anyway if he couldn't tell where
       he was putting it in relation to everything else.  He could get
       help, of course, but it would require anypony helping him to
       know exactly what he was intending to do.  And a supply of paper
       that he would be able to know is clean and not running out of
       room.  So...this isn't really so much of a winning proposition.
       "...Sorry, I'm not sure it would work for him."
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