Science Lab [P]

She could see that there was a serious mis-alignment of her chest plate that she would have to set back into place. Her body was lain upon the lab bench, prone and serene. The first thing she would need to do was find a way to pop it open. She needed some kind of car jack, though she wasn't likely to encounter one in a school. With a skeletal sigh, she picked her way out of the lab towards the CDT class, where she had previously acquired the toolkit. She'd never really made anything before, not independently; this was the first time her body, or any of her other possessions required maintenance. Suppressing a chuckle as she realized how scooby-doo and terrifying it would be for a person to stumble across this orange-eyed skeleton in the school woodshop class in the dead of night, she picked her way about. She knew the basics; despite being miss priss, Loretka was actually great at woodshop class and began to formulate a plan. Well she needed something that she could lift one way but wouldn't just fall back down the other; that meant a ratchet. But on its own it was no good.

When she was finished, and placed the parts together, she had a crude device that would take the spring-loaded force of her chest plate as she tried to prop it up. Carrying it gingerly, trying to make sure her arms didn't come off, she returned to the science lab where thankfully, her body was still lain peacefully upon the bench. She dropped the jack next to it, where it landed with a clunk, and hooked the metal plate under the edge of her chest plate, before winding it up. The plate seemed to be jammed, and so she put as much welly behind it as she could, and eventually something clicked and the plate rose smoothly up on its hydraulics. She could immediately see the source of what had jammed it; some of the wires protruding from one of her circuits had gotten knocked loose by the impact, and were mangled in the joint. She sighed and retrieved a pair of scissors, cutting them loose. They were simply current-carrying wires, and so she had no issues simply replacing them with the BNC cables kept in the lab for the oscilloscopes, wrapping the loose electrical wires together and binding them with electrical tape. Not a permanent fix but it would hold for a good while before it needed looking at.