Who: Everyone
Where: Mostly Districts 2 and 3
When: 20th September
Summary: In light of the new district reopening, there's still a lot to do! This log is open to everyone if they want to see what else is going on in the city, or help with some important tasks.
Warnings: Inbox death may occur. System overload at own risk. SOME NPC RESPONSES WILL BE SLOW UNTIL THE ONE WHO PLAYS THEM IS PRESENT.
I'm only happy when it rains...
Some of the natives have been busy. There's a little stand set up in the plaza that wasn't there before. They have minions, too: people with clipboards are assaulting recent arrivals on the street with requests. It seems that most of the employees are helping with the district reopening, and that means everyone else is incredibly understaffed.
But wait! Don't walk away! If your character helps with some of the chores around the city, they'll get a little money added to their stipend, as well as a coupon to the new store opening today in District 3.
District 2
Residents will be asked to help hang up tiny twinkling lights in the trees lining the streets, nothing so fancy as during the summer festival but something with lasting power throughout the oncoming rainfall. There are water fountains that need to be insulated, gigantic mountains of leaves that should be disposed of, and plants requiring trimming.
District 3
In addition to the winterization chores going on in the second district, the shopping district has their own problems to take care of. Large potted plants need to be moved inside-- that's a job for physically fit characters-- and little tents need to be taken down. Oh, and they need lights in the trees here, too.
New Store
There is a lot of excitable chattering surrounding the new store on the main shopping street. The sign is currently covered in plastic and unreadable.
Boxes
Near the water, groups of trees, or small parks, characters might stumble upon a group of canvas-covered boxes and someone desperately looking for help with them. There are a lot, after all.
YOU MAY NOW REPLY. Thank you for your patience!
NPCs will pop into the last two sections. Otherwise, comment and threadjack at will.
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rekindleme2013-09-20 11:16 pm
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[Aaand at that blush, which he kindly ignores, he pulls his hand back. He pulls himself into a sit-up position to grip the branch with his hands, and then turns head over feet so that he's hanging from the branch by his hands.
See, you're safe, now.]
It sounds like you could use the practice.
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P-Practice, huh? Uh, yeah, maybe! I don't know what I would be doing like, climbing trees or...whatever. You know?
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Well, what would you be doing not climbing trees?
And tree-climbing principles are applicable to almost anything else you would climb.
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[She steps just a tiny bit closer and looks at him before just looking up at the tree itself.]
...I guess maybe it could be kind of useful, but...
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[He scoots closer to the trunk, wrapping one arm around it and letting the other one fall down into grabbing distance.]
Or, if that doesn't help, efficiency. Or even vanity. Give your pretty face a rest?
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Uh...! I-I'm totally fun! I'm like, super fun!
[She may be a mature almost-adult, but she's also a totally cool and with-it teenager and not at all lame. With just a bit of hesitation, she reaches up and grabs his hand.]
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[He grips her hand, tightly, and reaches with the other one to wrap around her shoulders. For a scrawny fourteen-year-old, he's pretty strong; he's been able to haul his own weight around for a while.
It isn't difficult for him to drag her to where she should be able to sit comfortably.]
Still plenty of lights up here, y'know. You can pay a little more attention to detail this way.
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[Pilouette surprised at how easily he manages to pull her up. First the gymnastics and now this? With the kinds of people she's been meeting, she's feeling incredibly average.]
I guess it's easier that dragging a ladder around, anyway. [She carefully starts trying to arrange the lights, not completely convinced she won't fall.] S-So like, is hanging out in trees just something you normally do or...?
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[He shrugs, and starts untangling more light wires for himself.]
I just like having my feet off the ground, I guess. And I'm an overachiever, sooooo a chair doesn't always do it.
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Overachiever, huh? ...I have to admit, like, you made being up here look totally easy. [She glance over at him and smiles, just a little and she fiddles with the lights.] I bet you're like, some kind of super athlete or something, right?
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[Said with a slight shrug. Caught him. Not that it's hard, to be fair. He was kind of showing off...]
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[She lets out a sheepish kind of chuckle.]
Like, I'm totally not athletic at all, so I like, can't help but find stuff like that kind of impressive.
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[but her self-deprecation makes him tilt his head.]
You know all that stuff can be learned, right?
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[She tries to think of a way to say "I don't I can learn it" that doesn't make her sound stupid.]
I...just never, um, held much of an interest in doing it myself. ...That's all. [Yeah, that sounded totally mature!] B-But you performed all over the world, huh? That's like, a totally different level than most people, isn't it?
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[But, no pressure.]
The whole "training almost from birth" thing helps in that regard.
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But you really started that young? Gosh, when I was a kid I think I was still watching cartoons and playing with dolls...
[Ignoring that she's still a kid now.]
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[He twines a string of lights around his hand. Just to help himself think.]
It scares a lot of people. The reason I'm not scared is because I started too young to understand that. And still, the first thing I learned was how to fall.
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Well, no matter how young you started, it's still like, kind of impressive. But...how to fall, huh? That sounds like kind of a rough thing to learn...
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But I guess if you learn how to fall, you learn how to keep from falling, too, huh? [Somehow, she can't resist taking a quick glance down, even if it's not really a very long way up. After a moment, she exhales quietly and goes back to fiddling with the lights, trying to arrange the ones she has just so.]
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[Not smirking. Nope.]
But you also accept the fact that falling is inevitable, sometimes, and you roll with it.
[But he'll take the hint and start untangling lights for her.]
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[She'll probably have to work on the roll with it part, though. And she hasn't met anyone she can call a "catcher", but...well, maybe that doesn't quite translate to non-acrobat things anyway.]
Oh, um...my name is Pilouette, by the way.
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[Yes, it's an old-fashioned name. Insert your own joke here.]
Gotta go through life with your eyes open, yeah. Be ready for everything.
[That part, at least, is!]
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Ready for anything, huh? [She mulls over it for a moment and smiles. She's genuinely kind of impressed. Dick seems to be way more level-headed than she is. It's really pretty cool.]
Geez, you've like, totally got it together, huh? I should probably work on keeping it together, too...
[She takes a second to look at the lights she's been arranging. Putting lights in a tree like this isn't fine art, but it never hurts to get another opinion. She gestures to them.]
What do you think?
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[He smiles. All it is is practice. Lots and lots of practice. The job kind of demands it.
but he pretends to look very intense. He taps his chin as he looks at the lights.]
I think only one thing is missing. Without that thing it's never going to look right.
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