'CAUSE I'M BROKEN

[axegirlfriend]

characters: Remington, Matt, Quentin, Coraline, Aziraphale, Jason Grace, Wanda, and OPEN to anyone!
location: the church
date/time: Throughout September, following the announcement of the church’s desecration.
content: Everyone’s working together to get the church back in order!
warnings: N/A

[Entering the church, you’ll see that Remington is already assessing all the damage firsthand. As he moves around, he places damages pieces of furniture in groups depending on what appears to be their level of damage: minor, moderate, and major. There’s plenty of head-scratching, of course, and if you’re carrying any supplies, he gestures to one area he seems to have set up as a makeshift tool bench.]

Hey, um, hi! Thanks for coming. This is really a mess, isn’t it? So it’s…kind of all hands on deck at the moment. Let me know if you have any questions or need help getting started.

[He’ll advise anyone who needs direction based on their expressed skill level or areas of expertise from anything to sorting through debris to determine what is or isn’t usable in its current state, to minor fixes, to marking items that need complete reconstruction.]

Don’t throw out anything; I already know what I want to do with any leftover scraps. Just put them all in that empty crate over there.

[He must’ve managed to commandeer one from the general store.]

((OOC: Feel free to make your own toplevels! I’ll be placing my own for Remington, so it can be handwaved that he’s already given your character a task if they need one to get themselves started.))

Comments

[notthatjason]

I would say we need to be more worried about crazed visitors taking their anger out on the pews...but I get what you're saying. I don't suppose there's a way to reinforce some of this stuff.

[That would probably take metal or something a little stronger than wood. Brick? But that's probably not exactly the aesthetic the church is going for.]

[lunchbreaks]

Oh, right. Did we ever figure out how this happened?

[ He frowns. ]

Won't do if we rebuild it only for it to get destroyed a second time.

[notthatjason]

[Jason shook his head. He knew it would difficult to figure out, it's not like anyone was going to own up to this.]

I don't think so. I've heard a few guesses, but I don't think it's something we can build to prevent.

[Accident or on purpose, destroyed property wasn't exactly something to prepare for.]

Either way, we should rebuild. We keep a better eye on the church and try to prevent someone from destroying it again.

[lunchbreaks]

Yes, we should guard our more important structures. Who knows what might be destroyed next!

I hope at the very least we'll have someone to watch over the bonfire and the library. Oh-- the library! Imagine all that knowledge, gone.

[ He still cries over Alexandria sometimes Jason, you're not going to want to get this one started. ]

[notthatjason]

[Jason doesn't say anything, but mentally adds it to a list he has going about 'duties/jobs' to assign. He doesn't know if any of the "residents" will agree to a job shift, but if they do it'd be nice to add "guard" or "sentry" to it. Clearly if destruction like this is going to continue then they need some way of making sure things stay on the up and up.]

The Bonfire is pretty centrally located and people are there a lot, I don't think it would be as easy to target. The library though...you have a point that could be pretty bad if it were taken out. I haven't taken a chance to explore it much...what kind of information is in the one here?

[lunchbreaks]

Oh... not a terrible lot but it's not like I've read through all the books or even understand all of them. A lot of them just reference strange things, and most of them are fiction, or-- or it's hard to tell, here.

[ It does seem to be working, to calm him down, to let him ramble on about books and research. ]

I've gone through a lot of them with a fine-toothed comb but I was needing more time, and-- well, I'm not the expert in everything, I must've missed some clues.

[notthatjason]

Yeah, I'd imagine.

[He recalls a conversation he had with Percy once about Atlantis and 'real' myths vs 'fake' myths...it's hard to tell the difference sometimes when your parents are gods from mythology and not everything that's written about them is 100% accurate or true or whatever.
It'd be even more complicated here since he was pretty sure not all of those present were even from the same reality.]

That could take a long time though. I'd ask what kind of clues you're looking for, but I guess it'd be hard to tell what's a clue and what's not if we can't even figure out what might be fiction and what might be real.

[lunchbreaks]

Yes. That's going to be a real problem. I think we may need to poll others in the town - there are so many of them from different walks of life.

I think possibly from different Earths, even.

If that's-- that's even possible.

[ He sounds rather distressed about this./small> ]

[notthatjason]

[Returning to his box of scraps, Jason starts carefully removing broken bits and setting them aside. He holds up a chipped sconce, debates whether it's salvageable, and then sets it back in the box.]

If there can be different versions of Hades or the afterlife then I don't think it's too far of a stretch for there to be different Earths...

[It was difficult to say as, so far, no one had said or done anything to make him TOO suspicious of that fact. People seemed to be from different points in time, but it wasn't like the gods were common knowledge outside of New Rome and Camp Half-Blood related individuals thanks to the Mist. He hadn't really pressed many people on it because honestly did it really matter if they were all from different walks of life?]

[lunchbreaks]

That is quite disconcerting to hear.

I suppose I am very used to the way things are on my Earth.

[ Can you tell? ]

And namely, that there is only one.

[ Plus, why didn't The Almighty let him know there were more? ]