dock rebuild | ota / mingle

[lunchbreaks]

characters: Aziraphale, Crowley, Daylight, Eleven, Stone, Eliot and YOU
location: The docks
date/time: Early Nov through Nov 11th
content: A mingle log for rebuilding the docks and/or generally if you'd like to have your character help with a mini-project. Feel free to throw up your own TLs! I am also still on slowatus until the 6th but wanted to put this up with ample time before Sandman!
warnings: N/A. If you would like to handwave your involvement, please just lmk and I'll add you to a list or something so everyone can just assume your character was around

The wood, cut and planked, sits in a pile on the beach, covered in whatever tarp-like object can be found to keep it from getting wet. On the bright side, the ferry comes in when they finish gathering supplies for the dock - so they don't have to gather more, and they don't have to rebuild a ferry. Still, large trunks are prepared for weather and hammered into the water, and don't get much of a chance to stand alone before a small group of people descend on them to cobble together a little dock. Not as grand nor as finely-made as the previous one, it will be nonetheless sturdy and usable, with hopefully no further changes for the last two years it may need to exist.

Comments

[necromantiae]

Oh, well.

( probably not going to do anyone any good there. )

I'm sure someone could get down there and get it but if it works, I'd be surprised. But hey, this place is weird so it might surprise us.

[lunchbreaks]

Do they... do that? Hibernate?

[ He honestly has no idea if spirits do or do not do this, he's not trying to play dumb. ]

That's fascinating.

I wonder what else they do...

[lunchbreaks]

Yes. If you want, after this, we should probably get started on that greenhouse.

There is very much to do around here before we can worry about the fighting.

[lunchbreaks]

Well, I'm hoping Rastus can just find us a new one!

I hope he's got the same records picked out as last time, while I was unboxing I saw one labeled A Night at the Opera. That sounds wonderful.

[onlyeverdoubted]

I, uh, think I'd be more useful with the greenhouse.

[He's not really much good at fighting, leaving aside how much more he wants to do, ever.]

N-not that I know, uh, a lot about... It's probably pretty easy to figure out.

[Though, while not an expert, he has to ask.]

What does a greenhouse accomplish without sunlight?

[necromantiae]

Yeah, that sounds...

( like opera. )

That your kind of music? Opera?

[lunchbreaks]

[ Ambrose will be so excited to find it's actually a Queen album. ]

Oh, yes. Opera is such a lovely new-- lovely way of telling a story.

Re: two

[knifecollecting]

[She tilts her head as an eyebrow pops up questioningly.]

In a sandwich? No. [She barely likes them on salads, on the rare occasions she eats one.]

What do you even put cucumber in a sandwich with?

[reigniter]

[Ignis doesn't know either, it is just a speculation.]

I wish they would so that we have a peaceful winter.

[But that's a pipe dream. He stopped expecting good things from this place.]

[necromantiae]

It's kind of...loud, isn't it?

( he was generalizing, he knows, but he's never been one to get into opera. )

Loud and long.

[lunchbreaks]

We'll make artificial light, Rook.

[ He snaps his fingers and brings down a little bit of a glow. It's not very bright, but it's definitely obvious. ]

Like this.

Re: two

[lunchbreaks]

Cheese. It's very good!

And cheese has a very long shelf-life.

[lunchbreaks]

Oh, I don't know that. They're mostly harmless. Some of them are actively helpful!

[lunchbreaks]

Well, that's the point. It's a story told through song, with a technique loud enough so everyone can hear you. Some of them are quite beautiful, though if you speak Italian they're much easier to enjoy!

[onlyeverdoubted]

[Bodhi's expression is one of mild surprise rather than shock.]

And that works on, um, a scale that'll grow plants?

[necromantiae]

So, it's movie? A movie musical?

( he knows what an opera is and he's even seen one a time or two but they never were his favorite thing. )

I think I'd prefer something that I can put on pause and walk away from without missing an important part of the story.

[savingthrows]

[ Eleven gives that some thought or a moment. Does it hurt?

She's never considered that much. ]

Only when I... drain. When I use too much. Fighting.

[savingthrows]

[ It's good to be allowed to help. Eleven appreciates adults who welcome her assistance rather than assume she can't help. However, Jo mistook her intentions, and she clarifies: ]

I can... carry it all. Alone.

[lunchbreaks]

Well.

We'll have to see about that.

Should at least be enough for an herb garden!

[lunchbreaks]

Well, that's why they have an intermission!

And it's supposed to be a live show. We won't get any of that, you'll be able to pause the record.

[lunchbreaks]

Ah, right, fighting.

Well, let's try not to do any of that, shall we?

Perhaps a rest might do.

[onlyeverdoubted]

[Bodhi has no questions at all about prioritizing herb production. Food should taste like something.]

I suppose the plants that are already here must be doing... something.

[necromantiae]

Right, an intermission.

( he can't help it, he laughs a bit. even if it doesn't sound like something he'd much be a fan of, he'd really like the normalcy of something like that. )

Well, that's something. I can't remember the last time I listened to a record. That'll take me back a bit.

[lunchbreaks]

Oh. What do you listen to now?

[ He's perking up and taking mental notes because while he plans on donating the record player and records to the whole town, he does have ambitions of pleasing his two very musically-oriented friends, whose tastes are completely foreign to him. ]

Are they-- those... silvery small records?

[necromantiae]

You mean compact discs? Yeah, those are definitely still around but a lot of what people listen to these days is digital.

( he waits to see if that makes sense to aziraphale before going further. )

You can put it in your laptop, your phone, your whatever. Take it with you without all the baggage.