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Natalia Luzu Kimlasca-Lanvaldear ([personal profile] poised) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-09-19 04:13 pm

We Built This City

Who: EVERYONE, literally everyone
When: THE ENTIRE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. This can take place any time from IC 2/28 to 3/16.
Where: ALL OF THE COLONY
What: The log to go along with the reconstruction player plot! Everyone is still welcome to join in, even if they had no prior knowledge of this.
Rating/Warning: shouldn't be anything to warn for! please poke me if this changes

[Not too long ago, a monstrous tsunami toppled the colony of Cerealia and left the city in ruins. Today…. the city is still in ruins. Watch your step! Hopefully you weren’t headed anywhere important today because--]

You there! Where do you think you’re going?!

[-- you’re about to be dragged into something much bigger than getting a sandwich or your CyBuddy’s hair appointment.

You’ve been spotted by Natalia and you are about to get an earful.]





Once Natalia gives the spiel to whatever poor bystander was walking about, they’re given a hardhat along with their instructions. Then they’re set off to work and they have quite the range of places that they can see to attend to.

I » THE RUBBLE The Residential District took the hardest toll after the tsunami. Where a block of apartments once stood, there’s now only rubble and ruin – as well as fallen pieces of the platform that had just added salt to the wound. Those in this area will be given face masks as well, to accommodate for the dust, and are tasked with moving the rubble over to a sectioned off area that will be considered a new scrapyard. Take a look at the fallen tech if you’d like, just be careful not to exhaust yourselves too much!

II » THE SCHOOL Plenty of the water has receded from the school area, but it would appear that the remains of flooding are still in effect. Try not to turn the halls into a slip and slide just yet! Even though the whiteboards beg to be written on, you’re obviously here to do work…. right? Well, there’s probably something about visiting a school that can make people itch to feel young again anyway.

III » THE APARTMENTS What apartments remained have a high chance of dealing with water damage, especially those on the bottom flowers. They’re just begging to be revamped. Maybe you even find an empty one that you like and decide to claim it for yourself! Aside from that, Natalia’s left paints upon paints for a mural on the outside of the building if you feel like doing some benevolent vandalism. Please don’t draw any genitalia.

IV » THE SKYBRIDGES High above the city, others are still put to work. The standing building in the residential district (and those that are eventually rebuilt) need a more convenient way of movement, Natalia’s decided. So here’s where people are building sky bridges to connect the apartments – but for the love of god, watch your step up there or else we’ll be dealing with cleaning you up off the cement too.

V » THE GYM The once magnificent place for GAINS and and PROTEIN and BROSEPHS honing one’s strength and maintaining the temple of one’s body unfortunately caved in during the disaster. Entirely. The place is another pile of rubble and rock, but if nothing else, exercise equipment has been ordered and people who hopefully know their way around a gym have been placed in charge of restoring the gym to its former glory. It’s like its own workout just to fix it!

VI » THE SANCTUARY Hidden away in the Residential District, there’s a new, nondescript building. Upon even stepping into the premises, you’re asked to leave your CereVice at the door. However once you’re determined unbugged by CERES, there’s much hustle and bustle in here. Wire work is being done to maintain generators, tests are being run, and then there are some people making sure that the curtains match the color scheme of the couches. At least there’s apparently a buffet provided inside for all volunteers! Chill during your break time. You’ve earned it.
immobileyes: (I'm too old for this)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-09-29 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ NOODLE ARMS... ]

Mm, I wasn't allowed outside for a long time, and then I just... stayed in, after that. [ She sucks at the great outdoors. ]
babermetrics: (36:29 in the steve harvey fleshlight vid)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-01 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Wait, you weren't allowed out? What the hell . . . are your parents super overprotective?

[He can't even imagine it. He's an outdoors type himself, but even he had his days of annoying his parents in the house so much that they yelled at him to go play outside--or, more recently, slacking off too much. Being forced inside is a weird thought.

Maybe she's had a hard life . . . ouch.]
immobileyes: (You're really tiny and it's AWKWARD)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-01 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ How to explain this... ]

It was just me and my mother, and she didn't want me to go out, because it was dangerous. And the one time I didn't listen, she...

... I lost her.

[ IT'S A BIT OF A HEAVY STORY. ]
babermetrics: (my ass needs all the help it can get.)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-04 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah just a bit. Leon isn't sure how to react to it. For one thing, he has no idea how points A and B connect there, but . . . now's not the time to ask. Is there ever a time to ask? Probably not. What matters is that he can get the gist of what she's saying happened, and oh. Ouch.]

Uh, sorry . . . I didn't think it'd be like that.

[He's tense with the topic, but after a moment he reaches out to pat her on the shoulder.]
immobileyes: (I thought if you stuffed her in a bag...)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-04 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... okay... [ And she trails off, glancing at his hand. More specifically, the hand on her shoulder. ]

But that's why.
babermetrics: (my opinion. unfollow if u must.)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-06 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't move it right away, but he does after a few beats and another comforting squeeze. Maybe she doesn't like being touched . . . why doesn't he ever meet anyone here who likes being touched? It's so weird. At least he's casual about moving it.]

Yeah, got it . . . sorry. So after that you never got in the habit, huh? I guess that explains some stuff about you.
immobileyes: (Not sure if want)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-06 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I just... I mean, I don't stay inside all the time, but I feel... safer like that.

[ Give her time, Leon, she'll accept your totally platonic touches one day. ]
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[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-06 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It used to be pretty easy to do that here, huh? Stick around inside, I mean. When I first got here I definitely spent entire days inside my apartment!

[But unlike Mary, he can't handle that sort of thing; he goes crazy if he's alone or inside too long, and makes a little face at the memory.]

But when stuff got wrecked it kinda changed that, anyway. I mean, except for those few days where it was raining so hard you couldn't even really go outside anyway. That sucked!
immobileyes: (Just let me bask in the words)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-07 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I'm really glad the rain stopped, at least.

[ She wasn't the best swimmer, anyway. ]
babermetrics: (fucking idiot bird got owned)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-08 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Man, with hair like yours? I bet you soak up ten gallons of water every time you go out in that kinda thing!

[This time he reaches out to tweak at the very end of her hair, near the back, curiously. Heh.]
immobileyes: (There's the man who touched me)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-08 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes my head feel really heavy, so I don't like it.

[ At least this time her hair doesn't move on its own, but she does peer up at him. Hey, now. ]
babermetrics: (neon ball throw?!)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-09 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
--Heh, sorry.

[He tugs his hand back.]

It was callin' to me . . . you don't see a girl with that much hair that often!
immobileyes: (Let's look at the door)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-09 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
... Really? I guess that's true, but I know a few people...

[ Kido's hair was probably that long when she wore it down... maybe. ]
babermetrics: (neon ball throw?!)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-09 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
It's totally a first for me! It's real cute on you, Mary.

[Okay, geez. Finally, he can't avoid this anymore:]

--Uh, don't take this wrong, buuuut how old are you anyway?
immobileyes: (Let's look at the door)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-10 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
...? I'm fourteen... fifteen? I think... the time got all different when I came here.

[ Give or take a hundred and twenty more years or so. ]
babermetrics: (would you like apples or bees?)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-11 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yeah, ha ha . . . for me too, I think . . .

[Well, time had ended up way more "different" than he ever knew, and coming here had been the least of that, but it hadn't helped anything either.

But more importantly, fourteen?! Ouch. Okay, noted. Actually, he's never felt the age issue more acutely than right now; fourteen or fifteen wouldn't be that inappropriate if he actually were the age he last remembers being. Now, though, it's pretty out of line. He smiles a little awkwardly.]


Ooookay, so no flirting, got it!
immobileyes: (Well snap)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-12 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
... Were you flirting?

[ SHE THOUGHT HE JUST TALKED LIKE THAT TO EVERY GIRL... ]
babermetrics: (neon ball throw?!)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-14 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[He does, but also, yes. They're not mutually exclusive in his case . . .

He'd suspected she hadn't realized, though. Makes sense when she's probably too young to have a lot of experience. So he has the grace to look a little embarrassed, though he's still cheerful enough.]


Yeah, kinda. I mean, not hardcore! Trust me, even you would probably pick up on it if I was! Buuuut maybe a little?
immobileyes: (Not equipped to handle life)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-14 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's got plenty of experience! She'd read dozens of stories, except princes didn't flirt, they usually just strode right up and went 'My fairest lady, I have come to save you' and the princess fell into their arms. Or there were the things in the manga, which also did not involve flirting, and tended to be more in the range of backing one person against a wall and staring deeply into their eyes. Or falling on top of them and staring deeply into their eyes. Or pulling them in for a kiss while staring deeply into their eyes.

Leon hasn't swept in majestically, proclaiming salvation, nor has he pinned her to a wall (thankfully, because she probably would have panicked, and a panicked medusa never bodes well for the other party) or fallen on top of her, etc.

How was she supposed to know?? ]


I... didn't even notice...

[ SHE SOMEHOW FEELS BAD ABOUT THIS. ]
Edited 2015-10-14 04:12 (UTC)
babermetrics: (it's always sunny in Hope's Peak)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-15 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Heh . . . it's not like I really came on to you that hard. Like, for one thing, even I know it's a bad time when you're diggin' through what used to be your apartment.

[He sure doesn't seem to feel bad himself, laughing it off. Hey, at least he told her now. In another situation, with less uncertainty, he might have come on strong; he does like the cute, innocent type . . .

But he can't exactly regret that he didn't when, 14 and all.]
immobileyes: (Why do you sound Irish?)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-15 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
... Thank you, [ she says automatically, because... she honestly doesn't know how to respond to that. ASK MARY HOW MANY TIMES SHE'S BEEN FLIRTED WITH, she can now hold up, like. Two fingers. ]
babermetrics: (it's always sunny in Hope's Peak)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-15 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no problem.

[ . . . He says, and then realizes he doesn't know what he's accepting thanks for.]

You mean for flirting with you or for not flirting with you?
immobileyes: (Your name is so funny!)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-15 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
For... telling me, I think. So now if someone does it, I'll know for sure!

[ SHE WILL NOT BE FOOLED. ]
babermetrics: (netflix gothic)

[personal profile] babermetrics 2015-10-16 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not seriously the first dude ever to flirt with you, right? I knew you didn't get out much, but . . . you're super cute!

[He has a Type, but he knows he's not the only guy with that type. And despite having a type, he's also not picky, and he knows he's not the only guy who isn't picky either . . . ]
immobileyes: (NOPE NOPE NOPE)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-10-16 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
I-I just don't hear that... that often! [ And Hiro liked to tease her, and maybe she'd heard it from some of the older ones, but that was hardly flirting, and now she's just turning red again. ]

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