deercountry | 11 . clockhouse rebuilding!

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11 . clockhouse rebuilding!

Who: Those who have offered to help rebuild the Clockhouse, and anyone else who'd like to pitch in!
What: An open mingle log to repair after fires and floods.
When: Throughout September, precise dates not specified.
Where: In Gaze, at the forest's edge.

[ When the weather and chaos dies down, work on the Clockhouse picks up. The building was once an old Deerington mansion, luridly green and eccentric; age faded it into half a ruin, and July's fire did the rest. August's flooding came fast and hard, and now there's very little left to salvage.

The first step has been a damage assessment, with volunteers picking through the structurally unstable ruins, finding singed fiction novels, crisped houseplants, and a weird number of melted grandfather clocks. Demolition goes quickly, while Ozpin stands by and does not even try to control the situation.

Volunteers are needed to design the new structure, carry in materials, and build... and then to decorate and enchant what they've created. The few Sleepers with genuine construction experience provide direction, Ozpin sometimes among them, but things are largely chaotic. A few Sleepers provide snacks and cheerleading.

This is a mingle log. Please feel free to make a toplevel, and comment with your character's contributions below! ]

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Name:

Relevant skills or powers: [ e.g. construction, restoring damaged areas, space-warping... ]

Things that go well: [ any cool or useful contributions you'd like to make to the house? e.g. a wall mural, a magical fireplace, a library that's bigger on the inside... ]

Things that go weird: [ please leave Ozpin with a cursed, eclectic nightmare house. give us some quirks! e.g. a chimney that is going to fall on someone, holes in the floor, overzealous houseplants that eat small animals... ]

Edited 2022-09-21 20:24 (UTC)

Name: Michael

Relevant skills or powers: Architecture, like the actual regular kind with buildings, also Darkblood powers

Things that go well: Michael's actually just a regular-ass architect! He can design a normal and functional building!

Things that go weird: He's a weirdo, he's liable to go along with any strange suggestions people make as long as they're structurally sound and also Ange specifically doesn't veto it. Also sabotage him.

[Michael's here from very early on in the design process. He's brought along a drafting table he got from somewhere or other, and is drawing up actual architectural plans for a new house. Someone's got to have a real sense of how this is supposed to work, right? At the moment he seems occupied with matters of the foundation, but he's open to suggestions about the structure itself:]

Got any ideas for how it should look? Ange said she didn't want it to have guns on the outside or be shaped like an ice-cream cone. I kinda thought the clock thing was cool though, honestly.

[Once it gets to the actual construction process...well, Michael doesn't have as much practical experience there. He'll mostly be hanging around, occasionally producing materials with a snap of his fingers.]

Let me know if you need anything. I know what we should be building with.

Name: Xerxes Break

Relevant skills or powers: Darkblood powers, and more importantly, being a fancy rich Victorian man from Fantasy Englefrance

Things that go well: Break is a horrible bossy snot about the kitchen, on account of sometimes he escapes to Clockhouse and cooks there and the kitchen therefore belongs to him. He will be a massive pest at whoever is doing the real shit to prioritize the kitchen and also to arrange things in it to his standards, and once the bones are set, he spends a lot of time in there making it aesthetic. Do we need a pretty chandelier over the island? Absolutely not. Is he putting one there? Yes.

Predictably he also shows up with snacks and tea every day, and once the kitchen is actively usable, Break sets it up as his home base and cooks up giant batches of lunch and things for whoever is around that day.

Things that go weird: For the most part Break behaves himself, but he absolutely goes around turning the occasional green thing purple to amuse himself, and if left unsupervised with Ruby at all ever Ozpin can look forward to finding things like beautiful sculptures of butts hidden within his overwrought gold filigree. You're welcome.

Name: Peter Graham / King Paimon

Relevant skills or powers: Peter is possessed by a demon with a range of abilities that could be useful here. Paimon can use different types of telekinesis to move / manipulate objects (or.... violently set things on fire to get rid of them for clean-up). He can conjure "treasure" that could be used for construction or decorating purposes (currently, everything he conjures will be in his associated element and therefore solid gold...) He can also traverse walls and ceilings if anyone needs him to get up high,,,

Things that go well: Peter will be basically doing whatever's needed, and helping pick up things, tote things, make supply runs, etc. He's weak-willed and passes out a lot, but he should mostly be fine! Paimon will be working very hard to assist (fueled by his Important Demon Connections with Ange and Ruby) and also teaming up with Luna Lovegood as she gives him witchy direction for conjuring purposes. He'll be well-behaved and very much in Assistance Mode, happily in his element!

Things that go weird: Paimon will make lots of impractical, horrifically heavy, solid gold items. He will also be bringing over some of his collected supplies to provide Demon Crafts to decorate with. You might spot him making very nice things like this and lining them up outside! Given that the house is in Gaze, he will probably also be roaming around and putting more googly eyes on other random things.

[ Ford has always enjoyed Michael's company. While it's been quite some time since they've actually spoken Ford had been pleased to see him at the rebuilding site all the same. It's easy enough to fall into step with him during the design process, and so he doesn't hesitate to offer his opinion when asked. ]

No one seemed to mind how ostentatious it was before, so I don't see why we shouldn't aim for something in line with the rest of the city.

[ He will not comment on whether they should allow the clock aesthetic to endure, since he knows he can't be unbiased in that regard. What he will say is: ]

If you do include clocks, make sure there's space for thorough soundproofing in the walls. It could get noisy in there.

Name: Ford Pines

Relevant skills or powers: Darkblood magic, architectural design, enchantments

Things that go well: Quality of life enchantments (soundproofing, proximity alarms, unbreakable windows); making sure any basements can still support the house; practical design sense; the nicest goddamn library so long as no one reminds him of the emotional implications; he will comply with nearly any request from Oscar.

Things that go weird: Overly practical design sense; basement will be unreasonably large; attic will be unreasonably spooky; his idea of necessary enchantments is questionable; he will comply with nearly any request from Ruby; watching him and Ozpin interact is going to be agonizingly awkward for any bystanders.

Here for the Food

[Break is certainly no architect, doesn't know construction, and isn't the most powerful magic-user around by a long shot; he also has the sense to stay out of the way of those who do possess these skills. What he can do is cook for large groups of people, so he makes this his primary duty. During the design phase he mostly cooks at home and leaves everything on the designated snack table when he arrives, before flitting off to either be a pain in the ass at whoever is working on the Clockhouse kitchen until he gets his way about how he thinks it ought to be laid out or popping home to do more baking. But as soon as the new kitchen is safe and workable, that's where he sets himself up, relieved to be away from his own kitchen now that other experienced cooks sometimes take up space in it.

Anyone who wants to drop by to help him out with washing dishes or peeling things, trot out on food-related errands on his behalf as he slowly stocks the kitchen, or simply to eat will find him cooking up foods that are easy to grab. Things like mushroom hand pies, cheesy garlic bread, and potato wedges. For the most part he leaves the desserts to other bakers, but occasionally for variety he'll knock out a batch of some cookie or other, and he'll drop most everything for that if someone manages to find him chocolate chips.

And of course there is also, always, tea. Wildcard whatever kitcheny kind of thing you'd like here.]

Darkblood Shenanigans

[Ozpin is not simply Tall Break, as his omen likes to joke about very rudely, but damned if they don't have very similar aesthetics in many ways. To that end whenever Break has some downtime, he entertains himself contributing to making the new house relentlessly fancy and pompous, and is not above climbing on things for this purpose. He can be found in all sorts of places, such as perched on the kitchen island as he finagles a chandelier with his limited conjuring skills or sitting on the floor fondling doorknobs with his eyes closed until he can persuade carvings to form beneath his hands.

Enjoy your fancy toilet paper dispenser, sir.

Other times, however, he is pretty obviously up to mischief -- he especially likes turning random green things purple for Ozpin to find later and sigh at -- and he is gleefully unrepentant when caught. If he's especially smug about admiring his handiwork, you can be almost certain a butt is involved, which is really Ruby's fault in the end but Break does absolutely nothing to discourage her sense of humor.]

It just seemed like a lovely place for a bum, you know? I'm told he really loves the moon.

[Now is the time to drag him into further aesthetic crimes. Chances are very high he will not resist and will in fact be happy to help make it worse.]

Edited 2022-09-22 00:24 (UTC)

( While it's an uncomfortable thing, so willingly bringing his demon out into the open like this, it's a step Peter's been building to for a while. Over time, he's told more people about his "condition", and while he isn't outright advertising it, he certainly isn't hiding it the way he used to.

Especially because the demon is powerful, and it can be used to help people. This month, that includes helping Peter's friends after they've lost.... almost everything. So the boy's there, but the demon's also very openly there, and you may come across either of them at various times throughout the process.

👑 PETER — can be found mostly doing the grunt work type things: poking through the ruins of the home to try and find anything salvageable for the household, carrying materials, making supply runs, and wandering around asking people if they need help with things. Or maybe he's offering you something to drink; could be time for a little breather. Peter's perpetually a shy, nervous presence, but he won't be hesitating to approach others this time. It feels... It's really nice, doing something to help out. He wants to be here.

...Even if his demon will absolutely go overboard and so at some point you might also come across Peter passed out face-first on the ground because his body and mind can't handle it.

👑 PAIMON — is in his element here, having something Intentional to Assist With. He can be found inbetween lapses of Peter's consciousness: setting piles of rubble on fire after they've been sorted through, moving things around telekinetically, or perhaps, horrifically, crawling on walls or ceilings as new ones are constructed or crumbling ones are brought down, for whatever reason he might be needed somewhere Up High.

But his real contribution here comes in the form of conjuring. And for the djinn-like entity, it's treasures. Namely gold, his associated element. At the direction of his bonded witch, Luna Lovegood, the demon will be conjuring all manner of solid golden items. You might witness or sense it: a presence contained beneath Peter's skin, which starts to glow with a faint gold hue, as though something impossibly bright and loud and ancient lives beneath. A solid gold clock, a chair, a... shoe rack?? He's been living amongst humans for a few years now and learning about what they have in their homes, so really anything they could use, he'll be trying to help provide... Or, he'll be on the hunt for others to work with in this regard, considering he can't overwork his host too much (unfortunately, as mentioned above, Peter will still end up dead in the dirt at times.)

As construction on the house progresses, the demon will also be bringing over some of his crafted items.... Crouched on the front porch or around the side of the house in little designated areas, you might find him placing down little... guys made of clay and sticks. He's very serious about it, lining them up strategically and re-applying googly eyes that might have fallen off. Or maybe you come across him wandering the property and very solemnly putting googly eyes on random surfaces of the home..... This is Gaze, after all. It's important to honour the Theme. )

Edited 2022-09-22 00:44 (UTC)

Oh, yeah...I don't think Ange minded the clock thing that much. She lived there and all, right?

[Look, she's his friend, it is mostly her wishes that he cares about.]

Though I don't want it to look exactly like the old house, even if there are clocks. Might as well take the opportunity for some change, right?

Name: sansa stark

Relevant skills or powers: dressmaking, sewing

Things that go well: sansa has offered to replace the lost wardrobes of all clockhouse residents and has been taking measurements and requests. those staying with break and co probably already have an outfit or two each at this point.

she has also offered to make curtains. she has watched a lot of youtube videos about this. she will try very hard to get all the drapes right.

she is very glad to make tapestries if anyone wants!!

she cannot upholster but can buy in fabric and leather as needed

Things that go weird: she doesn't know exactly who was living in the clockhouse before this, besides ruby and ange. hypothetically someone could take advantage of this to score free bespoke outfits. just know the north remembers

she has a good eye and Opinions and might gently try to politely talk people out of bad design choices.....

lady is there

Name: Luna Lovegood.

Relevant skills or powers: Art skills! Protective magic, and just magic in general — she can levitate things, blast rubble into pieces for easy demolishing, banish rubble, etc. Additionally: she has one boyfriend and his goetic demon coming along.

Things that go well: Luna is here to help with general things, but she is most importantly here to work on protective enchantments on the house with wardings and such to ensure that what happened doesn't happen again. She will also be around to paint generally, and also paint some very nice murals on the walls — which will include clockhouse themes, and even a mural to Moon Presence/Cynthia.

Things that go weird: Mostly the fact she's bringing her boyfriend + demon along. Peter's pretty much fine, but Paimon will be able to conjure gold objects under Luna's direction, and generally be a bit of spooky demon with climbing on the ceilings....

[ If there's one thing Penny always feels good about, it's helping people. Helping friends is just an additional delightful cherry on top of an already delightful cake. She's even got some unique skills to offer!

During the demolition she spends a lot of time knocking over pillars, breaking up large chunks of rubble, and clearing ground space for future construction. She makes liberal use of lasers both large and small in the process, particularly when it comes to knocking down structures that are still standing. And when she doesn't have her own task assigned to her, she doesn't hesitate to approach others with a cheerful: ]

Excuse me! Are you in need of assistance?

[ Even given her prowess at blowing things up, construction is when Penny really shines. She's not much for designing things, but she's fantastic at picking up and moving heavy objects. Plus, her literally robotic precision means she's unparalleled when it comes to spacing out wall framing, laying bricks, and welding things together (again with her lasers). She's got her limits, though, and finally encounters one in earnest when it comes time to lift one of the roof's central ridge beam into place. Deciding how to tackle it is tricky, and she ends up suggesting: ]

Maybe we could try lifting it with a pulley and Darkblood, and then I can help make sure it's in place?

Name: Oscar Pine

Relevant skills or powers: Actual Practical Carpentry. Farmlad's gonna farmlad, and he didn't spend his first winter in Deerington fixing every single squeaky door for nothing.

Things that go well: Oscar's domain tends to revolve around the kitchen. It's homey. Otherwise, he's pretty good at coming up with plans and helping with the measurements for the overall structure.

Things that go weird: He has a horse with a bad attitude shadowing him, so there is a HORSE in the CONSTRUCTION ZONE.

[For the first time in a very long time, Oscar Pine was in his element.

Raised on a farm and granted the time to hone his skills, what he lacked in actual combat capacity he made up for with his brain for plans, mechanical workings, and numbers. The stable where the cows and his horse named Shortcake lived was his primary workspace. It was familiar, and he had hidden some drafting supplies amid the horse tack for when he just wanted to sketch out a few plans with the animals as company.

Once equipped with his basic tools, he set about helping with the drafting. Naturally, he would defer to people with more experience, but he didn't spend the train ride to Argus reading tech manuals for nothing.

Once drafting was completed, he could be found fussing over plans for the kitchen. He welcomed other people getting involved, but he wanted to double check and make sure that Ruby hadn't snuck any explosive surprises into the details. Overall, he also wanted to make sure that it was Ruby and Ange Proof.

Shadowing him the whole time is the large black stallion he had met early on during his stay in the Dream. Shortcake, as the horse was affectionately dubbed, shadowed Oscar the whole time-- either right by his shoulder or staring balefully from afar. It was as if the beast had made it his objective to protect the farmlad from further danger, and its ominous aura certainly had a way of fending off anyone with ill intent.

Even if it meant drawing curious eyes in exchange.]

Edited 2022-09-22 02:01 (UTC)

Name: Ruby Rose.

Relevant skills or powers: Small but strong. Great at handling tools and hardware. Capable of handling any sort of wiring, or piping situation.

Certified leader. Great at organizing a movement.

Things that go well:

- Great morale support.
- Lifts heavy things like woah!
- She lives there so knows where things go.
- All around great at coordinating and helping out

Things that go weird:

- Her and Gideon made a Calendar to drum up support for this. It... Has little to do with actual matter at hand. But there are two strong girls flexing a lot and posing with a corgi. So that's something?
- Work occasionally gets delayed by impromptu snack breaks, cookie breaks, flexing and making things look much harder than they actually are.
- There are a lot of pumpkins with butts carved into them showing up around the property.
- She's insisting things that don't need a built in gun, have the option of getting a gun built in.

[Ruby is working very hard to make sure the rebuild effort is coordinated and running smoothly.

She's generally easy to approach and willing to assign a job. Or she's right along helping out by lifting heavy wooden support beams onto the property. She might even be seen with a home made Power saw/nail gun cutting up pieces of flooring into shape and nailing them in.

Of course it wouldn't be Ruby Rose if there wasn't some chaos going on. Aside from the calendars and butt pumpkins. There's the sound of a squeal as a handful of chickens run by with Ruby in pursuit.]

General Henstable! Get back here! This is mutiny!

Edited 2022-09-22 02:04 (UTC)

[Break's primary concern is also the kitchen, so having Oscar as an ally here has been welcome. It means an amiable creampuff now gets to be in charge of the diplomatic bits of getting this sorted, and once things are actually built, Break's contribution can be more along the lines of making it happen faster and then making the room unnecessarily gorgeous once all the basics are in place.

It also means, you know, someone who actually lives in the Clockhouse and thus has more say in the matter is on his side here, as Break and Oscar have a great many of the same priorities in how the room should work. Look, it's not Break's kitchen and he knows that, but also he likes to be in it and play in it and he is spiritually a spoiled housecat and therefore it is in fact his kitchen actually.]

We ought to move the sink from the countertop to the island, don't you think? [He leans over Oscar's shoulder as he makes this observation and does not care about Shortcake; his house has a nightmare steed lurking on the grounds these days.] That puts a water source in a more central location. Less scurrying about in a frenzy if certain someones set a fire somewhere.

[Look. The certain someones have been living in his house lately. He is aware.]

[Ruby is looking over the plans with a bit of a pout.]

Yeah, I was the one who suggested the guns. Ange is a huge party pooper sometimes. But I guess we have to make do.

[She taps her chin thought briefly.]

Oz is nuts about the clocks though. I think you're safe to throw in a bunch of those.

What if we kind of added in a whole little clock tower to it?

Man down, man down!

[Depending on how conscious Peter is, he might hear the thud of Ruby's boots as she approaches. And... The claws of chickens lightly stepping over him briefly before they cluck and clutter away.

A couple seconds latter there are two hands grabbing his ankles and dragging him across the ground.]

Jeez. How am I going to explain this to Luna?

Don't know where you'd get ammo that big anyway.

[But yeah he was drafted by Ange, so. You'd probably have to bribe him or something.]

Oooh, that could be fun! Something a little different from the old one - and you could go up there and hang out! [...] And shoot people from it, if you wanted.

[A certain noodley omen is often seen without his person through all this, having taken it upon himself to patrol the grounds for helpers who might be in want of one of the purified water flasks or some snacks, which Baltus carries around in a basket. People might not accept fuss from other people, but a friendly doggo has a way of getting around that, even when said friendly doggo is actually a ghostly graveyard guardian with too many teeth.

When he is not doing this, though, much like Xerxes he defaults to following one of The Nieces around. Both of them often have tasks for him to do, and anyway, the omen enjoys their company. He trots up to Ruby now with his tail all a-swish because he has just completed another small errand on her behalf, and he has a very large box of nails for the gun in his mouth.]

I have them, Ruby. Freshly conjured just for you and your building weapons.

Name: Alice

Relevant skills or powers: Darkblood space warping - specializes in weight/gravity shenanigans so she can transport materials or act as a crane. Has an aesthetic. Is not above going off and finding a shipwreck for some pre-fabricated furniture.

Things that go well: Honestly some of this second hand furniture is pretty dope, and several pieces have the property of always sticking to the floor if in an environment that's pitching and rolling, which is relevant to this landlubber house because:

Things that go weird: Look. Sometimes you're having a nice nap in a particular spot and don't want the sun in your eyes. And that's why she's installing this CAPTAINS WHEEL which is gonna steer the entire house around on its axis. X axis or Y axis? I dunno, Alice isn't a very good engineer.

[ Alice is on her way back from errands with a large load of planks hovering over her head. They wobble a bit, as she's distracted by the escape of future chicken dinners. ]

Oh no you don't - Ruby, quick, build a coop!! To the gaol with the miscreants!

Someone going down for the count so hard they are face down in the dirt, not even sitting or out of the way, attracts Duty's attention. Turning the young man over, he recognizes Peter (and Paimon). He picks them up, an arm behind their back and another under their knees.

The place has furniture these days, more furniture, so Duty takes Peter and Paimon to a gilt chaise lounge and lays them down. He fetches some water and a snack and changes tasks to one he can complete here. A word here and there covers things with other people.

When someone stirs, Duty turns back toward the lounge. "Who do we have here?" he asks.

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