11 . clockhouse rebuilding!

[clocktowers]

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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[eudaimonikos]

[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.

( design )

[cryptograms]

[ 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.

[eudaimonikos]

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?

[cryptograms]

Hard to say if they didn't mind it or just got used to it.

[ Either way, Ford thinks his soundproofing idea is a solid one. As for the facade... ]

I think the first step should be making it less green.

[eudaimonikos]

Not really relevant for the plans, but - yeah, you're right.

[He'll write that down - "not green"]

Design

[onekindsoul]

[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?

[eudaimonikos]

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.

[onekindsoul]

I'd probably have to custom make my own. But it would be worth it.

[Yeah. Look she was not sentencing herself to a future on the couch by trying to get around Ange's rules here. She would take the L.]

Yeah! Back home- Oz had like a big office in the middle of a clock tower back in our school. Maybe we could do something that doubled as that too?

[Her good eye brightens when he mentions that.]

Yeah, yeah! We could put like little windows in the clock faces. And I could snipe monsters and stuff from there.

[eudaimonikos]

That's a fun place to put a study. As long as there's no bells on it.

[Sitting in the middle of a clocktower as it chimes? Terrible.]

And sure, nothing wrong with a watchtower in a place like this.

[onekindsoul]

Eh- He's old. Old people love old timey bells, right?

[Ruby. That is not how that works.]

Might help us spot people who want to burn down our house before they're inside next time around.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, who the hell did that, anyway?

[onekindsoul]

Complicated answer.

Well not really complicated- The ring leader took ownership over the network. Their name is Chara. The little toddler with the attitude problem.

A few others were involved too but- They're reasons were a little varied or affected by the month at large.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, I was dealing with my own stuff then.

[Which he assumes is why he didn't see that post. Probably for the best - if he had, presuming it happened before the Beast incident, he'd probably have just gone and Beasted out over that. Which really wouldn't have helped anything house-wise.]

How the hell did a toddler set fire to your house?

[onekindsoul]

I mean it was kind of a chaotic month, I don't blame you for that.

[She wasn't about to hold it against anyone there.]

I mean to be fair, they had some help. Vira-Lorr was pretty heavy on the corruption and Reaper was kind of upset with some of my housemates. That and a friend who was going through it thought the best way to protect me was to kidnap me during the fight.

...That's at least part of the story about how it happened.

[eudaimonikos]

...geez.

[Yeah! That's a lot! Michael looks a little abashed, but he's willing to admit:]

I was, uh, having trouble with the corruption too. That's why I wasn't around.

design

[entreats]

[ You can bet that Ange is going to stop by the drafting table sooner or later.

.. or rather, she shows up there later. She's probably been busy helping direct some other people into helping first, and - perhaps more importantly - she first has to make sure some other people stop by Michael first.

Just so she can supervise. Not over Michael's work, mind you, since she trusts him. But Ange shows up with her hands on her hips all the same to ask: ]

Did anyone make a weird request?

[ She will throttle them if necessary. ]

You know you're basically obligated to tell me if someone did. It's the friend code. [ Is it, Ange. Is it really. ]

[eudaimonikos]

A clock tower? Is that weird?

[No weirder than anything about the previous house, in Michael's opinion!]

[entreats]

Passable.

[ That seems to be her quick judgement. After all, it's not like their previous house didn't basically look like a clock tower either.. Or the house the Adams Family resides in.. ]

I guess having clocks all over the place is unavoidable anyway with Ozpin being involved. That guy seems to have some weird fascination with them. [ Don't say it like that, Ange.

Though it is objectively a little weird. ]

I'm not even sure why, honestly.

[eudaimonikos]

[Shrug!]

It's a dramatic touch. Though I think you could have one on the house without it being...the entire house. A smaller one, maybe. [...] Though Ruby wants to have a sniper's nest in it.

[entreats]

[ There's a sharp intake of breath when Michael arrives at that last part. ]

Hey, you didn't mention that part to me! [ .. please, Ange, it's since you only just asked about it.. You can't expect Michael to tell you that much at once!

And yet she's instantly pouty all the same.. ]

I do hope she at least considered that from the perspective of keeping everyone in the house safe, and not just because she thought it'd be fun..

[ Because with a girl like Ruby, who is both protective and a total ditz, that honestly could go either way. ]

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, yeah. Said she'd shoot any more toddlers who came to commit arson.

[Not exactly what she said...but not really that far off either!]

[entreats]

[ It wouldn't be the weirdest thing Ruby has ever said.

Which is why Ange is instantly willing to believe it when it comes out of Michael's mouth. ]

I was thinking more about something a little more elegant like a ward spell.. [ Even if Ange may not be good at those. But she's got witch friends to ask for help! ] How is anyone supposed to get all the way up there to the sniper spot though? Are you just going to make a set of really tall stairs or something?

[ Hey, Michael's the architect.

Ange knows nothing about designing houses. She will gladly let the expert speak. ]

[eudaimonikos]

...I mean, yeah. That's usually how people get up towers. Unless you want an elevator...?

[He wasn't going to make it tall to the point that you couldn't climb it! Though, he supposes, shit happens. Maybe elevators are a good idea nonetheless.]

[entreats]

I'm not the one who's going to sit up there with a sniper rifle. [ Just saying!!

Though honestly, Ange is pretty sure it's not like Ruby would mind stairs either. That girl has way too much energy for her own good in the first place. ]

It's just that stuff gets so weird here sometimes [ and even more so with some of her housemates' suggestions.. ] that it's kind of refreshing to think about something as normal as stairs for once. Instead of.. you know. Some weird blood teleportation device or whatever.

[ Yes, lamps exist here, but don't ruin the point like that by thinking too hard about it. It's just about his place's ridiculous aesthetic and inventions. ]

[eudaimonikos]

You could always install one of those later.

[Joking! He's joking!]