Marathon & Working Bee! [OPEN]

[dancing_pierrot]

Who: Anyone and everyone who'd be interested in helping out! [EVENT INFO HERE]
When: Backdated to July 22nd for the Marathon (starting at noon and going until just before sirens), July 23rd & 24th for the Working Bee (during daylight hours).
Where: At a route that starts from the sector 11 docks and finishes one of the western beaches / the Tower

Comments

Afternoon

[madeinoblivion]

[It's a warm day, and Joe shows up after late lunch (which is breakfast, for the night-shifters) in a sleeveless shirt and pants cut off at the knee.]

Can I do painting?

[dancing_pierrot]

Ah, yes, there are definitely some rooms and even hallways that are in definite need of a new coat of paint. It’s chipping everywhere. [She closes her eyes quickly, the expression on her face contorting as though she is remembering an especially painful memory.] Have you done much painting before?

[madeinoblivion]

Not really- There's like a roller, and it gets dipped in a pan after you put plastic down, right?

Afternoon

[violins_rain]

Oh hey there. Maybe you can help me out?

[Rain’s been painting since the morning and his apron is stained with a variety of pastel colors. The roller he's holding is currently dipped in canary yellow]

There’s an extra roller in the pan, someone just left for work.

Re: Afternoon

[madeinoblivion]

Oh! Hey, thanks-

[With a casual grin, he reaches for the spare, taking his time to coat the roller.]

I'm Joe. You must be one of the newer people, 'cause I don't remember seeing you around before. Where are we starting?

[violins_rain]

Nice to meet you, Joe. My name's Rain. [He offers a shake with his free hand]

Yup, I'm new, and I'm probably even going to get to paint my own room today if we keep up this pace. We're finishing off this room over here actually...

[Stepping carefully through a doorframe, Rain gestures Joe to follow him into an apartment where a few others have started the living room area]

You might want to grab an apron, too, or else paint'll get all over your legs pretty fast.

[He points at an apron discarded by the doorway, left over from the person who had gone off to work]

[madeinoblivion]

Rain? [Well that's a tough name to forget. Firm handshake back at'cha.

The Tower apartments looked different, bigger than he'd remembered, with some of the furniture pushed back and dropcloths put down. He was about to shrug off the offered apron, but then tied it on anyway.]

Sooo, I just....paint anywhere on a wall that's not done yet?

[violins_rain]

Basically. Hmm, well, first things first, you always want to make sure the paint can’s sealed up while you’re not watching it. And then...

[He starts painting semi-high up on the wall to illustrate as he explains, his height helping him reach around the top of the doorway.]

Start in the center of the wall, and use nice, long Z-strokes and then work your way out. Don’t press the roller too hard on the wall, or else you’ll use all your paint up fast. And try to make sure you cover the area while the paint’s still wet, or else the roller will pick up the drying bits. That’s about it. The trick is to be patient and then it’s easy.

It’s actually really relaxing.

[madeinoblivion]

[But Joe takes to the job eagerly, perhaps with just a little less patience than he ought to, happy to slather the wall with brighter splashes of color, working in Z's as shown.]

I came by to help and work, not to relax! If I wanted to relax, I would have just stayed home.

[violins_rain]

Haha, you're right. I suppose I'm already an addled old man.

[Rain takes a secret dig at himself. His section of the wall is looking quite smooth and even now.]

If you want to, you can use the extension pole and paint the ceiling if that's "more exciting".

[madeinoblivion]

Ceiling's just white, right?

That's a little boring. I'll stay doing this-

....So what kind of world are you from?

[violins_rain]

You kids are so persnickety these days.

[It's clear Rain's just joking.]

What kind of world? Hmm...

[He reloads the roller in the tray.]

A very normal one. People live and go about their days. The biggest, wealthiest cities are similar to this one, but the rest of the country I live in is mostly rural. We have cars and TV, too. The language is different though.

So what's different about your world than this one?

[madeinoblivion]

[He shrugs, keeping his strokes mostly! even]

It wasn't really much of a world.

It was sort of a castle, out in the middle of nowhere, Riku said.

[violins_rain]

[That’s a very strange answer. Rain processes that a bit. Is it possible to come from a place that’s just a castle? Or is he misinterpreting and what Joe really means is that he had always lived in one place?]

So how long have you been here, Joe? You must be pretty used to this city by now. I haven’t gotten to see all of it, yet, myself.

Is Riku someone from your world, too?

(ooc: just a heads-up, I will be on hiatus starting Aug. 7 for a month)

[madeinoblivion]

Riku's my...uh-

[This was always awkward, and Joe always spits this part out fast, because it's easier than the truth, that he's a replica.] He's my twin brother.

...And yeah, I've been here since last March. I was on the 12th floor, back when I lived here. It's hard to believe it's been a year and a half since I was going up and down all those stairs!

[violins_rain]

Ah, your twin’s here with you? That’s good. Well, I mean, good that you’re here with someone you know already. I think I’m the only one from my world here, and I’ve been checking the NV every day...

[Rain accidentally overshoots his mark on the wall when he hears what floor Joe lived on.]

Really? I can’t imagine climbing all those stairs at least twice a day, every day.

[Rain lives in a clock-tower, so he’s no stranger to stairs, but the fifth floor was at least reasonable. Being lazy and jumping out his window to get down was also less conspicuous from the 5th floor than leaping from the 12th would be.]

Maybe Ms. Franziska can also get that elevator fixed somehow, [a chuckle]

So you’ve been here quite a while then. What have you been up to?