SUBJECT: Cleanup Recruiting Drive

[no_vampires_plz]

There's a large poster on the bulletin board.
There's also a large post on the virtual bulletin board.
They both say the same thing, give or take a word or two.

CURRENT crepuscularScintillation [CCS] RIGHT NOW opened memo on board MAGICAL MYSTERY BAR VIRTUAL BULLETIN BOARD

CCS: Attention, residents and patrons of Milliways: the Milliways cleanup effort needs YOU!
CCS: While the main bar area is mostly restored, other parts of the building are in desperate need of attention. These include the rental rooms, the library, the gymnasium, and the greenhouse by the lake, not to mention the landscaping by the lake itself. Cleanup is underway, but requires more horsepower manpower than we currently have.
CCS: As Official Cleanup Organizer, I call on you, the patrons, to do your part to help with the cleanup effort. If you can plant new grass, mend a broken window, patch a hole in a wall, reinforce a splintered support beam, or even just push a broom or mop a floor, we need your help!
CCS: Compensation is possible but must be negotiated with the head bartender, Sallie Reynolds.
CCS: If you're interested, respond here, leave a note for me with Bar, or look for the purple unicorn. I'll be here all day.
CCS: Together, we can make Milliways whole again.
CCS: Signed, Twilight Sparkle

[ooc: Respond in person or via T-Minus, whichever floats your boat. Open forever.]

[tinytags: Charity Carpenter, Tommy Gavin]

Comments

[paladins_lady]

A note has been left with Bar.

To Twilight Sparkle:

I'd be happy to help. I'm afraid I don't know carpentry or masonry (at least not yet), but I can rake, sweep, mop up, re-plant and re-pot.

Where can I find the tools to clean up and re-plant--and the fresh sod? And do you want me to start with the landscaping or the greenhouse?

Sincerely,


Charity

[no_vampires_plz]

Dear Charity:

Given the weather conditions, I would recommend working on the greenhouse first. The landscaping can wait until it's less likely to snow again.

The gardening and landscaping supplies are in the back of the greenhouse--fortunately, they were stored in a lower, sheltered area that survived the disaster mostly intact. Anything that you need that isn't there may be borrowed from Bar herself on request.

Attached is an inventory of existing supplies in the greenhouse. Please note what you have used so that the list may be updated as we go along. I'll be visiting periodically to check on your progress.

Thanks in advance.

Yours,
Twilight Sparkle

[paladins_lady]

Dear Twilight Sparkle:

Okay. Greenhouse it is.

Got some work clothes from Bar that fit. (Yay!) Heading out to the greenhouse now.

And thank you. Glad to know I can help.

Sincerely,


Charity

[ever_lovin]

Ben noticed the note when he was putting his own up and so looked around to see if he could spot a...he looks at the note again to make sure...purple unicorn.

Man, Val would be all over that, he thinks as he looks. 'Course she might try ta take the poor thing apart and study it.

[no_vampires_plz]

Said purple unicorn can be found at a well-lit table in the center of the room, writing furiously with a quill pen on parchment. Both the qill pen and the parchment are floating in midair, surrounded by a pinkish aura similar to the one around the unicorn's horn.

[ever_lovin]

Of course, it's a little pony, Ben thinks on his way over and the narrator promises Ben will not say anything like that out loud.

He clears his throat when he gets near and asks, "'Xcuse me, are you Twilight?"

[no_vampires_plz]

To her credit, Twilight only double-takes slightly at Ben's appearance. "That's me. Are you interested in volunteering for the cleanup effort?"

[ever_lovin]

"Yeah," he replies a little embarrassed. "I've done construction work in the past and I can lift a heck of a lot. Even have a hard hat though I don't really need it."

The pony's cuteness factor is almost as bad as the Impossible Man's obnoxious factor but Ben solders on.

[no_vampires_plz]

If you think Twilight is ridiculously adorable, wait until you meet Fluttershy.

"Excellent! We still need to clear debris out of all the rooms past 2409, and then there's all the repairs that need to be done..."

[ever_lovin]

"Okay, sounds easy enough. Do you have any idea where I should put the scrap? Outside or...?"

[no_vampires_plz]

"There's a dumpster at the nearer end of the hallway. The cleaning staff empty it every night," says Twilight. "I can requisition smaller transport bins if you need them."

[works_in_space]

Jim sees the note on the board. Ignores the part about a "purple unicorn" (or maybe just can't really see it). And decides that this would make a nice change of pace.

Dear Twilight Sparkle:

Please consider my limited construction skills available. I rarely use them but I think I can still be handy.

Captain James Kirk

[no_vampires_plz]

Dear Captain Kirk:

Thank you for your response. I am still compiling a list of which repairs need to be made to which rental rooms; I'll get you a starting list ASAP.

Yours,
Twilight Sparkle

[gavin62truck]

Tommy stops at the bar to get a cup of coffee. The regular kind. Brown-flavored. Mmm, brown-flavored.

And it's kind of hard to miss the poster with the urgent-looking message.

"Cleanup effort, blah blah blah, blah blah blah," he mutters to himself as he skims the message. Then aloud: "Purple unicorn-? What the hell is a Twilight Sparkle?"

Nevertheless, he might consider helping out. But he has no idea how to leave a message at the Bar for this Twilight Sparkle thing. Hell, he doesn't even do e-mail. He glances around, a little befuddled.

[no_vampires_plz]

Somebody else has noticed Tommy noticing the poster. Or, should we say, somepony else.

"Are you interested in signing up?" inquires a voice from about waist level.

[gavin62truck]

Startled, he turns toward the voice.

".......?!"

He sniffs his coffee, wondering if it's been spiked, but tiny purple unicorns aren't usually the sort of thing he hallucinates about.

"Uh, well, I-- I guess? I mean, uh, sure. Sure, why not? What exactly would you need me to do?"

[no_vampires_plz]

"Well, that depends on what skills you have," says the pony, deliberately ignoring the human's alarmed reaction. "Do you have any experience in carpentry? Landscaping? Plumbing? Electrical repairs? If nothing else, we can always use more people to sweep and scrub..."

[gavin62truck]

"Well, uh, I'm pretty handy with basic stuff like household repairs. But I also have lots of experience in big cleanup jobs, y'know, like moving and discarding debris, checking for structural damage, that kinda thing. I'm a firefighter, see, so since I wasn't around for this whole big apocalypse-thing, I figured I could maybe, I dunno, lend a hand."

He's actually sincere about this now. Being sincere to a tiny purple pony is not something Tommy has ever done.

[no_vampires_plz]

"Oh, perfect!" The unicorn produces a clipboard and quill from her saddlebag that she's totally been wearing this whole time shut up, which levitate in front of her in a cloud of pinkish light. "We've only worked on the rooms up through 2409, the rest still need clearing and damage assessment. You can go on the advance team, how does that sound?"

[gavin62truck]

Floating clipboard and quill. Okay. Just go with it, just go with it.

"Sure, sounds great to me. Sign me up! My name's Tommy, Tommy Gavin."

[no_vampires_plz]

"And I'm Twilight Sparkle," says the pony. "Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Gavin." She offers a hoof to shake.

[gavin62truck]

He...shakes the hoof offered.

"Right, so you're Twilight Sparkle. Okay! Nice to meet you, too. And please, just call me Tommy. I ain't my old man, heh. So, I guess I should just keep an eye out for an assignment roster or something when you get everything sorted?"

[no_vampires_plz]

"Actually, you can start right away if you want," says Twilight. "Ben Grimm's working on the north side of the hall, so you can get started on the south."

[gavin62truck]

"Oh, okay, well, I'll just get some gear from back home and then I can go see what's what. Consider it done!"

He'll keep an eye out for this Ben Grimm fella. Shouldn't be hard to miss, right?

Also, Tommy vaguely realizes with some amusement that Twilight Sparkle was just the kind of thing that his younger daughter wanted for her past three birthdays and Christmases.

[no_vampires_plz]

Twilight nods. "Just keep me up to date on which rooms are cleared."

[visible_sariel]

Sariel spots and reads the notice left on the bulletin board. The cleanup effort part of the message seems not only straightforward, but a very good idea besides. One particular line does make her blink before looking around, though. A purple unicorn?

... Multiple realities *do* have access to Milliways. This is not new. All the same, this might take a second to process fully.

Yes, she's now looking for a purple unicorn in the area.

[no_vampires_plz]

Said purple unicorn is sitting in the middle of the bar, at a well-lit table covered with neat stacks of paper. She's currently making notes on a clipboard with a quill pen, without touching either one.

[visible_sariel]

... Oh. That purple unicorn.

That being an apparently telekinetic purple unicorn.

Blink.

Sariel's doing her best to take this entire situation in stride. She's understandably a little tentative when she approaches, though. You can only stifle so much reaction. "Excuse me?"

((OOC: I say sorry, embarrassedly, for the epic slow here. I had zero muse. If you're up for picking this up, I am.))

[no_vampires_plz]

The little unicorn looks up. "Yes?"

{OOC: Not a problem. I've been there.]

[visible_sariel]

Sariel's sounding a bit tentative when she speaks, as well. "I've just read the notice posted over--" her head tilts in the direction of the bulletin board. "Are you Twilight Sparkle?"

To her credit, she only hesitates slightly on the name.

[no_vampires_plz]

"That's me." She turns in her seat to face Sariel directly. "Were you interested in signing up?"

[visible_sariel]

If Sariel is either a little startled or a little relieved by the unicorn's directness, she's actively trying not to show it. "Yes, I am," she answers. "My name is Sariel Rager; pleased to meet you." How do you shake hands (hooves?) with a pony? Sariel does offer a hand, but she's actively watching for clues that the gesture isn't translating.

"I don't have much experience with repairing structural damage," she goes on, "but if the greenhouse or gardens still need work..."

[no_vampires_plz]

Twilight places her forehoof in the offered hand and gives it a firm shake. "We could use some more help with the greenhouse," she says. "The gardens should probably wait until the weather warms up a little more, though."

[visible_sariel]

That was surprisingly free of cultural confusion! Score one for Milliways: shaking hands with a sentient pony doesn't happen every day, even in Sariel's universe.

"I'd be happy to help," Sariel says. "What sort of damage has been done to the greenhouse?" Slight pause. "Do you know, I don't think I've actually been inside the greenhouse before."

[no_vampires_plz]

Twilight turns back to the stacks of paper on the table and (telekinetically) starts shuffling through them before pulling out two sheets for Sariel. "Here's a list of all the repairs that need to be made, and an inventory of gardening supplies as of this morning. A human named Charity is working there too, you'll want to coordinate with her. I assume you know where the greenhouse is?"

[visible_sariel]

"I do," Sariel answers, accepting the two sheets of paper (and doing her best to take the telekinesis in stride, really, though she's definitely noticed it.) "I just haven't had occasion to be inside before this." Beat. "Thank you."

Whether that's for the pair of lists, the information about Charity, or the whole thing isn't clear. She sounds as though she means it, though.

((OOC: Can we fade here? Sorry, Leesha...))