Bulding Site II.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Asar-Suti is in the half-finished staff quarters again.

He's been conjuring things for quite a while now: wallpaper, paint, glue, doorknobs, tiles, washbasins, rolled-up carpeting, DIY floowboards, what have you, he's busy making it.

And a few cardboard packages of purportedly easy-to-build kitchen cabinets, for those of the staff who get their own small kitchens in their quarters.

He's got a tan bathtub and nice, fiddly brown-and-green mosaic tiling already secreted away, set aside for Gil's future bathroom.

The place is busy; people are bustling about, demanding more of this or that, asking each other how something works, and lending each other hands, arms and other body parts for the more arduous tasks.

The goal of finishing this weekend looks quite realistic.

[[OOC: This is the second of the building site posts that I'd suggested; if your character volunteered to help or just likes to lend a hand, come on in - fly-by posts to establish your pup was there, long chats and brief interludes all equally welcome!]]

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[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"You do those precise little list things so well, just the sort of thing that I'm rubbish at," Asar-Suti muses. "It's good that there are so many different people working here. They fit well with each other."

Asar-Suti discovers teamwork, part 2.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jack_oneill/]

Jack powers up the drill, and gets the same look in his eye that he gets when holding an MP5 gun, or a Jaffa staff weapon. "Sweet."

"Couldya hold that cabinet up against the wall for me?"

[mnt_raph]

*Raph looks up, and cocks his head to one side.*

Well for one, my brother is a turtle an' Indy's human. For another, if I'm learnin'bout it at a party, an' not before hand...he's gonna get a beat down that's for damn sure.

[prettyhelen.livejournal.com]

Helen Laughs. "I guess it's just what I am good at, but thank you! It is nice to have so many people here. The help is just incredible!"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"And what were you hiding behind me for - I don't want wallpaper paste in may hair, either!" Asar-Suti squeaks, trying to get out of the way.

"Throwing the paint is a very novel approach to decoration," he adds.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"We're really going to get finished by the weekend," Asar-Suti says, gleefully. "And then people can start moving into their new quarters."

He sighs a bit; Gil will move out of Asar-Suti's room, then. Having Gil and his chest of drawers there was - cozy.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Course I can."

Asar-Suti holds up the cabinet. "Will you need a spirit level for that?"

All builders and carpenters he's ever heard of are almost obsessive about their spirit levels.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jack_oneill/]

He winks. "Will it be purple?"

[prettyhelen.livejournal.com]

Helen grins. "I think the staff will like their new quarters. The seem really nice..."

She checks off a piece on her list and moves on to the next cabenet.

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert hasn't exactly been listening, but. well, he's got good ears. Also, his mun figures he had to find out sometime.

So he now glances up at Raph, and blinks.

"Oh, so you're the ex-turtle?"

[mnt_raph]

*Raph looks wary. I mean, after that guy reacted last night...there's no telling what this kid'll do. So Raph sizes him up, and prepares for anything. Being ninja means being able to use anything for a weapons. This includes wallpaper and glue if need be.*

Yeah. Who's askin'?

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert smiles wryly. "Cuthbert Allgood. And no, I'm not going to react all that badly. I've had some time to adjust to idea of antrhopomorphic turtles. Including former ones."

[mnt_raph]

*Raph wipes a hand on the leg of his pants and offers it to Cuthbert.*

Raphael. We get all kinds o' reactions. Last night, I thought the back of this guy's head was gonna come right off.

*There's a special hand gesture that goes with Head Explodie*

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

"Hm...which guy would that have been?" Cuthbert asks, shaking the offered hand. "A gunslinger, by any chance? Because if I hadn't heard about it from Meg in the course of another discussion entirely, my own head might have gotten a bit explodey."

[mnt_raph]

*Raph nods*

By the name of Roland. He got all...pale. Then he smiled. Creepiest thing I seen in a long time. He always like that?

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert grins suddenly. "Afraid he is, actually. It's not all that bad once you get to know him."

[mnt_raph]

Heh, yeah I bet. It was like seein' Spock smile. Just wrong on many levels.

*He reaches his clean hand into one of the pockets on the leg of his cargo pants, and pulls out a picture. There are four anthropomorphic turtles and one anthropomorphic rat. They're sitting or standing around a couch. Handing the picture to Cuthbert.*

I showed him this. Wasn't sure if he was gonna shoot me or somethin'. I mean, I seen some of the things you guys fight, an' was thinkin' maybe somethin' that looked like us ate his dog or somethin'.

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert glances at the picture. He didn't know there was a rat, too. "Um. Well. I don't suppose you'd know anything about the Guardians of the Beam?"

[mnt_raph]

Not unless it's Jim Beam, no.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Only if you want it to - I think most of those in this place are greenish. I don't conjure it, just make it come, you know - we already have a lot of them."

As he's holding on to the cabinet, Asar-Suti tries another magical tradition; he says 'Accio spirit-level', and one comes flying.

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

"Well, they're, um, sort of gods in our world. One of them's a giant turtle. Another's a giant rat. The, uh...the Turtle supposedly created the universe."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jack_oneill/]

"Whoa." Jack ducks, and the spirit-level goes whizzing by. Field-soldier's instincts and all that.

[mnt_raph]

*Raph blinks and lets this all sink in.*

I'm pretty sure that ain't us. Only thing we create is really big messes. Though, I wouldn't put it past Splinter to create a universe and not tell us.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes they will - that's why we're doing it, after all. because it#s really not a good thing to let them live any old how, considering how much they do for us. And other than the guest rooms, the staff quarters are all solid and fixed."

Asar-Suti hands her the next list.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"There you are - spirit level. It wouldn't have hit you!"

But perhaps where Jack comes from, flying spirit-levels are potentially dangerous?