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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[slayer_fray]

There's no a lot Mel can do particalarly better than anyone else right now, but she's moving the heavier boxes and rolls of wallpaper.

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

Jack is putting together kitchen cabinets. Without looking at the instructions. Typical.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Jack" Asar-Suti looks on with something like admiration.

"You're oing that as if you'd done nothing else all your life."

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Holding up the cabinets that need to be screwed to the wall might be an option later; that always needs a strong arm and a steady hand.

And, no, screwing to the wall can be taken at face value in this instance, even from Asar-Suti.

"Hello Mel!" he greets her, blithely and happiyl.

[slayer_fray]

"Hey, Godboy," she says, smirking. "How's things?"

[slayer_fray]

"Isn't the top supposed to be flush?" Mel asks, helpfully.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Things are very nice, especially the fiddly bits of the glass mosaic tiling," he grins back.

'Godboy'. Hrrrm. Well, it's Mel, she's like that. And Asar-Suti is used to answering to all sorts of nicknames by now. Why not 'godboy'?

[slayer_fray]

"Very fancy," Mel agrees, unimpressed but still smirking.

[mnt_raph]

*Raph comes in, decked out in a black tanktop and matching cargo pants. There's a telltale red maskbandana tied around his forehead. He sets down and begins to cut wallpaper. Sure, he doesn't have an artistic bone in his body, but he's got an eye for measure and is real good with knives.*

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

Jack shrugs, "Everybody's got to have a hobby." This is his. Putting things together, creating things seems so simple compared to his other work.

He laughs. "Of course, I'd prefer to be making them from scratch. I used to drive Sarah nuts, when I was home on leave. She told me the house had completely changed shape every time I went back to the Gulf."

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

"And?" He grins, still working. "I modified them a little."

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert (who's been helping out in the staff quarters the whole time, really, shh) isn't paying much heed to the instructions either. This is possibly because his grasp of written English is still sketchy.

"Er...does this look right to you?"

[slayer_fray]

She shrugs.

"OK, it's your call, handyman."

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, quite fancy - I'm going to put it into Gil's new bathroom. As I'm doing the materials, I can make him something special, after all."

Asar-Suti grins. "And it's not all that difficult - it comes pre-assembled, and you've just got to glue it to the floor and put the grouting in."

[slayer_fray]

"Yeah...

"Hey, listen, if you're magicking things up pre-assembled, why didn't you just magic up the entire staff wing pre-assembled?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"How 'scratch' would you go get a tree from the forest, and end up with a table?"

Asar-Suti grins; he sometimes enjoys being literal and a bit perverse.

"But it's good to see somebody know what they're doing - if there's any questions, shall I direct them to you?"

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

Jack grins. He likes Cuthbert, who seems pretty normal from what he can tell (from watching the work Cuthbert's been doing the whole time, really, shh!) Of course, in Milliways, you can't really tell 'normal' from looking.

"Yeah, that looks..." Jacks squints at the boards, something is not fitting together right. "Here." He hands Cuthbert some sandpaper. "Sand down the side of that door there, until it fits together a-okay." He carries on working and mutters, cursing the ineptitude of Swedish furniture companies.

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

Something about Sooty's first comment appeals to the handyman in Jack. He smiles that smartass grin. "Is that a challenge, Deep Purple?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Raph," Asar-Suti grins. "You carve that up nicely - thinking of anybody in particular?"

Raph looks a tad grim, he thinks.

[mnt_raph]

*Without looking up.*

Just thinkin'bout how I hate it when people watch me over my shoulder.

*He waits a beat, before he starts chuckling, then he looks over at Suti. and smiles.*

Nah, I'm just kiddin'. How it goin' man? Comin' along real good in here. Don'cha think?

[mnt_raph]

S'matter Mel, afraid to get your hands a little dirty?

*Raph calls across the room.*

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

Cuthbert's...actually pretty close to normal for, y'know, your average Milliways patron. His background includes the requisite amount of angst, but very little insanity, really.

"Ah, okay. Say thankya." He takes the sandpaper from Jack and goes back to work, which he's doing with the scholarly focus of a kid whose arts-and-crafts project has to come out just right, or everything will be ruined.

[slayer_fray]

"Not at all," she replies brightly. "I'm just concerned about your remaining digits."

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I don't know if there is anything really challenging left here - I am sure I can deal with the mosaic tiling. It's all nicely pre-arranged, after all."

Oh no, no challenge at all.

"Do you need that piece of paper?" Asar-Suti asks, showing the discarded instructions.

[mnt_raph]

I ain't. Did just fine with three before.