Road Upkeep 3 - Upkeep Harder - RPLOG
Participants
Date
8/1/2018
Log
Waiting at Zephyr's doorstep is what might appear to be a familiar-looking bunny, depending on your interactions in the Lobby in general. She looks like she's dressed in casual attire, the sorts of clothing she won't mind losing if it comes to that, but it doesn't look like she intends to engage in any naughtiness. Rather, she's surrounded by...cans of...paint, with brushes? And hammers? Weird. Maybe she's the one who sent the comm message.
For the moment, she seems to be waiting for someone, or possibly someONES. Somes-one. However that's said.
Rune made his way through the darkness in a mixture of some old black jeans that he had ready for work. A simple long sleeved black t-shirt adorned his upper body, obviously worn with a bit of age to it. Though with the mention of being good with his hands, he'd brought up some clawless leather gloves for the moment, keeping his nanopack across his shoulders as he headed out from the lobby. A quick check of his comm left him confirming the location before he'd look around. "Looks like this is the right spot." Though upon seeing the familiar-looking bunny he'd blink. "Hey Aaron... Been a long while, good to see you doing well. I see we need... Finesse?"
Skylar steps out of the lobby, the very pregnant dragoness trying to zip up her jacket with one hand and failing, she sighs, her other hand holding an enormous cup of coffee in her hand. She then looks up and down at Aaron and Rune blinking. "Uh, Aaron? What..the hell?" She asks slightly confused with the late night message.
Sami knew she was just right for this kind of mission. The voice on the speaker box thing had specifically asked for anyone that was good with their hands! What luck; it wasn't every day that she could get paid doing something she might otherwise do for free. She hustled over to the entrance of the Zephyr lobby with a light metal jingle of her collar in each step of her otherwise naked form, noting that several figures had already arrived.
A call for agents just before midnight on a calm winter night with weather just a few degrees above freezing... with a situation like that Ebreus couldn't help but take it seeing as he'd be visiting Z tomorrow if he didn't anyway. Whatever had to be done in the den of night was sure to be interesting.
Ebreus flew out to the tower and on the aproach glided down to the street to see the gathering of other agents who could stand the cold and the late hour enough to see why a call had gone out. He lands into a light jog bringing him to a stop close to the group. He wares a white shirt and brown vest above black slacks as he looks over the supplies and gathered Agents. "Hey Rune... and Aaron, right?" he says trying to place those whom he recognized. "What's going on?" he asks.
Niles approaches down the street in an all-black attire; shirt, jacket, pants, and beanie, all heavy enough to stand against the cold and stained slightly in a myriad of colors. His hands are in his pockets and his tail sways gently as he walks up to the crowd of strangers. "So..." He says with a grin, his eyes running over each individual appreciatively, "Is this where the thing is?" His eyebrow lifts as he sees the paint and things on the ground. "What's all this junk?"
Aaron seems cheered by the sight of several faces - some familiar, some new - showing up to her call. Rising to her feet, she points to Skylar. "That's a very good question." she answers, her tone serious as she begins to pace back and forth. "Some of you may be aware of the Town Hall meeting I've called one week from today, regarding the creation of a government independent of corporate interests. This...
...has nothing to do with that." With that, a bucket of paint is hoisted in each hand. "The streets are clear enough, but they still look like somebody went at them with a hundred years of yuck." she explains, tail twitching merrily as she speaks. "So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help me fix things up out there. Paint fire lanes. Paint lane indicators. Medians. Make note of damaged street signs, and where you can, fix them. Make this look like a city again." Each hand offers a roller and bucket of paint, one to Rune, the other to Sami. "It's tough work, but I know we can do it, especially without the hot Californian sun coming down on us. You in?" There seem to be more than enough supplies to go around for all present, if they agree.
Rune blinked incredulously at that the point before that merry wriggle of her hips left him admiring the point. "That I can work on. Lane indicators... Damaged street signs... That I can repair. I assume you have some maps to help where fun-loving deviants decided they would take on a few different street signs and switch things to where they don't belong?" That said, he'd take up four buckets on each arm, serving to extend for the proper road signals to the group, Walking paint stand!
Skylar chugs her coffee and places the cup on the floor before finally zipping up her jacket to protect her from the cold. She blinks at all the other agents. All looking ready to throw down. Only for it to be...maintenance work. She snickers. And nods at Aaron. "Yeah, I can take care of that...since it's dark, it also our chance to see where streetlighting is more needed." She pats her currently heavyset figure. "I was working on the updated maps for parcel service, so, I think I should take care of the more uh, communication and scouting aspects of this noble mission. And...I also hope Aaron has the newer version of those maps, since mine is on my comm unit." She then picks her empty coffee cup...can't be dirtying the streets while cleaning them! Rune get smiled at. "Leave some paint for the others!" She calls out in a playful tone.
The Husky's head tilted, her fluffy form making an adorable image as she is handed painting supplies, the dog's slim form tilting slightly to the side as the weight of the paint can causes her to lean. "P-Paint? I... what?" It takes a few moments of neurons firing away before the canine's nanite addled mind seems to connect with what's been said. Pant... paint... painting... "OH. Ooohhhhhhhh." The husky's eager body seemed to all at once down-shift, ears drooping, curled tail lowering... she really misunderstood what this was about. Poor thing. "I UH... YEAH. PANTING. I LOVE IT. Leave it to me, totally got this." she says.
Ebreus raises an eyebrow as Aaron explains that the job is replicating preP-Day roadmarkings now that there is enough decently layed blacktop that it's even possible to do that. "So replicating old-world roadmarkings. It's an interesting idea, might make reintroducing the use of cars or at least carts to general use easier down the road... no pun intended." he says, grinning. He looks down, and then up, the road before returning his attention back to Aaron, "I'm pretty sure I could fix even thuroughly vandalized street signs." he states.
"Aw, what?" Niles whines as his tail stops wagging. He practically flinches as Aaron holds up the paint buckets. "No, c'mon!" He holds out is hands in defense of the dreaded aspect of hard labor. "You can't trick honest people like this." He looks around dumbfounded as the others all so easily accept this, save the husky. He points at her. "See! Calling for a group in the middle of the night? For agents who are 'good with their hands'?" The wolf makes air quotes. "We get here and it's just painting? This is a ruse! Or a prank of some kind." Then at the mention of street signs, his expression shifts. The furrowed brow and rolling eyes and tight lips the telltale signs of someone trying to remember something.
Aaron smiles cheerfully at the group. "Nope!" she declares, quite candidly. "I have the same resources you do. That's where we come in; we're going to figure out what's misplaced, what's damaged, and what's merely worn from going through a teeny-weeny li'l apocalypse, and we're going to patch up what we can and make note of what we can't. We are the people who will be making the maps you were hoping for!" She certainly seems chipper for this time of night. Weird. At least everyone else seems mostly awake too,
Fortunately, a few other mutants seem to have responded to the call, and the bunny begins passing out cans and instructions to everyone, including some guidance on what fire lanes and medians and markers and such are, what streets should go where, and more. Good thing she's been making the rounds of the city basically forever! Sami's reaction isn't entirely lost on her, and she notes, "I'm going to suggest you pair off to do this, with whomever you're comfortable partnering alongside. For example, Ebreus would do great with someone who's more about painting! Sound good to everyone?" She's no dictator. Feedback is welcome, so long as we all get to work.
Niles, however, gets a raised brow. "Trick? I don't remember promising anything. And I didn't say anything untrue; whether you're on repair duty or painting duty, you need to be good with your hands." Now that she's passed on one pair of paint cans, she puts her hands to her hips. "What exactly were you expecting?"
Rune had to chuckle a bit at the point, though his nose twitched with the lactic bounty that still caught his nose from Skylar. A slight lick of his left canine as he watched that jacket zip up might be caught by passing eyes... and definitely caught by her own after she laughed back at his hefting feat. "I'm here to share. I'll carry for anybody I can just to help there. Set em close and help everybody get to work."
He'd break his focus back over to Ebreus, glad to see him in the midst of this new chill. A light dip of his chin was cast his way before he'd glance back to the buckets across his planked arms. Thankfully, his feline grace allowed him to balance across the multiple cans. "Good to see you again Ebreus. I have to learn more about those skills as you go. I've been studying quite a bit but I'd do well to see things in practice to get better."
He'd pause a second, casting his ruby hues back over to Aaron and Niles in contest. "Hey... No one said that you can't put your talents to use to help alleviate people that are tired after work you know. Massage is usually best after labor. You tend to enjoy the sensation of release a little more after tension no?"
Skylar shoots a thumbs up at Sami. "Yep! Painting! Did you..." She drops the line of tought as she looks at Niles. "Well...someone has to do it sometime right?" As Aaron mentions the lack of extra maps or even updated ones, she simply nods. "Understood, my work is halfway done from my time with the Parcel Service, so...I'll be the pointwoman going around and checking what needs to be done and the complexity of each task...I'll also mark any dangerous stuff. Lets just exchange our contact information and then I'll go my merry way~ Anyone disagrees?" She looks around, expecting everyone to agree, she wasn't so sure she could handle the more 'hands on' stuff. As Rune licks his teeth...she winks back at him...she wasn't sure why, but it felt right. "That's...really nice of you. Ah!" She adresses everyone now. "I'm Skylar by the way, pleasure to meet you all!"
:lets out a cute affirmative woof to Skylar's proclamations and trundles off carrying her can of paint over near Rune's area, carefully watching him set up his materials so that she might hope to figure out what they're supposed to be doing without looking like a complete idiot. If she had to ask for help that would be the wooooooooorst... "Just uh, gimme a second here, I'll be right with you all in a moment. Just need to uh... stretch first." The husky was certain they believed her.
Ebreus raises an eyebrow at Niles as he seems unhappy about why the call was sent out. "We got a call in the middle of the night from a source scarce on the details of the job. This could've easily been anything... heck it still could be a diversion from something happening elseware." he says grinning and sounding a bit more amused with the last part.
He then turns his attention to Rune when he is adress, "Yeah. It's nice to have people you know on wierd calls. Well we might be able to achieve two things at once then. Fixing up part of the city and a practical demonstration of nanomagic." Right when he's finished his reply to Rune and Skylar speaks up she gains his attention.
He listens to the plan before replying, "I guess you'd be able to scout well if you're a courier. I don't have much experience painting but I can replace signs damaged to, and including, entirely annihilated. I could also help with danger removal once we've fixed what we can in the safe areas." he replies. Right as Sami excuses themselves he says, "Oh, anyone have problems with me communicating though telepathy?"
