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[audio] @silver; Backdated to the fifth [open]

[Someone had been around the docks when...all of that happened, broken an arm, and spent the following days snugly shut up tight in her house. Not a weakness she wants on display, of course, but she's angry, and having been in no useful condition for supply-regathering isn't much of a boon to her pride. But a handful of days shut up are little better.]

Couple things, just, quick.

Couldn't stick around the ferry and people's chief concern seems to have been food, which is fine, but I'm wondering if anyone got gardening supplies, and if those made it? I've mentioned it in passing to a handful, but especially given the exact worry I had was just proven right, no excuse to not be proactive anymore. We have good gardening types here, and it's better for the town as a whole if we can set a couple plots up...immediately? Fast as possible. A couple of small greenhouses are kind of a must at this point too. I'm not really up to building and clearing condition right now, so anybody brave enough to turn soil and move rocks and handle basic construction, drop me a line. People I talked to before, uh, the same I guess? We can divvy up who goes where, five people per square foot's a bad spread of resources.

Second thing - I'm getting the impression nobody's liking those flowers very much. [She's...largely unperturbed. Distressingly accustomed, at this point. Were the month not getting off on such a broken foot she'd be amused.] If it's crippling and you're desperate for something, stop by and I can give you a little cone to breathe through. Plague doctor-style, but tiny. Cute. [Deadpan:] You'll look like little birds, and it'll smell like pine.

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I can only supervise the building of the greenhouses right now, but I still can help with the designs like we talked about.

I'll help with construction. Shaping lumber is gonna be slow going, though. We got far enough to make two rowboats, so it's possible.

What about the rest of the materials?

[ Like... plastic sheeting or something, right? ]

Knew someone who used to garden. I think she said something about eggshells and fish bones being good for the soil. Is that true?

I can't say I know a lot about gardening, but I can certainly help with any heavy lifting you might need. I'm not too bad with a hammer either -- if you need help with constructing buildings anyway.

Just let me know where I need to be.

I can help with gardening!

[ daylight practically hollers that out because !!! other garden buddies!!

but, okay, alright, cool- daylight tries to dial back his enthusiasm as he continues, ] I can garden. I, um, kind of specialise in flowers and herbs but I can help out with vegetation. And I actually asked Rastus for some gardening supplies and everything! I managed to get them out of the waters, more or less safe.

[ ... though some seed packets ended up drowning. rip, flowers... ]

Plague doctor?

[The voice is young, and the way she speaks slightly stilted, as if her mouth forms words she doesn't quite know. She stumbles over plague, to be precise, less so over doctor. One of those she clearly doesn't understand, and there's puzzlement in her voice.]

Are those... birds, from here?

Pine? Really?

[So not able to hold back those blissful giggles.]

So they're pine cones?

There's some manner of gardening supplies in the store, if you haven't checked it out yet. I don't know anything about gardening, though I'm happy to learn if you need help with any of the plots.

The mask is a good idea. ( too bad he won't ask for one OR brave the outdoors and losing his lunch to try and make one himself. )

[Every day (24-hour period) since the ferry, the Soldier has come to Handler Misty's door twice a day, every 12 hours, like clockwork. Every 12 hours, it would knock on the door twice and wait for 5 very long minutes for her to answer it. Then it would make a circuit around her house twice to make sure all her windows are secure and no holes had appeared in her wall, and tidy up anything she left outside. Then it would stare sadly at the front window for another 2 minutes, and finally slouch off.

This is its punishment for the ferry. It understands this. Even if it is a terrible, awful, worse-than-electrocution punishment. (Okay, maybe not worse. But close to as bad.) It deserves this. Misty is the only one even bothering to punish it, so it's almost comforting, even if it's not electrocution.

Today, still a little shaky from the previous day's memory malfunctions and the remaining awful smell that it's half-sure at any given moment will cause another malfucntion, it is starting the routine again. It doesn't have much hope that Handler Misty will let up on its punishment, but it's still going to try, because its handler needs to know it will still support her in anything she wishes to do, even if it is being punished.]

You know I don't even mind the smell and I'd like one of those. I just like the way they sound.

I'd like to help. I don't know much about construction, but I can do some heavy lifting and I have some experience farming.

I wasn't down by the docks, so I'm well enough to help. I can't say I know very much about gardening, but I could handle soil and rocks.

[This is... a sympathy offer, after the Ferry Business got so many people. He'll do weird Stand digging!]

I managed to salvage some seeds from the wreck but they're not in terribly good shape, though I do have plenty that I've been saving!

[ it's a bit of a late response too, even in his usual sense of promptness, but he manages to reply a day or so later. ]

Hey, sorry. I've been. Mm. Under bed arrest? Disgruntled roommate. Anyway, still here to help. I have a nice seed library built up now, so that should help. I can talk to our carpenter volunteer again, see if greenhouses would be less daunting for him with more help. Materials shouldn't be an issue. Insulated glass wouldn't be too difficult for me.

I've managed to scout a few plots that look good for outdoor placements. Not sure about where would be best for the greenhouses though since I don't know shit about what counts as good foundation or not.

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