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[dualikey]

hi guys! uhhhh i hope i'm doing this right

my name's sora and some friends and me are trying to build a boat!


we finished a raft first cause it was easier, but i've only seen hand tools laying around so getting the wood and shaping it and stuff sure is taking awhile. we've made a couple before so even though we don't have anything fancy it'll probably just take a few days, but it'd sure go a lot faster with help.

and maybe sandpaper, i only found a little bit.

anyway, is anyone else used to building stuff?
even if you just wanna help out that'd be great! i guess i don't really have a way to pay you or anything, but i'll let you name the boat! that's fair, right? or if we get lots of help we could probably make more than one.

a skiff should be just enough to get around and i figure to hold 2 people it'd have to be like..... 8 feet long, and for 3 maybe at least 12. it's gonna take awhile though! even with my dad and all his stuff back home it was almost 3 whole weeks. i kinda figured if we got lots of hands that we could make up for not having any of the special gadgets. like i heard you can sand wood down by just using rocks inside a shirt! i already have lots of blisters


oh! and riku said it'd be cool to see if anybody knows how to uhhh what was it

make a lens? so we could use
a torch as a spotlight?

i think that part'll be a little further off


[local islander seeks diy enthusiasts and carpenters of dubious skills to build boat and possibly create tiny fleet. he also enjoys long walks on the beach and cakes with fruit inside, not to be confused with fruitcake.]

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[dualikey]

i can go wait by the bonfire, that's pretty easy right? i'll just be a few minutes cause i'm staying near the beach

[originallutece]

[She doesn't reply, which presumably means that yes, she fully expects him by the bonfire, hop-to, boyo. But she'll be waiting there, standing and staring at the fire, smoking a cigarette as she does.]

[dualikey]

[Sora spends so much of his time on the shore these days. It wasn't really on purpose- first he'd been trying to carve out a little niche. In the absence of rooms at the Invincible he and his friends had settled on hanging hammocks and patching up the ceiling inside the boathouse, not a new home, but a place to call their own at least. And after that they'd started on the raft. After that the more ambitious process of figuing out a boat.

It takes a little time for him to make it up the hill and follow the path towards town square. The bonfire becomes a kind of light at the end of the tunnel and Sora doesn't pass anyone along the way, but he hears voices and the unmistakable signs of life that come with a small town. People inside the bar or wandering through the square.] Uh-

[It only occurs to him now that he's closing in on the fire itself that he doesn't really know who he's looking for. And they don't know him either. The tell-tale uncertainty announces itself in the way his gait slows- the way his footfalls even out and he looks from one unfamiliar expanse of courtyard to the other. Until he spots a figure standing by the fire, smoke wafting from a cigarette.]

Hello?

[originallutece]

[It's entirely possible Rosalind, too, has come upon this realization, but if she has, she makes no move to correct it. And look! There he is, having found her, well done Sora you passed the first test, which is definitely a thing.]

Hello.

[She glances down at his hands.]

The boy sans gloves, I presume. Take a seat.