tornheart | 10/15 - get a job you losers

Who: Chikusa and anyone who responds to his post
What: Chikusa needs free labor. And this is for a good cause. Mingle log!
When: October 15th
Where: The Hsieh Center, a shopping and art center in Centrium, and, more specifically, the makings of the Lazarus Bell Cafe

Really, the Hsieh Center is a beautiful work of art made into a building. While the outside is as colorful and plant-filled as just abut anything in Eddan (especially the art hub that is Centrium), it's inside that truly signs. Unlike some other buildings with simple floors, the center has a hollow center where you can go to the top floor, look down over the railing, and see the bottom. While everywhere in Eddan is obsessed with vegetation, it really shows here.

So why come to this place?

Well... Chikusa has an idea.

He's already worked with the school for the necessary approval and how funding would work, but the Lazarus Bell Cafe in its current state isn't fit for business just yet. Oh, it's clean, but there's nothing in it, yet. At least, besides machinery that had been left behind because it would have been to much of a pain to take it out of the walls. While some furniture and paltns to start with are being brought up, well...

Yeah. Chikusa doesn't want to do all this work himself.

Anyone who follows the signs that have been set up from the ground floor up that direct any "Green Valley volunteers" signs (small sheep drawn at the very bottom corner of them) will find themselves up at the cafe... and immediately being put to work. There's a lot to set up and make sure on cleanliness, from the bottom floors and some of the plants besides the main trees to the higher up levels including the staff area.

No wonder Chikusa didn't want to deal with this himself.

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... Sort of. It may not work on most people... but I'm usually pretty firm and direct with them, even while I try to be a little bit polite. I don't know. I'm... not exactly experienced with talking to people I don't know unless it's to gather information.

....So we both suck at this.

[That's what he's learning here.]

... You're not wrong.

Edited 2017-11-06 04:17 (UTC)

[They are so screwed]

...Did you have someone who would talk to people instead of you...?

Well I had to talk to people instead of Alain, but usually Takeru handled gathering information. Akari and Onari and Shibuya and Narita helped sometimes, too.

....So you should be better at this.

[chikusa.... no]

In... theory.

... You really dislike people in general, don't you?

Ah... I guess so?

[Chikusa, you just went to sleep in a back room instead of dealing with people- ]

[After a moment of apparent consideration, he tilts his head to the side in a way that could sort of be mistaken for a shrug.]

I'm usually with someone more energetic... So I don't have to...

I can understand that. Takeru's a lot more high energy than I am.

[Takeru come back, he needs you.]

...If this trend keeps up with others who are Awakened.... This is going to be troublesome.

[They need someone with energy. And social skills.]

... It is. I wonder if there's a way to pick out who's going to be an Awakened before they even get the app?

...There's that thing that Luci did... Right?

Do we really want to try to replicate anything Luci's done? We're not even sure how he did it.

We don't really have any other alternative choices, do we? This sort of thing is currently beyond us.

... All right. New question: how do we even get Luci to do it again?

....Harass him, probably.

And we can do that without it backfiring on us?

[Not that he cares all that much, but. You know.]

At worst, he'll do something petty and annoying. We're too valuable to get rid of entirely if he's telling the truth about why he wants us here...

... If. I don't know if we can trust him or anyone here to really tell us the whole truth about why they want anything from us.

We don't have any other resources.... and we haven't found enough to take things into our own hands yet. At least not without overwhelming and needless risk....

... What about those Velvet Room people?

Do you think they're any more trustworthy than Luci?

... That's fair. They're just another option to keep in mind.

You can still ask them if you want... But I have a feeling they're not interested in helping us that way.

Probably not. But we should still chase down whatever lead we can find, right?

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