awashlogs | Event Two.

Dust if you must, but bear this in mind,
Old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go, as go you must,
You yourself will make more dust!

t hasn’t been long since you’ve arrived. The dust has settled, so to speak. And there is… a lot of dust. The town is in disrepair. Some efforts have gone into making it a bit better, but it’s going to be a lot of work, there’s no denying that. There are only a few livable buildings right now, and even those are prone to letting the rain in, or missing stairs to the clearly present second floor, floors crumbling or creaking.

So it is that after a week or so to get used to their new living quarters.... There’s finally activity on the forum. Activity that doesn’t come from any of the people living here.

There’s a stickied forum post, and in it, a single post, from a user FFFFFF:

All-endearing cleanliness,
Virtue next to godliness,
Easiest, cheapest, needfull’st duty,
To the body health and beauty;
Who that’s human would refuse it,
When a little water does it?

Requirements: Everyone

They only have a bit of time to try to figure out what, exactly, it wants from them -- and then things begin to happen.

Welcome to Awash's first event log, everyone! Further information on this event can be found here at the OOC post.

You are welcome to start your own posts or logs for this event as well. If there are any questions, please ask them here. Thank you!

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... Well. There is something, but...

[She hesitates to say it.]

... I'll sound insane.

Maribelle-san, I think you're probably one of the more sensible people I've met here so far.

[Seriously.]

It's okay. I won't think you're insane.

... I want to take that as a compliment, but that's still very worrisome to hear...

[Sigh. She draws herself up.]

Well, my housemates and I have been cleaning everything, spic and span. Naturally, this is is tiresome work, so we went to bed early last night. That's when...

... That's when I could have sworn I heard a voice coming from the table.

[It's both a compliment and worrisome... that's the most true way to look at it.

But.

Oh.

That's...]

From the table... [He doesn't look disbelieving, at least, though he has been lucky enough to not be plagued by the furniture voices. Yet. His ignorance will not last long though.] ... What did it say?

[She looks away anyway, still humiliated beyond measure to be admitting this. If he did laugh, he would get a good smack.]

... It was incredibly rude. It kept insulting me, insisting that no one enjoyed my company, that the Shepherds were better off without me, all sorts of nonsense like that.

[No laughter here!

Also, wow... that's....]

That's incredibly rude... I wasn't expecting that.

[He's not sure what he was expecting, honestly.]

Are... you alright? That sounds kind of hard to listen to.

As if I care about the opinion of some piece of wood!

[IT WAS REALLY HARD TO LISTEN TO AND IT STUNG LIKE HELL.]

That's why I'm out here, trying to clear my head...

[... So it sounds like it did bother her, if she had to come clear her head... which is fine, it's only natural he thinks.

Maybe he can help her take her mind off of it.]

I'd like to look around with all of this happening...do you mind if I come with you on your walk?

Well, you would be a better companion than most.

[Supposed to be a compliment.]

And we can make sure these accidents haven't harmed anyone else.

[It sounds close enough to a compliment, he'll take it.]

That's right...you said you have healing magic, right?

[That's at least very useful.]

Hopefully we won't come across anyone injured, but I'm glad you're here in case we do.

Only when I have my staff with me. We'll have to stop by my house to get it. Without the proper tools, any mage is useless.

Ah... that's fair. [He had no idea she had a staff properly, but that's kind of cool, too.]

Let's go there first, then. We can make sure your house is intact, too.

Of course it is! We've been cleaning nonstop, even before the demand was made.

Ah... so you're ahead of the game.

["We", though...?]

Do you have housemates as well, then?

Yes, I was quite fortunate to choose a home that two other like-minded individuals also procured.

[does she have a word of the day calendar or what]

One is a polite young lady who has the best manners, and the other is a strong, handy man who has a knack for construction.

[Yeah, this vocab is. It's... Something.]

Really...? That's good to hear, then.

So far, the people I've met here have all been pretty good people, so... if nothing else, that's a relief.

[They can count on each other.]

... Perhaps that's another reason why we were the selected ones.

Because we can all get along with each other, you mean?

[Hmm...!!]

Maybe... adversity is supposed to make it easier to get along with people too, right?

Yes... repairing a home is going to take more than one pair of hands, so it's forcing us to work together, in a sense.

That's true... [Hm...!]

I guess it's strange to think of being brought to a totally new place for a reason like that, but it really does seem kind of possible.

Almost anything is possible, when you don't have any answers.

... That's true.

[A very soft sigh!!]

I hope we can find some sort of answers soon. Not knowing anything is... [Frustrating.]

Yes, exactly! I've rarely felt so useless in all my life.

...Well, even so, there are still things we can do.

[A firm nod.]

So it's okay.

... It's good to hear that.

Event Two.

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