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Who: Estelle Bright & whoever else wants to bother her!
Where: The town, the lakeside.
When: Open prompts on the 18th, private prompt with Joshua on the night of the 15th.
What: Estelle's finally located some fishing poles. She's ready to see what she can fish up, but unfortunately, the lake has some rather interesting fish... Also, collecting firewood.
Warnings: creepy mutant fish with too many heads and teeth, ahoy.

Locked to Joshua - night of the 15th
[Estelle was tired, dirty and hungry, but mostly tired. Their investigations today provided more questions than answers, and with dark falling soon, she knew they'd get little else done today. Stumbling around in the dark wasn't going to get them anywhere safely or sanely.

Better to rest up, see what tomorrow brought-- not that she had to like it, of course.]

Aaaaah... what I wouldn't give for a proper bed. How about you, Joshua?

Fishing at the Lakeside - 18th
[It had taken some hunting, but eventually Estelle had managed to find a few fishing poles in an empty boathouse. Some fishing enthusiast had left them behind, no doubt, and Estelle hopes wherever the previous owner was, they weren't missing them too much. She manages to collect some bits of foodstuff from the store as well as some bugs before heading out to the lakeside, settling in and casting her line. She's still not sure about testing out this water herself, but if there were any fish, she'd find them.

Now to wait. All she needed was a touch....

While she does though, maybe someone might join her? There's a few spare poles set off to the side, after all.]

Baby it's gonna get cold outside - 18th
[While cuddling up with Joshua at night was nice and certainly warm, Estelle knew that ready to use firewood was probably going to be necessary at some point for people here. She didn't have an axe to cut at trees, but there was plenty of broken and useless furniture laying around, ready to be broken apart. So Estelle selects a few especially unrepairable looking pieces, broken frames and rotten through chairs, and gets to work on them, using a rock to knock pieces loose when her hands won't do.

Slowly but surely, a sizable pile will form. An even bigger one might form with a little help! Or maybe someone needs some firewood to keep warm at night? She'll be leaving the pile out near the store for everyone once she's done.]

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[Estelle glances up from what she's doing, which at the moment is knocking a rotted through leg off an equally decayed chair seat. It's a lost cause for repair she thinks, which means it's perfect for burning. She's a little grimy and has some wood flecks on her clothes, but she looks pretty content with her work.

And when Minato offers his help, a bright smiles comes to her face.]

I'd love some help! There's a lot of stuff that's wrecked enough to take apart, and the more we can make manageable, the more firewood we'll have.

Okay.

[It's true, right now this is all they have to stay warm with, right?]

I'll do my best, then.

[He'll move over to the other old furniture, setting to the task. Eventually, though:]

This was a good idea... I don't think I would've thought of it.

[Estelle flushes a little, both pleased and embarrassed by Minato's words. The next thwack of the rock against wood is a little more forceful and snaps a chair leg right off.

Estelle never learned to take compliments well.]

Eheheh... Honestly, blame the sleeping arrangements. Sleeping on the cold floor isn't fun, you know? After awhile, you get to thinking. And we don't have much here, but we do have a heck of a lot of old furniture we can't use.

Yeah, I won't argue that...

[Honestly. He's pretty sure he's going to end up with an endless crick in his back if he has to sleep on the floor much longer.]

I wonder if we can make any of these scraps into actual furniture, too.

[Poor Minato-- hopefully they can figure out a solution to the bed problem...]

We might be able to! A lot of the furniture is only irreparable in certain places-- legs and edges, mainly.

[She reaches to drag a chair off of the pile, grinning.]

The seat of this looks good-- The back is a mess, but maybe we can remove the seating and make it into something?

Right, let's see what we can do. I think if we remove all of the parts that aren't totally rotted or destroyed, maybe we can put them back together with those pieces.

[Frankenstein the furniture into things that are actually useable.]

Yeah! Though we'll need to find some nails to make anything... or glue? You need glue for that, right?

[mad science with furniture, people.]

Hm... nails would probably be better with the pieces we've got...

[Some sort of wood glue might work, but it'd still be better to have screws or nails, he thinks.]

There must be some around here somewhere--we should look in the pieces we've chopped up to see if there are any leftover nails too. I bet we could use them.

Maybe the store has some nails....?

[It seemed like it had a lot of stuff, anyway, from what Estelle saw.]

But you're right about salvaging some-- we should keep our eyes out for ones that aren't bent and rusted. Right now we need to make whatever we have last.

Yeah... let's start with that, and then we can raid the store after for supplies.

[Minato glances at the pile of furniture Estelle still has left to go. Ah........ so much effort.]

... And maybe take a break at some point, too.