[LOC] Lightseekers Settlement

[Taki-di]

Tsarzi and Lupos ambled into the settlement, observing the progress critically. Tsarzi had walked away from Bloodfest with quite an impression of the Lightseekers. Out of all the booths she'd seen, this ambitious venture had been the most interesting one of all. The progressive philosophy and call for intellectual stimulus spoke to her and Tsarzi had intended to stop by to get a better look at what they were about far sooner. Unfortunately, timing sis not work out, given her participation in Superstar Authority, but she was here now and it looked like things were still in progress.

Tsarzi was impressed by the efforts put forward, but it was still a work in progress. One she could get behind. This would be an excellent connection for her. The discussion she'd briefly had with Panili at Bloodfest had been one of the more enjoyable interactions she'd ever had with other trolls, speaking to her desire for knowledge and exchange of such. Sticking around here could offer more of that intellectual conversation and the work needed would be good exercise and experience. She could get behind this.

Decision made, Tsarzi sought out a task, intent on seeing this settlement built.

Her task given for starters was working on one of the three main roads, which had received little attention til now. The New Hemisect Road, being the msot neglected, seemed to be her first task. Tsarzi threw herself at the work with determination, Lupos assisting the movement of supplies while she helped direct and build. Troll and lusus took to the work like a well oiled machine.

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Major Project: New Hemisect City Road
Effect: +6

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 6/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 47/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 11/100
  
• Coastal Road: 11/100

 

[Taki-di]

Hard work done on the road earned Tsarzi praise for her critical thinking and management of effort which kept her and Lupos on a roll. It took some insisting, but finally some of the other workers cajoled Tsarzi into taking a break. Hard work was fine and all, but too much time committed to one thing could burn you out.

So, eventually finding the concerned comments to be gratuitous and interfering with the work process of others, Tsarzi decided to get a drink of water, see if she was needed anywhere else for a time. For now, her presence seemed to be slowing the process and no amount of direction otherwise seemed to dissuade the good intentions of the other workers.

Well, there were plenty of chores that need done, and as long as progress was being made, she wasn't picky. Beautifcation wasn't particularly Tsarzi's forte, nor something she as as a high priority, but she understood the merit and importance of image. Keep the place looking good, keep morale up and leave better impressions. Still, it looked like a few others were making a mess of their sign painting and Tsarzi decided to step in.

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Minor Project: Settlement Beautification
Efftect: +3

Current Minor Project Totals:
1 Building Repair: 0/25
2 Settlement Beautification: 3/25
3 Tending to Agriculture: 0/25
4 Tending to Fauna: 0/25

 

[Taki-di]

After sorting out that budding disaster, Tsarzi left them to finish up the few fences still needed for that block. Tsarzi stood and stretched,, felling thoroughly ready for something more active after the low key work of fence painting.

Tsarzi was welcomed back onto the New Hemisect Road team enthusiastically, which Tsarzi receiver with her usual stony face. Still, her single minded sort of focus was contagious and work continued strong. Encouragingly, as work on the road continued, progress of New Hemisect Road overtook the Lake Road and the Coastal Road.

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Major Project: New Hemisect City Road
Effect: +5

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 6/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 47/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 16/100
  
• Coastal Road: 11/100

 

[Taki-di]

On one of the rounds to retrieve more supplies from the central supply depot of the settlement, Tsarzi was stopped by a rather haggard looking farm troll. Sounds like they were short a few hands for taking care of watering and weeding the plots. Based on the tired look on the farmer's face, they'd either been denied far too many times already or they needed to have a nice long nap. Probably both.

With a comment to the troll recommending he rest before be collapse, Tsarzi headed for the agriculture plots, Lupos joining her once he'd finished the supply trip they'd been on initially.

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Minor Project: Tending to Agriculture
Efftect: +3

Current Minor Project Totals:
1 Building Repair: 0/25
2 Settlement Beautification: 3/25
3 Tending to Agriculture: 3/25
4 Tending to Fauna: 0/25

 

[Taki-di]

After a few hours of weeding and watering, Tsarzi took a breather. Twenty minutes to stretch, drink some water, and rest her mind. She wouldn't take any longer than that though, ready to throw herself back into the work with fervor. Lupos followed sedately behind, not too concerned with Tsarzi's new goal of seeing the settlement built. It was a good goal, and being a key player in seeing the place made would help her socialize more as a part of the community.

Coincidentally, she wound up back amongst the plants inside the Greenhouses. They needed an extra hand to get it all done, but it was simple monotonous work collecting some soil sampled, pruning, watering, and doing general care. The lax air with this team irked Tsarzi slightly, but she settled,
understanding that taking time with this sort of job was better than rushing and ruining the crop.

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Major Project: Greenhouse
Effect: +3

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 6/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 50/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 16/100
  
• Coastal Road: 11/100

 

[Taki-di]

Eventually, it seemed that work in the Greenhouse was done for now. The team moved to check out some of the others around the camp. Tsarzi went along with the team and wound up in one of the smaller greenhouses, taking care of some slightly neglected seedlings and eventually outside to weed more of the outdoor plot. The motions to the work were calm and simple, and she allowed herself to sink into the work comfortably, burying the itch for motion with the satisfaction of productive work and the slow burn in her arms.

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Minor Project: Tending to Agriculture
Efftect: +3

Current Minor Project Totals:
1 Building Repair: 0/25
2 Settlement Beautification: 3/25
3 Tending to Agriculture: 6/25
4 Tending to Fauna: 0/25

 

[Taki-di]

Progress may have been slow, but at least something was happening. Tsarzi silently huffed out a breath as she stretched, eyeing her surroundings critically. What next, what next.

Tsarzi decided to check on the progress status sheets kept around the central hub of supplies and activities where the Lightseekers seemed to gravitate. Tsarzi only needed a second to look and decide she was heading for the disaster shelters. As of now, they had the least attention, and she was going to fix that.

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Major Project: Disaster Shelter
Effect: +5

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 11/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 50/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 16/100
  
• Coastal Road: 11/100

 

[Taki-di]

Of course, as seemed to be the trend, as Tsarzi went to get a drink of water,s he heard the smashing of ceramic. After hydrating herself, she decided to check out what the fuss was. Seemed like a couple of enthusiastic but clumsy trolls were looking to transport some gaudy lawn ornaments, potted plants, and miscellaneous other decorations. Problem was that the stacks they were carrying were tipping precariously and they'd already lost some cargo. Looks like she knew who she was whipping into shape next.

Quote:

Minor Project: Settlement Beautification
Effect: +4

Current Minor Project Totals:
1 Building Repair: 0/25
2 Settlement Beautification: 7/25
3 Tending to Agriculture: 6/25
4 Tending to Fauna: 0/25

 

[Taki-di]

Eyeing the transported and laid out lawn decor, Tsarzi decided she could leave the others to it and moved on to see if she could find some more work on the bigger projects. The sooner that was done, the sooner the place could function as a true place to live. The notion of doing something productive like this, making a difference was extremely gratifying and spurred her to work harder, heading straight for where supplies had been stacked to continue greenhouse construction

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Major Project: Greenhouse
Effect: +5

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 11/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 55/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 16/100
  
• Coastal Road: 11/100

 

[Taki-di]

Somehow, once again, like clockwork, Tsarzi's water break was interrupted by the same few ditsy trolls were clumsily carrying supplies for building a swing set. And banging up and chipping the wood in the process because they didn't seem to understand that dragging it on the ground and banging it off every passing surface was bad. Were she a weaker troll, Tsarzi may have sighed in long suffering exasperation at the idiocy. As it were, she geared up for a good scolding and marched towards them.

Quote:

Minor Project: Settlement Beautification
Effect: +3

Current Minor Project Totals:
1 Building Repair: 0/25
2 Settlement Beautification: 10/25
3 Tending to Agriculture: 6/25
4 Tending to Fauna: 0/25

 

[Taki-di]

The swingset business had taken longer than Tsarzi would have liked, having to relate the instructions and tell them that's side c, not f until she finally took the tools and supplies from their hands and did it herself. After she'd finished, she merely walked away until she was at the closest major project and set herself to work doing supply transport for the Coastal Road. At least it seemed that the trolls working here had a better idea of what they were doing.

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Major Project: Coastal Road
Effect: +4

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 11/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 55/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 16/100
  
• Coastal Road: 15/100

 

[Taki-di]

As Tsarzi and Lupos came back into the main depot of camp to make another run of supplies to the teams on the roads, they heard screeches of distress echoing through the settlement. Across the way, a few escaped hoofbeasts making mad dashes through the trolls crowding the settlement walkways. Immediately, Tsarzi and her lusus were dashing through the clog of trolls trying to clear the way. Tsarzi located the pens and started shanghaiing help from other trolls while Lupos crowded and cut off the hoofbeast, forcing the animal towards where Tsarzi and the others were indicating. With some swift action on the parts of the other trolls, all of the escaped hoofbeasts were recovered in short order, thankfully.

Quote:

Minor Project: Tending to Fauna
Effect: +4

Current Minor Project Totals:
1 Building Repair: 0/25
2 Settlement Beautification: 10/25
3 Tending to Agriculture: 6/25
4 Tending to Fauna: 4/25

 

[Taki-di]

Tsarzi arrived at the settlement with a laser focus determination to see this project through, so really, the situation that arose shouldn't have been surprising. Early into her shift at the disaster shelter, she started admonishing one of the trolls there who had been making flippant comments about progress thus far and she took it upon herself to correct their attitude. Tsarzi may have been getting a little too deep into her workaholic mentality and hearing a troll joke about how it'd take 5 more sweeps before they finished demanded that she address the problem. Tsarzi had begun to tear into the troll, citing the rather meager progress that had been made so far, half of the progress being that something she herself had done and how the work would get done faster if perhaps the trolls attending to it approached it with an attitude of productivity and not negligence. She was ready to leave it at that and get back to work, but it seems that the other troll took some offense to being spoken too as such by a child and the argument just seemed to escalate from there.

This of course ate up far more time than most other trolls would deem necessary and not a lot got done until Tsarzi retired away from the shelter, the rest of the team feeling both scolded and incredulous at this blueblood child and their belligerent work partner that wouldn't just let the fight go.

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Major Project: Disaster Shelter
Effect: +1

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 12/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 55/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 16/100
  
• Coastal Road: 15/100

 

[Taki-di]

After leaving the disaster shelter, she worked off unspent energy from that job on cutting fabrics and assisting in crochet so make drapes and hanging planters. The greenblood couple working seemed rather enthusiastic in their work which helped to settle the buzz under Tsarzi's skin left from dealing with the belligerent workers at the shelter area.

It was getting late in the night, a bit late to travel, and Tsarzi eyed the sky critically. If she couldn't head home for the day, then she needed to inquire into temporary lodgings here at the settlement. Hopefully there would be space. She'd passed by some spacious buildings filled with recuperacoons,
but it wouldn't do to just assume she could commandeer one.

Tsarzi spent a few minutes hunting the budding settlement for someone that might have answers, which a number of trolls she'd asked so far didn't. She'd promptly left each conversation and a trail of befuddled workers in her wake.

As she skirted the greenhouses, a somewhat familiar figure caught her eye.
There, across the gravel walkway she saw the orangeblood she's spoken with at Bloodfest about the Lightseekers in the first place. Panili, if she wasn't mistaken. The other kid had been rather knowledgeable about the Lightseekers last they'd spoken and came across as one of the figureheads of the group, despite the age difference between her and the space crew that also seemed to heave the organization.

"Is there lodging I can use tonight here at the settlement?" Tsarzi inquired rather abruptly, having walked right up to Panili. Tsarzi needed to know sooner rather than later if she could stick around and be guaranteed lodging without backlash so she could continue work without problems the following days.

Sypon

there we go, some chatter for the kiddos

Quote:

Minor Project: Chosen - Settlement Beautification
Effect: +3

Current Minor Project Totals:
1 Building Repair: 0/25
2 Settlement Beautification: 13/25
3 Tending to Agriculture: 6/25
4 Tending to Fauna: 4/25

 

[Taki-di]

Tsarzi found meditative focus in the pruning and careing for the greenhouse plants, something that let her simply exist, thoughts distilled down to what she was doing and breathing. She absored the smells of the greenery and the textures of the leaves and worked with a single minded focus that was admirable. Tsarzi eventually found that she'd weeded, watered, and cared for far more than had been expected of her attention to the task inspired some others to renew their work with fervor.

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Major Project: Chosen - Greenhouse
Effect: +6

Current Major Project Totals:

• Disaster Shelter: 12/100
  
• Lusus Quarters: 39/100
  
• Greenhouse: 61/100
  
• Lake Road: 7/100
  
• New Hemisect City Road: 16/100
  
• Coastal Road: 15/100