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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
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sturdycoldsteel
sturdycoldsteel
Her sleep schedule mostly is not a thing. This is a personal quirk, not a power. She needs sleep eventually, but may as well stay up until it's night here.
Well, it's five thirty PM there, night will take a bit. If she's sure, will she accompany this attractive young man wearing a suit through these beautiful hallways towards this conference room?
sturdycoldsteel
Sure, sure. She idly bulks her rocksuit back up a bit along the way. It makes soft crackling noises. Not enough to hurt furniture, hopefully.
They have arranged for sturdy furniture to be there to welcome her.
They outline the plan, asking some stuff of her (like can she raise the rest of Kyushu back? would it be okay if she lowered those platforms again once most of the water was taken care of? can she help with macro flooding?) and presenting different parts of a plan tree depending on her answers.
It's actually pretty well thought-out and has apparently taken quite some work. They probably started this long before the previous day.
They outline the plan, asking some stuff of her (like can she raise the rest of Kyushu back? would it be okay if she lowered those platforms again once most of the water was taken care of? can she help with macro flooding?) and presenting different parts of a plan tree depending on her answers.
It's actually pretty well thought-out and has apparently taken quite some work. They probably started this long before the previous day.
sturdycoldsteel
She's very impressed and tells them so. Usually she has to do the bulk of the planning herself.
Raising the rest of Kyushu would be difficult. There is a huge amount of pervasive and deep damage. But it's possible. Reversing her platforms and reducing macro flooding are relatively expensive for her but possible. She likely can't make Kyushu's geography match what it once was without far more work than she wants to spend on that in particular. She'd rather be doing roads, seawalls, collapsed tunnels, etc.
Raising the rest of Kyushu would be difficult. There is a huge amount of pervasive and deep damage. But it's possible. Reversing her platforms and reducing macro flooding are relatively expensive for her but possible. She likely can't make Kyushu's geography match what it once was without far more work than she wants to spend on that in particular. She'd rather be doing roads, seawalls, collapsed tunnels, etc.
They nod along and adapt, having prepared parts of the plans and priority orderings to match. As she builds stuff, she will be working with a Tinker that can make plants grow in specific shapes, and one who can transfer heat from one place to another and manipulate it with quite a bit of fine control over it who will be able to provide glass.
The platforms are secondary, but the macro flooding is definitely going to be one of the first things they'd like her to help with. They've highlighted a few key locations, and ask for her input on how many of those she'd be willing to help with, as well as in what order, with how much time to rest in between, and what she'd like to do otherwise in specific, etc. They want quite a few details, leaving very little margin for creativity or error during the actual implementation of the projects.
The platforms are secondary, but the macro flooding is definitely going to be one of the first things they'd like her to help with. They've highlighted a few key locations, and ask for her input on how many of those she'd be willing to help with, as well as in what order, with how much time to rest in between, and what she'd like to do otherwise in specific, etc. They want quite a few details, leaving very little margin for creativity or error during the actual implementation of the projects.
sturdycoldsteel
She'll do 14 hour work days. She prefers to do two things at once: Reverse flooding at the same time as repairing buildings and roads in the flooded area. She's not entirely sure how quickly she'll be able to do X or Y or Z. She's happy to plot out the course of things two days in advance, but no further than that.
They take that information into account and change some of the plans. In particular, they postpone actually discussing some of the plans until later.
Two things at once, however, that makes them pretty happy. They will definitely want that.
They continue ironing details out for a while more, and by the time they're done it's almost nine PM.
Two things at once, however, that makes them pretty happy. They will definitely want that.
They continue ironing details out for a while more, and by the time they're done it's almost nine PM.
sturdycoldsteel
Before she flies to her nearest plateau to sleep, can she have a computer with the plans on it by tomorrow? She'll be on comms of course, but a reference never hurt anybody.
sturdycoldsteel
So she flies to the nearest plateau. She made a lot of them, wherever they are it's likely not far.
There is indeed one such plateau fairly close to where she is, one that raised the large part of a park, the rest of which is too destroyed to be recognized at ground level.
sturdycoldsteel
She dives straight into the side and sleeps in a cave of her own making.
And is up again at 8 AM, as planned. She flies back to the office place. Is her phone charged up like she asked? Is there breakfast?
And is up again at 8 AM, as planned. She flies back to the office place. Is her phone charged up like she asked? Is there breakfast?
sturdycoldsteel
Good, she goes over the first few hours of the plans again while eating. She's going to stop at 11 and have that Web chat with those lawyers if they accepted the appointment though. Did they?
sturdycoldsteel
And so they start. She's not nearly as macro as Leviathan with her hydrokinesis, so the plan calls for making drainage channels to help the water along and then flying slowly from inland out to sea, (gently) pushing an increasingly large glob of water before her. They start placing new buildings and repairing those still standing in the now unflooded areas as she goes.
She may not be as macro as Leviathan, but she's still head and shoulders above what any other known and willing-to-help cape can do.
sturdycoldsteel
Two hours and two long strips of land reasonably well unflooded later, she takes a break to talk to her shiny new lawyers and have some lunch. She suggests to the planning people that they reevaluate since her speed at unflooding is slightly faster than she predicted and she probably can't multitask unless one of the things she's doing is unflooding.
How does this video conference thing work? Ugh. Maybe it should just be a phone call.
How does this video conference thing work? Ugh. Maybe it should just be a phone call.
sturdycoldsteel
"I want to be selling things but all the paperwork PRT gave me is very confusing. I don't want to sign things I don't understand. I only learn English a week ago. Mostly I want you to explain it so I know the rules and warn me if any plan is illegal."
"I see. What things will you want to be selling, how will you be getting them, what plans have you considered so far?"
sturdycoldsteel
"I can make large amounts of things that come from the earth. From sand to diamonds. Less diamonds than sand because they're more rare. I have been sending emails to some companies asking if they want, and lots said yes. I can also reshape stone and metal and offer to do things like repair cracked foundations. I have practice building things so I am confident in the quality."