Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

Nice. She informs Laura about her preferences, tuning them a little. Less priority to personality except if it looks like they're going to waste her time, and a slight priority to usefulness - pick a mining-related job before a jewelry one all else being equal. Can Laura do most of the arranging companies' schedules and negotiating and contract-signing or should Mountain be helping?

She can do the schedules and negotiating, but Mountain will ultimately be the one responsible for contract-signing.

Great! Let's get some work lined up.

Over the next couple of days she grows her mountain to the height where it will stay for a long while. Once more stuff is installed it will be inconvenient to grow it large amounts without damaging things.

She goes over the personal hydro plant schematics with Laura and asks her to start looking into turbines and electrical engineers to put things in place on the mountain. And the Mountain Internet interview question is now a legitimate task.

"Do let me know if I start asking too much too fast."

"As long as you're asking me things that are actually possible, I probably won't have a problem."

"Good, good."

In the days, or hours if Laura is particularly efficient about it, between then and getting everything arranged with the first company to hire her she works on a shopping list for the base, finishes the parts of her hydro plant she can do herself, puts in a miniature port (just a flat area and one medium-sized berth grown vertically from the underwater part of her mountain so far), and a set of stairs aaall the way up and starts on a tunnel straight into the interior that will lead to elevators eventually.

She is! She is particularly efficient.

Mountain's first job is helping erect a twelve-story building.

Okay, let's do this. Best smile on for the company reps. Where's the place, is she making the material or using what's provided, where's the blueprints?

It's in the city, actually supposed to become a nice beach front condo. They don't have much of a grasp on her powers yet, so they've provided materials and workers.

Well, they don't need a crane or concrete workers or welders. They're still going to want finishers - plumbers, electricians, people to install drywall and carpet and elevators and so on.

She goes over the blueprints with the foreman and owner (if they're available) and discusses how her power can finish any concrete without an annoying drying and setting period. She can have the frame up in two hours at most. She's not completely up to speed on building conventions on Earth yet, but she can definitely follow blueprints to the inch.

They're definitely available, and so are blueprints. They can also give her any directions she might need about building conventions on Earth, and are very pleasantly surprised by the ETA.

Up goes the concrete-and-steel frame, all according to blueprints. She measures things almost constantly as I-beams and reinforcing rods wobble and grind into concrete pillars. She uses all materials present then makes some more, compressing the rock below the site slightly to store away the not steel-and-concrete byproducts. It takes her an hour and a half. She even makes the fire stairs - they're steel, after all.

She suggests that they could take a quick tour now to make sure everything looks right, then she'll go home so they can inspect it thoroughly and call her back for corrections and detail work. Oh, and none of the steel is rustproofed yet so they need to paint it. She's not a painter.

They are very impressed by and happy with her job, and are pretty sure (though they do not say it) that they have just gotten the bargain of their lives, would she like to work more jobs like this in the future?

Yes, though she's completely open about how her rates will go up once she has a proper rep for this kind of thing.

That's fine, they guess.

She took a few pictures during the process. Not of the blueprints, just to help publicly show that she can do this sort of thing. Do they mind at all if she takes a few more of the completed frame and publishes them like that?

Yeah, they're fine with that too.

Fly, picture, picture. Digital cameras are handy.

She reports completion of the building and gives the pictures to Laura and asks her to find a reporter to interview her. Hopefully someone who fought Leviathan, fixed parts of Japan, and built 60% of a 12-story condo complex in two hours is interesting enough. She wants to be publicly known for building things and making material, so her rates can go up and still leave her busy for much of the day.

Laura can most definitely do that, she's very used to dealing with the press.

Great, she has no idea how to deal with the press and would like some tips. Should she hide how she isn't from Earth and isn't really the same kind of parahuman?

...yes, she should definitely not mention that part.

She hasn't exactly been hiding it so far. Significant parts of Japan's upper level, the PRT, and the Protectorate know. Maybe a few others, she hasn't been keeping track. What's so bad about it?

Well, for one, it makes her look crazy. Other Earths do exist, though they typically have less parahumans than Earth Bet, and no one's ever been able to cross-over yet. She says something like that, she'll be put in the same mental bucket the likes of Glaistig Uaine are.

Which would be bad because Glastig Uaine is...?

One of the most dangerous supervillains, among the ten most powerful people on the planet, on par with Eidolon. She also believes all parahumans are Faerie and she is the Faerie Queen.