Oliver's subjective experience is that he arrives at the Community Center, remembering that he definitely did walk there and definitely did have a conversation with Emily and Lewis on the way and cannot actually remember what anyone said or anything about the walk.

And now they're approaching the Community Center! It's a dilapidated old ivy-covered building. The large clock on the face of the building is stopped.

Oliver is capable of performing BASIC CONSISTENCY CHECKS on his memory if he is SPECIFICALLY ALERT FOR ANOMALIES and he is PRETTY SURE THAT WALK WAS NOT COMPUTED AT A HIGH LEVEL OF DETAIL thank you very much.

Anyways.  "Looks like it could be a pretty place if we added a few more vines," Oliver will say.

"The place is a little run down, it's true. It needs some love. And that's where I hope you can help!"

Mayor Lewis unlocks the front door and shoves it open with some effort. The door creaks as it swings open. The party enters.

As Mayor Lewis is fumbling around for the light switch, there's a rustling and squeaking, and Oliver and Emily can see some small dancing creatures scuttling around him.

Lewis turns around.

"Eh? What was that?" He sniffs the musty air. "I wonder if we got some rats in here?"

"Eeeeee!" Emily shoots a delighted look at Oliver but doesn't actually say anything about what she saw.

"I literally never doubted it for a second," Oliver says to her truthfully.

Emily beams at Oliver, grabs his hand, and squeezes it.

"Anyway, this place used to be the heart and soul of this town, and I think it would do us all good if somebody would put some elbow grease into it. I shoulder the blame in letting it fall to pieces like this on my watch. I guess I just could never figure out who would foot the bill for fixing it. I'm hoping you can head up the effort to get it repaired, Oliver, and maybe Emily can work hand in hand with you. What do you say?"

"I'm left speechless by the sheer depth of logic in your reasoning, good sir.  I can hardly imagine trying to argue with it.  Of course a total newcomer--"  Oliver cuts himself off here because he doesn't actually want the Mayor to realize that what he's saying makes no sense, and wake up, and be unable to trade objects in the crate for money.  "Anyways, yes, it indeed seems impossible that a job like this would ever, ever get done without somebody like myself or Emily to do it.  Do you have a labor estimate and a cost estimate, by any chance?"

"I'm so glad you're willing to help!"

"I think the best thing to do is just to have a look around. Surely you know best what you can do and how long things take you."

"Surely!  If I asked if there was any sort of obvious deadline or time counting down...?"

"Oh no, it's been broken down for years, a few more seasons isn't going to hurt! You take your time and prioritize your own farm as much as you need to!"

"Oh, I will."

Does Oliver in fact feel like he knows how to expend an action and cause an event to happen to any part of this structure?

Mayor Lewis suggested looking around! Oliver knows how to look around!

EXAMINE ROOM

This room is in pretty rough shape, with floorboards missing and vines creeping across the floor. There's a hut in the corner - that's where the Junimos went before Lewis got a look at them - and a cracked old fish tank in the corner. Some of the windows are boarded up. There's a panel with six outlines of stars over the fireplace.

There are hallways to the left and the right.

Oliver refrains from asking if the Mayor has noticed the hut at all, but it takes a lot of effort.

Does Oliver know how to use 1 wood to repair a segment of missing floorboard, or anything like that?

Nope, that's not a thing.

Is there any thing that is a thing?

Maaaaybe Oliver could be a little more flexible with the phrase "look around" and actually move his body to other locations within the Community Center rather than simply swiveling his eyes in their sockets.

All right then, Oliver will march over to the fireplace and poke one of those six stars to see if they light up.

Nope!

Sure doesn't seem like any things in here are things.  "Emily, can you hand me... can you drop the scythe so I can try clearing a bit of vine?  Or you could, if you want to."

Emily moves to a corner of the room unoccupied by other humans and begins merrily swinging the scythe, to no effect.

She also surreptitiously peers into the hut when Mayor Lewis isn't looking, and looks rather pleased with herself, but does not comment.

"Well, folks, have fun exploring, I'm going to head out! Good luck!"