A One-Point-One on a Horror Scale of Ten
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Writers: Aaron, Curious
Date Posted: 15th April 2024
Characters: J'ine, Kailis
Description: Kailis eats a bunch of cookies. Oh, and fixes the unlighting lights in J'ine's weyr.
Location: Barrier Lake Weyr
Date: month 10, day 26 of Turn 11
In a stroke of luck for J'ine, he had been assigned to a nice, roomy, recently-completed weyr.
In a stroke of the exact opposite of that, the electricity had gone out within forty-eight candlemarks of him moving in.
That led him to where he was now: greeting an apprentice technician with a sheepish smile on his face. "Hey there," he said. "Full disclosure, I have _no_ clue what I did to cause this, but..." he passed her the nicely wrapped parcel clutched in his hands. "Cookies for your troubles?"
"Whoa..." Kailis wandered in past the cookies and the bronze dragon and wondered at the size of the weyr beyond. It was hard to follow the wiring with only glow light, but she was drawn immediately to the switch at the entrance that should have turned the light on.
Something smelled good, though. Much better than usual smell when something had burned out.
"Hm? Oh. Oh! Thank you." She took the parcel she had previously overlooked, tore into it, and shoved one into her mouth.
J'ine grinned. "No problem. Good to be appreciated for something other than the size of my chuckle," he said with a chuckle. Then, clasping his hands behind his back, he asked, "So, do you think you'll be able to fix the mess I made of the place?"
"Probably. If they were working before, it's probably just a loose wire here at the switch, or else there's a fuse out," said Kailis. That was not that big of a chuckle. Or maybe it was just not that big of a laugh, but it was big for a chuckle. Where did it stop being a chuckle and start being a laugh? Hm.
"Actually, I should check the fuses first- do you know where your fuse box is?"
J'ine hummed, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "On a scale of one to ten, how horrified would you be if I said that I don't even know what a fuse box is? I do, of course, but... theoretically."
"Nobody knows everything..." Kailis said absently as she was already checking the switch for a loose wire, despite what she had just said. "They're usually in the corridor... shared between a few adjacent rooms... but you have a pretty big place here; you might have your own. So assuming one isn't very terrified at all and ten is I've already peed my pants, maybe a one-point-one?"
"Oh, wait, you said horrified. What's a ten on the horror scale?"
"Giant six-headed wherry climbs out of the ocean and eats everyone in Benden Weyr," J'ine said matter-of-factly. Clapping his hands together, he added, "And that's good to hear, because! I lied. I don't have a clue where the fuse box is."
Kailis nodded as though that made perfect sense, paused for a moment to recalibrate her rating, but then decided it was close enough.
"Well, your wiring is all as trundlesnug as a trundlebug in a trundlerug, so we'll just have to find the fuse box before it climbs out of the ocean and eats everyone in J'ineden Weyr." She shoved another cookie into her mouth and started to follow the wall around to the right of the entrance.
"By all means," J'ine said, gesturing forward and following the apprentice into the depths of his weyr.
Kailis knew what she was looking for, so a cookie or two later, she came across the fuse box - which, in this newly constructed place, was actually accurately labeled! ... probably - and pulled out and replaced the fuse for J'ine's weyr.
"Care to give it a try now?"
J'ine grimaced as he reached out to flick a switch, and then- light! That grimace turned into a grin as he turned to face Kailis and, with perfect stony seriousness, said, "I think I owe you my life."
"Hmmm, I'm not allowed to accept life debts as payment," said Kailis dolefully. "But the cookies are amazing, so I've got that going for me, which is nice."
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:45 AM Aaron C. wrote:
In a stroke of luck for J'ine, he had been assigned to a nice, roomy, recently-completed weyr.
In a stroke of the exact opposite of that, the electricity had gone out within forty-eight candlemarks of him moving in.
That led him to where he was now: greeting an apprentice technician with a sheepish smile on his face. "Hey there," he said. "Full disclosure, I have _no_ clue what I did to cause this, but..." he passed her the nicely wrapped parcel clutched in his hands. "Cookies for your troubles?"
"Whoa..." Kailis wandered in past the cookies and the bronze dragon and wondered at the size of the weyr beyond. It was hard to follow the wiring with only glow light, but she was drawn immediately to the switch at the entrance that should have turned the light on.
Something smelled good, though. Much better than usual smell when something had burned out.
"Hm? Oh. Oh! Thank you." She took the parcel she had previously overlooked, tore into it, and shoved one into her mouth.
J'ine grinned. "No problem. Good to be appreciated for something other than the size of my chuckle," he said with a chuckle. Then, clasping his hands behind his back, he asked, "So, do you think you'll be able to fix the mess I made of the place?"
"Probably. If they were working before, it's probably just a loose wire here at the switch, or else there's a fuse out," said Kailis. That was not that big of a chuckle. Or maybe it was just not that big of a laugh, but it was big for a chuckle. Where did it stop being a chuckle and start being a laugh? Hm.
"Actually, I should check the fuses first- do you know where your fuse box is?"
J'ine hummed, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "On a scale of one to ten, how horrified would you be if I said that I don't even know what a fuse box is? I do, of course, but... theoretically."
"Nobody knows everything..." Kailis said absently as she was already checking the switch for a loose wire, despite what she had just said. "They're usually in the corridor... shared between a few adjacent rooms... but you have a pretty big place here; you might have your own. So assuming one isn't very terrified at all and ten is I've already peed my pants, maybe a one-point-one?"
"Oh, wait, you said horrified. What's a ten on the horror scale?"
"Giant six-headed wherry climbs out of the ocean and eats everyone in Benden Weyr," J'ine said matter-of-factly. Clapping his hands together, he added, "And that's good to hear, because! I lied. I don't have a clue where the fuse box is."
Kailis nodded as though that made perfect sense, paused for a moment to recalibrate her rating, but then decided it was close enough.
"Well, your wiring is all as trundlesnug as a trundlebug in a trundlerug, so we'll just have to find the fuse box before it climbs out of the ocean and eats everyone in J'ineden Weyr." She shoved another cookie into her mouth and started to follow the wall around to the right of the entrance.
"By all means," J'ine said, gesturing forward and following the apprentice into the depths of his weyr.
Kailis knew what she was looking for, so a cookie or two later, she came across the fuse box - which, in this newly constructed place, was actually accurately labeled! ... probably - and pulled out and replaced the fuse for J'ine's weyr.
"Care to give it a try now?"
J'ine grimaced as he reached out to flick a switch, and then- light! That grimace turned into a grin as he turned to face Kailis and, with perfect stony seriousness, said, "I think I owe you my life."
"Hmmm, I'm not allowed to accept life debts as payment," said Kailis dolefully. "But the cookies are amazing, so I've got that going for me, which is nice."
"Feel free to come back if you want more!" K'rel cheerfully said. "I could always use a good excuse to bake."
"You made these?" Kailis was a bit surprised. She never would have expected for a dragonrider to take the time to make something for her himself when he could just... waltz in and ask for someone else to do it.
"Sure did! It's good for a man to have hobbies, even a dragonman. Shards, _especially_ a dragonman. Gotta think about something other than threadfall, you know?"
"Well. Good work." Kailis patted him on the side of his shoulder. "These have been very well thought out."
"Thank _you_ for saving me from stumbling around in the dark." Leading Kailis back to the weyr entrance, he continued, "Like I said, you're welcome back any time."
"Uhhhh. Alright." Kailis supposed that meant she could just waltz in and go through his food stores if she was really in a bind, but she doubted it would come up. "Let us know if it happens again. The lights thing."
"Will do!"
Last updated on the April 18th 2024