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childrenofbahamutlogs2024-10-23 09:36 pm
avanture_time) wrote in childrenofbahamutlogs2024-10-23 09:36 pm
Carrots vs Sticks
WHO: Avan and ~*~You~*~
WHAT: FIREWOOD. Also stew.
WHERE: The woods outside of town mostly
WHEN: After Smalleroth's call for assistance
SUMMARY: Avan's showing Smalleroth a more effective way of getting people to help you with a task
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Hello! My name is Avan de Zinuar III and I would like to make a request of you all. s0001 may have been a bit rude, but they were correct that we will want a healthy stockpile of firewood to remain comfortable through the winter! It'll be easiest if we all work together, so I suggest that those of us who are willing meet by the well tomorrow and knock out what we can in one go! Remember, even if you're not strong enough for felling trees, you can still help gather sticks for kindling! Everyone is welcome to come help!
I'll be there bright and early with a pot of stew to share, but you can come whenever you have time. You can bring food, too, if you like! A potluck sounds like a great way to celebrate a job well done~
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As promised, Avan is at the well bright and early the next morning with a big pot of stew simmering away over a campfire. He'll add more stuff to it throughout the day, so no matter when someone wants stew, there will be stew to be had and it will be delicious. Avan is very good at what he does.
He's borrowed some saws and axes and even people from the locals and marked some trees that he's determined will make good firewood. And for anybody who needs more direction than that, he'll cheerfully explain as many steps involved in turning a standing tree into a pile of usable firewood as they need.
Is he going to do any actual wood chopping himself? ...Maybe if someone asks him to demonstrate technique on a small piece? He's clearly a weedy little nerd and definitely not someone theoretically capable of cutting a boulder in half with a sword, give him a break.
WHAT: FIREWOOD. Also stew.
WHERE: The woods outside of town mostly
WHEN: After Smalleroth's call for assistance
SUMMARY: Avan's showing Smalleroth a more effective way of getting people to help you with a task
text | un: littlelumberjack
Hello! My name is Avan de Zinuar III and I would like to make a request of you all. s0001 may have been a bit rude, but they were correct that we will want a healthy stockpile of firewood to remain comfortable through the winter! It'll be easiest if we all work together, so I suggest that those of us who are willing meet by the well tomorrow and knock out what we can in one go! Remember, even if you're not strong enough for felling trees, you can still help gather sticks for kindling! Everyone is welcome to come help!
I'll be there bright and early with a pot of stew to share, but you can come whenever you have time. You can bring food, too, if you like! A potluck sounds like a great way to celebrate a job well done~
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As promised, Avan is at the well bright and early the next morning with a big pot of stew simmering away over a campfire. He'll add more stuff to it throughout the day, so no matter when someone wants stew, there will be stew to be had and it will be delicious. Avan is very good at what he does.
He's borrowed some saws and axes and even people from the locals and marked some trees that he's determined will make good firewood. And for anybody who needs more direction than that, he'll cheerfully explain as many steps involved in turning a standing tree into a pile of usable firewood as they need.
Is he going to do any actual wood chopping himself? ...Maybe if someone asks him to demonstrate technique on a small piece? He's clearly a weedy little nerd and definitely not someone theoretically capable of cutting a boulder in half with a sword, give him a break.
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Speaking of doing things, whether or not Avan's still messing around with the stew when Popp gets back, it's been pretty well established what he's not doing:
"Are you going to chop any wood yourself or just boss everyone around?"
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Speaking of which, he's now shoving a potato and a knife into Popp's hands. "Here, peel this," he says as he resumes chopping an already peeled potato.
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"You could knock one clean to the ground with an Earth Slash."
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The mention of Earth Slash gets Popp an aggrieved sigh as Avan's shoulders slump. "You know I can't do that, Popp, we tried." Which is, frustratingly, true! Even sneaking out to practice on his own in the early hours of the morning before Popp's awake, Avan still hasn't managed to figure out the trick to the technique. All he has to do is get so exhausted that he stops thinking about how to do it and let his body figure out how to move the right way on its own, allegedly. Like that's easy! Does Popp not understand how much energy Avan always has? Does he not understand how much he thinks??? He'd wonder how his future self ever managed to invent the technique in the first place if he didn't already know the answer was "mortal peril."
He would rather not have to resort to mortal peril.
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"We didn't get you worn out enough, that's all. A day of chopping wood might do the trick this time."
He pats Avan companionably on the back and gives him a peeled potato. And takes another potato. Uuuugh. It's Sigh Squad hours in here.
"Just because it didn't work out once doesn't mean you won't get it eventually. Take it from your senior in learning; I used to mess up with new spells all the time."
Popp also is beginning to suspect that the answer might be mortal peril, but for various personal reasons he does not want to subject Avan to this.
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"That's the spirit! A hero never gives up or backs down!"
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Smash cut to Avan absolutely fumbling the shit out of an axe. Sorry, were you expecting a noble to have ever chopped his own firewood before???
(He has, but that's besides the point.)
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Avan?? AVAN??
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"You've been directing this whole time and you can't even chop a log yourself?! Even I can chop wood; my old man had me at it until I thought my arms'd drop off every winter!"
He hated every minute of it, obviously.
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"I've only ever watched it done. I guess the actual chopping is easier in theory than it is in practice, hahaha!"
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Popp doesn't have much of what you could call brute strength, but his form is good, the axe is sharp, and cutting things in half is mostly about gravity and momentum, both of which he has a lot of experience with what with all the crashing into things he does.
"You got a good look, right? Think you can do it?"
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"Okay!"
Avan's form is not good, and he falls on his ass in the process, but he does successfully chop a piece of wood in half this time. Progress....
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Needless to say, he's going to be genuinely exhausted and wobbly long before Avan has to tap into his reserves.
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He stops when he notices Popp flagging and leans casually on his axe. "Oh, are you done already?" If one were to only look at Avan out of context, they'd think he just got done with a light workout. Disgusting, tbh.
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He wobbles a little more and kind of... gently... oozes... down onto the stump he's been chopping logs on. Trying to keep up with Avan is no joke.
"Forget the dragon bond, this must be what it feels like to be a slime."
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He's going to be so sore tomorrow. He's not even the one who needs to learn Earth Slash!
"If we're going by bounciness, that makes you King Slime."
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"Go have some water and some stew, then you'll feel better."
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"Yeah, yeah, all right."
Avan usually is right about this genre of thing, which is in some way comforting and in some way frustrating. At least Popp was right about what it takes to get him to really get into hero-adjacent tasks, and that's joining in right alongside him.
He wishes he were wrong about that, actually.
At least the stew's good.