Set in the original region of Arciel, Legends Rising is a route-inspired, but not strictly route-based, Pokemon roleplay. Pick a faction, pick a class, and strike out into the wild to take on the League, master Contest coordination, research the mysteries of Pokemon and Arciel, and much, much more. Will you be a classic trainer? A criminal? A farmer? Choose your destiny on Legends Rising.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 1, 2019 10:58:15 GMT
Marcus was here to make it on his own, whatever that took. Even if it did mean he had to spend several hours combing the job listings looking for a piece of work that he could do while practicing his telekinesis, and which might even benefit from that power. Gardening. It seemed to Marcus that it should be quite possible to pull weeds and pick fruit with his power. And so he finds himself, in the pale winter sun, waiting outside a gardener's office in the botanical gardens waiting for a work assignment. In some old cargo pants he'd wrapped around some electronics in the bottom of his suitcase on the way here. Because no amount of telekinesis would keep a suit from being dirt-stained if he was literally kneeling in it. How annoying.
Job: Botanical Gardening Options: Weed the plants, fertilize the plants, harvest the trees, thus committing to 12 posts. WC:134
The gardener seems to be in an awfully bad mood this morning. Who spat in his coffee? Anyways. he gives the first assignment to weed a few boxes and then directs Marcus to the boxes where that need it. The boxes are overrun with strange weeds that seemed energized by the cold recently and are rather resistant to just being ripped up. Better have some good gloves.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 2, 2019 4:06:09 GMT
An unfortunately, Marcus does not. It is ten minutes of attempting to drag away these tangled vines with his telekinesis before he decides they're too well-anchored in too many places for him to do that, and another twenty minutes searching for a person other than the head gardener to ask about spare gloves, and then *finally* he can start being productive with his time. Probably. What follows is several hours of finding a weed, trying to pull it up, finding that it has six different runners, one of which is grown into the frame of the box itself and two of which go to different boxes, and having to pull all of those out. When he isn't trying to distinguish the bland winter leaves of the intended plants from those of the weeds. It's tedious and unpleasant, but at least it's productive.
Pulling the weeds, especially in the cold, leaves nothing if not sore muscles. One of the weeds is so stuck that on pulling it out, the entire plant box falls apart leading to a spill of dirt and plant and Arceus knew what else. A more pleasant if worried gardener says Marcus should try and fix it before the head gardener gets back and offers up some tools to do so.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 3, 2019 2:26:20 GMT
Marcus is not one to let his failures sit and lie, so he will, with if not exactly eagerness, then with the willingness to put in the work needed. Fortunately, perhaps, telekinesis has some good uses in repair work, allowing as it does for you to hold things in places while you are doing the repairs, and to forever avoid being struck on the finger by your hammer. It takes some time, but Marcus thinks that, in the end he has done an acceptable job of repairing the planter-box back to a functional state. At least it wasn't made of plastic or something. That could have been quite worrying. Now, as long as it doesn't fall apart again...
You manage to repair the planter box just as the head gardener walks by. He raises an eyebrow at the dirt scattered over the ground, but hey, at least this box no longer has any weeds in it! Best not try his patience though.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 3, 2019 11:16:09 GMT
Well, time to get back to weeding. Marcus spends some more time picking apart the seemingly eternal supply of invasive vines that seem to be filling these pots. The work takes him hours, meaning Marcus has spent much more time on this than he had intended to. But then, he had intended to use his telekinesis as well, and that did him precious little good. Oh well. Such is life. Sometimes you fail *unusually aggressive pull at a bunch of stuck weeds*. Pull weeds and hope the weather improves. Which really it isn't going to, is it; the winter is only going to grow worse for months now. Well, it will be over soon, and hopefully his next task will be more amenable.
Your next task if fertilizing the weeded boxes, and one of the gardeners mentions getting a bag of fertilizer from the shed. As you go to it and grab it, the bag immediately tears and starts spilling.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 4, 2019 10:52:07 GMT
Marcus reacts quickly to the spill of fertilizer, attempting to use his telekinesis to grab the bag shut. Ultimately, though, it doesn't help much; he's still left with half a bag of fertilizer held awkwardly in his hands and a clump of lifted fertilizer, and then the remaining most of half a bag of fertilizer all over the ground. At this point, he almost suspects someone has it out for him. That would be ... foolish, to think. He was, after all, just a temp worker, and he liked to think he was good at making friends besides. So it would not do to think of such things when there was work to be done. At least his practice keeping dirt off off his clothes made it very easy to use his telekinesis to pick up each and every bit of the fertilizer into a plastic container, leaving no evidence of his misfortune in good time.
As you carry the fertilizer over to the box, you notice that it's the one from earlier and seems to be looking a little shaky again. It hasn't broken yet, but maybe put a few nails in it before you start putting more dirt in it.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 4, 2019 12:39:57 GMT
Oh dear. Well, nailing things together is much easier when you can use telekinesis to hold the nail in place, and thus spend much less time trying to see or aim past your own fingers. Or suffering when you hit them. This has been of tremendous aid to Marcus on any number of occasions doing home repairs and such, and he can put it to use once more. It would have made him look awfully incompetent had it fallen apart on him, after he wasted spent so much time fixing it up the first time. So it goes; Marcus hammers it solid, for good this time, making sure that it's nice and sturdy. Hopefully. Then, he can go about filling it with soil and such.
As the fertilizer is poured out, what should appear but a Diglett who was now squinting questionably at Marcus. Disappearing into the ground again itwas.... questionable what its intentions would be.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 5, 2019 9:34:03 GMT
Oh dear. Marcus didn't want to immediately start battling on the botanical garden grounds - surely the fight would crush some garden beds or break a window of a greenhouse, and the Diglett was gone already anyway, so there wasn't anything useful he could do yet anyway. Marcus spends a few minutes finding someone to ask about their policy for dealing with wild or uncontrolled pokemon on the grounds. After that, he will return to doing his work, steadily adding fertilizer to the soil of the many pots awaiting planting for the new year. (Unless he's told to go hunt the pokemon down, in which case, he will make preparations to do that).
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 7, 2019 10:00:51 GMT
One certainly hopes it was a fluke; if Marcus was lucky, he could get through the rest of the day's work with a minimum of drama and frantic silliness. Marcus's morning suggested that he was not, in fact, very lucky. At least, not as a gardener. Well, at the very least, Marcus made sure to spend this time making as much progress as he could fertilizing the remainder of the boxes while the world was allowing him a break. He got into a nice, relaxing routine of placing doses of fertilizer and moving on, almost like clockwork. Soon enough, all the of the planters and pots in this area had been fertilized with the various strange-smelling powders and substances that the head gardener had assigned him to place. Then, he could head back for his next assignment.
Your last task is to harvest the berry trees. It may come as a surprise to some, but winter was just as good a time as any for berries, and a few were ready to be picked and eaten! Head over that way, grab up a sack, and start filling it.
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 8, 2019 2:15:33 GMT
It was odd how resilient berries were, for such a high-yield type of crop. Normally there were trade-offs in this matters. Marcus supposed that berries needed a lot of tending to produce the yields they did; hence hiring people like him to do some of that work.
Telekinesis was a big aid in the process of picking fruit off of trees, though; he simply had to be able to see the fruit, rather than reach it, and thus he could pick all of the berries off of any given tree without any shenanigans involving trying to make ladders be stable in densely branched fruit trees. Marcus makes steady progress, for a while.
Telekinesis seems to be a good choice for berry picking! The trees don't shake too much, and the berries themselves seem o come right off. All is coming along smoothly!
Post by Marcus Spinnaker on Dec 8, 2019 4:02:51 GMT
Marcus continues on his way, filling several bags with berries. The work is, for now, not particularly hard - the first time he moved to a tree of a new breed, he managed to accidentally squash one of the berries when he underestimate how fragile and well-attached they were to the tree, but once he adjusted to these conditions and resolved to take more care with his power, he continues to make steady progress (and Marcus is certain that any mundane harvester would have damaged just as many of the berries while picking - gloves for thorns dull the senses just as much as the distance produced by telekinesis, and are less dexterous besides)
You're going great! The bushes you come by seem to get denser and denser, though, and if you're not careful you might end up getting snagged by a stray, unruly twig. For now though, the berries are easy to pick and grab- hopefully it stays that way!
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