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[fleurdesel]

Who: Adele LeBlanc, Derek Bliss, gawkers, assistants, and whoever wants to help or mock
What: Building a beach house (not actually on the beach)
When: June 12th - 15th
Where: The Beach
Summary: A house is built, there's a bonfire at night and food provided for those that helped.
Rating: PG-13 for potential language

[After a brief posting the day before on the journal network mentioning the construction project, it's location, and offering a meal in return for work, Adele assists Derek in moving the supplies they've collected since picking the site and in the initial set up. Knowing little to nothing of construction she follows his lead every step of the way, breaking off only to set up water or a quick meal for them in between shifts of planing wood, cutting trim and hammering nails.

It takes time to get it built, but the end of each work day is met with a small or large bonfire, a hot meal, and cool drink.

And at the end there may very well be a house.]

Comments

[rather_be_surfing]

[Derek chuckles a little]

Not quite as bad off as you, but it's a possibility in the future. I hunt vampires for a living.

[250mhzwabl]

[Jack looks impressed by that, to say the least. Fighting the undead out of necessity is one thing, but as a career choice? Hell.]

Hey, that's nothing to brush off. At least my brand of the living dead are brainless and typically slow, not . . . sentient and ageless and probably evil.

[Most zoms aren't really evil, just dangerous. Some are even sort of funny, once you've cracked enough to stop being piss-your-trousers terrified of the mere suggestion of them.]

[rather_be_surfing]

Well, I've seen some pretty speedy zombies on film in my time; for all I know you guys wound up with those instead. Still, the slow ones are nothing to sneeze at. All it takes it getting bitten once, right?

As for evil, yeah, I'll give you that; the vampires from my world are the result of an exorcism gone wrong. So 'evil' definitely fits.

[250mhzwabl]

Eugh.

[Yeah, sentient evil above and beyond your worse type of human being. No thanks.]

So, where in all of the vampire hunting did you pick up construction? Or is this more of a hobby.

[rather_be_surfing]

Downtime jobs. You hunt vampires all the time, you tend to go a little bit crazy. Or a little bit crazier, anyway. Construction's easy to get into in some places; they just need a warm body that knows what they're doing and since I'm a fill in and won't be around after the job's done, they don't have to front me for insurance or anything. Works out for both sides.