Extreme Makeover: Luceti Edition

[markofthewise]

Who: The Avatar Cast, any passerbys who want to gawk
What: Upgrading the Avatar House
When: Today, evening
Where: House 56
Summary: Sokka tries to make up to his housemates by using up his remaining points to make a crowded house much more spacious
Rating: Avatarlicious


That morning, Sokka contacted the Malnosso to use up most of his points. Not only did he recover some of his possessions he had lost when he died, but he opted to make the house bigger. Already there'd been issues after Zuko showed up and with Toph's arrival, there was just too little house for them all to fit into. More upsetting was the realization there was no room for Suki if she ever came back. So despite the knowledge that he might need those points for something else later, he took the hit instead. And so, the upgrade commenced.

He'd been intrigued to watch the house seem to just rebuild itself. He'd delivered the blueprints to the Malnosso and this upgrade would fortunately shift some of the rooms around just as it was supposed to. And it was the afternoon, which meant everyone should be out of the house and would be quite surprised when they returned from their wandering about. Of course, he had some other adjustments to make that would require his bender friends to work on. The Malnosso wouldn't include a free slide with it (after all, he used that free high level reward for a hot tub instead). So he intended to get the first earthbender he found to help him with that. Then of course, they would need to carve a hole in the ground and fill it up with water for a pool. But eventually, after getting that all sorted out, it was complete. The Avatar house had become twice as fun and despite how miserable he'd been lately, Sokka felt good about things.

And so he sent out a message on the journals inviting everyone home. He included an invitation to Suki and Ty Lee to check it out too. They may not have been living at the house, but he was hoping this might change Suki's mind.

By the time everyone else arrives, the pool will be ready (thanks to whoever got roped into making it) and Sokka will have even stocked up on sodas and junk foods for them to eat. He'd have made some good food for them to eat, but... he's Sokka. Junk food will just have to do.

Comments

[markofthebrave]

Woah. It was much bigger than she'd thought it would be.

Katara gawked at the house for a moment before moving to check on her garden. Everything seemed intact, so she entered the house. To her relief, the upstairs was still done in stone, and the bottom rooms were unchanged.

Before she has a chance to do anything like organizing, she's dragged into helping waterbend some water into the pool (please can they have a pool, please, please - well, alright). She makes sure that the pool is far enough away so that the house won't be too affected by a waterbending bomb, but to be honest, she likes the idea of so much water readily available. It's even better than indoor plumbing.

For a little while, after the pool is built, Katara runs into the house to change into a two-piece swimsuit with added wrap-around knee-length skirt and jumps into the pool.

[savedtheworld]

Aang at least helped with bending the pool into being. And after his first few trips down the slide, he was spending some time swimming around in the water when he spotted Katara's approach. He looked on with a bright smile. "Come on in! The water's..." Wait. It's not very warm at all, kind of cold actually. "...watery!"

[markofthebrave]

"Okay! Clear the way!" Aaaaaaaaaand running and jumping into the water.

[savedtheworld]

Aang just chuckles as he propels himself to the side of the pool with a little waterbending assist and watches as she takes the plunge. "Good one!"

[markofthebrave]

Katara surfaces and then moves to float on her back with a happy sigh. It wasn't as good as the ocean, but there was something wonderful about having so much water in her own backyard.

[savedtheworld]

As for Aang, he isn't very picky about his giant bodies of water. If anything, he's only disappointed that this pool is devoid of any ferocious sea beasts to ride. Aang keeps on a broad grin. He ducks underwater for a moment and then pops back out with the octopus form on. And of course, he's using it to flail around in a silly manner.

[markofthebrave]

Katara laughed, "Well, I can see you're enjoying yourself."

[savedtheworld]

He pops his head out from the water with a cheeky grin. "I am! And I can see you're relaxing yourself. That's also cool!"

[tokennonbender]

[Asami is already sitting on the edge of the pool when Katara emerges in her swimsuit. The taller girl is dressed in a simple black one-piece, and her legs are lazily kicking at the water as she leans back on her hands. She grins up at the water bender when she appears.]

So I'm guessing this is at least partly your doing?

[It was hard to imagine they'd made a pool without the resident water bender, after all.]

[markofthebrave]

[Katara shrugs.]

The house was getting a little crowded. We'd been talking about adding a swimming pool for a while. I guess Sokka decided just to go for it.

[tokennonbender]

I mostly just meant the pool.

[She splashes at the water with her feet.]

It's a great idea though. I used mine back home all the time.

[markofthebrave]

It is nice to be by water again.

[She moves to sit on the pool's edge, critically assessing its shape.]

I usually just take the teleporter to the ocean in the summer.

[Though she hasn't been doing that as much this year.]

[tokennonbender]

The ocean isn't the same. [Asami had a rather spoiled view of pools.] You can't swim laps or just drift in the ocean, you have the waves and the current and...

[Asami wrinkled her nose.]

Plus the salt water makes my hair all grimy.