Water supply + greenhouse/farm plotting

[tailorspy]

Hello everyone! For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ricks and I've had Garak in the game for a couple weeks, give or take. Being the nosy busybody that he is, he's not just going to sit around doing nothing, so he's going to download the agriculture skill into his head and start working on setting up the farm and greenhouse and get it running smoothly. To this effect, I wanted to ask whether there are others in the game interested in joining in those efforts!

To add to this, he's also been interested in fixing the water supply to at least part of the city, if not all. It would make sense to fix the water supply to the main buildings first (like the hotel, the clinic, the farm and greenhouse, etc.) and then slowly fix the supply to the other sections, gradually getting it running completely. I know other people are working on the electricity already, so I thought this could be another important thing to fix, and Garak has the skills and intelligence for it. I've gotten the green light from our mod boss, so for this I'm also looking for anyone interested in joining in!

ICly he would post ads for both these things on the hotel lobby (probably use some kind or rock or charcoal-like residue to write on a piece of fabric), leave his name and his room floor and number so he could be easy to find.

OOCly, please feel free to add me on plurk @ extreminator if you'd like to stay in touch and chat about this ongoing plot or any other!

Comments

[doubled_speed]

There are a few people already working the greenhouse, so Garak is definitely awesome to help them out. I don't know that any of us have formally organized it, though.

I do know Tommy spends most of his waking hours there if he isn't seeing to his twin, mostly because his high metabolism requires more food and so he feels guilty about not working there. Vision's also been working there, and Katara has helped with watering and might still be doing that.

We should definitely see who all is working here more, though.

Greenhouse is probably best to fix watersupply of first, so that the people working it can take to managing plants and starting new growth rather than hauling lots of water all the time.

[tailorspy]

Oh that's excellent! I tried finding out about who might be working on it so I wouldn't step on any toes, but he'd definitely go poke the people there before anything else. Maybe this post will drag out anyone else who's working there so we can have an actual defined group and know who would know who since they'd probably see each other often.

And yes, that was what I was thinking. Provided there are enough people working on it though, it shouldn't take long to have running water on at least the main buildings. :D

[doubled_speed]

This is probably a good idea for getting their attention. I've been away for a bit for a family wedding so I've missed some things.

I'm sitting here sad that Tommy probably won't recognize Garak, but he wouldn't mind working with an alien, because he's pretty used to that. So yeah, having another guy around who can work the greenhouse is great. Especially if Garak can contrive to use his skills to help them make kneepads and/or gloves to make for easier farm work.

maybe they should ask the agrii for that

[tailorspy]

Garak is used to having a bunch of aliens around, what is even living with other Cardassians?? He doesn't remember anymore. He's used to having humans roaming about by now, it'll be just like the station (if you ignore that everything is broken and overgrown).

Yesss all this sounds great. Gardeners assemble!

[doubled_speed]

Dude when you say Assemble he's always there.

[unbearablynaive]

Vision is definitely interested in making the greenhouse as efficient as possible, and he's discovered (along with Tommy and Katara) that the big shallow lake to the south is being formed by a busted water pipe coming out of the water treatment facility, which is next to the power plant. Cyan 22 on the map.

So! With this in mind, he'd definitely be happy to get things running properly. Delta's been working on getting the power plant running so if you need someone with that data point I can toss him your way as well.

[tailorspy]

Fantastic!! Garak will no doubt poke Vision at some point then, and try to gather as much information about the greenhouse and farm as well as the water supply system, so once he realizes that he can help, he'll want to keep him around for sure.

[art_of_war]

Thrawn would definitely be on board for getting the water supply working. He is something of a jack-of-all-trades so in a pinch, he would probably fit wherever he's put.

He's not staying at the hotel at present though. I'm trying to think up an IC excuse for how he might know this is a thing.

[tailorspy]

That's okay! He can easily run into Garak as he explores and tries to figure out how the plumbing works and what's wrong with it, Thrawn could just run into him somewhere and express his interest. Let me know if that works for you!

[art_of_war]

I think Tommy's got pipes/plumbing handled. So handwaving a meeting with Garak is not necessary...I always want to thread a 'first meeting' out anyway because meeting Thrawn can be a trip. Or it could be totally mundane and nothing special. We just don't know.

[tailorspy]

Fair enough. Also, the Tommy player has just poked me about a thread of yours, and Tommy leading Thrawn over to Garak. So we can set up a thread for their first meeting after that one, if that works for you?

[art_of_war]

Sounds like a plan <3

[tailorspy]

I have an open/intro log so we can set something up there. Among other things I mention Garak exploring the city and trying to learn the plumbing and irrigation system in the city, so I think we can use that as a starting point. If the prompts don't work for you though, I can write us something more specific!

Oh right sorry, forgot to link the post. here it is!

[kallig]

Woop well I saw this really late, but Altair is extremely motivated by having a steady supply of food being the little resource hoarder that he is, so he's got the agriculture skill and would absolutely be down to help.

[tailorspy]

It is never too late! Honestly I just wanted to get a feel for who Garak would run into more often and who he'd see on a daily basis while working on the plumbing and the greenhouses.

[kallig]

He'd definitely see Altair coming and going, then! Most likely lurking a little out of the way but still making himself useful.

And should he be asked to, he'd be down for helping out with whatever might be necessary too.

[tailorspy]

That's okay, Garak will recognize him so he'll just keep pestering him and dragging him around to fix stuff. No lurking or hiding away, sorry buddy.