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Offline Brash and Carri

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #30 on: April 25, 2014, 02:28:38 pm »
"Actually," Brash says before Jewel can speak, "You can stick around here and I'll figure it out myself, feel free to find another job to do on the side." Brash turns to leave before a shadow envelopes her and she's suddenly taken into the sky by Carri.

"Let me explain!" Carri pleads as they head off towards the park.

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #31 on: April 25, 2014, 04:49:38 pm »
Carri returns to see Jewel still around, landing in front of her she gives a big wave. "Hi! Sorry about that. Uh..." Carri tries to recall the prior topic, "Did you get the job?"

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #32 on: April 25, 2014, 05:03:31 pm »
Jewel stands up as straight as she could as Brash set about promptly measuring different parts of her, though as soon as the bag of five bits was placed in front of her, Jewel looked down at it and thought to herself quietly so as not to disturb Brash. So this was what it felt like to be paid for something, why was it so unfulfilling? Maybe it was just because she wasn't used to the idea of working for money, or the fact that she expected to have to do a little more to earn it, but bits were bits, and for a pony that would have to be struggling to break even over the next months or even years, she would take what she could get where she could get it.

When Brash asked asked Jewel what else she could do, Jewel opened her mouth to answer only getting out a "Well, uhh--" before she was cut off, told to stick around for a while while Brash figured it out. Suddenly, Jewel found herself alone in this strange place, looking around at the different things. This was all so foreign to her, perhaps it would be best to stay where she was for now. Scooping up the five bits, she placed them in her saddlebag before finding an empty wall to sit against, waiting for either of them to come back.

When Carri came back Jewel looked up and said quietly, "Well, I was paid for something, so I -guess- I got the job. Brash wanted me to tell her what else I'm good at doing other than..." she swallowed a little indignantly, "... other than standing around. I didn't really get the chance to say, though. Where did she go?"

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #33 on: April 25, 2014, 05:48:54 pm »
"Busy, busy!" Carri answers, "I'll tell her your answer though if you'd like, and don't worry if you don't know 'cause Brash will still have things you can do." She nods reassuringly.

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #34 on: April 27, 2014, 03:11:52 pm »
"Oh," Jewel replies plainly, unsure of what else she could expect. Brash did seem to be the kind of pony who had too many things to deal with at any one time and thus had to be everywhere at the same time, very busy that is. If she was busy though, and unable to give Jewel something to do to justify what she was being paid, then what was Jewel to do other than stand there with Carri, who may or may not have had something to do. Then again, maybe she was stuck in the same boat. "Well, if you are okay with telling her, my guardians once told me I was very good with working with gems, and I don't mind them, I guess. I've wondered a few times what being a jewelry-making pony would be like." She paused before adding quickly, "But I don't want to give Brash the wrong idea about her hiring me, I'm also good at standing around!"

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #35 on: April 28, 2014, 08:31:50 pm »
Carri nods frantically with a smile, attempting to absorb this information. When she stops she unleashes a deep gasp, "Gems? Brash did say something about a pile of sapphires she's been saving up. We're not allowed in the basement when she isn't here but I'm sure she needs something done with those."

It then dawns upon Carri that Brash is busy and she's been left with no tasks, no direction. "Free time!" She cheers and takes to the air, darting into her room through the second floor window. She then flies out with a wooden chest and drops it in from of Jewel, landing beside it. "Wanna play anything?" Carri cracks open the chest to reveal a large variety of stuffed animal toys.

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #36 on: April 29, 2014, 04:56:34 pm »
Jewel flinched and recoiled once more as the chest was dropped out of the air right in front of her. As much as it had been happening to her of late, she would probably never get used to the idea of heavy objects nearly landing on her. What could this chest have been full of, and what did it have in relation to free time? She found out soon enough as Carri opened the chest to reveal any young fillies' delight: an entire collection of stuffed animals. Peering into the chest, Jewel was immediately awestruck; these were the kind of stuffed animals that some of the children in the orphanage would have to fight over because of how popular they were, and because of that Jewel never really had a chance to use them.

Being eighteen years old however, Jewel wondered if she could even play with those without drawing looks of ridicule. They were children's toys for a reason, and Jewel's childhood had passed her by. She wasn't supposed to be playing with toys anymore, right? She was too old for that. Besides, she had responsibilities now. She had to find someplace to live so she didn't have to spend the night outside in the cold, even if it was still early. Jewel looked about as she and Carri sat outside, sighing before she said, "Maybe later, Carri. I don't really have anyplace to stay the night, and I don't want to have to sleep outside. If I could find a place to live for the time being, then I might be able to play, but until then..." she let the sentence drop, figuring that Carri knew the rest.

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #37 on: May 02, 2014, 04:01:03 am »
"Didn't Brash invite you to stay? There should be a cot inside." Carri thinks for a moment, "But if you want to find your own place I'd understand." She nods slowly closing the chest back up.

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #38 on: May 03, 2014, 02:47:32 pm »
Jewel perked up a little when Carri mentioned that Brash had invited her to stay at this place, and that there was a cot inside. Perhaps she just wasn't paying attention at the time, or too focused on not messing up her only task of standing in one place to realize that she had been offered a place to stay. She wasn't sure if staying in a place like this would necessarily be good for her health, but surely it was better than the alternative. "No, no..." Jewel began, "I'm fine with staying here. It's not like I have anywhere else I can go. Could you show me where it is, if it isn't too much of a trouble for you that is..."

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #39 on: May 04, 2014, 06:53:57 am »
Carri does an aerial flip in excitement and slams the chest to make sure it's shut tight. "This way!" She announces, grabbing hold of the chest and flying into the house, stopping at a flight of stairs in the back.

The first floor is terribly dusty with stray pieces of broken wood and small metal objects splayed across the ground. The stairs look unstable, but the worst they would do is creak heavily under any reasonable weight. Carri makes sure Jewel is following before heading up. The second floor is very clean with a fluffy pink carpet, a large bed and one cot, a big dresser, and broken windows. The forest green folding cot stands out in the brightly colored room and Carri retrieves another from the dresser to place nearby the one that was already out. "Brash says if anypony that ends up staying here is willing to help, we could renovate the building for business and make more bedrooms in the process. Until then, infinite sleepovers!"

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #40 on: May 05, 2014, 10:25:14 pm »
Jewel follows Carri into the house, watching her step as she walked around the various bits of clutter and debris. For a house that was being lived in, this place was very dusty and out of sorts. Hopefully she didn't step on any upturned nails or scratch herself on the debris. Nothing like getting a bit of tetanus on the first day out in the real world, though with Jewel's luck, it wouldn't surprise her. The stairs were nothing to scoff at either; the creak that came forth as Jewel set a single hoof on them was practically enough to make her jump a bit, proceeding with the utmost caution as the creaking followed her up. The further she went in, the more Jewel wondered if this was supposed to be some sort of haunted house that was to be used during Nightmare Night. Creaky stairs, gloomy and dim lighting, dusty floors... all that was missing was the atmospheric music and an actor wearing tattered rags and face paint jumping out and startling her.

The difference between the first floor and the second floor was enough to make her forget all of that though. It looked so much cleaner, brighter, friendlier, and... more pink. The only real thing that Jewel could see wrong with this room was the broken window, which must be terribly drafty at night, but that was nothing a heavy set of curtains couldn't fix, hopefully. Walking over to Carri as she set up one of the folding cots, Jewel looked over to the larger bed and said, "Well, I suppose I could help with the renovations, though I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to that, nor do I know how to properly use any tools. Is that your bed over there?"

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #41 on: May 07, 2014, 08:52:04 pm »
Carri give a quick few nods, "Yep! Once Brash let me know I could stay I flew all of my stuff in from Canterlot." Carri looks around making sure her room is clean enough for company, "Brash said she only wants the basement, so you could even do what you want with the first floor. I was thinking I could run a delivery business from there but I wouldn't know how to set that up."

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #42 on: May 08, 2014, 03:14:03 pm »
Jewel looked back at the bed, then back to Carri, a little surprised. For some reason, she had a feeling that Brash was the one who held claim to this bed while Carri was the one left to sleep on the cots. Of course, that didn't stop the basement suite that Brash apparently had all to herself from being just as good if not better than this one. Perhaps Brash wasn't as harsh of an employer as Jewel thought she would be, though there was still a bit of an issue that clawed at the back of her mind, and it made Jewel want to bring it up as Carri said that she wanted to run a delivery service out of the first floor of the building, "A delivery business? That sounds like it would be something you would be good at." Ironic, given the fact Jewel nearly suffered a heart attack just meeting Carri, "Umm... I'm sorry if this is a little bit off topic, but... how old are you and Brash? You both seem a little young to be running a business, much less hiring ponies."

Offline Carri Air

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #43 on: May 09, 2014, 12:30:11 am »
"Oh, well, I asked Brash but she said it's rude to ask a pony's age. I know you weren't trying to be rude but... I mean, she doesn't have her cutie mark, but she said she's done with school. I'm just out of school myself and Brash gave me my first job." Avoiding actually answering the question Carri's mind drifts to another topic, "I got my cutie mark for lifting heavy stuff!" Carri shows off her winged anvil mark, "I'm not very fast but I think I can lift a whole ton!"

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Re: Diamond in the Rough
« Reply #44 on: May 10, 2014, 01:08:59 pm »
Jewel, seeming to not mind the avoiding of the question, proceeded to admire Carri's cutie mark. The answer Carri gave was probably good enough for her; they were just out of school, so they couldn't have been as young as Jewel previously thought. Looking at Carri's mark, Jewel nodded as Carri explained that it was for lifting heavy things while flying. She definitely gave a very good demonstration on the lifting part before, but holding onto it and landing with it were things that Jewel could probably suggest the need to be worked on. After Carri's demonstration, Jewel looked back at her own, which was a cut gem. It wasn't for anything near as impressive as Carri's but it was there. "I guess that would explain why you were carrying so much for Brash when you almost... umm... dropped in on me. How did you ever find out that you were good at heavy lifting?"

 


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