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[dendroculi]

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[roseoftexas]

[ oh my god.

kaveh building ikea furniture. ]

Keeps the cost down. You pay for labour too, right?

[ he makes a motion with one hand, lazily. ] Take out the labour cost of building and transporting the furniture, and congratulations, you save money, the customer saves money so they’ll probably purchase more, and you’ll be able to put more things in the van for them in one go.

[ tah daaah. ]

[dendroculi]

...it's an interesting concept. The craftspeople wouldn't like it much, but it could be useful for getting furniture to parts of the country where there aren't many people to begin with...

[she hums.]

I'll have to talk it over with Kaveh...

[roseoftexas]

I don’t think they care much about the craftspeople. Then again, most stuff is flat-packed or automated nowadays. It’s only the rich people who buy custom-made pieces on the regular anyway.

[ hm? ]

Kaveh?

[dendroculi]

Mmhm. Have you read through the "DATA" app? He's an architect. But he's good with interiors, too, so it would be interesting to see what he might do with that kind of a concept.

[roseoftexas]

Oh, the profiles.

Got a little bit distracted by everything else, but I had a glance. You think an architect would be into rigid, flat-pack furniture with an instruction manual?

[dendroculi]

He likes helping people. And if it's executed properly, it's a concept that could help a lot of people.

[roseoftexas]

… Put together enough floating shelves to make a shelter, that kind of thing?

[dendroculi]

More like put together furniture that's portable enough to go wherever people need it and functional enough for it to do whatever they need it to do.

[she glances at the shelves.]

I don't know if all of this would work for what I'm thinking of, exactly, but the concept of it... it has potential.

[roseoftexas]

…

Some of the stuff here’s pretty bulky, for the record. [ he’s just looking at one of the display bedrooms and imagining the size of the flat-pack for that bed. ] Not exactly portable and convenient. You’d need a base to house it, and luck that no one else sneaks in and claims it for their own while you’re out.

[dendroculi]

Mm, it would be hard to keep track of. And since we don't get housing until we have teams, carrying it around everywhere would be difficult before that happened.

[roseoftexas]

… Right, the teams thing. No pressure.

[ that was the only communication they’d had so far, wasn’t it? find a team, and do it sharpish. ]

If anyone’s really freaked out about death, they’re going to have to get over it pretty quickly and crack on.

[dendroculi]

I would hope everyone would realize that panicking won't help matters here, but... it's a concerning situation to be in, so I suppose I can't judge anyone too harshly if they do. Still, they'll need to sort things out for themselves.

[roseoftexas]

[ he is listening to much wisdom from someone who comes up to like his waist. what a friday. ]

People will panic anyway. Some guy already threw his phone so hard I’m surprised it didn’t break.

[dendroculi]

[SIGHS]

...that's unfortunate. It seems like a useful tool, and I'm not sure how anyone would fix it if he did end up damaging it. He should be more careful.

[roseoftexas]

He should.

[ will he be? we will find out. ]

Unless we find a phone repair place down an alley, we’re out of luck for the moment if any of them get broken. So, try not to drop yours.

[dendroculi]

I'll be careful with it, don't worry.

[she is Responsible.]

[roseoftexas]

Ah.

[ she's like two foot tall and the most responsible person he's met so fair. wao. ]

So, you've just been looking around this place? Not much else?

[dendroculi]

I went for a walk through the rest of the city before I came here. But there are some other places I'm going to stop by to examine in more detail once I'm finished here, too.

Have you also been looking around?

[roseoftexas]

There's not a lot else to be doing. Looking for an obvious exit didn't work out, and looking for a less obvious one isn't exactly yielding results either.

[dendroculi]

All the places we can't get to are a little bit annoying...

[she is used to locked doors but



she doesn't like locked doors.]

[roseoftexas]

The barrier we bounce off of and the doors that won't be kicked open?

[ now there are more locked doors


truly, the afterlife is hell. ]

[dendroculi]

[she nods.]

...it doesn't feel like we're being kept out of something. Rather, it feels almost like we're being contained.

[roseoftexas]

It's kinda dome like, isn't it? Not exactly, but everyway you go there's something stopping you going past a certain point.

[dendroculi]

Yes... that's what it feels like.

[roseoftexas]

So.

The big question's "why", then.