02 | video 💀 skate park help

[stillarhino]

Type: Video
Sender ID: soundsurfer (Beat) and seasaltkeys (Roxas)
To: Everyone
Subject: Help wanted for skate park
Warnings: None

Aight, so me and Checkers are trying to make a skate park over at Hero's Rest and we gonna need some help.

[Beat moves aside to show off the State of the Skate Park. It is obvious that it needs quite a bit of Help. He stands in what looks to be the middle of a repurposed amphitheater. The only things that have been set up is a ramp and a grind rail from the stairs that are already part of the original architecture.]

It ain't much right now, but we got a lotta plans.

[Setting aside the shellphone, he rummages through his sketchbook, eventually flipping to a page with said plans. He holds it up to reveal a very rough drawing of his and Roxas' dream skate park for all to see.]

We thinkin' 'bout puttin' up a half-pipe somewhere 'round here— [He starts moving around, pointing out to a space each time. Boy, does he look excited about it, grinning from ear to ear. Very much like a kid in a candy store.] —coupla pyramids somewhere in the middle, an' a buncha rails and ramps all 'round. Yo, Checkers! Am I missin' anythin'?

[Roxas can be seen in the background, cleaning up part of the amphitheater that they hadn't gotten to. He turns to Beat.]

Maybe a bowl somewhere?

Nah, you's right. Gotta add that to the plan. [Then Beat turns back to the shellphone.] That too. Anyways, it's gonna be a lotta work, so if can help us out, we gonna owe you big time, yo! Jus' name your price!

[ooc: Beat is red and Roxas is blue. Either one of them or both will be answering replies!]

Comments

video; un: weishappened

[weisshappened]

What... exactly am I looking at, here?

[What is a skate park. Why are you putting half a pipe somewhere? And a bowl? It's not a kitchen.]

"Checkers"?

[stillarhino]

[Beat points over to Roxas again.]

I'm talkin' 'bout him, yo. Tha's Checkers.

[It just makes sense to Beat with Roxas' motif and all.]

Lemme guess. You ain't ever heard of skateboardin' 'fore?

[weisshappened]

Really, now.

[Uh oh. That's funny. Oh no that's funny. Sorry, Roxas.]

Never heard of it, no. Don't think it exists in our world.

video; un: seasaltkeys

[seasaltkeys]

It's a skatepark! For skateboarding. Eventually.

[Obviously there is still a lot of work to be done.]

[weisshappened]

You're going to have to walk it back a bit. "Skate boarding"?

[empyrean_mirror]

...[Kaveh really needs to start advertising he's an architect more often.]

Just to confirm, the idea of this is to be a good place to...skate?

[stillarhino]

[And this is why they put out a help ad.]

Yeah, skateboardin' mostly. But if anyone want to use to for other stuff, I ain't got no problem with that.

[empyrean_mirror]

Hmm...skateboarding's not that common in Sumeru, but I can think of a few ideas.

Are you looking for designs or just people to help with construction work?

[seasaltkeys]

Yeah, eventually! With like, lots of places to do tricks and stuff like that!

video

[obliviscere]

Checkers? [ Oh no, she likes it enough to laugh. ]

I think it looks great so far! I already told Roxas I'd be happy to help with anything. I'll probably be best at painting.

[stillarhino]

Fits 'im real well, yeah? [To think some people disagree with the nicknames he gives them.]

You paint too? You an' me can collab, yo!

[obliviscere]

It she's! I wonder if he'd mind if I started using it too...

[ Oh boy do her eyes light up! ]

I'm not that great, but I'd love to! You should show me your art if you have any here

[seasaltkeys]

[He shrugs.]

That's what he calls me.

[Video] un: beshackled

[beshackled]

[The robed man on the screen looks confused. Very confused. His brows furrow, nose squinching as he attempts to imagine such a facility.]

Is not... water essential for skates? Or did someone create a flying skate? Are there flying skates now?

[stillarhino]

[And, similarly, Beat looks back with a similar confused expression on his face.]

Hold up. Why'd you even need water for skating, yo?

video; un: seasaltkeys

[seasaltkeys]

Not for skateboarding.

I don't know about flying skates.

text | un: astudyinviolet

[astudyinviolet]

[ These sure are words that are put together to form some meaning. ]

I have never seen a roller rink that looks like that. Why the addition of the obstacles?

[ He's thinking of roller skating done on completely flat surfaces. ]

text; un: seasaltkeys

[seasaltkeys]

For tricks and stuff like that!

[stillarhino]

[Roller rink? It takes a bit for it to come to him, guessing that he means something something related to roller skates. Huh. Don't hear a lot about that in Japan.]

thats cause it aint one yo
these things is for doing tricks
probably works better with inline skates but i guess you can give it a shot with roller skates too

[He hasn't seen it done but he's absolutely open to it.]

video; id: ramuhs

[ramuhs]

[Well that's uh. ...Curious...

He's certain a particular architect will have his hands all over this, but he can't help but wonder. That and he recognizes Roxas, so might as well say hi.]

Well that's quite an interesting place. Is a skate park like some sort of playground?

video; un: seasaltkeys

[seasaltkeys]

Roxas has to think for a moment, considering.]

I...guess kinda? But the point isn't to climb on anything, it's to skateboard and do tricks and stuff!

[stillarhino]

Guess you can call it that.

[He looks around the amphitheater. He gets why someone older might think that.]

Ain't for anyone who ain't plannin' to skate though. Can't have anyone gettin' hit 'cause they's jus' standin' 'round.

video; un: skyglider

[skyglider]

[ah...nostalgia.]

Tell me how I can help.

[stillarhino]

[Link, my man. Beat knew he could count on you.]

Yo! You wouldn't happen to know how to put stuff like this together, do ya?

[Or at least know how to do some type of carpentry, maybe?]

[seasaltkeys]

You know how to build stuff? Or like, make a smooth bowl in the ground?