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.

[stillarhino]

[He's heard that enough times that it's not weird to hear anymore.]

It's a both a' our hobby. You get on a skateboard an' move 'round this thing doin' tricks. Like this thing—

[He goes over to the banister beside the stairs.]

We can go down these, tryin' to balance on our board.

[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?

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[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]

[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.

[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!

[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?

[stillarhino]

More of the buildin' part. We got some plans but if anyone's got a better ideas for it, I'm down to hear what they got.

[empyrean_mirror]

I can put you in touch with a couple construction crews, then. I've been informed I'm not allowed to pick up a saw of my own accord.

[He can SEE you glaring, Alhaitham.]

I was thinking though...if you want some sloped hills, you could make them out of the earth itself instead of wood and concrete, as long as the surface you skate on is paved, right? There are trees nearly as strong as steel even in this world, if you wanted a kind of naturalistic vibe to go with the remains of the amphitheater. If that's the kind of thing that interests you, I can definitely help with that.

[stillarhino]

That'd help us loads! Thanks, Birdie!

[Considering his interest piqued, but he scrunches his brows together.]

Slopes made outta earth? Ain't ever seen none a' that 'fore. Back where I'm from, they jus' used concrete an' there was a coupla things made outta wood. Havin' a hard time seein' what you sayin'.

[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?

[beshackled]

I remember skates being aquatic in nature.

[He inclines his head to one side, curious.]

What are your skates like?

[stillarhino]

[Since when???]

They's flat an' got wheels so we can get on them an' do tricks.

[This is definitely the first time he's heard about skates being in water.]

You sure you ain't talkin' 'bout wakeboardin' or somethin'?

[beshackled]

I... suppose one might entertain another to ride upon its back as one might utilize a board. Skates are certainly flat enough.

I don't think we've put wheels on living creatures though.

[He pauses.]

Not yet.

[And another, quieter murmur.]

I wonder how that would work... it would be difficult to accomplish such a feat with connective tissues. Mayhap something like how the hippokampos manages with a detachable head...?

video; un: seasaltkeys

[seasaltkeys]

It's a skatepark! For skateboarding. Eventually.

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

[seasaltkeys]

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

[seasaltkeys]

[He shrugs.]

That's what he calls me.

video; un: seasaltkeys

[seasaltkeys]

Not for skateboarding.

I don't know about flying skates.

[stillarhino]

[If he was confused earlier, his expression has moved on to shock instead, eye wide and brows high on his forehead.]

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold up, yo! Who said anythin' 'bout it bein' alive?!

[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

[weisshappened]

You ride the board with wheels on banisters?

[This is... a weird hobby.]

So where do bowls and pipes come in?

[weisshappened]

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