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WHO: Estelle, Joshua, and YOU?
WHERE: Outside the Bluobros house
WHEN: Julyish
WHAT: Building a better ~~mousetrap~~ chicken coop! In preparation for breeding more chickens, naturally.
WARNINGS: Probably not unless you bring them yourselves, u sinners.

[ If you hang around Bluo much, you’ve probably seen that one yard with the fence and the chickens (and chocobos) running around outside - but today, it’s bustling with activity of a different sort!

Joshua and Estelle are hard at work, surrounded by an assortment of lumber gathered from the more dilapidated buildings in town, and toiling away on a half-finished...something? It looks rather like it could be a chicken coop, if you’re familiar with what those look like, but it’s definitely got room for more than the five that are helpfully wandering around the yard and in and out of the way.

It’s coming along well! Mostly. ]

Estelle...you realize you’ve got that board upside-down, right?

....It has sides?

[She turns the board this way and that, frowning slightly as she examines it.

Things are definitely Going at least. At least this particular project doesn’t involve glue.]

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Only if we want a roof that's level all the way across.

[ They could make it completely lopsided and it would be much easier! Let's be real, the chickens probably wouldn't care.

But Joshua would. ]

[Joshua Bright, gaining yet another skillset as a professional chicken coop builder.]

Oh!

...yeah that might stink when it rains, a bit...

Edited 2018-07-24 02:33 (UTC)

Hold this one up so I can make sure it's straight, could you?

[ It seems straight enough, where he's holding a piece of the frame up, but it's hard to be sure, up close. ]

[Estelle will hold it up as instructed for Joshua to inspect, considering.]

So how many are we planning to make this fit again?

I figured we'd make room for a dozen, but we aren't going to hatch enough to go straight up to that, of course. We'll just add a couple at a time and see how it goes from there.

That sounds fair. Starting slow would give us time to figure out how this stuff works better, too.

[They spent a lot of time at the Perzel's growing up, but that didn't mean they'd been given straight up lessons in farm life. More like 'Take this, do that, pick this'.]

Right. We'll be able to up our capacity faster after the first try, even, but it'll give us a chance to find our footing.

[ For example, they're going to have to learn how to properly slaughter animals at some point. Despite the many, many things that have fallen to Joshua's blade over the years, a chicken has never been one of them, and while there's no doubt of his ability to physically behead one in a snap, he...thinks he might feel kind of bad? ]