SPRING CLEANING [OPEN]

[lovely_wind]

Who: ALL OF YOU NERDS
What: CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!!!
Where: ABSOLUTELY FREAKING EVERYWHERE
When: RIGHT NOW
Warnings: Chemical burns??? IDK


There was no escape in sight. As far as anyone could tell, they were all stuck here on this mysterious floating island for the time being, and they would have to make do with what they could find. You'd think they would be well off in an AWESOME MANSION, except that the mansion is... a little worse for wear. Okay, a LOT worse for wear. The place was a mess.

Flurrie would not stand for it.

A woman of her tastes and sensibilities would be all for living it up in a huge, fancy mansion, but certainly not one in this state. And so, she took some initiative. Early one morning, she found a megaphone and stood outside the front of the mansion, barking orders loudly to the other inhabitants.

"EVERYONE GET OUT HERE, PRONTO!!"

Once everybody was gathered (as gathered as they were able to at this time of day, anyway), she yelled a little less:

"All right, everyone! I think we've been lounging around long enough! This place is an absolute disaster, and I cannot abide it another minute. Today I proclaim that we're going to make this mansion spic and span! And we're not going to stop until it sparkles! Now who's with me~?"

[HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: Step 1: Pick a location. Step 2: CLEAN THAT SHIT. Step 3: Tag around and help clean the mansion YAAAY! OR, you can do none of the above and screw around the entire time! YAAAY?]

Comments

Outside the foyer: REACTIONS/ARRIVALS

[lovely_wind]

[Flurrie woke everyone up for this!?]

Re: Outside the foyer: REACTIONS/ARRIVALS

[garmentgoddess]

[Rene is the first one there, with an apron and a basket and somehow a really fresh-faced eager expression despite it being Stupid O'clock. She had been planning to clean anyway, after all]

Re: Outside the foyer: REACTIONS/ARRIVALS

[iamtheeggman]

[Cleaning shit was what robot minions were for. But seeing as he was short a few hundred robots here, Eggman had little choice but to get his hands dirty. The only people he would do such a thing for were his wife and daughter.

So. There he was.

Stupid love and affection.]

[trustycrowbar]

[Why. Why this. Why so EARLY. Gordon isn't beyond getting up early, but, you know, with sufficient sleep predating it. He squints at the buxom wind spirit like a gangly mole that's been prodded out of its den.]

Look, Flurrie, any chance on us getting some coffee before before we start this?

[Or a shot of adrenaline straight into the spinal column? Because that's probably what it's going to take for him.]

The theater

[lovely_wind]

[Surprising no one, Flurrie claimed the theater. If she's not busy running over the stage with a push broom (oh my god there's like two inches of dirt up there), she's dusting and polishing each seat individually. Is she singing? Of course she is.]

Re: The theater

[iamtheeggman]

What I wouldn't give for a few hundred robotic minions about now...

[He grumbled as he started to scrub down flat surfaces with a sponge. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THIS PLACE WAS CLEANED...]

Kitchen? KITCHEN!

[garmentgoddess]

[Rene quickly set to work cleaning out the kitchen. An army marches on its stomach! Bring paper towels.]

[blazebottom]

There wasn't going to be any sort of cheerfulness going around unless they up and set up the kitchen so folks could have nice filling meals! At least, you know, that's what Riwane was thinking when she ventured in with a goal in mind!

Clean it all so she can start having some food cause the energy furnace that was her body was not very happy with the lack of food. Seeing someone already here didn't surprise her, she was SURE that she just couldn't be the only one who was hellishly hungry. So with a chipper and bright smile she waved as she quickly took to cleaning.

"Oy'! Pretty nice day fur cleanin' huh?"

Tech Dungeon. Of course!

[shiest_sunbeam]

Easy pickings for Ronnae to go and clean up and out the tech dungeon. No only would it be useful and productive, but she's already getting first picks on a lot of the stuff down here! Her mind was going a million steps a second and she was having way more fun than anyone cleaning should really be having.

Re: Tech Dungeon. Of course!

[infinitelychewie]

Chewie had only just heard about this part of the mansion. He'd been sleeping in his busted spaceship, but still had a need to fix the thing.

"Hrrrrr." he purred in greeting to the green skinned Humanoid as he entered. (Huh. Those proportions made him think Twilek. But the pointed ears, lack of head tails, green skin and tusks were definitely not customary for that species. More like Gamorrean? Cross bred, maybe? He'd never heard of that before but whatever. It was nowhere near his place to judge.)

There was a lot of stuff down here but.... why did it look so DIFFERENT to the technology he knew??

[trustycrowbar]

Oh my god...

[Gordon had eventually followed her into the tech dungeon himself, carrying a box of cleaning supplies. There was dust caking everything down there, and enough spiders to form their own tiny little conquering nation.]

[These were not the reason for his exclamation, however.]

Is that an old BeefyComputer 1500?

[He picks up a grimy gray box, the light of recognition and nostalgia in his eyes.]

Oho my god, it is! I haven't seen one of these in decades! When I was a kid, these were the shit. I'd blow up demons on it for days on end. Hm, I wonder if it still works...

Main entrance lobby and Hallways.

[golonghorns]

Look. Cleaning is all well and good but there's not much point cleaning if things are busted, is there?

Joel had found some supplies in a disused shed on the Mansion grounds. Hammer, nails, bits of wood. Not the greatest supplies ever but they were what he had.

A lot of the siding boards and cladding was coming loose in the hallways and so he'd wrangled himself together a makeshift tool belt and was fixing it all as best as he could. This is probably going to shake loose a little dust but hey, small price to pay right.

[befantasizedabout]

During one of the times when Joel was taking a break, a tall and well built man came up to him with a lax greeting. "So, don't take this the wrong way but you're the first normal looking person I've met here and I just need to know. Am I dead and this is some sort of odd limbo, or am I really seeing... well all of them?" he said as he pointed to passing folk from the Academy.

Bathing area

[punchtheflute]

Sonny had never been afraid of hard work! He was more than ready to roll up his sleeves and pitch in. And what area was most essential after a hard day's work?

The Bath!

Because there were bound to be a bunch of people who were dusty, dirty, sore and tired after a day spent making the Mansion livable, Sonny decided he should inspect the bathing area and see what could be done about getting it functional for everyone to use later.

He found a half empty bottle of bleach, a bucket and some brushes and rags by rummaging around in the various closets and cupboards. Hopefully, he'd be up to the task!

Re: Bathing area

[ladyoftheshootingstars]

Rosalina was also no stranger to hard work. After raising hundreds of thousands of children in her long life, she knew exactly what needed to be done. She had replaced her gown with something more suited to manual labour, and rallied her children to help. She still worried about all those on the Comet Observatory, but until she could return, these little ones needed her help and guidance the most.

As they worked, Lumas would come to help carry supplies, brushes, rags, and mops to them, trying their best to help out.

"I wonder how long it's been since anyone was here," she asked.

Study

[tempus_fixit]

[There was a lot of dust in the shelves of study. And a lot of cobwebs. And plenty of ink phials covered in the grime of decades.]

[What there wasn't that much of, we're books. Lucca sighs audibly, as she scoops dust out of a shelf space.]

Aww... This just makes me wish I were back in the library at school. At least then there would be something in here.

Re: Study

[megabuster]

[Fortunately, cleaning was something Rock was good at. In fact, it was one of his primary functions before becoming Mega Man, so it felt good to be doing a project like this again.

That didn't mean he didn't sympathize with Lucca. He patted her shoulder, wielding his duster on an adjoining shelf.]

Yeah, it IS kinda sad that there's not a lot in here... But we can always fill it up in time, right?

Common Room

[rivalthunderbolts]

Jolt had a broom, and was using it on everything. Everything was covered in dust and cobwebs... It was making him sneeze every once in a while, blasting a bit of lightning every time he did.

Re: Common Room

[garmentgoddess]

Flashes of light, had someone got the power working? Rene rushed in, to find a guy emitting electricity. It was probably good that there wasn't any water around, or any slime that would need to be boiled off.

"Hello, need any help?"

The pool!

[birdlady]

[Holy crap guys, this place has a swimming pool!

...Too bad it's COMPLETELY DISGUSTING.

Fortunately, a little algae is no match for High Entia magic!... and a little elbow grease, of course. Melia found the pool net and was busy scooping out the gunk in the pool. Amazingly, her silk robes remained spotless despite the mess she was surrounding herself with.]

Re: The pool!

[garmentgoddess]

Taking a break from the kitchen, Rene was walking around looking for anything else to help with. Ooh, a swimming pool! The pool parties at Lanseal had always been an exciting time. She laughed to herself, remembering when Juliana's top had been pulled off. They were real at least, settling a rumor. Rene had been too amazed to feel self-conscious.

"Um, hey there," she greeted. "Let me give you a hand with that."

Music Room

[vela_nova]

Perhaps the worst part about cleaning up the pile of musical instruments was hearing the TWANG of their strings and the unhealthy CLANG of metal grinding against metal when trying to move any of it. And for a cat with a good sense of hearing, it made Blaze wince every time she tried...

[drawin_on_trees]

If you think that's bad, try adding the frantic screaming of a hyperactive imp into the mix.

"MUSIC ROOM! MUSIC ROOM! MUSIC ROOM! I FOUND THE MUSIC ROOM!" Skull Kid announced as he ran circles around the room, not even noticing that Blaze was there.

Re: Music Room

[mach_n_roll]

"You okay there, Blaze?"

Sonic honestly wasn't going to do a damn thing to clean up the mansion. He determined that this morning, when he spoke to Eggman, the man having been roped into menial housework in the name of love.

...So anyway, there he is now. Dusting the piano with a cloth.

[awakeningwill]

Ordinarily, Zero's efforts would be focused on scouting the perimeter, assessing the structure's defenses - but there was a more dire need that called to him. And that was the inescapable, ever-encroaching deadline of his energy reserves running out. Without an energy source, he and Harpuia were on a fast track to becoming junk. Or worse, parts for someone else to use.

That was the reason he was going through the dust-covered inventory of these random rooms. Most of the stuff he had sifted through seemed pretty useless, but if there was the smallest chance that there was something useful lying around, then he had to search. The reploid wasn't normally one for desperation, but as his energy tanks ran lower and lower, he could feel the sluggishness creep into his limbs. Harpuia was probably faring a little better considering he probably had a full recharge upon arrival to the island, but even then, the guardian must've felt their time limit breathing down his neck. They wouldn't last unless they found something, soon.

It was in one partially demolished dorm that he found that something. Mingling with the shattered pieces of window pane, Zero's eye caught an unusual glimmer. A disc? If there was some data on that thing that could be reconstituted, maybe it'd reveal more of the mansion's secrets. Anything, at this point, was valuable.

He picked it up, but a strange resonance from within it gave him pause. What was this energy? Was it reacting to something unique about his body? (Not an impossible scenario, for him.) It didn't feel evil, just... off.

[megabuster]

Rock had no such fears of running out of power. His systems could be recharged directly, but he had solar cells that meant he could last without full recharges. Zero and Harpuia, however, didn't have that luxury. They didn't have the resources to adapt the two to use Rock's solar technology. As time went on, Rock himself started to worry about them too. He wanted to do something to help, but what could he do?

It was this problem he was wrestling with when he heard a noise coming from a nearby dorm. He set aside his broom and looked into the room.

"Zero? What is it?" he asked.