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[2 = waterproof
4 = sturdiness]

Preacher was going to murder him, slowly, while he slept. Or something. She sighed. She was just glad he hadn't brought up that stupid night with the humiliating tears - ********, even thinking about it made her squirm. And it looked like operation Harper wasn't working either. Preacher was done. Her toes curled in her boots. Sighing, she pulled the tarp out into a v shape, weighting the edges with heavy rocks.

"Yeahhhh," she said, sarcasm dripping off every word. "A blanket on a rope don't make a tent, ya lackwit." Grunting, she heaved a rather large rock onto the last corner. The tent now fluttered open. It still sagged in the middle but it would do. She hoped. Putting two fingers to her lips, she whistled piercingly.

"Instructor! Come n' test our tent afore I kick it down!" Bending, she unrolled the bed roll and stuffed it inside. With a huff, she wriggled inside after it. "Does this even fit two peoples?"

Wow, Preacher had actually dropped it. It was surprising enough that Axel hardly even noticed her sarcastic insults. Mollified, Axel bent and squashed himself into the tent after her. Thanks to the sagging middle and haphazard arrangement of rocks pinning down the corners, it was a tight fit. Cozy. And the warm yellow light filtering through the blood-spattered sagging canvas walls was cheerful and sort of romantic.

Squished up shoulder to shoulder with Preacher, Axel leaned in closer to her. He had never learned to let things go with the fearsome girl. As soon as she stopped digging at him, he felt the irresistable urge to dig at her.

"Y'know I turned Harper down because of you, right?" Axel whispered, his lips brushing against Preacher's cheek. Then he turned away, wrapped his arms around his knees and stared innocently into the distance, or at least into a interesting brown water stain on the side of the canvas tent. The water stain seemed to bode ill for the next part of the test.

"Preacher, don't be kicking it down before I can get a good look now. Watchya two got here lemme see.." Ervette laughed, shaking her head at the younger woman. Again the woman was ready bucket in hand and a coy look on her face. Inspecting the shelter structure she was mildly impressed, they'd done well and seemed to know what they were doing. However, based on the rest of the setup and how they'd laid the tarp she already had a good idea it would leak. Standing before the navy haired girl and the blonde taller man the woman waited until both were inside the shelter, before rudely turning the bucket over and pouring water on it. For a moment, it seemed like the tarp would hold, but much to the likely dismay of the trainees below several beads dripped onto then both as the structure simply was not as complete as need in this instance.

"Close..but not close enough. Here." She reached over, adjusting the ties so the rope was better secure, taking out the dip in the center of the tarp instead of pooling water all in the middle it would harmlessly run off the edge. Backing off a bit she looked between the two, she'd kept an eye on them, having heard their history for a bit of violence. The fact they were accomplishing tasks together was good, having team mates at each others throats was the last thing the instructor wanted to deal with. "Alright, you two can head onto first aid when your ready." Crossing her arms a bit she looked thoughtful before moving along, not fussing t hem for their close proximity. She'd separate them if needed, she was content to let them work it out like adults.

In response to all of Larisa's questions, Jeong smiled and nodded reassuringly along until she finished speaking. Then with a bright and clear voice he replied.

"No idea."

He returned to digging at the ground with a calm expression, unconcerned about the lack of a plan. Since this was a class they weren't in any real danger and could take all the time they needed to experiment. Obviously they wanted to finish before sun down but by then it'd be dark enough for them to pretend it'd been waterproof anyway. Tossing the dirt to the side into a pile, he continued to form the dip in the ground, widening it to allow them to lay inside. It was sweaty work and definitely not something to be done quickly but if he figured out the most efficient way to set this up before graduating it wouldn't be a problem in the future.

"Time for the tarp." About fifteen minutes later he deemed the space suitable for the next step and gestured for Larisa to help him lay the material over their den. It was going to be awkward to get into but after a few tests they managed to deem it enough space to fit inside. The tarp stretched out over their ditch and he began to cover the edges with dirt from the pile they'd made. It wasn't super secure at first but after piling more on it began to hold better. Placing a few rocks at what he deemed to be good support points, it was the best he could do with only amateur knowledge and a lack of other camping supplies.

"I'll cover the top, you start curving the opening down, we'll make a slight slant so the water drains out." He began to gently shove a layer of dirt over their tarp to conceal it. It wasn't the best camouflage from titans but honestly nothing was going to be. Besides, once it got dark they'd be able to handle it. Doing his best to shove their packs inside and form weak support pillars, Jeong-jae hoped his vision would turn out alright or at least hilariously horrible. He wanted to brag about his innovation to his brother or have a funny story to write Yoon Su about alter. Next time he tried this he'd look for the side of a hill to cut into since flat ground was proving a bit difficult.

KitsuneAura

I'm gonna roll for sturdiness and let you handle waterproofness! You can have Larisa request Jeong to do whatever in your next post and assume he does it. Let's have them call Ervette over at the end of your post so we can get to the first aid! Unless you want one more round of shelter stuff! : )

"I sure do, I am Hilda Rose. You must be Rennati!"

Hilda shifted her own bundle of supplies under her arm and held her hand out to shake. At the last moment she changed it to a fist bump instead, awkwardly bumping her hand against Ren's fingertips.

Oops. Maybe she didn't notice.

Hilda hadn't done well at the horse riding. She'd never ridden a horse before, never even considered a horse a viable means of transport. It intimidated Hilda to ride and move while depending on another living creature. Building a shelter sounded more like something Hilda could do, and she was confident as she thought over how to complete it. Hilda had always been good at making things. Hilda considered the supplies they'd been given. They didn't have much, just canvas and rope, really. "Okay, this is easy. We just need to look for some smallish to medium sized trees in the forest. Then we can both tie tautline hitches with the rope and we're all set, got it!?" Believing her instructions were simple, Hilda marched off to look for the right sized tree. Her expression was a little dreamy and unfocused.

"So where are you from?" Hilda asked vaguely, looking over a small tree. It seemed about the right height...

Farvardin nodded and looked around for a tree with a large trunk. "Well we can still 'weave' the branches together. Get a longer stick to act as the top support and from there put the other ones as the side. If there's still branches off of it with leaves or needles we can also use those to help keep water out. If I remember correctly pine branches work good for this." She explained, "Then we simply lean it against a tree with a large trunk, although a large rock would be better, and cover it with the tarp. Tie the tarp up some around the tree and it should help keep the water from running in on us."

She then walked over to the sticks she had spotted and grabbed a couple of the longer more studier ones. As she turned she noticed a branch barely hanging on a nearby tree. She walked over and grabbed it. Giving it a pull brought it down further but didn't break it. "Give me a hand with this. This branch will be good." She called out to him.

Larisa's mouth dropped open in shock. He had no idea!? For a moment she just knelt there staring at him while he happily dug away at his completely made up new type of shelter. Where had he even gotten the idea? And why would he pick now to test it? Her eyes strayed hopelessly back towards the trees and the little tents being set up amongst them, then her shoulders slumped. No, even if she did somehow convince him to go back, they'd have lost too much time. And even if that wasn't the case, she didn't want to offend him or ruin his impression of her or anything. All she could was keep digging, so that's what she did.

"W-well, I'm sure it'll, um, work out somehow." No amount of optimistic thinking was going to make it look anymore sturdy, but she guessed it did sort of look like it might make it through the test, maybe. Following his instructions while he found more dirt and leaves and rocks to put on top, she finally glanced it over to see if there was anything else they could add. It actually looked...as finished as it could get! Maybe it wasn't as bad an idea as she'd thought?

Shrugging, she crawled into it, wiggling around to attempt to get as comfortable as possible. Alright, maybe they should've dug a little deeper, this was kind of cramped even before Jeong came in. And with the tarp above, it was a little suffocating...Gulping down a few deep breaths of air, she called up for her partner to climb in so they could start the test and tried not to let the lack of space get to her. "U-um, we're ready over here!" She yelled, just as soon as Jeong had settled in.

Now for the terrifying moment of truth.

Doutei

leon_a_darkangel

Sturdiness was 3, Waterproof is 2, lol