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Koko merely giggled-- "He's probably hanging with Papi then!!" She mentioned excitedly, nodding quickly before looking over toward-- Huh?? Random drones came and took Nictor away, leaving the wild haired troll confused. She then shrugged. "I can help you! I'm strong too!" Koko exclaimed, feet padding along the floors and following the yellowblood into the cart, beginning to unload provisions from the trolley. "Hmmmf...!" Koko struggled, lifting the food back and forth before hearing the troll reply to her, eyes blinking. She seemed a little surprised-- Normally, she brought the topic.

Koko smiled again. "Ay, well, now y'know what to do when you see one! They're super scary right? But when they're muerto, y'know, dead, they can really help with um, healing! Because of all the nutrients they have, and stuff!" Koko grinned. "Your book wasn't completely wrong after all!" She lifted one more and placed the food down outside. "But they're really hard to kill. Gotta aim correctly and..." Kolako pretended to be holding her spear, holding a hand out for balance before aiming and then pretending to fire it into the air. "POW!" Obviously, she was imagining it, but the little wild troll could picture her shot land right through that plants's thin neck. She felt a lot cooler now, smiling before continuing to unload, feeling rather gleeful.

4) You climb up and down scaffolding collecting fallen parts and tools, looking like a majestic nut creature.

Caiden happily swung up and down stairs, scaffolding, and all sorts of places as he picked up yet more things. Why was it so messy around here!? There were boxes in the middle of the walkways, tools on the ground, even Engrav's table was all messy, it was just covered in nuts and bolts! Caiden giggled and shook his head at the yellowblood, Engrav was so messy sometimes!

Speaking of nuts and bolts, Caiden spotted the brownblood he had met at bloodfest! He remembered bringing her nut-beast back to her stand a few times! Caiden jumped down and skedaddled towards her. "YOUR LUTRIN!" The boy yelled as a greeting to the other brownblood. "Oh HEY! How is Shelly?! Is she all good?! I hope she liked all those nuts, huh. Wasn't that who the donation box was for? Its great seeing you! Weve got LOTS of nuts here, but sadly not the kind that come from trees. Tho, where do these nuts come from? Is there a tree that grows them?! Wouldn't that be COOL! Another kind of nut tree! Then you could go out and pick nuts and also nuts!"

And now, for a mini out-of-Poe-RP moment with Mahmud Seshat

"Man, I wonder what the hell's up with Facility three?"

Mahmud had been walking through the mess hall with lunch (a strange sort of... well... to be honest, it wasn't TOO dissimilar from what his mom would give him. Unfortunately.) when he heard two older trolls chatting over their meal.

One of them, a rather gruff looking female, took a scoop of her meal and began to chew. Again unfortunately, she did not seem to understand the concept of "finish chewing before speaking". "My buddy out there says its chaos, they keep scrambling like beetles in a bag."

"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, not enough people there I guess. Nobody minds working, but at this rate..."

Mahmud took a seat nearby to listen, feeling too awkward to ask them for more information himself.

"Yeah well, what can you do eh?"

Since they seemed like they were going to do jack all, the boy quickly shoveled food into his protein chute and left to find someone of authority.

"Hey. They need more people in Facility 3."

Quick. Short. Simple. And before someone could question him, he was off, trying to avoid any more questions. The less he'd have to talk to them, the better.

Sascha managed a genuine bark of laughter. Hemera had a good memory. That or he'd left an impression. Both were admirable. With Hemera's help Sascha was able to stop huffing and puffing long enough to talk properly. "Of course! S'why I'm here, after all. And who wouldn't be? Alternia hasn't seen the surface of its own moons in decades, much less the rest of the former empire."

Sascha at least made an effort to not immediately drop the girder onto the pile of steel beams. Regardless, its sheer weight caused the beam to hit the ground hard enough to shake the nearby scaffolding. Sascha gratefully returned to a proper standing position and dusted off his gloves.

"The prospect of beating Civisect into the dirt is just the icing on the cake." Sascha looked Hemera up and down. "That said, are you from around here? You don't seem like the type to be slumming it around here without a good reason."

As the pair stood among the girders, a couple more trolls sidled up to deposit a steel beam of their own. Sascha looked over at the direction they'd come, seeing a truck with yet more girders off to the side. He supposed this was the task he'd been assigned now, and began making his way around the pile towards the truck.

Something about the way Poe bounced made Mahmud jiggle in place a bit too, bouncing slightly on the tips of his toes as he smiled a bit more than usual. "Yeah! Lets go, lets go! I always see them around the mess hall!" Lately Mahmud had been running into quite a few head people in that area, whether or not they were eating. It was a great source for goss-- information. Yeah. Information.

"It's right down the hallway! Come on!" He still wouldn't touch Poe, but for a moment he had reached out and hesitated to continue. "Hey Poe! Do you need-- oh! I'm he/him, I'm definitely a boy. But do you want some help carrying those files around?" Before the other boy could reply, Mahmud scurried over and held his arms out for some of the blueprints. "Its not fair to make you carry it all by yourself. Harpommy taught me better than that... oh! What about your lusus? What are they like? My ommy is a big birdlady!"

Okay, he was losing patience now. Before Poe could relinquish some of the supplies, Mahmud reached out and plucked a few out of his arms himself. "Whats your favorite thing to do? Like... I like to build things, what about you? Are puns your favorite thing?" He called out to the other boy as he started towards the door, taking a slight right when he left the room.

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ツ Lutrin Weesil

Once the machine stopped spewing fire and other noxious gasses, Lutrin clambered down from Caiden's back. Removing her fedora, she pinched the sides and dusted the top. It had gotten slightly dishevelled during mechanical mishap. Several spots were stained black (well, blacker) from soot. Sticking her thumb in her mouth for some handy saliva, she wiped some of the offending dirt away. As Caiden spoke though, Lutrin startled.

Jamming her hat back on her head, she raised a finger in front of her lips. “Don't call me that!” she hissed. She looked around wildly. Thankfully no one had heard. “It's Spongy Bungee! And I'm on a secret mission.” She nodded sagaciously.

“You never saw me, all right?”

Sephos had to do something first before getting his arm possibly broken by the blueblood. First, he had to attend to his lusus, who – while there was more sunlight in the desert – was in desperate need of suitable water that would not also compromise his troll... who was making friends, to the treebeast's mild delight. Sephos had to lead him to an appropriate watering hole and get him settled.

On the way there, he spotted a gathering of drones and workers, talking about the events at Facility 2 – apparently, some trolls had been attacking the Civisect people. Sephos did not understand why they would bother. It was a mess enough without violence and bloodshed. A few recognized him, and invited him to join, but he already knew, for certain, that he was going nowhere near that facility and it's raids. Instead, he gave them some salve and some iced herbal tea and let them do whatever they were doing. It wasn't his business. He wasn't a part of it.

However... It did put a notion in his head, and with that notion, he booked a trip to one of the other facilities...

(Sephos sends 20 Labor to Facility 2, and moves to Facility 1 with his 3rd bonus action)