lostcarnival | Put a smile on...

Who: Pearl and whoever is around...
What: Another gem finds her way to the carnival...she is not impressed.
When: Day 95
Where: The Backyard, The Big Top, The Cookhouse, and just around
Warnings: None...yet.

After running in to Steven in the mirror maze and figuring out that she had in fact done something to incur the need for a contract, Pearl had taken it fairly well. She didn't like it, but what was she going to do? Even if she hadn't, she couldn't exactly leave Steven here and now she needed to get an idea about exactly where here was.

Pearl had decided to start with the essential places: her new trailer, where she would perform, and where to find others. After looking at a map of the grounds she'd decided that the best place to start (aside from the trailers) was the Cookhouse. She wasn't a fan of food herself, but she could use the familiar layout of a kitchen to find some comfort in this place. Besides, if most lifeforms here required food it would be a good place to get some insight. A year wasn't TERRIBLY long for a gem, but it was enough time that she'd need to know a little more about this place, especially if she was going to be able to help Steven at all. He had three months on her and she needed to learn all that she could to "catch up" as it were.

If you meet her around the Backyard she is mostly looking at trailer numbers and trying to locate her own. This is similar to how she just wanders the carnival grounds just to see what she's gotten herself into and to familiarize herself with the layout.

Otherwise, she will make her way towards The Cookhouse and do a little people watching. She may get ahead of herself and clean up any tables that are left dirty or reorganize certain areas if there are more pepper shakers on one table and no napkins on another. She's an organized gem and sees it as her duty to make sure these things are sorted out if she's going to be staying here. You might notice she doesn't actually eat anything herself.

After that, her tour will take her to the Big Top, as even though shows have not begun yet this is where she has been assigned to work: as a performer. She wants to get a feel for what kind of act she can put on or what is already being done. You may see her try a few moves of dance or attacks with a spear to get a feel for the space. Just be careful not to get into a fight with her hologram Pearl, who may or may not be summoned to spar with her.

[ooc: I did prose, but I can switch to action if necessary]

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"Plenty of time with plenty to do," Peridot agrees enthusiastically. And then as a more somber note: "Seriously. The idiots around here break things all the time."

Pearl shakes her head, understanding pretty clearly what might be troubling Peridot. "Humans rarely build things to last as long as we do. I've also found they have a tendency for breaking things--on purpose or by accident hardly matters."

Well, she didn't have much to do now, she looks down at the green gem, "Are there any projects you're working on now?"

She brightens again. "Funny you should ask! I was actually approached by one of the other supervisors recently with a request to design and construct an "obstacle course" for the other carnival members to utilize in their training regimen. We're having a meeting soon to discuss plans for it... You should come join us! We could probably use some extra input."

Pearl blinks and immediately looks interested. You can practically see the gears spinning in her head as she goes through the multiple possibilities at hand. "Hmm...that does sound interesting. I'll see what kind of plans I can draw up for consideration."

Peridot looks pleased as punch. "Excellent! Er... Truth be told... I can build a lot of the equipment they might need, but... I'm not really sure how 'fitness' or 'training' works well enough to come up with a comprehensive course on my own."

"Yes, the human idea of staying 'fit' can be a little strange...but training isn't too difficult a concept as long as you keep in mind that they lack our endurance and stamina," Pearl admits. She'd been mentoring Connie after all, so she felt pretty confident in her own skills at that. She tilts her head, considering some of the forms she had seen. "But...does that still apply with the changes I've seen for many of the workers here?"

“Not sure,” she says, shrugging indifferently. “I don’t really monitor them very closely… If it’s made a difference, it hasn’t been enough of one to make an impact on me. Most of them seem just as fragile and soft as ever.”

Peridot Greg is your underling and he can literally turn into a boulder now, you should know about this shit.

That wasn't particularly helpful. But, Peridot was still new to Earth and humans were still a new concept to her. Pearl would have to keep an eye out and make sure that Peridot's idea of training didn't go too far and harm anyone. Not that Peridot would do that intentionally, but she might underestimate how fragile humans could be.

They also tended not to come back when they got hurt too badly.

"We'll have to keep that in mind then. Perhaps you can devise a way for there to be levels of difficulty."

“That’s…. Actually a really good idea,” says Peridot, mountingly enthusiastic. “Yes…. and we can add harder, more treacherous difficulties for the humans who want more of a challenge!”

"Well," Pearl scoffs, "I do have them occasionally." It was a joke, Pearl liked to think she had good ideas fairly often. Still, she took the compliment. It wasn't often for Peridot to give them--though at least Pearl knew it was sincere in that case. She nods at Peridot's next assessment, "That would be a good idea--and people can work up to those levels as they grow stronger as well."

Peridot beams. "A gradual improvement! Yes! Brilliant!"

She's back on her feet on the table again, practically bouncing with excitement. "Listen, there's going to be a meeting tomorrow night at my trailer. You should draw up some plans and come contribute! Technically it's only for the engineering team and the Nightrider, but I can bend the rules a little bit in your case."

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