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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Pearl is not the only person clearing off tables with food left on them... but she's definitely the only person specifically trying to see to it that they're clean right now, because what Amethyst is doing in here is opening her mouth all the way, shapeshifting it into a hinged trash can lid, and then indiscriminately sweeping everything off the table directly into her troubling rectangular face hole.

When she spots Pearl across the room she immediately straightens up in surprise and calls over to her – or, rather, she makes a weird honking sound because her mouth is still a trash can lid. She catches herself, shapeshifts it back to its usual, speech-capable configuration, and, waving one pawlike hand in the air, yells, "Pearl! Hey!" She leaps over a table in her haste to scramble over to her. "Hey, when did you get here?!"

Edited 2017-05-08 04:15 (UTC)

Somehow she'd overlooked Amethyst, perhaps so focused on the stains that seemed to be refusing to come out of the table tops that she hadn't thought to look for a purple humanoid. Of course when she hears her name she straightens up, turning and blinking in surprise. Steven had mentioned Amethyst was here, but it still caught her off guard.

"Amethyst. Of course I'd find you where there's food," she folded the cloth and placed it on the table top. Most people would probably just toss a rag like that, but this was Pearl and even while cleaning she kept her supplies neat. "I suppose it's been several hours now...but not long." Enough time to run into Steven, find out she'd accidentally gotten herself into debt, and then assigned a job and a trailer.

"Eh, just doin' my part to help clear up the trash," says Amethyst, grinning. "Whoah. Just a few hours and you're already cleaning stuff up in the cookhouse? Go figure... Oh, hey! Does Steven know you're here??"

"Well there's not a lot else to do. I already found my trailer and worked out where most of the other important locations. I figured the next step would be finding other people or the rest of the gems. Steven said you, Lapis, and Peridot were...as well as Greg." The Cookhouse had seemed like one place to locate two of the four, though clearly Greg was not here. That explanation covered a lot, though not specifically why she had started cleaning at the cookhouse.

"And, yes, he was the first person I ran into here."

"Yup! An' one of Steven's friends from the donut shop," says Amethyst, hopping up onto the nearest table. Her chubby purple crocodile drapes over the end of it. "I guess he filled you in on how everything, like... works around here?"

Pearl vaguely remembers the faces of the two donut humans. She isn't sure which one Amethyst is referring to, though she supposes it doesn't matter that much. One of the Beach City denizens is here which means she'll need to keep an eye out for him as well. They're job is to protect humans after all, and especially the ones there.

She sighs, eyeing Amethyst new form now that she has a better view of the tail especially. Is this what she has to look forward to? Steven had exhibited some interesting changes as well.

"It was a summary at best...nothing too in depth but enough to give me the general idea of what I've gotten myself into. The Ringmaster explained a little more as well as gave me my assignment, but some of the details of what you all have been up to we didn't really get a chance to discuss."

Edited 2017-05-18 02:43 (UTC)

"Oh, hey, yeah!" Amethyst leans forward a little. "Where's the big R got you workin'? Oh man, are you in engineering? 'Cause I got some bad news if you are..." She's grinning broadly, though.

"No. Unfortunately I'm not in engineering. I tried to explain that I was perfectly qualified for it...but apparently more performances are needed over people fixing things around here, so I was assigned to perform instead."

Pearl raised an eyebrow, "Why? What was the bad news...?"

"Oh man, yeah? Huh, I guess that makes sense." Amethyst scratches her nose with a claw. "I was just gonna say, Peridot's in charge of engineering, sooo..."

"Hmm...well perhaps it is for the best then," Pearl says. She doesn't necessarily mean anything by that, but she isn't sure she could stand being under Peridot. They could work together, but they'd already come so far at convincing Peridot that she wasn't the boss of them just because of her so-called "status."

She shook her head, "I'm still not sure what to make of all of this. The assignments just don't make any sense...but I suppose I can help Peridot with engineering as well, it's not like they said I couldn't do that."

"Eh, it makes enough sense. If they've got enough guys in engineering or whatever." She shrugs. "You can totally do other stuff too, though. Like, I'm in security, but sometimes I get to do wrestling in the big top too."

Pearl smiled, "An excellent point Amethyst." She didn't have to be tied to one job and given that she didn't have the same sleeping and eating requirements as a human would, she'd certainly have time to explore other interests.

Put a smile on...

COOKHOUSE

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