Put a smile on...

[myownpearl]

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]

Comments

[myownpearl]

As she executes a spin, deflecting a blade, she catches a flash of blue in her peripheral. Ah ha! Pearl goes to drive her spear, refocused, into her water clone opponent, but it becomes a puddle of water in the blink of an eye. Pearl is left standing over it, pointing her spear at nothing. She frowns and then turns to look up at Lapis. She's not sure what that was about, so on the one hand she didn't want to accuse her of anything, but that had stilled seemed rather unnecessary.

She decides to play it safe, "Hello Lapis. You appear to be doing well." Steven had already mentioned she was here, the water clones had confirmed it, and it appeared their relationship was still going to be strained. Great.

[mirrortide]

"Hello, Pearl." Lapis flashes her a grin filled with extremely lovely teeth, that is probably a little menacing, even if her body language is doing nothing to suggest that she might attack. Again.

"I'm doing alright. I guess you're a performer too, then?" She probably would sound friendly if not for their.. history. Also the fact that Pearls' sudden presence has thrown off Lapis finally starting to get adjusted to the Carnival. Not that it's her fault, but Lapis can still blame her.

[myownpearl]

How...charming. Pearl does her best not to react, she'd certainly seen enough people with altered features here. However, the teeth being in Lapis's mouth is just a little unnerving. And, as we all know, Pearl is about as capable of "not reacting" as Steven. After all, she's no Garnet.

"Ah...yes. That was the assignment given to me," she says. Nothing got past Lapis, though her presence in the tent leaves her with a suspicion that she isn't the only gem with that particular assignment. Oh boy.

[mirrortide]

"I'm surprised you're not working tech with Peridot." It's too late, Pearl. You've shown weakness.

Lapis crosses her arms, leaning a little further against the post. "Then again, I guess it makes sense you'd be a performer." Pearls for show, and all that fun stuff. Sure, it doesn't apply to Lapis, but that doesn't mean she can't take delight in it.

[myownpearl]

Pearl bristled. Don't engage her, she thought, just don't. But at the same time, even after thousands of years, words like that hurt. When she'd been given the task of performer she hadn't even made the connection. She'd thought of Steven's role here, she'd thought of her talents as a swordsman and, to a degree, a dancer, she'd thought of how Connie and Steven both lit up when she showed them a new move. She hadn't considered how it might look to others. And she shouldn't care. What did Lapis matter?

Her expression dropped as something else occurred to her. You want to go there? Fine.

"I guess so. Apparently they needed more talent in the show. I suppose engineering didn't need my help as much," Pearl replies in a cool tone.

[mirrortide]

"Both of those things are probably true." Lapis gives a cool shrug and a smirk. "It's not like I was really made for performing, after all. It makes sense that you're better." Lapis says it in a matter of fact tone, but it's clearly a jab at Pearl herself. It's not like Lapis cares about whether or not she's good when it comes to performing in the big top. She's not out to impress anyone, it's not like she was literally made for it.

[myownpearl]

It was probably a good thing she was no longer holding her spear, because she might have snapped it in half at that comment. It was still technically not a threat by any means and she could just be misinterpreting it--but at the same time coming from Lapis she just couldn't help but interpret it as a dig against her...again.

"Well good. Then I'll get back to working out a routine and you can go back to lurking." Pearl produced two more spears, giving them a twirl and walking away from Lapis. While she may have said it to dismiss Lapis, for her own sanity she was going to go somewhere ELSE if necessary.

This was not a long term solution, but it has to be better than just sticking around.