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Rhys ([personal profile] seniorvicejanitor) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2018-04-27 10:47 am

[open] bro bro bro bro

Who: Rhys and you!
When: D48-D49
Where: Various Locations
What: It's time for Rhys to make himself at home (or more likely whine that he's not the boss)
Warnings: Probably low but I'll update if anything happens

[day 48 - all around the carnival grounds - what have i gotten myself into?]

Rhys doesn't regret the decision. He doesn't regret taking a deal from some shady Ringmaster (and he hates that he'd never thought of that as a nickname for himself) to escape August and Vasquez and a bunch of killer robots that would have surely ended his life.

What he does regret is leaving Vaughn behind. Fiona and Sasha less so. But, there's still a sliver of sadness that he's here and they're not. Hopefully, whenever this whole thing ends, he'll go back and they'll forgive him.

(Though he seriously doubts that. They'll either be dead or they'll kill him.)

For the first little while, he wanders. He gets his shoes dusty (a development that makes him frown) and his hair wind blown but what else is there to do but figure things out? His lodgings, a trailer in a park surrounded by similar metallic bumps, isn't luxurious but it's not a hole in the ground.

He'll take it. He'll whine about it later.

[day 49 - anywhere that needs cleaning up around the carnival - where's a loader bot when you need one?]

Rhys regrets the decision.

As soon as he reports for work and someone slaps a mop into his hand, he regrets the decision. Janitor. A janitor again. Somewhere, Vasquez is probably laughing his ass off. The only good thing, Rhys guesses, is that whoever's in charge isn't Vasquez and won't be making him run all over the place to do menial things.

He still has to clean though and the grimace on his face as he starts mopping a dirty floor is evidence of what he thinks about that. But, he tells himself it won't be for very long. He tells himself that time will pass quickly.

He tells himself that he can drown himself in his mop bucket if it gets too bad.

Mopping isn't a hard think to do but he still mops over various people's shoes instead of telling them to move and he steps all over his own freshly cleaned floors more than once.

The third time he does that, he curses loudly and then looks around, hoping no one's heard that. He hasn't memorized all the rules but he's pretty sure cursing on the job is frowned upon.
fortuneglass: (o-o?)

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2018-04-28 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
"HEH?" To that, her tongue promptly retracts. Stirring? Did it look like stirring? (The answer, is yes, but she's not even realized that's what he's talking about.) "A spoon?! Why would I drink my coffee with a spoon!?" she starts, only then catching the last moments of the finger motion.

"What?" ...Oh. Stirring. Well she'll ignore that anyway, adjusting her wings. Really, if it wasn't for these bird legs, she'd probably be shorter than him.... ....Gotta love what an extended pair of feet Does. "...Well whatever. It's just easier to drink this way-like a straw, you know?" And with that....it's back in the mug. "Th'o... ...'U nu?"

That would be, 'so...you new?', probably.
fortuneglass: credit - haptisms @ lj (:))

[personal profile] fortuneglass 2018-04-29 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"....." Well, she just pulls her tongue back out, back into her mouth, and answers- "....I mean...you can just ask someone not to do that if you find it's rude, I'm not just going to ignore that..!" She just didn't think it was rude. She does this all the time, so clearly it's fine.

That or people just really want her to make clothes. But hey. She seems encouraging enough, the light coming off of her growing a little brighter as she smiles. Mopping? Clearly nothing to worry about! "Mnnh~ Well, everyone starts somewhere~! Maybe the Ringmaster just needs some proof of your skills? We're being more careful about who's hired these days!" she adds, nodding furiously. "Even the debt conditions have changed!"
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[personal profile] fortuneglass 2018-04-29 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, not that part~!" Carly laughs, waving a hand. "It's a matter of not wanting to force anyone into a debt when we're being chased around by court fae, you know? It's too dangerous to just bring anyone who broke a game-stand in for a year of cleaning duty..! Let alone performance, or treasury, or..."

...And just as soon as she starts, she quickly clams up, going quite cold. He might have gone just a bit far with that last remark, given how swiftly the humor and joy drains out from her voice. "Hardly," she starts, frowning. "...Are you this rude to everyone you meet? I bet that if you were this rude to the Ringmaster, that might have actually been behind your assignment."

She's a bit touchy about what her tongue does or does not do, apparently.
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[personal profile] fortuneglass 2018-05-01 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"You just asked if I use my tongue to clean people's dishes..! What part of that isn't rude!" She does have at least a slight point. Maybe. Dishes for people are probably (?) different than just drinking her own coffee.

But he...seems? Eager at least? Carly honestly can't totally tell, so she'll try and give him the benefit of the doubt. "All I use it for is drinks-it's like a hummingbird!" And, as for the other part.

"I'm the Wardrobe Manager." A beat passes, and she frowns. "....I'm in charge of your clothes; everyone gets a set for outside work, and during work, as they need. Most of you are only coming in with what's on your back after all!"
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[personal profile] insidescoop 2018-05-02 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's right~" All of the clothes. Sort of. She has a team of tailors, after all. Who knows, maybe he'll...end up in another department one day?

One good thing about the bottom, is there's a heck of a lot of 'up' directions to go in, at least.

Carly nods at the question, answering with ease. "Most of the time! It's best to have something as close to comfortable as you can get, right? It's generally complicated patterns, rare fabrics, metals...those are the things we have to ask for some compensation on. We're not bottomless on supplies after all..!"
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[personal profile] insidescoop 2018-05-04 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
She's not going to ask about what the circumstances, but she is going to look him over with something of a discerning eye...and sure enough pauses at the boots.

"...Hmmm, maybe not the choices I'd make, I guess..." she mutters, before jolting herself from her train of thought. "Oh-! For janitorial, it would be a matter of function over form! It's not something you're going to be wearing outside of work after all right~? Though I'm surprised you qualified for cleaning over the other jobs, if that was a mechanized one in your world..." Wouldn't...you not really know how to do all the heavy cleaning??? There's so many safety measures and cleaning solutions, she's certain!
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[personal profile] fortuneglass 2018-05-05 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"....Wouldn't...automation give a good reason to just not need jobs..?" Does this mean you people still have poverty or something (Oh, Carly-)-

Well, she shakes her head, sighing. "Mmnn...we could definitely go over some ideas when you have time off..! I'm surprised you're working already if you just got here, actually... ...normally there's a sort of...'grace period'!" she explains, making a gesture between her hands. "A bit of time to settle in first..! Though I guess we are pretty early in the performance week..." she mutters to herself again, frowning.

"...We'll do what we can! The important thing to keep in mind, is that Janitorial clothes are made to get dirty, so that the rest of you, and the stuff you want to wear, doesn't!"
insidescoop: credit - haptisms @ lj (Eheeeewhoops)

[personal profile] insidescoop 2018-05-06 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mmmm, to be fair, I'm not your supervisor... ...it could be that they wanted to throw you in the deep end in this case..." Considering it's janitorial, that would not be surprising. She shrugs. "...I guess, we also haven't really had a new hire from outside the departments for things like ride management, or entertainment though. It's hard to do those jobs on an off week!"

Sucks.

But, she does grin quite widely. "Then your wish is exactly what I'll work on~! What time are you off? We can set that up right away~!"

...

A pause. "...Er. Right away from. That time. Obviously ahehehehe..."

She's not entirely all there.
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[personal profile] fortuneglass 2018-05-09 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Off? Maybe. Nice though? Definitely, so long as no extra buttons get pushed. It doesn't help that she's more often than not in her own little world when it comes to matters beyond the department she's in charge of however. The woman nods as Rhys explains and answers, crossing her arms for a bit. "Hmnnn... ...Well, in that case...I'll be in the Wardrobe tent until fairly late-it's at the back of the Big Top," she adds, nodding. "So you can just turn up there whenever."