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[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

[Now that she's reasonably assured that Death by Singing Roses isn't a high likelihood, Jessica is back to what she assumes is the point of her being here: ARCHITECTURE!

[Jessica sometimes is not the fastest on the social uptake.

[Notebook in hand, she's inspecting the ruins, occasionally pausing to jot down measurements or details.]

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[border-phantasm.livejournal.com]

[You might find someone looking over your shoulder]

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

WHOA HI PERSONAL SPACE

...hi Yukari. You kind of, um, snuck up on me there.

[border-phantasm.livejournal.com]

Sorry. [No she's not]

What are you doing?

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

We're supposed to build, right? So I'm trying to figure out what these buildings used to look like, and maybe replicate them. Some of them, anyway.

[border-phantasm.livejournal.com]

Using the wild places, you mean.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

The places with the magic dirt?

[border-phantasm.livejournal.com]

Yes, those. It can also be sand.

[violent-archery.livejournal.com]

*there's a familiar archer passing by, giving a curious look*

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

[She waves.] Enjoying the temporary lack of looming threat to life and limb?

[violent-archery.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's nice to have a break. Glad those other flowers went and did their thing, too. I was going to burn them if they stuck around.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the point of any of that was.

[violent-archery.livejournal.com]

Probably to mess with us.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

I'd kind of prefer she pick less fatal methods, then. I mean, I've never really found terrifying danger to be conducive to building things.

...maybe I should make a fortress or something.

[catflavoured.livejournal.com]

[ Does Jessica notice the girl with cat ears watching her as she paces around? Maybe she will when the young-looking girl suddenly pipes up. ]

What are you doing?

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Wh- oh, you're the girl from Yukari's...

....ears...

[Sorry, Chen, she wasn't expecting those.]

...Wow, OK. Um. I'm trying to get an idea what these things used to look like.

[catflavoured.livejournal.com]

[ ...well, Jessica, you sure didn't make Chen feel her ears then. Yukari's? what. Have a strange look to go with that, but she won't question it. Yet. ]

How are you going to do that? Ihaven't see anything showing how they looked.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Extrapolation- see, you look at what's left, measure it all, and using that, you can kind of guesstimate how it used to look.

I mean, OK, I'm not really an archaeologist or anything, but I can probably figure some of it out.

Like see, there where there's kind of a bit sticking out? You can use that to tell that the ceiling was there. And it probably went all the way across, so everything would be about that high...

[catflavoured.livejournal.com]

[ That was a lot of words, but the last bit helps her keep up. ]

...What are you going to do when you've guesstimated everything?

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Replicate it with the magic dirt.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Homework assignment from the Queen of Pranks?

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Extracurricular.

I figure, if we're here to rebuild the place, may as well go all the way. (Except for the basement thing.)

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

So you want to directly recreate what the ruins were?

I have to admit I'm curious.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Well, as directly as I can with minimum knowledge of architecture and archaeology. Either way, it'll be kind of cool to see some sort of approximation, right?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

It would. If nothing else, it would tell us more about what our Majesty's culture was like.

[notvitiligo.livejournal.com]

Well, assuming she's from that culture and not, say, doing this for the, uh, "lulz," as some of my classmates would say.