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thebastion2015-02-02 12:05 am
dragonsorcsandwolves) wrote in thebastion2015-02-02 12:05 am
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Day 273-277 | OPEN | Your Pokemans, let you show me them!
Who: Rob, anyone
Open: Open
When: Day 273-277
Where: Anywhere
What: Various things Rob's doing over these five days.
Format: Will match
Warnings: Nerdy. Gross. Smelly.
[A - Day 275 and on]
Okay it's not a Pokédex per se, but when Rob got the Monument to make him one of Colin's datapads he made a few modifications, one of which was adding the data and functions of the various Pokédexes in the Bastion. Of course the seen/caught counts are at zero, a detail which needs to be remedied.
So do you have a Pokémon with you? Or six? Or a house full? Rob's going to approach you, still wearing his rabbit-skull necklace, holding a green and black datapad in his hand.
"Hey, um, can I see your Pokémon for a sec?"
[B - The whole time]
The Disciple had set aside the hide, brain, and tendons from the mammoth she had killed, and Paar had some mammoth hides sitting around as well, so it was about time that someone did something with them. Rob, having already tanned the hide of the rabbit he'd killed (and used it to make the cord of the necklace he's still wearing), has decided to see if he can't tan mammoth hide as well. Paar's stack has gone rock-hard and/or started rotting since nothing's been done to preserve them, and while there are still uses for them Rob's not prioritizing them. That leaves the hide of the Disciple's kill.
Brain-tanning is a labor-intensive process that takes several days, made even longer by the sheer size and weight of a mammoth hide. The steps are roughly as follows:
1) Soak the hide to clean and soften it. For this stage Rob's just putting it in the river and weighing it down with rocks for a bit.
2) Scrape the inner side of the hide to remove every last scrap of flesh and fat. Rob has immediately given up on keeping the hide in one piece for this and has cut it into more manageable pieces, which he's stretching on wooden frames to make scraping easier and get a good end result.
3) Let the hide dry taut on the stretcher.
4) Soak the hide in a mild acid to loosen the hair. ...Urine. It's a tub of urine. Rob's not any happier about this than anyone else will be when they learn this. Ignorance is bliss.
5) Rinse the hide, soak it again, and then wring it out until it's just damp dry. Wet mammoth hide is heavy. Rob has cobbled together a wooden stand to hold one end while he twists the hide, but any offered help here would be appreciated.
6) Boil the brain in water and mash it into a fine slurry, then rub thoroughly into both sides of the hide. Yes this is gross.
7) Roll the hide into a bundle, cover, and let sit for at least 24 hours. This would be break time normally, but there's so much hide to deal with that he still has stuff to do while he's waiting.
8) More scraping to remove the hair and any leftover bits of flesh and fat on both sides, while periodically removing the hide from the frame to stretch in all directions. He's rigged up a way to do this on his own, but assistance would be useful here too.
9) Loosely sew the hide into a cone using the tendons as thread and suspend over a fire made of rotten or green wood until the smoke color comes through to the outside, then turn inside-out and repeat.
10) Collapse in exhaustion. Congratulations, the hide is now leather!
As might be inferred from the above, this process is smelly, sweaty, and time-consuming. Rob will set himself up near the edge of the Bastion by the river to try and keep from tormenting everyone with this process, frequently referring to his datapad once he has it and letting it play nature documentaries or something to listen to while he's working. He's not going to ask anyone for help with this, but any offers of assistance will be appreciated.
[C - Somewhen]
Remember those hides that Paar had? Well before anything can be done with them they need to be softened by being soaked in water. The easiest way to do this is by leaving them in the river. The problem is that a bunch of them have kind of hardened together into a mammoth-hide boulder of sorts. So here Rob is, unable to lift it onto a cart and thus trying to roll it towards the river. Progress is slow. Help is appreciated.
[D - Day 275 and on]
For the times when Rob makes his appearances at the Distillery for meals, he has his pad next to him while he's eating and scrolling through documents, occasionally switching over to a notepad program and scrawling something down. A glance at what he's reading will reveal different things at different times, but pictures include such things as various Pokémon, trees, and gears.
And of course, throughout all this he's still going on a couple Skyway runs with Colin and morning swordfighting classes with Zuko. "Keeping busy" is perhaps a bit of an understatement right now.
Open: Open
When: Day 273-277
Where: Anywhere
What: Various things Rob's doing over these five days.
Format: Will match
Warnings: Nerdy. Gross. Smelly.
[A - Day 275 and on]
Okay it's not a Pokédex per se, but when Rob got the Monument to make him one of Colin's datapads he made a few modifications, one of which was adding the data and functions of the various Pokédexes in the Bastion. Of course the seen/caught counts are at zero, a detail which needs to be remedied.
So do you have a Pokémon with you? Or six? Or a house full? Rob's going to approach you, still wearing his rabbit-skull necklace, holding a green and black datapad in his hand.
"Hey, um, can I see your Pokémon for a sec?"
[B - The whole time]
The Disciple had set aside the hide, brain, and tendons from the mammoth she had killed, and Paar had some mammoth hides sitting around as well, so it was about time that someone did something with them. Rob, having already tanned the hide of the rabbit he'd killed (and used it to make the cord of the necklace he's still wearing), has decided to see if he can't tan mammoth hide as well. Paar's stack has gone rock-hard and/or started rotting since nothing's been done to preserve them, and while there are still uses for them Rob's not prioritizing them. That leaves the hide of the Disciple's kill.
Brain-tanning is a labor-intensive process that takes several days, made even longer by the sheer size and weight of a mammoth hide. The steps are roughly as follows:
1) Soak the hide to clean and soften it. For this stage Rob's just putting it in the river and weighing it down with rocks for a bit.
2) Scrape the inner side of the hide to remove every last scrap of flesh and fat. Rob has immediately given up on keeping the hide in one piece for this and has cut it into more manageable pieces, which he's stretching on wooden frames to make scraping easier and get a good end result.
3) Let the hide dry taut on the stretcher.
4) Soak the hide in a mild acid to loosen the hair. ...Urine. It's a tub of urine. Rob's not any happier about this than anyone else will be when they learn this. Ignorance is bliss.
5) Rinse the hide, soak it again, and then wring it out until it's just damp dry. Wet mammoth hide is heavy. Rob has cobbled together a wooden stand to hold one end while he twists the hide, but any offered help here would be appreciated.
6) Boil the brain in water and mash it into a fine slurry, then rub thoroughly into both sides of the hide. Yes this is gross.
7) Roll the hide into a bundle, cover, and let sit for at least 24 hours. This would be break time normally, but there's so much hide to deal with that he still has stuff to do while he's waiting.
8) More scraping to remove the hair and any leftover bits of flesh and fat on both sides, while periodically removing the hide from the frame to stretch in all directions. He's rigged up a way to do this on his own, but assistance would be useful here too.
9) Loosely sew the hide into a cone using the tendons as thread and suspend over a fire made of rotten or green wood until the smoke color comes through to the outside, then turn inside-out and repeat.
10) Collapse in exhaustion. Congratulations, the hide is now leather!
As might be inferred from the above, this process is smelly, sweaty, and time-consuming. Rob will set himself up near the edge of the Bastion by the river to try and keep from tormenting everyone with this process, frequently referring to his datapad once he has it and letting it play nature documentaries or something to listen to while he's working. He's not going to ask anyone for help with this, but any offers of assistance will be appreciated.
[C - Somewhen]
Remember those hides that Paar had? Well before anything can be done with them they need to be softened by being soaked in water. The easiest way to do this is by leaving them in the river. The problem is that a bunch of them have kind of hardened together into a mammoth-hide boulder of sorts. So here Rob is, unable to lift it onto a cart and thus trying to roll it towards the river. Progress is slow. Help is appreciated.
[D - Day 275 and on]
For the times when Rob makes his appearances at the Distillery for meals, he has his pad next to him while he's eating and scrolling through documents, occasionally switching over to a notepad program and scrawling something down. A glance at what he's reading will reveal different things at different times, but pictures include such things as various Pokémon, trees, and gears.
And of course, throughout all this he's still going on a couple Skyway runs with Colin and morning swordfighting classes with Zuko. "Keeping busy" is perhaps a bit of an understatement right now.
D for ded
D for Don't use -chan on him he doesn't like it
D for d00d too bad everybody gets -chan