Action; in Union

[indy_wannabe]

[With the quake in the Old City, Ezreal is definitely off his Delver job. Instead, he's making use of one of his other skills - Engineering. He's aiding with the reconstruction of Union, helping shore up and repair walls and fight off Pokemon that try to make the job more difficult. Help out?]

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[ladyofluminosity]

[She does as she's told.]

So is this part of being a delver too?

[indy_wannabe]

[He braces himself and puts in the next rivet]

No, I have some training in crafts and engineering too.

[ladyofluminosity]

[She watches closely.]

I didn't realize. I thought you went to school to be a delver.

[indy_wannabe]

[He passes the rivet gun back to Lux and holds the plate]

Well yeah, but it's not uncommon for most of us to learn some of that too. We need to know if a structure is stable enough to enter, and we need to be able to disassemble larger salvage without damaging the important machinery.

[ladyofluminosity]

[She takes a breath and

Hey, that didn't kick back nearly as much! Progress!]

That makes sense.

[indy_wannabe]

Like I said, helping fix things up might not be my first choice, but it's important work that needs to be done so I'll do it.

[ladyofluminosity]

[By the third time, it looked like she had gotten the hang of it.]

You aren't really taught that kind of thing in private classes. You just assume they get done, but they don't tell you how or by whom.

[indy_wannabe]

Yeah. The non-nobles.

[ladyofluminosity]

[Lux makes a bit of a bashful face.]

They may have skimmed over that part, yes.

[indy_wannabe]

Figures.

[ladyofluminosity]

They're more concerned with actually helping people, not who is doing the helping. As far as we're told, it's us, even if we aren't the ones getting our hands dirty.

[indy_wannabe]

Right. "Helping."

[ladyofluminosity]

They are helping.

[indy_wannabe]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[ladyofluminosity]

[She frowns.]

Money still comes in for relief efforts, doesn't it?

[indy_wannabe]

The council pays worse than the Agricultural tower.

[ladyofluminosity]

There's only so much money to go around, and so many people in need. They give what they can where they can.

[indy_wannabe]

There's certainly enough money for all the council members to live in really nice houses in upper-scale towers though, I've noticed.

[ladyofluminosity]

Council members don't actually make as much as you might think. A majority of them come from older, noble families.

[indy_wannabe]

Well at any rate, good job with the rivets. I think someone's ready to learn how to use chainsaw.

[ladyofluminosity]

A chainsaw?

[indy_wannabe]

Yeah, hang on let me go get it.

[He pulls out a strange device (about twice the size, made for wood).]

We need to get a lot of these boards cut down to size, this is probably the best way to do it.

[ladyofluminosity]

[Lux looks down at it a bit sheepishly, then back up at him.]

I don't know if I'm ready for such a big responsibility...

[indy_wannabe]

C'mon! It's easy!

[ladyofluminosity]

[Except she's pretty sure this thing is actually a torture device and he's just messing with her.]

...Oh?