Seven purple files

[proudambassador]

I do not suppose there are any beds that are not hard as a rock down here? I have tried one in nearly every cabin, and they are all most uncomfortable. It would be better to sleep on the ground! When we were banished out of the tree last time, the accommodations, they were much better. I am not impressed. This place, it has always been poorly managed, but now, I see that it is even worse than I thought.

Next time we are driven from our little homes and what little lives we have, I would like more comfortable accommodations. Do note this, whomever manages these sort of things, hm?

Comments

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

Try cutting some evergreen branches and piling them up. They're comfortable enough with a blanket over the top.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

What, with a saw? And remove my own hand? First, my good person, I do not know which tree would be evergreen. Or if they all are. Second, I do not have a saw. And third, I like my hands where they are. Attached to me.

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

[City type, she thinks, and decides against a step-by-step explanation. He'd probably get hurt, and it would be her fault.]

You could probably find someone to do all that for you. I'm sure you're not the only one who doesn't like the bunks.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

And you, do you know how to do all this?

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

I slept on one last night.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

The pile, or the bed? One is not very specific, hm? If it is the pile, and it was not more uncomfortable than the rock-like mattresses, then are your skills at making the pile available?

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

It isn't that bad. We're lucky that there are proper buildings here, don't you think?

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

[Min's amused. Clearly he's never actually slept on the ground.]

A bedroll on a pile. And they could be.

I can get you the branches and set it up, but you'll have to find a tarp if you want to keep away from the needles. [She has the feeling that city types find that important.]

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

My dear Krile, and this is Krile, yes? I do not think I have ever seen buildings like this. Further, I do not think they count as buildings. A good building, it has power. It has rooms. These, they have rocks. Masquerading as beds. Therefore, they are not buildings.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

A tarp. Yes. I will find a tarp.

What is a tarp?

[Nope. Overpriviledged practical royalty here.]

[grab-my-bells.livejournal.com]

You're trapped in a Tree against your will, and you expect your demands for five-star accommodations to be taken into consideration?

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Has anyone tried critiquing the management before?

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

That's me! And if it's got a roof that keeps off the rain, walls that keep out the wind, and a floor that keeps out the dirt I say it's a building.

You didn't bring any spare blankets, did you? That could help soften it up.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Myself, I think that buildings should be held to a higher standard. Lackluster buildings, if we are to grow accustomed to them, then we will be stuck with them. By demanding better, sometimes you receive better, no?

Yes. I brought several blankets. And I wear them all. Drafty, it is a mild word for these walls.

[burnt_orangesky]

I myself am rather impressed the Wilderness was willing to give us accommodations at all. You could be sleeping in the open air now, rather than some place sheltered from the elements.

It even has blankets.

[grab-my-bells.livejournal.com]

You could say that, yeah. There have been a few complaints here and there.

Maybe you should start a Comment Box for future critiques of them?

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

I want the park back with the mice. This, it is hardly anything worth mentioning.

Yes? Where? Perhaps with fifty, no, a hundred, I will find some semblance of comfort.

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

[She doesn't laugh, but only because it would mean dropping the no-real-expressions mask she likes so much.]

There's a supply cabin. Look for a fairly stiff, large sheet of some kind. It might be canvas, it might be one of those [...what do they call it again...] plastick things, but it has to be waterproof and have holes at the edges.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

There is a difference between telling someone to "get bent" and actually laying out the complaint, hm?

Who reads those? The key is lost the moment it goes up, and no one bothers to empty them out. No. They want us all to write in our little journals like good little citizens, so I write in my little journal.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

If it has holes, it is not very waterproof. A boat that had holes, it would sink. But I will search.

[of-mindelan.livejournal.com]

At the edges. [She draws a square with a hole at each corner to demonstrate, then adds an additional four along the edges.]

They're for staking it to the ground or tying it to things. [Probably best if she clarifies, Mindelan decides.] The stakes or rope go through the holes. Let me know when you find one.

[grab-my-bells.livejournal.com]

There is, though complaints haven't been exclusive to Toushi or his particularly limited arguments and vocabulary.

Such an exemplary little citizen, Ambassador.
Do you think that even in the journals complaints are listened to, or just fall on deaf ears? Metaphorically speaking, of course.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

I see. Now, I am looking.

[A good twenty minutes later, he writes again.]

Do they come in blue? If so, I think that I have found one.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

That is only the most recent that I can think of. It stands out. Very pointed, no?

Yes, yes, of course. We are all exemplary in our own ways. Mine in mine, and you in yours, I am sure.

If getting answers means death, then someone must be reading to know who to kill. So everything is read.

[grab-my-bells.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure.

I do try.

Read, yet changes don't happen if they don't benefit/amuse The Management. Killing is ...amusement and/or beneficial. Your requests--here, there, anywhere--are just shouts into the void.