The House That Who? Built [Open, bendytimed to before archeology plot]

[bonnypiperlad]

There seems to be very little rhyme or reason to the buildings that make up the City in Stacy. Oh, there's a couple of places, like what has been become known as 'Religion Row', where certain types of buildings have been gathered together, but otherwise things are scattered about, just waiting to be found.

Over at the edges of Central Park - not too far from Religion Row, as it happens - there is an old, neglected Victorian-style house with a turret that looks as though it'd had seen its heyday even before being brought on Stacy. The windows have been broken, the porch covered in dried leaves and cobwebs. But it looks fairly sound, the mansard roof still intact and the upper porch railing only needing a little work.

Jamie and Victoria had found the house while out exploring the city, and while he has some experience in re-building things thanks to his clean-up efforts in the city and his engineering training, it's a daunting task to try and do on his own. And it occurs to him that maybe, if he can get some help (and something resembling some furniture, since there's not much to be found inside) he can maybe at least make a start at fixing it up, and give Victoria a place to sleep that's not the crew quarters or the creepy nostril beds while the TARDIS is being fixed.

In fact, he thinks, there's enough bedrooms that other people from there could move in as well, if they wanted. So, he sends out a message to see who'd be interested in coming to help out elsewhere. While he waits, he and Victoria start the work on their own - she opting to take the rooms on the top floor and he one of the ones lower down. He soon finds himself caught up in clearing out the debris, and loses himself for a time until the sound of footsteps catches his attention. Pausing in his work, he pushes his hair out of his face and looks at the new arrival.

"Well, what do ye think?"

(( OOC: Both Jamie and Victoria are around, so just mention somewhere in your tag which of them you'd like to interact with! ))

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[sonicscreamer.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Then I would be glad to talk with her more, if she comes this highly recommended." She laughs a little, pulling away the hair from her neck, both in an attempt to help herself not ask out questions about these Reavers (as much as she'd like to ask more, she has a feeling she'd just get very lost in the conversation).

"Well then uh...Miss Ronnae? Would you please demonstrate more of your mechanical friend's skills?"

The fact she was acknowledging it not as a thing, was already strong progress, as far as Victoria was concerned. But if Jamie trusted her, then so would she.

[bonnypiperlad]

Future conversations with Kaylee apparently having been decided on - at least, in Jamie's mind - he tucks his thumbs behind his belt, settling into a more comfortable stance for the conversation.

He's...not entirely surprised at Victoria's request, truthfully. She's always been as curious as he is - more so, sometimes, especially when it comes to more scientific things. Then again, her father was a scientist, so perhaps it's a natural reaction. And it occurs to him that for all he was going on about Boomy's virtues earlier, he knows very little about how the wee robot works himself.

So he nods, a small smile appearing along with it - not much more than a slight curling upward of his lips, but it's there nevertheless. "Aye. I'd not mind finding out a bit more about that myself."

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Ronnae smiled warmly, and looked more than happy to oblige as to any inquiry about Boomy.

"Well, I like my inventions to have multiple uses, and you can say that Boomy's a prime example of that! He helps me with my work as he can make simple calculations much faster as well as scan areas and give precise dimensions, the materials of the area, and their stability, which is why I sent him to do what he's doing now so we can have a more concrete estimate as to the stability of the house in each floor."

She nodded towards him where he was currently scanning a room and making light beeping and whirring noises before more along the room to further scan.

"Aside from that, he can do minor chore work," she added with a bit of a guilty laugh. "Keeps my rooms in check when I idle out due to getting lost in my and engineering's work. And he acts as a personal database for my projects seeing as he can store a lot of data and I can take my work woth me wherever I feel like it. he's really a great help and a good buddy."

[sonicscreamer.livejournal.com]

"And you made it with the spare parts found all around this ship?" Victoria adds, amazed at the explanation. "That's prodigal!" Alienish look or not, it's not too hard for Victoria to be won over by Ronnae's smile and a robot that could, to her, seem to do everything.

WAIT UNTIL SOMEONE SHOWED HER A VACUUM CLEANER.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Chore work?" There's a thoughtful look on Jamie's face. While there's still a lot of repairs to do on the house, eventually they'd get it to a point where something like that could be very useful. And he can't help but wonder if Victoria might not like something like that.

Her response only seems to confirm that, although he can't help but chuckle at her choice of words. "Ye almost sounded like Billy there for a moment," he says, a hint of a teasing note in his voice. "Don't tell me you'll be wanting to join Engineering next."