[Sanctuary] The Best Laid Bathing Plans... (Open)

Wherein Kavala is working on The Within's Bath and nothing is going as planned.

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[Sanctuary] The Best Laid Bathing Plans... (Open)

Postby Kavala on July 2nd, 2012, 6:13 am

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Timestamp: 4th of Summer, 512 AV
Location: The Within
Reason: Sanctuary's Within Bathing Room
Status: Open

Kavala was definitely developing a sense of style when it came to The Within. She had started out simply enough, but now that things were well underway with construction, she'd started adding design elements into her Reimancy that had really helped give the Sanctuary its own personal style. Living among the Akalak had not left her without influence either. Arches were worked into her plan as well as irregular shapes and alcoves that were prefect for well placed candles.

The bathing chamber was one of the contracted rooms that Lars Varkas had carved out for Kavala. He'd also thoughtfully included a cistern system that lead to the surface where water could be heated in the sun. Drains had also been installed in fine shafts that ran to the cliff for easy emptying of the pools and sinks in the chamber. Latrines were elsewhere, thankfully, so there was no smell of waste or anything else associated. The bathing chamber was just for that, bathing...

And because she'd paid for elaborate, she was certainly going to decorate for that effect. So, planning was half the battle and execution was the other half. All she had to start was an L shaped room, one large dug out bathing pool that she'd have to line, and a large piece of chalk. The thick thumb-sized stick of chalk was for her to walk around the room and add in what she wanted in terms of shelving and alcoves.

Kavala did that first, walking around sketching shelving on the walls, platforms for water pitchers and urns, adding in arches to hold candles and deepening the pool area so she could have a shelf running along its edge. Then once she did that, Kavala started by hopping into the empty pool and deciding that the stone she'd have lining it was going to be a deep blue Akalite. Lining the pool and creating the matching stone pitcher and basins would be the hardest most toughest part of the finishing work, so Kavala figured she had to get started there.

Bowing her head, she concentrated, felt the detached burning sensation course through her blood as her body started producing res, and began extruding it into the surface of the roughly fashioned stone pool. Once her res was fully coating the surface, she forced her will into it and began visualizing the res hardening into a thick layer of Akalite. The clear almost gel-like djed hardened, darkened and turned into a swift exotic dark blue and black pattern. Kavala laid on the Akalite like a finisher laid on glue coating to a wall he'd just got done hanging paper on. Over and over her hands swept the space, creating what she tried to make into a uniformly thick surface area of stone. And once started she didn't stop, but kept coating the pool, mesmerized by the magic and how easy it was to turn the ugly brown stone into something truly beautiful.

The Proposed Finished Product :
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  • This pc is maxed out in Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Observation, Rhetoric, and Socialization.
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  • This pc has a Konti Gift of Animal Empathy. She has a superpower from a Riverfall city event that allows animals of all sorts and Kelvics (in kelvic form) to speak clear understandable Common around her.
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[Sanctuary] The Best Laid Bathing Plans... (Open)

Postby Serrif Von Chatlyn on August 29th, 2012, 8:58 pm

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Architecture was still something that Serrif didn’t have much of an eye for. He could appreciate it yes, but he never could construct anything by himself, he just didn’t have the skills nor the knowledge for it. He had never really spent much time appreciating architecture. Even though the Sanctuary was a wonderful statement to all kinds of architecture that were to Kavala’s tastes and wishes. It was interesting to see her statements all over the Sanctuary. He was taking it all in as he walked around the within. He could envision all kinds of things that could be placed in this stone cliff. It still amazed him how something so plain could be turned into something functional and at times beautiful.

He found himself looking into what would be the bathing chamber eventually. It was something to behold; far different than the bathing quarters he was used to in Mura. He merely took to the ocean from his tent to cleanse his body. But Kavala it seemed wanted to indulge the staff and give them something truly wonderful. And he hadn’t even seen her real plans for it yet; which was something he had been meaning to do for awhile.

Peering through the darkness he saw lines on the stone. They weren’t naturally occurring lines as far as he knew. Nor did they seem to be etched in by tools. No, they were something. Different that he couldn’t put a finger on yet. As he approached it seemed as if the marks were placed there purposely as if to mark things out. It was silent so he didn’t know anyone was here…until he continued toward the pool area of the bathing area. It was interesting to see the future plans laid out for this place, he didn’t even know at the time that Kavala was in the bottom of the bathing pool turning unattractive stone into something that would boggle his mind.

He thought he heard something in the pool…so he walked over and saw something he couldn’t even put into words. From her body she was pulling something and coating the surface of the pool. He didn’t know what she had planned for this until he saw the gel like substance harden slowly and turn into a solid piece of stone. It was deep blue with black veins coursing through it. He believed the stone was called Akalite named after the Akalak people whose deep blue skin it mimicked.

Kavala was concentrating, he knew that by the way her eyes were closed and her every movement seemed to be in tune with what she was doing. She could likely sense him there; but he wouldn’t speak or do anything to disturb her. No, he was much more interested in what she was doing and watching her. He was still really baffled by the very ability to do what she was doing right now in this moment.
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