Laurels

[Exegesis Agarwal]

In the quite of the workshop Exegesis hauled in a white plastic garbage bag and dropped it on the floor next to the work bench. People were particular about being able to see while wearing a mask, and that meant, for virtually every mask ze had ever made there were a pair of eye-holes that needed to be cut. As a consequence, for every mask, there were a pair of eye-shaped scraps left over. The bag held a few thousand of them.



Grasping handfuls and piling them out onto the table, Exegesis then counted out one hundred and eighty of them, and scored a pattern into them with hirs awl before pinching each half the way from the center. The result looked like a brown leaf, slightly crinkled. Arranging these in trios, ze carefully glued one pointed edge on each above the other, creating a three-pointed splay of leaves, in a set of eighty. These ze arranged in trios, with a pair pointing away from each other, about two feet between each, and on in the center pointing away from Exegesis as ze worked.


Taking many more eye-holes from the bag, over the next hour ze worked to create leaf pairs, glued together in the shape of a 'V'. These went between the trios, connecting them into strips. Next the strips were bent around a set of Styrofoam heads. The heads placed on top of a set of upward-facing fans, Exegesis left them to set.

[Exegesis Agarwal]

Having spent the evening on work less creative and more banal, getting back into the workshop was delightful. The glue was set and the curve of each laurel wreath seemed sturdy enough. Moving the laurels from the drying heads to the spray rack was automatic, and Exegesis found hir mind wondering.

Giving away product isn't the best business tactic in this industry, ...but it's not about business is it? It's about getting people to like me, isn't it? And I know that isn't the most healthy way to go about it.
Working the foot pump for the air compressor was annoying, but it kept from needing to use spray cans in a poorly ventilated space. Hand coating the basecoat would be too time consuming.
But it is contributing to a Court function. That's ingratiating isn't it? It's not like that's all the interaction I'd be doing.
The green base wasn't going to get under the edges of the leaves, so that meant getting out the brushes.
...But sometimes your interaction isn't ...good. You tend to get on peoples' nerves. Pendantic. You need to learn to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
With the base tacked up, it was time to drybrush on a lighter shade for highlights.
Or at least you need to make connections before you start running your mouth.
Back on the fans, the laurels would be only a few minutes before they were ready for a spray-seal. Then it would be twenty pieces of Spring-themed accessories for the coronation.
Just don't piss anyone off, Exegesis told hirself. This getting kicked out of Freeholds thing is getting old.

  3 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-03-16 16:21:29		Exegesis Agarwal rolls 10 to Making laurel wreaths: Craft 4 + Intelligence 3 + Workshop 3 (10 Again)		10, 7, 9, 9, 2, 5, 6, 4, 5, 2, 4		3 successes