tushanshu_logs | Sonja February Catch-All

Characters: Sonja, Jack Frost, Zatanna, + OPEN
Date: Month of February
Location: Welcome Center, Midnight Hotel, other parts of the city
Situation: Sonja Volunteers at the Welcome Center, and misc
Warnings/Rating: n/a

A: The Welcome Center
True to her word, Sonja showed up the next day at the Welcome Center to help with whatever Jack Frost or Zatanna told her needed doing. She'll also be around helping out if anyone else drops by the Welcome Center.

B: Midnight Hotel Lobby
Sonja has a room on the third floor and spends a fair amount of time in the hotel.

C: Misc
Sonja makes regular circuits of the city, making observations, meeting people, trying to immerse herself in Kedan culture and make herself visible. She hasn't been asking for permanent jobs, but by watching how businesses operate in the various sectors, occasionally she might make suggestions on how to increase efficiency, or to on how to arrange products to better draw customer eyes and other marketing advice, in exchange for small goods or services, but mostly goodwill. She's not getting many bites quite yet, but its a long game.

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"Thanks, I pride myself for punctuality," Sonja said.

Now remember Sonja, you've kind of already half-freaked out both Jack and Zatanna, so you have to play it extra cool. No creepy overanalyzation, no rude comments. Keep it straight, keep it pleasant.

"So you said you needed staff? I can't imagine there's enough foreigners that come by to justify someone sitting at a desk, so what else needs getting done?"

"Not anymore," Jack agreed to Sonja's observation about not needing full time desk staff. "It might be hard to imagine, but at one point we were arriving in batches. It wasn't uncommon to get five or ten new Foreigners all at once."

He gestures for her to have a seat if she wants. One bare foot curls absently around the hooked staff leaning against the desk as he talks.

"As for what else, I've been thinking of setting up a few places in each Sector, like noticeboards? Where new arrivals can pick up basics like a map, without having to cross the city. Especially now that whatever brings us here is dropping us wherever it feels like. Any suggestions for some high traffic areas in each of the Sectors where those might be good to put some up?"

Sonja pondered a moment.

"Inside or outside the gates are the most obvious place - inside, I think, in the interest of security. Is there any kind of Zoning authority in the sectors that would object to the posted signs? Vandalism by the natives might also be a concern since they'll be unattended."

"The city is the largest landmark visible from just about any place on the turtle, and any foreigner will eventually make it there. I wonder if we might try putting smaller signs outside the city, however - not maps, just instructions and some basic information. The city name, a brief summary of how they've gotten here, instructions to go to the Welcome Center. A little bit less reliance on asking locals whats going on, or waiting for animated skeletons to give you the what's what."

"Before, the Palace handled those things," Jack said thoughtfully. "Emperor Eshai actually got me the permit to have this place in the Central Sector, it was restricted building area because of it's location."

He points to the far wall, where two modest plaques are on the wall. The first one dedicates the Center's founding to Pepper Potts, and the second is in memoriam to the Ironwood Emperor Eshai.

"If anyone's in charge of the zoning now, it's probably one of the Families," he finished, before he chuckled.

"Oh, you met Skulduggery too? Yeah, he's interesting."

"Water Sector should be easy. We'll probably have to talk to Yuxnu to get signs put up in Fire and Wood. Zanru for Metal. Earth might be the hardest, since there's no singular authority that can grant permission, but many that might object.

"Do you have a person in mind that can design the maps, and where we might procure the materials to create them?"

The maps would have to be pictures only with no text. Something universal that didn't rely on cultural symbols. That was gonna be tough.

"Earth Sector is where a lot of the tradesmen are," Jack answered. "So we should see if there's some kind of union there, and ask the person in charge of it."

He shook his head at the question of the maps. "Haven't got anyone to draw the actual maps yet. I can give whoever it is the aerial layout accurately enough, but drawing's not really my thing. Do you know of anyone?"

"Printing should be easier, there are kedan printers who did the information brochures we used to have," the spirit tapped his fingers on the desk thoughtfully. "I assume they'll still accept juulan if we gave it to them, but who knows."

"Zelgadis has drawn some maps of the surrounding area. He can fly too, so he already has the aerial view. We'd want to simplify the maps down so that detail doesn't confuse newcomers, but it shouldn't take too much with Zelgadis' map and your kedanese printers to get these things reproduced. I can go try and track him down.

"...the Earth sector tradesmen may be more willing to support our project if we give them the contract."

Jack looks genuinely surprised. "Zelgadis can fly? I didn't know that. He's been here almost as long as I have, too."

He nods at her suggestion for a contract. "What'd you have in mind for one? Price, length of term, that sort of thing?"

She was pretty sure? He had a funny way of falling out of the sky with a burst of air if he didn't.

"I'm not entirely sure what a fair price would be. Might worth doing some recon. I can handle that."

Jack would definitely have counted that as flying, and made a mental note to revisit some of the more tenured Foreigners, just in case.

"Would you? That'd be great. We'll also need to find out if it's cheaper for us to come up with the supplies like the papers, or just buy them right through the printer's as part of their cost."

Despite his naturally flighty nature, the spirit actually could be organized.

"I'll get right on it."

She took a bow and started heading towards Earth Sector.

Sonja February Catch-All

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