trenchcoatedly | 019 + AS I GAVE YOU THE GREEN PLANTS, I GIVE YOU EVERYTHING [video]

[This is Castiel, your local herbology professor + fairy. He's about two feet tall, with constantly fluttering wings so he can fly at your eye level. Also, he's in the greenhouse, which does seem to have sustained some damage from the earthquake.]

Hello. This is a notice that the greenhouse has taken some slight damage during the earthquake and some plants will need to be repotted or relocated. Any students interested in doing so may report to the greenhouse at any time within the next three days for extra credit and a bonus to their house.

That being said, doing this extra credit will not cancel out the assignment for 1000 words on the restorative properties of the illmerida leaf that is due tomorrow. I should be available in my office or can be found in the greenhouse all day today for anyone who requires extra help with this.

Additionally, although I would think this would be obvious, any student caught stealing from the greenhouse will face severe house penalties and potentially expulsion from both the class and the greenhouse. If you have taken several pieces of equipment from the shed, you are advised to replace them today while I'm not looking and no penalty will be handed out.

[FILTERED to LUA]

I'd like to see the result of the equipment you've borrowed recently; obviously, you're more capable than I originally thought.

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[Bob responds as soon as he was able, knocking on the greenhouse door.] Sir? [He looks for him, obviously tougher than his other teachers to find.] I'm here to help.

[Castiel is known as not being the most emotional professor, it from the quirk of his eyebrows he's probably pleased to see you, Bob. He has this habit of suddenly appearing where he needs to be - there he is.]

I thought you might come. The sunflowers need to be moved. Could you help?

[Not emotional is good. His parents weren't exactly... expressive and neither is Bob.] Yes, sir. [He goes to them, ensuring they're carefully tended to.]

[He flaps over to the sunflowers, where they are halfway in the process of being repotted. There's also dirt and broken pot bits around. He drags out his wand and magics some of the dirt into a nearby trash can.]

I'd much appreciate it if you could repot some of these sunflowers. There should be new pots nearby. Have you started your essay yet?

[Bob takes a hands on approach because that was how he was taught and it feels better anyway.] I've finished it, sir. [He starts lining one of the pots.]

Hmm.

[This is an approval noise, both from plant-handling and essay-finishing.]

If you brought it, I can grade it for you now.

[Robert rubs his hands off his trousers to clear it of dirt and goes back to his bag, pulling out the paper and presenting it to him.]

[oh shit oh shit can fairies read minds. Jesse isn't the most helpful right now so she has to figure out how to play this.]

...didn't work out. [and "trying to be competent but failing, like you would expect her to do in the first place", is a go.]

Edited 2012-07-30 04:42 (UTC)

Is there any way I can help?

Don't think so.

[Let's not look like she's giving up too easily.]

Oh, some kind of filtration. Something you can cast?

Perhaps, but I'd need to get a greater understanding of your project. Could you tell more more about it?

Additionally, if all you need help with is the filtration, then I'd like the planting and tiling tools back by tomorrow.

We [found the pipeline for the pool drain] dug a well up, turned out it was super acidic and, like, green or something. Nothing grows in that, right?

[Maybe they can improvise everything else.]

Some things can, yes; mainly acidophiles, some bacteria and some eukaryotes. Could you show me this well? There aren't many such acidophiles on campus, and such a discovery would be very notable.

Can I bring you, um, a sample or something? I don't know where it's coming from or anything. [She's not letting him in there while Jesse is too fucked up with...something... to help her take down everything.]

If there's a well acidic enough to permit acidophiles or anything that resembles them, I'd like to see where it's coming from, to the best of your knowledge.

Yeah, um... I'll get you in an hour or so, okay? Got a couple things to wrap up first. [And she rushes to cover everything up that might look even at all suspicious and really hopes Cas doesn't figure out what that piping system and the sun lamps mean.]

Certainly.

[Pretty sure Castiel knows what a growing station looks like, Lua.]

[And here she is, all nerves and "you sure it's that important?"s, leading Cas to a basement in the poolhouse and down a few flights of architecturally impossible stairways.] Thought it might work better we could control the light.

[Yes, that is important, yes, this is of note, yes, Miss Klein, please show me around.]

Some acidophiles are affected by light, but many don't, especially as necessary pH can often only exist in dark places so that humans don't manipulate them to their liking.

[He studies the area intently, flitting around the various setups.]

[She's eying him as he goes, obviously nervous, like he might be onto something he shouldn't be.]

So we set some stuff up, but... this water doesn't seem right. Didn't want to put any plants down here yet. [There's an overly complex series of PVC tubes here, tape over one spot. She eases it open and lets some water pour into a cup.]

[He magics the cup over to him and studies the floating water cup in front of him, smelling it and doing some types of spells on it. Then, he studies the piping for a while and floats off in the direction of wherever it's coming from.]

This is a very complex system. I'd wish you'd apply yourself more in class with this kind of ability.

[A shrug, like it's not that good.] Just followed the directions I found.

What about the water? Couldn't find anything about that. [Does he get it's not acido-whatever, or is pool water the same thing?]

[He turns from his investigation and looks at Lua; his expression is a little more stern than usual.]

Ms. Klein, water potent enough to contain acidophiles is often so acidic it would eat away your pipes, turn bright yellow and orange, and smell terrible. What you've given me is is pool water. Safe for human consumption, with a pH between 7.2 and 7.8 - closer to 7.8, I suspect. Water necessary for the creation of acidophiles usually has pH near 1 or 2.

[Well, now they're screwed. Maybe? She might be able to handle this.] ...I just said it was green and stuff, I thought that's what it meant.

It's still not growing anything, though. All the people in it and all that.

[He manages a small sigh. First of all, it would have been exciting to have acidophiles on campus! Second of all...]

May I ask what you were doing or were going to do that required manipulating the pool piping with greenhouse equipment?

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