The Tea Room, Mk. IV

[HoopyFrood]

Tea? In the tea room? Are you mad...?

*Takes out two mugs and sets about making tea*

This room feel different...more light and airy than the Quiet Room...I think it's because of the big windows and that it's still new and wood-smelling...

[Lenny]

My own place?! ! What horrible thought! The Tea Room and SC are my quarters.

Actually, tell a lie, the sofa and the rooms within are my quarters, and it just so happens to be in the Tea Room. Anyway, I'm just getting things tidy.

*Lenny puts the last of the cutlery in a drawer and closes it*

Anyone want to help me spread the furniture out?

*the Emu points at a pile of furniture pushed up against a wall. Armchairs, sofas, tables and chairs are stacked neatly on top of each other, waiting to be positioned*

If no-one minds I'll try and get some of the more comfortable armchairs onto the mezzanine level, as well as a few small tables. T'would make a brilliant reading area, particularly seeing as we've got a load of bookcases up there.

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Lenny

If no-one minds I'll try and get some of the more comfortable armchairs onto the mezzanine level, as well as a few small tables. T'would make a brilliant reading area, particularly seeing as we've got a load of bookcases up there.

Here, I'll do that, Lennis!

*Picks up half-a-dozen armchairs, the same number of tables and a dozen ordinary chairs, rises carefully to his full height, and positions them along the balcony.*

[pyan]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

This room feel different...more light and airy than the Quiet Room...I think it's because of the big windows and that it's still new and wood-smelling...

That reminds me:

*Gestures at the ceiling above the balcony. It bulges upward, creaks a bit, then changes into a long skylight, stretching along the length of the balcony. Gentle sloping shafts of sunlight illuminate the, as yet, empty bookcases.*

[Lenny]

'Eee 'at's champion! Thanks, Green One.

I feel like I should be finding some sort of Elder God peanuts to give you as payment.

*Lenny walks over to the pile of downstairs furniture, and selects an armchair complete with hassock. He puts the thick cushion on the seat, and carries the chair into a nice spot. He repeats this with a few more, varying armchairs until he's got a nice circle. The emu walks back over to the stack, and selects half a dozen matching side tables, which he places one to the right of each chair. This done, he turns his attention to the sofas*

[HoopyFrood]

*Scatters beanbags in a corner*

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Lenny

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I feel like I should be finding some sort of Elder God peanuts to give you as payment.

That's elephants, Lenny.
Now if you can find a few careless Cultists......

[Lenny]

Might be a bit more difficult, that. How about a cheese cracker just to keep you going until I find the cultists?

*with a grunt, Lenny shifts a particularly large sofa slightly*

[pyan]

Oh, for Azathoth's sake....you just have to ask!

*Pushes sofa across floor like a skateboard*

Where's this going, then?

Nice corner, Hoops!

[Lenny]

I like being independent, I do!

Stick it anywhere you want.

*the sofa stops painting, having completely covered the walls, and waddles out of its alcove. It lays some white cloth on the carpet of the alcove, so the paint doesn't drip on it, and goes over to help Lenny with the sofas. It grabs a small two-seater with the robotic arms in its arms and follows Py with it, putting it down opposite the large sofa*

[HoopyFrood]

*Unrolls a large, ornate rug in the middle of the room*

[pyan]

*Positions large sofa by rug*

Right, got to go for a while, before I implode through starvation!

See you later, folks.

*Trundles out*

[Lenny]

See you, Py.

*the sofa finishes lifting sofas and the arms high five each other*

Nice one. All we've got letf to move are tables and their chairs, so, if you want to play around with those for a while. I'll leave Hoopy and Py in charge of whatever, so make sure you listen to them.

*the sofa rustles and waddles over to the stack of tables. It picks a particularly large one, lifts it up, and places it down near the counter*

I'm off to do some work now, so, toodles all! I'll try and pop back in and post with every couple of hundred words.

[HoopyFrood]

*Shuffles around the room...takes a glance out of the window at the castle and the snowy peaks...gives K'Tabby a wide berth and a wary smile...wanders the edge of the piranha pool and leaves a new fishy story next to it for later reading...hangs up a few portraits that still bear rather amusing additions in magic markers...*

*Stands back and looks around* Ah, yes...the Tea Room...

[The Ace]

Freda scuttles in, deposits Tangle on the fireside rug, then carries the brownie and the 1-D box up to the balcony.

Rob enters and drapes himself over the hatstand, closely followed by the Ace wheeling a supermarket trolley, "Hi all."