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Felixir · 10-09-2019, 06:19 PM

For a split second, Kaiser shot Schmoe a blink-and-you'll-miss-it look that quite plainly said 'don't tell me what to do'. Honestly, one minute the guy was all 'planning will be your friend today' and then next he was all 'but why aren't you building yet'.

As it happened, Kaiser was actually done with checking all the smaller pieces were there, so he was going to start building. But it was because he was ready to, not because Schmoe had said so. Just so that was clear.

The very next picture mentioned putting one of the metal key looking things inside a weird plastic sleeve with holes, at the '4' end. Kaiser did this, but was already lost on exactly what the point of this process was. Then, building time. Laying the instructions on the ground and holding them in place with the toe of his boot, so they didn't blow away, he got started.

So first he needed two... bits of wood. Uh. Okay... there were a quite a few bits of wood here, though... so...

He sifted through everything. Nothing was really jumping out at him, so he grabbed a couple of the mid-length pieces of wood, and... wait, no, they needed to have that specific hole pattern on the ends, didn't they? Kaiser continued sifting, and found what he thought might be the right ones. Then he took two of the weird little cylindrical wooden peg things and poked them into the middle holes of the first plank. He pushed them in with his thumbs at first and then, just to make sure they were really in, whacked them the rest of the way with the handle of a screwdriver.

Then he had to... Merlin... push the two planks together so they kind of overlapped? Kaiser supposed the little pegs were meant to keep them together. He looked at his other plank, lined the two up, and realised at once that this was not the piece he needed. More sifting through the pile of materials ensued, and he tried a couple more pieces before finally grabbing the one he needed. He smooshed them together so they overlapped horizontally, found the screws and bendy metal thing that was required next, and screwed the boards together.

There. Easy. First try.

Feeling reasonably confident that he knew what he was doing here, Kaiser looked to the next page and-... wait, three of those? But it had only told him to make one. Where did they other two come from? He flipped back, looking for something he may have missed where it mentioned repeating the last step more than once, but found nothing. And the little picture at the start of the step made it look like only two were involved, which 1. still didn't answer when he was supposed to have made a second one, and 2. didn't explain where the third one was meant to go.

Confused, Kaiser skipped ahead in the instructions, for some kind of clue as to what would become of all these pieces. All he succeeded in doing was confusing himself even more. You know what would make this easier to follow? Words.

Muttering to himself in a sort of German-Italian combo, frustration evident, Kaiser went back to the page with the three overlapping things. He supposed he was supposed to build them now, even though the instructions didn't specifically say that - they just sort of implied they were already there. They'd need to go together in a specific way, and then the wooden peg things would need to go into specific places, if he was reading these instructions right, and it was very possible that he wasn't.

Grumbling loudly, Kaiser began repeating the process of searching through the wooden planks and fitting the ones he needed together.

Why did it need to be this complicated? He supposed he would never know. Did muggles just like making things extra difficult for themselves? As he worked, Kaiser tried thinking back to his own time around muggles, but his experience had been pretty far removed from anything that required building furniture, so he couldn't say for sure.

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Felixir Forum Manager Book Club Mod Alley Proprietor Banshee Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posts: 50,161 Hogwarts RPG Name: Charlie Upstead Gryffindor Fifth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Aurelio Kaiser Slytherin Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Alexei Petrov Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Yves Flamel Slytherin Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Achilles Zacharias Ravenclaw Third Year Diagon Alley Proprietor: Ezekiel Ransom-Kruus Ollivanders x12 x12	Lovely™ \| Captain Hurted \| Ariana's Bane \| Resident Antagonist \| Unparalleled Delight For a split second, Kaiser shot Schmoe a blink-and-you'll-miss-it look that quite plainly said 'don't tell me what to do'. Honestly, one minute the guy was all 'planning will be your friend today' and then next he was all 'but why aren't you building yet'. As it happened, Kaiser was actually done with checking all the smaller pieces were there, so he was going to start building. But it was because he was ready to, not because Schmoe had said so. Just so that was clear. The very next picture mentioned putting one of the metal key looking things inside a weird plastic sleeve with holes, at the '4' end. Kaiser did this, but was already lost on exactly what the point of this process was. Then, building time. Laying the instructions on the ground and holding them in place with the toe of his boot, so they didn't blow away, he got started. So first he needed two... bits of wood. Uh. Okay... there were a quite a few bits of wood here, though... so... He sifted through everything. Nothing was really jumping out at him, so he grabbed a couple of the mid-length pieces of wood, and... wait, no, they needed to have that specific hole pattern on the ends, didn't they? Kaiser continued sifting, and found what he thought might be the right ones. Then he took two of the weird little cylindrical wooden peg things and poked them into the middle holes of the first plank. He pushed them in with his thumbs at first and then, just to make sure they were really in, whacked them the rest of the way with the handle of a screwdriver. Then he had to... Merlin... push the two planks together so they kind of overlapped? Kaiser supposed the little pegs were meant to keep them together. He looked at his other plank, lined the two up, and realised at once that this was not the piece he needed. More sifting through the pile of materials ensued, and he tried a couple more pieces before finally grabbing the one he needed. He smooshed them together so they overlapped horizontally, found the screws and bendy metal thing that was required next, and screwed the boards together. There. Easy. First try. Feeling reasonably confident that he knew what he was doing here, Kaiser looked to the next page and-... wait, three of those? But it had only told him to make one. Where did they other two come from? He flipped back, looking for something he may have missed where it mentioned repeating the last step more than once, but found nothing. And the little picture at the start of the step made it look like only two were involved, which 1. still didn't answer when he was supposed to have made a second one, and 2. didn't explain where the third one was meant to go. Confused, Kaiser skipped ahead in the instructions, for some kind of clue as to what would become of all these pieces. All he succeeded in doing was confusing himself even more. You know what would make this easier to follow? Words. Muttering to himself in a sort of German-Italian combo, frustration evident, Kaiser went back to the page with the three overlapping things. He supposed he was supposed to build them now, even though the instructions didn't specifically say that - they just sort of implied they were already there. They'd need to go together in a specific way, and then the wooden peg things would need to go into specific places, if he was reading these instructions right, and it was very possible that he wasn't. Grumbling loudly, Kaiser began repeating the process of searching through the wooden planks and fitting the ones he needed together. Why did it need to be this complicated? He supposed he would never know. Did muggles just like making things extra difficult for themselves? As he worked, Kaiser tried thinking back to his own time around muggles, but his experience had been pretty far removed from anything that required building furniture, so he couldn't say for sure. __________________ Days of Potter 2023:___________________________ Which Bertie Botts Flavour Are You? You are Chocolate!