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Three Seashells - Action/Written
[Ariel's closet is getting ridiculously full. With every piece of clothing that got dirty, she got a new one rather than washing it, because the washing machine was a mystery that she couldn't figure out and didn't really want to figure out. But forty dresses and other such things in her closet? This is a little too much.
So, Ariel's in the back of the kitchen where the washer and dryer are, and she's got a frown and a squint on her face as she leans to try to figure this out. The clothes go in... here, right? Right. That's the only place they can go. And then... This detergent stuff goes in with them. How much goes in...?
Surely, the more that goes in, the cleaner it'll be, right?
...
Well.
Twenty minutes later, the entire first floor and even the bottom of the stairs of Community Housing 4 is absolutely covered with soap suds. Ariel's by the entrance of the kitchen, on her knees and trying desperately to get the bubbles back into the kitchen. It's... mostly a futile effort, so she holds her hair with both hands, unaware that she just got bubbles in it, and then she slides across the suds to get to her journal on the counter.
The image shows her looking off to the side awkwardly, before she smiles widely and writes. She's... trying to be innocent, like she did nothing wrong, but... ahaha...]
Does How Could someone tell me how the clothing cleaner works? Is that what it's called?
And [...] how to clean up a lot of [...] bubbles?
So, Ariel's in the back of the kitchen where the washer and dryer are, and she's got a frown and a squint on her face as she leans to try to figure this out. The clothes go in... here, right? Right. That's the only place they can go. And then... This detergent stuff goes in with them. How much goes in...?
Surely, the more that goes in, the cleaner it'll be, right?
...
Well.
Twenty minutes later, the entire first floor and even the bottom of the stairs of Community Housing 4 is absolutely covered with soap suds. Ariel's by the entrance of the kitchen, on her knees and trying desperately to get the bubbles back into the kitchen. It's... mostly a futile effort, so she holds her hair with both hands, unaware that she just got bubbles in it, and then she slides across the suds to get to her journal on the counter.
The image shows her looking off to the side awkwardly, before she smiles widely and writes. She's... trying to be innocent, like she did nothing wrong, but... ahaha...]
And [...] how to clean up a lot of [...] bubbles?
[Action]
Haha... This is the first time I've seen anything quite like this happen before. Do you mind if I take a look at it? [Ginji gestures towards the washing machine, and is already on his way to check things out.]
Turning it off would probably be a good place to start.
[Action]
...which is basically what Rise thinks about the current situation at hand. She's taken a while longer to slog through the flood of suds since she has to put her bag somewhere dry first but it doesn't take her long. In fact, she'll just enter the kitchen when Ginji comments about turning it off.
Oh! Company.]
[Action]
She looks at the washing machine, back at Ginji, then to the machine again, where she moves forward and turns the knob enough to shut the machine off. She wasn't sure if that was the right thing to do or not, but since the noises stopped and the suds aren't coming out as fast, it... seems it was!
Yay!]
[Action]
Oh, hello. You're Rise, right? [He remembers her from the Welcome Center.] Sorry about the mess...
[Well, the other girl hasn't said a word, so he might as well apologize on her behalf. He turns his head back in the direction of the machine to see that Ariel has turned the knob and cut the power.]
That's right. I don't think there's really anything wrong with the machine - it's just been overloaded. But before we do anything else, we should probably find a way to start cleaning up all this mess.
[Action]
We might need a couple of mops...
[Action]
[Action]
[Ginji's shifting into problem-solving mode, and unfortunately it's going to involve quite a few "ifs". Sheridan has never thrown out an idea because it's been too crazy.]
If we could somehow route the water outside, it might save us time. Or...if we had one of those big vacuum cleaners that can suck up fluids. [What were they called again? Something-Vac.]
Anyway, there are some mops in my apartment down the hall. I can bring more buckets, too.
[He turns his attention to Ariel.] And you might want to try to save your clothes. I'm not sure what you have in there, but I've heard they can shrink up and stuff if you aren't careful.