Sokka the 61st - [Action/Voice]

[markofthewise]

[When Sokka opens the journal, he does it with a very specific purpose and yeah, maybe it's New Feather season and the aftermath of some dumb experiment, but he has some news that he's been sitting on for awhile. News that only two or three people outside of the Avatar house are even aware of. So today, around lunch period at school, Sokka heads

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[justicereigns]

I can probably help, but I'm hardly a shipwright, so don't count me in as an expert or anything.

[markofthewise]

I haven't exactly found any experts yet. [A pause before he grins.] I thought ice cream was more your thing, though.

[justicereigns]

Ha ha. [So sarcastically.]

I'm better at running a ship. Tsk.

[markofthewise]

Well I'm not looking for something big and intimidating. Just... go out on the ocean and catch seafood.

[Not quite your pirate hunting sort of vessel.]

[justicereigns]

I gathered that. Hn. As I said, I can help. Just not an expert.

[He doesn't have a crew to man a large ship anyway.]

[markofthewise]

Right, right. Fair enough. We're gonna want to build it on the ocean side anywhere. So the real problem is getting materials too big for the teleporter over there.

[justicereigns]

Build a wagon?

[Pauses as he has a horrible mental image that involves himself as the horse pulling such a thing.]

[markofthewise]

Not a bad idea. There's just... you know, mountains.

[A thought occurs to him though. There ARE animals from that farm, right? Maybe he could use them for something useful like.]

[justicereigns]

Wagons to pull it up, sleds to pull it down -- or some sort of rope system.

How did your people do things in your world?

[markofthewise]

[Not bad ideas, those. Be better if they could find a good path through it. On the other hand... Toph could do that pretty handily too.]

We made a point of living next to the ocean, so that came in handy.

[justicereigns]

[People with powers are so convenient.]

Even living on islands, resources still have to be brought down form the mountains.

[markofthewise]

There wasn't much lumber in the South Pole. We imported most of it from the Earth Kingdom. A lot of our ships are made from whale bones and skin. It's good enough for fishing and traveling to the other villages. But not so much for long voyages or anything. [The war boats, however, Water Tribe hunters and warriors would go to secluded islands off of the Earth Kingdom or other empty areas to get the wood.]

[justicereigns]

I see. That does seem a lot harder to procure here than lumber would be, but I'm not about to touch Moro's forest without her permission.

[markofthewise]

... it's not Moro's forest.

[Yeah he's... a little unhappy about the idea of not being able to touch trees, period. He doesn't waste them and just picking up already knocked over trees in the woods isn't going to get him what he wants.]

[justicereigns]

[Thinks this over. And then...]

Yes it is.

Maybe just do a recycling of metal and wood, see if there are furniture items people don't need a lot of and things like that?

[markofthewise]

[She's just a big angry wolf. So he doesn't buy that. He has a respect for the spirits and all that, but only as long as they keep earning it.]

... you can't make a boat out of a bunch of old junk.