In which they begin building a house (Part1)

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“Wait, we’re actually going to try to build a house?” Nelvana questioned, tightening her grip on her club slightly. “Only three out of…” She paused to do a mental count of everyone. “…nine of us actually know how to do this.” “Well, it’s worth trying! We can always learn along the way, and even if only some of us know how to do this, it’s still a third of us! If we run into problems, surely some of the Pokemon Square residents can help us out,” Keahi replied, “try not to stress about it too much, okay? We’re all working together in this,” zie added. “Then… how do we start this?” Tsuki asked. Mankey scoffed, “geez, you guys really do know nothing about this. We’re going to need to make some blueprints, to plan out what we’re actually building.” “Thanks for the tip, but watch your mouth in the future,” Alex hissed. “We don’t have blueprints… but we do have normal paper. Will that still work?” Nelvana suggested. “Paper is paper,” Tsuki shrugged, “surely it won’t make a difference what kind as long as we use it in the same way.” A mankey grumbled something under their breath to the others, who grumbled in agreement, but none of them spoke up. Tsuki huffed and turned towards the house, walking inside without any further comment. Everyone else followed, and Alex brought out the fold-up table while Nelvana got out some paper and her pencil. The group gathered around the table, watching to see where this would go. Wynaut was too short to see, so Wobbuffet picked up his brother, carrying him at a more appropriate height. The mankeys shared this same struggle, but ended up fighting over who would get to use the stools, instead of working together. “Uh… how about we draw the current house first? It would give us something to base off of, and it would be a good warm-up,” Keahi suggested, looking at Nelvana. “Makes sense,” Nelvana agreed, beginning to lightly sketch out a floorplan of their current home on one of the papers. “Huh, our house as it is doesn’t really have much, does it?” she commented. “No, not really. But that just means we can add to it in the rebuild!” Keahi replied. “So, uh, what do we want for this new house, anyway? Obviously, it’s going to be bigger, but what else?” Alex asked, glancing around the table at everyone. “Perhaps there should be another room,” Tsuki suggested, “we could have one room for cooking, and another for other… stuff.” “Oh! You guys should have an attic, or a basement!” Wynaut exclaimed, “those are cool!” “Eh, probably not a basement, because then we’d have to dig,” Nelvana replied, tapping the eraser of the pencil against the table. “A second floor might be nice though, if we can handle building that. We could sleep on the second floor, and then have the kitchen and living room down here.” “That’s a good idea!” Keahi agreed. “Alright… should we keep it dome shaped?” Nelvana asked, switching to a blank piece of paper to start sketching their future home. “Hm… maybe,” Alex responded, “I’m just trying to imagine how the furnace would work with that. We’d have to have the chimney go through the second floor…” “Which isn’t too out of the ordinary for some houses,” Mankey huffed, earning them a sharp glare from Alex. “Well… how are you suggesting that we handle it then? Dome or not, the chimney will go through the second floor if it’s on the first floor,” Nelvana sighed. “It wouldn’t if the second floor was smaller than the first,” Tsuki commented, “can we do that with a house?” “I… I think so!” Nelvana exclaimed, “I think I get what you guys mean, if we have the first floor like this…” she trailed off, hurrying to draw the floorplan. “And then the second floor would be like this,” she continued, making a separate floorplan on the same paper for the next floor. “See, the first floor would only go over top the kitchen room, making the living room more like an extension of the rest of the house!” “Ah, there we go! Good job!” Alex cheered, “and, we could put a spiral staircase right… here,” he added, pointing out a spot on the sketch. “Ooh, I didn’t consider this. But what would it look like from the outside? I’m kind of imagining it all clunky…” Keahi said, hopping closer to the table. “No, if we do it right, it should be roundish and smooth… here, I’ll draw that too,” Nelvana replied, quickly sketching out a side view of the future base. “Ohhh… that makes more sense!” Keahi chirped, “so where should we have all the windows?” “I suppose it would depend on how many we want. Right now, there are four windows,” Tsuki hummed, glancing around, mentally counting each window. “I like having two windows at the front, beside the door. And having those in the back is nice,” Nelvana replied, “so, I’d like to at least have some windows around where they already are. Of course, having a couple on the second floor will be nice too.” Alex nodded in agreement, watching as Nelvana marked down the spots for the windows.