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Prefect ([personal profile] buywithme) wrote2011-09-13 04:07 am

Private to the Admiral

Comrade, in the factory, we had these... tiny blocks, tiny plastic coloured blocks, and they all fit together, to make towers and streets and cities...

I would like to construct many things from these blocks. With Barron. It'll be a major warden/inmate project.

but I need lots and lots of blocks please.

[PREFECT IS PRETTY DRUNK AT THIS POINT. COME ON ADMIRAL, THIS MAN NEEDS LEGO.]



If Prefect were a tiny plastic lego man, he would have liked to live in the house he was currently building. It was small, (but not too small), a perfectly regular shade of grey (the exact colour that the corridors in the Factory were painted), it was the shape of a perfect cube, and best of all, it was in a prime location, at the foot of the waterfall which was currently flowing down the entire third floor staircase, in hundreds of immaculately placed blue plastic bricks.

Prefect placed the house down, and pushed it into the lego which made up the pavement of their growing empire, glancing up at the waterfall as he did so.

At some point, in the morning, someone was going to want to use those stairs. They should really make a boat, for that occasion.

Groping for one of the bottles of Gin which they were progressing through, he looked around for what Barron was doing, "Comrade? Comrade, I was just thinking--", his voice slurred slightly at the end there, "We should make some boats."

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Without objection, Prefect removed his watch and held it out to Barron, because obviously this was the very best thing which his watch could possibly go towards.

"I like the idea of public clocks, Comrade. Or a booming voice that could announce the time. We can not make a booming voice out of blocks."

Blue, blue, yellow, red, blue. That was it. The blocks were sorted. Prefect reached for the brown pile, and began making the lines which would create his harbor.

[identity profile] sharpememory.livejournal.com 2011-09-13 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Barron took it, quickly encasing it in a little hollow cube of lego so that the clock face was still visible.

"No, we can't. But the town can see it, right?" Barron started working on the body of the clock tower. His fingers were starting to hurt.

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-14 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Prefect made a few more lines of harbor, before beginning work on the shipping containers. He stole a brief, appraising glance towards the sacrificial watch, and decided that yes, this was exactly the right place for it.

"Comrade, you're really good at this. You should have been an architect, not a lawyer."

Pushing down his shipping containers, Prefect mentally went over what else their world would need. There were houses, a hospital, a bank, many, many shops and skyscrapers, there was clearly no unemployment in the land...

There should be, Prefect decided, a large public park with a Ferris wheel in it.

A working Ferris wheel.

He grabbed a new handful of blocks, and set about making this happen.

[identity profile] sharpememory.livejournal.com 2011-09-15 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, well. That would have been my other choice." The was completely untrue, but Barron didn't even skip a beat as he stuck the clock tower near the town hall on one of the steps. The parts that he made were noticeably brighter in terms of their color scheme than Prefect's, but Barron liked to think that it gave the city a sense of variation.

"What are you doing next?" Barron asked, mainly because Prefect seemed more than a little bit excited about what he was making next.

[identity profile] buywithme.livejournal.com 2011-09-17 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm making a Ferris Wheel." Prefect replied, diligently constructing the frame for the wheel, "I think the citizens of this town need more options for their leisure time."

He gestured to a vague area, as of yet uninhabited, "I think they require a large area of parkland here, with a Ferris Wheel, and possibly a fountain."

He looked at Barron expectantly, waiting for Barron to begin work on the fountain.

[identity profile] sharpememory.livejournal.com 2011-09-18 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
Barron looked around the city. Prefect was right. It needed more bars. Far more bars.

"Do it." Barron said, nodding seriously. "I'll make some rides."

Barron spent a moment seriously considering how one could construct a roller coaster and roller coaster track out of lego.