Terra:
“You’ll be allowed to do as you like with the inside, and if you want to make a basement, you’re free to do that as well. However, if you want to make any changes to the outside, you have to contact me about it. I’m in charge of all authorized construction because the lord wants to maintain a certain type of appearance for the town.”
Ariel:
“Solid grey stone is his preferred style?”
Terra:
“It’s not just solid grey stone, it’s also a slanted red tile roof. The roof is very important. It just doesn’t look right without it.”
Ariel:
“I understand. Thank you.”
Terra:
“With this, my job is done.”
Terra then turned and left.
Everyone else then all ran into the house to check it out, while I cleaned up the mess outside. I ended up making a big flat board that would eat non-living things pressed against it, and started using it to dispose of the giant tiger body. Eating the tiger, even by clone proxy, was enough for me to gain some detailed information about it. Nothing was terribly interesting except one thing: It was Sam’s father. Makes me think this tiger was probably one of the first monsters to make use of the brothel.
I wasn’t sure what to do about the blood and left it. The grass would get in the way of using the board, and cleaning magic doesn’t work well when what I’m trying to clean is natural grass and soil. I could probably make a spell specifically for removing blood, but that would take time, and there’s more important things to do.
Upon entering my new home, I saw that despite the stone exterior, the flooring and internal walls were made of wood. The entryway is rather large, there’s stairs on the side going up to the second floor. Both floors had long hallways with lots of rooms, and the back of the house on the first floor contained a kitchen and dining area big enough to serve all 32 rooms worth of guests.
The back of the second floor, was connected to the dining area by a set of stairs, but was otherwise a giant empty room. There was no bathroom or outhouse. I guess Terra either forgot humans needed that, or simply never learned how to build such things. I’ve got a lot of work to do.
While everyone else started claiming rooms and discussing how to use the house, I decided the first thing to do was make a proper bathroom. This seems like something guests might want to make use of…
Deciding to make something accessible from the front, I cut a hole into the back wall of one of the rooms that was near the front, to create a new doorway that was connected to the front. After making a door and placing it in the new doorway, I covered over the previous door so it’d not be usable or visible anymore.
For the main feature of the room, I created a sit down toilet, much like the ones I’d used in my past life. Toilet paper isn’t a very good solution for cleaning though, so I added a bidet. Put in a toilet paper dispenser too anyway. It can be useful as a cleaning cloth for all sorts of random things.
For the water supply, I just use a spell that makes water. For waste disposal, I made a tank for it all to flush into, that absorbs it all… this means my clone is eating the waste, doesn’t it?... oh well, slimes don’t taste things in the same way normal people do. Shouldn’t be an issue.
Adding a sink and bath/shower combo finishes things. After I finished, I made a point to explain how it all worked to everyone, and was a bit surprised to learn they had invited all their mothers over already (which added to the number of people to explain things too). Sam had even carried over the special bedroom I’d made and left in his mom’s room.
Boy:
“Can’t you make special rooms like you did for us to sleep in, that are bathrooms, and put them in every room?”
Ariel:
“Oh, that’s a good idea. It’ll take a while, but remaking the same room over and over shouldn’t be too hard once the initial design work is done. I’ll be leaving this room as is though. It can be for guests to use.”
Mother 1:
“Oh, so that’s why it opens to the front.”
Ariel:
“Yeah. I figure this is probably nice enough that people might come here just to use it.”
Mother 2:
“That’s definitely true. It’s a good thing the doorway to enter this house is a double door. Might be needed to handle the traffic this place could get.”
Sam:
“If it’s alright, could you make us dinner Ariel? That meat sauce you made earlier was really good, and I want to let everyone else enjoy your cooking.”
Ariel:
“It’s not really cooking, but sure, I can make dinner.”
I hadn’t realized how much time had passed while I was working on the bathroom. Definitely late enough to be time for dinner. So many things to do now that I have a big house without any furnishings.
Since Sam was talking about my meat sauce that I’d made with the intent of having it taste like the best Italian meat sauces I could remember, I decided to go with an Italian dish: Lasagna. Strips of pasta with layers of meat sauce and cheese in between.
Realizing we lacked basically everything needed for dining, I also made a table, plates, forks, knives, spoons, and cups. The very large and long dining table is enough to seat all 12 of us… right, need chairs too, let’s add folding chairs with nice foam cushions.
I was thinking about adding some cleaning features to things but realized it’d just cause problems. The pristine white would already draw attention, and if it self-cleaned that’d just draw even more attention. I can make it fairly easy to clean though by making it both waterproof, and smooth such that food, dirt, and other things will be easy to remove. Maybe later I’ll add drains and a waterproof coating to the floor so the whole room can be hosed down for easy cleaning.
Everyone seemed to really enjoy the food, so I’m glad I took the time and effort to make it. For drinks I provided water, and a low fat milk as options. Mostly because I remember drinking milk all the time in my past life.
When dinner was over, I started working on sleeping accommodations since it was late, and decided to put off the other work I wanted to do for later.
