Utterly CRABtivating!Username: yuroshi
Link to sign-up post: https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=4123900&p=125967028&hilit=Sal#p125967028Prompt response:Sal smiled a bit and nodded before sitting down and looking through the box of crystals available. He basically took inventory, making sure to write down exactly which ones were what color, and how big they were. Most of the stones were, predictably, purple, greenish, and blue hues, but he knew that there had to be others somewhere, so he scoured the beach until he found what he was looking for- a pink sea glass. He did pick up a few other colors, of course. Then, he pulled out a pen and a notepad and got to work. He started with the base- as an engineer, he already had a plan and knew the theory of how he would pull it off. First, from the pink, he began to put together an idea of how to craft a body. He’d said Thatcher likes crabs, right? Well, hopefully that included hermit crabs. The pink stones set up so that they formed the bulk of the body, with little bits of the larger purples flashing through from where they resided on the inside of the statue of the body. It was beautiful, though not exactly smooth, with each of the details a hermit crab’s body would naturally have included with precision, though the colors weren’t exactly accurate- the eyes were made from a pure black stone he’d found on the beach that stood out fiercely from the body. Then he began the shell. Here is where his engineering came in- when he crafted the body, he made sure to leave hollow space in the center, and now he crafted the shell based on that, using only the lightest of the materials. It was a myriad of the pastel hues of the things he had access to, mostly a blue and greenish color to stand out from the body, with the swirl a mixture of gradients. Gently, he placed the shell on top of the body, twisting it until the pole meant to affix the body and shell was aligned. Then came the true test. He grabbed the largest open geode, one nearly in a bowl shape, and excitedly filled it with water. He placed it over the minuscule hole on the body and slowly began to pour the water in, getting giddy with excitement as he watched the shell rise up, as though the hermit crab was emerging from its hiding place and home. Then, he sat to wait the minutes necessary for the water to leak back out through a small hole in the bottom, watching as the shy looking sculpture hid again. Of course, he had a crystal which he could plug the hole with if they hoped for just a standing sculpture, but overall it seemed to be perfect. He finished up by drawing a sketch of what the shrine around the sculpture would look like- a mass of carefully carved driftwood with sea-glass interspersed throughout it, in a small, hut-like shape- then proudly showed his creation, leaving with a simple “If you ever need help again, let me know!”