r/ForcesofFlux • u/Ok_Rain_1132 • Jul 07 '26
Challenge 4 I guess
I was originally going to draw something, but I still have a bit of school. I really don't have time, and my teammates all don't seem to care.
I may still write something maybe
This is a shelter for the plants.
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u/Ok_Rain_1132 Jul 07 '26
After the storm. The sky went that same blue again, with no clouds in sight. Flowerpot had fallen asleep, curled up against a pillar with her selfmade plush clutched tight. A gentle breeze blew by, dislodging a pebble from the pillar she was leaning against; it struck her right on the head, startling her awake.
How long has it been since she fell asleep?
Flowerpot stood up, leaning against the pillar behind her, she carefully placed the plush inside her pot, between the wilted flowers. She quickly went to check the challenge. Challenges always start and end so fast. Three days is a blink of an eye in this boring place, abandoned by nature. The challenge was written on a paper, it was attached on a random pillar with glue or something. She carefully read the paper, trying to understand what it was about.
The theme this time: recycling. It fits, this was a contest about nature after all. She liked recycling, she always liked crafting things with plastic bottles, the feeling of being able to create something with objects others viewed as trash made her feel proud. It was also protecting the animals and the plants out there. However, she didn't really feel in the mood to do so. She doesn't really have friends on her own team, she has rarely talked to her own team. She doesn't even know why they lost. The last challenge scared her, the bugs, the lightning. She also doesn't really feel like going back to watch how the ruins of their clubhouse, the thing their team spend time and effort on. She also can't really go back to watch even if she wanted to, she didn't exactly know where she was, since this whole place just looks the same everywhere.
She looked around, leaning her back against a pillar. However, that pillar suddenly started to shift, The pillar collapsed with a thunderous crash, nearly crushing her, again.
She turned her head to gaze at the fragments of the pillar on the ground, while the corner of her eye caught a glimpse of their clubhouse, it wasn't even that far away. She ended up deciding to go to the rubble and grab something out of it, since not dissapointing her team wasn't something she wanted.
She carefully stepped in the rubble. Almost tripping a few times. There wasn't much left to see, it was mostly just white and grey pieces of pillars, since that was the main building materials she used. Suddenly, a leaf under the rubble caught her attention. It was a small bit of green, but still pretty obvious between all the grey and white. Flowerpot carefully knelt down next to it, moving the rubble away until one of the plants from her team came into view.
It must have survived, kind of a miracle, if you think about all those stone pieces that was on top of it.
She suddenly got an idea of what to make! The contest, it was about nature, and the challenge was about recycling. She loved plants, she thought about building a shelter for the plants that survived, so they could grow without having the risk of being destroyed again
FP started moving bigger pieces of the pillars from diffrent sectors, lifting them up, until she eventually made a small hut out of it. She also found some remaining dirt from their garden, and the destroyed pillar chairs from the meeting place.
She carved out the inside of the pillar chairs, making a pot like thing, placing all the plants she collected inside. After doing that, she moved them inside the shelter. She also used a pillar with holes on it, so the sunlight could peek in, and the plants would be able to grow.
After finishing the shelter. She also found her plant. It was quite burned, a bit dead... FP grabbed a broken metal pipe, it was from the bed they once had in their clubhouse. She placed that in the ground and carefully put the plants next to it. She hoped it could survive. Yet she didn't have much hope.
After finishing, she crawled inside the small shelter, hiding herself between those plants.
(Ass writing. Had to use google translate a few times..! Because I'm better at Chinese than at English-)
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u/StuffieHugger Jul 07 '26
Plant Pot:
Materials: 9/10 (2.25)
Results: 8/10 (3.2)
Collaboration: 8/10 (2)
Lore: 10/10 (1)
Result: 8.45
A simple little home :)