Code of Honor has Wood

The construction of sets is something pretty new to us. I did a lot of set dressing on Splinterwood, and Mike had school plays, but I don't think either of us has done anything as ambitious as build sets from scratch. We went to Home Depot and bought a hilarious amount of wood to build the interior of the Monk's hut. The plywood is going up inside of Jake's gazebo, after which it will be covered in plaster. The slathered plaster will give a medieval feel to the walls of the hut, with any luck, and will then be used as building walls in the town.

Getting the wood from Home Depot to Jake's house was a bit of an ordeal. We had to put the plywood on top of Mike's Rav-4 (which has those obnoxious bars on top of it that people use to move bikes or something, I don't know) and fasten it down with bungee chords attached to the hand holds. Then, we had to slide the wooden beams through Mike's trunk and out the passenger side window (a similar technique was used to transfer the dolly track during The Rough Cut). This process caused the Rav-4 to have a makeshift lance for car jousting (or something) that would either decapitate me or crush me to death if we hit something (with the bungee chords going through the window and onto the hand holds, it would be impossible for me to open the door).

Luckily, no one died. Jake and I wrapped various clothing items around our hands and held the wood down on the roof for the entire ride home, which was no small workout, lemme tell ya. The wood only threatened to fall forward once, but it was enough to make us paranoid and Mike's driving speed 30 mph for the rest of the trip. We did make it succesfully, however, and we're beginning construction of the hut today. Expect accompanying production blog.

By the Code,
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