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theatlas2016-12-03 02:43 am
ex_broach530) wrote in theatlas2016-12-03 02:43 am
OPEN MINGLE.
Who: Anyone!
When: Day 22 - Day 26 (Dec 7)
Where: Around the city.
What: Digging Boney out, checking on the injured, observing caused by the Overseer Drone including the time shenanigans and the new wildlife, and any other daily life threads you'd like to have before new arrivals.
Here, have some prompts!
DIG AND DIG AND DIGGITY DIG
The Dust seems to be settling on the city, quite literally. The result of massive cave-ins is that the city now looks like a poorly-managed construction zone, and the seekers of the Atlas who have been brought to this place might have to get their hands dirty in order to dig out the tunnels.
In case you need an incentive, access to some of the Monoliths has probably been prevented, not to mention the fact that nobody knows what happened to the strange boney creature calling itself The Last. The group consensus seems to be that they're going to dig him out. And was he the only one buried? A headcount goes round, but nobody is sure who exactly was in the caves. Probably time for a buddy system in case the next person buried is you.
Of course, hard work leaves little time for the other necessities of life. Why not bring by some food or water and strike up a conversation?
IT MEANS NO WORRIES
Manual labor isn't your thing? No problem! Several lush oasises seem to have popped up, complete with grass and water and wildlife.
There's one near the entrance to the city that is currently home to a couple of naughty tree-climbing mammals. Despite monkeying around, they look more like a gecko had a baby with a sloth than any kind of primate, but don't accuse these guys of being slow! They're fast, mischievous, and will steal anything they can get their hands on, carrying it somewhere high and leaving it there. But maybe if you can find out what they like to eat they can be tamed? Or at least convinced to brings your stuff back...
There's another denser patch of vegetation that definitely has something large and loud tromping around in it, but nobody's seen it yet... just be careful while foraging, okay? Or maybe it's a chance to finally have some meat for once.
Finally, there's definitely a decent sized pond with a shimmering reflection just begging for someone to cannonball in. And it turns out taking off the suit has no adverse effect writhing the oasis. Skinny dipping anyone?
TALE AS OLD AS TIME
Be careful around the sudden appearance of plants; they're time distortions that will zap in and out, the bubbles bursting before you can work out how to break that coconut-like plant open. And you don't want to end up stranded in the desert without your suit on, either. Not to mention some pretty weird time distortions seem to be happening. Careful you aren't stuck in a Groundhog Day loop, forced to relive the last few minutes of your gruesome death over and over...
On the plus side, you can give yourself a high five?
And only a high five, nobody wants to see you taking self love to an entirely new level.*
* Iron Bull wants to see.
When: Day 22 - Day 26 (Dec 7)
Where: Around the city.
What: Digging Boney out, checking on the injured, observing caused by the Overseer Drone including the time shenanigans and the new wildlife, and any other daily life threads you'd like to have before new arrivals.
Here, have some prompts!
DIG AND DIG AND DIGGITY DIG
The Dust seems to be settling on the city, quite literally. The result of massive cave-ins is that the city now looks like a poorly-managed construction zone, and the seekers of the Atlas who have been brought to this place might have to get their hands dirty in order to dig out the tunnels.
In case you need an incentive, access to some of the Monoliths has probably been prevented, not to mention the fact that nobody knows what happened to the strange boney creature calling itself The Last. The group consensus seems to be that they're going to dig him out. And was he the only one buried? A headcount goes round, but nobody is sure who exactly was in the caves. Probably time for a buddy system in case the next person buried is you.
Of course, hard work leaves little time for the other necessities of life. Why not bring by some food or water and strike up a conversation?
IT MEANS NO WORRIES
Manual labor isn't your thing? No problem! Several lush oasises seem to have popped up, complete with grass and water and wildlife.
There's one near the entrance to the city that is currently home to a couple of naughty tree-climbing mammals. Despite monkeying around, they look more like a gecko had a baby with a sloth than any kind of primate, but don't accuse these guys of being slow! They're fast, mischievous, and will steal anything they can get their hands on, carrying it somewhere high and leaving it there. But maybe if you can find out what they like to eat they can be tamed? Or at least convinced to brings your stuff back...
There's another denser patch of vegetation that definitely has something large and loud tromping around in it, but nobody's seen it yet... just be careful while foraging, okay? Or maybe it's a chance to finally have some meat for once.
Finally, there's definitely a decent sized pond with a shimmering reflection just begging for someone to cannonball in. And it turns out taking off the suit has no adverse effect writhing the oasis. Skinny dipping anyone?
TALE AS OLD AS TIME
Be careful around the sudden appearance of plants; they're time distortions that will zap in and out, the bubbles bursting before you can work out how to break that coconut-like plant open. And you don't want to end up stranded in the desert without your suit on, either. Not to mention some pretty weird time distortions seem to be happening. Careful you aren't stuck in a Groundhog Day loop, forced to relive the last few minutes of your gruesome death over and over...
On the plus side, you can give yourself a high five?
And only a high five, nobody wants to see you taking self love to an entirely new level.*
* Iron Bull wants to see.
Cloud Strife | OTA
It's nice to actually see something green again, even if, admittedly, he's spent one and a half years in a city that has none, either in it or around it, and Nibelheim in late September certainly wasn't very green aside from the pines. That just made the appearance of these temporary little clearings all the more startling.
Sitting in the shadow of a tree near one such pool, Cloud eyes it with some longing. It's hot, and even if he's gotten better about dealing with the heat, it'd be nice... But it could disappear whenever, and he wasn't about to strip anything off no matter how much he rather wanted a bath.
Looking up at the sound of approaching footsteps, Cloud dropped one hand to the now-working gun he had. It could just be Zack, or one of the others with them, but he'd seen more than one animal appearing with these green spots...
lack of time
"... How does that... work." It was a mutter, more or less slipping out unconsciously while Cloud stared, uncomfortable, at himself, repeatedly walking a stretch of ground between a building and the green clearing that had appeared between one step and the next.
Reaching a hand out, Cloud pulled it back before he could touch himself as the copy passed him, disappeared two steps after walking onto the now-there grass, and reappeared back where he'd exited the building.
wildcard
Got another idea?
not bathing
"Mind if I take a drink?" He could use one - badly enough that the the sight of the glimmering pool in the sun distracted him from announcing himself. That'd be an awful way to end up shot.
no subject
Ducking his head, feeling a little foolish and embarrassed now even if he couldn't have known, Cloud pulls his hand away from the gun and resettles it to a less ready position.
"... Sure. Sorry about that." Cloud doesn't smile, partly because he's a little too embarrassed right now to do so, and partly because they just don't come that easily, but he relaxes and nods.
no subject
[ padmé paused where she stood. the rifle was slung across her back, another handgun in the storage space at her right thigh. she reached for neither. instead, she held the canister she had salvaged from her pod. padmé smiles politely. ]
Are you all right?
no subject
Um, yeah. Sorry. There's creatures, sometimes...
[And some of them have definitely been hostile, reminding Cloud of home. Well, as much as this place can do that.]
no subject
[ although her attention remains on the stranger, she has half an eye on the canister. when the rush of bubbles ends, she pulls it out and carefully stoppers it. the canister disappears inside one of the suit's pockets. ]
no subject
[Frowning a little, still confused over how to talk about a firearm where the bullets aren't actually bullets and it's all energy and... he just doesn't get it. But he can use it, now, he he supposes it doesn't matter.]
We've got food still.