Open to all!

[dateme]

Who: Inui (dateme) & ALL OF YOU
When: Day 3, eclipse/evening
Where: Boneyard
What: IT'S TIME FOR A POW-WOW aka we built a fire

[ So it's been a rough couple of days (literally, just two). But between nearly being blown up, marching through the desert, and generally just never wanting to see desert again, there is one good thing Inui (and Lance) have discovered: those Coral plants? Can be cracked open and eaten!

So as the sun vanishes behind the rocky formations or the moon(s), fellow interlopers might notice a distinct & nutty aroma wafting through the boneyard. Tracing it to it's source isn't hard though: Inui and Lance have started up a rather sizeable camp fire from the remains of some of the bones near the vague center of the massive grave. There they've cracked open large stalks from the coral and are roasting the mealy insides over the flames.

They've stockpiled quite a bit and have yet to cook all of it, so anyone and everyone is free to stop by and either help or take up a stalk of their own! Heck, maybe there's already people gathered there!

Whatever the case, it's a good way to kill some time, right? Maybe you've got a ghost story or a survival plan you want to share with the group? No really does anyone have a plan we could really use a plan ]


[ ooc; THIS POST IS OPEN TO EVERYONE AND EVERYONE! Feel free to make your own starters/sections, threadjack like crazy, and just generally get to mingling. The cooked Coral stalks taste like almonds and shouldn't be poisonous!.

HAVE FUN ]

Comments

[adamance]

And the only plant that alluded to having liquid had none at all. [It was edible, though she decides not to share that as there don't seem to be any left in the immediate area.

Which leads her to wondering if they might be elsewhere.]

With little hope for rain, we may find ourselves in a bad predicament.

[dateme]

What about digging for water underground? Isn't that what people used to do, build wells?

[adamance]

That's assuming that the ground is arid enough. We lack the tools to dig regardless.

[dateme]

We have gloves and hands though! [ But he's suggesting that mostly to be a pain. It might work for a little while but Inui knows that won't get them very far and it'll probably just wreck their gloves. Water underground is usually pretty far below the surface and hands aren't going to carry them that far although maybe of Clark laser beams his way down... ]

[adamance]

Very well. I suggest you get digging. [If he's going to make the suggestion, Lexa has every intention of forcing him to balk at actually having to do it.]

[dateme]

[ And balk he does...ish. It looks more like disappointment and a pout combined than anything else. ]

You serious?

[adamance]

Why would I suggest something and not be serious with it? As I stated, I am the Commander of my people in the place I was taken from. [But the word play there, no matter how subtle it is, is there. She doesn't say "yes," only that she's a leader, that she's implying that he can dig if he perceives that to be a "yes."]

[dateme]

Yeah but that doesn't mean much here does it? We have a dude with x-ray vision. [ Clark can see through your clothes, Inui would vote for him. I mean he'd probably vote for Lexa too if she scared him enough, but. ]

[adamance]

It means I'm a person who's accustomed to being listened to. If you feel that you're bound to find water beneath our feet, who am I to stop you? [It is still not a "yes." That said, she's curious about who has X-ray vision. ... And what X-rays are, but that's another thing all together.]

[dateme]

Isn't there ways to find water using a dowsing rod or something? If we're gonna dig we should start with one of those. [ In this barren wasteland which has no tree or branches for such a purpose anywhere.

Also, x-ray vision? Every teenage boy's dream. He'll have to illuminate her about this. ]

[adamance]

Why are you so reluctant to do exactly the thing you've suggested? You should be more careful with your solutions.

[Of course, she's still being a pain here.]

[dateme]

Just because I come up with ideas doesn't mean I actually wanna do them myself...

[ That's okay♥ That makes two of them now. ]

[adamance]

Then what good are you for? [Lexa takes a beat to motion toward the cooking plant.] And don't say that. I've accomplished as much myself since I arrived. [She just had less to share, so ... no sharing has happened.]

[dateme]

Come on, finding out you can eat an alien plant in space totally counts! That's alike, a huge discovery. Now we won't starve to death right away....

[ ...Lexa. Please. You're worse at this "sharing" thing than him. ]

[adamance]

Finding out what vegetation you can survive on is very simple. You're new to this, aren't you?

[It seems probable given his disposition. If he knew hardship, he wouldn't be ... like himself.]

[dateme]

I live in Tokyo. [ Inui says this as if it should explain everything, even though it likely explains nothing at all. He's used to convenience stores and arcades and malls, Lexa. Malls. All this nature hurts. ]

[adamance]

... I'm afraid you'll have to tell me more. [Tokyo exists on maps in books, but given its distance from post-apocalyptic Virginia, she hasn't really had cause to pay it much attention.]

[dateme]

You don't know Tokyo?? [ That's what he assumes her question means anyway. It sounds like she isn't very familiar with it, which is kind of shocking. It may not be New York but...still. Come on. Tokyo :c ]

[adamance]

Not all of us come from the same place. I've recently learned of someone who comes from a different galaxy.

[She assumes that Tokyo (despite being vaguely familiar sounding) is one of those places.]

[dateme]

Wait, you serious?? I mean... I kinda know one alien. The orange girl, looks like she's wearing a giant hat? Face tattoos? But I didn't know there were others.

[adamance]

And not all aliens look like Ashla, [she points out calmly.] There was a woman who spoke of another galaxy, and of travel. My people could never manage that in our current state, but a past civilization did. To some degree.

[No one would call the Space Stations that eventually formed the Ark (and now Arkadia) extensive space travel.]

[dateme]

Yeah? Back on Earth we could send out satellites and stuff? But we never actually sent anyone outside our own galaxy or anything. Something about them not aging a whole bunch, and everyone else aging a lot. I forget how it works.

[adamance]

I am from Earth. [That raises a lot of questions that Lexa doesn't have the knowledge to piece together, but she still can't help but wonder what she's missing.]

There was a time when we had space stations in the sky. It saved some of humanity. [She says this as if she's detailing someone else's story. That's in part because she is.]

[dateme]

...Saved? [ Alright, that gets a bit of a blink. ] What do you mean?

[ A comment like that requires a little explanation ]

[adamance]

The world was bombed. All of it burned, except for those people. Those who remained were eventually saved by the first Commander, or hidden away and not allowed to ... progress to handle the world outside. [This is basic history. What if her people hadn't been viewed as animals by the Mountain Men? As savages? Lexa knows that they were toyed with, and yet she still gave in.

Then again, she feels like she's being toyed with now, but at least she isn't being given any ultimatums. (Yet.)]