Day 178 }{ OPEN

[yaylungcancer]

Who: Badou Nails + whoever is brave enough to approach
Open: Open
When: Day 178
Where: All over the Bastion, mostly near the edge.
What: Badou arrives at the Bastion and explores the strange island.
Format: Action
Warnings: Possible cussing.



[Finally arriving on the island from the Skyway, Badou looked around, his confusion very obvious. He was pretty sure he wasn't dead. Not that he hadn't just left a situation where he could have very easily been killed without him realizing it. But he was mostly sure this wasn't the afterlife. It looked too... Normal. Well, as normal as a floating island could look anyway. Following the edge, he started to check out his new surroundings as carefully as he could manage.]

Comments

[orzelbialy]

I wouldn't recommend treading too close to that edge. Though you won't fall to the ruined land below, it's still unsettling to be pushed back up and dropped back on the Bastion.

[The voice speaking to the man edging around the ledge of the Bastion belonged to some one who... well, didn't really look like he belonged in a place like this. Fancy clothes, a top hat, posture that spoke of a proper upbringing from a very different era.

But he was greeting Badou, and doing so... somewhat politely. There was that at least.]

[yaylungcancer]

I was hoping for maybe a safe way down but... Guess that's out of the question.

...How do people get pushed back up? It doesn't seem like the wind is strong enough to do that.

[orzelbialy]

Even if there would be, there is nothing down there but a ruined land that's uninhabitable by most beings still alive here.

[To the question, Frederic shakes his head uncertainly.]

Some sort of safety mechanism, I would imagine. No one had the misfortune of testing it personally until recently when two of our residents had a bit of a spat and knocked one another off the side. They survived by being pushed back up, like there was some sort of... super powered wind tunnel beneath us.

[yaylungcancer]

Huh... Wish I could say I was surprised by the world being ruined.

Does anyone know how the hell we ended up here?

[orzelbialy]

There are theories floating about, though nothing concrete. Something likely tied to the thing that caused the destruction here in the first place.

[yaylungcancer]

That sounds too much like we might actually be dead. I don't think I like that thought.

[orzelbialy]

I highly doubt that. I have seen what becomes of those who actually perished in the Calamity. We are still whole, flesh and blood and breathing. That is more than what can be said for those who didn't survive.

[yaylungcancer]

They aren't zombies... Are they?

[At this point in his life, Badou would really not be surprised by zombies.]

[orzelbialy]

Zombies? Oh heavens no. They were turned in to statues of ash.

[Frederic does shutter at the thought, though. It seems zombie is a universally terrible and frightening concept.]

[ourlegends]

[ And today, Badou, you will be meeting a tiny teenager with a baby Zorua in her arms, and a plantlike creature (Lilligant) walking next to her. She watches the man at the edge of the Bastion for a short time before walking closer. ]

You look like you're lost.

[yaylungcancer]

Lost might be a bit of an understatement.

[He eyes the strange little creatures. He's definitely seen some pretty weird things in his life, but they might take the cake.]

[ourlegends]

[ They're a bit strange to someone who has never seen them before, but they're nice creatures. ]

Did you just come in from the Skyway?

[yaylungcancer]

If the Skyway is that ridiculous bridge thing... Then yes, that's where I just came from.

What is this place?

[ourlegends]

It's called the Bastion.

[ That question told her everything she needed to know. ]

The reason we're all here isn't exactly a happy one.

[yaylungcancer]

I was afraid you'd say something like that... What happened?

[ourlegends]

The Calamity happened, apparently.

[ She takes a deep breath, then lets it out. It's still hard for her to talk about, but ... new guy really needed to know. ]

It destroyed worlds. Those of us who are here are the survivors.