[Day 212] Well it woulda been coulda been worse than you would ever know... [OPEN]

[hellpyre]

Who: Everyone!
Open: Open
When: Day 212, evening
Where: in front of the Distillery
What: No one died during the horrible plague scare! That's reason enough for a feast and a mingle log right?
Format: Any!
Warnings: Shouldn't be any but will adjust if needed

[Someone has been busy today. The kitchen and Distillery has been noisy and bustling, a departure from the much more quiet days when the illness was spreading through the Bastion and survival was once more on the uncertain scale of things. Somewhere around the time that the night cycle begins, when the sky is more of an orange-ish glow fading in to blue and purple, a large spread of food has been set up near the Distillery with glass lanterns hanging overhead.

Just like any other time there has been a feast be it random or planned, there is a wide selection of food on the covered, decorated tables. There's even meat this time! And yes, Aoi, your doughnuts have been transferred from your trees to a platter on the table. There's even a section for Paar, complete with massive amounts of bbq'd mammoth meat! You can thank Colin for that.

There's really no announcement for the feast, but chances are if you're outside at any point today you'll see the progress towards the set up, or smell the delicious scents wafting over the Bastion. (There might even be music playing, if Colin finds a way to provide it!)

Either way, come dusk food will be ready and mingling will be had!]

(ooc: Standard mingle log right here. Throw your threads up, poke other people's threads, and eat all the food!)

Comments

[dragonform]

[Rin might be awoken by the sound of a walking stick lightly tapping against the wooden floor. If not by that, then by the feeling of a blanket being pulled over her sleeping form. After all, no reason to leave the poor girl without something if she needed some sleep. Ryu is content to let her sleep while he fetches some food that would be light on his stomach. He was under explicit instructions to do so until his body recovered to having more food.

Though that wasn't gonna stop him from trying to see his friends.]

You guys have been through an awful lot, haven't you?

[hellpyre]

[The blanket around her does rouse her a little, but she doesn't fully wake until Ryu has his food. She sits up with a toothy yawn, tugging the blanket closer around her shoulders.]

Mhmn... when did you get back?

[dragonform]

Yesterday. Ryu found me and brought me back to the hospital. I'll heal pretty quickly, but I need to take care in what I eat.

[hellpyre]

What happened to you anyway?

[dragonform]

[It takes him a moment, but he eventually brings himself to talk about it.]

When my kind die, they leave behind a magical ore with a fragment of their soul trapped in it. If the fragment left behind is large enough, I can absorb its power and add it to my own. I don't know if they gave you an account of our fight with the Gasfella, but the way I transformed there was because of that.

[He smiles a little sheepishly.]

I thought I heard their voice again. The voice of a lost soul of the Brood, but I never found the source. I don't know if it was just something my mind just made up to cope with the loss, or if there's really some poor lost soul out there. I couldn't bear for that person to be alone in death.

[hellpyre]

... but you went out alone, didn't you?

[Rin has to scowl at that. A lot of people have been lost for that very reason. Ryu was lucky to make it back alive, even if he was injured.

She still bears the scar from what happened when two went out, and only one came back alive...]

[dragonform]

[He nods. He has a feeling he knows what's coming next.]

I know it was foolish.

[hellpyre]

... it was. But you made it back.

[There wasn't really anything more that could be done about it now.]

[dragonform]

[He's not really sure what to say, especially with how fresh the wound of Night's demise would be.]

I hope I didn't cause too much trouble for you.

[Whether he means the Bastion as a whole or just Rin, he doesn't say.]

[hellpyre]

I think the plague caused a lot more problems than you bein' gone...

[She's pointedly avoiding any talk or thought of Night with this conversation.]

[dragonform]

Colin told me. I feel bad for not being here, maybe my magic could have made a difference.

[It bothers him, but he knows there's no lingering on what's done.]

[hellpyre]

Eh, I doubt it. Illness is a lot different than injury, even I know that.

[dragonform]

[He nods. No point debating what's already passed.]

At least now everything seems to be okay, and I'm sure measures have been taken to ensure something like this doesn't happen again.

[hellpyre]

Probably. I know Colin did a lotta work on the whole thing.

[And as much as she and Colin tend to butt heads over everything, she can't deny that he was a big help in making sure no one died in that whole mess.]

[dragonform]

[He nods.]

I know a lot of people don't get along with him, but I'm grateful he's here. I think we might be worse off without his help.

[hellpyre]

He's... he's a giant pain in the ass! But... he's smart and I gotta give him credit for savin' us...

[Tsun more, Rin.]