[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

IT'S A TSUN-OFF NOW

[headphoneactor]

[ She's just gonna watch for a while. Like a creeper. And then. ]

You'll give yourself a stomachache or something if you keep packing it in like that.

[magisperica]

[ excuse me

Skyla head turns sharply and she narrows her eyes before very deliberately shoving as big a slice of cake as she can actually chew safely into her mouth. She makes a point of swallowing it before she answers and there's a little self-satisfied grin on her face as she does so. ]

So what if I do? I'll start worrying about that when the food's gone.

[headphoneactor]

[ Ohoho, you're that kind of person, are you? Takane narrows her eyes a little. ]

You're not even going to save some for the rest of the people here?

[ Not that she cares. ]

Your stomach must be as much of an anomaly as Haruka's.

[magisperica]

[ she is absolutely that kind of person. Sorry, Takane.

The question does make her raise an eyebrow though and she looks more bemused than anything. ]

Haruka? Which one's-- wait. Lemme guess. I'll read your mind -- I'm psychic, y'know.

[ she makes a big show of putting a hand to her forehead and frowns, giving a little 'hmm' of concentration. ]

A girl... no, a guy. Really tall with messy hair. A scar... or a mole? Near his eye. That sound about right?

[headphoneactor]

[ Don't be, Takane's the same way. Kinda. They are kindred spirits in tsundere.

Takane doesn't believe for a minute that you're psychic, though. She's not Haruka. She just raises a brow and crosses her arms over her chest. ]

I see you've met him before.

[magisperica]

[ she just snorts and drops her hand. ]

S'not like I can miss him. Kid practically towers above everyone else -- you just gotta glance upwards and you've seen him already.

[ and back to stuffing food in her mouth now that she's -- for the moment -- done being so much of a dick. ]

He said you were his only friend in school, so I figure you two come from the same world?

[headphoneactor]

Yep. We come from the same old world that went kaboom and left us as the only survivors. Not sure why they kept us, but eh.

[ She shrugs, indicating something akin to "I guess I shouldn't complain," but she's going to complain about that anyway. Surely there were far more important people than her to keep alive, world?? ]

[magisperica]

[ that shrug is so uncannily familiar that Skyla very nearly finds herself unconsciously mirroring it. Instead, she finds herself giving another one of those little snorts. ]

Yeah, join the club. World went boom and I'm stuck here. S'not like I've even got anything useful left to offer anyone.

And hey, at least you got someone with you. Pretty much everyone else here is alone.

[headphoneactor]

[ They are indeed kindred spirits in tsundere. Somehow. ]

Haruka's convinced that there might be more people we know out there. If the world went kaboom like everyone's saying it did, though, I'm surprised we are even alive after all of that.

[ Though something did a pretty good job of trying to kill them both. Haruka had been taken away from recovering from heart surgery, and she'd had something poisoning her to an extent that she damn well nearly died upon arrival here. Takane's still not sure if she was fortunate for having survived it, this place being what it was and all. ]

[magisperica]

[ hrhrrgrhh Skyla's perfectly aware that she's seeing a little too much of herself in this girl and it's making the dreaded Big Sister Instincts come roaring back into being, but she can't bring herself to just shut up and let her think like that. ]

Hey, kid. I'm not usually the one for the true life advice bullshit and I sure as hell ain't repeating myself if you don't get this the first time, okay?

But look around.

[ she makes a sweeping gesture with her hand in the direction of the crowd. ]

Y'know how many of us have a friend from home here? Let alone their best friend? Not a lot. But you do. Sure, there might be more people out there, but really? Chances are, there ain't. If there are, great. But if not...

[ she hesitates and looks... sheepish, almost. ]

Don't stress out about it. Don't go blaming yourself or any kind of bullshit like that. Take it from me -- my source is personal experience.

[ and a lot of hypocrisy. because even as she's saying all this, she knows perfectly well that she's not going to stop stressing out and blaming herself, regardless of how much bullshit it might be.

But maybe she can make sure this dumb kid doesn't. ]

[headphoneactor]

[ Is this chick actually lecturing her on how lucky she is? ]

I know I'm lucky. I know I shouldn't be blaming myself. I know there's a lot of people here who don't have anyone, but knowing that isn't going to stop me from wondering why the hell this world decided to keep me, some narcoleptic who has nothing to really give to a new world like this, when it could have saved someone who could offer a whole hell of a lot more!

[ Okay, if she was in a crabby mood before, she's in even more of one now. She grumbles a little more and then turns to walk away. ]

I'm gonna go find Haruka.

[ So she can let him know that she's going back to the apartment and going to sleep her bad mood off. Not that she can. She can never get enough sleep, it seems. ]

[magisperica]

[ ... that gets a snort. ]

'scuse me, kid. When did I say any of us were fucking lucky? Everything we know is dead and gone and we're stuck here, trying to make a new world out of the broken bits the last one left behind.

None of this is lucky. I'm just saying' -- you're got it a little less shitty than everyone else because you've got someone here with you who knows exactly what you've lost.

If it makes you feel any better, I mean.

[headphoneactor]

Not really.

[ That's grumbled. ]

Just makes me feel more like shit.

[ Because why should she have it any better than the other people in this place? Furthermore, why should Haruka, someone who's so nice it's criminal, be in a place like this? It'd be a lot better if she'd died in the Calamity.

At least, she thinks that. ]