[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

[bulletofhope]

Yeah... really, both you and Takane just need to take it one day at a time. It's all any of us can do here given the circumstances, as depressing as it may sound.

[bedheadstyle]

It is kind of depressing.

[Well a lot more than "kind of" but...]

But it's almost like an adventure, too.

[bulletofhope]

An adventure...? How so?

[ Because that's certainly not a word he'd use to describe their current predicament right now... ]

[bedheadstyle]

[Haruka knows it's sounds weird, but that's just how he sees it.]

I didn't get to go many places back home, because of my condition. There was just... school, and sometimes going to places in town. But there was this whole world beyond that and I knew deep down I'd probably never get to see it.

But now I'm here, and even if that world is gone this is still some place new for me. With new faces and new things to see.

[bulletofhope]

[ . . .

It takes a while for Naegi to process it, but it... does make sense, in a way. The world beyond the walls, as it were. He could relate to a degree since he was in that same situation in Hope's Peak, though he wasn't compelled to kill to find out what was beyond its walls.

Still, it was the first time he'd considered this as such. ]

I guess that's true if you put it like that, huh...? I never really considered it like that but it makes sense...

[bedheadstyle]

[He knows it sounds weird, and he even gives a nervous, odd laugh to that effect.]

I know it's strange. Kind of depressing, too. That's just how I see it, though...

[bulletofhope]

I wouldn't necessarily call it depressing, actually.

[ Naegi tilts his head, glancing at Haruka curiously. ]

Sure, it could be depressing, but... I think it admirable, actually. It's a better way to view things than if we just took it for what it is.

Of course, it doesn't change the fact that our circumstances are still bad as is, but it's better than seeing everything as completely hopeless, right?

[bedheadstyle]

R... really? You think so?

[Color Haruka surprised. He's far more used to Takane's reactions to things he says.]

[bulletofhope]

Yeah... it's easy to just focus on surviving in this place and focus on what's in front of us.

To me, it's much harder to actually finding something to live for... something good to focus on despite all of the bad that's happened so far.

[ Naegi closes his eyes, sighing quietly. It sounds like he speaks from experience here... ]

[bedheadstyle]

[Wow. That does sound like it. Enough so that Haruka can't help the tiniest bit of a sympathetic frown that shows up after that.]

There has to be something though, right?

[bulletofhope]

Well... of course, there has to be. The fact that we're here is reason enough to me to believe that it's not completely hopeless out there.

[ Naegi says that without hesitation - such is his conviction on this. ]

[bedheadstyle]

I want to hold on to that. Not just for me, but for Takane.

[bulletofhope]

... sometimes, holding on to that hope is all a person can do, especially if it's for another.

[ And he also knows that too well. ]

You're definitely not alone, though. I want to believe... not just for myself, but for everyone here. I think we all could use it, really...

[bedheadstyle]

I know. Everyone here can rely on each other, right? That's what a community is about.

[bulletofhope]

Yeah... I've yet to meet someone here who didn't help in their own way. It's... kinda refreshing, in a way.

[bedheadstyle]

It is. I'll miss my home probably forever but if we have to be at the end of the world at least there's a sense of unity coming out of it.

[bulletofhope]

Yeah... same here. There's not much we can do now that it's past, so... all we can really do now is move forward, right?

Together, with everyone here, too...