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oasislogs2016-03-20 10:00 pm
strangelic) wrote in oasislogs2016-03-20 10:00 pm
This is a curse that can't be stopped
WHO: OPEN MINGLE
WHERE: The Warehouse, The City, The Forest
WHEN: However long the rain falls and the siege lasts.
WARNINGS: Undead, violence, gore, murder. Note in comments anything else and I'll add.
SUMMARY: With sloppy zombies and cannibals running the show out in the city, everyone is feeling a little cooped up back at the warehouse. But as much rainwater as they have to drink, people still need to eat
WHERE: The Warehouse, The City, The Forest
WHEN: However long the rain falls and the siege lasts.
WARNINGS: Undead, violence, gore, murder. Note in comments anything else and I'll add.
SUMMARY: With sloppy zombies and cannibals running the show out in the city, everyone is feeling a little cooped up back at the warehouse. But as much rainwater as they have to drink, people still need to eat
The Warehouse
After a day or two, the perimeter had been secured far enough back to light a fire out of sight of the top windows of the warehouse, so that everyone could keep warm, even when the rain was pouring outside. There was plenty of water, consequently, to drink, but food and dry firewood was limited, both difficult to get back to the warehouse without coming upon one predator or another outside. The longer the siege went on - and that was exactly what it was - and the longer the rain poured, the more miserable their confinement was. Food came in the form of meat, mostly, and the occasional tropical fruit found on the forest floor, with no way to go out into the forest to scavenge for berries or nuts. Even hunting was risky, with the forest alive the way it was. At night, when the fire was lit, it was the only place to get warm. There were blankets, enough barely not to have to share, and conversation murmured around the fire from those who stayed close to it, even if some of those trapped there were more inclined to mope in their own silence. Visitors, of course, were more than welcome--unless they were the maneating kind, and perhaps one night, with a crash, some uninvited guests might slip through the cracks, and come upon the survivors in their sleep.
The City
It was enough to try and survive. Closing up the sewer entrances was crucial, of course, in order to keep those things still down there confined, but driving back the intruders was work that needed organizing, needed strong hands together, and no small effort. Trips out into the city were more dangerous that trips into the forest, but they were essential too, to reconnaissance how to take back the city - if at all - and then to go out and do it. Bringing together a team to do so meant organizing them, in the warehouse, around the campfire. Then it would be time to press out into the city itself. Who is this brave leader? Who fights beside them? Or shall we hide away until we starve? Perhaps, though, someone just needs rescuing, someone who's hid away elsewhere in the city, or just arrived, and needs a little help getting somewhere safe. Maybe their run just went a little bit...wrong.
The Forest
Food was essential to survival, and wood, too, was running low. Of course all the trees in the forest were just as damp, not to mention enormous burdens to sneak back in past the city walls to the warehouse. Trips out into the trees were risky, but they had to be made by the ambitious and the strong, or the brave and the foolish. The rain still poured down, of course, obliterating tracks, making it hard to move, or to pick out landmarks, the luscious undergrowth dulled to a thick, monotonous gray-green, soaking anyone not already wet through the moment they brushed against it. The animals cowered too, the rainfall making it impossible to hear when predators were creeping up on them, and the same applied to the zombies, stirred to life by all the commotion, hunting the hunters. Perhaps it's just a case of one wanderer coming upon another, unplanned, or is there purpose in this woodland meeting?
After a day or two, the perimeter had been secured far enough back to light a fire out of sight of the top windows of the warehouse, so that everyone could keep warm, even when the rain was pouring outside. There was plenty of water, consequently, to drink, but food and dry firewood was limited, both difficult to get back to the warehouse without coming upon one predator or another outside. The longer the siege went on - and that was exactly what it was - and the longer the rain poured, the more miserable their confinement was. Food came in the form of meat, mostly, and the occasional tropical fruit found on the forest floor, with no way to go out into the forest to scavenge for berries or nuts. Even hunting was risky, with the forest alive the way it was. At night, when the fire was lit, it was the only place to get warm. There were blankets, enough barely not to have to share, and conversation murmured around the fire from those who stayed close to it, even if some of those trapped there were more inclined to mope in their own silence. Visitors, of course, were more than welcome--unless they were the maneating kind, and perhaps one night, with a crash, some uninvited guests might slip through the cracks, and come upon the survivors in their sleep.
The City
It was enough to try and survive. Closing up the sewer entrances was crucial, of course, in order to keep those things still down there confined, but driving back the intruders was work that needed organizing, needed strong hands together, and no small effort. Trips out into the city were more dangerous that trips into the forest, but they were essential too, to reconnaissance how to take back the city - if at all - and then to go out and do it. Bringing together a team to do so meant organizing them, in the warehouse, around the campfire. Then it would be time to press out into the city itself. Who is this brave leader? Who fights beside them? Or shall we hide away until we starve? Perhaps, though, someone just needs rescuing, someone who's hid away elsewhere in the city, or just arrived, and needs a little help getting somewhere safe. Maybe their run just went a little bit...wrong.
The Forest
Food was essential to survival, and wood, too, was running low. Of course all the trees in the forest were just as damp, not to mention enormous burdens to sneak back in past the city walls to the warehouse. Trips out into the trees were risky, but they had to be made by the ambitious and the strong, or the brave and the foolish. The rain still poured down, of course, obliterating tracks, making it hard to move, or to pick out landmarks, the luscious undergrowth dulled to a thick, monotonous gray-green, soaking anyone not already wet through the moment they brushed against it. The animals cowered too, the rainfall making it impossible to hear when predators were creeping up on them, and the same applied to the zombies, stirred to life by all the commotion, hunting the hunters. Perhaps it's just a case of one wanderer coming upon another, unplanned, or is there purpose in this woodland meeting?
The Warehouse
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"I've been through...not worse, but similar. I imagine it won't be the last time either." The longer she looks at him, the more tired she feels, even though she's gotten four hours of sleep last time she rested. "We've got some down time. I can walk the perimeter if you want to grab some sleep."
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"I've been told that I'm bossy, so I'm afraid that I'm going to have to call you out on the lie you just told me. You're about as wired as anyone can be with no sleep. I know the signs. I've had them shoved in my face enough by now." She sighs again, standing up to her full five-foot-two-inches of intimidating princess height. "Your refusal to sleep while we're under siege could become a liability. This isn't about ego. It's about common sense."
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He shifted his weight so he was leaning away from her, turned his head to the side and rubbed at his nose with one hand. He opened his mouth to protest, but he couldn't find a flaw in her words so all that came out was a soft, but still very belligerent, "Leave it alone."
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She watched as he stalled in thought before he practically growled a response at her. "I'm afraid that I can't leave it alone. You are the de facto leader of this group from what I can tell. And if you're tired, your reaction time is slowed, your thought processes are compromised. Those get people killed. And since I have no intention of dying on this Force-forsaken planet, you need to sleep or hand over the reins to someone more reasonable."
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He shifted his weight again, forward so he was standing nearly face to - goddamn she was short. Daryl pulled back enough to duck himself down to her level and get in her face, "And who do you think would be more reasonable? You? Have you been living in a world covered in walkers for the last two years? You know how to keep people alive as long as they ain't being stupid? You had to put a knife through the head of your friends, your family, to keep them from getting back up and tryin' ta eat your face? You ever gone weeks eating worms because they're the only thing to eat? You ever been covered in so much blood and walking for so long you figure it's not worth the washing because it'd be a waste of water?"
Daryl shook his head and drew back, feeling disgusted with her, "Nah. You been living a high enough life you could afford a pretty little wedding dress to get ruined when you landed. You don't know shit about what it takes to keep these folks living. I'll sleep when I damn well need to. And I know when that is better'n you."
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"I haven't had those same experiences, but I've helped led a Rebellion against a megalomaniac and my sadistic, crazed birth father to free billions upon billions of people from oppression. I've watched a man I despise blow my homeworld up in front of me, killing nearly everyone I've known and loved, simply because he could.
"I've spent the last eight years in constant fear and pain, wondering if I'd be kidnapped and tortured or bartered for Force only knows what means. This ruined scrap you see me in was supposed to be the happiest day of my life, a chance for actual peace. Instead, I wound up here, on this no-name planet, in some backwater galaxy, with my husband five years behind me, a boy claiming to know me from the future that I don't want to know about and the rest of you!"
She takes a deep breath and steps forward again, face rigid with anger. "So, forgive me if my years of experience of leading men and women to fight and die isn't enough for you. That my advice that you get some kriffing sleep because you look like you could pass out any moment isn't good enough for you. Go ahead and get yourself killed, but I won't be party to it."
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Daryl started pacing half-way through her impassioned rebuttal so she couldn't get in his space so easily. It allowed him to act like he wasn't backing up because she was overstepping the invisible boundaries he'd been loosely adhering to. Like it didn't spook him a little (it did, it always did and he hated it). A good lip curl was given at the end of her little speech just make it look like he didn't really care what she had to say.
At the end of it all, though, he broke off and walked away, throwing a mean, "Whatever!" over his hunched shoulders.
If he found his way to a bed within that same hour it was because he wanted some shut eye, not because of anything she'd said.