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Castiel; The Fallen ([personal profile] strangelic) wrote in [community profile] 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

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?
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Daryl - Open

[personal profile] dirtyredneck 2016-03-20 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The Warehouse
With everyone cooped up as they were, Daryl was splitting his duties between maintaining a headcount on a near daily basis (too many had disappeared without a trace within the last week that he was getting paranoid) and heading out to do a minimum amount of hunting just to keep meat on the table. He wasn't getting much sleep and his temper was suffering for it. But he also wasn't about to put those duties on anyone else. He was the best equipped to handle the responsibilities he'd given himself.

But there were other things to be taken care of. Making the wood spikes that protected the perimeter, expanding the perimeter into the buildings nearby so they had more space to spread out without the light of a fire being easily seen. Blocking off streets, checking the walls for cracks, making a 'maze' of spike traps for anyone coming in - living or dead - to get through.

Anyone Daryl passes by, he stops long enough to talk to, to check on, "You doing okay?" Try to ignore the dark circles under his eyes and the exhaustion in his voice.

The City
They needed dry wood and the forest was difficult to make it out to. A run into the city, to an old hardware store, had a better shot of being successful. And even if the place didn't have any bundles of wood, it should still have plenty of metal and random objects they could use for securing the warehouse further. Chains, clamps, old tools. Daryl had noted it's location when he got caught by the runners while he was trapped up on the roof near the fountain plaza. Now, he was leading a small team back to it, empty backpacks ready to be filled.

Daryl leaned around a corner and assessed the intersection ahead of them. Looking back at those following, he jerked his head to indicate one of them should run ahead to the nearest derelict car and take point while the rest made a break for the storefront.

Meeting with Maggie (dated 3.19)
After Glenn and Maggie made it back into the city, Daryl waited for them to get dry. For Glenn to head off and take care of the duties he'd chosen for himself. Maggie would join him soon enough, probably. But before that, Daryl needed to have a chat.

He walked up to her, side of his mouth lifting in a half-smile, "You look like you could use a change of clothes." Not that it would help, though, with the rain coming down as hard as it was.
Edited 2016-03-20 23:01 (UTC)
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[3.19 Meeting]

[personal profile] dirtyfarmgirl 2016-03-20 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Seeing Daryl smile like that, it gave Maggie hope. Hope that they could make it through this crazy situation. Glenn had filled her in on some things while they'd made their way to the city, enough that she understood the different threats posed here, but if Daryl was able to smile like there, then things weren't near as bad they could be.

His observation had her giving him a smile in return. "At least it's only water," she commented, thinking back to all the times they'd ended up covered in blood from the dead. They'd run into a few walkers on the way in, but anything that had gotten on her had been washed away. "I'll dry out eventually."
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[personal profile] dirtyredneck 2016-03-20 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"We got extra clothes," he offered, turning and gesturing toward the stairs up to the second floor. "Off the main sleeping area. Did a run early on. Grabbed a lot for some women that didn't have much. Anything in the pile is free reign."

As much as they'd been settling in, they hadn't quite gotten to the point of really dividing clothes or living spaces. Too much had gone on and there weren't a lot of them. Daryl had lived in close quarters with people since the farm fell and hadn't put any effort into trying to provide the kind of division most of the others were probably used to. He knew Maggie wouldn't care, same as Glenn hadn't. It was practically the default for them. Was just one less thing to explain because she already knew and understood.

When he turned back to her, he crossed his arms and chewed at a thumb, "Glenn tell you about the people here yet?"
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[personal profile] peacekeep 2016-03-20 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"People get hurt all the time where I'm from," she softly explained, looking down and away from him. She had come to find him to thank him for his help when she first arrived, now that things were going better for her and she was getting settled in. She hadn't quite managed to get out the gratitude before the matter of her face was brought up, and it was with a self-conscious touch to the stitches on her cheek that she tried answering.

"I slipped and fell on the pod I arrived here in. That's how I hurt my chin." She knew that, at least. She was curious about something, though. "How are you gonna be able to make any of it better? It's just got to heal on it's own, with time."
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padme ; ota

[personal profile] officio 2016-03-20 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
the warehouse;

There was so much to do. Padmé found her days full, spread thin between going around and making sure everyone was more or less alright, pouring over the notes she'd made, in the half-broken notebook she'd taken from the City when it had still been theirs. She could be found drawing a map of the city, or marking down the names of those who'd left to hunt, to make sure they knew exactly how many should be coming back... there were marked lines next to other names, a column for those who had disappeared without so much as a trace.

Come nightfall, she was there to greet those coming back, or go round the campfire, offering food portions or those few blankets to those who seemed most needing.

"Here. It might help a little."

the city;

She'd insisted, of course. She wasn't about to be left to do nothing, not when she'd successfully infiltrated her own palace years and years ago, and done more than enough reconnaissance to know how to be quiet and swift.

Nearly two hours had passed, past the time when they'd agreed to meet in the rendezvous point, before Padmé ran back, her delay explained by the heavy metal spikes that she's carrying, previously used to hold up a building structure before she decided to repurpose them for their use.

"I'm sorry for the delay," she breathed out, lowering her backpack on the ground.
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[personal profile] dirtyfarmgirl 2016-03-20 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
She nodded at the information about the clothes, glad to hear that she had another option besides staying in soaked through things. It was a lot more than they'd had between the prison and Alexandria, that was for sure. And while Maggie was certainly going to be missing the comforts of the house she and Glenn had shared with some of the others, the warehouse wasn't bad - better than living in the back of a car or camping on the side of the road and having to be on constant lookout for walkers or the living who meant them harm. Really, there was something to be said for being physically close to other people; it helped remind you that you weren't in it alone.

She frowned a little, not at his question but at the way he was standing. There was more to that question than just what he'd said. "A little," she answered, almost cautious in her choice of words. "We didn't have time to get into the specifics, but he mentioned a few names. And... he told me about the little girl who went missing." Glenn hadn't needed to say more than the two had been close for Maggie to understand what it must have done to Daryl.
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[personal profile] peacekeep 2016-03-20 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"A gift," she repeated, giving him a confused look. She had heard stories from her daddy and other people at church about people who were healed by God and their faith, but hadn't ever actually experienced someone claiming it firsthand.

"So we're gonna pray until things heal themselves? Is that how it works?" She sounded almost childish in her quiet fascination with the matter, but how jaded her time with Dawn had made her leaked through and she couldn't keep some doubt out of her tone.

She knew he said he would put his hands on her and she'd be healed, but it couldn't be that simple, could it?
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[personal profile] dirtyredneck 2016-03-21 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Daryl's eyes glanced away from her at the mention of the little girl. It was clearly still a sore subject.

"She ain't the only one gone missing lately. Did a head count earlier, we're down at least four others. Maybe five or six. Not sure. There's some people I saw early on, but ain't seen since. And some the others mentioned I never saw at all. We got maybe fourteen right now. There's another group out in the woods. Three of them, I think. They're not ours, but they ain't enemies, neither."

So far.

Daryl sucked in a deep breath and let his gaze drift in the other direction, "Glenn mention anything about Castiel?"
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warehouse

[personal profile] dirtyredneck 2016-03-21 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm good," Daryl said, keeping his arms slung across his knees as he looked up at Padme. He wasn't close to the fire, but was within the circle of light it cast. He kept back far enough he could watch the group as a whole. A couple people were on watch, of course, so it wasn't all of them. But it was most of them. They looked so much like what he remembered all of them looking like after the farm and on the road to Alexandria.

He hated seeing his family like that. He hated not being able to do more for them.

"Give it to someone else."
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[personal profile] peacekeep 2016-03-21 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
She nodded, making eye contact as she tried to tell if he was serious or not. He sounded like he believed in this, that he was able to heal her. She was desperate for something to believe in, something that would give her as much hope as she had a few years ago.

"Show me. Please." It was begging him to do it, her voice wavering as she tried to not get emotional over something that hadn't even been proven to her yet.

"Just don't heal this," her hand went to touch at the deeper wound on her cheek. "Not yet. I need to keep it."
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[personal profile] peacekeep 2016-03-21 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Beth was quiet for a while, trying to figure out how to properly explain it to him. "Because it proves that I'm strong. That I survived something someone else may not have."

She understood that was likely a sentiment he didn't understand, because he may not have ever been treated weak or like a child. "And I thought that maybe people won't think I'm a little girl anymore, if they can see that I'm strong too."

And maybe she wouldn't think it anymore either, but she didn't add that on. She needed her scars to remind herself of the time she had lost the last bit of her innocence, when she could've given in and let the apocalypse finally take her down but she kept on fighting instead.

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[personal profile] borntorebel 2016-03-21 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
After coming to the city with Han and Daryl and then having to flee to the warehouse, Leia's patience with all things associated with the ceaseless rain and hail was running a little thin. But, since she was new, she needed to keep her wits about her, and talking to others was the best distraction she could think of.

She noticed the strange many just sitting by the fire, staring into the flames and giving off a distinct air of sadness. The look on his face just sold the whole "sad sack" theme he had going on.

"I can think of a million other things we could be trying to do than sitting around, but sometimes that's all you can do." She takes up a seat next to him and wraps her arms around her knees. "Is there something on your mind you'd like to talk about?"
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2!

[personal profile] kickingand 2016-03-21 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Dean, in an odd, desperate attempt to keep busy, searched for wood. If they planned on keeping the fire stable they were going to need far more of it than anyone likely anticipated and far too much of it was soaked to the core. And so Dean did what he could to keep moving, wandering, not stopping long enough to think at any particular moment and instead listening into the depths of the forest until he returned. But really, the whole thing was just an excuse to search for anything. To walk, almost aimlessly, hoping that he might stumble upon something. Anything at all that could mean something. It wouldn't matter at this point, but he'd take what he could get.

It also meant a lot of running. And making use of Castiel's blade, until he was splattered in a fine veneer of filth.

Making his way back to the warehouse, Dean finally resolved to keeping still. He wasn't going to crack under the weight of his desperate resilience, but he hadn't seen Cas in hours and, well, he was used to keeping him in his line of sight. And so Dean returned, ever the non-triumphant hunter, dropping down at Cas' side and outright ignoring just how unkempt he looked, but not even remotely bypassing how utterly dejected Cas looked. He was lost in the flames and finally Dean leaned forward, attention turned onto the angel, trying to get him to give him his eyes.
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[personal profile] kickingand 2016-03-21 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"And you look like you're thinking too damn hard."

Dean lifted his eyebrows insistently, pushing his opinion with the hopes of glossing over Castiel's own. He didn't want to have to respond to how he looked when it didn't really matter all that much. He'd been out in the muck; so what. Life enjoyed kicking him in the ass and sometimes he actually looked it. Not like there were mirrors around save for the reflection in other people's eyes but if there was one person who could get away with commenting, it would be Cas.

Cas, who always had all the right in the world to poke at him. Cas, who had earned the privilege to provide commentary, despite Dean's insistence to backslide into his more primitive brain at any given opportunity. There were reasons he needed to stay closer to Cas: the angel made it easier to hold onto the things he needed to be, because Cas held on too.

"Not that i've got a cure for that."
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[personal profile] kickingand 2016-03-22 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Dean almost perked up with a quiet 'huh' but the peculiarities of Cas' statement was solved in an instant, with the brush of the angel's fingertips. Dean was left blinking, looking down at himself as he was cleaned and dried in the snap of fingers. He hadn't asked for it, and some part of him had even accepted the filth, but he couldn't complain about being dry. Or clean. Especially not when Cas was acting particularly strange, bundling into himself that much more, leaving Dean trying to asses the situation that he'd just walked into.

Despite his curiosity, and partially because of it, the thanks went silent, hovering in the air for a moment before Dean refocused himself onto Cas' continued withdrawal.

"You gonna tell me what's up or am I gonna have to guess?"

Leaning back onto his palms, Dean easily waited, figuring that Cas would up and out with it sooner or later. That or he'd wave it off altogether and leave it to be forgotten, in which case Dean would have to do the same.
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[personal profile] kickingand 2016-03-22 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Dean shouldn't have been altogether surprised that Cas up and decided to talk - it's not as if he'd yet taken on Dean's bad habits of poor communication. Dean was the one that bypassed topics and brushed them off, slipped out of the way and did anything to avoid. But Cas dove right in and Dean listened, half of his face glowing warmer from the fire as he turned his attention fully.

He couldn't exactly say the topic was one he wanted to linger on once Cas got started, but it wasn't his decision. Cas was talking and so he listened, jaw set tightly, drawn with concern.

"Uh huh... okay." Dean followed along gently enough, gaze narrowing for a moment as he tried to figure out where Cas was going with this one. Because he wasn't entirely sure that Cas should be up and healing anybody that needed it, considering past experiences. But what was he gonna do- make him say no? That'd be bad form for everyone involved and there'd be questions. Expectations. Demands. Cas could do it so why shouldn't he and Dean could get behind that. To the best of his ability.

In the same token, he didn't need Cas going off the deep end. He couldn't do it again, he just couldn't. Wouldn't. Shouldn't have to. And yet there was no decisions to be made in the matter. Dean had to shut up and put up and watch Cas struggle through his own miseries, as if watching his failings pulled out of him one by one.

But Cas had agreed and Dean nodded once, the only amount he was willing to hand over. And yet it was Cas' next words that left him hanging, brow furrowed in confusion as to why exactly this was the thing that was being brought up. Apart from knowing he had no say in Cas being a healer, he couldn't see the connection.

"Some people are just weird about that kinda shit, Cas.

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