Nov. 2nd, 2023

questioningmermaids: <user name=thwipster> (10)
[personal profile] questioningmermaids
Who: Holland March + open, Holland + Huaisang
What: March spends some time contemplating, talks distilling with Huaisang
When: Nov 2nd
Where: Community hall

Content Warnings: usual cw for alcoholism

i. Weapons cleaning + contemplation;
His supplies are running low. There's only so much you can scavenge in a place like this, but when you chain smoke like a chimney and drink like a fish eventually what you can scrounge up is going to disappear. He's got a little left, sure, courtesy of a gas station raid and the basement Huaisang's got, but supplies aren't infinite.

It gets him thinking. Makes him antsy. March enters the community hall like he usually does, a frequent visitor like most of the small little community they've all managed to put together, but he's never really done much. Drank some coffee, chatted. It's hard to tell if he even realizes he's the village idiot.

Today, though, he's set up in a little corner and is making sure his gun is cleaned along with sipping his morning caffeinated sludge. He's less animated than usual, less talkative, simply staring into space as his hands go through the motions. If not interrupted, he'll eventually speak.

"We're really fucked here, huh? Completely." Holland knows he should curve the negativity, but it's starting to get to him more than he'd like admit. He's been adamant they're all probably going to die within the month since day one but there's less of a joking tone towards it this time.

He wants to help sure. Pitch in, even. Mostly he's just worried about how tiny his booze stash is getting.

After coffee there's a far less depressing revelation, said just as solemnly.

"...Should I hunt?"



ii. Huaisang;
"We gotta do something."

March doesn't bother to announce himself when he opens the door to Huaisang's place, spending far more time there than he probably should. His scarf is taken off, the hat is dumped unceremoniously onto the floor.

"Hey. Huaisang? Huaisang, we gotta do something. You know what I did today? Math. You know what that math was for?"

He's already flopping onto the nearest available surface, aviators still on.
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[personal profile] blondfragility
Who: Ken & OPEN.
What: Skatin' on the basin.
When: Early November, daylight hours only !!!
Where: The basin.

Content Warnings: Good old fashioned FUN. Do not come here if you don't want to smile and laugh.


( when life gives you lemons, you ice skate )
Ken really doesn't go anywhere without his rollerblades. He'd found them here, tucked away in the back of the closet at the Mojo Snowjo Casa Dreamhouse, and had been delighted. Until he remembered that he couldn't really use them here with all the snow, and that it's not safe to rollerblade without knee pads and elbow pads. The whole thing had left him a little bummed until, one day picking through one of the stores, he came across ice skates.

That's almost like rollerblading and just as fun.

On a day where the wind's pretty calm and the sun is shining, Ken and the skates make their way to the frozen basin. Luckily, March taught him how to tie laces pretty early on after arriving, so Ken doesn't have too many problems getting the skates tied up nice and snug. Anyone who might be down in that area of Milton will have no problem spotting him, skating around the frozen surface as if they're not all stuck in a wasteland that's trying to kill them at every turn. When he spots you, he waves, motioning for you to come out on to the ice whether you have skates or not. And if you don't, well, he'll just skate back to the edge of the basin to talk to you, instead.
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[personal profile] goingtobeunwell
Who: Francis Crozier & Open to All
What: Captain Crozier comes to town
When: Early days of November
Where: About town, along the outskirts

Content Warnings: Potential mentions of lead poisoning and scurvy, cannibalism, starvation, violence, body horror, murder, alcoholism. Just #Franklin Expedition Things

I. Along the Main Road - Crozier Comes to Town )

II. The Church - Uncovering the Graves )

III. The Basin -- Ice Fishing )
lieutenantsteward: (worried but with a beard)
[personal profile] lieutenantsteward
Who: Jopson and OTA
What: Just being a sad scurvyed, lead poisoned cold boy
When: Arrival and after
Where: Outside of town, then around! Never too far from center.

Content Warnings: illness and disease, talk of death, more TBD

[I. Arrival - Closed to Crozier]

Jopson pushes himself up from the snow, a feat that already has him worried. If this is indeed heaven, then God's picked a poor place. If this is hell, well, Jopson almost yeans for the warmth of hellfire. He tucks his forelock behind his ear, touching the hair that’s gotten far too long, taking stock of himself. Shoes. Trousers. Feet that aren’t frozen yet. Fingers that work and only hurt when they move. A coat -

- he’d been wearing this coat when he was promoted. When things didn’t seem so bleak. This rifle, pointed right at Hickey. And the kit in an inside pocket?

The devil has a terrible sense of humor.

So.

He walks.

Only when the woods clear does he see the town in the evidence of small fires and smoke that billows up in around dilapidated buildings. His feet give out long before the first house is within reach, but he uses the rifle to keep himself up.

He calls out with the last bit of strength remaining in his skeleton where each bone strikes the other.


[II. Should You Really Be Outside? - OTA]

He can walk. It’s a miracle in itself, considering the last memories he has before coming here are of dragging himself across frozen rocks and ice and everything falling apart around him. It's the feast in the hall, it's the clatter of plates and cups and silverware. It's the feeling, the unending, yearning maw of guilt and horror and grief and loss all over again. It weighs on him, even here.

He takes several breaks as he tries to map out the place. He should be resting, he knows he should be, but it feels good to be upright, to have a view that isn’t the inside of the tent.

He leans against the walls of homes, of stores, and catches his breath in the sunshine. As it starts to get dark, he’ll return from where he came - a structure of four walls that had once been someone’s home.


[III. This is a Good Idea - OTA]

Of course, once Jopson’s mostly back on his feet, the first thing he needs to do is make himself presentable. There’s no reason to be sloppy. Not here. Not when he can move about, when everything doesn’t seem bleak.

There’s a house he’s found but is loath to claim as his own. It feels wrong, somehow. But still, that’s where his belongings, meager as they are, rest. That’s where his fire sits. That’s where he boils his water. And that’s where the filthy mirror is.

After cleaning it, he walks outside of his house, scissors in his hand, catching what light he can while he can. The beard is more difficult, considering the quality of knives he’s seen around, but he can at least trim his hair. The back is more difficult and he tries to turn a bit to do it himself, but it’s proving quite ineffective.

It also doesn’t help that he’s still recovering. Shaky hands and coughing fits do not a clean trim make.

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