[closed] So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road

[reconnaissance]

Date & Time: forward dated: Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th March
Location: a fair way into the Outlands
Characters:
Asami Sato chittybang, Cedric Diggory theboywhodied, Collette whatsupcroc, Ellie Linton reconnaissance, Fi Maxwell burnsinvisibly, Katniss Everdeen accidentalrebellion, Mitsuki Ishikawa drowns, Peter Parker arachnoid, Steph Brown controlledvariable
Summary: Nine teenagers with varying degrees of trauma decide to go camping.
(Actually, eight teenagers get bullied into going camping by Ellie.)
Warnings: Not sure yet; I'll add them as they come up. At the very least some language, and fallout from PTSD.



Ellie had found the place once before on her wandering into the Outlands; a dilapidated old barn, with stone walls and a roof that was, by some miracle, completely intact despite all the evidence of nature clambering up its walls and trying to reclaim it for the land. There's a hill leading down to it, and if you follow that hill down, you meet the woods, a big lake. It's beautiful, she thinks. Nowhere near so wild as Hell, but that was better.

Finding that place had been how it started, before thinking about getting some of the others together had kicked in. A way to unwind, after the body swap. At the very least a chance to get some decent people all together in the same place (and maybe a way to apologise to Asami for pointing a gun at her that one time).


OOC: Party style, adventures everyone.Just go wild, if you want it to be set at a particular time, maybe specify in the subject line? I'm doing some starters just... in case that helps but do whatever you like tbh. YEAH. There's also the ooc plotting post so chuck folks in there and scheme and let the madness and CR unfold.

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[accidentalrebellion]

[The reality is that Katniss can't sleep.

It doesn't matter where she is. Whether or not she's alone. How far removed from any arena she becomes. The nightmares are purely clockwork. Mutts, ghosts, a four-note melody from a mockingjay that warps into something shrill and twisted, the blood-tinged scent of roses, all of it bombards her the same way it does every night, has her wildly gasping for breath as she jerks awake.

There is no relief. Any hope of that is long gone.

For some reason, she's found herself on the roof now as well. A reason, really, that amounts to her feet leading her here without much thought, but it's as good of a place to get air as any. Her arms fold across her chest in a futile attempt to maintain some kind of warmth almost as mindlessly as her feet move, and by the time she stops moving, she's still effectively lost in her own world.

Lost to the point that the presence of the other girl nearby doesn't register for the moment.]

[reconnaissance]

( She can hear someone coming up, and glances over her shoulder when it strikes her that it doesn't sound like Steph. Katniss is almost a relief, really. Katniss is strange, and different, but sometimes that rawness and someone else who can understand it is what you want, or need around. And, more important. she hasn't hot-footed it back to the city.

Ellie smiles, just barely, but she's already turned to keep look out. Sabotaging her own expression. )

Hey. ( Quiet, rasped out, voice feeling rough from her last few hours of silence and the cold sinking into her throat. ) How you doing?

( Her fingers feel stiff, and she flexes them a bit. It's better being awake. There's too many things that can take over your mind when you're asleep. )