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

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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The plan was for them to leave early on Friday, but of course it didn't happen quite that way – they don't get going until mid morning, and probably don't get there until into the afternoon.
Collecting firewood, throwing down sleeping bags, revealing the embarrassing amount of sugar that makes up their food supply? YES.

They're there for a couple of nights, and campfires are always awesome. Yes. Marshmallows and playing with fire and idk card games and scrabble.

There's a LAKE YOU GUYS and you betcha there's a giant rope swing that Ellie put up so they can dangerously throw themselves into the water from great heights
Didn't bring a swimsuit? TOO BAD.

Who spends money on meat
LOSERS IS WHO YEAHHHH delicious mutant deer mmm

Who else misses hot showers

( Collette loved her eagle morph, partly for how much detail it could make out, even if the eye didn't rotate like her own human eye did. She felt powerful, like she was a master of the fickle winds, and her feathers kept her warm as she sat up on this section of her own part of sentry duty. Keeping track of any possible approach toward their camp at any time feels smart, and also gives her an excuse to watch her friends from a distance.

Because that's healthy and not creepy at all.

Shifting on her perch up high in this rugged, old tree, Collette watches the world go on around her.

The only question is, what exactly is going on in that world? )

< Fine weather we're having, wouldn't you say? >

( Rhetorical question, meet rhetorical audience. )

[If anyone thought that a three day camping trip would be an excuse for Steph to take a break from training, they would be wrong. She goes easy on Friday, but she's up on Saturday morning, dressed in leggings, an oversized sweatshirt and a pair of sneakers. It's been a while since she's gone for a run in anything approaching nature, so she goes slow, taking her time to admire the scenery; she does a lap around the lake, makes her way through some nearby woods, before finding a clear space. It's near enough to the campsite that she'll hear if something terrible happens, but far enough to give her a little privacy.

The sweatshirt gets hung from a nearby branch, leaving her in a t-shirt as she starts stretching, partly to cool down from the run and partly to warm up for what's next, and then she moves into a series of acrobatics, something between yoga and gymnastics. The rain makes things a little slippery, but it doesn't seem to bother her too much as she goes through the motions.]

Edited 2013-03-19 07:24 (UTC)

[Cedric has been out in the rain for quite a while, working on his greatest idea ever. His hair's been plastered to his neck for quite a while, his clothes are soaked through, but he doesn't care. He's too busy giddily smoothing a path down the hill. Look, it's a mud slide!

He pulls forth a giant wooden sled he's tied together, rests it on the edge of the hill, and takes a flying leap. He's racing down, no way to stop! Not flying, but the closest he's going to get. If anyone is standing anywhere along the path or near the crash point at the bottom, they're probably getting splattered. Cedric sure is, but he's laughing all the way, wiping mud from his face once he skids to a stop.]

It's perfect.

Edited 2013-03-20 02:24 (UTC)

[ Peter could be off exploring the great outdoors, but instead he's sitting on top of the shabby old barn. There's a book sitting near him, but he's not reading; he's got his (also shabby and old) camera out instead. The aim was to take some pictures of the group, but that gets derailed when he notices a spider crawling around and tries to take a picture of it instead.

For scientific purposes, obviously. It could be a crazy future mutant spider, it's hard to tell. It'd be a lot easier if his camera had remotely decent zoom, though. Or if the spider would sit still. ]

Hey, come on. Just quit moving for a second, would you?

( At least hanging out with Steph she got a chance to make use of all that practice in being stealthy, moving through the bush silently, without making the barest impact or alerting anyone to her presence. It was a pain in the arse that her ability to actually catch Steph off guard seemed practically non-existant, but sometimes opportunities presented themselves, and when they did, Ellie would be prepared.

In the meantime, it didn't hurt to practice. That would be why she has been prowling about in the bushes, and why she is so effectively out of sight.

It might be why she has a shot of catching the poor soul she just crash-tackled off guard before they both hurtle into the lake and a whole lot of mud. )

Edited 2013-03-20 09:05 (UTC)

( Much as she'd love to just kick back and relax, some habits die hard. And when it was her idea to come out here, to get together a bunch of people that she thinks are more than halfway decent, then there's no way in hell she's going to slack off and not have a sentry. Just in case.

So it's some stupid hour, and while there are others gathered around the fire, Ellie is up on the roof, keeping watch. She yawns, rubs her eyes, and wipes the rain out of her eyes. Logic said you shouldn't sit in the rain to keep sentry, but right now the rain feels refreshing, like her skin is too hot and prickly. )

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Getting there/Setting up

Campfire

Swimming

Hunting

Heading home

UP A TREE

→ a little way from the campsite; come run into Steph doing flips and shit