Open: The great outdoors (and then cake or death)

[inthejunk]

Date & Time: Today, or within a few days before or after. It's a long hike, so dates are flexible to suit you character's needs
Location: Way out past the recommended areas for exploring, whoops.
Characters: OPEN! (Plus most likely: oldsoldiersneverdie, rota, ringbeast, boundbyheart, and of course inthejunk)
Summary:Yosuke is out searching the great wilds for a very important -okay only in his mind- gift. Anyone who might be crazy enough to be out there or knows him well enough to be conned into coming along jump on in.

Tagging around and thread jacking and general mayhem are all fine by me.

Warnings: There's a distinct possibility your character could get sick. I'll do an ooc post in a bit to explain the symptoms and such, but don't worry. Illness is totally optional!

Otherwise just expect cursing and fail and dumb teenage stuff, plus whatever you guys bring to the table with your characters.



It's a rainy day as usual, and frankly this far into the hike Yosuke is tired, sore, dirty and cranky. But he's not ready to throw in the towel just yet. He's definitely not planning to come back and try again later, after all. Whatever he finds here will have to do. Because after this much effort he's dreaming of a hot shower and a hot meal and a nap that lasts about two days.

Still, it's proven one thing to come this far. The world is completely and irreversibly screwed up now. A fact that hasn't helped his mood all that much. Nor the silence. Even at a brisk hiking pace, he'd prefer some banter. The charge on his micro pad has to be saved in case of some kind of emergency, -not that he's within range anyway, but still- so he can't even listen to music. Ugh.

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[ringbeast]

"You just looked kind of tired, you know?" He purses his lips. "I told you, I was looking for a good place to camp out." He leans up against a ragged tree. "If you're lost I can take you back, ya know."

[inthejunk]

"I'm not lost!" Yosuke repeats, this time with an irritated foot stomp. The earth squelches grossly under his shoe. Actually, he's exhausted. And maybe just a little lost. But even worse, he doesn't have the thing that he came for yet. And now someone's making fun of him. Ugh. "Besides, why would anyone want to sleep here? It's raining. It's always freak ing raining."

[ringbeast]

He holds up his hands soothingly. "Hey, don't freak out, I'm just tryin' to help..." He looks around, frowning. "I got a tent to keep the rain out, you know. I used to sleep in it all the time, back home." He looks up at the sky. "I guess it's the rainy season all the time, here, huh. Camping out cools your head, though. That's how come I'm out here."

He raises his eyebrow. "You gotta chill out, man. You hungry or something?" He levers his backpack off his back and pokes through it. "I guess I got some rice balls... Or if you want some juice." He stands up and offers a rice ball to Yosuke with one hand while simultaneously pouring mayo all over one of the ones still in his lunch box.

[inthejunk]

Yosuke gives the guy another cranky glance, but seems to relent at the offering of food. He hesitates for only a moment, then gratefully snatches the rice ball and bites into it. "Mmf." He mumbles, which might be meant as a thank you. Or maybe it's just a pleased groan at the taste of food on his tongue. Either way, he sighs quietly and sinks into a crouching stance to eat.

Yeah, alright. That's a little better.

[ringbeast]

He shoves almost the whole riceball in his mouth and chews, wiping a smear of mayo off his mouth with his wrist. He chews and chews and chews and finally swallows. "I gotta friend who gets real cranky when he doesn't get enough to eat, so I know how that goes." He declines to mention that said 'friend' is a monster that lives inside him, eats magic, and will eat him if he doesn't feed it. Details.

"So what're you out here for, huh?" He offers him a can of juice.

[inthejunk]

Yosuke accepts the juice, and cracks it open eagerly. He nods to acknowledge that he's heard, but takes a chug first to wash down the rice. His tone is definitely a bit less snappy when he finally does respond. The food definitely did the trick.

"Uh, I'm looking for something."