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

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nathan summers (marvel 616)

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

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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Kagura is not the type to adhere to 'reccomendations' or 'rules'. She was the wind. She knew how to handle herself, and no damn Initiative was stopping that. So, like most of her days, she's out exploring, flying in the air on her feather. She's not one to hike, and seeing the ground below was not particularly made for bare feet, she'll deal with the rain. It had almost become normal to her.

Soon, though, the smell of a human caught her nose. What would someone be doing out here? Nothing out here was good for them, nor was there some kind of item a regular person would need. So she swooped down, just above the tree line, to investigate.

If Nitoh remembers that he's not supposed to leave, he's certainly forgotten now. He's flown from the top of one of the buildings out of the safe area, in order to set up his tent in a grassy area for a night or two. Not that having a bed isn't nice, but sometimes things are just more clear to him out of doors.

He spots the bright bush of hair below him immediately, and swoops down, landing some distance away from Yosuke and turning off his Beast driver and untransforming. "Oh, hey!" he says, running up, his pack on his back. "You camping out, too?"

"Gyah!" Responds Yosuke, with an eloquent leap to the side in surprise. An unexpected voice out of nowhere is a bit more surprising here in the wilderness, or whatever's left of it. When he finally gets a look, though, the guy doesn't seem so dangerous.

"Uh. Yeah, sort of. I didn't think most people came out this far. Jeez."

Yosuke happened to be blissfully unaware of anyone watching him at the moment. He was tiredly making his way through the sickly vegetation in the area, eyes not turned up to any girls who might be hanging out in the sky, but instead taking over the earth below in search of...something.

He barrels forward with no concern for Yosuke's confusion. "Hey! Yeah, I'm new and I kind of like to camp outdoors. There's more parks in Tokyo, but I gotta go out of the city to get some real..." He looks around at the gross, blasted landscape and rubs the back of his head. "...nature. I guess."

He shrugs and waves. "I'm Nitoh, Kousuke Nitoh? Who're you?"

"Hanamura Yosuke." Yosuke replies, staring a bit at this odd stranger. Is this guy in drugs or something? He's way too excited to be in this toxic wastedump of a place.

"Nice to meet ya, Yosuke." He nods his head. "What brings you out here? You lost or something?"

Nate is used to lousy terrain and lousy weather, though the constant rain is starting to push the limits of his own patience - it's like an extra level of constant misery, and he kind of wishes it were cold enough to snow, even those temperatures bring a different set of dangers.

Having poked through most of the near-by ruins, he's been venturing farther out, recommendations be damned. Not usual that he sees someone else out here, though.

"Hey."

From where Kagura was, it was pretty hard to even guess what he could be looking for. Perhaps he had lost something. And, if that was the case, she wouldn't normally care. But, this was intriguing, considering she was normally out here alone. What dragged him out here? So, she flipped off her feather, landing on her feet directly behind him. Her fan hid most of her face, the only things showing were her red eyes.

"Yo."

Senpai's cranky? Naoto is very cranky. She has better things to do than this and she is honestly damned tired about the whole thing. Pride be damned, if they have to stay out here for another hour, Naoto is going to put Yamato Takeru's skills to the test and see if he can carry her all the way back to the city.

"And how long are we going to keep this up, senpai?" That senpai sounds more like 'asshole' if you stop to read between the lines. If she'd been anyone else, it'd definitely be 'asshole' instead of something else, but nope.

Naoto's still polite. Though she's very close to not being polite anymore.

"I'm not lost!" Objects the teenager, immidiately galled by the suggestion. It's true that he doesn't appear to be the outdoorsy type, with his fine features and delicate build, but Yosuke isn't aware of any of that. He just feels slighted that it's most people's natural assumption about him. "What are you doing out here, wise guy?"

"Gyaah!" Screeched Yosuke eloquently, jumping backwards and then darting off to the side when he realized he'd accidentally gone towards the sound instead of away from it,

After a moment if wide-eyed staring at the unexpected stranger who'd appeared, Yosuke attempted to return her greeting.

"What the...I mean-uh. Hey?"

Yosuke jumps a little at the unexpected voice, and spins around to face this new distraction. It's a stranger, and a kind of scary looking stranger at that. Yosuke eyes the guy a little warily.

"Uh. Hey."

"What good does it do to leave now? We're staying until I find it!" Yosuke snaps back, wiping his face tiredly. He's far more successful at smearing mud on himself from where he was digging around in the foliage earlier than he is at cleaning away the beads of sweat and sour raindrops.

"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."

"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."

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.

Nate gives him a smile, hands up in a gesture of mock-defense. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you. I don't usually see other people out this far."

"What are you looking for?" she sounded serious, her tone flat as she stared him down evenly. As much as she was here to waste time, she had no good reason to deal with idiocy. She was simply here to gather info and leave. Help him? No way in hell...unless he had something to offer her in return.

"Why do you ask?" Yosuke gave her a suspicious glance. Normally he'd be happy to see someone else who might be able to lend him a hand, but this behavior seems suspicious to him.

"Why not?" She wasn't going to pretend she had good intentions. She had nothing to gain from the conversation, or from this man, really. Just a silly way to pass the time.

"Usually? You mean you come here a lot?"

That's a surprise. As far as Yosuke can tell, there's no good reason to. For a place that gets so much rain, the landscape isn't lush and beautiful at all. It's sickly and scarred.

That answer is true enough, if not encouraging. It relaxes him a little anyway. He shrugs, and glances to one side before he admits it. "A flower."

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.

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.

Nate shrugs. "Well, not a lot - but a few times now. Seeing what's out beyond the edges of civilization and all." Which isn't much, but after fifteen years in a future where any wildlife was about as rare as lottery wins, this place doesn't seem so bad. And for him, it's nice to get away from the press of minds in the city, sometimes.

"We are staying?" Oh for the love of--

"Senpai, have you ever considered that 'it' is not here at all? What good would it do anyone to leave such an important thing out here where almost no one passes by?"

She's slowly getting more and more frustrated, because on the list of stupid things that he's done, this is probably topping it.

"Pfft." she snorts in response, offering a laugh. "Don't you know it's pretty barren? That flower will make you sick."

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" Yosuke frowns. Barren? Yeah, that's true. But the other part is too ambiguous. Why would a flower make anyone sick? Does this girl think it'll cause him allergies?

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."

"I guess the city could use a park." The kid replies, attempting banter back. He's a bit quiet, a departure from his usual behavior. But someone older and evidently tougher makes him feel a bit curious, and sort of shy. He doesn't want to say the wrong thing and come off as stupid. "I wonder why there isn't one?"

"Are you blind? Perhaps it's best to let idiots like you die out." she stated, smirking cruelly. Everything on the way here was morphed, so who said the plants weren't affected?

"Fine, leave then!" He snaps, hoping that she won't actually do it.

Yosuke finds a rock then and sits down, exhausted. It's true that they should have found it by now if they were going to. But after putting so much work into it, it's difficult to leave without it.

Wow. That's seriously rude, and totally uncalled for! Yosuke huffs, and crosses his arms in front of himself. "I'm not going to die from a flower, but thanks for dropping in anyway."

"Suit yourself." And with a quick motion, she was sitting upon a large feather, floating off into the sky.

"It'd be nice to have one." Nate remembers living in New York City, and taking walks in Central Park when he needed a little bit more nature in among the people.

"Might be that the soil's no good, any more. Or nobody has the time to tend one. Weather wouldn't help, but there are plants that like lots of rain and not much sun."

"Like rubber trees? And lotus blossom." It begins as a question and ends as a statement. Hey. Yeah. There are plants that can stand this weather. It's a surprisingly uplifting thought. The rain has been really getting to him lately. "Hmm..."

Nate nods. "Mosses, too - and a lot of temperate rainforest trees. Seattle gets about as much sun as this place seems to." There's a faint smile there - he liked Seattle, though it's been an awfully long time. "Depends on the soil, though - it's entirely possible this stuff's too full of chemicals for anything that hasn't been engineered for it to grow."

She would have-- if it were anybody else. But this is Yosuke, and while he may be the most annoying person on the planet, Naoto wouldn't leave him behind just because of some annoying venture. He's still her senpai after all, and a valuable companion. So instead of leaving, she stays out and crosses her arms.

"Maybe it's best if we leave together. This is a fool's errand, senpai."

"Can't you tell it's important?"

But his tone is softer already. It's probably unfair to drag Naoto through all of this, when as far as he's aware it has nothing to do with her. He just hasn't wanted to go alone.

"Seattle? Hmm. Is it an island?"

It's nothing he's ever heard of, anyway. Probably from some other world. But anything with the word 'sea' in it is clearly a port city, right?

Nate shakes his head. "Coast city, in the northwestern US. They get a lot of rain there too - though summers are usually nice. Not sure about here, though."

Oh. Same world, then. But this guy must be American. Yosuke mentally notches him up the respect ladder another rung for that. "It sounds about like this place."

Nate nods. "Well, we're in what's left of the UK so... about the same climate, really. More trees in the Pacific Northwest, though I don't know if that's true here."

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assuming he indeed dragged her out yep yep

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works for me!

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