catch-all open log!

[rebells]

Who: Anyone and everyone!
Where: On the beach, and various other places throughout the hub island
When: Day 80, and the next couple days after
Open/Closed: open log for hub shenanigans!

[This evening, someone has placed an old, rusted-over camp stove on the beach near the coven's row of huts--anyone examining it in detail will see that it's not operational at the moment, but that could potentially be changed, couldn't it? If someone was handy with mechanical things . . . .

Next to it is a crate (which, from the weight of it is empty) and pinned to that crate is a sheet of paper with a map on it, something like a much cruder, black-and-white version of this:



with the following key:

1 - crags. Contain snakes which may be poisonous. Watch out.
2 - ocean, going about one mile out from the coast.
3 - lagoon. Contains thick reeds (could be woven or shaped into tools) and frogs (edibility uncertain).
4 - abandoned campsite.
5 - orchard. Currently, trees are diseased and bare. Plant healer needed.
6 - abandoned house. A family used to live here, from the looks of it. Still contains some useful supplies.

And there should be a 7 north of base camp with the notation "graveyard. Graves unused." but the player forgot and is too lazy to go back and fix it right now. Observant individuals will note that the map looks like a more detailed version of one hanging on the door to a certain coven member's cabin, one that has a note on the bottom: "Have information? Ask for Jay."

Other than that, it's a quiet night on the hub island. We've been here for a couple days; maybe you're getting restless? Want to check out that ocean, or lagoon, or even those crags? Maybe just go door-to-door in the beach huts? Maybe you're sick of shrimp and looking for other things to eat . . . hopefully someone's got a fire going tonight, and thought to kill a boar . . . .

What are you doing tonight?]


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Comments

[drizzle]

Eatery? Do you mean like somewhere that serves food? Like in an inn, bar, or cafe?

[She only learned of the word cafe from Haru and having seen one in the capital of the Sun Kingdom. Unfortunately, she has never been, but she has had meals from an inn and bar before. The thought of going to a more futuristic aspect of a place to get food sounded appealing to her. It made her wonder if bars and inns remained or have evolved too.

Appreciating his efforts on holding back a rain pun, Nike will show him the sack tied around her back that she barter from the Palai with great pride.]

Aye, aye! I'm ready to go on our quest in finding materials to make stuff with.

[mech_and_mutt]

...Yeah, close enough. [But he'd been running his mouth about meals for long enough lately; besides, maybe there'd be some fruit worth plucking from the branches when they passed through the orchard ahead. Not like he needed to worry about maintaining their energy, anyway-- he could at least thank Qri for that.]

Alright! Just follow me. And, uh... just shout if you see any boars. [He set about walking west at a casual stride, but got maybe only a quarter-mile of walking in before the peaceful stillness left him all the more mindful of his company.

Well, always room for a little more conversation, right?]

So... is rain summoning just somethin' people did back at home or are you some kinda priestess?

[drizzle]

Wouldn't it be better to just grab you from behind if I notice one? Boars are sensitive to sound and movement, you know.

[Nike has enough experience with boars to last her a lifetime. Screaming and moving around were basically the two ingredients in not only admitting in feeling actual fear, but begging for it to attack early. It's always best to not do much and read their signals instead.

Either way, it was clear Nike didn't mind the conversation about food too much, it was always good to know someone that takes survival and a proper meal sincerely. She'll have to keep him in mind at the next world they end up in to figures out which are the best shops to visit. Nike was now curious to increase her eating aptitude to a more other worldly one.

Her attention will be on her surroundings as they continue their journey to the lagoon until he decides to ask her another question pertaining to her title. There will be a thoughtful hum.]

Only my family can. It's a family-only legacy back in my world. I've never met others with powers like our own. Everyone else are quite normal. Like my dad, for one. As for your question, you can say I am in a level of a 'high priestess'. I'm the best summoner next to my grandmother and my mother. But other than that, we aren't really priestess or priests in the religious sense, we're just the in-between for humanity and nature. Our duty is to protect the world and it's people that influence her. We make absolute certain they're in perfect balance to one another.

[mech_and_mutt]

[Hey, give him a break, it's not like he has no idea of what he's doing when it comes to these boars!... but, uh, it did take him a good while each time he went up against 'em, and it did sound like she knew what she was talking about...]

Sure, that works too.

[But as nice was it was to shush as they traveled and let the nature on the island get a few words in, the tranquility that punctuated their dialog reinforced an important point in what Nike was describing... a point that, thinking about it, might have been a big reason for the differences between their worlds.]

...Sounds like the humans back at my home coulda learned somethin' from yours. Maybe they'd still be around.