rebells: curious, ?, side glance (bellatrix)
Jay (the Unseen) ([personal profile] rebells) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2017-09-25 09:30 pm

catch-all open log!

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?]


((here or here for place descriptions))
talim: (pic#9332487)

[personal profile] talim 2017-09-30 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's just a human tradition. There's really nothing particularly special about it... I don't know the purpose behind it, exactly.

It's just a... a thing?

[ a thing. articulate. jude's face is red again, but from mere sheepishness this time. maybe this was too childish after all?

but at the same time...

he likes teaching 9s new things. isn't that just what he said? just what he agreed to? thinking about it that way sheds a new light on it. ]


Maybe think of this as one of the first things about Old World I'm teaching you. Pinky promises.
deem: (turn)

[personal profile] deem 2017-09-30 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He supposes a lot of human traditions don't really make sense to him. Christmas, for instance. Hauling a coniferous tree indoors just to let it slowly die and leave some kind of offerings for it for some guy who apparently breaks in expecting something to be waiting for him seems pretty outlandish to him, but...humans.

He takes some comfort in Kosuzu being as confounded by it as he is]


Well, alright... [He's not sure he'll ever really agree that he's kind in a way that's comparable to Jude here, but he'll imitate this pinky thing] I guess it's a fair trade.
talim: do not take (pic#10683679)

[personal profile] talim 2017-09-30 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
Then it's a promise.

[ jude links their pinkies together, and there's that sunshine smile 9s is so fond of. it's brief, however, and he looks around the room as his smile turns into a grimace. ]

We sure are doing a lot of cleaning, aren't we...

[ a strained laugh. right. cleaning.

he's just... happy to spend time with him. any time. cleaning or not. ]
deem: (tell)

[personal profile] deem 2017-09-30 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
[9S watches their hands, curious as ever, but he doesn't comment. It really is an unusual sort of practice, but it's not as though he minds it. And he has learned something, however small and purportedly childish it might be.

He's learned a lot of things from Jude, really.

But it's a thought he shelves in favor of looking around the room himself. Not that he needs a reminder, but still]


Sure looks that way... Who signs up for something like this?

[Both of these guys, actually]
talim: do not take (pic#10683704)

[personal profile] talim 2017-09-30 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Both of us?

[ he echoes 9s' thoughts with a light laugh. ]

Okay, okay. We'd better get to work before it's too dark to make our way back. I can't imagine you'd want to spend the night here until it's spotless.
deem: (ponder)

[personal profile] deem 2017-09-30 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He frowns at the thought]

There was so much dust on that bed...

[Who'd want to wake up with that all over them? Ew]

Let's see what we can do with this place.