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))
rootandbranch: (up with the morning sun.)

[personal profile] rootandbranch 2017-10-02 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Geir huffs out a breath in surprise at the emotionless words and downcast eyes. it's certainly a change from how wound up Jay had been from his normal businesslike self only a moment ago.

he's not an unperceptive creature, nor is he blind to his own behavior, and he needs to physically blink his eyes and shift to resettle himself when the knowledge suddenly hits him: Jay is trying to detach himself emotionally from the situation. it's something he's aware that he does, in the dim unanalyzed way that one is instinctively aware of one's own emotional processes; he did it the other day, in the exact confrontation that he was referring to when he asked Jay not to get in a fight with him. seeing it in someone else is strange: a futile attempt to get away from something painful and scary inside your own head.]

all of that adds up to a tone that's much softer when he speaks next, almost gentle.]

Okay.

[it is Geir's business, if Jay means to use it as a place of authority from which to throw painful accusations at him. but it doesn't seem worth getting into that right now.]

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But I--

[but he what? but, he should have kept his temper? he had a right to get angry in that situation. shouldn't have talked about it? Jay asked, and Geir isn't sure he regrets it yet.

no. better to just be awkwardly honest.]

But, I didn't mean to hurt you.

Sorry.

[he shifts aside a little; Jay will have to walk close to him to keep going, but he can continue his escape and leave if he wants.]
Edited 2017-10-02 23:39 (UTC)
rootandbranch: (coming off the shelf.)

[personal profile] rootandbranch 2017-10-03 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[in between his flights around through the afternoon and evening, Geir will keep an eye from the sky out for Jay to return at some point -- he wants to make sure he makes it back OK. but he doesn't bother him again today.]