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

[potentite]

If it helps, humans are always overthinking each other, too. We're always causing problems for others from misunderstandings and such. Not that I'm proud of it, it just... is how it is.

[apatheia]

Those kinds of misunderstandings could be cleared up simply by communicating with each other though, right?

[... Well, not that she has much room to talk. She knows exactly what it's like to cause misunderstandings from a lack of communication. For her though, it was always intended.]

[potentite]

[Ah. Miscommunication. He flushes and frowns slightly.]

Yes, that's true, but... [How to explain it to her?] Have you ever been afraid of what someone will think of you? If they might come to hate you? Or think less of you?

[apatheia]

[There's a quiet but heavy sigh. She knows all too well what that's like.]

... Yeah. I have.

[potentite]

[He nods. As much as he doesn't wish she understood, at least it's easy to explain it that way.]

Maybe communicating would clear up things. But it might lead to... being alone and hated. Maybe rightly, sometimes. But it's not easy to do. I know me and my friends were all hiding things from each other with that fear in mind.

[apatheia]

Are things better now though?

[He said "were" so!! Let her have hope for someone else since she thinks her case is pretty hopeless..........]

[potentite]

Um, I think so. [Wait, that might be too vague and worry her.] Dirk and I talk a lot now! And... if I see Roxy and Jane again, I'm going to give them the apologies they deserve. It's okay if they don't forgive me when it's done. They just... deserve to hear it.

[apatheia]

That's good. I'm glad.

[They're simple statements, but there's a soft warmth to her voice. She's genuinely glad that someone out there is fixing their communication problems.]

If that chance ever comes, I hope things work out for the best.