Not much has changed about the Hub Island since the first coven members ended up here, but there is an obvious unkemptness that's crept over the existing structures. Rains and winds have come and gone, flora and fauna have taken over some of the mansion and a few windows are broken. In short, despite activity levels being low, a lot needs to be done. First on the agenda is getting the mansion in working order -- there's also an incentive from Brie who doesn't want to do literally everything on her own. Helping with this task AND unloading the caravan means you get a boar roasted in your honor. Well, everyone gets one single boar roasted in their honor, but that's better than starving, right? A ▢ The first floor of the mansion is the one that's obviously been hit the hardest. The front doors are off their hinges, apparently battered down by a rather large boar (who can't be found, at the moment). The front hall needs to be swept out as it's now filled with leaves and climbing vines that have crept through cracks in windowsills. Two of the windows have also been broken, and fixing them might involve a little bit of brainstorming.
- Door fixing
- Sweeping and other cleaning busy work
- Window repair
B ▢ If your character is less inclined towards hard labor, there are a lot of individual rooms that could use some sprucing up. Some of the Palai blankets can be used to make the multiple bedrooms more presentable, but a thick layer of dust exists on almost everything. From the kitchen to the bathrooms, only slight plumbing work needs to be implemented in order to get the water running again...but your character can also hole up in a bedroom and pretend to fluff pillows if your character wants to slack off. If your character's got a source of electricity, wink wink, your character can also help to power the lights, kitchen appliances and other electrical things in the house.
- Plumbing repair
- Dusting
- Bedmaking
- Sweeping (or vaccuming, if your character can find a way to power one)
- Making the kitchen clean and functional
C ▢ The beach huts, on the other hand, are much less affected. While those pesky crabs that used to live in the bathhouse have fled into the wilderness, for the most part, some of them have taken up residence in these beach huts and aren't happy to see returning coven members back to claim their territory. In one beach hut, a boar has decided to have their babies there. If your character wants to clean out this particular home, beware that mom could come back at any moment for her piglets.
D ▢ If your character want to take on a true challenge, someone can find a way to start cleaning out the bathhouse. Your character may have a solution to the bigger problem of getting the heat back to the water, but the more pressing issue is the layer of pond scum covering everything. It's gross, but something should be done!
E ▢ There's a lot of things to be unloaded from the caravan and brought into the mansion after it's been cleaned out. From crates of shrimp to all of the supplies and gifts the Palai provided, someone with muscles needs to help with the heavy lifting! ...Or if your character has magic that can make this easier, they can of course use that.
F ▢ Later on that night Brie makes good on her promise of boar -- and it's that massive boar. It pays to have violent magic when it comes to hunting and gathering, although I'm sure someone's character could have helped with lugging the giant thing to the beach. For new coven members, unfamiliar with how boar meat is something of a meat to get used to, this meal could potentially make them ill. Either way, the work is somewhat done and it's time to relax under the stars...untill it starts raining, anyway.
G ▢ Wildcard!
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[2B's standing as she takes in the night sky, but the quiet awe in her voice might be slightly reminiscent of when it rained back in Aimintas. While experiencing her first night there was definitely something special, with no ocean here, the night feels like an entirely different thing. She can only assume that this is what it's like in the Night Kingdom back on Earth.
It's also very different to see the stars from the ground than through the window of the Bunker or while descending from there to Earth. The change of perspective is really something else.]
The night sky here is quite different from Aimintas's.
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It is, isn't it? It's... refreshing. Relieving, even, to see the stars again.
[ jude looks up at 2b. ]
Were there stars like these back where you come from?
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[She's never been to the Night Kingdom, so she has no idea what it might've been like there. The machines had probably developed in very different ways.]
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What, exactly, is the Bunker like? I can't get a clear picture of it in my head.
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Besides that though, it's... still strange for her, to think of the Bunker as completely gone. She's thought plenty about how the Commander and 6O are dead, but she had so little time to process everything that happened and what the consequences of all that might've been.]
It was an orbital satellite up in space. YoRHa had a few other stations, but the Bunker was our main headquarters. Active units had rooms there to rest in between missions, and there were a few different areas. There was the Hangar, where we stored flight units and used them to take off if the transporter wasn't available, or the maintenance area where 801S ran a shop for supplies. The main area with our rooms and the control center had a lot of windows, so you could see out into space and Earth. Since the Bunker itself was curved, the view from there was very different compared to here.
[And of course, it's all in the past tense. She's not sure how much of these technical details would interest Jude though, so she tries to think of things about the Bunker that aren't so plain.]
There was no color there, since we were up in space. Everything was black and white and gray. [
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[ jude takes a few seconds to process this and everything else 2b said. his conclusion: ]
It doesn't sound like much of a home.
[ an obvious statement, perhaps, but one he feels needs to be said. ]
Do you feel more at home here? With 9S and us humans? Or... do you miss it?
[ there's no judgment in his tone; only curiosity. ]
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[She remembers finally finding 9S again after everything with Adam, how she just wanted to go back home and let him get some rest. Where else would they go back to in order for him to be repaired properly? The Bunker definitely wasn't like any of the homes in Aimintas or even the huts here, but it was all they had.]
There are people I miss there, but I don't know if I miss the Bunker itself aside from some of the conveniences it provided. [Like, y'know, spare bodies.] Living with humans has been something I never would've expected, even though I don't mind it. And I'm glad that 9S is here. [To put it lightly. She's not sure a world without him would even be worth living in.]
... But I don't know if I feel "at home" here. [In Aimintas, she always felt a little bit lost if there wasn't a battle going on, some enemy to fight against. Even here, she's unsure of what to do with herself with this peace. Maybe a battlefield is just where she feels most at home.]
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For what it's worth, when I'm feeling homesick, I just have to remind myself that without all this, I never would have met you both. Everyone else, too, of course. It would have been a missed opportunity.
[ it'd feel so sad, parting from them. losing them. jude is an affectionate person, with so much to give, and 2b and 9s both are certainly a part of that. ]
There must be a purpose for our being here. One besides what's expected of us.
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[Which he honestly does. She treasures the fact that she's been able to meet so many people here. It's something she's incredibly grateful for.
But she doesn't mention the fact that it's hard to feel homesick when she was dead at home. Maybe now that she's been miraculously brought back online, if she returned home, it would be just like coming back in a new body, but what she doesn't want to dwell on is what going home would actually entail if not that.
She's a weapon, and she's long since made peace with the fact that she'll probably die on the battlefield one day. She already did, after all. But as odd as it is for a weapon to try and feel comfortable and at home in a time of peace, she's not eager to die again either.]
If anything, being here has made fulfilling my purpose easier than I ever would've thought possible. [Would still die for humanity any day though!] But what do you think your purpose here might be?
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[ that's a loaded question, one jude has to put some thought into. he hums under his breath and takes a brief moment to mull his words over before replying. ]
All I really want is to help people. Back home or here... I know that contributing to changing the world for the better in whatever way I can is my purpose, no matter what world that might be.
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This is why 9S and I keep telling you that you're kind.
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You guys really do just put me on a pedestal.
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I don't think that's the case, but if it was, it's only because you've proven yourself worthy of it.
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Come on. Now you're just flattering me.
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Have you ever known me to flatter someone? [Aside from her endless praise about 9S anyways.] Especially without good evidence to do so? [But she covers herself anyways.]
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[ his blush has spread all the way down his neck. what is he supposed to say? all he can do is avert his gaze, a small smile quirking his lips. ]
I'm especially grateful. For both of you.
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[She would've been grateful for this new life no matter what as long as 9S was there, but being here has given her so many things she could have hardly imagined before. The night sky, what a rainy day is like, meeting humanity and having the chance to learn so much about them, to protect them as she was meant to.
Meeting Jude and befriending him, too. For 2B, that's probably one of the craziest things yet.]
I'm sure he is, too.
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[ of course he does; even jude knows that's true, what with how often 9s tells him as much. he looks especially shy when 2b says it, though, twiddling his thumbs together and casting his gaze down at the ground. ]
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[It's 9S they're talking about after all. She's never been the best at reading 9S, but she thinks it's hard to doubt the sincerity he talks with when it comes to Jude.]
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