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Blackout, blackout!
Who: The residents of Cape Kore
Where: The center of town, near the ruined fountain
When: Day 100
What: Stane gathered some supplies for a community fire. Consider this a party-style post reacting to the lack of power and the loss of the communicators.
After the power goes out, Stane spends a few minutes standing stock still in the room, holding his breath and waiting for it to come back, but he doesn't waste too much time lingering in that kind of hopefulness. People are going to need things; they're going to need fire to cook and boil water, and they're going to need to do something about the food that's going to spoil.
It's so important that he helps them. It's so important that he helps them stay alive. Maybe the dream sharing is getting to him, maybe it's made his nightmares... feel real, but...
They're going to survive this. He's determined.
He gathers some wood that can be used for firewood and kindling, and he leaves them in the center of the town; he has no way of announcing that the things are there, really, but he cups his hands around his mouth and shouts a general Go to the fountain! Maybe someone will hear him.
Where: The center of town, near the ruined fountain
When: Day 100
What: Stane gathered some supplies for a community fire. Consider this a party-style post reacting to the lack of power and the loss of the communicators.
After the power goes out, Stane spends a few minutes standing stock still in the room, holding his breath and waiting for it to come back, but he doesn't waste too much time lingering in that kind of hopefulness. People are going to need things; they're going to need fire to cook and boil water, and they're going to need to do something about the food that's going to spoil.
It's so important that he helps them. It's so important that he helps them stay alive. Maybe the dream sharing is getting to him, maybe it's made his nightmares... feel real, but...
They're going to survive this. He's determined.
He gathers some wood that can be used for firewood and kindling, and he leaves them in the center of the town; he has no way of announcing that the things are there, really, but he cups his hands around his mouth and shouts a general Go to the fountain! Maybe someone will hear him.
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[She looks sideways at Raven, uncertain.]
We seem to be such an odd assortment of people. An assortment, a sampling. I don't know if that's relevant.
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After you get food, were you planning on staying here by the fire all night? Or were you going to take your chances back wherever you're staying? Not that the fire isn't romantic... [She turns and gives Shiala a teasing little smirk.]
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I wasn't thinking that far ahead. The fire is pleasant, but company might well be appreciated.
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No pressure, darling. I honestly just don't want to be alone in the dark. Like you said, company would be appreciated. [She offered a soft, genuine smile.]
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Please, don't call me that. But I will gladly keep you company, dark or not.
[She's trying, trying not to take it personally, trying to will herself to relax.]
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[Her gaze flickered down to Shiala's hand as Raven slipped her fingers between Shiala's, her fingers slowly turning blue before shifting back.]
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Perhaps you will. I think I'd like to see.
[She squeezes Raven's hand.]
But blue is normal, while green is... freakish. I prefer not to be defined by what is essentially a disfigurement. Surely you can understand that?
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If I wasn't stuck in the middle of... wherever this is, with unknown people, for reasons unknown to me, you better believe I'd be myself, not this ugly lie. But I have to survive.
But I respect your request, I won't call you that again.
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Well, asari are typically blue, even if humans are not. My own skin tone was purple until only about two years ago. It is... a side effect.
[Two years is such a short span of time to become used to it, and she hasn't had the luxury of disguise.]
Can I ask how you hide it?
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A side effect? Care to share?
[She shrugs and gives Shiala a smirk when she's asked how she hides it.] I can look like anyone here, or anyone I can think up. [She takes a second to shift her vocal chords, mimicking Shiala perfectly when she speaks.] Sound like them, too.
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It's rather a long story.
[She sighs. She's almost inclined to not share at the moment, but Raven's shared a secret with her. It's only fair.]
The short version of the story is that I was absorbed by a plant entity called the Thorian. It's dead, now, but its spores remain in my body. It was... not a pleasant experience, on the whole.
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A plant entity? And it changed you? [Raven gazed steadily at Shiala, leaning a little closer.] Either way, I think you look gorgeous. Honestly.
Different doesn't have to be bad, does it? At least you survived.
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I did. I was fortunate. I really have no room for complaint, considering everything.
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[She blushed slightly, trying to cover up a sheepish look with a confident smirk, and pulled back a little, realizing just how hard she was coming on.]
You wear it well, hun, that's all I'm trying to say.
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[She looks away, but she's smiling.]
I do find blue very attractive. Sometime, you must show me. You are pretty as you are, but if this isn't your true face...
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Maybe giving you a peek will be incentive for keeping me company tonight?
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[She's feeling reckless: lonely, perhaps, and isolated, and a pretty woman is a welcome distraction.]
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[She peered around behind them, into the deep darkness that enveloped the little fire, as if she were searching for possible attacks. She leaned a little closer to Shiala, leaning her shoulder against Shiala's when she turned back to look at the fire.]
It's intimidating.
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[She leans back up against Raven, comfortable if somewhat conflicted -- she just met her, after all. Still, she puts an arm around her shoulders.]
But I can be patient.
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Numbers usually do bring safety, yes, though this is hardly a good place to sleep, if you need it.
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[She'd offer to take Raven home, but... well, she won't take anyone human -- or mutant, close enough -- back to the house she shares with Hal. She doesn't trust him, even if he's trying.]
No wonder this sounds more inviting.
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To make things worse it's right by the ocean and that clairvoyant, Dirk, he said he dreamed something about some kind of sea monster. Call me old fashioned, but I believe in that kind of thing - clairvoyance, I mean, and I wouldn't put monsters off the list around here.
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Neither would I. Monsters are more easily found than not, depending on your definition.
[She smiles a little.]
But I will keep you safe.
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