Blackout, blackout!

[kore_npc]

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.

Comments

[tryingitall]

Longer than any of the rest of us? [His brows knit in a cross between compassion and worry. That sounds ominous.]

I'm sorry.

[kore_npc]

I think. I -- It's hard to be sure. There were dreams... [ He doesn't quite look at the cameras. Instead, he lowers his voice a notch. ]

It might be best if you didn't ask me too many questions. I'm not sure what they... might do. If they'd do it again.

[tryingitall]

...of course. [Balthazar is very still for a moment, disturbed by the reminder of their precarious situation.] Perhaps a time when there wasn't such immediate inconvenience would be better, anyway.

[He gestures ruefully at the dark around them.] I'm relatively safe from animal attack, anyway. Perhaps I ought to gather more firewood.

[But he'll be thinking about this little chat.]

[kore_npc]

[ Stane blinks and nods. Balthazar's probably right. He needs to be careful what he says, but then he also wonders if they don't have a right to know. ]

Right. Good thinking. I'll keep an eye on the fire.

[tryingitall]

[Balthazar's eyebrows quirk subtly; he's trying to read the man's expression. In the end, he decides to take his own advice, though, and save the interrogation for a better time.

With a last nod, he takes a couple steps into the dark, then takes flight. Stane may hear the flutter as he vanishes, but maybe that's no weirder than anything else in Kore these days.]