[Nexus] GLoG 84: Goblins and catgirls and dryads, oh my!

[Earl of Purple]

Abandoned Camp- Bunker

No, no toilet paper.

The next room is a kitchen, with a door leading away. In the kitchen is a sink, an oven, a washing machine, and a doorway leading into a larder filled with empty packaging. It's quite a large larder, but evidently wasn't large enough.

Also, I think there's another door yet to be used. If not, I miscalculated and desperately need somewhere to put an armoury. Otherwise, the ten soldiers stationed here would have nowhere to store their weaponry.

[The Bushranger]

[Main Cabin]

Originally Posted by Morty

"I think I could find a really big hat and attach leaves to it," Brinika says. "Then I'd look like an autumn tree."

"That would be a very Nize Hat," Taurus agrees with a chuckle. "If you want, feel free to grab leaves out of the pile once I'm done."

[Slii Arhem]

Originally Posted by Morty

"Oh, he'll be fine," Sophie says. She's not sure what Julie needed cat food for, though. Presumably, they get up and enter the cabin, Sophie carrying Nicholas.

Rowan Cabin

Julie gets up, but before she steps inside the cabin she has a thought, "Actually, I think I'll invite another old friend over so it isn't just us two. Hold on a sec." Julie heads inside and goes over to the phone, dialing up a number from memory.

She waits for Patty to pick up, assuming the priestess is at the phone.

[The Bushranger]

[Rowan Cabin Phone]

Ring ring ring ring - banana phone!

Click! As the phone is answered.

"Patricia O'Connell speaking."

[Morty]

Originally Posted by The Bushranger

[Main Cabin]

"That would be a very Nize Hat," Taurus agrees with a chuckle. "If you want, feel free to grab leaves out of the pile once I'm done."

"Thanks! I need all the nicest leaves for this hat," Brinika says as she starts rummaging through her pile again.

Originally Posted by Slii Arhem

Rowan Cabin

Julie gets up, but before she steps inside the cabin she has a thought, "Actually, I think I'll invite another old friend over so it isn't just us two. Hold on a sec." Julie heads inside and goes over to the phone, dialing up a number from memory.

She waits for Patty to pick up, assuming the priestess is at the phone.

Sophie waits patiently for Julie to finish the call, looking around the cabin.

[OrchestraHc]

Originally Posted by Earl of Purple

Abandoned Camp- Bunker

No, no toilet paper.

The next room is a kitchen, with a door leading away. In the kitchen is a sink, an oven, a washing machine, and a doorway leading into a larder filled with empty packaging. It's quite a large larder, but evidently wasn't large enough.

Also, I think there's another door yet to be used. If not, I miscalculated and desperately need somewhere to put an armoury. Otherwise, the ten soldiers stationed here would have nowhere to store their weaponry.

Abandoned Camp- Bunker

If I recall it was three, then three inside the second door.

All forks become forfeit as soon as Justin enters this kitchen. He steals all the forks. All of them.

If there seriously is no food left, he doesn't really need anything else from the kitchen. He'll move on to, presumably, the armory?

[Earl of Purple]

Abandoned Camp- Bunker

The inhabitants of this bunker starved to death. There is no food left.

Justin may think he has died and gone to heaven. Against the two long walls are five rifles each, accompanied by a full set of combat fatigues amounting to kevlar body armour, helmets, gas masks, and a variety of pouches and pockets, most empty. Against the opposite wall are piled lots and lots of boxes. Some contain twelve frag grenades, whilst others have magazines for either the rifles or the pistols. There's also a single light machine gun and its associated ammunition. Most of the boxes are unopened.

[Slii Arhem]

Originally Posted by Morty

"Thanks! I need all the nicest leaves for this hat," Brinika says as she starts rummaging through her pile again.



Sophie waits patiently for Julie to finish the call, looking around the cabin.

Rowan Cabin

"Hi there Patty, it's Julie. I know it's unexpected and all, but I was wondering if you might want to join me and a friend for dinner? Eric's a bit indisposed, so it'd just be me, you, someone I know from GLoG, and the twins."

[The Bushranger]

[Main Cabin]

Taurus nods, and resumes gathering leaves into piles with the Power Rake.
A bit more carefully though now.
Well, as careful as you can be with a Binford product.

===

[Rowan Cabin Phone]

"I'd love to," Patty promptly answers. "Just say where and when, and I'll be there."

[Slii Arhem]

Originally Posted by The Bushranger

[Main Cabin]

Taurus nods, and resumes gathering leaves into piles with the Power Rake.
A bit more carefully though now.
Well, as careful as you can be with a Binford product.

===

[Rowan Cabin Phone]

"I'd love to," Patty promptly answers. "Just say where and when, and I'll be there."

Rowan Cabin

"As soon as you can get here, and at Rowan Cabin in GLoG. Don't bother rushing though, I've still got to start dinner."

[Gulaghar]

[Lake Shore]

"If you can't do anything then don't worry about it, but if there's a chance I can put this behind me, I want to try." Kitty says.

[OrchestraHc]

Abandoned Camp - Bunker

He's not leaving unencumbered, is he? Because he's not leaving anything behind. Not a single damn thing. Some of this is easy. Grenades, machine gun, bullets, armor, even a few of those gasmasks can all go into the bag. The rifles, well most of those come with straps to carry them.

Assuming he's checked all the boxes, which if not, he does, he leaves a clanky, wobbly, mess.

[Earl of Purple]

Abandoned Camp- Bunker

Well, that's the entire bunker searched. Would Justin like to go sell/dump/stash those somewhere and come back for the two still-standing huts that I was expecting him to loot first?

[OrchestraHc]

Abandoned Camp

Y'know I almost forgot about those. I find the mental picture of Justin wobbling his over-encumbered ass between these cabins. Let's do that now.

[The Bushranger]

[Rowan Cabin Phone]

"Well, then, I'll get dressed and be right there," Patty declares, a smile in her tone.

[Lost_Deep]

Lake Shore

Copi nods. If that's what she wants, she can have it. "Do you want to do this right now? I can try it now, or perhaps somewhere else if you would prefer."

[Earl of Purple]

Abandoned Camp- Cabin #1

The front door has fallen off its hinges, and is therefore easy to open. Inside is quite well lit; the windows aren't boarded up, and there's a hole in the roof as well. The first room is a combination kitchen/living space. It has a sofa buried under slates and rotting wood from the roof, a T.V. with a cracked screen bolted to one wall, an end table, a small cabinet and two doors leading away in the living room section, whilst the kitchen section has a row of cupboards, a microwave, a dishwasher, a sink, leaky plumbing resulting in a small pond forming in the centre, an oven and a refrigerator. No doors lead away from the partially-enclosed kitchen space, and a frog is in the pond.

Infirmary

"That is good to know, Your Holiness. Could I perhaps have the ledgers, the green ink and the quill as soon as I can, please? They should be inside the chest, Your Holiness." The Sea Elf isn't going to stop calling Yuri 'Your Holiness' for a while. Where he's from, the City Elves worship angels, and he's assuming he's in a City Elf community because very few other races would let a Sea Elf live.

[Slii Arhem]

Rowan Cabin

Julie puts the phone back on the hook, turning to Sophie as she does so, "Patty will be here when she can. Do you want to help out a bit with supper, or introduce Nicholas to the kids? They're in their room playing at the moment, but I'm sure they wouldn't mind the company. Prism's been snooping this whole time anyway." Not through vision or sound, she's just using her natural empathy to feel out the people in the living room, and Julie can sense her curiosity from here.

"I won't mind either way."

[Beans]

[Lakeshore (not exactly where Copi and Kitty are, though)]

Lausel decides to explore by the lake, noticing a couple of people talking a ways off. She didn't really get a chance to get familiar with a good deal of parts of the place before she had to go off on that deadtime-lagged trip before.

[Morty]

[Rowan Cabin]

"Hmmm. I think I'll go introduce him to the girls. We'd have to keep him away when preparing supper, anyway. Just call me if you need help."
With that, Sophie heads to the girls' room, carrying the very curious Nicholas with her.

[The Bushranger]

Rowan Cabin

A few minutes later, the whump-whoosh of an opening Ground Bridge outside the cabin heralds Patty's arrival!

And a moment later, as it hisses closed, there's a knock on the cabin door.

[Slii Arhem]

Rowan Cabin - Twins Room

Both twins have been staring at the door expectantly as it opens, giving up any pretense of playing once Sophie started to walk towards it. They're still in the matched shirts and skirts that Julie forced them into for their trip to the mall, and there's several oddly coloured stuffed toys sitting in between them, including a pair of turquoise handmade onion plushies.

"What's that?" Prism asks curiously, staring at the strange creature in Sophie's arms.

Rowan Cabin - Living Room

The front door swings open on its own to admit Patty as Julie calls out, "Let yourself in! I just started washing some veggies."

[Gulaghar]

Originally Posted by Lost_Deep

Lake Shore

Copi nods. If that's what she wants, she can have it. "Do you want to do this right now? I can try it now, or perhaps somewhere else if you would prefer."

[Lake Shore]

Kitty looks around and shrugs. "Here's as good as anywhere. I don't have anywhere special we could go."

[Lost_Deep]

Lake Shore

"Okay. If at any point in time you want me to stop, for any reason, no matter how trivial seeming, simply say so."

Copi will then reach out and, gingerly, try to enter Kitty's mind.

[The Bushranger]

Rowan Cabin - Living Room

The door opens, and in steps Patty, wearing a comfortable tank top and knee-length skirt, both in purple. And she'll head to the kitchen with a smile. "Hi, Julie. It's good to see you again! Need any help?"

[Gulaghar]

[Lake Shore - Mindscape]

The whole world goes white for a moment before gradually clearing. Copi finds herself in a small copse of birch trees. The sun is high in the sky and the only shadow is created by the trees. Here and there what looks to be small wisps of white flame wink in and out of existence. Otherwise, nothing seems out of place just yet.

[Morty]

Originally Posted by Slii Arhem

Rowan Cabin - Twins Room

Both twins have been staring at the door expectantly as it opens, giving up any pretense of playing once Sophie started to walk towards it. They're still in the matched shirts and skirts that Julie forced them into for their trip to the mall, and there's several oddly coloured stuffed toys sitting in between them, including a pair of turquoise handmade onion plushies.

"What's that?" Prism asks curiously, staring at the strange creature in Sophie's arms.

"Hi girls," Sophie says, smiling brightly, as she enters the room. "This is my cat Nicholas," she adds in response to Prism's question. She crouches and sets the cat down on the floor. Nicholas takes a few steps towards the twins. They smell strange...

[Lost_Deep]

Lake Shore - Mindscape

Not entirely what Copi was expecting, but if a mind wants to naturally form into a metaphor around her, so be it.

Copi's avatar in this world forms... more or less looking like how she is in reality. She'll alter her appearance later if she thinks she needs to...

Copi starts walking. She's inside a mind; she's sure to get somewhere important sooner or later.

[Gulaghar]

[Lake Shore - Mindscape]

As Copi walks, the trees seem to spring into existence before her while those she leaves behind disappear into nothingness. Still though, there's no sign of life save for the trees.

Soon enough something happens. Copi comes into a clearing, in the center of which is a fox's den. The fiery wisps seem more dense here, though none touch Copi. Everything seems to be moving fast. Should she look up, Copi will find that the sun is moving at a steady pace across the sky. Hours are reduced to minutes, and night will soon fall.

[Lost_Deep]

Lake Shore - Mindscape

Ah, foxes are diurnal, aren't they? Copi will try to climb a tree and sit on one of the branches. From there she waits patiently. Let us see what comes, if anything is to come. Perhaps nothing more will happen out here (in here?), or perhaps the dusk will bring interesting events.