Ruins Mingle Log!

[ohnehalfte]

Who: Newt Geiszler ohnehalfte and EVERYONE
What: So a bunch of people headed up towards the ruins, so they've got to all run into each other and start to congregate, right???
When: Evening of the mingle log and onwardish.
Where: The Ruins
Warnings: Um...same as the mingle log?



The beach curves up a gentle slope until it meets forest, some manner of building visible through the trees. Further exploration of this area will reveal a dilapidated building of sorts; the architecture is indiscernible to even the most skilled eye. Despite looking as if it has seen better days, there are areas that offer some form of shelter...and who knows what else. Just because it appears uninhabited doesn’t mean you won’t wind up pleasantly, or unpleasantly, surprised.


[ooc: Hey y'all! I thought this might be a good place to start getting larger groups of characters together to do some exploring, settling down, banding together and figuring out rations, etc. Feel free to throw up any threads of your own for specific things like exploration groups, a gathering in the entrance hall, whatever strikes your fancy or that you think your character would organize. Have a party!

Edit: Additionally, there is now an OOC Post for those that want to handwave their character signing up for ruin exploration]

Comments

[ohnehalfte]

Well, I've died twice already, and depending on the death rule here, it's either fifty/fifty or seventy-five/twenty-five that you do come back and you don't come back after you die.

[at that question, though, Newt folds his arms over his chest, considering] At this point, the only plan I've got is to figure out who here is willing to explore this place and, depending on how many people volunteer, split up into groups to check the place. Unfortunately, as far as I know, we don't have any sort of other communication network, so we're stuck with this sort of 'hope everyone's in the same place and shout a lot' kinda thing.

[tenthstreetbred]

[She winces at that death count.]

Oof. Sorry to hear that you've died that much. I know that sort of thing isn't pleasant. It's too bad we won't know which is which in probability until someone kicks it.

[It's too much of a risk to test so Shepard plans on making sure everyone stays alive for as long as humanely possible.]

We're going old school here. Playing telephone only we don't have any cans to talk through. I wish I had some of my tech from back home; that omni-tool would be real useful right now...

[So would her armor or weapons but the lack of communication between these groups is the greater danger right now.]

[ohnehalfte]

[Newt shrugs a shoulder, suddenly uncomfortable with the 'sorry.' It's....it is something that really sucks. It did suck. He doesn't like to think about it, because they were both pretty traumatic. But it is what it is, and that's definitely something they need to be aware of in this new place. So he'll just....take that other subject and focus on that. Esp when she mentions an omnitool.]

I mean, I've got some of my tools from the last place I was, though whatever dumped us here took all my spare generator parts. [he looks particularly displeased about that] And my tech's been spotty at best. I'm hoping some of it will come back after it dries out some more, but...yeah. The lack of tech and ability to communicate here sucks a lot.

[tenthstreetbred]

[He sidesteps the death discussion and Shepard can't blame him. She never talked about her death beyond a one off joke to Joker and even then she had felt scummy afterwards. She knows her squad had wanted to talk to her about it, maybe dive into what happened and what it was like but haha that's a conversation for well-adjusted and healthy people. And no one has time for that when there's a war on.]

It leaves us vulnerable. We won't know if half the people on this island are in danger until we're in the danger ourselves.

[God, that generator would have been amazing.]

If we don't find any more technology, eventually we'll have to set up some kind of communication system though it probably will have to be more primitive than what either of us are used to.

[It sounds like he's got technology that is at least in the same family of the stuff she's used to.]

[ohnehalfte]

Yeah, no joke. We'll have to resort to smoke signals or something. [Newt wrinkles his nose at that idea] Which, honestly, sounds like a huge pain in the ass.

[tenthstreetbred]

[She scoffs and nods a bit.]

I agree. It does. But it's doable.

[She looks around to the greater ruins around the two of them and then back to Newt.]

I should go. When we get more solid groups for exploration I'll be there.