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]

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Twin Team Cooking Magic - OTA

[hellawrath]

After spending their first night out on the beach, the twins are more than ready to rejoin civilization, or whatever passes for civilization on a reject episode of fantasy Lost. Good old-fashioned survival is in numbers, and convincing those numbers they can't do without you. It's been a while since they've really had to get on their grind for that, but it's pretty much like riding a bicycle that'll leave you starving and vulnerable if you fall off, no sweat.

So by the time the sun is burning high and merciless in the sky, Lup and Taako have located the ruins, regained some of their crucial elf glamor with a bit of soap and fresh water, and set up shop on a nice big stone slab in the entrance area. Lup has spread out her crimson robe as an eye-catchy tablecloth and they've helped themselves to the pile of coconuts some fool left unattended, getting to work cracking and scraping them out with sharp rocks. Once they've filled Taako's large bowl with coconut flesh, water and sugar, the real actual literal cooking magic happens. At the end of an ingenious combination of Fabricate and Shape Water awaits - coconut ice cream! Hell yeah.

They set out tasteful little coconut shell bits filled with ice cream, as well as a couple roasted fish on sticks that Lup literally blasted out of the water earlier, it was dope, too bad only her brother saw it. A large piece of driftwood announces FREE SAMPLES in messily carved script and the twins flash their most charming smiles at anyone looking their way. Don't you already feel a little heartened, knowing there's someone who can supply you with comfort foods?

[ooc: feel free to pick one or both of the twins to chat with, or let us pick for you!]

BOTH, OBVIOUSLY

[ohnehalfte]

Newt's been running around, mostly, keeping himself fairly busy between organizing the exploration groups and figuring out bits of food rationing and taking stock of his electronics finally and other random tasks to keep himself from thinking of things he Really Doesn't Want to Think About. So!!! He doesn't actually notice the twins until after they've finished all their work, which is too bad because he absolutely would've sat in rapt attention. Instead, he's pausing as he crosses the entrance area, doing a double take when he spots them--before his face splits into a huge grin, and he's jogging over. He looks a little better than when he first arrived--definitely cleaner, and he's ditched the leather jacket with his stuff and has the sleeves of his white dress shirt rolled up, displaying his colorful tattoos.

"Lup! Taako!" Yep, that's the greeting you're both getting as he jogs over, slowing to a stop near them. Newt's grin widens as he takes them both in, hands on his hips. "...okay, so I'm gonna use the excuse that I met you guys separately as a reason for why I didn't know that you were twins before now."

you are IN the shit NOW buddy

[ohshitsweetflips]

There we are, first customer. And hey, it's his barter buddy, bless him. "No harm, no foul, my dude. It's a lot to take in. Shoulda known my sister would be poachin nerds on the beach as soon as she touched down." Taako proffers one of their samples, with something more shell-game operator flair than elven grace, nerves in a stranglehold that is hard to detect without some really high stats. Look, someone is going to appreciate all the work that went into this, and they are gonna be invaluable, this beach is their city now. He didn't make this big fuck off bowl for nothing, to say nothing of what a riot opening an assload of coconuts turned out to be. Besides, if this is going to kill anyone, may as well find out now. "Here, you gotta get in on this, we owe you." Taako, too, is cleaner and in much better spirits, though he's doing plenty of his own Not Thinking About.

[hellawrath]

"Oh shit, sweet tats, my man!" is Lup's pretty sincerely enthusiastic greeting at Newt's approach, railroading right over Taako's totally slanderous commentary on her relationship with nerds. Also, turns out she's got the highest stats in fraternal perception, because his strained grip on the ice cream cup isn't lost on her. Behind the counter, his legs are shaking just a bit and her chest tightens with sympathy, but her grin doesn't slip a fraction. Honestly she's considering snatching the treat from him and tasting it first, just to show him, because she's 100% sure it'll be fine and delicious. But she probably doesn't need to give her brother a heart attack on their first real day together, so she rolls with the show and gregariously slings an arm around his shoulder in an attempt to knock some tension out of him.

"For sure, we owe you for whatever my bro probably hustled you out of. It's the least we can do. On the house." Anyway Taako isn't all wrong, Newt is an excitable and sociable nerd, judging by the way he's been working this camp-- if they ace this, he'll spread the good word.

[ohnehalfte]

Honestly, if Newt had an insight skill stat, it would be at best in the lower negatives. So any tension that Taako's exhibiting flies right over his head. The comment about nerds catches his interest, but he's quickly distracted from it by Lup's greeting--especially since his tattoos are being referenced, which he immediately perks at.

"Thanks! They're some of those alien monsters I told you about--" Wait, sorry, his attention is totally diverted again, this time by what Taako's holding out. He blinks, quieting suddenly and staring, before leaning in a bit towards it.

"...holy shit is that ice cream?" He moves to take it from Taako, almost reverently.

[ohshitsweetflips]

Oh wow, alien monster tattoos, yeahhhhh this boy caused someone somewhere a lot of clean-up. Taako hopes they survived. But it's hard to be too judgmental in the face of someone who is plainly having an almost religious experience re: ice cream, of his own (genius honestly) creation. Is there a word for a feeling that's a combination of smug and stressed? Taako feels that. "Sure is," he answers with obvious pride, though he is holding himself still a little too tightly under Lup's arm. "It was my idea. I thought maybe people could use a little morale boost. We're on island time now, it's chill." He's maybe saying too many words, maybe stalling more than basking in attention. "Also I made just. The biggest fucking bowl. So I couldn't let that go to waste."

[hellawrath]

Those are definitely too many words, though of course Taako is gracefully skirting the line between babbling and being an engaging host. She can't wait for him to be all smug pride again and none of the spring-coiled mess he's being under her arm, a heart-breakingly far cry from the resident chef and arcanist of the IPRE she remembers. But it'll be fine in a minute, especially since Newt apparently was cruelly deprived of ice cream in all of the shitty planes he's gotten dragged to before.

"Yeah and thanks to your huge fuckoff bowl we had to spend all morning busting our asses to get it filled up with coconuts, thanks bro," she adds with an affectionate roll of her eyes. "Now let the man eat his ice cream."

Surprise me!

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

Nothing teaches how to value school food and campus' bed like spending night out in the wilderness unprepared without a proper warm meal. But with all things considered J managed to look.. more or less intact and decent: there's been an attempt to style her curly hair and she's fixed her makeup, added some more lipstick and cleaned off the yesterday's mascara. But there's still no denying that it shows she's had rather rough night out as she walks around in her dark dress that's clearly made for fancier parties than to beach life.

It's her growling stomach and hungry nose that lead her to the treats the the elf twins had put on display. And for a moment she can't believe her eyes that this is way too good to be true. But like smart person she decided not to look inside of gift horse's mouth and the first thing she picks up is the coconut shell with ice cream. Thanks and questions can come later.

2 scoops of elf garbage for the price of 1 if u want

[ohshitsweetflips]

Wow, dang, someone is clearly having some kind of ice cream emergency, one that precludes trifling bullshit like saying hi, or thanks, or literally anything at all. But that's starving on an island for you. Taako puts on his most sympathetic attitude, though he still shoots Lup a put-upon retail-working look. "Hey, we've all been there. Good thing this is a guaranteed cure for beach hangovers. No refunds." Her determination, and commitment to putting on a brave face, deserves some respect for sure, and likely makes her a worthwhile person to cultivate.

2nd scoop with complimentary judgement

[hellawrath]

Lup meets Taako's look with a precisely timed one of her own, though there's a bit more judgement in it. Sure, not letting the beach life get you down is important, good on her for still making an effort, looks-wise. It's just that it doesn't exactly scream 'can take care of myself, won't mooch off other people's goodwill first chance I get'. Maybe manners weren't on the menu of whatever fancy party she came from.

None of which stops Lup from offering a perfectly sympathetic smile of her own. "Oh boy now I feel hella underdressed. What kinda hot date did you get yanked here from, honey?" She'd offer her some samples, but it looks like the girl has that on lock down already.

yes perfect

[gentlemenpreferblondes]

Well, to be fair, manners would slip from anyone's mind after spending a night out in cold and a hunger so J thinks her behavior completely justified. She, however, is not rude enough to ignore the twins.

"Hah," she laughs and rolls her shoulders while showing the ice cream inside her mouth. The sweetness hits her starved tongue like a tidal wave, ice cream melting and making her stomach sing from joy. "Oh, I just had the hottest date with spiders last night. They tried to get in my hair and I had to kick them out from the stony spot I was sleeping." In other words: the last night was a mess. "Now if you would have the stuff that can get me properly hung over, I'd over my life to you."

[ohshitsweetflips]

Well they'll definitely be partying down w this new island friend, as soon as they can bullshit their way to something tropical and boozy. If their goal is being indispensable to island morale, that's a perfectly reasonable step to take. Is a pina colada too cliche, or just cliche enough? "We'll put it on the to-do list. What's your poison?" Not ice cream, at least not literally; everything seems good on that front, big mental thumbs up there. Taako is finally ready to calm down about it a little and just enjoy the accolades. Though so far the accolades have mostly taken non-verbal form. Still fine, cha girl is obviously serious about her ice cream, and after the night he had that is a real mood. "I'm Taako, and this is my sister, Lup."

[hellawrath]

Oh dang, sounds like this gal has a thicker skin than her slinky dress would suggest. Proper fancy-ass ladies wouldn't joke about bugs trying to make nests in their hair, for sure. They might have themselves a not entirely useless loyal customer here.

"Do you think we should go more for like a cocktail bar feeling, frilly drinks and Fairie Fire lights, or this is more a hole-in-the-wall, dive bar kinda crowd? We're still workshopping our brand."

Both or whichever twin wants to chat!

[thekingsglaive]

Alright, so the twins have probably had a guy staring at them for a few minutes. Nyx couldn't help it, really. The robe had first caught his attention, then the pile of coconuts. Originally he had planned to walk over to ask where they'd even found so many coconuts already, but then the literal cooking magic happened and he felt his mouth hang open just a little. Of course magic isn't something new to Nyx, he had magic, but food magic... That was a new one.

When he walked over he realized just what they had been making, and couldn't help but raise a curious eyebrow. "You guys are making ice cream?"

That was cool as heck.

we are suckers for doing both can you tell

[ohshitsweetflips]

Quite literally, cool as heck. These garbage elves have worked hard on this, a way to bust this cave-island ragtag wide open with their prowess and valuability, and now it had better pay off. So forgive Taako if he seems smug in the face of this Ladyhawke lookin motherfucker's question. Obviously they're making ice cream, what kind of question is that. Maybe some of the approximately six billion clothes fastenings on this dude's outfit are cutting off circulation to his brain. On second thought, it doesn't look like most of them are even for anything, which is kind of a look. "Yeah that's how we do. I'm Taako, and this is my sister Lup. We're gonna be runnin this resort soon. So it's good you're getting in on the ground floor."

[hellawrath]

Lup is perched up on the edge of their makeshift counter, taking a break from scraping coconuts and scooping ice cream into shells to look out over the crowd, kinda lost in thought. They've been here a couple of hours working hard on their grand opening, and in that time quite a lot of people have come and gone, but she hasn't spotted the face she'd hoped to find, yet.

But there's plenty of time left in the day and upon hearing her name, her attention snaps to their newest customer with a practiced charming smile. That's not a bad look this dude's got going on, actually, she decides and checks him out properly. Definitely a good fighter boy it wouldn't hurt to have wrapped around their fingers. "These samples aren't gonna be free for long, my man. Pretty soon everyone will want a piece of Taako and Lup, you'll see." She winks, one long leg bouncing casually.

nothin' wrong with that!! if you don't mind a slightly canon blind mun here. Still catching up

[thekingsglaive]

"Nyx Ulric." He looks from one twin the to the other, registering the name to the face, or at least trying too. An amused smile slowly pulls at the corners of his mouth as he looks at the two. "I wouldn't call this much of a resort. I heard those things come with running water and beds."

Not that he's ever gone to one, so who knows.

"I guess I should grab one before you start charging for them."

sorry for any spoilers in that case!

[ohshitsweetflips]

"Your complaints have been noted, my friend. Trust us, we are just as disappointed in the service as you are." Dude seems alright, hard to get a read on, but Taako's thoughts mirror Lup's: a fighter type, useful to have around. Not too slow on his verbal feet, that's a plus. "How's island life been treatin ya?" Go on, unlock that backstory for your new buddies.

oh boy sorry for being a walking spoiler

[hellawrath]

Boy has a point, this island stinks, good to see they're all on the same page. And that he's got a sense of humor as well as a decently rad haircut. "Slain any cool monsters yet?" She adds, her eyes drifting down to his fucked up arm. Because that is his deal, right?

[boundwitch]

So, Sieglinde has confirmed that her Arachne Patousa are going to need some cleaning and upgrades before actually using them as a full-time means of transportation. That's all right, they're a new invention anyway and she still isn't really used to using them. Crutches aren't as convenient, but they're easy to assemble from materials available (sticks and strips of fabric torn from the hem of her dress) and she knows how to use them. Her progress is slow and it's obvious that putting weight on either leg is difficult, but it's faster than crawling.

Her approach is less about the FREE SAMPLES and more about checking in with the wizard she shared a raft with, but free samples are pretty intriguing too, and she's pretty obviously looking over the coconut ice cream and trying to figure out what exactly it is (please tell her it's a sweet).

"Is that magic food?"

[ohshitsweetflips]

"Oh shit," he says to Lup, jostling her with his elbow like she might have missed this kid's slow, painstaking approach. "It's one of my raft buddies." And boy has she got a good angle if she's looking to play this beach for sympathy, Tiny Timmin it up with makeshift crutches like the most tragic vaguely old timey orphan you ever saw, though she's managing pretty well, all told. Doesn't seem to really 'get' ice cream, though, which is honestly about the saddest thing he's ever seen. "Hell yeah, kid! Coconut ice cream," he tries, looking for any glint of recognition, before he reconsiders her question. "I mean, it was made with magic, but it's not...it won't buff you, or anything. Maybe give you some electrolytes? It's a dessert," he tries again, with as convincing a smile as he can manage. Here, have some not-magic, not-poisoned, VERY locally made, non-dairy, gluten-free ice cream. "You'll like it." He sounds, like, 99 percent sure.

[hellawrath]

She wasn't asleep on the job, thanks Taako, and she reflexively elbows him right back. Did everyone get to share a raft with a strange child, or was that just their cosmic luck? Though this one has really been dealt a particularly shitty hand, getting stuck here, no matter how professionally she's wielding those crutches.

And Taako is babbling again. Lup leans over the table down to eye-level with the kid, giving her a sly smile. "No refunds though if you don't like it." The joke is that it's free. "And you can try my roasted fish next. They're made with sea salt and fire magic." It's meant to be a little friendly competition to distract Taako, but also she's just not great at sharing the spotlight all dang day, no matter how appreciative she is of him doing the brunt of the magical work for this set-up.

[boundwitch]

She knows ice cream, thankfully, but she wasn't expecting to see it on a tropical island with this kind of heat. Ice cream. It's ice cream and Sieglinde is a little girl with an unbelievable sweet tooth.

And since her manners tend to break down when confronted with sweets, she just grabs that ice cream and starts shoving it down.

"This is good!" She exclaims, delightedly, with her mouth full of ice cream. The joke about refunds gets a little laugh, as her attention shifts (mostly) away from the ice cream.

"What can you do with fire magic?"

[ohshitsweetflips]

Well as reviews go it's probably about all he can hope for, at least from this weird kid. Kids will eat any garbage especially if it's sweet, but it's not the flavour of the ice cream he ever had doubts of. Gonna get brain freeze, at this rate.

The question is not directed to him, but that's no obstacle. "Mostly murder wildlife, so far. Trust me, kid, she is not specced for this. I'm the real star here," he nods to the ice cream spread, "She just provides the fireworks."

[hellawrath]

Hey how about you stay in your lane Taako, the kid was talking to her. Lup turns up her gaze in a truly expressive eye-roll for being so misrepresented, before winking at the girl. "Yeah, but they're really cool fireworks." Guess what children love at least as much as sweet things? Open flames. She leans back a little and wiggles a finger in her brother's direction, and out shoots a bright mote of flame that very precisely singes the tip of his silly wizard hat. "Pretty useful, huh?"