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My name is Max. ([personal profile] theroadwarrior) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2018-04-02 02:11 am

The Bunker of Nariba Relia | OPEN PLOT MINGLE POST

Who: Everyone!!
Broadcast: N/A
Action: The bunker in the surrounding desert.
When: Sometime recently, see this post for full information. Below is the excerpt of information listed there. Feel free to make a top comment and thread out the sad truth and whatnot.

[Records buried in the library, the research facility, and cues from the power plant will eventually reveal the bunker in the surrounding desert. The passageway leads several yards underground, and it doesn’t appear to have been used in a long time. Those brave enough to venture inside will find that it is not much more than a tomb. Eerily enough, the emergency lights are still on, casting a soft red glow over sheets and the once-bodies beneath them.

It has been long enough that paper journals, books, and personal belongings (like bags and such) have deteriorated to the point of being extremely fragile. Handled with care, however, they are eager to tell a story.

“The engineers should have been more careful. I’m not sure I’ll be able to recoup my losses from this… At least I have enough money to buy a ride off this planet!”

“No one could have known this would happen. Hopefully it stabilizes so we can go home soon. In the meantime, I’ve been teaching my daughter how to count. She doesn’t understand what’s going on, and I don’t know what to tell her.”

“It’s not getting better. So many people have died that we’re running out of room in the morgue. We had to move all of the food to another room so that the smell doesn’t leach out, but we all know what’s back there.”

“The replicator was supposed to repair us, too.”

“I don’t know if we can go back yet, but it doesn’t matter. Even if the city was back to the way it was, there’s no cure for us. The dead are dead, and we lay down next to them as we wait for our turn.”

There is nothing that can be done for these people except to give them the eternal rest they deserve. Ultimately, the fate of Nariba Relia is a sad one and not altogether preventable.]
watermarks: (Oh? | Curious | Mild Concern)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-06 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, it's working. True to form, Katara has a dozen questions. She's just not sure what she should ask - what would be helpfpul at the moment.]

...what else would make this a good day?

[Is there anything at all that she can do to help?]
privateeyed: (so i dance around it)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-06 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[of course, it working immediately backfires on him. His nose scrunches up as he makes a face]

What - I don't know, it's just a saying, you know?
watermarks: (Heh | Well - Maybe | Listening)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-06 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[...heh.] No, not really. But that happens sometimes.

...I wish this place had an ocean.
Edited 2018-04-06 20:25 (UTC)
privateeyed: (and on and on and on)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-06 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
An ocean? [...] Shame it doesn't. Be a nice change from the - desert and the stupid empty houses and shit.
watermarks: (Windblown [and torn])

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-06 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. And - [this might seem disrespectful, but it's not, really, she swears] - I'd love to go surfing right now.
privateeyed: (the time has come to change my ways)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Surfing? Really? [of all the things she could have said, that wasn't one he expected] Maybe the next place'll have an ocean.
watermarks: (Profile | Looking Inward)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods.] It's one of my favorite things to do. And I just feel like...

[She needed to do something life-affirming. It was horrible, the way those people had died - so many of them. But she was still alive, and she wasn't the sort of person to drink to forget - so she really, really wanted to do something else.] ...I'm saying this all wrong.

[In an uncharacteristic gesture of uncertainty, she ran her hand through her hair.]
privateeyed: (we just gotta hold on)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, it just sounds like you don't want to say what it really is.

[because boy, does he understand. He scratches at his cheek for a moment, mulling over what he wants to say next. It's one of those things where he has to be . . . delicate, and that's not something he excels at]

But I get it - you want to do something that'll get all the bad shit out of your head, something you can do where you don't have to think. [with a snort] Mindless shit.
watermarks: (Wry | Soft | I Could Be Wrong)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, something like that. [She takes a deep breath and says what it is.] Something that reminds me I'm alive.

[...]

Even if I'm here. Even if - all that happened. I want to remember, and I want to go back and see if I can get Aang or Sokka to help me put together a memorial outside it, because I think it's important that these people be remembered. And I'll probably grieve about them some more later, but right now... I don't know... it's just what I wish.
privateeyed: (i'll find a way)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Then do you first. [he shrugs, because it makes complete sense to him] I mean, it's nice you want to do all that for them, but - can't do shit if you don't sort yourself out.

Can't surf here, but maybe there's something else. [...] Don't suppose you're a drinker, are you? [Ben you're not a drinker don't encourage other people to drink]
watermarks: (Heh | Well | "You")

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
No. [Bleck.] Though I can't say I've ever tried.

[She's just not a big fan of the concept. She's had to deal with people losing control and going crazy stupid due drinking, and she just... doesn't see how it would help.]
privateeyed: (pic#12187424)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, well, I was gonna let you drink me under the table to make you feel better, but if you haven't tried it before—

[he shrugs]
watermarks: (Heh | A Little Bit Sly)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[...heh.]

...maybe just some ice cream.
Edited 2018-04-07 03:46 (UTC)
privateeyed: (i think they got it all wrong)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's probably safer. I mean, you're probably a lightweight anyway.

[Ben no]
watermarks: (Uh-HUH)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[...

A slow eyebrow raise.]


What's that supposed to mean?
privateeyed: (pic#12178924)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
You know exactly what it means.

[Ben no]
watermarks: (Do You Think I'm Stupid?)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[...she has an older brother, you know. She KNOWS what you're doing.]

Didn't you just say I would 'drink you under the table?'
privateeyed: (pic#12187394)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[he has no siblings but he sure is good at starting shit]

I said I would let you drink me under the table.
watermarks: (Mmmhmm)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ha!

[Yup, that's it, that's all she feels is necessary to say right now.]
privateeyed: (pic#12181901)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[he really should stop while he's ahead - ]

But again, you're probably a lightweight, so it won't happen.

[nnnaaaaah]
watermarks: (Wry | Soft | And a Little Smug)

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[She just doesn't like the way that word sounds, okay? It gets a twitch out of her.]

Probably not. [Simple agreement. And, you know, if she could have just left it there...] Since I don't see the point in doing something like that anyway.
privateeyed: (pic#12178923)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, of course. [you shouldn't have twitched, Katara. Don't show weakness] Lot of people don't see the point in doing something they can't do. I get it.
watermarks: (Err? | Say What?)

1/2

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[YOU DARE]
watermarks: (Hmph | You Are Kidding Me)

2/2

[personal profile] watermarks 2018-04-07 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if I can do it or not; that's the point. I haven't tried it. And if I was going to try it, it probably wouldn't be on a desert planet, with the known effect alcohol has on hydration, on top of being in a completely alien and uncertain situation.

[SO. We've gotten to the Give Reasons Stage. This can only go well.]
privateeyed: (everything has come to life)

[personal profile] privateeyed 2018-04-07 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[this is going so, so well]

That sounds like a shitload of excuses to me. Got any more? I'll let you keep going if you want.

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