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logsinthenight2020-01-18 08:56 pm
worthallthis) wrote in logsinthenight2020-01-18 08:56 pm
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Snow Day(s)
characters: Bucky, Misty, Sora, explore buddies, open
location: The Village, and Downtown during this explore, and around Bonfire Square
date/time: January 14, January 15, January 18-19
content: A snowball fight, some CR building on the explore, and yarnbomb boggling
warnings: Frozen ammunition and the usual mild disassociation
I. Snowball fight! - Closed to Sora and Misty, January 14
The blizzard is over, the endless night calm, and there is now freedom to get out of the cabin without being buffeted around by the wind and flurries. It's still cold as hell, but that's bearable enough in the face of being able to be outside without having to force themselves through a patrol. Well, they're going to do that, too, but. Not yet.
First visiting. Checking on the other people in the village. Kicking the snow a little as they tromp on their way through it. Kind of pretty.
II. Going Shopping - Closed to Aziraphale, Angel, Crowley, Steve, and/or Lucius, January 15
The trek through the woods on the way to the new center of Beacon activity is longer than they want it to be. Not as long as traveling through unknown territory, but still a ways, through dark forest and lots of snow. The Soldier circles the group, gun in hand, lantern tied on their back, watching for threats and kicking snow out of their way when they're around the front.
The trek past the hotel and the storefronts is less long and dark, and more slightly creepy. Dead stores, empty streets, the snow... it doesn't make pleasant echoes in the head. The Soldier hovers closer to the other explorers, then. Particularly when people stop for breaks in the travel.
III. Rain of Yarn? - Open, January 18-19
Emerging for their normal patrol the "morning" of the 18th leaves the Soldier baffled. There's yarn. Knitting. Scarves and hats and mittens. Sweaters. Straight-up globs of purely decorative yarn products, even. Everywhere. So weird.
Would have been useful during the actual blizzard last week. But you know. Nice thought. The Soldier prowls around the village and the Invincible collecting it, trying to figure out what to do with it all. Find them scowling at a hat as if trying to convince themselves to put it on, or offering you a particularly nice colored set of mittens they got from some cabin's roof, or trying to decide what one does with a knitted... doily? Is that even what this weird round thing is? So weird.
location: The Village, and Downtown during this explore, and around Bonfire Square
date/time: January 14, January 15, January 18-19
content: A snowball fight, some CR building on the explore, and yarnbomb boggling
warnings: Frozen ammunition and the usual mild disassociation
I. Snowball fight! - Closed to Sora and Misty, January 14
The blizzard is over, the endless night calm, and there is now freedom to get out of the cabin without being buffeted around by the wind and flurries. It's still cold as hell, but that's bearable enough in the face of being able to be outside without having to force themselves through a patrol. Well, they're going to do that, too, but. Not yet.
First visiting. Checking on the other people in the village. Kicking the snow a little as they tromp on their way through it. Kind of pretty.
II. Going Shopping - Closed to Aziraphale, Angel, Crowley, Steve, and/or Lucius, January 15
The trek through the woods on the way to the new center of Beacon activity is longer than they want it to be. Not as long as traveling through unknown territory, but still a ways, through dark forest and lots of snow. The Soldier circles the group, gun in hand, lantern tied on their back, watching for threats and kicking snow out of their way when they're around the front.
The trek past the hotel and the storefronts is less long and dark, and more slightly creepy. Dead stores, empty streets, the snow... it doesn't make pleasant echoes in the head. The Soldier hovers closer to the other explorers, then. Particularly when people stop for breaks in the travel.
III. Rain of Yarn? - Open, January 18-19
Emerging for their normal patrol the "morning" of the 18th leaves the Soldier baffled. There's yarn. Knitting. Scarves and hats and mittens. Sweaters. Straight-up globs of purely decorative yarn products, even. Everywhere. So weird.
Would have been useful during the actual blizzard last week. But you know. Nice thought. The Soldier prowls around the village and the Invincible collecting it, trying to figure out what to do with it all. Find them scowling at a hat as if trying to convince themselves to put it on, or offering you a particularly nice colored set of mittens they got from some cabin's roof, or trying to decide what one does with a knitted... doily? Is that even what this weird round thing is? So weird.
ii.
Leaning against the wall of a particularly unremarkable, dilapidated storefront, he then folds his arms across his chest as though that might warm him a little better. Still, if not for his sailor's uniform and coat, he'd be reminiscent of his former life as a typical teenager, loitering around the town centre, just looking to stir up a little trouble with his friends.
Those days are long, long gone now, and Steve has come out of it a whole lot less ... well, less of an asshole. Also dead. Yeah, we can't forget that either.
He looks towards Bucky's direction, admittedly a little nervous around the guy, what with the gun and no-nonsense-all-business gait of his walk. Seems like a good person to have in a risky excursion like this one, though.
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So they say, "Could use torches. More people."
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Except even then, Starcourt was always a lot less ......... dead.
"I wouldn't usually miss it, but suddenly? I'm feeling a little nostalgic."
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But they do find themselves curious. "Nostalgic. Why?"
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"Yeah, yeah. You know, like when all the store stock comes in and you and your unfortunate coworker are forced to put everything away, make sure the empty tubs are refilled with sprinkles and gummy worms and gumdrops."
He waves to one of the shops that could easily have been a Scoops Ahoy if someone put up a sign and hired a couple of loser high school students and newly-minted grads.
"I used to work in a place like this. Less gritty, less abandoned, but. You know. It kinda reminds me of what it was like."
Being alive.
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But suddenly that reminds them of something. It's an actual honest-to-god picture in their head, the sensation of slinging crates surrounded by the smell of fish and salt and sweaty men. Haven't had one of those in a while that wasn't terrible. They say, the words just kind of popping out without thought, "I used to do that with ships."
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Not that his uniform is the genuine article or anything. A cheesy costume, basically, the his Scoops Ahoy uniform is complete with small emblem of an ice cream cone (two flavours!) and a scuffed up name tag attached to his front reading 'Steve'.
"So, uh. How'd you get a gig like that?"
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Steve didn't mishear that, right?
"Man, you look good for a guy who grew up in the 30's." No, he's aware (mildly) that time difference shenanigans exist in this place. But there's a chance he hasn't really had that conversation with anyone yet.
"They're ripping us off at Scoops Ahoy, you know. We basically get paid pennies, which isn't a big deal when I'm still living with my parents. Or — was. Was living with my parents." Yikes. "I guess it made an okay summer job though."
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Anyway.
"Oh, yeah, Scoops. That's the place I worked last summer before dying and winding up here. It was an ice cream shop at a mall ... that turned out to be a total front for a secret Russian base. So that's cool.
"Mostly it was serving ice cream cones to teenagers who got the summer off. Or kids. I had my own scooper spoon and everything."
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Then, because Steve is clearly American and they're aware America and Russia were not friends for a long time, they explain, "The Russians owned me for a long time. I was sold back to America at some point. Possibly around the 1980s, but I don't remember the specifics."
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He knew the Russians were bad dudes, speaking from actual experience (torture, escape, fistfights, you know, the whole nine yards), but this is new. He feels for the guy, even though that's probably wholly unnecessary. He could probably snap every Russian military soldier in Starcourt Mall's base like a twig if he wanted to. "That's messed up, man. Where are you from originally?"
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It's all a little muddy on account of the drugs they injected into him and his best friend, Robin, but. You know. It was terrifying and screwed up and he was pretty sure he was going to die — but also it was kind of hilarious (probably due to the drugs).
"Well, for what it's worth, I'm sorry the Russians did that to you."
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"What was your Russian base doing?" Because you know what, the Soldier is curious. If it's a base they don't know about, it must have been really top-secret stuff. Or else way too small to handle the Soldier, and thus not included in their programmed list.
im so sorry this is horrendously late!!
But — uh. Yeah. The Soldier asks a question, and it takes Steve a second to refocus his thoughts.
"It's kind of a long story," he admits, shrugging a shoulder. Not that he's trying to be coy or keep it a secret or anything; he's way past that kind of thing, especially when it hardly even matters anymore. "And I'm not sure half of the stuff is really believable. Honestly, it's like stuff in a Spielberg movie."
He lets out a breath.
"Did you have monsters back on your world? And I don't mean like, metaphorical psycho murderers who are still just people. I mean actual creatures-from-the-beyond with too many legs and — I don't know, really sharp teeth."
He's pretty sure the Mindflayer's monstrous concoction had sharp teeth.
it's cool man, I will backtag for ages <3
Well, anyway. The Soldier doesn't know what a Spielburg movie is, but: "I think there might have been aliens. There was a note about my last target fighting aliens in the mission briefing. Don't know what they looked like, though. I may have been frozen for that." And if they weren't, they don't have the memories of it. (Too bad, that would've been neat. Since I doubt they'd sic us on the aliens, I doubt it would've been. Yeah, okay, point.)
really testing your limits of patience here sldkfjds sorry
Steve wonders if the same kind of thing could happen to him back home, had Dustin not come for him and Robin.
Not that the alternative turned out to be awesome either, of course.
"Anyway, I think the big conclusion we all came to was that the Russians were trying to re-open this gateway between our world and some ... upside down version of it. And on the other side there are some really bad things living there, like world-ending things."
wow hi there XD maybe we need a new one sometime too, haha
yes pls! i'd love that muchly
... which doesn't exactly help to refute his earlier belief that this place was actually just some deeper, unexplored level of the Upside Down with very similar rules to the ones he'd been exposed to back in Hawkins.
Not that he can prove it or anything, but the similarities are kind of eery.
"It's definitely been a weird kind of deja vu, winding up in this place."
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