airfield base mingle!

[hyakuoku]

WHO: Anyone who comes to Team Science's base (aka the airfield)
WHAT: whatever shenanigans, help Senku make soap or explosives or whatever, look at the hotel, mingle
WHEN: Day 10 - Day 13
WHERE: The base is IX.X.11 but probably within reasonable distance of here
WARNINGS: None, please lmk on plurk if I need to add any bc I'm turning comments off as soon as I post this and my top level comment
NOTES:
Senku is alone here on Day 10, but the rest of Team Science (Randvi and K, and I think Zam now) will come on Day 11. Idk when anyone else gets here.
If you want to mess with Senku's inventory or his science things please work that out with me OOCly first! Inventory is here and I try to keep it updated.


By the end of day 10, thanks to the clay already acquired, Senku has built a rudimentary clay oven over a dug out fire pit. It's not much. He's using this to bake the ingredients necessary for soap, which he's glad to talk about.

By day 12, he should have also built a distiller. It does what you think: makes alcohol! It's not up and running yet because he has nothing to make alcohol with (unless someone brings him something or he finds something suitable; stay tuned), but it will exist!

He draws this roadmap in the sand/dirt every day (or leaves it if it's still legible). It's pretty big, so it would be visible.

He's probably cooking seaweed down and/or crushing seashells on any of these days.

Senku will enlist anyone's help with labour. He has absolutely no hesitation about doing this. He will straight up ask or he will bribe or he will trick people into doing things if that's what it takes. You need a stupid task for a character? Go on a little scavenger hunt mission? Crush some seashells? Make some soap? Stir a pot? He's got you. He's not shy in any way. You can interact with him at his top level or you have my full permission to assume Senku just assigned your character a task. He won't argue about it endlessly, though; if someone doesn't want to do something and he can't easily convince/trick them into it, he'll just shrug emoji and find someone/something else.

(If you're wondering about SOAP, he just has a little bar which is almost certainly down to, like, nothing. He won't share. He's making more but it will take a few days after the oven is built to actually, you know, become soap.)

If you've ever heard him talk on the network (he does it a lot!) and he's mentioned petrification or the Medusa, you can ask him about that too. He does have the Medusa device on him (it's nonfunctional for now?) and is fairly likely to show it to people he's talked to before.

Note: the one thing in his inventory that he just keeps on him and doesn't leave out anywhere is sufuric acid. IT'S DANGEROUS and he's aware of that, plus he doesn't have a ton of it. (It's one of his faves tho.)

Please leave your own top levels and mingles on this post! Specify what day(s) your character is here and go nuts like any other mingle post.

Questions and plots, hmu at boywonder.

Comments

[sharktrash]

[ They probably can't... not that Squalo has said who he is, necessarily. On the bright side, he's a genuine team player when it matters, so it's not all bad. ]

[ He grins at her reaction, happily handing over the flowers, looking pretty damn pleased with himself. Although his expression does momentarily shift into a frown afterward. He's gleaned enough about vikings from popular culture to have a guess why she'd promise something like that, which seems impossible in a place like this, but... ]

That's a custom of your people, yeah? Guests' right or somethin'? [ Except this island had a ton of unfamiliar dangers, it seems. ] It's a big task for one person.

[meadqueen]

On the surface it's different, but in many ways this place is similar to Norway. The climate is harsh, the animals and bandits on the road are dangerous. If people avoid shelter because it feels unsafe, they won't survive.

Perhaps it is a big task, but it's necessary to me.

[sharktrash]

I've no complaints about the weather. [ At least there's no snow or immediate threat of hypothermia here. But then, finding clean water is probably more difficult here. ] The place does leave some things to be desired though.

What if some complete asshole shows up?

[ Thinking about Ben here :) ]

[meadqueen]

[Randvi knows how to handle snow and cold. The climate here is stupid and she hates it. No one should sweat this much]

It's lovely to look at, but much too hot. I don't know why anyone would come here for fun.

[Ben is an idiot and a coward, but she really doesn't think he's violent. Aside from a few scares with new people, the ones with radios haven't been that bad so far and she's aiming to keep it that way]

If anyone won't respect the peace here, they'll answer to me.

[It looks decorative (it was a wedding present) but her hammer has tasted the blood of people who have threatened the safety of her settlement in the past.]

[sharktrash]

[ Squalo knows how to handle Mediterranean heat, so he's probably better off in that regard, but he still laments the lack of deodorant and real toothpaste. He didn't sign up for a shitty Survivor knock-off. ]

People get used to different temperatures. This is close to my hometown in summer. [ He gives her a half-smirk. ] But you've got a point. Folks who travel to these places for fun usually spend half the day in the water and have cool drinks served to them the entire time.

[ It seems he has a dilemma, though. He definitely wants to beat up Ben for causing damages to his reputation, but he definitely doesn't want to piss off Randvi in the process. Okay, maybe it would get him an actual fight from her, but he wants her to like him while they try to kill each other! ]

What if they didn't respect the peace earlier? Shouldn't they still be held responsible?

[meadqueen]

It is difficult to imagine. Even England in summer is a bit much for me.

[Though to be fair at home she is wearing fur and wool over what she's got on now]

Where are you from? A place like this?

[Regarding his second point, Levi is kidnapping Senku basically as they speak so she's going to need to figure it out. For now, her eyes narrow in suspicion]

Such a thing has not yet happened here, to my knowledge. I can only enforce peace in the village, you're correct about the island being too large. Has someone wronged you, Squalo? Or are you speaking in theory.

[sharktrash]

[ The bleak and rainy England? Lord have mercy on her soul. ]

Not quite. I'd say it's about inbetween your home and this.

[ Sicily definitely didn't have jungle, at least. ]

[ Hopefully she figures it out in a way that benefits Squalo, then. ]

Let's say there's a guy who insulted my honor that I'm itching to punch. [ Possibly more than one, but considering the other one is a kid, he'll not advertise that for now. ] I can take him out into the jungle if that works better?..

[ He's willing to compromise!.. ]

[meadqueen]

[Randvi sighs deeply]

Yes, that is better. If he is here, I would ask that you challenge him directly rather than ambushing him in the forest.

[sharktrash]

Oi, is that how little you think of me? I said nothing about ambushing.

[ He might be a murderer for hire, but his sportsmanship is excellent, actually! Professionals have standards. Hell, he's been known to improve the odds of his enemy if it looked like the fight wouldn't be entertaining enough otherwise. ]

[meadqueen]

Even in my own time warriors sometimes get a little hotheaded and forget the difference between dueling and brawling.

[sharktrash]

[ Squalo exhales a little loudly in a huff but seems to accept that explanation. ]

Fair enough. But don't worry, I intend for him to have a very good look at me before I-- [ kill him ] --give him a piece of my mind. Otherwise, what's the point?

[meadqueen]

[She’s not at the point where she knows what this is about yet, but she remembers enough about all that yelling early on to make a guess]

I see. I hope this matter between you is easily resolved.

[sharktrash]

Thanks. I hope so too.

[ He gives her an easy grin before gesturing at her... sandcastle pail or whatever. ]

Going fishing?

[meadqueen]

I'm going to set my snares, though I think there may be enough activity here now to scare the game away.

This is for carrying things I find. Especially things that are dangerous to carry in other ways, such as scrap metal and broken glass, but also fragile things like eggs.

[sharktrash]

Yeah, might need to set them further out.

That's a lucky find, though. It took me like, a week to get anything to even carry some water in.

[ So he'd just... not drink the entire day until he found a clean looking stream. Fun times! Good thing he's stubborn and in good health, but that was pushing it still. ]

...Hey, you ought to know some things about ships, right?

[ Obviously not all vikings were ship builders, but he imagines there's a certain level of expertise most would share simply thanks to their lifestyle. ]

[meadqueen]

Yes, I was lucky to find this location so early. Despite the damage of ages the items here were intended for human use.

[She had pans for cooking by like, Day 3]

I do in fact know some things about ships, though it's been several winters since I've sailed. What did you want to know?

[sharktrash]

Glad it was you 'nd not some asshole who would've just kept it to himself.

[ Like himself, probably. He doesn't know enough about Ben to make that assumption. But anyway. ]

[ His grin widens with excitement. ]

Great. Okay, so, say I wanna build a raft. What kind of trees would I best look for?

[meadqueen]

Ah, you've found the danger you wish to hurl yourself into, I see.

I'm not familiar with a lot of the trees here, but you will want a wood that is less dense. Something like pine. This will float better. It may improve even further if you remove the bark and let them dry in the sun.

[sharktrash]

Just one of them. [ He gives her another grin and a wink. ]

Right. 'Nd they should be straight and not too thick, right? How do I know about density? Is it the sound they make?

[ He makes a gesture of knocking on wood with a tool. ]

[meadqueen]

Right. As straight as possible, and about four hands across. You can sometimes tell by the pitch of the knock, but also if you cut a tree that feels much heavier than the others, you can bring it to us for firewood instead.

[sharktrash]

[ He listens, taking it all to memory. Sounds like he'll mostly have to find out by doing, but that should be fine. It's not like he's on a time limit right now. ]

'Kay. Mind giving me some direction on how to build it later? I mean, I know the "put logs together" part, but I imagine you've got more on that.

[ It's a date,, ;) ]

[meadqueen]

[Randvi pictures all of the logs just floating loose next to one another and laughs]

Of course. You know where to find me.

[sharktrash]

Great. Talk to you later.

[ He'll leave her to her tasks then and go off start chopping down them trees with renewed confidence. This was going to work excellently! ]