Post Crab Rave Airfield Log | Open

[meadqueen]

WHO: Anyone at the airfield
WHAT: All raves must end eventually. Cleaning up hundreds of deceased crabs, repairs, weapons training etc
WHEN: Day 29 onward
WHERE: IX.T.9
WARNINGS: dead crabs, mild injury descriptions, discussion of war and violence
NOTES: Feel free to top level on here!

There is a lot going on at the airfield, with post-storm cleanup still ongoing and now crab-related destruction to repair. Exploration teams are coming and going, and there is often sparring or weapons training going on in the central square.

Comments

[ichoosefight]

Love the shades.

[ Steph is doing much the same thing, but she spotted that outfit a mile away and knew she had to make her formal greetings. ]

Dirk, right?

[timaeus]

Nailed it.

[Who else would be wearing such awesome shades? Only a Strider. But she can be forgiven for not knowing that outright since this island has been pretty bereft of Striders. He carries on with his work cleaning up – despite very slightly favoring one leg, but fuck off, his injury was days ago and he's mostly healed – while mentally running through the list of people he'd met on the network and cross-referencing it with those he's already met in person and those that seemed younger and female.]

I'm guessing you're Steph?

[ichoosefight]

You got it!

[ And she's even sunnier in person. She's not sporting any kind of injuries now, though both her jeans and long-sleeved shirt are starting to get holes in them. She continues clean-up duty, though not as diligently as she could. She isn't here to poach his crabs (pun always intended), and she's definitely not here because there aren't more crabs elsewhere. ]

How are you liking the airfield so far? Better, or worse than actual civilization?

[timaeus]

[He gives a slight shrug, by all appearances chill as can be.]

I'm not sure how much anything I've experienced so far counts as civilization. This place and the Pacair's village are currently duking it out for "closest thing to actual civilization I've ever been in", and it's a pretty even match-up.

[ichoosefight]

I'd say we're not organized enough to count as 'civilisation'. The Pacairs have like, leaders and stuff, right?

[timaeus]

And we don't? I thought the viking lady was in charge. Or the guy with the anime hair.

[He's throwing some pretty massive stones in a glass house given his choice of eyewear.]

[ichoosefight]

[ Still, she snorts. His hair is pretty anime, isn't it? ]

I don't think Senku is aware enough of other people to be in charge of anyone. Randvi, maybe. But if she's our leader nobody told me about it.

[timaeus]

Does a real leader need to be announced? People will follow the lead of the person best suited for the job regardless of what anyone says, eager to hand off all responsibility to whoever exudes the most authority.

[For a moment, Dirk remembers all his assertions from before the game about leadership and how he would be the one really pulling the strings behind the scenes, etc etc. It's frankly embarrassing to think about now given how shit went. The corner of his mouth twitches slightly – an open grimace by Dirk standards – and he takes it out on a crab with a particularly pointed stab, before turning back to unload his stickful of shellfish corpses. He's got one of the tarps from the supply pile spread on on a clear section of the ground and he leans the end of his stick on it, planting a foot on the topmost speared crab and sliding the lot of them off into a tidy pile.]

[ichoosefight]

[ For a moment she's torn between annoyance and fond amusement at his very serious response to a line of mostly-joking questioning. She finds herself smiling wryly at the memory of poking Tim's cheek whenever he started to sound like an essay instead of a person. Luckily she isn't looking directly at Dirk when she notices, and she's able to school her expression into something a little less... affectionate. ]

I dunno. I like to keep track of who I'm ignoring, at least.

[timaeus]

[It's serious, but also joking. Saying it in the driest manner possible is part of the joke – but at the same time, sincerely meaning it despite joking is also the joke. This is Strider 101. Better start taking notes, motherfucker.]

Oh, I'm keeping track. I've quantified everyone's leaderly attributes, crunched the numbers, and come to the conclusion that I'm not listening to any of y'all.

[This is also a joke. Is it more obvious? Debatable.]

[ichoosefight]

[ Joke or not, she snorts. ]

I dunno about your math, but that's probably the right call.