Lady Absinthia

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Another round of skipping ahead slightly. NPC's are assumed to be mulling about like extra's in a tv show. If you need to interact, go ahead. If you have a specific question feel free to ask. This post is going to be.. off. (Anniversary of the day my mother died and I didn't realize it until this morning, so needless to say my mind isn't in writing today but funny, she was an author, so I guess it is fitting that I am writing today. Anywho, there it is. Bear with me.) Next week we should be within a round to change days and maybe skip ahead to the court martial unless anyone has anything specific. Oh and the whole DnD thing in the camp - that WILL be a real thing! We will be hosting an RP within an RP and ANYONE is welcome to have their character host one! Sessions will be done in a special chat room in discord and you will be Rping out in collab your PC's reactions to their own characters! Please remember DnD was only up to 3rd edition at the time of virus beginning. Other systems are welcome as well. I will be using Nightlife, which is the system that gave me the idea for how we are now handling skills! So get ready, we are about to Inception the fuck out of this RP!)

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Streets of CMB: The sun is nearly all the way set but there is still an orange haze being as it is twilight. The air is starting to cool but it is still hot and humid. Being that it is summer in Florida it isn't ever really going to be cool during the nights, merely tolerable. People are out more now that dinner is wrapping up. Where kids were playing soccer and kickball before they are more mellow now, sitting in grassy places talking or playing card games like Magic the Gathering. Little groups form at tables or in open spots, people chatting and hanging out in the early evening air. Like seems rather calm all things considered.

Several women are sitting out on porches in front of their ground floor apartments, they are cross stitching and preparing quilting squares as they rock back and forth in their chairs. One can see several armed people here and there making their rounds, on the walls every fifty feet or so are more heavily armed guards manning their posts and keeping an eye out on the world on the other side of the wall.

Lights are starting to be turned on in homes and buildings that are still open. Places like the Education Center, admin, and the hospital are more lit than other buildings and seem to stay that way. Joaquin and Atticus have headed back to the church by now. Michael is finally leaving the hospital with Mary, the two are catching a later dinner than others. Maddoc and Mizrahi are just south of the Education Center in the middle of a fight. It doesn't look to be something angry but more of a sparring session between the two. Mizrahi is faster and stronger than Maddoc but the elder has experience and is more than holding his own.

Aeron looked over to Alexander and gave a grandfatherly smile. "I don't think he would mind, he had listened to myself many night." Motioning with his cane towards the Education Center with its lights on before continuing in that direction. "He is more understanding that many of the cloth that I have met. He did serve as well, hot zones in the middle east. Self proclaimed Battle Priest. I think that is good here, since so many have served. He understands the life and choices we had to make." As they got closer to the buildings Aeron chuckled. "Oh no, Edna makes sure everything is in order. She likes to keep things in order, has even organized everything according to the Dewy Decimal System. Things such as articles and pictures we old birds used to keep as reminders are now one of the few things left of the more current histories. For her, they are educational material and taken care of as such," he said as they reached the center. It was unlocked and one of two were milling about in the general area. Inside they would need to ahead across the main foyer and to one side before finding the library. It was impressive, walls and shelves full of books, filling up what had to have been three or four rooms originally before the walls were knocked down. "This way, there is storage in the basement for our older items that might be sensitive to the light that is coming in the windows during the day," he added before heading to a door marked archives. This door was locked. Reaching into his pocket he started to fish for his keys.

Mess Hall (C): Rosie looked over to Manny and nodded, giving a little wave with the fork still in her hand. Looking back over at Amelia she grinned. "Well we got a library that's fer sure." Stabbing at her food, she continued. "It wasn't much more than what we could collect from around the houses and condos here for a long time but once we got situated the General had us, if not really looking for reading material, collecting it if we ran across it. We've been able to raid a lot of book stores and college stores in our territory." Shrugging she took another bite of her food. Nodding, she did to the same to Amelia as she had done to Manny, a little wave goodbye with her fork still in her hand. Rosie obviously didn't pause long between bites, eating so quickly had to have an affect on her stomach, or at least some in camp might say that.

"See ya later Sportacus," Rosie chuckled as he headed out before she went back to trying to get the last bits of food off her tray. She wasn't one to let anything be left behind. Though she considered it as Sheers came over and sat down next to her with a tray of food. If one were to notice Edna right then she was snickering from behind her glass of water. She knew Rosie only tolerated Sheers and just barely.

The Major nodded slightly. "I vould say curiosity kills the cat but I've yet to see it," she said as she stared at Thalia. She seemed to pause, taking the girl in, looking her over. It was much the way that Macsen looked at people but at least when Macsen did it didn't set people off. The Major had no such bedside, or in this case tableside manner. When she looked at someone, wanting to read them it was was cold. She didn't hide it, one could tell she was weighing things out in her mind. It was cold and a bit creepy. One couldn't tell if she was going to finally snap or devour the person she was looking at. After a long uncomfortable moment she finally spoke again. "I vill put you on D Roster. Tomorrov. 2000 hours, open field south of Education Building they vill meet for training." Standing up she picked up her tray. "If you are late, you vill not get another chance." It was a flat delivery void of opinion. It was fact, as much as two plus two equaled four. A curt nod and the Major turned to go bus her tray.

General Housing (X): Back in housing and more specifically in Lisa and Nikki's shared apartment, things are calm. Izi is taking it easy. Glad to be out of the single room, granted she is more used to being out in the open a lot but at least now she can get up and walk around a bit before settling back down. She is a little lethargic but that is to be expected. She has an owner, one she is used to, and used to be outside in the wild. But dogs will be dogs and air conditioning with a soft couch is a lot better to lay down in than the heat and woods.

Jail (AA): Down in the cell, things are calm. Nothing is coming out of cracks in the wall and scurrying across the ground right now, which is probably a good thing. The smell if cleaner hangs in the air but a low rumble starts up and a fan kicks on, air starts circulating from the air vents outside of the cell. The air is cool and clean and it helping to get rid of the smell of bleach and disinfectant.

Upstairs, the radio crackles and Cage answers it, it's Macsen. "Yeah." "Hell of a request." "Within my authority." "Mhmm." "Don't give me that shit, you going to approve it or not?" "Yes." "Good." The crackle goes silent and Cage places the radio back down before rubbing his face. He was going to pay for this and he knew it. Nothing was free, especially these days.

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Thana Martin Location: Beach (L11) Skills: N/A

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At that moment there wasn't really anything for Thana to say. Ash spoke and she listened. More than listening though she felt his arms around her. It was warm and comforting, even though it was still hot right then outside she didn't mind. She knew she could have broke out in a sweat and she still wouldn't pull away. Leaning more against him she simply nodded. Wherever he was at was her home as well. Now that he was here it finally was starting to feel like a home.

Home, something most didn't have these days. Then again, thinking on it, Thana could remember plenty of times that she didn't feel like she had a home. Growing up, thanks to her now dead sister, her parents house never felt like home. Maybe it would have been different if her father had been around more but he wasn't. He was serving, he was gone most of the time. Long stretches away, leaving her to fend for herself as her mother and sister teamed up against her. The Spare as they liked to call it. It wasn't until after she joined the Navy that she had felt like she had a home. She fit in there, oddly enough. it didn't matter that she was shipped out all over the world, serving felt like home. Her team was family.

Then the world ended and she tried to hang on to that home but it was lost. Finding Newnan was a fluke. And it wasn't home but it was the start of something. Glancing over to Ash out of the corner of her eye she remembered seeing him the first time up close. Snow covered the ground, she was let in through the front gate. People seemed confused. Ash looked at her like he had seen a ghost and quickly told her to cover her face. It was a very confusing way to start. Granted it was made clear after he got her stashed away from the sight of the others. She had wondered if it was needed, then seeing how people reacted to her she understood that it had been. Things only got more difficult from there.

No, Newnan had never been home. There wasn't time for it to become a home. Then again, Thana felt it never would be home. Even with Ash there. There was a ghost that haunted her presence there. People saw her but thought of someone else. Someone who was and was not real. Sure they had been but what they showed people she till wondered if it was true or was it just another well placed facade. Shaking off the thought Thana leaned in more to Ash as she looked out over the water, seeing the waves creep up on the shore. No, this was home now. Ash was here, the ghost of siblings past wasn't. Thalia, Alexander, Manny were here. Yes she had her grandfather and uncle and dad but even they weren't as close to her as her new family. CMB was home, for now. If they one day had to leave home would be wherever they went, as long as they went together.

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Nikola Warren Location: Admin (A) -> General Housing (X) Skills: N/A

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Nikki sat there, well sitting was a bad way to describe it. It was more like she was slumped there in the chair, like a rag dog that had been tossed onto a seat and just fell into whatever position gravity would have her lay. Slack and boneless, enough to where she was slowly sliding out of the seat towards the ground as she waited for Gunny and Cage to have their little call on the radio. She could hear both ends thanks to it being a radio instead of a phone. So before Gunny even looked at her and gave her the okay she already knew what the answer was. That didn't stop her from sliding out of her seat fully and onto the ground.

It wasn't until after the so called call was over that she fell forward and finally stood up. "Ugh fine... But I want extra credit for this shit," she grumbled as she headed for the door. She didn't bother to look back and see if Gunny had anything else to say. She knew what she had to go and do now. It was eating into her time eating and she did like to eat. Granted everyone did these days. She just hoped a tray would be set aside for her and that someone hid said tray from Dusty so she would at least get dinner.

That would have to wait though. First things first, she needed to walk Izi. The dog had been inside for a while now. Then she would make sure to grab her skateboard to since she had to finish up and head back to the jail again to drop things off for Cage. Groaning she double timed it back to the apartment and headed inside. Smiling she noted the note was gone and could hear the showing running. "Taking the god for a walk and still working! Be back later!" she yelled after knocking on the door to the bathroom. She hoped Lisa would hear her. Grabbing the leash and a baggie she hooked the leash to Izi. She nearly got out the door before remembering she needed her skateboard. Reaching into the hall closet she grabbed it before heading out the door real fast and closing it behind her.

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Alright skipping ahead a little just to cover some ground with this post. If you need to move your character we are just going to assume they can get to where they need to go this round even if it is on the other side of the camp. Just makes things easier to move forward. Forgive me if it is off in any way, it's been a week! If I ended up missing anything big or screwed something up please let me know so I can address it. Remember you can use nameless npcs to get things rolling for you. Riv, you still have control of Riley if you need to take care of something or the other for now. Other than that I think that covers everything.

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Mess Hall (C): NPC's not directly interacting with PC's this round will be assumed to continue their private conversations and meals unless they are directly addressed. (Sorry, pushing through right now.)

Rosie nodded somewhat as she listened, giving a shrug or a motion of her fork as Manny spoke, inbetween shoveling food into her mouth and chewing. "Exactly, few people are totally gone but hey, never know, why we gots people that can, well for lack of a better term, sense people," she said motioning over and then stopping. "Well shit he ain't in here," she said before looking back and shrugging again. Looking at Amelia she nodded. "Well we got plenty, raided an old game store in Tallahassee a couple of years ago. We stripped the place clean, so we got books on books about gaming. Comics too if ya like that," Rosie said with a big grin before putting her fork down and rolling up her sleeve a bit, there was a tattoo of the original Iron Man design just above her elbow. The tattoo looked like it had probably been on her skin since before Amelia was born, there was another one, a more ninety's version of Iron man next to it but the ink looked new, like it was still healing. Looking back at Nigel she chuckled. "What I mean is even wrong acts don't mean yer gone, it's what's inside. If ya really want to know, check the records in the library, every trial we've had is there for public record," she said motioning towards the door. "And hell yeah you're welcome. Just need an open mind, paper, pencil, and dice," she said with a big grin.

The Major sat there, quietly eating her meal as Thalia answered the question. It didn't seem to move her one way or the other. It didn't even seem like she was paying attention for a moment, that was until she brought her eyes back to Thalia. "Good answer." It was flat and dryly delivered in a thick Russian accent. At the question she nodded. "Yes but only so much as a report. Breached this location, targets acquired, number killed, names of team that died, so forth. Vas like most military reports. She vill not talk about it much," she said before taking another bite. "Vhy, is there something that I should knov?" she asked as she finished the bite and locked eyes with Thalia.

Aeron chuckled a bit. "Yes, very odd," he said to Thalia's laughing. It did seem a bit off. He had known her brother for some time now and even as jovial as that man was he didn't laugh like that. From what Atticus had told him of the family, no one did. So it struck an odd chord with most in the room. Looking back at Alexander he shook his head. "Well they have more than one a week but today's is over," he said motioning towards Atticus. "He hosts the group sessions at the church, though I am sure if you would like to talk with him later this evenin' he would be willing. He keeps later hours than most during the week," he added before heading out and taking in the night air. He had promised to show Alexander some photos and such over at the education center, so he headed that way.

General Housing (X): Everything in the housing is just fine right now. Nikki left a note taped to the outside of the door of hers and Lisa's apartment - Dog is in my room, had to take, Hunter thrown in jail. Will fill in more. If it is after seven, please walk Izi, if not she should be fine. Nikki - That was it. Inside Izi would bark a few when the front door opened but she will calm down quickly. You can let her out, she will be fine. It's before seven currently so she doesn't need to be walked. If let out in the main part of the apartment, she didn't bother Nikki's room, but it looks like she curled up on the bed. Out in the living room she will just walk around sniffing a lot before jumping on the couch and curling up. She won't want to get down.

Jail (AA): "Just hurry," Cage called out to Nikki as she ran off. Looking at his watch he figured it would take her a bit of time to get to where she as going and getting back. Turning around he walked back into the house that had been turned into a jail. He still had an hour technically on shift before he would be given some down time but all things considered he figured that it wasn't going to end up being the down time he had really hoped for.

Stepping back inside he looked over the place before heading into office at the back and checking something. There was a desk in the room as well as several monitors behind it. It was quiet in there and he couldn't hear anything from what he saw on the screens but he could see what was going on. Seeing Hunter laying there he figured he'd give the kid some time. Things were calm down there and it didn't look like the kid had offed himself, at least he didn't think he had. There wasn't blood pooling up under the cot. All things considered, it was about as good as it could get right then.

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Thana Martin Location: Mess Hall (C) -> Beach (L11) Skills: N/A

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Thana smirked a bit at the mention that Thalia was her friend. Glancing back towards Ash she chuckled. "Yup, which means I ain't a target or at least all I gotta do is out run you," she teased before making a break for it and running. She hadn't gotten a chance to run a lot lately and while her leg was hurting and stiff it didn't stop her. She wasn't exactly pushing herself at a breakneck speed but the limp was more noticeable as she ran. Despite the pain she liked getting out a nice stretch of sprinting in. It felt better than it did bad right then.

Rushing down onto the beach she glanced around. Place was pretty empty here. It was busier down a way towards where the waterway was in one direction and by the pier in the other. Stopping Thana plopped herself down in the sand and started untying her boots. The air was warm, not hot anymore but the sand had cooled off quickly now that the sun was setting. It felt nice and she wanted to get that feeling over her toes. Plus sand would get everywhere anyways, so might as well just skip the middle man and take them off now.

Letting out a long breath she looked over and laid eyes on Ash, smiling slightly. "Gonna tell ya something," she said before going back to her boots. "First time I met ya." Pulling one boot off and then the other. "Ya reminded me of somethang." Off came one sock and she stuffed it into a boot. "Couldn't put my finger on it fer the longest time." The other sock came off and went into the other boot. "First time I came out here, I knew what it was." Thana motioned towards the water. "In the winter, when its calm, and the sun hits it just right." Looking back to Ash she smiled softly. "It's the same color as yer eyes." Sighing a bit she looked back out over the water as she pulled her knees up and draped her arms over them. "Why I had to leave. Couldn't keep lookin' at them waters every day and not know." It was a hell of a confession.

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Nikola Warren Location: Streets of CMB (O2) -> Admin (A) Skills: N/A

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Nikki cussed under her breath as she jogged from the Jail towards Admin. It was a hell of a sprint and Nikki wasn't the most in shape person on the base. Not that she was out of shape but she wasn't a runner, she was a skate boarder. She was more used to keeping her balance than actually using her lungs to push forward. Her legs were in good shape, skateboarding did that, but again, skateboarding wasn't running. She wished she had brought her skateboard with her, but she didn't think she would be put on this damned goose chase by Cage. That would teach her, take the skateboard everywhere because it will keep your ass from running. That or she could start running, fuck that. She'd rather carry a skateboard everywhere than try running.

Huffing and puffing by the time she got to the admin she slammed against the front door a little harder than she had expected to. Rolo was in there and looked confused, that was until she was handed the paper Cage had given Nikki. Nikki normally would have just spat out what was going on but she was still sucking eggs from running. Taking the note back when it was handed to her, she went into the back as Rolo buzzed her through. Heading down the hallway, beads of sweat rolling down her flushed face she went right into the open door that was Gunny's office.

"From... Cage," Nikki huffed as she tossed the paper down on the desk and flopped down onto the floor. Sprawling out on the cold tile floor, Nikki coughed a little and then took a deep breath. Like hell she was running around anymore tonight. If they wanted her to do something that was fine but they had better give her a golf cart of something, that or give her time to get her skateboard. Running, fuck that, she was done.

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Alright peeps, let's see what we can do about getting done with dinner for the PC's this round. If we can muster that up we can get the day wrapped up in a round or two after that and move this story forward. If you haven't already contact people are possible story arcs or relations, start hopping on that. Keep in mind your characters current personality and where you want them to go if possible, as well if you think you can pull it off rp wise. Feel free to drop me a line to discuss some ideas. Also, are there a few ideas you have for some NPC's? either current or ones you would like to see added that could become actual PC's later on, let me know. Slow opening this more and more to player control now that we have a good foundation for skills and upping those. Depending on what your character does will determine their next amount of skill points to dump into existing skills, some will be getting new skills depending on what you do or try to do in Rp. As always, if you have an idea let me know. One more thing! There is a spin off Rp in the works that will take place PRE-Walker outbreak, I'm talking 60/70's. It wouldn't be a direct connect but does have potential for you to try a character study to see how your character could develop differently in different circumstances. Please note this is way in the future yet if you are interested in a Vietnam Era middle of the war - raging Age of Aquarius RP, drop me a line!

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Mess Hall (C): "Hey, both of you should join. Get you back into the game and well you, hell you could use some down time," Rosie chuckled motioning to Amelia and then Nigel respectively. "History buffs usually have the most fun with this shit," she said before taking another bite of her food and grinning.

DoLittle chuckled. "Maybe you could start small and catch the mouse, or was a it a hamster? Either way, ya know, like a real mouse trap, remember that board game? Yeah, something like that, hell, might be funny come Halloween for you to set up something nonlethal for the kids," she suggested. Laughing. "You do that, I wouldn't mind a hunt myself, good luck girl," DoLittle added as Lisa excused herself. It was getting late now that she thought about it. Shoving a few more bites of food into her mouth, DoLittle did what she could to finish up, she needed to get back to the kennels and do an evening sweep before locking up fully for the evening. Plus she had to write up a report on that damned cat that got out of their cage. She still couldn't figure out how the hell that had happened.

It seemed that Amelia had a second conversation going on now that Manny was here. It didn't bother Rosie that much. She had seen this type of thing happen before after people got out of a quarantine. Even if they hadn't been traveling together, being together for a week or two in a sort of lock up made for strange bed fellows. That was humanity. Glancing over her shoulder to Edna she smirked. It was why the two of them had developed an odd sort of friendship. They had both reached for an old second edition DnD book on the shelf in quarantine. They kind of kicked the door open. It was them and one other. One that didn't make it into the camp for a series of reasons.

Rosie looked over to Nigel and shrugged. "All depends on how he handles himself. Seen people do what some might be considered minor get kicked out. Seen someone cold blooded kill a woman in the street and well he's still in town. It won't be anything quick. We have a system, long one, and he'll have to go through it. Wouldn't say he's totally fucked yet though but then again I haven't got the reports yet. Chances are Gunny will have those ready by morning."

Aeron smiled slightly. "The conditions of your groups debt being paid was that the donation was to remain anonymous, it was an old family tradition," he said and then shrugged. The person that paid the debt made that point very clear. He wouldn't betray that, he had made a promise. Rule one. Glancing around for a moment before looking back at Alexander. "Yes, much like the one who plants a tree which they may never sit beneath. Do good, don't worry about a reward."

Standing up he chuckled. "Well not tonight but I do believe Cheers is working on repairing an old carbonation infuser. If we could get a decent cane trade perhaps we could get a pop or two in this place. Though if we had the resources I would just raid a Coca Cola plant, I bet we found find that recipe now," he chuckled before stopping as Thalia started to laugh. "Oh my, that is disturbing... Sounds like something out of Poltergeist. Not as bad as a banshee mind you but yes, disturbing none the less." Turning he went to buss his tray and head towards the exit.

"Jo... is that... normal?" Atticus asked as Thalia started laughing.

Joaquin sat there, looking confused and a little scared. "I wouldst be'est less afraid if 't be true I wast the lasteth sire on earth and a rap tap cameth to the doth's chamber door..." he admitted. This was the type of laugh that came on dark and stormy nights when things crawled out of the ground, before they actually had. His brows furrowed and he was so taken aback that when she finally spoke he was still too dumbfounded to respond.

Atticus however... "Hey!" he bawked. "Not cool..." he said before chuckling. He hadn't actually thought about it before but he could see what she was getting at, still though. Not cool.

The Major sat there with her brow quirked at the whole laughing thing and watched as Thalia got her composure and headed over to her. "Русский юмор заключается в том, чтобы приспосабливаться или разобраться в безумии своей жизни," she said as she was about to take a bite of food. Stopping the fork, she self translated. "Russian humor is to adapt or make sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives." She set the fork in her mouth and pulled the food off it before motioning with the tangs of the utensil towards the seat nearest her. "You find a person, killed many. Do you ask why or do you pull the trigger?" she asked dryly as she looked down at her tray and stabbed a few more pits of tuna onto her fork.

Jail (AA): Cage quirked a brow as he watched Hunter. Sighing, he reached into the slat and took the tray. He didn't say anything about the fork, save for, "don't do anything stupid kid..." he said as he turned and headed back up the stairs. Closing the door he locked it and headed towards the door. He was about to yell out the door for Nikki, trying to catch her when he noticed she was flopped down on the sofa.

"Hey, here," he said as he set it down on the coffee table. "And wait a minute," he added before he headed up the stairs to the second floor of the make shift jail house. After a few minutes he came back down carrying a triple stacked letter and handed it over. "Just do it," he said as he thrust it out at her.

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Sitting there as she ate, Thana smirked a bit as she caught a glimpse of Ash out of the corner of her eyes. It was nice to just sit and have a meal with him. The last time they really had been able to do something like this was after the wedding and well reception fiasco back in Newnan. Not that they hadn't eaten together recently, but de-stress. That was an interesting night that lead to a lot of change. She remembered she had asked Ash if he ever just gave himself the night off. Asked how he was. He had looked at her like no one had ever asked such a thing from him. The man had really needed to let off some steam and in the end they both had. It changed a lot for them both, even before the town went up in flames. Glancing around at the Mess Hall she wondered for a brief moment what Newnan might have been like if it hadn't fell the way it had. She pushed the thought out of her mind quickly, what if's were never a good thing, especially now. No one could change the past.

At Ash's question, Thana nodded. "That sounds perfect... How about the beach?" she asked before she went back to eating. It wasn't long before she was finished with her meal and and setting her fork down on the slender little divet on the side of the tray. "Come on, people are going to start finishing soon and then things are going to get crowded just leaving," she said after a few, making sure that Ash was either within a bite or two of finishing or was done. Sliding down off the stage she bussed her tray and headed for the door.

That was until she heard something that made a chill run down her spine. Thana stopped in her tracks. Her head turning slowly, like someone might in a horror film when they knew the killer was standing behind them. Oh it was a killer alright but that wasn't what was freaking Thana out right then. It was the sound of laughter. Laughter coming from Thalia. "Oh that ain't natural..." she muttered. Thana and Thalia had spent many a night up in a tree keeping an eye out on things while the other slept when they were on the road. Thalia smirked, chuckled maybe, usually sarcastically. In all that time, she had never heard Thalia out right laugh and frankly it was one of the most disturbing things she had ever heard...

"She might kill someone, I'm outta here," Thana said before hitting the door and getting out into the hot air. It wasn't as bad as it had been, not so much as to drench someone now but still hotter than in the Mess Hall.

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Nikola Warren Location: Jail (AA) -> Streets of CMB (O2) Skills: N/A

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Nikki had been on such a rant she hadn't even heard Hunter when he spoke. Whether or not if the words he had said would have made her change her tone or just made her blow up more were left to the flip of the coin at this point. Instead she was upstairs now grumbling to herself. She had nearly bolted out the front door and stormed off to the Mess Hall so she could get some dinner but she remembered she had promised to take Hunters tray back for Cage. That was the only thing keeping her from exiting the house at this time. She had given her word, if she broke that, it would make her a liar. As hot tempered as she was, she did have some morals, or was it ethics? Shit, she didn't care. In a deep huff she flopped down on the couch and waited for Cage to come up. Like hell she was going back down there now.

Hearing Cage come up the stairs, Nikki turned her head and glanced over to him. Seeing the tray she was glad she wasn't going to have to get into it with him just to get the tray. Sitting up she grabbed the tray but froze and looked like a dog that was confused as she tilted her head to one side as he told her to wait. Rolling her eyes she did but she did so impatiently. Tapping her toe, drumming her fingers, and smacking her gum. As he came back she took the paper, read over it, her jaw going slack. "You gotta be fucking kidding me! Seriously?!? Fuck! FINE!" she snapped before turning and storming out the front door, tray in one hand, papers in the other, and a vein popping out of her temple looking like it was about to burst. If it hadn't been for the slew of curse words leaving her mouth as she stalked off it just may have blew.

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Repeat from last update: Alright we basically have two locations right now: The Mess Hall and the Jail. Jail is pretty straight forward. The Mess Hall is a bit of a cluster fuck because we have a lot of mini scenes unfolding at different tables. So let's roll with it. If there is any confusion don't be afraid to ask, should be okay - we've been at this a while now. I am thinking after dinner we can do a quick wrap up for the day. Having said that - That means next day will be a small time jump, probably a day or two. I will roll for it to get the Court Marshall together for Hunter. So make sure if you haven't already to start getting on those possible future relations so they are, if anything at least partly hammered out, before we are done with the Court Marshall.

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Mess Hall (C): DoLittle snorted a little bit. "I'm sure it was," she said in reference to Williams being a bit more blunt in his delivery. She had listened to some of his stand up, the man was direct when he was speaking. It was funny as hell if you weren't thin skinned. As Manny went to go to Amelia she quirked a brow. "Good luck," she said before taking another bite of her food. Looking back at Lisa she nodded. "Shit, we could have a kill of the week or maybe a contest for most creative ways to kill a walker," DoLittle laughed. "I mean, it's better than sitting around with our thumbs up our ass." Shrugging she took another bite of her food. Her eyes darted around a bit. "Yeah well be careful going into the apartment, don't know if Nikki left the dog in her room or the apartment in general," she said. Granted Nikki did leave a note on the door explaining but DoLittle didn't know that.

Atticus spotted Thalia first and got Joaquin's attention as she headed over. Joaquin, who was normally very talkative was suddenly very quiet. Shoveling a fork full of food in his mouth. "Oh hell, yer really gonna make me do this ain't ya?" Atticus scoffed as Thalia sat down. "Hey Thalia," he said before looking back at Joaquin who had only swallowed about half of what was in his mouth before shoveling in even more. Atticus huffed before looking back at Thalia. "Yer brother is being a chicken shit. Joaquin looked at Thalia before looking back down and nearly shoveled another mouthful in. Reaching over, Atticus grabbed his hand and slammed the fork down on the tray, splattering some of the food on the table. "Just tell her." Joaquin sighed, snatching the fork from one hand with the other and going back to shoveling.

Letting go Atticus rubbed his temples and let go. "Fine," Atticus snapped before looking at Thalia. "Well if he won't tell ya I will. Don't know why this is a damn issue but fuck it. We're a couple, have been fer a while." Looking back over at Joaquin he rolled his eyes. "See, not hard. Now she knows." Joaquin swallowed his food now and held up a finger before motioning towards Thalia as if to say, wait for it.

In the meantime Rossie was nodding. "See, yes! My point exactly! Thought it would be something different and fun." Craning her neck and leaning back some in the direction of Edna, Rosie let her voice raise. "Not everyone wants to play an bow wielding elf!" Edna rolled her eyes and took another bite of her food, ignoring what was goi8ng on right then with Rosie. Rosie on the other hand looked back over at Amelia. "Hell we always got room. We got a few campaigns going, I'm only in two but Edna runs a different group most nights, so each campaigns meets once a week. It's really damn popular these days. Even Doc and Roy get in on it," she said with a chuckle. "Hey, just grab a sheet from the library. All the core books are there and she's got some things written out. She usually spends lunch in there, could catch her then."

Rosie was going to say more but it seemed that Manny was checking up on Amelia. Looking over to Nigel, Rosie chuckled. "Hey, sword play is fun in all forms. Personally I prefer a mace," she said with a grin. At the mention of Hunter she groaned. "Oh you mean that new kid? Yeah, he fucked up. He got written up and taken in, don't know what happened from there. Heard he was taken to the jail. All I know is I got a fucking Court Martial meeting tomorrow morning," she said rolling her eyes before shoveling another bite of food in her mouth.

Aeron shook his head. "Well all the main debt is paid, someone took care of it for you all but in general I feel just seeing the relief on her face when she found out you all were here was payment enough. It is rare to see happiness, true relief, in this day and age. It does an old heart good," he said between bites of food. "How about you and I head out, grab a drink, and I can show you those photos and clippings I have," Aeron suggested. There had plenty of time for them to eat and it seemed to him the place was getting a little crowded as it was the main dinner time. Standing up slowly, he picked up his tray. Leaning on is cane he moved to put his tray away. He also wanted to get back outside, the pain relief was starting to wear off. He knew he needed to do something before it became evident.

Pushing the door to the mess hall open, Major walked in with a few others that were newly off the wall for the evening. Heading over to the line, she grabbed a tray and had a seat in an open spot before she started eating. She didn't seek anyone out to speak to or sit with, she just sat and ate.

Jail (AA): Pretty much a repeat from last update since it still applies: To help the scene flow better I just posting the scene with Nikki below in her header. Figured it would be easier that way instead of only being able to get one back and forth per round. Thinking it will help move things along. (And since there are no longer other characters around those two right now I can treat it as a collab. Will break it back up later on.)

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Thana shrugged a bit. "Think it just shows people are comfortable. When you are safe enough to be bored ya find shit to fill yer time. Some people work out, some learn new thangs, others go back to one of the easiest forms of entertainment, gossip," Thana said as she sat there and let her eyes scan the room. Thana didn't like people gossiping about her but in the end it was harmless as far as she was concerned. People didn't have soap operas to watch anymore, or Jerry Springer, so they made up their own stories. She imagined it was much like the way people did hundreds of years ago, around the fires during the winter, telling stories that had been passed down for generations. Something that started out true went through grape vine after grape vine until only a seed of truth remained and it was wrapped up in a forest of fiction. Looking back at Thalia, Thana smirked. "Who knows but we could always start our own and see what gets back to us and how much it changes, like the post apocalyptic version of telephone," she said with a chuckle.

As Ash came over Thana couldn't help but look over to him and smile as he climbed up and sat beside her. She was eager for a kiss and quirked a brow when he stopped. She nearly snorted as he talked to Thalia. Nodding, she held back a laugh behind her fist. "Right, see ya Angel," she said as the laugh eeked out before looking back at Ash. "Happy?" she asked. It could have been taken that she was a little miffed but in truth she wasn't. She liked talking to Thalia but she was very smitten right then and felt like a teenager finally getting to see her boyfriend during lunch at school. Sliding a bit closer she snuggled up to him some. "So how'd yer first day in camp go?" she asked before taking a bite of her food.

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Nikki's eyed narrowed and her lips thinned. "Fuck you asswipe." It was terse as she jumped up from where she was sitting. Hr words came fast, leaving no time to respond unless Hunter was going to scream over her. "Listen and you listen good you fucktard. I never once said to gossip. I never once asked for anything but the fuckin' truth. I'm going to get all the information when they release it. The whole fucking town will. I wanted to hear your half of it. Not some fucking report. Not to fucking gossip but to know, from your mouth, when you aren't in front of the whole town having to testify! Just you and me." Nikki was livid and her face went red as she balled up her fingers into tight fists that caused her knuckles to go white. She only paused long enough to take a short breath before her beratement continued.

"Short patience with you? Oh fuck that, it's yo0u having so much fucking distrust in everyone and everything I am betting. You can't be nice to save your fucking life. No wonder you are in here. Oh they just don't understand me. Well I do. You are a fucking prick. Thinking everyone wants something from you for some sinister reason. I wanted the truth and it looks like I fucking got it. Even when you are down or when you are up, you're a cock sucking self absorbed oh whoa-is-me ball tripping thundercunt." Nikki had flipped her top and was screaming at this point, pacing around, spinning around and pointing at him with every insult she flung. Her words were coming faster and faster.

"Got drunk and acted like a fool last night, then the whole so called apology while interrupting earlier today. The way you acted in fucking quarantine. And that's only the shit I've seen over the course of a handful of minutes around you! What the fuck else have you done that pissed people off? Ya know what, fuck it. I don't even want to know what the hell comes out of your mouth because it is a fucking lie and I hate liars. The biggest lie so far is peo0ple not having patience with you, bitch please. You can't even be nice to someone visiting your ass in jail for five minutes. I hope they do kick you out! Izi deserves a better owner than your ass! You'll get her killed!"

Nikki kept screaming, louder and louder. "You really want to die don't you? No, you want to, oh fuck, who cares since you don't give two shits in the wind about anything or anyone, even yourself you twaddledick!" It was enough to get someone elses attention as well. How he knew something was up was left up in the air to anyone that didn't work in the jail but the door to the stairs flung open and Cage ran down them. "What in the fuck is going on?"

Spinning around Nikki pointed to Hunter. "Have fun with his ass, I'm done. I wish I had never kissed him." Cages eyes widened. He had seen Nikki go off before but not like this. He didn't know it was possible for someone to turn that shade of red. He had to jump to the side as she stormed off, up the stairs and out of the basement. "GOD DAMN IT!!!" she screamed blood curdling as she stood at the top of the stairs before her feet could be heard stomping off. Nikki flung herself into a chair and chomped on her gum, she was livid beyond belief.

Wide eyed and confused, Cage slowly looked from the path of Nikki back to Hunter. "Wow... you have a way with people..."

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Alright we basically have two locations right now: The Mess Hall and the Jail. Jail is pretty straight forward. The Mess Hall is a bit of a cluster fuck because we have a lot of mini scenes unfolding at different tables. So let's roll with it. If there is any confusion don't be afraid to ask, should be okay - we've been at this a while now. I am thinking after dinner we can do a quick wrap up for the day. Having said that - That means next day will be a small time jump, probably a day or two. I will roll for it to get the Court Marshall together for Hunter. So make sure if you haven't already to start getting on those possible future relations so they are, if anything at least partly hammered out, before we are done with the Court Marshall.

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Mess Hall (C): DoLittle glanced at Thana. "I'm not so sure. Heard some things, I ain't sure she is as stable as people make her out to be. Heard she was glad her sister was dead," DoLittle said quietly as to not really be heard by anyone but the two she was talking to right then. Shrugging she looked back over to Manny. "Maybe, sure as hell know I wasn't anyone's friend when I came in here. Only could deal with Animals, still prefer to but I try. And yeah, booze makes people do some dumb shit," she added before taking another bite of her food. This was a bad idea because at Manny's next statement she nearly choked on it. "Oh god, ain't that the damn truth," she snorted as she held a napkin to her mouth to keep from spitting her mouthful out all over the table.

Looking over at Lisa, Dolittle laughed. "Well in all fairness not many can handle a Nikkiliear explosion. Thinking it would be more damaging than when they dropped the bomb on Japan. Just be glad she's on our side. Could you imagine how hard she would be to handle if she didn't like us? Or at least you. I am still not sure about me. Think she tolerates me because I am the gate keeper to the kennels," DoLittle admitted with a shrug. Glancing over to where Amelia was and who she was sitting with she shook her head. "Oh fuck no, this is all you Lisa. I ain't getting within ten feet of Rosie the Wide," she said before shoving another forkful into her mouth and grinning broadly with puffy cheeks.

Rosie picked at her food. "Yeah, well Edna runs them. She's got like four going. How she passes the time," she said motioning with her fork towards the Professor. "She's dry as hell usually but when she Dm's the woman is a one person stage act. Voices and all. She's like damn good," she added before lowering her fork when Edna started eyeballing her. She grinned and waved before looking back at Amelia and Nigel. "

Okay, well reason being is the Dragon Lance series. Okay, fuck general 3rd Edition. They're buff there but not what I'm going for. Have to start at like level six to even play one. I wanted something more, fun. Dragon Lance nerfed them. Not totally but enough to play a level one. Ain't smart but they get a +2 to Intimidate, Swim, and rope checks. Seriously. That is a fucking pirate right there, with the strength bonus and negatives to charisma why not a Viking. Yeah, was a Greek thing, on an Island. Island. Yup, sea people is what I am shooting for. Imagine it, big ass bull creature, can only play a bell, swabbing the deck, setting the sails, being the Fezik to the Dread Pirate Roberts! Fuck yeah, this would be a blast!" It was obvious that she was excited.

Aeron nodded. "Of course. I hope we can find something but if anything perhaps we can, well provide you with some closure. Even that can be better than the unknown at times I have found." Turning his head he looked over to his Granddaughter before his eyes drifted to his two sons. "That I am. Losing my wife was hard, and then to find out my other granddaughter, Thana's twin, passed away was hard. The hardest though is not knowing about my grandson, Thana's little brother... We may never know." Sighing he shook his head. Thana wasn't one to talk about her sister and she never mentioned her brother to anyone.

Looking down for a minute Aeron composed himself a bit better before looking back at Alexander and nodding. "Yes, she is your family. You, Mr. Manuel, Thalia, yes, she considers you family. Brothers, or perhaps uncles in arms?" he added with a smile. "She speaks highly of all three of you."

Jail (AA): Pretty much a repeat from last update since it still applies: To help the scene flow better I just posting the scene with Nikki below in her header. Figured it would be easier that way instead of only being able to get one back and forth per round. Thinking it will help move things along. (And since there are no longer other characters around those two right now I can treat it as a collab. Will break it back up later on.)

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Thana Martin Location: Mess Hall (C) Skills: N/A

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Thana wasn't exactly sure how Ash was going to react with the situation. It was a joke, through and through. Thalia and her were friends, nothing more. Nothing more than that had ever crossed her mind. Sure, maybe if she had met the woman before she had met Ash she might have but no. By the time they had met, Thana had already pretty much fallen for the guy and that was all that she wrote. Having said that, it didn't mean Thana wasn't going to screw with him. Sure, she had told him nothing had happened with anyone during their time apart but she in truth still didn't know Ash as well as she would like. Part of that meant she didn't know just how much he trusted her word. This could back fire horribly, in epic proportions.

So when he leaned in and gave her a kiss she returned it but let out a small breath she hadn't realized she was holding. He took it for the joke it was. Pulsing her lips against his she nodded. "I will," she affirmed as she patted the stage next to her before watching him walk off.

Thana half snorted out a laugh as soon as he was out of ear shot though. It was funny to her, especially his little huh at the end it. Granted she had an odd sense of humor. At Thalia started in, Thana laughed and waved it off. "Shit, that was funny. And I don't care, people always gonna talk," Thana said before shrugging and adjusting her tray a bit in her lap. Picking up her fork she glanced over at Thalia and chuckled. "I've already heard rumors about. Know what I say when I hear one?" She paused for a second before opening her eyes wide and going in mock shock. "I did? Shit, what the fuck did I do next?" Thana didn't care. She wasn't in charge here, and she had heard a lot of rumors. Many about herself. Nikki was good about running her mouth.

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Nikola Warren Location: Jail (AA) Skills: N/A

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Sitting there, Nikki chewed her gum and popped a bubble. Glancing over her shoulder she looked back towards the stairs before turning her attention back to Hunter. "She's good," she said as she crossed her legs and rested her hands on the end of her knees. "Put her in my room and left a note for my roommate. Hopefully she won't freak out," she added as she picked slightly at where her knee was starting to poke through the fabric of her jeans. Too many days of someone in them had frayed them. Granted it was hard to tell who had done it because the clothing in the camp got handed out randomly mostly. Sizes were matched each week but no one had an actual closet of clothing they called their own. It was a bit much to keep up with considering the size of the camp and wanting to keep things as easy as they could on the people who did the laundry.

Sighing she pulled off a bit of fuzz and let it fall from her fingers, only to catch it with her other hand. "Speaking of which, I ain't got a lot of time. Cage is gonna be back shortly and I gotta walk her before I get to dinner." Biting her bottom lip she looked at Hunter and quirked a brow. It took her a moment to form the words but eventually she did as she let her lip slip from her teeth. "What did ya do? Ain't ever seen anyone get thrown in here this fast. I mean they're gonna release the report probably tomorrow so the whole camp knows what's goin' on but dude... I don't want to wait that long so spill it. Favor for a favor. I got Izi, least ya can do it tell me why."

It was that simple for Nikki. Sure, people said that curiosity killed the cat and all that but at the end of the day Nikki saw no reasons to hide her curiosity or any reason to lie about it. She wanted to know so she just said that. She hated when people beat around the bush or lied, she didn't even like bending the truth. Shit like that had gotten one too many people killed. Sure there were probably times when it was better to lie about something but the guy was already being charge, the town would know anyways, so she didn't see any problem for him to actually tell her now instead of waiting. Looking at the guy she wondered if he even understood why he was in there. He hadn't exactly seemed stable in quarantine. Not off his rocker like that fucker who talked to a unicorn but still.

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: It seems that things are going well. We now have the whole dinner thing fully underway. Going to play it by ear. I will only be updating the areas now with active PC's in. If you are going to have your character head to different areas and want to know what will be up, let me know so I can put it in an update or message you back with some details if you are unsure how to go about it. Overall most main buildings are closed up for the evening: Mechanics and Fabrication, the Distillery, Supply, etc. Other will be open overnight but limited: Armory, Electrical, Education (a library is inside). Sun is still up but cresting along the horizon at this point. It will not get completely dark for some time as it is Summer in Florida: around 8:30 at night.

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Mess Hall (C): DoLittle looked over to Manny and chuckled. "Well we might be in more trouble than I though then," she said in a lofty voice before taking another bite of her food. She chewed it quickly, pocketing part of the bite in her cheek as she covered her mouth and kept talking. "Sugar was a huge in Louisiana and there's a settlement out that way that's been working on getting it and the mills back up and running," she added before swallowing what was in her mouth. Most smaller settlements tried to be self sufficient. Small farms if they could, hunting wasn't a big pay off these days thanks to the ways the walkers took out anything in their path, like blood thirsty locusts. However, some larger ones tried to have some sort of specialty these days. Something they could do that was rare these days, something they could trade for. CMB had small things they could trade, booze and fuel here and there, fish from time to time, but their specialty was medicine.

"Oh come on, pets keep us young. Or so I'm told. Find the older the person the more patience they tend to have with pets." DoLittle shrugged a bit before looking over at Lisa. "And kids," she laughed. "Maybe we should put Nikki with Manny if she gets to be too much," she teased.

Aeron took a deep breath. He didn't need his youngest sons ability to read people to tell there was something weighing on his new friends heart. It was out there, raw and open. Anyone could see it. He had to admit it pained him. Aeron never liked to see anyone suffering. It just wasn't in him, even enemies out on the battle field had been treated well by him when taken prisoner. Seeing someone that Aeron was starting to consider a friend in pain hit a lot harder. Then the question came. "I wish I knew but we have man here and far more have come and gone."

The General did know everyone in the camp one way or another. He tried to make sure to talk to everyone at least from time to time and he reviewed all the files but there were so many. Singling out one location or one person was hard. Not to say it was impossible though. Camp Mexico Beach had several things going for it, the least of them being paper work. Paper work was a good thing though, it meant records. It meant things could be looked up and cross referenced. It meant if there was or had been it could be found with the right amount of digging, as long as people were truthful. Even with everything they did to try to keep people on the up and up some lies still got through. Some they knew about and ignored because it wasn't a big deal. Others, more dangerous ones though had been a problem in the past. "I will have Rolo look into it," he said quietly to Alexander. It perhaps wasn't an immediate search but it was something.

Edna's head snapped around so quickly one might think it was about to snap as Nigel spoke up. "Don't encourage her!"

"Ha! See! I told you people would be interested," Rosie laughed as the two women took their trays. Edna had gotten the salad as well while Rosie was loaded up with Sushi.

"Fine, you two have fun, I'm out of this conversation," Edna quipped before walking off all hoity.

Meanwhile, while Amelia was up for her turn, Cook shook her head. "Nah, one tray but don't worry I'll make sure to set something aside for her so she doesn't miss out," Cook assured Amelia.

Rosie didn't care about Edna walking off, she had someone new to talk to, she was excited. "Come on, let's have a seat," she said motioning over to an open table. As she turned she caught the look on Amelia's face. "Oh you wanna head it? Come on, I can regale two for the price of one," she laughed before she continued walking. "I'm talking viking like. Sailor type, sea worthy. Staff with a bell on the end," she started. "Metal Urn of with Ashes of a hero for a trinket. Ya know, last surviving party of a ship wrecked vessel, every so often his dead ship mates come to him in a dream to go finish things they had left undone in this world? Whether it's really them or not I don't care. He could be mad for all I care. I just want a staff weilding Cow running around dinging his cow bell and inspiring those around him with his baritone voice of gravel while he chews cud," she said as she took a seat. She seemed to be really into this idea.

Now back to the Fuck Hunt. You see this was what DoLittle really wanted to hear about. It had gotten around the camp, people were funding it funny and there were even some bets being laid. DoLittle started laughing. "Why does the good shit always happen when I am on shift," she chuckled. "Okay, well fuck hunt sounds like a bag and tag operation. Though yeah, I'd imagine Bass was looking for more than a one night stand with Nikki, you see the way the guy watches her and such. He's totally smitten. Kind of feel bad for him, no, wait I don't. Everyone knows Nikki ain't the settling down type," she said before glancing over at Thana sitting up on the stage and Ash bee lining it for her. "Then again, if she does start taking more after that one she might. Oh this is some Days of Our Lives shit," she said with a smirk as she looked back over to Lisa.

Stopping for a second DoLittle started looking around. She spotted Amelia. "Hold the phone..." she said before looking between Lisa and Manny. "Wasn't Nikki working with Amelia today? So where is the little fire cracker?" she asked as she perked a brow. Oh it seemed the games had just begun.

Jail (AA): To help the scene flow better I am combining both Cage and Nikki below in her header. Figured it would be easier that way instead of only being able to get one back and forth per round. Thinking it will help move things along. (And since there are no longer other characters around those two right now I can treat it as a collab. Will break it back up later on.)

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Thana Martin Location: Mess Hall (C) Skills: N/A

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Other coming in and out of the Mess Hall didn't really have Thana's attention. She kept tabs on a few people. Those she had spent time in the trenches with to be exact. Manny seemed to be settling in fine. He was sitting with Lisa and DoLittle. Thana hadn't really gotten to know either of them too well. She knew Lisa better than DoLittle tough. Lisa worked in Medical, so they had crossed paths. Plus she was Nikki's roommate. She seemed alright. Thana imaged she would be the type of person she wouldn't mind being outside the walls with. Someone that could handle themselves. DoLittle she wasn't so sure about. There was something about the woman she just didn't like.

Alexander seemed to have found a new friend with her grandfather and that did make her smile. Her grandfather was personable but he didn't exactly sit down and shoot the shit with people. Seeing the two of them talking and the occasional laugh put her a little more at ease. Thalia was still in line but at least now the woman could get some training. Thana figured this was a good thing. Otherwise Thalia might just gut someone. Not to be mean but so she didn't get rusty as it were.

All Thana's trains of thoughts quickly derailed when the door opened and she spotted Ash come in. She couldn't help but smile as her eyes fell on him. Thana was so used to be emotionally detached through everything it was odd. She really had no practice keeping her emotions in check now that they were out there. It was like once the dam broke how did one keep the waters back. She swore she had a better hold on her emotions when she was a teen than she did right then. So as Ash came over to her that smile only grew. Sliding her tray off her lap she set it down next to her.

"Missed you," Thana admitted. She had. In fact she had been rather disappointed that Ash hadn't been in the Mess Hall when she showed up. She was sure she was the one that was going to be late. She had figured she was going to be the one apologizing to them over it. Turned out the scene was flipped, so while disappointed she wasn't mad. There was nothing to forgive, especially when she learned where he had been. It made sense. Hunter had been arrested and someone had killed themselves the night before from what she knew. Cage wasn't exactly pleasant. He wasn't bad but he was trying to deal with. If Ash was only a little late getting to dinner Thana figured they both had gotten out lucky.

At his question if she was off duty she nodded and started to lean in for a kiss. God she wanted a kiss. Even if it was only a quick one before he went to get his tray. Though it seemed that would have to wait because before she knew it Thalia was there. Thana straightened up and cocked a brow. Just what in the hell was the woman up to? For a moment Thana figured Thalia was finally cornering her so they could talk. That was fine. She could handle that. Ash and her had all night together. Okay, kiss can wait, a kiss can wait. Then she felt an arm around her shoulder and her eyes widened. Slowly her head turned to look at Thalia as if to ask, _{"What in the actual fuck?"} This is where Thana had two options. Roll with it or start a brawl. Either would work, one would take longer. Turning her head she looked over to Ash sheepishly and shrugged. "Well we did spend a lot of time alone out in the woods together..."

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Nikola Warren Location: Jail (AA) Skills: N/A

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Seeing Nikki come up to his side Cage let out a short huff of a breath through his nose and one could feel the glare even as he closed his eyes to prepare for whatever was about to come out of the kids mouth. Thing was when she spoke he hadn't expected that. He stopped dead in his tracks, eyes slamming open, and a confused look etched across his face as he stared her down. "What in the hell do you need to see him about?"

Nikki was direct and wasn't one to beat around the bush about things so she answered him rather matter-of-factually."Want to make sure the clown hasn't shot himself in the foot." Chewing her gum she popped a bubble as she stood there.

"That ain't a fucking need kid." It wasn't a good enough excuse for him.

And it could easily be argued that it wasn't exactly a need. Needs these days included food and water. Shelter wasn't a need to some, it was just a want. So going down the line of wants that were considered needs, this didn't even make the top ten. That was unless you were Nikki. "Yeah it is." Cage tilted his head to the side as he crossed his arms over his chest and stared her down. He wasn't buying it. "Either you let me in to see for myself or you know what's going to happen," she said with a smile that was a bit too bright and a voice that was a bit too disturbing.

Sadly, Cage did know what would happen. Nikki would be Nikki. Last time Nikki didn't get the information she wanted she spent three days herself in the lock up. Breaking and entering. Though her time in the cell was probably worse than most considering she had drank so much she was dealing with a hell of a hang over and Cook during that time had come across some spices and onions, so every meal was heavy, had a lot of heat, and a strong aroma that made the girls hangover even worse. "Fine... but you have to take his damn tray back to the Mess Hall," he said.

"Deal!"

Shaking his head Cage and Nikki moved the cart inside of the house that was the makeshift jail for the camp. Cage knew he could say no and just wait to bust Nikki before she even got close to picking a lock but this was easier. It wasn't against regulations. Nikki was still on duty, she knew the drill, she had cleaned up in the jail before. She also had passed enough of the safety courses to be allowed to work in Safety from time to time now. Added bonus was now Cage wouldn't have to deal with another tray tonight.

Pushing the cart over to the corner he pulled his keys out and headed to the door. Nikki in tow. Unlocking it, he pulled it open and headed down the stairs. "Wait," he said over his shoulder before coming around the corner and in view of Hunter. "You have a visitor. Try anything and you'll regret it," he warned Hunter before snapping his fingers.

Peaking her head out from around the corner Nikki grinned and then hoped down the last two steps and puffed up. "You have a visitor. Try anything and you'll regret it," Nikki mocked and wagged her finger towards Hunter.

"I'm too old for this shit... 30 minutes," Cage said before storming off.

Nikki turned around and watched him vanish around the corner, hearing his boots on the steps, and then the inevitable door slam and lock. Rolling her eyes she turned back around and walked over to the jail bars and had a seat on the floor. "Izi's with me."

How come there are so few Table Top Roleplayers here?

@thecatinaction Sure thing, here ya go: The Walking Dead: Year 5 - it's also linked in my signature and on my bio page. And @BrokenPromise is right. It boils down to what works for you. Every Gm is different as are players. Heck even each Rp can be. I've run them heavily diced and free form, each worked great for their own reasons. Also had both ways crash and burn. Frankly, every pun intended, it's the roll of the dice and Lady Luck is a gamble.

How come there are so few Table Top Roleplayers here?

@thecatinaction Actually you can and it can work very well. It depends on how in-depth you want to get with it. I have run over the decades everything from straight up ADnD TT rules on a forum to my own systems. It depends on what you are going for and how much you want to invest in it. For many they find it not something they like to do. For me personally, I adore it. I find it helps opens up so much for control for the players as long as you have a set system and good character sheets set up with stats. If you do that you can execute it with ease.

I recently changed over my Walking Dead Rp from Gm full control to a full stat and skill based system with rolls for actions. The group took a bit to get switched over but in the end it was seamless and now they don't have to worry as much for me waiting to get back to them. They have tables for success and failure, certain scores remove the need for some rolls because they are proficient enough. I was a bit worried since we had been in the Rp for years already, so to make such a dramatic change (including a fully redone CS), was daunting but damn it paid off. I am so happy with the results I will be continuing the same system in future rp's.

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Dinner is under way - Same menu as lunch - Tuna: Salad, Casserole, Sushi. Oranges and a clear broth are available. This will stay the same through dinner unless a roll denotes something runs out. Right now everything is going well and there are no issues to report. Heat is still a factor but it is cooling down a little bit, not enough to really make a difference at this point but still better than it getting hotter. Make sure to get with your fellow Rpers so we can have things in order for time jumps. Any story arcs or ideas you have message me privately about either in PM or in Discord Direct Message to discuss how to make it happen or how to play it out.

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Camp Mexico Beach (General Streets): As before most are dealing with dinner. There are crews on the walls and people milling about the main area. Past the distillery will be a mostly empty zone save for the people working in said zone. Streets have kids playing. Down at the beach are a few people swimming and body boarding. Others are out at various picnic tables set up talking, playing cards, various board games, etc. This will continue until the day start wrapping up.

~Picking up from the Jail Below~ Ted waited for everyone to pile in and let things settle before turning on the golf cart. "Sure thing," he said to Amelia before pulling out and back. It was a pretty uneventful drive back through the area. Between the main road of camp and the jail the area was pretty much not in use. It was maintained if they needed more housing or to expand but for now everything between the Distillery and the Jail was empty and for the most part off limits unless you were on your way to one or the other specifically on a job.

Ted looked out for the kids playing as he pulled onto the main road and then detoured across the street to the Mechanics shop. Pulling up he turned the cart off. "Alright, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here," he said as he exited. "Who am I kidding, do what you want, I'm getting lunch. Well dinner, your dinner, my lunch, fuck it, food," he said as he gestured across the street before turning around and jogging over.

Mess Hall (C): DoLittle chuckled a bit and nodded her head. "She's like a box of dynamite tied to a run away cat." Sighing slightly she continued. "Don't get me wrong, Nikki's a great kid. She's just a bundle of energy and very nosy. But she's a straight shooter. Can't stand lies, even bending of the truth grates on her nerves. She just doesn't have a filter yet or figured out how to pace herself. It can be a lot to handle. Probably why in supply they assign her to my office so much, she has the same energy as a new puppy. Helps wear her out sometimes," Dolittle admitted.

By the door Joaquin and Atticus came strolling in. Both were looking around. Tapping Joaquin on the shoulder, Atticus pointed to Thalia when he spotted her. Joaquin gave a crooked grin as the two of them moved up into the line itself and waited to get their trays. Thana was ahead of Thalia in line, she hadn't decided what to get yet but it was her turn. Once she made a choice she was given her tray and the next person was served. The same went for Thalia who was several people behind Thana. As Thalia came up to the main area where the food was being served she was given the options for the evening and then handed a tray of what she asked for. It was still early enough in the day to have full choice so that wasn't an issue.

Heading into the Messhall, Ted glanced around and got in line. Once he was through it he took a seat over with some other people around his age, they had recently been in the Education building. Some working, one of them asleep. Ted took a seat and started eating, he was beyond hungry and he did have to get back to work as soon as he was done. He still had another four to five hours to work today before he could call it quits for the day.

DoLittle started laughing. "Oh god, if we could some how find a way to harness that girls energy we could power every settlement from here to the Bayou," she chuckled before taking another bite. "And I bet she is. I don't know if I could handle her energy levels but imagine she's pretty good about keeping things in order. Especially after she started shadowing that Thana woman when she got out of the hospital," she added motioning towards Thana standing in line. "Anyways, so what was this I was hearing about from the party last night, something about a fuck hunt? What the hell was that about?" she asked eying both Lisa and then Manny. She hadn't been able to really spend any real time at the party but the rumor mill was flying today. "Did Nikki actually hook up with Bass?"

While the rest was happening Aeron sat happy, and stoned out of his mind, listening to Alexander. This was nice. The man was not asking about his health, wasn't pestering him about reports. Two guys just talking. "Ah, yes, my granddaughter says old school is where it's at, whatever that means," he chuckled before taking another bite of his food. "Hipster? Is that like a hippy who stubbed their toe? Sounds positively horrid," he added with a smile. He hadn't a clue what a hipster was but it seemed that Alexander was more in the know of pop culture than he was. As Alexander mentioned his wife, Aeron gave the man his full attention. He thought for a moment and then nodded. "Yes, there were but I am not sure we know of any active. We seem to be the third most eastern settlement along the panhandle that we know of, that is alive and running these days. There are remains of others, some of which we have had to go to for supplies. We can go check the maps tomorrow if you would like," Aeron offered. It was the least he could do for a new friend.

It wasn't long after Nigel entered the room that the Professor and Rosie entered and took their place in line behind him. The line was starting to thin out by now but it wasn't moving any faster. The initial rush was over so the workers could breath a little more, refill the hot areas, reice the cold ones. "What will you have?" each person was asked. Behind Nigel, the two women were conversing with themselves. "I am telling you a Minotaur Bard would be a perfect addition," Rosie said surely.

The Professor looked at her and rolled her eyes, "I am going to regret asking but why should I allow that in the campaign?"

In her best impersonation of Christopher Walken... "Because if anyone gets a fever we have the cure: more cowbell! Eh? Eh!" Rosie laughed at her own joke. The Professor palmed her face in her hands, Rosie elbowing her as if she had just made the joke of all jokes.

"Someone kill me now..." Edna groaned.

Jail (AA): Cage looked oddly at Hunter when he said thanks to him. He wasn't sure what to think about it so he didn't say anything. Upstairs once he locked up he put the keys back on his belt loop and rubbed his face. He was tired and understandably so. It had been a long day, a long set of days. He knew though the extra long shift would be over soon. He was supposed to have the night off, Roy would be sending someone over to cover. It was an easy shift. One just had to monitor the area. Basically one just had to stay awake and make sure something didn't happen. No meals to make sure, no needing to check on the cells come night unless something happened. Cage would still be in the building, he lived upstairs. So he was technically still going to be around but it let some of the mental weight come away for a few hours so he could sleep. It was something he really needed right then.

Outside Ted chuckled. "Shit, don't be putting your lateness on me. Be glad we had the cart, walking would have just put us further behind," Ted said with a chuckle. "And no worries. I ain't got a date. I'll deal with Auntie after dinner, this is just a dump, dash, and dine, it'll hold. My shift isn't over for another four hours. I'm mid shift," he explained. Teds day was only half over. He would work late into the evening, which could suck, but it also meant that he got to sleep in and didn't get up until much later than the rest of the place. This he was fine with. He hated mornings.

Remembering that there had been a knock at the door, Cage checked his watch. "What the hell now," he muttered to himself before heading to the door. Opening it he snapped, "What the fuck..." he started before stopping himself as he spotted that it was Nikki. "Oh, right," he said as he walked outside and down to the supplies to start the check. It wasn't a lot and he was done rather fast. Signing off on it he handed her the paper and took the cart. "See ya kid."

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Thana Martin Location: Mess Hall (C) Skills: N/A

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It seemed it didn't matter how many times Thana looked around she still couldn't find Ash. Sighing she moved up some more in line. She hadn't put a lot of thought into what she was going to eat this evening, more concerned to see how Ash's first day went. That got pushed to the back of her mind for a moment as it became her turn in line. "The pasta salad," she said. She was still overheated a bit from being outside. The sushi was good but she wanted something else right then, that or at least she really hadn't thought about the sushi much. Her eyes fell on the casserole and then the pasta salad. She wanted something cold. Pasta salad it was. As she moved forward after getting her tray she half wished she would have gotten the sushi but too late now and it wasn't something to be overly concerned with. It wasn't a tin of dog food, she was good. Then again she had once thought dog food wasn't so bad. Hunger can be a hell of a spice.

Taking her tray she glanced around. She spotted some people she knew, turning around she saw who was in line. Still no Ash. Sighing she turned around and went around to try to find a place to eat. There seemed to be plenty of places but none that were standing out to her. Instead she walked over to the far side away from the line, the Mess Hall had a small stage. The building itself had once been an old school and they were in the lunch room that doubled as theater for the kids plays. There was nothing but boxes on the stage pushed against the wall. There Thana took a seat on the floor. It gave her a decent vantage point to see and be seen from the doors. Maybe she could spot Ash when he came in.

The stage usually had a wall up in front of it, one of those ones used in conference centers to divide up huge rooms into smaller ones. Today the wall was down and it was open, Thana hadn't been told not to use it and there were no signs. This place was good about warnings, so if there wasn't one she was sure she was in the clear. If not, someone could tell her move. Sitting on the edge of the stage, Thana crossed her legs: criss cross applesauce and set her tray in her lap. Sighing she took a bite of her food and kept an eye out on the door.

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Nikola Warren Location: Jail (AA) Skills: N/A

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Nikki looked over at Amelia and quirked a brow. The woman apparently didn't like dogs. That was something she really couldn't understand, not liking dogs. Dogs were awesome. Their owners not so much half the time but dogs were cool. Then again Nikki fucking hated bears. Even a bear skin rug would cause her to break out in a sweat. So she didn't judge Amelia for not liking dogs. Everyone had their own hangups these days, more so than ever. Fear wasn't always a bad thing. It did make her curious to why she would hate dogs. Was there a story behind that? That was something she would have to ask on later because right now she had something she was far more curious about: What the hell happened with Hunter to get him tossed into the stockade. Dogs could wait.

"Alright, no doggo around you and yeah, if there's dessert have them save me some," she said giving a small wave before turning her attention back to the door and waited as the others left. It was a few minutes before she heard someone coming towards the door. Okay, this was her chance. As Cage opened the door she took half a step back. She wasn't afraid but she hadn't expected him to yell. Startled was more like it. Well there went the hope he was in a good mood.

Sighing she jogged down the stairs and followed him. How to put it, how to put it. How to ask? This kept going through her mind. She figured it wouldn't take time long to check everything but she didn't think it would be that fast. Rushing forward she jogged next to him mas he pushed the cart. "I need to talk to Hunter," she blurted out. Well, so much for the gentle approach, or feeling things out more. Hell she didn't even ask. Said she needed to talk to him. It was the truth, she did. She needed to talk to him. She needed to find out. Curiosity killed the cat and if that was true she had better have nine lives because as soon as the words left her mouth she was pretty sure they could be her last.

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Dinner is under way - Same menu as lunch - Tuna: Salad, Casserole, Sushi. Oranges and a clear broth are available. This will stay the same through dinner unless a roll denotes something runs out. Right now everything is going well and there are no issues to report. Heat is still a factor but it is cooling down a little bit, not enough to really make a difference at this point but still better than it getting hotter. Make sure to get with your fellow Rpers so we can have things in order for time jumps. Any story arcs or ideas you have message me privately about either in PM or in Discord Direct Message to discuss how to make it happen or how to play it out.

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Camp Mexico Beach (General Streets): As before most are dealing with dinner. There are crews on the walls and people milling about the main area. Past the distillery will be a mostly empty zone save for the people working in said zone. Streets have kids playing. Down at the beach are a few people swimming and body boarding. Others are out at various picnic tables set up talking, playing cards, various board games, etc. This will continue until the day start wrapping up.

Mess Hall (C): DoLittle nodded. "Yeah, there are other settlements but they don't have the resources we do. And definitely don't have the people. We do monthly check ups with them, go out, provide medical care, do what we can. Someone gets bad enough we bring them in here under guard and keep them in the hospital until they are good to go, then take them back to their camps," she said between bites. "Anyone with medical experience with clearance is on rotation. I mean I'm a vet but mammals are mammals," she chuckled before shrugging and taking another bite of food.

"If you can handle Nikki, you can handle the dog. The dog is more laid back than she is," DoLittle laughed.

Aeron smiled and took a bite of his food. After a nice chew and swallow he nodded. "I suspect he would. Seems a colorful fellow and have yet to receive any complaints on him. I look forward to seeing who he is. Along with many others that are new here. You can read a thousand reports but in the end they never truly show you a person. That takes face to face interactions," he said motioning between himself and Alexander. He knew he needed to speak more directly to others but right now he was getting to know Alexander a bit more and it seemed to be going well. Then again it was easier to talk to someone that remembered the same presidents as you did.

"Oh that you would need to talk to Tesla about. He's the one who has been gathering parts and getting them working again. Some of the equipment is older. Most of it is older, which is what he has been after. Less working parts and easier to fabricate if we need to," Aeron added. "I'm sure he could better tell you than I."

Education (M): As the new students as they were left, the Professor gave half a glance but went back to her paperwork and making sure things were filed away. She would drop off the signed papers when she went to dinner in a bit but she had some papers to grade first and she preferred to stay on top of that.

Out in the main room, wadded ball of paper ended up smacking against Mr. Sawing Logs head. He just snorted in, not even half stirring before settling back down and sliding down a bit more in his chair. The others groaned and started gathering up their stuff. "Fuck this, I'm getting dinner," one mumbled. The others seemed to agree as they put their things up. Another purposefully and heavily dropping a thick text book on the ground.

"So! Where we were?" the sleeping one yelped as he sat up and tried to act like he wasn't sleeping.

"We are going to dinner," said the one who dropped the book.

"Sweet, food," he laughed as he folded his stuff up haphazardly. The others just rolled their eyes.

On the board were several classes. Many of them seemed to be full already as the lines for sign up had been filled in fully. There were some that were still open though: Quilting circle, Gin Rummy, Beginners Swimming, Scuba, and one DnD session was still looking for players. There was also a notice: Sheets updated weekly on Monday Morning, must resign up each week. So that was good, even if something filled up you could try again in a week.

Inside Jail (AA): Cage groaned and crossed his arms over his chest. "Kid, you're a damn twig. Eat your fucking dinner," he said before turning around and shaking his head. "Or don't, your choice." Taking a few steps he then stopped and glanced towards Ash. "Yeah, go on." Sighing he glanced back at Hunter once Ash was gone. "That one has a screw loose." Seemed out of left field but it didn't stop Cage from saying it. "I'll be back in an hour to get the tray," he added as he headed towards the stairs. Climbing them quickly he hit the top step and closed the door, locking it up. "Damn it," he muttered under his breath.

Outside Ted propped his foot up on the so called dash board of the golf cart waiting. He quirked a brow as Ash came out. "Shit, I'm going to mechanics to drop this off and then hitting the mess. You can walk that right?" he asked with a chuckle. "Or your date gonna pitch a fit?" he added with a grin.

Turning his head he looked over to spot Nikki and some new girl coming over. "Hey," he said to the new girl before looking back at Nikki. "No, had to clean up Dimshits remains," he said motioning to the cleaning supplies and the bag marked hazardous waste. "And frankly it's good Cage is on duty, I ain't got his patience," he added as he pulled his leg off the dash board and put it down. Sitting up a bit straighter in the process.

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Thana Martin Location: Education Center (M) -> Mess Hall (C) Skills: N/A

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Thana glanced over to Thalia and then stopped walking. She was thinking. Where was the Major on the wall right now? Her thoughts were quickly derailed as she watched the guy get hit in the head and barely move. Her brow quirked. Then she tried to go back to the topic at hand. "Um, I think she's.." she started but that got cut off when the book hit the floor and Sleeping Beauty finally woke up. She felt kind of bad for the others. That one seemed like the one asshole in every group project that never did anything. Shaking her head she looked back over to Thalia and finally was able to complete a thought. "Anyways, I think she has Western Gate duty today but she should be off the wall around 1900 hours to get dinner when the Wall shifts change for overnight," she said before heading out the door.

The heat hit but it wasn't as bad as it had been thankfully. It was still unpleasant but nothing like it had been earlier. The biggest issue was the fact she had just come from an air conditioned building out into the heat. That would take some adjusting but then again she didn't plan on staying out in the heat long enough to get adjusted. The Mess Hall wasn't too terribly far off. Chances were by the time she got there she'd be sweating but not adjusting. It was just par for the course right now. Some days she missed not having air conditioning. That was until night fell. She always hated trying to sleep when it was hot. It was miserable.

"Oh careful, the needle might be mightier than the sword," Thana chuckled as she walked past Nigel. She gave him half a wave to both Thalia and Nigel. "See ya later, gotta run," she added before she started jogging. She paused just long enough to check the road before she continued across it. The Mess Hall was just across the street. Checking the time she grunted, Ash was probably already half way through his dinner she figured as she stepped into the Mess Hall.

Taking a step to the side she got in line but her eyes were scanning the room. She couldn't find Ash anywhere. She was probably just missing him. It was busy and people were milling about, she couldn't see the whole room from the line. Maybe he would spot her while she was in line. Either way, she kept looking as she waited her turn, slowly stepping forward as the line progress. Her brows furrowed some. Where the hell was he?

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Nikola Warren Location: Jail (AA) Skills: N/A

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Nikki looked over at Amelia and shrugged. Don't know much. Just know I got the dog that Hunter came in with I have to watch now. Heard he was taken to the jail. And something about a Court Martial. Hoping I can find out when we drop this off," she admitted. Nikki liked to know what was going on and she knew that they would do a full release to the camp once everything was in order but Nikki was impatient and she wanted to know now. No use hiding it she figured. Maybe Cage would be in a good mood and let her into the jail to see what the hell was going on with Hunter. He sure has pissed her off this morning, more than that had made a fool of himself the night before but she had never seen someone go to jail so quickly in town. Not even Ted had.

Speaking of Ted. Nikki quirked a brow. Her eyes went to Ash for a second and waved before going back to Ted. Wow.. okay, next time I won't ask," she said before glancing at Amelia. "Hey I'm gonna try to get the dish on this. Why don't you hitch a ride with Ted back? It's cool, right Ted?" she asked. She knew Ted would be fine with. He was as he motioned to the back. "See? Told ya. I'll see ya later," she said before pushing the cart forward. Stopping at the steps she ran up the stairs and knocked. "Come on, be in a good mood Cage," she muttered under her breath before popping another bubble with her gum. Maybe Violet would have been a better nickname for her considering how often she chewed the same piece of gum.