RumikoOhara

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

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@RumikoOhara@Wick@Polaris North@Dnafein@Joker892@FortunesFaded@DeadDrop

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Looks for her second in command Maisy finding her discussing the problem with the Bear and smiles

We have an edge, Summer has an ergot tar she can coat a few arrows with. It usually don’t kill the bear but hit him with another arrow a few months later and they head hell and leather out O there; Raintree had me and some others do an experiment.

Trouble is she needs to make it and you have a 2 hour window to find the dam critter for it dries. It takes about 5 minutes to zap the bear but the critter drops like a rock when it does. I seen em puking and expelling liquid outta every exit except their ears; wasn’t pretty site but it works.

Rafe and April ought to be able to get close and dose the critter; better than a squad of horses and Troopers trying to bash heads with a Brown bear which the Bear will know are there by the sounds they make an how much harder it is to hide more than 2 She says as if she were only the Chief Scout of the Expedition Informing the officers of the Troop.

I wish I could send you lot ahead but they nailed a Captain’s hat on me so don’t matter that I’m one of the best damn hunters among my generation.

I hunted Griz before and he is in the end a predictable animal so my Scouts will do the job.

I sent Rafe ahead to the Falls because I know he’s done a once over of the subdivision cross the river about a year ago. Nothing detailed but he did find a locked Geek Van with a scad of tech and tools. He reported no Risen but he was moving quiet so we’ll do this in sweeper search teams.

So in the morning as a drill to remind everyone that when we get spread out we get cut off and when we get cut off we pay for it someway.

Back to the Basic I guess

Rotate the watch (NPC) and see about curbing the frivolity level, don’t want to be a wet blanket but bears ain’t the only things around here that got ears.

I’m fetching me a bath

Jain turns and heads to the water’s edge where she strips all the way down and dives in swimming down into the cold mountain water and rests on the bottom for a few minutes before surfacing.

She still felt hot headed and if she wasn’t the damn Captain she’d head out for that damn bear and bring back his or her skin by morning and sleep warm and toasty under it after she cured his hide.

Near shore she encountered Summer who was washing clothes in the water and they turned out to be Jain’s .

What the hell am I supposed to wear now that you’re washing my laundry? she demands of the odd little woman who points over her shoulder at a towel and a change of clothes down to her socks.

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You should never put dirty clothes on a freshly washed body; I brought shampoo, it even foams which helps lift the dirt. It might tingle a little cause I added a little something to kill bugs by drowning them. But before Zero I could have made money with my all natural products, now I share it with friends and trade the special stuff for work said Summer never looking up as Jain chuckled at the idea of shampoo.

Was she ever going to forgive her for making her breakout when she tried out some of Summer’s bug repellent, it was an allergic reaction that none of the Troopers or Scouts that used the same stuff and no complaints.

I checked for enough Ergot for a bear hunt and well half of it went bad so I need to grow some more but I do have something else to offer. The Poppies at timberline were fat this year so I have tons of opium paste. Not sure how much it will take to drop a bear but I have enough. she taps the top of a former cold cream jar that while made of bright blue glass it’s contents are so black they absorb light.

Then the Little Witch opens her arms wide causing the trees around the water to explode with about 22 ravens, a few black birds and crows thrown in for good measure.

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Rafe & Summer

Summer looked at the Deerskin and Smiled
Thank you Raphael

Her tone is reverent as she says his full name. She told him once that he is named for a powerful spirit and that she refuses to anger that spirit by uttering even one syllable incorrectly

I understand you will be sent to find the Bear so I have something to make it easier to take him down. Opium paste with a touch of cannabis oils, a little peyote tea, I made it for pain if we had any injured. I was blasted all day and all i tried was a small touch of my tongue.

Dip your arrows before you shoot them and wait about two minutes between about three arrows first dose and two for second if you don’t want to kill it, if you do about 7 or 8 ought to be enough to make the Bear OD.

Then she fishes in one of three pouches hanging from her belt and draws out a huge black Bear’s claw.

Here to protect you or maybe wear because I went to the trouble making it but in any case what could it hurt? her voice altered to a more authoritive tone

Her smile is friendly as always but her eyes as usual are hard to tell if she’s high or so focused on believing her brand of spirituality which even she admits she is still working out

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@Polaris North

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Work is the eraser of all woes James and they need it said the Strawberry blond as she watched her brood

Then she turns and graces him with a s bright a cheerful smile as she says the most awful thing
Frankly I think at this rate if we don’t get our collective buts on the ball none of us will ever return home.

Me, I’m likely going to be taken as the unwilling bride of some Warlord out here in the Forsaken.

Cannibals are likely to dine on you then make your thigh bones as ceremonial flutes to some pagan God or Goddess they Worship.

I can hear them playing now

She says as if telling a fond memory.

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

@DeadDrop

And Amy, Summer is always smiling like some Monalisa when she looks at her and when she looks away its always with an "I know something you don't know" expression.

She is a petite 4 foot 10 and looks a bit like a Pixie needing only pointed ears, but rumors are she's poisonous, always high, and talks to animals; no I mean really talks with them. She lives alone outside of the walls and thinks she can work magic

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

@Dnafein

I was reading the byplay about April and Rafe and can't get the thought out of my head that Summer likes to try and sneak up on him. She has never succeeded but the second part of her game is finding him which her birds can do eventually every time she sets them to the task.

Rafe would know that she does her own approved medicinal hydroponic herbs of all sorts; oh and never ask her what is in the smoked sausage just enjoy and know she only drugs people she doesn't like.

She was caught once while searching for wild plants beyond the patrol limits by a couple of pirates and was being drug off as every Scout in the area was ordered to retrieve her. By the time they finally tracked them down both pirates were in convulsions, one was screaming about birds pecking out his eyes and the other was struggling as he tried to remember how to breathe.

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

I know it doesn't sit well with people in our civilized world but in the world of Lasthope it ain't about where you died or where buried but that you are remembered. Our outlook on the Dead is colored by encounters with the Risen, even when they are our own

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

@RumikoOhara Out of curiosity, what would be done with Benny's corpse? Are they buried? Burned?

@Poi

It's a harsh world but we have no time for burials and burning needs tending so we don't start a wildfire so its sky burial if you're a Trooper or Scout

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

I had to answer a Video call from my mom, its the only way I can keep her home and not here bugging me

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

Okay after getting back I read things and think I should ask for a more chill stance on conversation

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

@RumikoOhara

Well, wouldn't James at least see some sort of other side to her when he was training? Ah but really, he wouldn't care much about her being bossy to stop him from joking around with her.

If he's persistent enough to still try and befriend Amy, I think he's stupid enough to continue joking with Petra.

@Poi

That is so surprisingly accurate...

@Polaris North

Petra would have been friendly after dark when all the chores on the ranch are done, that's when she takes out her smoking pipe and becomes a real person. Laughing, singing and having fun with those she works closely with, she's only a Bitch on company time

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

I was going for reality and hoping for people to be adult but I see hormones insist on intruding

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

@Polaris North

Will respond when a couple of people post, I dislike stacking

Petra is considered a Taskmistress, Dominatrix, and mostly a mean Bitch but that's because no one comes around when she isn't working. Her people would think she was worried if she wasn't yelling at them because they know she is either angry or worried when she's quite. And while she's loud and pushy when there is work to be done when all settles down no one enjoys life as much as Petra or cares for her people more; she's known to hold them close when they need comforting like she's their mom.