dokkalfheimr: (10.)
Freyja, Queen of Nightmares ([personal profile] dokkalfheimr) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2021-02-06 04:50 pm

And we're all adrift together through the cold mist, 'til we're lifeless together

[The preparations hit differently this time.

Last weekend was at least an attempt at being festive, even with the light supplies they have; at being joyous, at giving people at least one nice thing to look back upon before things inevitably took a turn for the worse. And now two people are dead, and instead of trying to figure out structure placement and how best to keep everyone entertained and occupied and well-fed, the preparations now are given to much more practical purposes.

Large amounts of bottled water from the machine. Bagels and bread and muffins, light starchy things to avoid forcing anyone to keep meat or seafood down after seeing a corpse. Fruit for the sake of providing energy. Avoiding including bananas for any reason. Quietly pulling aside one of the first people she sees with any experience in the matter and asking them to help her make tea.

Once she's got one of the tables at the party zone set up and the tea is on its way to being prepared, she'll set around letting people know; the invitations are simple, written in Freyja's broad, elegant handwriting:

I think another gathering tonight would be beneficial. Not to celebrate, but to remember; perhaps more importantly, to ensure that no one is alone if they don't want to be.

Tonight is hard. There is nothing further to do but get through it.]
jibunwo: (with this one word you gave me)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-07 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
You misunderstand me. I said that I thought the others would be dissuaded, except there is no doubt in my mind the Captain will make the risk appear well worth it. Of course it will happen again, but when depends wholly on when he gets bored enough to set things into motion.

I am well aware of what I would kill for, but so too am I aware that we have yet to see concrete proof that his threat was more than a bluff.
scouserer: (Default)

[personal profile] scouserer 2021-02-07 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[.....

Dammit!!! He completely agrees with that and he doesn't know what to say! All the does is grunt, trying to maintain eye (?) contact with Zero and taking another sip of his bottle.]


Glad we're on the same page, at least.

[Ugh. This guy seems impenetrable to all Constantine's usual methods of approach. Maybe it's time to step back and reassess?]

What's your plan of action, then?
jibunwo: (with one word you saved me)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-07 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's hard to read a guy in a wholeass reflective helmet]

Regrettably, I don't know that I fully have one yet. There was something I'd considered, but with everyone depowered it's not possible at this point in time. Before formulating a proper strategy I'll need time to reexamine our current position as well as what we are capable of. Getting into the grated-off area sounds like a start, but I've yet to find a key matching that lock.
scouserer: (10)

[personal profile] scouserer 2021-02-08 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[facts]

I’m sure if anyone finds a red key, they’ll give a shout. Like that...Scott kid. Unless someone is purposely trying to work against us. And given the fact that the Captain seems to feign an air of incompetence, it’s more than possible that someone might have been manipulated into helping him.

...Not that I have any proof, but it’s a possibility.
jibunwo: (this haze of doubt is melting away)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-08 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[Shit.]

That's a possibility I had yet to consider, but given he's enlisted a figure of legend into his employ, who can tell what he might say or do to convince any one of us to follow suit.