arboreal_priestess: Yvonne Strahovski as Verity Alice Price (Gun: Lurking Around Corners)
arboreal_priestess ([personal profile] arboreal_priestess) wrote2019-05-30 12:39 pm

From the Causeway to Washington DC, Thursday Afternoon

This was not the first time on Fandom that Verity had been glad her apartment could double as an armory, but it might have been the most acute. This week had been ridiculous, from fighting off a radroach invasion in their kitchen to the heart attack that had been discovering that the colony of Aeslin mice had been replaced by a colony of Aeslin mole-rats.

Nightmare fuel was walking into a room of giant mole-rats and hearing them talk to you, in case anybody needed a shot of that real quick. (Nobody needed a shot of that. Nobody.)

They also ate a lot more than Aeslin mice normally did and even though they supplemented their diet by eating pretty much any other creature they could find, the food levels in the Kincaid-Price household had gone from 'dangerously low' to 'practically non-existant' over night.

Which was why Liam and Verity had decided to strap on pretty much every single weapon they owned and head into the Wasteland to scavenge the remains of D.C. Supposedly, that was where the best remaining supplies were located.

Supposedly, that was where the most dangerous predators in the Wasteland were located, too. And most of them walked on two legs.

That was a problem they'd deal with when they got to it.

"All right," Verity said, securing another rusty container of bobby pins and her spare screwdriver. "We ready to head out?"

[Open to anyone who wants to join Liam and Verity on a scavenging expedition. Be prepared to self-NPC!]
firstofitskind: (paying attention)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
At least the mole-rats in their apartment didn't try to kill them? Unlike the mole-rats that had popped up in the station yesterday.

"Ready," he confirmed, taking his laser rifle from the holster at his side.
firstofitskind: (eyebrow of disbelief)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
“She’s got a colony of tame blood bugs, she’s more okay than most,” Liam said dryly. “I actually did check in when I didn’t get a call from her, that’s how I found out about the blood bugs.”
okteiviakom: ([neu warpaint] brighter tomorrow)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-05-30 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
This wasn't Octavia's wasteland, but it was closer to it than Fandom usually was, and so she had been feeling a very weird sense of belonging, all through this week so far. And then feeling conficted about that feeling, because it wasn't as if she'd missed having to scavenge for survival, but -- in some weird way, maybe she had?

She'd also gone further and further back into looking like a Grounder, this week. All tough, practical leather with her hair braided back along her scalp, away from her face. And of course, armed with both her grim-looking sword as well as the knife she'd bought from Cable a while back.

And, guess this off-island trip was special because she'd gone for the warpaint, too. Black around the eyes, with specific shapes on her forehead and her cheeks.

"Food's an obvious priority. Anything else?"
firstofitskind: (Default)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
“You should see the Trooper’s armor,” Liam said, shaking his head. “It’s all this... patched together scavenged mishmash. Calvin was downright scandalized.”
firstofitskind: (thinking)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Keep an eye out for power packs for this thing?" Liam asked, hefting his rifle up slightly. He'd been a little dismayed to find out his favorite sidearm had changed along with the island. "Also medical supplies can't hurt." Sure, the clinic was well-stocked. Didn't mean a personal stash of that anti-radiation stuff wouldn't be useful.
firstofitskind: (i don't believe you)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Liam's wardrobe contained... a lot more flannel and long leather jackets than it usually did. Which was somewhat impractical for the late spring, but at least there weren't any disembodied hands.

"Why Michigan?" Liam wondered, nudging a dead bloatfly with one foot. Ugh. Dead too long for there still to be anything of use on the carcass.
firstofitskind: (frowny)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's almost enough to put one off sushi," Liam agreed, making a face. And as a Gen Z-slash-millennial, that was saying a lot.

"I do like your parents," Liam said. "But you're right, I don't know if I'd want to live with them. I just meant, is there something specific about Michigan as opposed to, say, Dallas?"
firstofitskind: (i hear you)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh," Liam said, his tone equally soft. As someone with no familial ties (of the blood kind, anyway) of his own, that kind of thing had a way of piquing his curiosity. "You know, we don't have to get stuck in the land of giant radioactive animals to look into that," he pointed out.
okteiviakom: ([neu] get out of my way)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-05-30 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Octavia looked at the rifle briefly like she was memorizing what to look for. Then she looked up again, and nodded. "Rad-X and RadAway especially, right?"

Of course she'd committed those to memory as soon as she'd found out about them.

"Also more weapons." Well, for her, anyway.
okteiviakom: ([neu] tribe leader)

[personal profile] okteiviakom 2019-05-30 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think most of those other things might be easier than the water," Octavia noted, a little on the dry side. She didn't trust the water here just in general. (Which meant she'd grown up a lot since she'd been the first person from the Ark to step on another irradiated Earth. There'd be no swimming, this time.)

But, she nodded. "But basically, everything that's even remotely useful, because the island had barely anything. Got it."
firstofitskind: (a small smile)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
He nodded in response to the question. He'd pick up any Stimpaks they came across too, of course, though that was something he personally wouldn't be using. "More weapons are always helpful," he agreed.
firstofitskind: (leaning back)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Could be a weekend project," he mused. "We've got portals and the shuttle at our disposal after all."
firstofitskind: (a small smile)

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2019-05-30 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Whatever," Liam shot back, bumping her shoulder. "You like it." As much as she teased him about the whole 'wanting to learn to cook' thing, she'd never actually turned anything he'd made down, after all.
what_the_shock: (Spidey)

[personal profile] what_the_shock 2019-05-30 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Miguel had no weapons, but he had his suit and himself. He was hoping he'd mostly be needed for carrying supplies, but he wasn't counting on it.

"Ready. Shock, this place looks awful."

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