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sixthiterationlogs2016-07-10 11:11 am
rangerbecket) wrote in sixthiterationlogs2016-07-10 11:11 am
lord willing and the creek don't rise [open]
WHO: Raleigh Becket
WHERE: Along the banks of the river
WHEN: 10 July
OPEN TO: All
WARNINGS: None
STATUS: Open
Raleigh has spent the last week just trying to figure out what, if anything, is the rhyme and reason to this place. He's found himself a house that's decent enough shelter and while there's no tech and no maps, it's a comfortable enough existence. Food is something that has to be gathered daily and so he's taken it upon himself to figure out how to use the woven fish baskets to set traps along the river.
Amazingly enough, they work, but only just. Without bait, it's hit or miss if any fish swim into the traps and they're in such states of disrepair that half the time if he does get a catch, the fish is able to get itself right out. The traps themselves remind him of primitive versions of the ubiquitous crab traps all along the Pacific coast and Raleigh is familiar enough with those. He's gone crabbing before when the oceans are deemed safe and there's not pollution levels off the charts from Kaiju Blue. It usually kills all the fish, makes the place a dead zone for a couple years, but up in Alaska it's been a while since one has actually been killed in the direct area. Usually they kite the Kaiju further down the coast, away from the viable fishing industries.
This morning, when he goes to check the traps, he notices that the water has risen. The landmarks he's gotten used to along the river are now submerged and there's water splashing around his knees when normally it'd come to his ankles. Finding his traps in the swollen river are a problem too, as the surge seems to have pushed them away from where he normally sets them. If that's the case, they're not going to be eating well tonight, and there's the more immediate problem as to where all this water's going to go in an enclosed canyon.
"Damn," Raleigh hisses, wading into the water to try and get what traps he can. They're a precious commodity and he doesn't exactly know how to make them himself; he had intended to sit down one evening and try and recreate one but he hasn't had the chance yet. Losing them now means losing his one guaranteed way of feeding himself and it's not something he's willing to risk. Not without a fight.
When he hears the footsteps of someone else approaching, he calls back to them without turning around, too focused on the task at hand. "Help me! The river's rising and I'm losing all my traps. I don't know what's going on."
Understatement of the year.
WHERE: Along the banks of the river
WHEN: 10 July
OPEN TO: All
WARNINGS: None
STATUS: Open
Raleigh has spent the last week just trying to figure out what, if anything, is the rhyme and reason to this place. He's found himself a house that's decent enough shelter and while there's no tech and no maps, it's a comfortable enough existence. Food is something that has to be gathered daily and so he's taken it upon himself to figure out how to use the woven fish baskets to set traps along the river.
Amazingly enough, they work, but only just. Without bait, it's hit or miss if any fish swim into the traps and they're in such states of disrepair that half the time if he does get a catch, the fish is able to get itself right out. The traps themselves remind him of primitive versions of the ubiquitous crab traps all along the Pacific coast and Raleigh is familiar enough with those. He's gone crabbing before when the oceans are deemed safe and there's not pollution levels off the charts from Kaiju Blue. It usually kills all the fish, makes the place a dead zone for a couple years, but up in Alaska it's been a while since one has actually been killed in the direct area. Usually they kite the Kaiju further down the coast, away from the viable fishing industries.
This morning, when he goes to check the traps, he notices that the water has risen. The landmarks he's gotten used to along the river are now submerged and there's water splashing around his knees when normally it'd come to his ankles. Finding his traps in the swollen river are a problem too, as the surge seems to have pushed them away from where he normally sets them. If that's the case, they're not going to be eating well tonight, and there's the more immediate problem as to where all this water's going to go in an enclosed canyon.
"Damn," Raleigh hisses, wading into the water to try and get what traps he can. They're a precious commodity and he doesn't exactly know how to make them himself; he had intended to sit down one evening and try and recreate one but he hasn't had the chance yet. Losing them now means losing his one guaranteed way of feeding himself and it's not something he's willing to risk. Not without a fight.
When he hears the footsteps of someone else approaching, he calls back to them without turning around, too focused on the task at hand. "Help me! The river's rising and I'm losing all my traps. I don't know what's going on."
Understatement of the year.
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Even if the Air Force was the best one.
Sam shakes his head, "I don't know much about that kind of thing. But, I see your point about a storm usually causing flooding like this more than anything. We haven't explored our surroundings enough to know much about the source of the river though." He glances upstream like that will magically reveal something, "Could it be a blockage of some kind? Like an avalanche or, hell, beavers? We don't even know if there are any beavers in the area do we?"
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"Annoying little bastards. And to answer your question, I was in the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps. Joint coalition, several countries. Part of the Navy, though, technically."
As close as he could get, anyway. Wars didn't really matter any longer when there were kaiju around.
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The answer to his Navy question however only raises more questions because Sam has never heard of anything called the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps. Great. This is probably another one of those multiverse things that Sam had mentioned before. Sam shakes his head, "Not something where I'm from. What'd you guys bring that many countries together for?"
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Raleigh gestures toward himself. "I fight kaiju in jaegers - giant robots. Are you still with me?"
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So he listens without judgement and when Raleigh finishes Sam just nods, "I am. You're right it sounds crazy, but I've been hearing a lot of stories around this place and I have a few myself that some people might find it hard to believe. I mean I joined a team that's fought an alien invasion a few years back and then later took on an army of robots." He hadn't been on either of those missions, but he'd seen them in action and heard the stories.
He smiles slightly, "Still...fighting monsters with giant robots...that sounds pretty badass."
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"Now I just do what needs to be done. It doesn't have to be fancy any longer. It just has to get it done."
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Sam wades out of the river now and keeps an eye for anymore floating traps. "Speaking of getting things done...anything else you need help with?"
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"You'll let me know if you need something too?"
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"Yeah, if you'll do the same. Seems the least we can do is help each other out in this place."