[MINGLE] Wendi-go-go to the inn

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: 6I Village and Inn
WHEN: 27-31 July
OPEN TO: ALL - Mingle
NOTES: The Wendigo threatening the village will be killed mid 28 July, with a Blue Lily, per these threads. Plot details here. Note: The final fight is close enough to be seen from the upstairs inn windows.
WARNINGS: Wendigo attack mingle, please warn in comment headers if discussing violence, gore, or related trauma. Possible mentions of character death.

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The urgent warnings come from villagers returning south from the lake: a creature twice the size of a man, antlered and voracious. Larger than any they've seen on the plains, stalking its way to the main village. Some might have their own names for this hunger in a skin of shadow; others might remember that it was the first to claim a life, in their village's short history.

Whatever context one has for it, best to secure all pets and loved ones before it arrives. With weapons and food stores at the inn, the call goes out to gather — And to bring back any tools, because there's no telling what doors and windows can do to stop such a creature.

Comments

[borneinblood]

Humanity is always at its best and worst in moments like these. In the aftermath of tragedy, when the natural responses are either to help or to ask what's happened, even when the situation might be better suited by the very opposite. Still, he doesn't seem in the least bit offended at Owen's reaction. He might be more steeped in death than most, but the same is hardly likely to hold true of the rest of the people present in the village.

Not that he makes any attempt to either address that point or move away from where he's standing. He's still curious, but he's not about to get more involved than he already is by virtue of engaging Owen in conversation.

"It might have been," he agrees, with a shrug that suggests that he doesn't have enough information on the creature to say otherwise. He knows what he's seen, yes. But his interests having never been in the shifting calculations of necessity. Just the more immediate call to violence and all that comes with it.

"But I can't imagine that makes it easier."