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sixthiterationlogs2016-11-13 07:11 pm
tobeclosetohim) wrote in sixthiterationlogs2016-11-13 07:11 pm
{ raining blood, from a lacerated sky
WHO: Jo Harvelle, a dead elk, and you!
WHERE: In front of The Inn
WHEN: November 13
OPEN TO: Everyone (Especially those in the inn or close enough to hear!)
WARNINGS: Animal Death's w/ Mutilation, Manipulation, Gore, Blood
STATUS: Open
People have been sticking close to the buildings, to each other, to not being out late after dark if they can help it, and even then, almost never alone. There's a charged air to everything, like a shot about to crack, or like they are strung up and held in a never ending loop on that second of shock the moment after the crack sounds, before the body can relax again.
Mapping has slowed to nothing this week, and Jo's among the many who remind people to be more careful when hunting right now. The Village seeming less and less safe with the animals that had appeared in the wide open of the buildings and fountain, with no one seeing anything, which made the dark, closed in shadows of the forest seems even darker and even more closed in.
She's as much not expecting it as expecting it, whens she opens the door, intending to head to the house she's sharing with Kol and Thorfinn, and there's a huge hulking animal form mountained right in front of the path into and out of the Inn. The same path people walked all day to get food, and everything else.
"Fuck," is revulsion for the smell, black and bloody and something else, the sheer size of the body, the still towering form, with its cracked and somehow dangling antlers, before her hand is tightening on the door still in it and she's calling back inside. "We've got another one!"
Jo goes for the knife in her boot even though there hasn't been an attacked attached to one yet, before she's headed down to the huge beast. It looks like the others have all reported in, and gotten written down by her. Ripped apart by teeth and claws, chunks of flesh hanging here and there, but nothing taken, nothing missing. Limbs twisted and contort in impossible ways, pointing toward the door.
The blood everywhere all around it. On the steps. On porch. On the door.
More like it was thrown than like it sprayed in an attack.
The same as the animal that looks like it was dropped -- no, placed -- so far from where it ever might be found in this place. Leaving Jo looking quickly all around there. The whole wide space of the creeping, settling early night dark of this place.
WHERE: In front of The Inn
WHEN: November 13
OPEN TO: Everyone (Especially those in the inn or close enough to hear!)
WARNINGS: Animal Death's w/ Mutilation, Manipulation, Gore, Blood
STATUS: Open
People have been sticking close to the buildings, to each other, to not being out late after dark if they can help it, and even then, almost never alone. There's a charged air to everything, like a shot about to crack, or like they are strung up and held in a never ending loop on that second of shock the moment after the crack sounds, before the body can relax again.
Mapping has slowed to nothing this week, and Jo's among the many who remind people to be more careful when hunting right now. The Village seeming less and less safe with the animals that had appeared in the wide open of the buildings and fountain, with no one seeing anything, which made the dark, closed in shadows of the forest seems even darker and even more closed in.
She's as much not expecting it as expecting it, whens she opens the door, intending to head to the house she's sharing with Kol and Thorfinn, and there's a huge hulking animal form mountained right in front of the path into and out of the Inn. The same path people walked all day to get food, and everything else.
"Fuck," is revulsion for the smell, black and bloody and something else, the sheer size of the body, the still towering form, with its cracked and somehow dangling antlers, before her hand is tightening on the door still in it and she's calling back inside. "We've got another one!"
Jo goes for the knife in her boot even though there hasn't been an attacked attached to one yet, before she's headed down to the huge beast. It looks like the others have all reported in, and gotten written down by her. Ripped apart by teeth and claws, chunks of flesh hanging here and there, but nothing taken, nothing missing. Limbs twisted and contort in impossible ways, pointing toward the door.
The blood everywhere all around it. On the steps. On porch. On the door.
More like it was thrown than like it sprayed in an attack.
The same as the animal that looks like it was dropped -- no, placed -- so far from where it ever might be found in this place. Leaving Jo looking quickly all around there. The whole wide space of the creeping, settling early night dark of this place.
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They'll come back soon enough. Enough of the larger, taller, stronger men to drag it off. But it sat there ominous in the dark and Jo hated this place fiercely as she made herself go back to the railing, and a step. Hated wondering how long it had sat there like that and they hadn't known. Or whether it just appeared shortly before she did. The impossibility that was possibility.
Jo hated it, but she grit her teeth and worked at the mess, as it, too, worked into her skin.
Looking over occasionally as planned over her fingers cleaning what she'd write down about this one, too.
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And it feels appropriate.
She scrubs, shuffles over on her knees, scrubs some more. Hopes it does good, or at least does something. There doesn't seem to be enough sun here to bleach anything.
"I just," Kate says, biting at the words, "I don't get how they'd be gettin' off on this. Makin' us jump for months of this horseshit."
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Being right didn't mean she had the answer. It just meant more people didn't have the answer with her.
She hates that she actually says, "I don't either. It keeps everyone on edge. Anywhere else it might polarize people.
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"I know," is what she says. "We've been workin' at that, haven't we."
It's not really a question. She's not, exactly, either including or excluding Jo.
But Kate's set out to try and keep the paranoia from tear scratches into everyone. Some, is useful. She of all people will never say it isn't. But aside from Miss Margaery's screaming at Jon's redhaired woman, there's not been shouting accusations, pointed fingers.
She'll do everything she can to keep it that way.
"In your, um. Travels. Been somewhere like this? This kind of set-up?"
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They were different, but they meant the same at the end of the night and road.
They didn't want people dying, or completely divided, lost, forgotten, dead.
Claimed by the insanity of this place, and if Jo is scrubbing harder for those thoughts, and some of the anger finally shuddering harder through her veins as her vestiges or surprise or shock give way, at least it helps the mess. She hates that they aren't winning, and this is getting worse, and the feeling of how knowledge versus helplessness doesn't lighten. Not even for all they do manage and can do, have done, refused to falter in the face of.
Jo is certain she might have missed something in the way Kate phrases the last bit, and she looks over. "The cage of this village?"