Ladymance Landfall Log

[tasteforpoison]

Characters: Yelena (tasteforpoison), Annabeth Chase (sophos) and anyone who gets invited to join in threads.
Date: All month loooong~
Location: Mainland!
Situation: Yelena and Annabeth make trips to the mainland for adventures and exploring!
Warnings/Rating: Fighting thiiiiings and stuff at some point. There might be injuries we'll see!

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[sophos]

[Annabeth sighs, staring out herself as they walk, grateful for the knife hitting her side with each step.]

I heard it might be barren, but nothing to this extent. Glad we packed a little extra water.

[tasteforpoison]

[Yelena's just as pleased for all that they packed, and the excess they brought as well.]

Me too. I know they said there wasn't anything out there but...there's barely anything here. A decent wind will kick up dirt and dust too, I'm sure...

[sophos]

[She makes a monosyllabic noise of contemplation.] We should be wary of dust storms. There's no telling when they might start up, so keep an eye out for potential areas of shelter.

[...even if there's not much in their current line of sight along those veins, which only makes her more anxious to find something.]

[tasteforpoison]

[Yelena glances over at that.]

Dust storms? What do we do if that happens? Did we pack a tent?

[Truthfully she doesn't remember half the things Annabeth packed for them.]

[sophos]

I think I brought one. [She falls into thought, trying to recall if she did indeed shove one in a pack. Usually she's good with just sleeping bags, and whatever it was probably got filed under "something to sleep in" above the actual classification.]

We might not get to put it up in time, but we can definitely try. At the very least we can cover ourselves, but we really should try to find some kind of structure for absolute safety.

[tasteforpoison]

Even if we can't get it up all of the way, just covering ourselves up with it would probably work, yeah.

[Yelena hefts her pack over her shoulder a bit better.]

So what do you usually do when you make these jaunts with the others? On your quests and such?

[sophos]

There's usually some kind of end goal or location in mind, even a break location. So far there's vast expanses of nothing. We should probably keep going until we find - well, anything. Any kind of landmark.

[tasteforpoison]

[With a nod, Yelena continues scanning the area.]

The lack of cover is a bit unnerving, but at least this way it'll be harder for someone to sneak up on us.

[sophos]

Unless they can go invisible. [It's half teasing, half actual concern.]

But even invisibility leaves a mark if you're not careful enough.

[tasteforpoison]

[HEY DON'T JOKE ABOUT THAT Yelena is just going to start looking around for footprints that appear for no reason.]

What kind of mark?

[Which is as close as she'll get to asking about Annabeth herself while in a public area.]

[sophos]

Footprints, though they're easy to cover up and easier to pass off as having been there a while.

But breathing can give it away - too loud, too heavy. And it if someone's particularly intuitive and in tune to their surroundings, a sense of presence. In my case, I need to watch out for my shadow, too.

[tasteforpoison]

[It all makes sense to Yelena, up until the last part. She blinks and looks down at Annabeth's shadow automatically.]

So, when you go invisible you still cast a shadow?

[sophos]

The biggest inconvenience of it, to be honest. It's easy to pass off in a big city, but a lot more noticeable in the middle of nowhere.

It was a gift from my mother, so I'm not really sure the exact reason my shadow's still there, but I imagine it's because my body is still there - just shielded from view by godly magic. Or something like that, at any rate.