Event | Satellite | Salvage & Repairs

[ironwood]

Characters: Any and all!
Date: May 22 - 26, 2013
Location: Keeliai, turtleside, ARSHEPHELIOS cluster remains
Situation: The fires are put out and repairs around the city have begun. With life preserved, eyes turn now to what exactly crashed down into the ocean.
Warnings/Rating: Please put CW in your subject lines

Satellite Crash Event

Crash Landing | Salvage Party | Shocking Spectres

Questions | Keeliai | Repairs | Salvage | Other | Oceanside | Shellside | ARSHEPHELIOS-side | Coralside


The majority of fires are reported as under control and repair crews start forming up to bring Keeliai back to her pre-scorched splendour. This is all well and good, but there remains a cluster of debris that crashed into the ocean drawing the attention of salvagers and Foreigners alike. Boats and teams form up and head up to scour the ocean, where the cluster rests upon an expansive and ancient coral formation and can be reached within ten metres of the surface.

Comments

[cantbewalled]

[Prussia is quick to try and steady him. He doesn't look that great himself, covered in blood and dirt. But he's not the one looking like he's about to fall over on his feet.]

I admire determination as much as the next guy, but it's just stupid to not know your own limits. You're going to melt or something Schneeflocke.

[wintershepherd]

I don't think I melt. [ dry, humourless smile ] I think I just stop working right. But that doesn't matter, there were people in those buildings.

[ He reaches out and touches Prussia's sleeve though it's as much for steadiment as to illustrate the point, seeing that the nation is also covered in evidence of his relief efforts. ]

We got them out, right?

[cantbewalled]

You sure look like you'll start chipping off like a wet icecube soon. [Not really, but he looks worse than a wilted flower or a teddy bear missing it's stuffing like this and Prussia isn't amused.] And of course we got them out! As if we'd prove them right by letting them die. [He doesn't particularly like the kedan, but like hell he would let them just die.]

Come on, brat. Where's the nearest icebox to shove you into? A meat locker? You're useless like this.

[wintershepherd]

[ Even though Jack realizes the description is probably accurate, he still laughs a little. He looks around, trying to figure out where he is. He feels too unsteady to fly and his access to the Stark freezer is rooftop. But he does recognize that they're near Zatanna's old job at the ice cream shop, and he thinks, that will work for right now, and he rambles off the short directions. ]

You don't have to... I can get there.

[ Probably. ]

[ Maybe. ]

[cantbewalled]

You got spunk kid. It reminds me of...me! [He laughs but then his expression just widens into more of a smirk.] But shut up and let the great Prussia handle this.

[Because really kid you're being dumb. And if Jack doesn't stop him he'll be hefting him right up over his shoulder and taking off in the direction he gave.]

[wintershepherd]

[ Jack is sure that's intended as a compliment, so he smiles and nods even though he's having a hard time comprehending even simple things right now, so he doesn't react to being told to shut up. The spirit starts off in the direction he pointed out, steps wobbling a little but under his own power. ]

Will you come wake me up in a few hours... I don't think there's an alarm clock.

[cantbewalled]

[He thinks of it as one, but really Jack do you want to be compared to him? Stubbornness is a good trait! When it isn't getting you killed. Prussia will be keeping an eye on Jack because he's not sure just how long this kid is going to stay on his own two feet.]

Sure, whatever, in a few hours. Once everything's under control and people stop being dumbasses about a little meteor shower.

[wintershepherd]

[ Jack gave Prussia a smile when he realizes he's being followed, determined to keep up conversation. ]

Oh hey, you're old right? Do you remember that meteor shower in November of 1872? They said a comet broke up and it rained them for hours. I've never seen anything else like it.

[cantbewalled]

I'm in my prime, you welp. [He will smack Jack in the head if he calls him old again, even with him being as out of it as he looks to be.] And 1872 wasn't even that long ago! You wouldn't believe how many people were sure that shower was aliens or some other crazy shit.

[wintershepherd]

Old in a good way!

[ But maybe still a little teasing. ]

People just... need to make sense of things, that's why most adults can't see spirits.

[cantbewalled]

You better mean it that way. And humans can be really stupid when they want to be. They make things more complicated just by not believing.

[He should know. Too many of his own bosses needed some convincing.]

[wintershepherd]

I don't think they're stupid, I think they just... don't want to see things sometimes.

[cantbewalled]

Refuse to accept fact just because you don't want to is stupid.

[Oh is he the pot calling the kettle black.] They're young though. Eventually they'll have to get over it.

[wintershepherd]

[ counters: ] Just because something's not cynical doesn't make it stupid.

[cantbewalled]

That's what you think. [Not buying it Jack.] Everything cynical is stupid, because it's just them using bias to justify ignoring facts. Just as bad as people who believe everything people tell them no matter what it is.

[wintershepherd]

[ The spirit sighed, too tired physically and mentally to muster much of a retort. ]

Okay Gilbert.

[ He wearily lifts his staff to indicate the ice cream shop coming up across the street. ]

There it is.

[cantbewalled]

[Jack should get used to that feeling. He will experience often with Prussia. Prussia looks up and laughs. He reaches out to pat Jack a little roughly on the back--not really thinking.]

Gonna put your inside the ice cream box?

[wintershepherd]

[ drowsily: ] Just for a nap. Promise you'll come wake me up.