master of disguise

[fintastic]

Who| Feferi & Dave, Venus
What| Feferi engages in "creative" camouflage techniques, finds friends, and slays geese with them
Where| the forest and then the pond
When| week 2
Warnings/Notes| violence against geese?

[ closed - for Dave ]

After a few days in the Arena, Feferi realizes that her technique of trying to hunt others down isn't going so well. Maybe they hear her coming, or maybe it's just bad luck, but it seems like she always winds up somewhere after someone else has moved on. Her tracking skills could use quite a bit of work, so she decides to come up with a new strategy. It takes some effort to put it all together, but she winds up with... something special. It's getting on into the evening by the time she's done, and she's failed to run into anyone yet, but she's come so far that she can't just give up on it.

Settling herself between a couple well-placed bushes, she's pulled a mass of branches and leaves up to cover the rest of her. With a sharpened, pointed stick, in her little pile of forest refuse, she has built herself a rather conspicuous fortress. From the outside, while it might not seem too off from a distance, once anyone gets close, it's pretty obvious that it's been put together by someone. But that's what the stick is for. She listens closely for anyone to approach, ready to jab the stick out at them.

If they wanted her to be better at this, they would have given her a little more warning, or maybe put them on a tropical island with a beach nearby instead.

[ goose hunting - for Dave and Venus ]

It's a good thing that Feferi is a light sleeper and an early riser, otherwise sleeping outdoors like this would take a tougher toll on her than it already has. As it stands, waking up cold is unpleasant, but this morning she has a little extra warmth that she steals from Dave. It doesn't take her long to get up and on her feet and get her things stowed away. She's wary of staying resting in any one place for too long. She'll remember her way back to the little alcove of rocks, but also be mindful that someone else might find it and get the same idea.

First order of the day is to find something to eat. She's had moderate luck slaying animals and either eating them raw or building a little fire to cook them over, and armed with her trusty stick-- rock-sharpened at one end and heavy at the other-- she's almost as perky as ever. You'd never think she was here to murder people, but that comes after breakfast.

"Come on, time to get going! Those honkbeasts are not going to hunt themselves!" There's no need to announce it-- she tells Dave she's going to go hunt some geese as soon as he's awake-- but it's worth repeating to try and get him to follow along once she's ready to go.

Comments

[celebrityskinned]

"Jesus Christ!"

Venus has been hunting geese without success for the last several days. Whenever she's gotten close enough they've fluttered off, as explosive as fireworks as they burst out of the reeds. She's been left scavenging like an alleycat for frogs and minnows, most of which she swallows whole and sometimes alive. Her fingernails have taken on the jagged appearance of a corpse's from having been in the cold pond water so much, and dark bands of mud are visible beneath the formerly flawless French manicure.

But today she's had some success getting her hands on a goose - but not killing it. To her surprise it attacked back, taking a chunk out of her cheek that's spitting blood across the front of her parka. She's wet up to her knees, her toes practically blocks of ice within her boots.

"Well, fuck you, too!" she yells at the goose, not caring who hears her, humiliated and made brasher for it.

am I not turtley enough for the turtle club

[shenunigans]

So far Dave has tracked down a few people briefly, but Karkat is who he has managed to keep around. Karkat and his sweet swag, that is. He wasn't expecting such a vast array of sponsors but he isn't disappointed. Well. He's a little disappointed that he can't find Feferi, because he has a lot of goods he wants to share and he's worried about her. The fake relationship is secondary to the fact that she's his friend and that being here sucks.

He probably looks a little unfamiliar, considering the fact that he has two parkas on at once and a blanker draped around his shoulders like a fashionable cape/shawl. He spies the strange fortress from a little while away, and while he has no way of even imagining it's Feferi, he's compelled to approach it anyway.

Dave makes his way over slowly, hunting knife hanging in his hand and not raised and at the ready. His eyes scan the foliage and surroundings for clues, uncertain as to whether this is a joke or a trap.