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thearena2013-03-19 12:44 am
iselldrugstothecommunity) wrote in thearena2013-03-19 12:44 am
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I Sleep Beneath the Golden Hill [Open]
WHO | Howard Bassem and anyone
WHAT | Howard builds himself a hidey-hole in Thunder Mountain, steals a bunch of prop guns.
WHEN | The day after the Conucopia.
WHERE | Frontierland
WARNINGS/NOTES | None yet.
Howard finds shelter in the crannies and nooks of Thunder Mountain, but he doesn't sleep for a while. Instead, he works through the night, replacing solid boards on the bridge with rotting ones from down by the water and the fake dinosaur skeleton. It's difficult work, especially without any tools, but it's manageable. He undoes screws with his hands and with broken pieces of the anamatronic wildlife and some of the remnants of the 'saloon'. He uses some of the wires scavenged from the decapitated fake goat to tie himself to the rail while he works, but even with that there are a few moments where he's convinced he's going to fall in the dark and break his back against the hard cement ground.
By morning his hands are throbbing from scrapes and splinters, but he's managed to isolate a section of Thunder Mountain for his own safety. One of the little peaks the train goes through has a rail bridge on both sides, and Howard's made sure that unless someone knows where they're stepping - someone like him, who rigged the boards - it'll crack underfoot. It's also not a terrible view. He can see that there's still work to be done, he still needs to take the good track boards and hide them so his trap isn't deducible, but he's exhausted.
He's taken all of the prop guns from the shooting gallery and thrown them in the water, except one, which he takes up with him to his hideout. Not everyone will necessarily know that it's a prop. He has a stick of dynamite, too, possibly a prop, although he refuses to sleep near it. It's left out on the track, where he can run and get it but where he doesn't have to worry about rolling onto it when he rests. And he's broken off a sharp piece of wood from a rotting crate, and it'll serve well enough as a stake.
He sleeps fitfully through the morning and wakes around mid-day. He slinks out of the hideout, standing up a good twenty feet high on his little peak, and surveys the surroundings. He knows this makes him visible, but for the moment he feels safe enough that he doesn't mind being seen if it means seeing other people first.
Once he's satisfied the coast is clear, he walks across the track like a cat on the skinny edge of a fence, both arms held out like a tightrope-walker, until he's back on solid ground, and goes to the water and drinks it with his hands.
WHAT | Howard builds himself a hidey-hole in Thunder Mountain, steals a bunch of prop guns.
WHEN | The day after the Conucopia.
WHERE | Frontierland
WARNINGS/NOTES | None yet.
Howard finds shelter in the crannies and nooks of Thunder Mountain, but he doesn't sleep for a while. Instead, he works through the night, replacing solid boards on the bridge with rotting ones from down by the water and the fake dinosaur skeleton. It's difficult work, especially without any tools, but it's manageable. He undoes screws with his hands and with broken pieces of the anamatronic wildlife and some of the remnants of the 'saloon'. He uses some of the wires scavenged from the decapitated fake goat to tie himself to the rail while he works, but even with that there are a few moments where he's convinced he's going to fall in the dark and break his back against the hard cement ground.
By morning his hands are throbbing from scrapes and splinters, but he's managed to isolate a section of Thunder Mountain for his own safety. One of the little peaks the train goes through has a rail bridge on both sides, and Howard's made sure that unless someone knows where they're stepping - someone like him, who rigged the boards - it'll crack underfoot. It's also not a terrible view. He can see that there's still work to be done, he still needs to take the good track boards and hide them so his trap isn't deducible, but he's exhausted.
He's taken all of the prop guns from the shooting gallery and thrown them in the water, except one, which he takes up with him to his hideout. Not everyone will necessarily know that it's a prop. He has a stick of dynamite, too, possibly a prop, although he refuses to sleep near it. It's left out on the track, where he can run and get it but where he doesn't have to worry about rolling onto it when he rests. And he's broken off a sharp piece of wood from a rotting crate, and it'll serve well enough as a stake.
He sleeps fitfully through the morning and wakes around mid-day. He slinks out of the hideout, standing up a good twenty feet high on his little peak, and surveys the surroundings. He knows this makes him visible, but for the moment he feels safe enough that he doesn't mind being seen if it means seeing other people first.
Once he's satisfied the coast is clear, he walks across the track like a cat on the skinny edge of a fence, both arms held out like a tightrope-walker, until he's back on solid ground, and goes to the water and drinks it with his hands.
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Gaius paused. "Wait, so in your outrealm, people can't do magic?" That was so weird. "Then what do they use to fight dragons?"
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"I guess if we had dragons, we'd use machine guns."
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Gaius thought, not for the first time, that this would all be made much easier if the people in charge had sat down and explained things to everyone over a nice crop of jam pastries. Or not brought him here at all, really. "Does your realm not have professions or something?"
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It's strange to Howard; there are only two of them, but they're talking about three different sorts of worlds. Modern Earth, whatever Gaius' world is like, and the FAYZ.
"Machine guns and tanks are like...gigantic crossbows that shoot really fast, I guess."
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He tried to envision what Howard described, and: "Oh, you mean a ballista! Kind of awkward to cart around, though, aren't they? If it was a fast flier, you'd be toast before you could even fix your aim." Then again, the same could be said for most approaches. "I could probably work one of those, but I don't much like being a sitting duck."
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He gestures with his hands, "throw the projectile, it like, shoots it. With gunpowder. Um, an explosion. Boom. And you don't have to spend forever reloading."
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He paused for a moment. "If you could armor it well enough, it'd be a real menace. Except for the moving it around part. I don't care how fast you can reload the thing; those things weigh a ton."
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Come to think of it, the modern age is quite full of smoke and gunpowder.
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EXPLAIN HOW IT WASN'T MAGIC, HOWARD.
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Like, duh, Gaius. Now ask him another easy question, like, who knows, the secret of life or something.
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"Anyway, I'm gonna go find something to eat. There's gotta be some sweets around here somewhere."
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"I already checked all the old candy shops and restaurants around here." Howard gestures to a row of Frontierland restaurants. "This place is like...the future version of a place I went as a kid. Anyway, ain't nothing worth eating here, and that's saying a lot, even from me. I think if you tried some of the candy your face might break."
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"But there still might be some fruit trees or berries growing around here. Unless, of course, they want us to starve to death instead of knifing each other."
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He waves a little as Gaius goes.