Camp Fortitude

I saw Barry's post...you doing okay?

CAITLIN.
He's gone. There's no sign of him. His room is empty. His things are gone. I think He went back home.

PUBLIC.
Cisco Ramon is gone.

For those of you who still needed suits, come to me. I'll finish what he started. If anyone here knows how to work with clothing, now would be a good time to step up.

One thing this place has going for it? Incredible views of the night sky. Unobstructed for the most part - very limited light pollution - presented with that kind of beauty, one can almost forget it's because of the collapse of civilization.

On a related note. For those of you out at night, try not to worry about the big black cat. I'm on your side.

I guess I'm supposed to introduce myself or something. So, hi. I'm John Connor - John Baum - John.

(( backdated to sunday evening ))
GREENHOUSE CREW.

So - how do you guys want to do this meeting thing? Anyone want to volunteer, want to pick a name out of a hat or whoever draws the short straw? Put it to a vote?

/FILTER

Anyone want to head to the gym and play dodgeball or something? I'm bored.

[Filtered to Tech, Caroline, Joey, Steve, Derek, Caitlin]

I...don't really know how to word this, or how to approach what I want to say, but I guess I'll start by saying that I really don't want to offend or shame anyone but I know I can't be the only one who's really uncomfortable with all the sex talk on the network.

I guess I just was wondering if there's any way to establish decency guidelines for what can be posted?

[UNFILTERED}

And since everyone's being open and honest, I'm not human either. I was born on the planet Lorien, about a year's travel from earth.

Pepper is pregnant.

I'm activating the reactors in an hour, Allen and I have been doing runs. Power will be out for maybe five seconds, the more we practice the faster at it he gets.

I'm thinking about building a mapping device so we can have a basic idea of the surrounding terrain.

I'm going down to the gym, I'll be back in an hour or two. I just wanted to give you a heads up so you don't freak out or anything.

CARE.

Because if I don't beat the shit out of a kickboxing bag, I'm going to beat the shit out of Stiles right now, I swear to God, and I'd rather it be the bag.

So I have a really, really important question that nobody's talking about.

How many condoms do we have? I mean, are they rationed? What do we do when we run out? I am not going to stop having sex because it's awesome and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

My name's Elena Michaels. I just arrived here the other day, but I've been reading through some recent conversations on the network and want to put something out there.

I'm a werewolf. In fact, I'm the Alpha of the North American Pack in my world. It's obvious that there are people here from many different universes, so I suspect that none of the supernaturals here have heard of us. I'm also a representative on something called the Interracial Council, which is a group of supernaturals who meet on a regular basis to address any issues that may be affecting our community as a whole. There are a number of supernatural races represented on the council.

Given some of the posts I've seen recently, I think it might do us well to put together something similar here. We all need to support each other and ensure that we are keeping ourselves and the other residents of the camp safe. There may be people here with unique dietary needs or other issues that they need help managing in this type of environment. I can understand the hesitation to be open about who and what you are, in fact, making this kind of announcement is strictly against Pack Law at home. But given the circumstances of what we're facing here, I think it's necessary to work together.

If you'd rather not respond publicly, please at least send me a message and let me know if you need anything.


[Clay & Kate]

I didn't mention either of you, but if you would like to speak openly about yourselves, consider this my permission as your Alpha. I don't see any reason to hide what we are here. We can be more useful if we're honest.

Unless there are objections, all things considered which would be fine and I honestly don't care, but I should pretend like I do, so I would understand, I'd like to keep offering the self-defense class if people are still interested in taking it. If the masses aren't, but a few of the current students still do, then I'm happy to give private lessons in my free time. For those unfamiliar: these classes are solely beginner material and are not at all meant to be preparing you for anything other than defending yourself in an emergency and they aren't in any way specific to where we are right now; these are the kinds of skills that you'll be able to find useful in a bad situation back home, just as easily.

CLARKE.

Can't remember which one you are, but I saw Steve mention the thing about the smokehouse. I don't know anything about that but I know that I'm strong and I'm bored more often than I'm not, so I'd like to offer to help with that.

So I don't know how to not be stupidly dramatic about this, but I also don't want to try and make excuses for anything not normal I might be caught doing, especially since I'm trying to get on defense. Maybe I don't have to announce this at all, but I'm getting fed up with pretending in a place like this and people thinking I can't fight because of age. Seriously

Hi, I'm Kira. I'm a Kitsune, of the thunder variety. So I'm fast (not Flash fast), I heal, I'm great with weapons and I generate and absorb electricity. No, the brown out was not me.

Questions, comments, concerns? No? Cool.

I've got some fresh carrots from this morning, if anyone is looking for some, and I could use an extra set of hands on hauling to food to the community center.

And here I was, beginning to despair that the post-apocalyptic wasteland would have Twitter.

.... hallelujah. Or close enough, I suppose.

I've seen a lot of weird things in my life, but this one takes the cake.

Elena Michaels. Just got here. Spent about a day finding my way here by following a familiar scent trail.

Clay? Are you and the kids here?

[CAROLINE, SARA, JOEY, CAITLIN]
We're going to have a night where nothing exists for at least two hours and we're going to drink and laugh and just appreciate that we're all still here. I'm not cooking because I'd like to keep you all still here.

[SAM]
I'm worried.

[STEVE.]
Are you alr
Of course you're not
Where are you right now?

How many of you have experience building a society from the leftovers of civilization? Maybe rather than passing judgment on the people who are making the effort to actually keep us safe, you should find ways to make yourselves useful and be productive members of the camp.

Death is unavoidable in circumstance like this. Yes, it sucks that we lost people, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse. And given the way this settlement is growing, it's entirely likely that it will be worse in the future. If you can't deal with that, then maybe you should try surviving on your own outside the walls.

All that being said, I have experience building and maintaining a smokehouse, if that is something people are interested in getting together.

Back home, I ran support groups for war veterans who were suffering from PTSD. I know that our situation here is different from that, but it's still a difficult one and it would be reasonable for people to have trouble dealing with the things that they've seen here, especially after the events of this past week.

That being said, if there is interest, I would be willing to hold a similar group here at the community center. Or, if you want someone to talk to in a one on one setting, I am happy to listen. Either way, if you're having a hard time with anything, please don't think you have to deal with it on your own. We're all in this together and we need to work as a community to survive this.

A few years ago when I was back home and things had gotten especially crazy, my friend had brought all of us together and we set off paper lanterns to honor those who we had recently lost. I know it might sound a little cheesy, but it was nice and it felt like a good way to pay our respects.

So I made two this morning and I'm going to be down at the lake just after sunset if anyone wanted to join in.

Um
This isn't my thing, I don't really do
Alright, listen up. There's obviously tension going on and something has to be done, but before we do that let me start off by saying this.

( Cut for size. )

Fuck it. I'll be the asshole. So are we not going to talk about the two people who died this past week, one of whom was an untrained Defense member under a team leader who has already asked for specialized training and barely received any? No?

No memorial service? No offers for any kind of counseling to those who are struggling with having to sit on that knowledge or who aren't used to death? Just going to pretend it never happened?

Okay just checking.

STEVE & WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF THE FARM; delayed.

I'm done with Defense. I would appreciate being put on the farm with my sister. It would behoove you to take the advice being given in the conversation between Rogue and I, but if you don't take it then it won't be my problem anymore, anyway