Camp Fortitude

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.

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.

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.

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

Is everyone else's water a delightful shade of brown and gross - or is that just us in medical?

Has anyone been keeping a list of all the people in camp? I think we need a roll call to figure out if anyone else is unaccounted for.

Can everyone check in here? And if there's someone you haven't seen or heard from in a while, say so?

I'm fine, everyone.

I just got kind of freaked, that's all.

Those two people out there though...

They are very much not fine.

(( posted shortly after the add on to Caroline's post below ))

Until this clears up I'm asking for no one to leave Camp, if it's thick out there too you might not find your way back. I'm also asking for people to stick in pairs and make sure you let people know where you're going.

I need a few volunteers to help some members of defense run a rope from the housing complex to the medical bay. We'll put some lights along it. This way if someone needs to get there they'll have a guide.

Everything in the greenhouse has been covered and as far as I know there's nothing that needs to be done today so it might be a good day to just stay inside.

I know a lot of you are freaking out, but we will get through this - we just need to stay calm and keep everyone aware of what is going on. If you see anything, or need help, just let someone know.

DEFENSE (INCL RESERVES) + TECH
Any chance we can cobble together some thermal monitors? Might give us a better chance at seeing what, if anything, is out there?

I need one team to set up the rope - I'm hoping between what's in the ammunition bunkers and the greenhouse we'll have enough to get a line going.

Tony, Rogue, Sam - do you think any of you could get high enough to get above this and see how widespread this is?

As far as everything else - well, we've got some decisions to make right now:

Stark wanted to switch over our power supply today. The system would be a hell of lot more stable, but the downside is we'd be without anything for 30 seconds. Which doesn't seem like a long time but if we can't see more than ten feet in front of us that's a long time. I'm personally inclined to the good of it outweighing the bad, especially if this fog is bringing in something worse than just reduced visibility. Last thing we need is to have no power on top of that. We either do this in the next hour or we don't do it at all, unless the fog stops coming in the way it is right now.

I'd like to reduce our patrol area, bring it in closer to the locations where people will be. I'm thinking a wide circle around the housing and medical, and then the greenhouse to make sure if something gets into Camp it doesn't destroy our food. If the fog itself is bringing things in then watching our fence might be a waste of time and resources. Thoughts?

JOEY.
Are you freaking out? Because I'm freaking out.

ETA (PUBLIC)
Uhm hi. So this is by no means what is going to happen but I've seen this before. Well, Joey and I have seen this before. And I'm not saying this will happen the same way - but when we got stuck in a ash fog grossness thing like this before it got pretty bad. Like giant spiders and super creepy things bad. I still have nightmares about that freaking faceless zombie looking thing - We'd see stuff out of the corner of eyes all the time, and most of it didn't try anything but still creepy. Again I am not saying that this will be what happens but just, you know, heads up?

I feel like anything I say here is going to pale in comparison to Bo's introduction.

Hey, I'm Sam Wilson. Just got here. Spent a couple days outside before I stumbled upon this place. Caroline tells me that there are some friendly faces here though.

Well, here I am. In this little pocket paraidse paradise.

No sarcasm intended. Seriously. This place is so much better than out there.

I'm Percy, by the way. I'm going to be helping out with farming stuff, I guess. I'm really good with water. That sounds really weird.

So, here's the deal. I think I'm from here. I mean, I woke up here, and I don't really remember much from before. And by much, I mean... like anything. At all. But apparently nobody is from here, so... that sucks.

Anyway, thanks for finding me. And bringing me here.

This last couple of weeks has been rather quiet and low key... it feels almost like the calm before a very big storm. I hope not. Maybe we should have a master list of birthdays, an excuse to celebrate as often as possible.

Besides, I can make awesome paper crowns. I'm learning I have more skills than just bossing people around.

Hope the new arrivals are settling in well enough.

Supply Team

I would like some yarn. And some knitting implements, even if they had to be makeshift.

Newt

Everything good. I've not heard anything since you arrived. I always assume that no news is good news.

Wow.

Guess I'm going to be single forever since I didn't proposition anyone on my first day here.

Now that I'm all caught up on what we can and cannot do around this place, the only question I have is: what do you people do for fun around here?

And, because I lied about only have one question, is there anyone else around here from Mystic Falls? I can't be the only one here.

[Sunday morning]

Do you know what's awesome?

Sex. Sex is awesome.

I feel amazing.

[Isaac]

That was awesome. I'm so glad we did that.

If you want to do it again, just message me or something, okay? Because I totally want to do it again.

[Derek]

Are you going to help me be human then?

I've heard whispers of poker games and I would be insulted that I haven't been personally invited, but I know it's because you all know that I would beat you. It's fine. I completely understand.

First time in as long as I can remember I didn't wake up screaming.

Okay, so five of us are down for playing poker. Not a bad number but we could use a couple more players to make seven.

Tonight's doable if that works for all of us or tomorrow. Let me know and I'll set up a table at the community center.

[Edit]
So far it's shaping up like it'll be tonight.

Alright so there's been a lot of new people again in the past bit and it looks like it might not be letting up any time soon so I thought I'd go over a few things here. I'm Steve for anyone I haven't talked to yet, and I was one of the first people to arrive here. We've been operational since May of last year and though we don't know why, our numbers have all but doubled in the past two months. That's a lot of new people in a short amount of time and I know a lot of us are coming from some very different worlds and lives from each other. If anyone has any questions, concerns, or suggestions about anything, bring it up. I know it sounds cheesy, but we're all in this together.

Dr. Snow mentioned it, but it bears repeating, if you missed out on her initial round of testing - or have even changed your mind since then - be sure to talk to her. A cure or vaccine might be too late for the original inhabitants of this world but could keep us and anyone else coming through safe.

If you're interested in learning some foundations of defense skills Derek runs a class every other day at the Community Center - make sure to talk to him if you want to join. If anyone is interested in learning some more advanced techniques comment here and we can get you set up.

We will be doing a supply run soon so if there is anything anyone needs, please let me know. As always I'll take the wishlist but make no guarantees.

NATASHA.

Hey, can I ask you something?

KATE.

Is there a specific day you needed to go out of Camp, or is it flexible? Ideally I'd like to make sure it didn't line up with days some of us are already out on supply runs - which I'm trying to get going toward the end of the week here.

TOSH.

Let me know what's needed to make the CCTV a reality, I'll find as much of it as we can when we're out.

DEFENSE.

We need to stock up. Badly. If the growth keeps up at this rate we're going to burn through resources. If you haven't talked to Cisco about getting a suit, do it. Unless Dr. Snow has cleared you as immune no one goes on a run without adequate protection. I'd like to head out toward the end of the week. We've got myself, Sara, Natasha, Barry, and Rogue with suits, did I miss anyone? I'd like to go out with enough that we could split up and cover more ground once we hit the cities, if we could do three and three that would be ideal.