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Tweak says, "everybody was kung fu fighting"

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-10-20 15:23:00

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294 // beach mingle
[ Camping out on the beach is fun, right? Sleeping under the stars, lulled to sleep by the lapping of the waves and the rustling in the palm fronds. This isn't a refugee camp, this is a resort!

Several larger tents have been prepared on the beach. If this isn't enough there's a bunch of smaller ones ready to be set up, along with the permanent beach huts if tents aren't your thing. The makings of hot dogs and s'mores are available by the fire pits and if you have additional dietary desires, the convenience store isn't far away!

Enjoy! ]

(( ooc: Event information HERE! Please remember that if your character does not spend the night on the beach, they'll be forced to camp out on a park bench or in a coffee shop. The apartment buildings are off limits until next dayweek. ))

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	redclayheroics 2014-10-27 05:44 pm UTC (link)
	Sure, I can show you. [ He pushes himself up on his feet again, gathering the lemon and ginger. ] Hey, Nico... before we do that. Hold up for a moment. [ Doesn't matter how gross he feels, there needs to be hugs happening right now. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-10-27 07:19 pm UTC (link)
	Um... [Why. Why hold up.] Okay. [No one has hugged Nico since he was ten years old. He's not used to affection. He feels awkward and a little scared. At the first sign of what's about to happen, he tenses up.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-10-28 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	'mma try not to get you sick. [ There need to be more hugs then. So much catching up to do. This one will be kept brief though, a tight, solid squeeze around the younger boy's shoulders. ] Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-10-28 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	[He just ... stands there. And he feels bad about that. He does. His mind shuts down, and his heart feels like it might burst or break. It's good that only lasts a moment. He might fall apart otherwise.] I ... I'll start the water. [He just needs to process. Give him a minute.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-10-28 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	[ It's okay. Nico isn't trying to choke him out or punch him or any of the things Helix did when Aidan first introduced him to the wonder of hugs. Being stiff as a board isn't that bad, all things considered. ] Alright... I'll come help you soon. [ Minute given. He'll just get to peeling the ginger for now. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nico_di_angelo
2014-10-29 06:24 pm UTC (link)

[By the time he's got the water in the kettle and set it over the fire, he feels a little less frazzled. He sits with his arms around his knees. He wishes he had normal reactions to normal things, like hugging.

He makes neat piles out of the rest of the supplies until Aidan is done with the ginger. Though he really shouldn't be doing anything at all. Still no cups.] I can do the rest. You should be sitting still. Are you warm enough? I can find more blankets. I need to get cups anyway.

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redclayheroics
2014-10-30 11:45 am UTC (link)

[ Normal is overrated. Happy is what's really important and if you can't achieve that, then settling for content or even just not in immediate pain seems good enough. He's not thinking much about Nico's reaction as something negative. Most of all he's just happy he was allowed a hug in the first place. ]

'm fine. Ain't like I got th' plague or anythin', 's just a cold. [ But he appreciates the concern. ] You okay with a tent and everything for tonight?

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nico_di_angelo
2014-10-30 04:55 pm UTC (link)

Colds can get worse if you don't take care of them. I've talked to a lot of dead people who died from easily cured illnesses. [Mostly people from countries where treatment for those illnesses was out of their hands, or the very poor and homeless. He would sometimes help Thanatos guide whole handfuls of children down into the Underworld.]

I hadn't really thought about a tent. It wasn't really cold last night, so I figured it would be fine tonight too. They've got to be done with the rain for a while, right?

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	redclayheroics 2014-10-31 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah... I know. I've been sicker 'n this in a whole lot worse places an' I ain't kicked th' bucket yet. I'll be fine, Nico. Don't worry. [ Though it warms his heart that he does worry. Like the fire of a thousand suns. ] I hope so. You gonna sleep out in th' sand? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-10-31 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	[He'll worry if he wants to, Aidan. He'll do it in his head if you like, but he will worry.] That was kinda the plan. I don't know the first thing about pitching a tent. I was going to save myself the humiliation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-11-01 09:42 am UTC (link)
	I could help you, if you want. I've pitched plenty of tents in my life. [ Not like that, you perv. ] 's warm enough to sleep without one, but if you want some privacy... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-11-01 09:24 pm UTC (link)
	[He's not thinking about himself right now.] I don't need one. But you don't have one? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-11-02 09:07 am UTC (link)
	[ He shakes his head. ] But I'll be fine. I'll just stay close to th' fire. [ He doubts he can sleep with this many people around anyway. Walls can give the illusion of solitude, flimsy tents less so. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-11-03 12:47 am UTC (link)
	[Nico gives Aidan a look that says he does not approve.] But you're sick! [The kettle over the fire whistles before he can go on and he pulls it off and sets it aside. No cups have magically materialized.] I'll go grab some cups. [And also more blankets, if Aidan's going to buckle down outside.] Need anything else? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-11-03 10:23 am UTC (link)
	Nico, c'mon... [ The concern is sweet but god damn it, he's a grown man! He's slept in ditches and trenches and gutters and none of that killed him! ] 'm good. You've already done more than enough. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nico_di_angelo
2014-11-03 09:01 pm UTC (link)

Okay. Shutting up. But if you do die, I'm sticking your soul in a jar and telling it "I told you so" every day for the rest of eternity.

[He stomps into a shadow and returns a minute later, with cups. And an armload of blankets. At least one is for him. He has zero body fat. He does get cold. He knew exactly where to go, and fortunately it was nowhere restricted.]

And there is no such thing as more than enough.

[As if he'd never left. He starts working on the tea now that he has something to put it in.]

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	redclayheroics 2014-11-05 10:33 am UTC (link)
	Fair enough. [ Nico what even are you don't stick him in a jar. What is this, All Night ? Also this back and forth thing is giving him a headache which, as it happens, also makes him reluctantly settle down with his blanket and a sulky expression. ] You sound like my mom. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-11-05 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	[There will be no more back and forthing. Nico's feeling a bit worn out from all of that. He sets Aidan's tea near him to steep while he sulks.] I was born in the thirties. I think I have every right to sound like your mother. Or your grandmother, even. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-11-06 10:18 am UTC (link)
	I dunno... we're not even from th' same world. Maybe you haven't even been born back where I'm from. [ A weird thing to think about. What are thirties anyway. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-11-06 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	[They are a time period seventy years in his world's past, which would make him older than you. (Except he's not.)] Maybe I don't exist at all. [How freeing would that be?] What's your world like? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-11-06 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	What it's like? [ Isn't that a question. ] It's... big. Real big. I've travelled halfway cross th' galaxy and back by now. [ And once upon a time that would've been the greatest adventure. So few things turn out the way you want them to. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-11-06 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	Galaxy? [Nico straightens up a bit. Pirates and dorky card games might be the keys to his heart, but there was a little room left over for space junk.] What for? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-11-06 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know anymore. [ He sighs. ] First I was running for my life an' then I was just trying to survive. Lately, I've been trying to get home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nico_di_angelo 2014-11-06 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	[Nico nods slowly. He can relate to that. Maybe not in the same way. He doesn't know Aidan's story. And he doesn't have a home to get back to.] I hope you make it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2014-11-06 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	[ Maybe some day he'll explain the whole thing. Not today. Not now. He's not sure he has the strength to look back just yet. ] Yeah... I hope so too. Don't look like it, but... you never know, right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)