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Sydney Sage (passionateaura) wrote in paradisolog,
@ 2016-04-23 18:00:00

Entry tags:

!bonfire, chris argent (argentum), johanna mason (awickedability), ~barry allen (theflash), ~finnick odair (dist4_finnick), ~gale hawthorne (afiercegale), ~jemma simmons (drsimmons), ~lynne masters (lynnemasters), ~maria hill (by_the_book), ~ray palmer (_atom), ~reese williams (aussiewerewolf), ~stiles stilinski (devoided), ~sydney sage (passionateaura)

WHO: EVERYONE
WHAT: Bonfire
WHEN: Saturday Evening
WARNINGS: Anything is possible
STATUS: Open/Ongoing/Multiples/Cross-threading/ETC
OOC NOTE: OTA points (posted, tag in, complete) will apply for threads in this post!

Four days of nonstop rain had most of the people on the island feeling out of sorts and on edge. At least the main camp area stayed dry the past few days so that they could begin building the medical center, but Sydney was glad she suggested another bonfire for this evening, figuring that everyone could use an opportunity to relax and socialize. Maybe by fostering the sense of community even more, they would appease the gods and finally get the sunshine back.

There was plenty of food available for everyone and the fire was blazing for both light and warmth. Off to one side, the finished boards were set up for Cam's bean bag toss game. They really did need to figure out some additional leisure activities they could partake in here without equipment. It was too bad they didn't have a radio.

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Ray Palmer | the A.T.O.M. Exosuit

_atom
2016-04-23 11:02 pm UTC (link)

Maybe this bonfire was going to be different than the last, but if anyone was interested in more show and tell or sharing and caring, Ray was ready this time. Last time, he hadn't been able to offer up any decent stories, because he was more enthralled in the stories that the others were telling. He'd gotten his A.T.O.M. exosuit, though, with the last haul the gods had dropped off in their camp and Ray was ready to talk someone's ear off about the exosuit. That was the one thing he was the most proud of creating in Palmer Tech labs.

When he was ready to speak, he opened the little carrying case inside which the miniaturized version of the suit was held. It stood only a few inches tall in the tiny case, surrounded in padding to keep it safe. "This is easily my biggest technological accomplishment. This...is the A.T.O.M. Exosuit. A.T.O.M. stands for Advanced Technology Operating Mechanism. The functioning components are made from dwarf star alloy which, back home, is a really rare substance I managed to get my hands on, luckily for me. So that makes the suit lightweight but strong. It's fitted with several different functions, the most notable of which are facial recognition software developed by a friend, Felicity Smoak, and of course, the nanotechnology.

"So...as you can see, this suit is...pretty small. Right?" he asked, holding it up in its case. To the casual viewer, it would look like an especially pampered action figure. But when he took it out, the simple press of a button had it expanding to full Ray-sized proportions, opening for him to put on. For the time being, he merely stood beside it, holding it upright with one hand. "But that's just the nanotechnology. So! Interestingly enough, the suit can actually shrink the space between atoms, even the wearer inside it. So what does that mean? Well...basically...I can shrink myself to approximately the size of a human white blood cell. I don't always have to go that small, but I can and I have — which is a story all its own.

"Anyway," he continued with a bright, proud smile, "the suit has lots of other functionality. It can fly, for one. It's also especially durable and can give a little increase in the strengh of the wearer. Largely that has a lot to do with kinetic energy; when the suit is in motion there's more force, and this is also true when it's in its shrunken state. It has weapons onboard, as well...is safe to use in a vacuum with no oxygen, for short periods of time...it also has a portable radiograph, oh! Oh! Oh wow, I actually forgot I had that, oh! Ha! That'll be useful for the medical center...huh." He looked distracted for a moment. "Sorry!" he almost shouted with realization before continuing. "Right, also it has an advanced computer system with a heads up display, which I like to call the HUD for short, on the face plate to keep me in the loop and it has a neutral link to it, which basically means that the suit can be controlled remotely. I used that once, before I learned to fight; I had a friend remote access the suit while I was wearing it to help me take down a bad guy," he said, smirking a little bit at the fact that he'd literally just been given a chance to say that he 'took down a bad guy.'

"Okay so...uhhh...questions? Oh! Duh," he laughed. "Does anyone want to see it in action?"

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Ray and Jemma

drsimmons
2016-04-24 12:24 am UTC (link)

Jemma had intentionally kept a low profile for the last day, after her unintentional but rather embarrassing faux pas last night. She hadn't meant to upset the boy, she had simply been excited at the likelihood of having found someone suffering from a rare condition. She hadn't meant to seem cold, but she had cringed this morning when she'd read over what she'd written last night. She was going to have to be more careful - the nurse and everyone else had scolded her, and with reason. From now on, she would make more effort to think before she spoke, and not allow her excitement to get the best of her. It wasn't a good thing when it hurt other people's feelings, or frightened them. That wasn't the person she wanted to be.

She sat near the fire, listening as Ray spoke. She was still rather fond of him, and he was definitely still on her short list for having a child with when the time came. If, of course, she hadn't fallen out of favor with him. But that was irrelevant right now. Now was a night for stories and camaraderie and she intended to enjoy it.

When she saw his display, her eyes went wide, and she watched in controlled silence. The technology of something like that wasn't Jemma's specialty - it was Fitz's. And she missed Fitz right now, like nothing she'd ever known. He'd be fascinated by that suit. And Jemma wouldn't be worried about proving herself to people who didn't know her. She'd have a friend here, someone in that corner. Bloody hell, she missed him.

"I'd like to see," she said after a moment. Maybe, if she chose to go home, she could at least relate the story to Fitz. She had no doubt that he could figure out how to reconstruct it if she could explain in enough detail.

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Ray and Jemma

_atom
2016-04-24 01:01 am UTC (link)

Ray heard the first voice speak up and his eyes shifted to find the source, his smile brightening when he saw Jemma. He had gotten a good first impression of her, although he hadn't given much — if any — focus on the idea of prospects since he'd arrived. After the night with Patty, he hadn't bothered again with anyone. It wasn't necessarily because he was attached to her, even though he was, but mostly because Ray was used to going for long stretches without sex, whether because he was single or because he was working on something particularly interested that pulled his focus from anything else. He didn't feel particularly needy in that vein and he figured that if he could do without, then he ought to make himself more useful in the downtime. Which, of course, was why he'd thrown himself all in helping people build shelters and learn to make palm fiber cord and, now, help build the medical facility after having worked with Cisco to get the electricity in order. It was exhilarating to be a part of something so new. To be down in the trenches, so to speak, of the thing knowing that once the building was completed, he could say that his hands had helped to erect it. That was just so cool to Ray.

"Oh, sure!" he chirped brightly in response to her request. Ray stepped into the suit after powering up the propulsion system on the back of the suit. Once he'd gotten himself situated in the thing, he pulled down the glass face plate and started powering up the remaining propulsion systems on his shoulders, arms, and legs. "What do you want to see first?" he asked, grinning proudly.

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Ray and Jemma

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2016-04-24 01:06 am UTC (link)

"I want to see you shrink," she said, and there was a twinkle of amusement in her eyes. How could she want anything but that, really? It was a fascinating idea, and she thought maybe there had been some sort of movie about getting tiny and getting stuck inside a person or something when she was a small child. She was quite certain that it had been chock full of scientific inconsistencies, so she was glad she couldn't remember it in details. Some things were better left to small minds and memories.

"Does it hurt?" She couldn't imagine that such a compression felt good - in her estimation it had to at least be uncomfortable. "I'll likely have more - and better - questions afterwards."

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Gale and OTA

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2016-04-24 12:33 am UTC (link)

Gale had already told the only story that he wanted to tell. He didn't want to relate to others what it had been like to grow up in District 12. He didn't want to explain what it had been like when his father had died in the mines and he'd had to take care of his mother and his younger siblings. He didn't want to talk about how he'd felt leading the remnants of his shattered people out of District 12, bloody refugees with nothing left to their names.

He wasn't ashamed of the things he'd done, but he didn't feel the need to share them, especially since he was fairly certain that hardly anyone here would understand first hand what he'd been through. And if there was one thing Gale wasn't looking for, it was pity.

But he'd come to the bonfire anyway, more out of boredom than out of any real connection to these people. Gale wasn't a guy who made connections easily. He was reserved, and knew that he could be harsh at times. But he was who he was. And if people didn't like it, well, they could jump his ass like that Lydia girl had.

And sure, maybe he'd had a point. And maybe if she hadn't been a total bitch about it, he would have backed off a little more and apologized to her. But she'd made it into a war, and Gale didn't like losing.

Sitting in front of the fire, he stared into it, watching the flames dance and tell their enigmatic stories. If anyone wanted to talk to him tonight, he wouldn't push them away - in fact, he'd probably enjoy it, but he was also content just to sit here and think, and just enjoy being in the proximity of others.

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Gale and Scott

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2016-04-24 01:18 am UTC (link)

Scott had come tonight. Last week he'd missed the bonfire since he had been doing his lonely man on the mountain thing. He wasn't certain if he should have come to this one, but it was a chance to get to know the rest of them and he wouldn't become a self imposed outcast.

He wasn't in a sharing mood, however. Scott had no intention on telling a story of Beacon Hills, his pack or anything else. He was pretty sure that way led to nowhere good and potentially an argument. Better he play listener tonight.

He caught sight of Gale who looked about as comfortable being here as Scott did. He sighed then went to sit down next to him. "Hey," he said quietly. "Least it's not raining."

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Gale and Scott

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2016-04-24 01:23 am UTC (link)

Gale gave Scott a wry grin.

"Yeah? I wonder how long that's going to last for."

He didn't know what to make of 'Gods', and he still hadn't really decided if he could trust them. He'd been a bit wary even when he'd decided to come here, but agreed after he came to the conclusion that no matter how bad they were, they couldn't really be worse than anything in Panem.

"My version of paradise isn't usually punctuated by flash floods."

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Maria Hill and OTA

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2016-04-24 12:56 am UTC (link)

Last week Maria's story went without even a curious question so she wasn't volunteering anything this week. But she did enjoy listening to the other stories and songs so she was content to just be on the sidelines and listen.

The tension had ratcheted up a notch this week. Maria couldn't help but wonder if that would bleed over here. She was watching for it, ready to step in if it decided to come to a head. She really hoped the egos would be kept in check. It hadn't gone unnoticed that it was a full moon this week, and she wondered if that was part of the problem...and if anyone else had taken that into consideration.

Meanwhile, she sat off to the side, nibbling on food as she sprawled a bit lazily on the sand, listening and watching.

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Maria Hill and Reese

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2016-04-24 01:13 am UTC (link)

Ever since he'd been told that hunting wasn't a good idea, Reese had felt useless. Yes, yes, he was helping with the building as much as he could, but he'd felt that providing food was something that he could maybe do better than just about anyone else. Maybe that had just been wishful thinking, though, since they'd apparently ended up with more food than they could possibly eat.

The thing was, Reese wasn't all that special. He wasn't an Alpha. He wasn't anything, really. He was little more than a mutt - he would have been a mutt if the Pack hadn't helped him out as much as they had and if Nick and Antonio hadn't taken him in.

Nick - who had no idea who he was now.

Reese sighed deeply and sat down with his hands behind him propping him up. It was a moment before he noticed the woman next to him, and smiled a little.

"Hey."

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Maria Hill and Reese

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2016-04-24 01:21 am UTC (link)

Maria had been aware when the blond had sat down. She was kind of hyper-aware tonight since she was watching for any trouble. At first he seemed kind of lost in his own head. Maria hadn't wanted to disturb that so all she did was scoot a little to give him room.

When he finally seemed to register she was there she smiled back with a nod. "Hey," she said. "Reese, isn't it?" She'd been making a point of learning everyone's name even if she hadn't met them yet.

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Maria Hill and Reese

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2016-04-24 01:25 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, that's me," he said. "Let's see if I remember you - Maria?" He knew it was close, even if not exact. He hadn't talked to her much but he too had been keeping a close eye on the network.

"So, what do you think of Sex Island?"

There was a little bit of sarcasm in his voice - he liked the place just fine, but the title amused him, especially since he really hadn't had that much sex here yet.

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Finnick and OTA

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2016-04-24 12:56 am UTC (link)

Finnick had been working with the construction crew all day and hadn't had time to prepare a song or story. He kind of had the impression that with all the rain and the building maybe fewer people would be up for that sort of thing this time anyway.

After finishing work he had gone to rinse off the sweat in the lake before coming to the bonfire. His clothes were still wet, as they had been most of the time for days. He took off his shirt and hung it up on a tree branch nearby so at lest he'd have one less clammy piece of clothing clinging to him.

He was tired and he hoped the rain would stop soon, but that didn't mean he was in a bad mood. In fact, he was feeling pretty good about things now that he felt like he was being useful again. He was looking forward to relaxing, spending time with people, listening to some conversations, and maybe playing a round on Cam's new game.

He grabbed some food and sat down near the fire, hoping that he could dry off a little and waited to see what would happen.

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Finnick and Sydney

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2016-04-24 04:46 pm UTC (link)

Now that Sydney was getting more comfortable here — and with herself — she barely hesitated before approaching Finnick and sitting next to him near the fire. She had a coconut shell of water in her hand, but was skipping the food. If she was going to end up naked in front of other people, she needed to make sure she didn't gain any weight.

"Hi, Finnick, right?" she said, offering him a brief smile. "I'm Sydney. I've seen you around but I don't think we really ever had a chance to talk."

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Finnick and Sydney

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2016-04-24 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Finnick smiled his most charming smile at her as she sat down. It was almost a reflex when meeting someone new for him to try to charm them and get them on his side right away, even when there weren't sides and it wasn't necessary.

"Hi Sydney. Yeah, I've seen you around. You helped Cam with the bean-bag game, didn't you? We should give that a try later, it looks like it might be fun."

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	Finnick and Sydney passionateaura 2016-04-24 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	"I did, yes," she said, her cheeks flushing a little at the mention of Cam since she couldn't help but think of the night they spent together and how good it made her feel. She wasn't quite ready to go further than that, but she also wasn't blind and Finnick was very attractive. Sydney smiled again. "I'm not sure I'll be any good, but I'm willing to try." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)