Life in Camp Shady Fuckers

[unbrokenoath]

WHO: Everyone living in or visiting the Warden camp
WHAT: Just some low-key action-spammy stuff for a bunch of sketchy losers who got tossed into the camp for sketchy losers. And the people who come to hang out because sketchy losers are the coolest losers.
WHEN: Vaguely stretching around Cloudreach?? Nothing is set in stone, time is an illusion
WHERE: Camp Shady Fuckers The Warden camp
NOTES: Just throw whatever warnings necessary in the heads of your threads

Just throw opens or whatever up this is a low-key general mingly kinda thing for hanging out and shouting at each other. Feel free to interrupt other threads or whatever and idk man this is basically like a network post but in real life.

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Velanna

[failedfirst]

Community Campfire

[Velanna is attempting to socialize. This results in her sitting awkwardly at the fire where others are gathered, her shoulders hunched as she stares at the flames and sometimes at anyone talking.

She looks kind of like she wants to run.]

Camp Grumpy Elf

[If anyone is brave enough to get close to Velanna's camp, whether to ask for magic help, mystery roots for pranking friends, or to borrow a book, she'll be a little bit more receptive than when she's out of her element.

She might smile even, but don't get your hopes up.]

Chores!

[Velanna is carrying a very heavy bucket of water up from the river to be put on the fire. It is the third such bucket she's lugged in the past hour, so she is sore, and grumpier than usual. So when she comes across someone in her path, she doesn't even try to be polite she just glowers.]

Move.

Community Campfire

[justice_is_blond]

You know, you're far more pleasant than other brooding elves I've known.

[It is, on second thought, not the best opening ever.]

By a great deal.

[That probably didn't help.]

you're so reassuring, anders.

[failedfirst]

[She's not really sure how she's supposed to react to that. Raising an eyebrow at him she doesn't quite frown.]

Is that supposed to please me?

He's the greatest at reassurances ever

[justice_is_blond]

Yes?

[She's not glaring. Points for him!]

I'm saying that breathing might not be a bad thing. Relaxing. Joining the group a little more. It's not... I mean, yes, it might hurt, it might go horribly wrong, everything seems to, but at least for a time it would be better, right?

he deserves an award

[failedfirst]

[You know how annoying it is when you have a good point, don't you, Anders? Velanna narrows her eyes a little and looks like she's going to say a variety of different things for a few moments, before sighing, her face relaxing.]

I think I preferred you when you were only making terrible jokes and attempting to compliment my tattoos.

The You Tried star, perhaps?

[justice_is_blond]

Really? I always thought you felt needled on by them.

[Jokes are safe, really. It's easy to return to them rather than talk further about what he's trying to convince himself - that being close to the group won't hurt them.]

I find you missing that commentary inkvigorating.

[failedfirst]

[Aaaand now she regrets saying that. A little. That's definitely not a slight smile on her face.]

Creators preserve me. I take it back.

[justice_is_blond]

[There's a faint smile on his lips too.]

So are you saying you've found me to be universally appealing no matter what I'm saying, then?

[failedfirst]

Len'alas lath'din. [it's an insult, but it's said without her usual venom, and she shakes her head.]

You are far more pleasant than some humans I have known.

camp grumpy elf

[serannas]

[ Ellana hasn't spoken to Velanna since the latter arrived, so Ellana pokes around the Warden camp until she comes across the section that clearly has some Keeper magic affecting it. ]

Velanna?

[ She waits politely outside. ]

[failedfirst]

[Velanna is actually quite content to putter around her tent, contrary to what some people think. When she hears someone speak her name outside it takes her a moment to place the voice, but once she does she emerges.]

Aneth ara, Ellana. What brings you to the Warden camp?

[serannas]

Visiting my Warden friends, of course. And now you. How have you been settling in?

[failedfirst]

...Oh. [for some reason it didn't occur to her that Ellana might have friends in the Wardens. Besides the roommate, anyway.]

I've been... settling in well enough. It's colder here than I'm comfortable with, but I have learned to adapt. [She won't admit it but she actually misses her drafty room in Vigil's Keep a little.]

[serannas]

A lot of people feel the same way.

[ And being a tiny little elf like Velanna, she can especially relate to the lack of body heat staying put. ]

But it's good you're adapting. I'll bet you've had to sleep in plenty of uncomfortable places as a Warden.

[failedfirst]

[She lets out a small scoff, though it's mostly in agreement.]

The Deep Roads are the worst. I never got any sleep while underground, I don't know how anyone else did.

[serannas]

That would feel so confining.

[ And she's speaking as a person who likes her room as opposed to a bedroll on the ground. ]

Wardens go through so much, just so other people don't have to.

[failedfirst]

It is necessary. As unpleasant as it may be, sometimes.

[She pauses for a moment, before adding:]

It can be rewarding, too.

chores!!!

[bunko]

Of course, of course, of course--

[Scipio is cheerful enough, agreeable to her request. Can it be called a request, when she looks at him so? No matter: he does move. Nimbly, easily, shifting his step off the side of the path so she can pass by with her water. Attentive, polite, he watches this passing.

Then he jumps back onto the path and falls into step behind her.]

What is that for?

[failedfirst]

[He can't see her roll her eyes or the scowl on her face but he might hear her sigh before she responds.]

Drinking water or stew. It needs to be boiled either way.

[bunko]

Ah!

[Makes sense! Agreeably, he accepts the answer. For a few more steps, at least.]

One bucket at a time?

[failedfirst]

I am only capable of carrying so much weight, you are free to fetch a bucket and join me if you think I am going slowly.

[Because everyone else is suspiciously busy while the smallest of the Wardens is hauling heavy things around.]

[bunko]

Oh, no, I do not think at all.

[Cheerfully! He keeps step behind her.]

Certainly not of slow or fast, of your abilities. It is only that I think we should recruit. A pony, he could bear this load better, if we had a pony. You see, what is the point of doing all of this carrying, if you are only capable of carrying so much, hm? Where a pony, he can carry much and more.

We only need to find one.

[failedfirst]

[She lets out a grunt, that's fairly annoyed.]

Why don't you go find one, then?

[bunko]

Well--

[Good suggestion, small flaw:]

I do not know this Right of Conscription, yes?

[failedfirst]

[What]

What?