[closed] and since we've one place to go

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Who: Nathan Drake, Elena Fisher, Agent Washington, Agent Maine, Kyna Midha, Staci Pratt, Poe Dameron, Taako Taaco, Lup Taaco, Peter Parker
What: Nate leads a polar expedition out to the mountains.
Where: Out on the tundra; at an undisclosed excavation site in the foothills.
When: February 1-14
Warnings: PG-13+ for swearing, descriptions of dead bodies/science torture. :(




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WELCOME TO SNOW HELL

the journey | the door | the bunker | the lab

Comments

[itsnotaonesie]

...Well, you got me there.

Now I kinda wanna see if I can build a shovel launcher when we get back. Ugh, but I still have to finish that flamethrower. Man, I need more scrap parts.

[theweakhavepurpose]

You'd need a few shovels too and I don't know how many of those we have laying around. There were a couple of these smiling ones that showed up at once, but I don't know what happened to the others.

One project at a time.

[itsnotaonesie]

Yeah, yeah, good point. Flamethrower first, shovel launcher if I have time. Or can find more shovels.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Flamethrower will make much better videos anyway. Depending on what you set on fire I suppose, but in general fire gets a lot of hits.

[itsnotaonesie]

That's a really good point. There's not a ton of stuff back in town that I would want to set on fire, though.

[theweakhavepurpose]

We could make one of those big Swedish goats that gets set on fire every year. We don't have a whole lot of wood, but I bet we could rig up something.

[itsnotaonesie]

Swedish goats? Why are people setting fire to big wooden goats?

[theweakhavepurpose]

I dunno I saw it on Imgur once. It's like a hundred feet tall and made of twigs and people keep breaking in and setting it on fire.

It looks awesome on fire honestly.

[itsnotaonesie]

Is it part of like, a festival or something? I guess that would make sense.

I mean, on one hand, I'm sure people worked really hard on building it? So kind of a dick move to set it on fire. On the other hand, fire does make things look cooler.

[theweakhavepurpose]

I think so?

[Instinctively he goes for his phone before remembering the internet doesn't exist here.]

It's for Yule? Maybe? I only saw the parts where it was on fire.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter was going the SAME THING DAMMIT. He pauses to frown at his phone for a moment]

Well, crap. I'll have to look it up if I can ever like, get home.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Get a sandwich, google "Swedish goat fire" and enjoy.

Don't say it like that, we're gonna get out of here. Someone be positive for me.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter abruptly pauses for a second before shrugging and giving Pratt an awkward smile.]

Yeah, s-sure. Sorry. When we get out of here, it's gonna be goat time.

[He's honestly not sure if he physically can return home, considering the whole being kind of not alive thing. He usually does try to talk more positively about the whole going home thing for the sake of other people, but he's only human man.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

[Oh he saw that. Well more heard it, awkward pauses are incredibly suspicious.]

You don't believe that though.

[itsnotaonesie]

W-what? I totally believe in Swedish Goat. I'm gonna Google that bad boy as soon as I can, man.

[Ah god dammit Peter look what you did. Look what you gone and done did. Obviously the best way to steer the topic away from something super horrible is to FEIGN IGNORANCE, DEFLECT DEFLECT. Note: this has never worked.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

[Wow Peter. WOW. You are using deflect on a police officer. That's up there with such time honored gems as: No officer that isn't my weed in fact I don't even know what weed is. and also Oh you mean THESE fireworks. Honest I don't know how those got there..]

That is not what I'm talking about and you know it.

[Uh-oh. Cop stance is coming out. He's folding his arms, he's shifting his weight, he's giving you the "don't fuck with me" look.]

Why don't you think we're going home?

[itsnotaonesie]

[WOW Pratt actually has a cop mode!! Y'know sometimes Peter forgets these things, since Pratt's just this totally normal regular dude who kinda says some creepy, weird shit sometimes. Peter would probably be more impressed by this...copness?? If not for the fact that he's on the receiving end of it. Wow Pratt way to just call him out on his bullshit.

Peter hesitates, chewing on his lip for a second while he works out just how he wants to answer. If he wants to at all.]

That's not-- I mean, I think we're going to find a way to send people home. I don't have any doubts about that, even if it takes a while. I just, um... I don't know what's going to happen to the people who-- some people died before they were pulled here. I don't know what to do about them.

[I mean it's still deflectingish? But also lays out the problem so totally not deflecting at all.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

[It's a little hard to respect the authority of the guy you saw screaming at a drawer full of sentient silverware, but hey, he's working with what he's got.]

Oh.

[Cop mode: DISENGAGE]

They'd go back to being dead wouldn't they? Hm. Guess most people don't want that.

[itsnotaonesie]

[that comment doesn't really make peter feel any less uncomfortable DUDE. In fact he actually takes a few seconds to respond because like howwww do you respond to that??]

Y-yeah, it's... not really an ideal situation to jump back into.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Some people are better off dead.

[you know, like him.]

And some people should be.

[itsnotaonesie]

Jesus, dude.

[He hadn't been expecting quite that level of just. Super depressing gloomy death shit? It actually kind of really threw off Peter's groove, not that he was really in a mood to groove in the first place. He has no idea what to say to that, he's just kind of watching Pratt and waiting for some kind of explanation.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

[It's true and he's standing by his statement. Though he does realize that this has gone from a fun conversation about Swedish goats straight into some super heavy shit that Peter 100% did not ask for.

He runs his hand down his face.]

Don't listen to me. I don't know what I'm talking about.

[And Pratt and his shovel are getting up to leave now because he ruins everything he gets near.]

[itsnotaonesie]

[He doesn't try to stop Pratt from leaving, He also doesn't manage to stop himself from commenting, though.]

...People don't say things like that unless they do know what they're talking about.

[Just sayin'. He doesn't press the subject beyond that, assuming it's a subject that the Deputy probably isn't too eager to discuss.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

[He pauses with his back to Peter.]

Maybe I do.

But it doesn't matter here. Nothing much does.

[He takes a deep breath and closes his eyes, mental berating himself for being such a morose fucking asshole.]

I'm like a walking bubble of depression infecting everyone I meet.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter's already over it, or at least he's pretending he is. Not gonna lie, he's kind of worrying about his good buddy normal-cop Deputy Pratt right now.]

That describes half the people I went to school with. You can sit back down, dude. I wasn't trying to chase you off.