wipedclean: (find their fathers)
jaмeѕ вυcнanan вarneѕ ([personal profile] wipedclean) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2016-09-06 05:46 pm

it's like forgetting the words to your favorite song

Who: Bucky Barnes and Various
What: September Open Log
Where: Caves, Orchard, Bar, Various
When: Month of September
Warnings: None yet, but there's potentially some talk about Hydra etc., and possibly zombie fiteing threads going in here later.


[The longer he's here, the more anxious he feels. Memories are returning slowly, in fragmented pieces that make very little sense. It hurts, more often than not, because the memories usually are not at all nice. His kills are the most easily remembered. Every mission he's been on comes back more accurately than the shards of memories of before.

More often than not he's confused and upset. The only mission he knows he has is to protect Steve, keep him safe, keep him healthy, but apart from that, he doesn't know what he's meant to do. Most of his days are spent with what he's started to think of as busy work, things that don't need doing, but are better than just following Steve around like a sad puppy.]


Caves (or nearby)

[He hunts. He hunts often, whenever he feels Steve is safe enough to leave without a giant bodyguard hovering somewhere nearby. The variety of monsters in the caves means he can concentrate on a different kind each time he goes out, which keeps him on his toes. Keeps him sharp.

He's just pulling a carcass of a Bereskarn in from a recent kill, to a place where he can better take it apart into whatever meat or other supplies he can get from the corpse. It looks like this fight was a little more rough than he would have liked: there's a slash across the front of his chest, the leather split and jagged and the wounds beneath it bleeding slowly, though he seems to pay them no mind.]


Orchard

[The orchard is, in his opinion, one of the better gifts the so-called "gods" have offered them. Picking fruit and vegetables is menial work, but it's calming, and it's needed. He doesn't mind it. He's got a large basket of some fruit that's vaguely familiar to something found on earth and definitely edible. He's actually humming softly to himself as he does it, something that, if you listen closely, is almost (but not quite) In the Mood by Glen Miller.]

Bar

[He doesn't actually drink alcohol if he can help it. It doesn't affect him much anyway, but he wants to avoid any incapacitating effects anyway. However, he does enjoy the drinks that have distinct flavors: fruity, sweet, sour... anything that's different. He likes flavors.

He also finds it interesting to observe those who frequent the bar, what they drink, and what they do there, though he rarely engages with anyone on his own. He sits in the corner and watches with the keen, deadly gaze of an expert sniper.]


...or write your own starter!
unitas: (▸nothing else)

orchard

[personal profile] unitas 2016-09-06 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The orchard is a bitter reminder of the current state of affairs within Hadriel; there are only three gods left, soon to be two, and they are no closer to returning home than they were when Rage first awoke. But, for all the shit she associates with it, it's just about the only place to get fresh food unless you luck upon something in the stores.

She gathers in silence, allowing a distance between herself and Bucky, the hood of her orange jacket up, but not so much as to obscure her vision. She doesn't believe he's a threat to her, not truly, but since her Silent Hill stint, she's been far more cautious. It's only when her favorite fruit (if it's a fruit, she can't be too certain) is out of reach that she finally approaches. ]


Uh, hey? You think you could give me a boost? [ She motions to the tree, all of its lower hanging fruits having been picked away, leaving only bright green jewels in the upper branches. ]
infinite1up: (Just having fun)

Caves!

[personal profile] infinite1up 2016-09-06 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[As a relative newcomer who's also taken up a little hunting. perhaps it was inevitable that Sato would run into someone else that he didn't drag along as a co-op buddy. The sound of the fight had pulled him through the caves and now, quite lost, he paused just around the corner to sneak a peek at the final result. He could probably justify taking on Bucky now too, under the justification that he could just be another monster... but it was pretty clear that he was probably another prisoner of the city.

And therefore another potentially useful person to try to get a feel for.]


Hello over there!

[he calls out to Bucky, finally rounding the corner after a pause for that initial assessment.

As for himself, yet another one of Sato's shirts has died a horrible death, scratched up and bloody with one sleeve completely torn off; but there's no sign of injury on this old fellow, just a cheerful smile as he rests a bloody axe (liberated from Rage's armory) on one shoulder. No sign of any monster corpse with him either. The troll he'd been after earlier had put up one hell of a fight, much to Sato's utter delight. Unfortunately he hadn't quite figured out how to kill it, but in the state he'd left the pieces it looked like it was going to take it a lot longer for the troll to regenerate than it took for himself.

He really needed to find something more heavy-duty than medieval weaponry and one decent pistol. Where's loot drops when you need them?]

Edited 2016-09-06 23:42 (UTC)
prespangled: (pic#8916651)

orchard!

[personal profile] prespangled 2016-09-07 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[This is his busy work, one of a handful of things that Steve tries to do every day to make himself useful. He doesn't manage them all every day. If he's honest, he doesn't manage them all on most days.

But at least this is something he can see. If he can bring home something for Bucky for a change, or for Wanda, then it feels something like an accomplishment. He's collecting the stuff that's fallen to the ground first - there's no point in letting it rot - when he catches a few notes of what he thinks is a familiar song.
]

That always was one of your favorites.

[Steve's traced the sound to Bucky, and now stands nearby with his harvest collected in a makeshift bag made from his jacket.]
hasitsthorns: ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ᴏғ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ (Iᴛ's ᴇᴍᴘᴛʏ)

caves; also, I apologize in advance

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2016-09-07 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hunting isn't something Rose necessarily enjoys doing, but she's good at it. Besides, she needs to try and find something to keep her mind occupied. It reminds her of the subway tunnels in Haven. If she can thin out some monsters and keep her senses sharp in the process, why not? She knows she can't be the only one but has been careful thus far not to interrupt anyone else... or be interrupted. A petite blond woman with only one hand taking down beasts sometimes twice her size might make people too suspicious right away. What she is isn't a secret anymore, but she has her reasons for being selective in who she tells.

It's not the sound of the scuffle but the scent of blood that draws her in. Not the monster's but his. She tries mentally to repeat a mantra of Don't do it, you're stronger than this but finds her body moving on its own towards the source of the familiar smell. It's been so long, she's so hungry -

When she does finally come upon Bucky, she looks akin to a deer in the headlights. She can't. She won't hurt another person, but it's too late to turn back now.
]

Sorry, uh. Do you. Do you need help with, uh, that? [ A vague gesture to his bleeding chest with her good hand. ]
fulminants: (117)

caves

[personal profile] fulminants 2016-09-07 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Johnny's been exploring the area for the past many days, curiosity taking him to varied places -- some peaceful, most not, but to be honest he likes the latter kind anyway, it gets the blood pumping.

And so he's exploring one of the caves when he spots a relatively burly dude and a thing he's come to know as a Bereskarn. But what's most striking is this: ]


Dude. [ He blurts out when he lands a good few meters away from him, flaming off. ] You're bleeding.
enchangement: (hell hath no)

[personal profile] enchangement 2016-09-07 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He tracks her and she notices (how can she not?). Sometimes it is like a game and she's back at the Academy, doing her best while they treat her the worst. Sometimes she remembers the rest of them, and how they didn't have anyone to save them. Sometimes she feels like she wasn't saved at all, because she's here.

(But Steve is here, and Wanda is here, and Simon is here, and this man who was once Bucky Barnes is here, and she's made friends...she's made friends, it can't be all bad.)

He tracks her and sometimes she loses him but today she doesn't. The orchard is full of life, full of growing; it feels like a safer space. If they don't like the conversation, one of them can go climb a tree.

Literally.
]

The Academy. Started by the Alliance. A political group with the same leanings as your Hydra, but where one begins and the other ends, or if they are even from the same plane of reality, she doesn't know. Sorry.

The Alliance won the war. Civilized the 'verse.

They made weapons out of children. Out of us.

What do you want to know?
infinite1up: (Kindly old man)

[personal profile] infinite1up 2016-09-08 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[And that much Bucky has exactly right, because Sato is more than happy to wander up with no regard for personal safety -- or regard for Bucky's injuries, for that matter.]

Are you planning to make a trade with Rage, or is this one for the meat? Or does she mind if you take a little off around the edges before making an offering?
infinite1up: (Quirky smile #1)

[personal profile] infinite1up 2016-09-08 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
More or less, I guess. She didn't care for a couple I left, but at least she had a good sense of humour about it.

Still, good for you, doing your best to clean up the caverns. It's rather fun, isn't it?

[Sato chuckles, chatting conversationally. There's only really two kinds of responses to that rhetorical question, and that's really what he'd like to know.

But Bucky doesn't like the idea of someone catching up to walk along beside him (and not even offering to help lug the beast, tsk) now would definitely be the time to act]


enchangement: (kind of drifting in the abstract)

[personal profile] enchangement 2016-09-08 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Sometimes? [ Sometimes not. Trauma is funny that way, isn't it? ]

They manipulated her in dreams; it was more thorough than waking life. They cut out parts of her. Threw them away.

Simon knows the details. The medical.

He's a doctor. The good kind.
enchangement: (kind of drifting in the abstract)

[personal profile] enchangement 2016-09-08 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ River feels bad and it's in her body language, the way she curls into herself while he stalks around.

Her two small hands find his metal one and hold, gently.
]

Yes.

But we are better at pulling ourselves together.
enchangement: (barely breathing)

[personal profile] enchangement 2016-09-08 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ River looks at him for a while, maintaining eye contact even though it is difficult for both of them. She can see...everything he can remember, all cut and pasted together like a three-dimensional jigsaw covering several decades and two different lifetimes, plus the half-life he's currently living trapped between his past and present. ]

If it were permanent.

They wouldn't need to do it again and again.
enchangement: (feel what you only see)

[personal profile] enchangement 2016-09-08 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ She leans up, planting a soft kiss on his third eye, between his splayed fingers, never letting go of his hand. ]

It's wrong because they're wrong. You'll outlast them. You'll create a you that you want to be.
fulminants: (11)

[personal profile] fulminants 2016-09-08 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah -- I do that sometimes. Cosmic accident, really cool story.

[ He grins; he does like the effect that has on people, the whole fire thing. But it bothers him that the guy is still bleeding and he doesn't seem entirely affected by that debacle. Is that a thing that happens to him all the time. ]

Uh, you're not gonna bandage that up, buddy?

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