Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Feet Below Fandom, Monday

[designateddadfriend]

Monday dawned bright and hot -- up on the surface, anyway. Down in the hole, with no sun to indicate the passage of time, Monday started no different from any other day.

Well, there was the part where Travis was constructing a careful little mound of scrap wood in approximately the center of the clearing between the hole-d buildings, anyway. After unsuccessfully trying to dig out through the rocks, he was back to trying to make the best of things, and right now he'd decided that involved providing light using something more than various emergency lanterns.

Fires could be cheerful too, right? And hey, maybe if they built up enough smoke, it would vent out through the holes up above and help folks up there figure out where the hell people were ending up. . . .

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Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

It was really half falling, half yeeting himself back up with the jet pack before whatever the kriff was going on here sent him plummeting back down.

So, he was less than impressed when he finally landed next to where the ice cream shop already had settled.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"Holy shit you have a jetpack."

Look, sometimes you just had to state the obvious.

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

Din sighed as he looked over at the guy, yes, stating the obvious. "Not very helpful, it seems."

Screw you, Fandom bantha-shit!

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"Yeah, my fire ladder didn't turn out to be all that helpful either," Travis said. "Welcome to the hole."

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

"Thanks," Din said, looking up at where the ceiling probably was.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"No problem," Travis said.

He was really sad a goddamn jetpack didn't work to get people out of here.

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

"Someone will probably want to start eating the ice cream before it all melts," Din ventured. Helpfully.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

Travis looked at the ice cream shop.

"Ah. Yeah, we probably don't want to hook up a whole generator just for ice cream."

He would not be above drinking it down like a milkshake after it melted though.

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

Gross. This wasn't blue milk, you heathen.

"I'll help haul stuff out." Of course he would.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"Great." Travis nodded. "Good plan." He sighed. "It's sad how pleased I am to have a plan for unpacking ice cream, isn't it."

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

"Could be worse," Din said, glancing up again.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"Could it?" Travis asked. He'd been here more than a week, Din. More than a week!

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

"Ceiling could be coming down on you," Din said, pointing up at it. He was a giver like that.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

Why would you say that to him, Din?

"What?" Travis looked up. "No. No, because it's solid, I checked --"

Din, why?

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

Din patted him on the arm the once.

"Ice cream," he reminded Travis.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

Ice cream doesn't stop ceilings from collapsing, Din!

"Ice cream," Travis said. "It'd better be really good stuff."

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

"The rocky road was good." Thanks for that one, Wanda.

Re: New arrivals

[designateddadfriend]

"If the ceiling does fall in on us, I am blaming you."

Re: New arrivals

[meepmeepmeep]

"MEEP MEEP MEEP MEEP--"

Sorry, Din, Beaker had to save the ice cream! For science! He was going to race right past you.

Re: New arrivals

[thedadalorian]

"I don't speak--whatever that is," Din called after him. Might have been Jawa? Was it Jawa? Fair warning, he was bad at that one.