Special Collections, Saturday Afternoon and Night

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

Special Collections had always been a peculiar place, and now that it was to be their home for the duration of... whenever... it chose not to change that. Those who had raced into it would find their world briefly a disorienting amount of purple light and flashes of lightning and books falling from an eternal above to a perpetual below--

--and then it spat them out in a cheery green field, surrounded by toadstools that reached far up above their heads and provided cover. Here and there were bags full of tent poles and tent fabric, just in case they wanted a roof above their heads, and bookcases stood randomly and haphazardly around the area.

There was even sign of a gingerbread house a mile or so off.

Still, Special Collections remained unpredictable, and behind any tree, toadstool or tent could lie a sudden plunge into unexpected adventure.

Just pay no heed to the occasional appearing, then disappearing black cracks in the walls.

[[ ocd up! have at! ]]

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Base Camp

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

Giant toadstools. Materials to build tents with. Space to make a firepit. If you work together for a bit, it's perfectly manageable to turn this into a nice camp.

Base Camp - Common Area

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

In the center of the area is a plain open spot, with rocks that can be used to build a firepit, and logs to sit on. Bring firewood and build a fire, or sit down and talk, or anything else you might prefer.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie figured she'd set up a tent, later. Or... go do anything else useful.

But right now? Sitting on a log and taking a moment to orient herself to these new surroundings seemed to be the thing to do. And maybe wonder when she'd last blinked. Today was kind of a day for remaining super aware.

Mr. Moxy sniffed at the log by her feet, and Natalie wondered whether he knew how bad things were.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[endsthegame]

Ender took a seat on one of the logs as well. He still had most of Kenzi's cookies from yesterday, which he had brought with him simply because they were there.

He put them down near the log and picked up one of the books he'd brought, but somehow the letters failed to come into any sharp relief.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[furnaceface]

Jonothon took a moment to take stock of his surroundings, and then sighed, taking a seat on a log and fishing his last two cans of whipped cream from his pockets.

"Hardly going to feed the multitude with these or anything," he muttered, eyeing them before setting them down in the open, in case somebody else wanted them. Joni mewled and peered out of his pocket, earning another sigh out of him. "And how in the world am I going to feed you?"

For the record, the cat was not on the menu.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[halfman-lion.livejournal.com]

Tyrion quickly sussed up the tents, decided he had no hope whatsoever of erecting one on his own, and began busying himself shuffling stones around to start on the firepit. He'd been reading all week; his muscles were stiff and needed the work, and he wanted to show he wasn't completely helpless.

As for where to sleep, he'd claim a blanket and a corner somewhere when the time came.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[hurtingzeebo]

Sam stood and stared around at the toadstools.

". . . Are all libraries like this?"

She wasn't being funny. She really wasn't sure, any more.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"-- dare!" Savannah found herself dropping out of an orb (http://fandomhigh.livejournal.com/3000602.html?thread=185962010#t185962010) and into Special Collections on her ass.

It took her a few moments to get to her feet and then look around.

"I'm going to kick his ass," she muttered.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

Dany hadn't been told not to bring the dragons, and the way things were -- with the absence of familiar faces amongst the refugees weighing on her, though she held out hope that she simply hadn't seen everyone yet -- she wasn't leaving them in the dorms to be swallowed away.

She found a log to sit on, keeping all three close to her as she fed them bits of jerky. It was close enough to the dried horse of home that she found an odd bit of comfort in it, too.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[sith_happened]

Anakin was sitting on a rock with a piece of paper (Juliet was sitting on the ground coloring), writing down names of people as they came into Special Collections.

So far the list was depressingly short.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[stykera]

Stark was pacing near the edge of the open space. He was humming tunelessly to himself, and occasionally muttering under his breath as he looked around for any familiar faces.

When this was over and things were better he might be pleased with how long he'd held up, given the situation. Right now he was falling back into old familiar patterns of instability. He needed something to do, something to focus on, and baking seemed extremely unlikely in this setting.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[bookworm-beauty.livejournal.com]

Belle was trying to keep busy. This was, after all, supposedly her domain. So she bustled around, trying to gather firewood and pitch tents where she could, because she didn't know what else to do.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Toby was used to running and surviving on his own, but this kind of refugee-camp thing was new. So he sat, idly tossing a rock between his hands, as he concentrated on trying to keep everyone else's thoughts out of his head.

His success rate was... variable.

Re: Base Camp - Common Area

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe was glad to see that so many people had heard the announcement, but there was still only a small crowd compared to the number of people she knew should have been here. She was trying to stay positive though, for Grace's sake. Thankfully, Grace seemed occupied enough by their new surroundings to not notice the trouble they were all in.

Base Camp - Tents and Secluded Areas

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're choosing to sleep slumped against a bookcase. Maybe you've decided to set up a tent, and you've claimed it for your own. Either way, there's plenty of room for anyone to make some space for themselves.

[[ consider this the special collections equivalent of your hotel post. Location in the subjectline ('Ender's Tent', 'Topher's Claimed Corner By The Bookcase', etc) and keep any sexytiems to personal journals. Feel free to set up a post and then link it back here. ]]

Re: Base Camp

[godofxbox]

Alex sat down on a log and started going through his bag to see what he'd ended up with, since he'd been in kind of a hurry and had grabbed some things at random. He was pretty sure he'd forgotten his toothbrush. But he was a god, so could he even get cavities?

Oooh, bubble gum.

Special Collections

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

You never know when it's going to grab you and dump you elsewhere.

Special Collections - TRON

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

You could, for example, take a wrong turn and wind up in a world full of programs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy), totalitarian regimes, and really funky blue lightning. On the upside, there's some really cool bikes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MpUrDNIDLY)...

Special Collections - Fire Swamp

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

What are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride)?

"One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like, so in the future we can avoid that too."

"Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?"

"Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist."

(They do.)

Special Collections - Hangar 51

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

This hangar (http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Hangar_51) is filled to the brink with boxes and strange items, and the many frenzied dreams of the paranoid. You can probably roam around here forever, discovering one conspiracy after another, one hidden doomsday artifact after the next.

Special Collections - The Labyrinth

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

No tight pants roam this labyrinth - just stone walls and impossibly confusing winding hallways. You might want to bring a ball of yarn into this one. And maybe a sword. Because there's something in this labyrinth that sounds angry...

...your name wouldn't happen to be Theseus, would it?

Special Collections - Everywhere Else

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

But there are plenty of other places a lost soul can wander into...

[[ for your own modded adventures! please keep to the guidelines (http://fandomhigh-ooc.livejournal.com/880093.html#comments). feel free to make a post in your own journal and link back here, too. ]]

OOC

[fh-refugees.livejournal.com]

Much thanks to the lovely bookworm_beauty for all the suggestions she provided for this post. Leave a comment down here if you need an NPC, and we'll see what we can do. Also feel free to mod your own baddies, adventures, madness, etc - this is your chance to run wild.

Re: OOC

[stykera]

TRON!
*happy flails*

Re: OOC

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

FIRE SWAMP! <3