week 1 ( tuesday );

[reidentify]

[So, at some point, if they volunteered beforehand (or, in the case of Lucina and Katara, if Lelouch volunteered them) Lief will have located your character and ask if they're available for a meeting to discuss the food situation. Assuming the answer was a yes, they'll be directed towards the longhouse.

Once everyone is there, he'll begin.]

Thank you, everyone, for volunteering to help. I deeply appreciate it, and I am certain that those who need help will as well.

There are details we need to confirm, though. First, where the food will be kept or how it will be distributed. Second, Lelouch would like to pair everyone off for gathering, unless any of you are unwilling. However, given our situation, he is uncertain as to whether to have rotating groups or not—but he may speak on that himself.

[He pauses.]

Third, if you do not have the skills to gather food but would like to learn, Bellamy and I are willing to teach. [...] And fourth—he and Raven would also like to have a few words with everyone, I believe?

And of course, anyone else who wishes to speak may do so. We are all in this together, after all.

[ooc: Yo, so this is an open mingle, so feel free to top-level/threadjack/etc. as you please—also, even if your character wasn't invited, they're free to crash the party anyway! You're also free to handwave your character being here, etc.]

Comments

[jettisons]

[He considers this quietly for a moment.]

I learned how to do this out of necessity. The things I enjoy doing are things you probably already know how to do.

[learnings]

[You'd be surprised.]

Hm... even if it isn't useful here... I still want to know what sorts of things you like, though! I guess I'm just curious.

[jettisons]

I spent most of my free time on the Ark reading.

[And then he had no free time on the ground!]

[learnings]

Oh, really... that sounds wonderful! What sorts of things did you read?

[She...definitely can't read.

So.

This sounds mythical and amazing to her.]

[jettisons]

My mother would read The Iliad to my sister and I growing up. After that it was anything I could find.

[But he's a history and mythology nerd, oops.]

[learnings]

That sounds so lovely...

[A mother?? Reading to her kids??? Sounds fake but okay.]

What's The Iliad about...? I've never heard of it before.

[jettisons]

Where are you from? Earth?

[He wants to know how much explaining he's going to have to do here.]

[learnings]

Oh, no...! I'm from Elibe! Er--Bern, to be exact.

[... so yeah.

Fantasyland.]

[jettisons]

[Okay. He has a million questions, but he'll just skate past that.]

The Iliad is one of the oldest surviving stories where I'm from. It's about the end of a war between a city called Troy and the Greeks.

[learnings]

About a war...? [That was not what she was expecting at all.

Still... maybe the end of the war was particularly happy?]

That's what your mother read to you?

[jettisons]

[He smiles a little, because in hindsight, he supposes it was a little grim. Then again, everything on the Ark was grim.]

Yeah. She taught me a lot about... [Not from Earth, Bellamy.] About that part of history. It isn't as depressing as it sounds.

[learnings]

No... I suppose it wouldn't be. The end of the war, I mean. It's a happy thing, right?

[... Thoughtfully:]

Even if things were sad, and grim... the end of it means there's a lot of hope, too. For the future!

[jettisons]

[Well it's... not happy in the way she's thinking. But.]

Do you want to read it?

[learnings]

...Oh.

[She shuffles in place a little, casting her gaze downwards, embarrassed.]

I'd like to, but... I'm sorry--I don't know how to read.

[jettisons]

[That surprises Bellamy a little bit, but it's not like it's a huge deal.]

Want me to teach you?

[He taught Octavia, after all.]

[learnings]

You...would really be willing to do that for me?

[... She looks excited, but tentatively so.]

You don't mind...?

[jettisons]

I don't mind. The Iliad's all I've got to teach you with, though.

[So grim it is.]

[learnings]

That's okay! If it's that important to you... I think I really want to know what it's like.

[jettisons]

You'll probably like it a hell of a lot more than fishing.

[learnings]

... They might both be fun!

[May...be??]

[jettisons]

[Bellamy smiles.]

You're pretty optimistic, aren't you?

[learnings]

[She giggles at that, nodding easily.]

I've been told that before!

[Endless naivete and optimism, truly.]

[jettisons]

Good. Stay that way, Nino. We're going to need it.