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sailmods ([personal profile] sailmods) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-08-12 01:46 am

AUGUST EVENT: DRAGSTRIP RIOT

[it begins with a PA announcement on the morning of the 12th, Friday’s voice coming through clear and cheerful.]

Any passengers that wish to debark to our latest port of call can exit the ship through the metal detectors on deck zero! Please be advised that all alcohol will be confiscated prior to your exit!

[and whoever heads down to the lowest deck will find that what she said was true: there is a metal detector set up there, with Friday manning it. after placing all metal objects (including weapons, and all your weapons) onto the tray, she gestures for the passenger to step through the metal detector.

they exit in an entirely different location. suffering from a splitting headache, and wearing an entirely different outfit than they had put on this morning, but unscathed. they even got their weapons back!

the interior of the diner is essentially your average jonathan rockets establishment. the narrow lane between booths and counter is manned by an entirely mute Friday clone, who cheerily takes orders and serves up food (cooked??? somewhere???) with an almost unnatural talent for roller blading. there is a jukebox in the corner that can be fed with quarters passengers will inexplicably find on their person. the available songs range from the 50s to the 80s, with a particularly wide selection of songs from the platters.

outside, the diner is a great chrome boxcar, circled by a small parking lot. a large neon sign proclaims it to be GIL’S; it buzzes and flickers on and off often. passengers who have regained vehicles will find these vehicles parked outside. there are also a handful of midcentury American cars; none of them seem to require keys, and the gas tank seems set at full.

past the parking lot is a seemingly endless expanse of desert sand and scrubland, bisecting by the empty highway that the diner abuts. a few miles down this highway, the road forks into a smaller one, which winds its way up a steep, ragged mountain until plateauing into another parking lot, with only a small, old wooden fence between the cars and the edge of the cliff.

should they wish to return to the ship, passengers can leave at any time the same way they entered: walking through a doorway that now claims to be a mop closet. passing through will leave them on deck zero, again with a splitting headache. it’s probably fine.]
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coins the term "tag twink" for myself

[personal profile] skaikru 2022-09-08 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
( 1950's fashion died out long before she was born, and no one wept for it. the socks are atrocious. important sidebar, has he tried dunking french fries in a vanilla milkshake? because despite rita mordio's judgement (that's rich, raw egg sandwich girl) it does truly elevate the dish. salty, sweet. hot, cold. crunch and grease meet cream and frost. if there's time before the end of this world, he really ought to give it a go — )

Yeah, but dying's quick.

( waking up the next day and mourning over that death quickly became agonizing over the next one, in clarke's experience. surviving and healing hurt even more, which is a perfect thought segue into stab wounds so when jade asks after hers, she makes a quiet oh noise, taking a mental inventory of bodily hurts and only coming up with — )

It's healing fine. I bumped it, which still hurt a lot. ( what a sensationally pg way to relay 'tried to bang the other necromancer in my car, hips were grabbed, i almost threw up in his face'. ) But I figure that's just nerve damage.

( her stupid(ly cute) green outfit comes with high waisted shorts and a shirt tucked in, but. it's no insurmountable feat to tug her top out of her bottoms, and drag the waistline of her shorts down enough to showcase the healing wound above her hip. like any normal checkup, where you show your doctor their own work by leaning over a hood mounted machine gun. it's still a gnarly mess, but now just a mess of burned scar tissue: sleek, fresh skin shiny and stretched in the middle, puckered edges of knotted flesh turned dark in the process of healing over. all in all, a rough looking scar, but one that's held up for five weeks with no reopening, no infection and not putting much of a dent in clarke griffin's stride. if he's going to be weird and try to touch it, she's also weird and would let him. )

Natsuno tell you we found the guy? Name's Pratt, not J. Seed. He's... ( there's a distinct lack of contempt in her voice as clarke trails off, still parsing through what she now knows of pratt's home world experience. he and sharky boshaw are friends, they're the first people who've come from a world really close in relation to what hers had been like, but earlier in the fallout of nuclear apocalypse. she's been keyed in to the torture and torment pratt underwent to turn him into the ticking timebomb of violence she'd met on the deck that evening and as such... struggles to loath him as much as she'd like to. ) ...apologized.

( a beat. weighing if she wants to put forth the part of the conversation that's been bothering her since it happened. )

Then he thanked me for killing him, which is a first. ( except — "thanks princess" — it wasn't. she's pretty quickly dropping her head, though that might not do enough to conceal the disgusted, tormented way her entire face contorts. )
Edited 2022-09-08 07:14 (UTC)