Let The Rain Fall

[waswrongtoo]

● WHO: Summer Rose (waswrongtoo) and OPEN
● WHAT: Rain and Plant-Related nonsense.
● WHEN: June Event
● WHERE: The Ruined City
● WARNINGS: Probably smut, maybe some violence.



Washed Away

Summer's actually rather relieved when the rain starts to fall. If anything's going to encourage some sort of growth in this desolate place, this is it.

Of course, then the rain keeps falling. And falling. The day seems to be washed away along with the dust, and it keeps pounding into the night.

Hood up, settled in at the empty window of the building she's taken to hunker down in, Summer watches people travel past. Anyone who looks like they're lost or struggling in the rain will hear a woman's strong voice call out.

"Here! You, over here!" Summer waves them over quickly. "It's safe here! Come inside, quickly!"

Whether they trust her or not, especially if they look up to see a woman dressed in a long white cloak covering her head to toe, well that's up to them.

Entwined

Well, that's over with. Summer's out among the growing vegetation, curious and also a little hopeful, wondering if she can find anything useful.

She doesn't recognize any of the plants exactly, but she's curiously searching her way through them regardless, figuring she might be able to get some ideas by appearance at least. As she searches, she notices something moving in the branches above her.

And at the same time, she hears footsteps nearby.

So when the first observation reveals itself to be a series of tendrils suddenly very eager to make her acquaintance, she curses and leaps back, an explosion of petals rushing out from underneath her cloak as she calls to whoever's nearby. "Above!"

Taste-Testing

Despite the... difficulties of gathering things right now, Summer's managed to snag herself several different fruits and bring them back with her in a small bucket she found. There's fruit of every color she can imagine in there, in shapes she would never have expected.

But as she sits on the door to her current residence, looking through her prizes, she frowns. She has food now, yes... but who knows if this stuff is actually safe to eat?

"I somehow don't think my survival classes are going to be very helpful here." She grumbles. It's to herself, but easily overheard by a curious passerby.

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Entwined

[swordsense]

Adora was not exactly fond of the vegetation. It reminded her in many ways of some troublesome goings on back home, though it felt a bit less sinister than most of the plantlife on Beast Island, since it wasn't mutated by radiation and combined with machines to create some mechanical horrors.

That didn't make it less weird.

It's not surprising when she hears a voice calling out, and that it's Summer's is even less of a shock. Adora's blade flashes into being, and she's already moving towards the sound.

"I'm coming!"

[waswrongtoo]

Oh thank goodness for the familiar voice. And one who she knows can handle herself, too. Summer keeps her focus on her knives, one and all of her collection shooting up to intercept the descending vines in the form of the petals her semblance has turned them into.

They dart into the mass with surgical precision, slicing through tendrils swiftly and cleanly. But they're dependent on Summer's attention to find their targets, and she can't see everything at once...

A particularly large vine charges at her from the left, while her mass of petal-knife protectors are busy holding off its friends, and Summer yelps as it grabs her leg. She turns towards it with a glare, ready to turn her focus to cutting it away, when she sees Adora closing the gap. Her plan immediately changes.

"Adora, over here! I'm holding off the bulk of them up in the branches!" Hopefully Adora can handle this bigger one while she keeps doing that. A sword ought to do a good job of that.

[swordsense]

Transforming for this seems like a bit of a waste. They're just plants, and as irritating as they are, it feels a bit like cheating to go all She-Ra on them. So, she wades into the fray with her sword, swinging it in wild, chopping arcs. Plant goop and cleaved tendrils spray everywhere, and when she catches sight of Summer she jumps in to help.

"Don't worry. I got this one."

A leap, and she comes crashing down behind the aggressive foliage, her sword transforming into a golden sickle. Striking over and over, she rips into the plant from behind, hacking away.

"Stupid. Thing. Why. Are. You. Moving?"

[waswrongtoo]

One of Adora's first strikes hits the tendril grabbing Summer's leg, and she quickly hauls herself back onto her feet, directing her knife-petals to guard both her and Adora from above.

"I don't know how many plants there are or how many tentacles they each have, but I think I can handle the ones up in the trees if you can take the ones on the ground!"

Her faster, more maneuverable but comparatively weaker knives to take on the thinner vines coming from above, Adora's stronger but more limited strikes to handle the ones in melee ranger. Honestly, it's almost too easy to figure out how to handle this one... assuming they don't just get horribly outnumbered.

taste-testing for taste-testers

[pawper]

"They teach classes for that?"

So asked as she ambles into view, the capelet normally draped across her shoulders now repurposed into a makeshift sack to better carry her own pile of colorful, if oddly-shaped fruit. As for whether any of it is actually safe to eat......maybe they'll both find out in the next ten minutes or so, given how she's already munching her way through one of said fruits.

[waswrongtoo]

Summer raises her head at the question and gives a little shrug, smiling at Lys. "When your job requires being out in the wilderness a lot, it's a required course, actually."

She sighs, holding up her own bucket. "The problem is, none of these are fruits I recognize. So my training isn't going to be of much use. I've been trying to think of a way of testing them, but so far I've only come up with one... and that's to take a small bite and wait to see if there are any side effects."

Needless to say, that's not exactly ideal.

[pawper]

"Huh. Where I come from, that's just called growing up."

Unless you were a noble, of course, someone who never had to get mud on their boots or calluses on their hands—but the less said about those guys, the better. Lys ambles a little closer, eyebrows raised just so.

"Wait and see, eh....well, since I've already started eating one, maybe you could just watch me instead? That way you can stay, uh, objective and stuff."

There was probably a smarter, more elegant way to phrase that, but oh well.

[waswrongtoo]

"Sadly, being out in the wilds in my world without proper training was basically a death sentence."

Damn Grimm.

Regardless, Lys has a point. Summer sets her bucket aside and gives a nod. "That sounds like a good plan. If you have some sort of reaction I can probably help, too. I'm trained in basic first aid, at least."

As long as the fruit she was eating (it looked like some sort of dark blue melon) wasn't unbelievably poisonous, she should probably be able to deal with whatever happened.

taste testing

[mirrortide]

"I don't think anyone's survival classes are going to be helpful here, to be completely honest." Comes the voice from just a few feet away, Lapis inspecting another fruiting plant with her hand before she just drops it to look at the human she's with.

"Unless you're from a place with these kinds of plants, anyway. I've never seen anything like them, and I've been to thousands of other planets." Not that that means she's an expert or anything, but...

[waswrongtoo]

"I rather expect you're right." Summer admits with a sigh. At this point, seeing a blue woman isn't even that surprising for her, so she just looks Lapis over with a bit of curiosity.

"Of course, that means that now we have things that might be food... and no idea which are safe to eat. Or if any of them are." That comment about thousands of planets surprises her, though, enough to distract her from her thoughts for a moment. "That many different worlds? You're from another world with that sort of technology?"

[mirrortide]

"I'd help out, but eating and me don't really get along." Most of the time, anyway. There's a few things she actively enjoys, but she's not about to stuff things into her body on a whim. "Also even if it was toxic to you it wouldn't effect me anyway, so again, I'm not really the best person for it." She just doesn't have the correct organs for it.

"But, uh, yeah. Space travel has been a thing for my species for like. Billions of years."

[waswrongtoo]

She doesn't eat? And her people have been around for so long... Summer's seen strange things before, but this does take her back quite a bit.

"I see... Do you think your people will notice you're gone and be able to find you?" A rescue attempt would be nice, though given how they all just seem to have been warped here without a trace, Summer's not going to count on it overmuch.

taste testing

[lightblooming]

It really feels like there's one thing happening after another - first the flooding, then the robots, and now the plants? She knew not to let her guard down in this world, but she hadn't been expecting all of this. Luckily, her training had prepared her to expect the unexpected.

It isn't difficult for Aqua to recognize Summer when she wanders into the area she had settled into. She stops walking, approaching her with every intention of warning her.

"Are you sure those are safe to eat?"

After the plants had attacked them, she wouldn't be surprised if there were poisonous plants around.

[waswrongtoo]

Summer brings her head up at that voice and smiles brightly. "Aqua!"

She chuckles at the question. "That's what I'm trying to figure out, actually. I think some of them must be, perhaps even most, but it only takes one dangerous fruit, after all. Unfortunately, none of my survival skills from home are any use here, because none of these fruits really resemble any I'm familiar with."

Holding up a bright yellow one shaped vaguely like a mango, she frowns at it. "The problem is, these are basically what we have to eat at the moment. Sooner or later we're going to have to take a risk."

[lightblooming]

Those are good points to make... She hasn't seen any sign of animal life out here. It's all been plants. It does make her wonder where their feast had come from.

But, if the situation doesn't start to change - then they may indeed need to make their home in the forest.

"It may be better to just try a little of each plant beforehand. That way, we can see how it may affect us before relying on them for food."

[waswrongtoo]

"That was the plan, yes. I'm actually intending to write my results down, too. But I still need someone to watch over me as I try this in case some of them turn out to be dangerous enough that even a single bite is hazardous. Someone with background in first aid, who won't panic if something happens to me and they suddenly need to help."

Which is why she's currently waiting for Qrow. But he might be a while, and it would be nice to get this started...

Washed Away

[oftheleyline]

It does not take Melfina long for recognition to kick in. Summer's presence is an appreciated one, but a friendly face in a place where many things are unfamiliar is a pleasant one. Her attention turns and it is relatively transparent that whatever she might have been doing, she evidently has been more interested in watching the changing of the sky than actually trying to get out of the storm.

And knowing Melfina, she was foraging for food or just trying to get a better grasp on the situation without getting into too much trouble.

Summer's invitation is an easy one for her to take. A beat or two passes and she moves to join her. "Oh, what are you doing here? Just waiting for the rains to pass?"

[waswrongtoo]

"Melfina!" Summer smiles wider in welcome as the other woman comes to join her. "Yes, that's right. I thought about getting back to the house I'm using as my own, but... really, one place is about as good as another here, and I don't want to be out in this for any longer than I have to."

She could survive it, sure. That's part of why she's got the cloak. But if she doesn't have to, why should she?

"How long have you been stuck out there? You're soaking!"

[oftheleyline]

How long has it been? In truth, she hasn't been keeping track of it and her inability to properly answer Summer betrays that.

She removes her shawl-like garb and uses it after a moment to ruffle her hair, perhaps to draw some of the wet out of it. Once she's satisfied, she moves to sit with her newfound companion.

"I am, aren't I," she replies with an air of sheepishness. "I was looking to get something for dinner for Aisha and me. Seems about all I can do, really. At least so far. I thought I might find our ship in the hangar, but it wasn't there." A fool's dream. "It's nice to see you again. Are you doing okay, Summer?"

taste-testing

[badluckblues]

"No, I imagine it won't."

Qrow sighed, dusting his hands off on dark pants. There's a bucket of strange, alien fruit between them and only one thing left to do: brave the unknown. Sure, there are signs that a plant might be poisonous. A bitter taste, a strange sap. Did any of that even apply here?

But, more importantly... Qrow frowned slightly, visibly uncertain. "You sure I'm the person you wanna do this with, Sum?"

[waswrongtoo]

"Qrow, if you're worried about your semblance, think of it this way. Not all of these fruit can be unsafe to eat, or have horrible side effects, right? So worst-case scenario, if it does kick in and the first things we try are the worst ones to eat, you'll just be helping us sort out the worst ahead of time, and we can warn the rest of the settlement about them too."

That's looking on the bright side for you. But then, Summer had long ago learned to try to factor Qrow's semblance into her plans.

"But hey, it doesn't always kick in, so maybe we'll be perfectly fine. It's really no more of a gamble than we were taking already." She's trying to be reassuring, really she is, it's just kind of a risky situation no matter what they do.

"And if something does go wrong, of course I want you there. I trust you with my life, Qrow."

[badluckblues]

Well... for all of Qrow's pessimism, he couldn't deny that Summer was right. Whether he was here or not, things were risky. At least if something went wrong, they'd have another person with them.

A small frown pulled at the corner of his lips at those particular words, however. I trust you with my life. Gods. Now wasn't the time to revisit that particular memory, nor would Summer stand to here how big of a mistake it was to say something like that to Qrow Branwen of all people.

"Yeah, all right. I get you. What have we got?"

the rain one

[sharpestsword]

Julieta had been walking at a good pace back to her shelter after a short trip to the hangar. She would be no less soaked but she would prefer to reduce the amount of time she spends outside in this as much as possible. When she hears a voice she stops. She's wary but shelter is her main concern after all so she approaches.

"Who's there?"

[waswrongtoo]

Even through the pounding rain, Summer's not hard to make out. Her bright white cloak stands out prominently, and the waving helps.

"Over here! Come inside, before you get sick!"

A very real concern given the intensity of the storm. The girl looks pretty tough, but that doesn't necessarily matter when it comes to diseases...

[sharpestsword]

Maybe that would be a good idea. She'd rather just stay here until the rain lets up than walk all the way back. It's not so bad having some company too. They're all in this situation so they have that much in common. So she'll take the cloaked woman up on her offer.

"Thanks. You don't mind?"