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apocalypsehowcomm2022-05-16 08:09 am
- !event,
- !finale,
- !npc,
- bucky barnes (mcu),
- cornelius hickey (the terror),
- cortana (halo),
- edalyn clawthorne (owl house),
- hunter (owl house),
- kate cordello (original),
- katrina (siren),
- manji (blade of the immortal),
- zz_addison montgomery (grey's anatomy),
- zz_ade bennett (the wess'har wars),
- zz_ainsley whitly (prodigal son),
- zz_andrew jaeger (original),
- zz_beauregard lionett (critical role),
- zz_bruno madrigal (encanto),
- zz_callisto (xena: warrior princess),
- zz_donna noble (doctor who),
- zz_garner cinderbrooke (original),
- zz_george milton (of mice and men),
- zz_jeff calhoun (original),
- zz_john carter (er),
- zz_jonathan sims (tma),
- zz_luka kovač (er),
- zz_malcolm bright (prodigal son),
- zz_misty quigley (yellowjackets),
- zz_neal caffrey (white collar),
- zz_nick valentine (fallout),
- zz_orpheus (hadestown),
- zz_rye kalibash (original),
- zz_tim drake (dc comics)
Event - Appalachia: Into the Pines
Footage plays on the television as a new story comes on, showing a series of sweeping vistas, intercut with clips of wolves that have clearly been filmed at some local wildlife sanctuary. "As far as anyone knows it, the last wolf to ever freely roam the Allegheny Mountains was slain in West Virginia in 1897. Daniel Stoffer Hamrick saw to the beast's passing, and the woods in our part of the world have gone quieter ever since. Appalachia does not forget its history, though. It buries it beneath coal and flyash, debts and white powder and pills. And the blood of people taken before their time, by the mines, by the mountain, by things we don't have names for, just hurt. But Appalachia does not forget.
"This is Cindy Parsons with Channel 5, Wolf News." Footage cuts to a newscaster standing outside a gated apartment complex with FYRE's logo emblazoned on it. "As we know, our beloved Wolf Pen is home to one of the biggest FYRE worker housing complexes in Wyoming County. It is a monument to the history of our town, and this week, we'll be on the lookout for visitors from all over the country, coming to see the grand re-opening of the historic Bluestone Mine as a museum."
Footage cuts to a nondescript businessman, identified by the news footage as Carl Watts, CEO of FYRE. He's smiling blandly as he stands at a podium and gestures to the entrance of the mining tunnel behind him. "The Wolf Pen community has been a partner to us for decades now, and we knew it was finally time to give something back to all y’all. We'll have our soft opening on Monday with a full Rumble Down Under party in the old mines scheduled for June 15th. We'll have a live bluegrass concert and anticipate a huge influx of tourists to the area to help out our neighbors itching for a few more pocketbooks to tend to." A wink.
The footage returns to Cindy. "FYRE has stated that this new museum will provide an educational tool and tourist attraction for those wanting to learn about West Virginia, Wolf Pen, and the hard-working men and women who have made this beautiful part of our nation their home. Time will tell. Time is always telling when it comes to the promises of people who have used our land and our bodies to line their pocketbooks. They fill our blood and our lungs with black tar and-"
Cindy cuts out and is replaced by in-studio anchors. "Thank you, Cindy!" a blonde woman says, smile just a little strained. "I think we're all looking forward to seeing the big opening by FYRE on Sunday and that rocking good party next month. It should be a gneiss one! Now to Tim with the weather. Tim?"
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As soon as she hears the phone go down, she scampers back to her previous position, taking out her notebook and starting to write that down. When he comes back, she'll be finished scribbling, and close the book up to give him a little wave. She won't let on to what she's gotten. Not yet. That's for when he can't just run off or phone a friend.]
You all good now?
Thank you for your patience!
[Jimmy offers her an apologetic smile, his earnestness back on full display. After getting Beau a hardhat and reflective safety vest, he leads her into the main tunnel. Something that will become gradually apparent to Beau is a sense that she's being drained as time goes by. Whatever fear reserves she might have stored up are being siphoned somehow, and that might well make her hungry. Not to mention it's affecting her physically, as well, with her regular energy being sapped.]
So, I though, um... we'd go through the main tunnel and down the elevator and into the warrens below, if that's okay? That's just what we call the tunnel complex down there.
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Beau almost misses what he says before she pulls herself back to it, forcing herself to center her brain and keep herself together.]
Uhh, sure, that's-- yeah. Why the warrens? Just for fun?
[Small talk, keep up the small talk, she can do this.]
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[The elevator, when they reach it, is a rickety-looking thing from too many decades ago. Jimmy motions for her to step inside, though.]
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Huh. Kinda cute, for a pile of rock stuff.
[She'll do as she's told just once though and step on, keeping her eyes on him to make sure he comes with her.]
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You don't get, uh... vertigo or anything, do you? We had one inspector who got kind of sick while he was down here.
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[Even if she's feeling increasingly nauseous, but that's... something else. She's sure of it.]
How long is it gonna take to get to the bottom?
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