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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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Right.
Huh, that's a problem. Hickey pauses for a moment, frowning at the fridge as he realizes that he might have to deal with the consequences of his actions.
"I'm going to reassemble it, of course. They'll only notice something wrong when we've left. And by that point, it's someone else's problem."
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He nods. "I think that might be the best course of action. Surely they can fix it later." His smile curls a little higher at a corner with amusement. "I would offer to help...but it seems you've managed fine so far."
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"I think I can patch this thing back up into something close to working order," Hickey grins. He is going to do a shit job at 'repairing' the minifridge and they both know it. "But I wouldn't mind the conversation while I do so."
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Conversation he could do. "So, aside from, ah...sailing into the icy unknown, what else would you share? I do not know Earth locations very well still, but I could hear of your home or your hobbies? Perhaps your thoughts of this place instead, if you'd rather not dwell."
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"Here's better. Fresh food at every corner, my own bed, a constant roof over my head? Bloody brilliant."
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"I'm confused about there not being fresh food available, but I agree there are benefits and improvements to be found here. The medicine is fairly snappy for not having magic involved. Though...the prices are...alarming. To start."
When you were used to tings costing coppers at best, basic amenities listed at fifteen of the highest monetary denomination seemed excessive.
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There's a pause before he points out, "Though what d'you mean 'not having magic involved?' Never met any magic involving medicine before."
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Garner had gotten along fine without healing magic for a very long time, but he'd been spoiled by Rory's quick hand at casting and the efficiency of her magic over the requirement of time.
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"Can anybody use that magic? How do you be a healer in the first place?"
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"Well...Yes and no. Anyone with enough intellect and wherewithal can learn magic from books and anyone in tune with nature or gods or artistic ventures enough can be a druid or a cleric or a bard, but it chooses you, not the other way around. Others can make pacts with more powerful entities, like the ones here, and learn magic that way. Though. healing is less likely. Certainly less likely here, from what I've heard."
He shrugs. "There are some who use magic similar to mine to heal, but I went through training and lessons and a ritual to learn." Arguably, anyone could learn blood magic, but still not here.