edalyn: (hot pink)
Eda Clawthorne ([personal profile] edalyn) wrote in [community profile] apocalypsehowcomm2022-07-11 07:05 pm

Log | July catch-all | OTA

Who: Edalyn Clawthorne and maybe you?
When: Early - mid July
Where: Dogtown, the beach, headquarters, housing
Summary: TDM prompts + settling in! I'll probably add more prompts later in the month.
Warnings: scopophobia, thalassophobia, potential seagull harm

Birdswatching (scopophobia)

‘Eda’ and ‘volunteering for work’ rarely go together. But for the moment this is outweighed by her curiosity. She didn’t really get a chance to see the park before it was closed, and she’s itching to go in now that she’s been told not to.

She won’t do it, not immediately at least, and how obvious she’ll be about how much she wants to will depend on who’s with her.

But at the very least, she wants to poke around the outside, and keep an eye out for the supposed supernatural activity. If that happens to line up well enough with what she’s supposed to be doing, then that works out.

She isn’t enjoying the birds, though. Which is strange, honestly. She likes birds–her whole family does. And she isn’t normally prone to worrying too much about being watched. On the other hand, as someone who’s spent much of her life on the run, something about the feeling does strike a nerve.

She’s pacing anxiously, and every now and then talking to the little owl on her own shoulder. Said owl is also watching the native birds anxiously.

Current Events

While Eda doesn’t love the idea of mandatory socializing, she does like the beach. It’s an excuse to put on cute beach-wear and lounge around doing her best to relax. She isn’t entirely succeeding at that part, but it’s probably good for her to try. She’s even trying to socialize, and probably doing some flirting.


Riptide (thalassophobia)
Eda hasn’t gone surfing in… she’s not even sure how many years. But she remembers it being fun, and it ought to be easy-mode in the human realm. You didn’t even have to worry about avoiding the waves that would give you third degree burns! What could go wrong?

It takes her a little while to get the hang of it again, once she does she appears to be enjoying herself. At least, until she’s hit with a sudden wave. While it isn’t scalding, it does make her lose her footing on her board, and once she scrambles back onto it she realises she’s a whole lot further from the shore than makes logical sense. Great.

She could try and swim back, but she has to admit that looks exhausting… and she could fly back, but she really doubts the ADI would approve of that solution. For the moment, she glares pointedly at the ocean.


We Feast Upon the Flesh (potential seagull harm, but currently just scaring them)

Eda is quickly getting fed up with the seagulls that don’t want to let her or anyone else actually eat. It doesn’t take her long to start chasing them off. After all, that’s the helpful thing to do, right? That’s definitely why she’s doing it.

This excuse will slowly become less convincing, if anyone happens to be paying attention. It will likely become more apparent through the course of the day that she’s simply easily distracted by the desire to chase small, moving creatures. Her mannerisms grow less like a human trying to shoo them away and more like those of an animal that likes to chase birds. Maybe even wants to catch them.

And if the seagulls don’t enjoy it… well, maybe she’ll end up eating well despite the gulls stealing her barbecue. In one sense at any rate.

Nesting (early July)

Eda may not be happy about it, but she’s accepted the fact that she’s stuck here for now. And if she has to be stuck here, she might as well get comfortable. It appears she doesn’t have any roommates at the moment, and she’s using the opportunity to do some… decorating.

On more than one evening, she can be spotted, either through the door or the window, bringing sticks into her apartment. There seem to be quite a few of them. In fact, hypthetically, the goal happens to be somewhere around enough sticks to build a bird’s-nest big enough for a six-foot-something woman to sleep comfortably in. Of course, that might be an oddly specific goal for other people to guess.

And whoever moves in next may have to fight Eda for control of the living room.

Hitting the books (mid July)

Another facet of Eda accepting the fact she’s stuck here is that she’s decided to crack down on some research. There’s a few days where anyone entering the library will be met with an irritable, frustrated witch with a cup of unpleasantly strong coffee and a stack of books.

If she was younger, and the situation was less dire, she might be having fun. After all, she very much had a cryptid phase and some of the local legends are the kind of thing she would have eaten up as a kid. But she isn’t one and the situation is dire, so she’s mostly just increasingly irritated with the lack of more solid information.

Wildcard
Feel free to throw any ideas my way!
abrightboy: (counterpoint)

Nesting

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-07-12 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Malcolm has wandered over to apartment block D to check on Aziraphale, but he's not in at the moment. Heading down the hall, he notices a woman carrying a large bundle of sticks and he rushes over, reaching out in an offer to take some.

"I can help you with those, if you want."
abrightboy: (secret smile)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-07-15 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Malcolm takes the sticks, following her towards her destination.

"My name's Malcolm," he offers.
abrightboy: (counterpoint)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-07-18 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"I live in Block B," Malcolm tells her. "B1."

He glances at the debris on the floor.

"I was just in this block to check in on a friend, but he wasn't home."
abrightboy: (huh?)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-07-25 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Aziraphale. He's..." Malcolm pauses near the pile, not yet dropping his sticks.

"You're not... building a fire, are you?"
abrightboy: (a little confused)

[personal profile] abrightboy 2022-07-26 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
“Boiling Isles? I’m not familiar with them. Is that where you’re from?” Malcolm asks, dropping his sticks in the pile.

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lesbeau: (« [Curious] ??????????)

hitting the books :v

[personal profile] lesbeau 2022-07-14 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Eda, you're in good company in this one. And by that the universe means that Beau is pretty much the same, has been here months now, and still has the same sort of frustrated existence in research. While she does do work in investigations, she's been trying to work more online after she's learning how to use a computer, meaning here she also is looking probably just as annoyed.

It's likely the second day Beau passes her that she stops and thinks to say anything, since plenty of people come in to find one or two things-- but this is a woman looking for something, and that makes Beau nosy. She slides up behind her, leaning over her shoulder to see what books are on the table.

"The paper collection here is pretty shit, unless you get lucky. What're you looking for?"
lesbeau: (« [Skeptical] fuck those cards)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2022-07-19 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
If it makes Eda feel better, Beau also looks a lot less alert and crabby than she did in the woods, so... mood, basically. The overview she gives is interesting though, sending the monk's brain to turning.

"Yeah, you and the rest of us." She reaches and grabs a chair to pull over, sitting down on only the edge as she leans forward. "But uh-- you said human realm? You live on a different plane than most uhhh, people-looking living things?" Go with her on this, Eda. She has a plan, sort of.
lesbeau: (« [Thought] quiet memory)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2022-07-28 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Beau nods along, looking serious enough and listening pretty intently. Once Eda has finished speaking, she chimes in almost instantly. "Yeah, we've-- I mean, I've got something like that where I come from. There's the main plane, or like-- humanoid things live there, and then there's a bunch of other planes that kind of layer over each other. Except this whole-- thing?" She pauses to raise her arms and kind of gesture to everything before continuing.

"Nobody here knows about any kind of other planes. They all think there's just one. Weird, right?"
lesbeau: (« [Curious] ??????????)

[personal profile] lesbeau 2022-07-30 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Not everybody in my world knows about other planes, but it's not like... impossible. It's just not important for like, farmers and stuff." As long as some nutjob isn't opening portals and bringing in succubi, but hey, that's what her job is for. Sort of. "Look, I'm-- I can't find anybody who actually knows about other planes, but hear me out, that-- that sounds like these Entity things, right? Off in a plane most people don't know exists? Bleeding over and doing bad shit?"

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canofmanji: (Time to do something STUPID)

Current Events

[personal profile] canofmanji 2022-07-17 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
Beach wear is not something Manji had given any real thought to when he clued in to just how mandatory participation was to this event. He at least was wearing sandals and in an effort to 'fit in' a bit better has left his kimono at home. Choosing instead to wear a long, dark skirt that goes all the way down to his knees and plain white t-shirt that seems several sizes too big for him. Something close to his old clothes.

Seeing this new modern take of swimwear has him staring at everyone. There was so much skin on display. Men and woman with clothing that clung right to their bodies! So, this was the future? He might be able to get use to this.

Hopefully Eda doesn't mind the old fashion samurai checking her body out without a single lick of shame or doing a thing to try to hide the fact that he was being shallow right now.
canofmanji: (Oro?)

[personal profile] canofmanji 2022-07-18 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh?" Was someone talking to him? After another moment Manji figures out that it's Eda talking to him and just who he was ogling. Quickly looking away with a snort he stutters briefly while trying to come up with some excuse. "Huh? Me, I dunno, I suppose. Sun's pretty bright. Makes it hard to... see?" CRAP! That was lame.
canofmanji: (I stepped on something)

[personal profile] canofmanji 2022-07-19 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not that dumb!" He grumbles out. "I meant it was reflecting and stuff!" He waves at the water. "You know, so-- hard to see. Not that I was staring at a bright light like a lunatic!"
canofmanji: (I'm bringing sexy back)

[personal profile] canofmanji 2022-07-21 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," He decides to admit. "I was." He nods his head to another woman on the beach a little further down from them. "I was checking her out." Liar.

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