Salvage

[aquatic_light]

There's an utter mess scattered over Washed Up Beach today, and a few people who seem to be trying to clean it up. Since the weather in the Nexus is always warm enough to go swimming (except when it isn't) there's also one family already who arrived with a picnic basket and found the beach just isn't suitable for that today. Care to have a look?

(This continues just after this scene. Feel free to talk to anyone there if you want, or just walk up and start poking around. I just ask that no one successfully walk off with any critical parts as there are plans to put that back together. XD )

Comments

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee sticks a nice seagull feather into the top of her tower, then puts some shells around it.] You wanna add anything?

[lastest_ringbearer]

All I have isss boneses, you won't want them.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee looks at the castle] Well -- you could scatter them around the front. Make believe there was a big battle here.

[lastest_ringbearer]

*He thinks about this a moment, then nods and starts to do so.*

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee grins and continues decorating, looking for bits of pointy sticks that could stand in for spears and putting them near the bones to suggest stabbings]

[lastest_ringbearer]

*Smeagol claps his skinny hands. He is having fun!*

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee giggles and finds some more rocks, which she scatters around to represent rocks thrown from the top of the building] A great battle was fought here!

[lastest_ringbearer]

Great and terrible, yesss!

[dee_lorean81]

And the castle defenders were valiant, raining death upon the enemy! [throws some sand in the air to demonstrate]

[lastest_ringbearer]

A gloriousss victory?

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee looks at the bones] For the castle, anyway. Don't think these guys fared so well.

[lastest_ringbearer]

Only one ssside at a time can win. Not both.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee nods] Yeah, that's a good point. You can't have a battle without somebody losing. Unless everybody just refuses to fight, but I don't think that happens much.

[lastest_ringbearer]

That'sss not a battle anymore, isss it?

[dee_lorean81]

No, I guess it's not. That's a -- stalemate, I think? Or a cease-fire? [she's not sure of the word where people just refuse to fight]

[lastest_ringbearer]

A peace, maybe?

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee nods] Yeah, I guess so. Maybe it's not as epic as a battle, but it's probably nicer for everyone involved.

[lastest_ringbearer]

Alwaysss nicer.

[dee_lorean81]

Yeah. . . I know I wouldn't want to be in the middle of a proper battle with swords and arrows and all that.

[lastest_ringbearer]

Sssmart girl. I've ssseen what comeses after, yes. The Dead Marssshes . . .

[dee_lorean81]

The what now? [Dee bites her lip] Or, uh, do I not want to know?

[lastest_ringbearer]

Smeagol thinks you're not wanting to know. I wisssh I didn't.

[dee_lorean81]

Yeah, okay, let's leave that alone. [She'll put a few more decorations on her castle instead] I think I prefer fictional battles to real ones.

[lastest_ringbearer]

Ssso do we all.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee nods] Yeah. [of course, things get more complicated when you remember that things that are fictional in one place can be real in another. . .but let's not get into that just yet] Anything else you wanna add to the castle?