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Not Temba But Pretty Close

WHO: Tommmy Shepherd and People
WHERE: Not-Temba Agricultural Center, Quarry, Forest
WHAT: Explorations and Investigations, Maybe Even a Little Getting saved.
WHEN: First day to end of July
WARNINGS: Possible violence, Possible arguments with his brother, definite flirting with Kyle, fear of dogs and reactions caused by this.

1. Plants for the Plant Guy OTA
Tommy had been working the greenhouse in Temba since about day two or three. Every planet they went to he tried to find more food options. The few times he used the replicator, it was always to make things that would make the work easier, or allow him to manage plants out of the glass encased walls of the agricultural center in Temba. While he'd started the work because of an awareness that they needed food, he'd kept at it over a growing love for the work. So really, was it any surprise that Tommy was here?

The first day in Not-Temba he had raced off of the first train, eager to see if there was something like this, and his first day would be filled with Tommy slowly moving through the wildly overgrown greenhouse. No work yet, just Tommy moving slowly through the space, hands reaching out to touch overgrown tangles here, runners for beans there, and always pausing to marvel over the towering fruit trees that dominated this space in a way that even the Temba greenhouse might envy.

"This place is beautiful," he found himself saying as he moved through the different areas of the green house.

Starting from the second day on Tommy moved through the area with purpose. He'd brought a collection of pots and hand trowels and the like. A lot of these he left in the entrance with a sign

Tommy's gone exploring for plants. Grab a pot and join me up on level three if you're interested. Just harvesting? Check the fruit trees on five, I think they're mangos.

Any who might go seeking him out would find Tommy elbow deep in a bed of what looked like short grasses with feathery tops, trying to dig some out with his fingers. Or maybe they might find him further along in two, frowning as he tried to juggle a pot filled with dirt, a watering can, and a pungent smelling vine that seemed to actively be trying to curl around him.

"Will you please stop growing on me? I'm trying to get you to a new home!"

[OOC: Please also feel free to find Tommy anywhere else in the greenhouse, or your character somewhere for him to stumble over]

2. Quarry Queries: Line One OTA
There was a lot of the city to be seen. And, not just the agricultural center. Just north of it, back in Temba, there would be the massive hole down into the mines, something Tommy had never wanted to look at because fuck that mine was a massive hole. But here there was a serious difference. Tommy moved to the top edge of it, frowning. At last he shifted, sitting on the edge of the quarry rim, looking at the stone scooped out of this area.

"This is wrong," he said, frowning as he looked at the stone. He didn't know why it was, it just... It felt wrong. "Aren't quarries supposed to be away from where people live? Don't they get noisy or some shit?"

3. Forest Giant Closed to Ronan
There are adventures to be had here. Tommy definitely intended to have them. And, given his experience with the Agriculture database, his entire attempt to explore was really having a lot to do with plants. In this case the forest. There was something... familiar. No, not really familiar, but it still felt interesting. As he moved through the area he found himself pausing when he caught sight of a tree that was a bit pushed over.

"Shit, what did that?" Tommy found himself saying aloud, his hand settling on the tree trunk. The one with gouges worn into it.

4. Brother Where Art Thou? Closed to Billy
See, the problem with being Tommy and exploring places was that, well, trouble was BOUND to happen. sooner or later. This, apparently, was the sooner. Or was it later? Honestly, it didn't matter. What mattered in this moment was that there was absolutely a bit of a problem now, and one that Tommy hadn't been able to help.

The problem? Tommy had caught sight of the brother, and still upset he'd tried to avoid Billy.

Super speed and unstable rubble didn't go together well. Tommy tried to duck behind a wall. Too much speed, too little structural stability, or something else. Either way even he didn't have to react before an unstable wall was coming down over him, pinning Tommy down under rubble. And shit, that was not good. He immediately started to vibrate to get loose. Except... No. Tommy cried out in pain as a large piece of stone started to press down on his leg.

[OOC: More custom starters can be made if anyone wants, just PM me here for easiest talk, or hit me up on discord or plurk.]

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Noctis hadn't worried about being out here. He'd been in stranger places like the Mines back home and had dealt with far worse things like mindflayers which made him sick. Then there were those ever present Iron Giants that popped up everywhere.

Truthfully there seemed to be no end to the enemies back home and he figured they'd been lucky up to this point to not have encountered anything but rocks.

"Quarries usually are, but nothing about this place has seemed right." The king dusted the gloves on his hands off against each other and then they went on his hips as he looked around. Coming back from the dead was a thing in itself, and investigating the quarry seemed to be something out of a dream.

"We're going to need to head down there if we want to find anything else out though." Fortunately they weren't being chased by Niflheim troops overhead or something silly like that.

"Oh, you're so wise in the ways of the world now, Nocty?" Tommy asked. "You'll have to enlighten me as to what's seemed wrong. For now... Catch up?"

With that Tommy pushed off the edge and fell into the quarry. Fell far. He landed easily on one of the lower levels, like he hadn't been just been many tens of feet higher up moments before. He didn't fall faster than other people, but he sure took the land without having to roll without being in any pain.

"There's a down ramp over that way!" Tommy shouted, pointing toward a path down into the place. Should take Noctis a while to get down there, right?

At some point when Tommy's on the third floor, working on his transplants, he'll hear someone else bumbling around the plantlife. No, two someone elses, one on four paws instead of two feet. Really, Moonshade's not that loud, it's the wolf who's wandering everywhere and sniffling and snuffling at everything.

For her own part, Moonshade was never interested in the cultivation of plants before arriving here. She's a hunter, not a gatherer, really. But having the Agriculture datapoint has made her more thoughtful about secondary and tertiary uses for these plants.

Tommy wasn't all that bothered by someone coming to help him. He'd left the sign after all. What he wasn't expecting, while struggling with the vine and not wanting to hurt it, was a wolf coming around the corner.

The speedster had a lot of time to process the thing was a wolf. This is important because he had time to process it and didn't. He just saw a large, dog-like creature, and yelped. The yelp was immediately followed by motion, because that's just how phobias tended to work.

One second Tommy saw a wolf. The next the young man was literally up the nearest tree and cursing as he tried to keep the vine from tying him to it.

"Oh fuck today," he grumbled.

Meanwhile, the wolf is followed by woman-in-miniature, who notices the human (...ish) scrambling up the tree. "Are you alright up there?" Even calling out, the tone of her voice is mild, gentle, as she waves up at him.

Hey, he's more human than she is. The ish is just rude.

"Oh, you know. All normal. Giant dog, angry vine, big tree. That's just what life is about," Tommy said.

And he was getting annoyed with said vine. Fine, no more gentle guy. He glared at the vines and just pulled his arms apart quick and hard. Maybe he wasn't properly 'super strong' but he was still way stronger than most humans especially his size, so breaking free of the vines was fine.

Noctis wasn't sure what to do with these nicknames. First one was Fishy and that was cute.

But..Nocty? Really?

As Tommy moved, Noctis moved to watch the other land on his feet like he imagined a cat would. Looking at the place the other mentioned, Noct nodded. And then he materialized his father's sword and sent it flying through the air. It landed on the sand not too far from where Tommy was and Noct appeared next to it not a moment later.

That didn't feel too bad to do actually. So he dismissed it and nodded. "Ready when you are."

Yeah, Noctis, you'll have to adjust to nicknames. At least he hasn't called you Salt and Pepper or something.

Still, he wasn't expecting a sword to think into the ground not far from him, or from Noct to appear moments after. What?

"Dude, what just happened?"

"He's not a dog." She almost sounds insulted, there. "And he's not going to hurt you."

She uses wolf-Sending to tell Steadypaw to stay put, while she moves closer to the tree. "What are you doing in here, anyway?"

Looks like a dog, pants like a dog, has teeth like a dog, clearly is a dog. Even if it's a big one. ANd looks like a wolf.

"I'm gathering plants. I've been more or less managing hte greenhouse forever, what else would I do?" Tommy countered, frowning down at the small woman.

"You're the one that had the noisy get together the other day."

"The howl. Depending on who you ask, it was a fairly successful gathering." Or at least, not an unmitigated disaster.

"And I didn't know you've been managing the greenhouse. I'm still relatively new. But I can help, I think. With moving plants? If you want help."

Tommy hadn't bothered to ask. He just hadn't wanted to go.

"Most of the people who have been here for a while don't know it either, so whatever."

Help, with moving plants? TOmmy stares distrustfully at the large wolf.

"That'd be easier to accept if you didn't have that big dog."

The king smiled as he straightened. "It's something I could do back home." To be honest he had done that move after being dead, but there was no telling it would work with being dead AND being in another world.

"You don't have anyone here with fancy moves like that?" And there was some surprise in his tone as he asked that question.

If you were going to be friends with Tommy, you had to get used to him just rushing off. Between the actual physical time Kyle had in Temba as his friend, and then the memory of much longer in the Billyverse, he was pretty used to being left in the dust so it didn't bother him. Billy would have had more than enough time to do a preliminary exploration of the Agricultural Centre by the time Kyle managed to walk there.

It was a surprise to find Billy moving at a human pace inside.

"Yeah, really pretty," Kyle agreed as he walked down the natural aisle between fruit trees. He grinned at Tommy. "The trees are nice, too."

Okay, no, that's still weird but Tommy smiles and offers Noctis a wink. Then there's a rush of air and a blur of green before there's a Tommy waving at Noct from the top of the quarry, where Tommy had been moments ago. And it took less than a second for the change in position.

"This fancy enough for you Nocty?" he shouted down.

Kyle was there. Tommy grinned, moving to his boyfriend and throwing an arm over his shoulder.

"Check this out, dude, look at all the trees. Climbing for fucking DAYS!" he laughed, trying to guide Kyle forward. "I think I found a mango, sorta kinda."

"Sortakinda is good," Kyle said, being herded along. "Probably not wise to just go biting into them, mind you."

The trees really were vast, towering high above them. But most of them looked pretty climbable. Still...

"We should look for a ladder. You see anything else on your first run through? Nothing dangerous I'm guessing."

"I mean, I don't need a ladder. I can just run up the thing. But I haven't run through yet. I've been strolling so far."

He had to appreciate the space in it's natural state.

"I meant for the rest of us schmucks," Kyle said, shaking his head. "It's not all about YOU, jeeeeez."

He took Tommy's hand, emboldened by being alone. "Well, we can stroll together, then. Keep note of what we can take home with us."

Wow, hand holding. Tommy thought he might like that. And like going so. But only for Kyle.

"We should probably be investigating mysteries though. Yano, instead of going all chill. Unless you aren't in the mystery of the greenhouse mood. And if you are in one I might call you Nancy Drew."

Kyle was sappy at heart.

"As long as we're not the Hardly Boys." Yes, he said Hardly and not Hardy. As usual, there's a stupid reason.

"Or Detective Sandy Vagina," he adds, mostly to himself. "But sure, we can investigate things."

"Hardly Boys?" Tommy asked, clearly confused. Was that a thing? Hell, he didn't even know the Hardy boys was a thing. And

"Okay, Sandy Vagina isn't even a funny joke, nerd."

"Yeah. Heh. Nevermind."

He chuckled. "I know, it's something I was called, that's all." He swung their hands together.

"That's weird," Tommy noted, swinging his hand with Kyle's too. This is so fucking sappy.

"Oh god, I'm turning into Billy."

"How so?" Kyle asked, glancing over.

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