Time for Tending Plants [Open]

[lionunchained]

WHO: Shiro and You!
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: Dealing with Plants
WHEN: Throughout Event
WARNINGS: Nothing yet, will update.


Oh What Insanity Is This
It was nice to be able to step off the ship and finally be back in Temba. While it wasn't actually home, it was nice to actually return to the place that had become sort of become home.

That's what he really would have liked to think. As he stepped out of the hangar and was able to survey Temba again, he was completely dumbstruck by everything that had happened. He just... stood there as he stared at it. The plants... there was just so much of it. It was everywhere...

"What the hell happened here? How long were we gone?"

Brave Explorer
Even though the urge to just stand and stare at the mess was really very tempting, it wouldn't do anything to make things better so finally, he went to find something that he could use to start cutting plants down. Dark that his new arm didn't have the same abilities as his old one and he couldn't just use THAT.

However, the metal arm did come in handy (ha) because he could use it to help push plants to the side with less worry about it actually hurting him. No feeling and very hard to damage helped like that.

But after working for a while, it didn't feel like they had really gotten anywhere. He grumbled before looking at the person next to him.

"How long have we been at this?"

Save the Glownie!
Shiro hadn't been planning on being out so late. He'd kind of lost track of time. One would say it was stupid for him to have been so careless as to forget about this part...

Shiro would call it a blessing though since as he was trying to find his way back, he stumbled upon a faint glowing light among the trees. Moving closer, he spotted one of the glownies that had wandered away from the its home in this mess. Maybe it smelled mint somewhere.

But that wasn't all he spotted. There was Thorntooth that was attempting to sneak up on it, ready for an easy target.

Shiro, of course, couldn't let that happen, charging to get to the Glownie first, having only a dinky weapon to try and delay it in his attempt to flee with the Glownie.

Bishop
Sorry, crew of the Bishop or anyone else who would be there, there is temporarily a Glownie wandering around on the ship one night...

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Brave Explorer

[doubled_speed]

It wasn't that Tommy meant to come along with Shiro exactly. He didn't know WHAT he was supposed to do here. Hell, with his expertise he was probably better off looking for answers. But Tommy wasn't the best answers person, and seeing Shiro go off on his own had meant that he'd felt compelled to follow.

But damn, it had not been an easy trip.

"Do you really wanna know? I'm pretty good at keeping track of time when I'm conscious."

He sees a vine slowly moving toward them on the ground and, annoyed, gestures at it with his hand. The thing explodes, and yuck, there is sap on him, but whatever. Still stands by his choice.

[lionunchained]

Shiro hadn't asked for company, but he was definitely glad to have it. It was not always safe being alone - even though he would do it anyway. Besides, it was nice to have someone to talk to or lament to in that case. So many vines... so little time.

Shiro considered that for a moment. "You know... probably better not. I'm curious, but I feel like it might be find of depressing to know."

He gave a sympathetic look at the reaction to the sap that landed on Tommy, of course, some having gotten on him as well, but it was par for the course right now.

[doubled_speed]

"It would be depressing to know."

Especially since Tommy was pretty sure how far they had gone too. Not far enough fast enough.

"Sorry man. I can't control the splatter zone from blasts. But little explosions was the best choice there. Don't want the vines eating you."

[lionunchained]

"It's fine," Shiro said. "I would much rather be alive and covered in sap then dead."

He didn't really care about that. Sap happened.

He sighed, fighting the urge to lean on something as the plant would likely attack him. "It seems like we have gone so far, but I get the feeling we really haven't."

And he didn't exactly want to turn around and prove himself right.

[doubled_speed]

Put that phrase on a t-shirt. You'd make money. Ironically.

"Not really," Tommy sighs. "It's... bad here. If you want, I could try and carry you somewhere."

[lionunchained]

That would make one heck of a shirt. There would probably be some people would buy it. If there was really money here.

"I'm sure it is fine. It's definitely something that we need to work on clearing." He sighed. "Not sure how far we could get quickly in this mess."

[doubled_speed]

They could get paid in some other manner. Maybe cards praising them?

"I'm just interested on getting us somewhere safe. I don't even know where we're supposed to go. How do you stop plants? Last time things were this overgrown, it was with mint. And the glownies saved us."

OF course, it had been his fault that time. This time he doesn't feel responsible.

Bishop

[crystalmaster]

Radley wakes up to some strange noises and wanders out of his room with a frown, rubbing one eye. What was going on? Had mutant plants crashed into the ship?!

He just stares at the Glownie, dumbfounded. "What ..."

He's not familiar with these yet, and what's it doing on the ship?!

[lionunchained]

"Hey, where did you go?" he'd hear someone call from another room and the glowing pony with a lots of fluff like a sheep looked up.

Shiro came jogging out, spotting Radley in the hall.

"Hey, sorry about that. It was a little too dangerous to try and get this guy back to the barn tonight so I brought him here. Just for tonight."

[crystalmaster]

"Uh ... okay." Radley keeps staring at it. "It's tame, I hope?"

And is it too much to hope it's housebroken?

[lionunchained]

"They are tame," Shiro said as the Glownie trotted over to him, looking up at him expectantly. "They are animals we raise for wool called Glownies. Apparently this one picked a bad night to explore."

Housebroken? Probably not, but Shiro realized it was his fault it was here so he'll take care of any... issues.

[ooc: Also hello, I'm also the Ulaz at VR, in case you notice the comment spams at the same time lol]

[crystalmaster]

((Awesome! Hi!))

"Ah. Kind of a horse-sheep?" Radley cautiously holds out a hand to it. He's very gentle with animals, unless they're aggressive and he has to protect himself.

[lionunchained]

"Yeah. Basically. They showed up when some mint accidentally got left out."

The Glownie saw that hand and went trotting over to Radley to see him. Hello, new human.

Bishop

[buildingitsir]

He's not happy about these plants. That's par for the course usually but York knows the plants are dangerous for him. If they manage to somehow get into his system, it would do to him what humans did long ago. So he's mostly stuck around in the hangar, devising plans to try and fortify the front entrance for others.

But he gets low on stasis and the Bishop is the only place he knows of that's considered 'safe', so that's where he goes. Right into his top bunk and curled into his hoodie as he drifts off into his sleep mode to recharge.

When he 'wakes' from it, it's dark. Or, it's supposed to be dark. Aside from the light of his LED illuminating his chin from under the hoodie, there's another one coming from the hall. What the hell? York shimmies off of the bunk and heads out to find... what was that? He rubs his eyes, does a test of the hardware... No, all green. "Uh... are you supposed to be here?" he whispers stupidly, like the glowing sheep was going to answer him.

"Or is my programming malfunctioning?"

[lionunchained]

Not malfunctioning. He really was seeing the glowing animal wandering around the ship. In fact, when he walked into the hallway, it stopped to look at him before trotting over to him. Hello, friend?

"Hey, where did you go?" a voice could be heard calling from somewhere else in the ship before Shiro appeared.

"Hey. Sorry about that. This little guy got out and it was a bad time to try and get him home tonight."

[buildingitsir]

York just stares at the creature trotting over to him, the glow reflected in his eyes before he squats down to let it sniff his hand, and then pet it. He stiffens at the sound of a voice calling out in the ship. The voice sounded familiar though...

He looks up to Shiro as the man appears, blinking for a moment as his ocular hardware adjusts for the low light and glow of the sheep. "Is this... your pet?" He thinks for a long moment. "Like Kosmo is for Keith? I think that's his name. Kosmo was the big blue wolf though."

[lionunchained]

Shiro chuckled at that, watching as the Glownie waited patiently for pets. He smiled, recognizing the other even in the dim light of the Glownie. "No, not a pet. He's one of the Glownies we sheer for wool. He was nearly attacked so I had to take him somewhere."

But at the question, he nodded. "Yes, Kosmo is Keith's wolf."

[buildingitsir]

In addition to the glow from the creature, there was a blue one from under York's black t-shirt, that peeked out more when the collar pulled away from his upper chest. The android squats down to pet the creature carefully. Hm. Sort of soft.

"Oh, all the foliage outside, right. I haven't done much to go out there. Too risky if it hurts me since there's nothing made for me yet if things break." He really needed to tough up and just let Tony look at his system to get some of the shit made. Or maybe Cal could do something.

He levels his eyes on the taller man. "I feel like I've seen you from somewhere and I don't know why. Like a section of my memory was sort of scrubbed."

[lionunchained]

Ah, he can definitely see the glowing now. Made sense, given what he knew about York from that time when they had been stuck in the dream room. So he wasn't even surprised. The Glownie was very happy with pets and stood around to let him pet.

"Yeah, all of the foliage outside right now. Some of the creatures hiding in it are pretty dangerous." He sighed. "Almost got attacked by them so I can certainly understand that."

He showed off his metal arm. There wasn't much to fix that if it broke, but he didn't seem too concerned about it.

"Yeah, I think we have. It wasn't that long ago. It wasn't here though."

Save the Glownie!

[out_of_order]

A new light ignited in the darkness as Shiro attempted to get to the Glownie, a brilliant line of blue that came spinning like a disc at the Thorntooth just as it was about to lunge. The creature leapt back, part of it seared and the end of one of its limbs lobbed off, the mysterious light circling back the way it came before stopping as someone grasped the end of it.

Cal hadn't meant to be out so late either, but there was nothing to be done for it. With the state of the city it just made it more difficult to get from one end to the other in reasonable time. Just as well he'd heard the sounds as BD-1 picked up someone on his radar, and in the next moment the young Jedi had moved as that sense of danger tickled at his senses. He stood with his lightsaber held at the ready as the Thorntooth backed up, looking between him and Shiro and the Glownie.

"Don't look now, but I think there's more where that one came from," he said, his face grim as he slowly started to move closer to them.

[lionunchained]

Shiro spotted the line of blue as it came appearing out of the darkness, still holding onto the glowing animal like its life depended on it. Which it probably did. It was likely not fast enough or smart enough to figure out escaping from that thing. Shiro at least had combat training.

As did the new arrival. Shiro was grateful for the sudden arrival. The Glownie might have been more if Shiro still wasn't currently holding it off the ground...

"Thanks for the assistance."

At the comment, he couldn't help a groan, glancing in the general direction of where that one had come from. "Somehow, not surprised. All around or do we still have an opening?"

[out_of_order]

Cal threw a quick glance over his shoulder, nodding. "Don't thank me yet," he said with a faint smirk. They still hadn't gotten out of this situation, after all. His expression grew serious as he turned his attention back towards the incoming creatures.

"I'll make one," he said, readjusting his stance as the things continued to near. "Hope you have a destination in mind. Get ready to move."

It wasn't a second later that one of the thorntooths made a lunge, and Cal met it with his blade, the lightsaber cleaving straight through it. It served as a signal enough for the others to make their attacks, but the Jedi threw his hands out, sending them flying back by some unseen Force.

"Go!"

[lionunchained]

Well, he could still thank him. It was just a bad time to do that. At least they had survived the first one. The rest were another question.

Shiro's gaze darted around again, watching for movement among the grass. The glowing lightsaber definitely improved the odds of seeing. The glowing horse didn't help that much though it was better than nothing.

And in that faint light, he can see other thorntooths slinking up on them and he held the Glownie that much tighter, lucky that 1) the small horse had seemed to resolved itself to being held and 2) fluff was a good handhold.

He nodded his head once to show that he had gotten the message to run. And when the Jedi gave him the signal, he did just that, taking off at a run, trying to keep an eye ahead of him to make sure there wasn't one that was going to ambush him.

[out_of_order]

At least he wasn't expected to go on his own. Cal followed after him, sweeping his lightsaber out to catch the thorntooths that had regained their footing faster and made an attempt to pursue. With Shiro's hands mostly full, Cal was going to do his best to keep these things off of them.

It wouldn't be his first time dealing with hungry plants, although this was the first time they were actually mobile enough to chase them.

[lionunchained]

Shiro was glad to for the assistance. It would be a lot harder if the Glownie was actively trying to escape. As it was, he was still down to one hand and didn't trust using it long term in case his fluffy charge changed its mind about behaving.

Of course, the run back towards the hangar was a dangerous one and another throntooth leapt out at him.

"Get back!" Shiro snapped and roundhouse kicked it away. Effective in moving it, but slowed him down