and if you fall

[hasapoint]

WHO: Need and: the first prompt and general wildcard interaction is OTA. The second prompt is closed to her and Allynbee, Bakugo, and Yusuke. It doesn't have to be a megathread but if you want one that's cool.
WHAT: First prompt: Need meanders around and makes a weapon that throws rocks good and tests it on a wall. Second prompt: returning to the River to see what's there to be found. I'm happy with either prose or brackets!
WHERE: Cavern of course! First prompt is in the city or wherever within the lantern's light you'd like your character encountering Need. Second prompt is overlooking the River.
WHEN: Between the intro log and the first Crossing. I'm leaning after the Ferryman's announcement but if you want a thread set before then I'm game.
WARNINGS Not sure. General discussion of the lethality of slung stones is a possibility, and the unpleasantness of being submerged in the River.


check the cupboard for your daddy's gun
Need is quite tall, heavyset, and the oldest-looking person present, with a seamed and scarred face and a wary, watchful aspect. Having spent a long afterlife in service, she feels at loose ends here and is often in motion, walking slow circuits and checking to see if anything has changed, or unpicking bits of fabric so she can find uses for it as string.

One of the first things she does is put together a sling. It doesn't look like much, just a length of braided twine. She takes it up into the higher reaches of the subterranean city to try and test it, with a series of rounded stones for ammunition. The crack of the sling, or of the stone hitting, carries in the quiet as she refines her aim.

"Fired clay bullets are better," she says conversationally, not looking directly at whoever she's speaking to. Crack! Need pulls the now-trailing end of the sling up, wrapping it loosely around her fingers. "Cast lead is best. But if I'm wishing for things that aren't here, first I want a sword."

it's a long way down to the bottom of the river
It's hard to get much out of the Ferryman. Knowing how often she's been cryptic to the living, Need has set her jaw and not tried to wheedle out an answer. The little that she has picked up has been the intimation that she can glean something by returning to the River.

Maybe the other three have also spoken to them, or followed someone headed this way, or meandered here on their own. Regardless, Need looks out across the broad expanse of dark water and exhales slowly.

"It's better than the ocean," she complains, a 'but' clear in her tone.

Comments

The River.

[reflashed]

"The stupid salty ocean is better than a shitty death river," Katsuki huffs, as though it is very important to detail that he hates the ocean as well! Still, he's wriggling out of his shirt, struggling a bit since only one of his hands is capable of actually gripping the fabric of his shirt. He has to pull his left arm out and then use it to free his right.

"Alright, anyone wanna take a dip with me? Maybe we can find what the hell the Ferryjerk is up to."

Check the Cupboard for Your Daddy's Gun

[urtitan]

[Having observed Need's sling tests, Frieda chimes in at her musings.]

What makes you think you'll need a weapon? The only thing here besides us are the wraiths.

[Surely, those can't be physically harmed anymore.]

Check the Cupboard! (Somehow I missed this!)

[solitarynote]

Sunny could hear the crack of the sling and the splintering of rocks from his room’s window (it wasn’t really his room - just one he had decided to stay in for now. It gave him some measure of not feeling like something would come for him from random angles). And not that he knew what the source of the noise was, just that it caused him to jolt every time he heard it.

But… it didn’t sound like it was getting closer, and upon looking out the window and confirming someone wasn’t coming for him, Sunny… somehow found it in himself to leave the room and search out the source.

New Quest? What’s That Sound?!

Thankfully it wasn’t too far from the building, though the slight incline of the hill had his limbs shaking in exertion. The teen hid partly behind a slab of stone, peeking out from behind it, and noticing Need’s practice.

He was stuck between being frightened and thinking Need looked like a really brave pirate leader (for whatever reason).

When she somehow addressed him without even turning around, Sunny’s eye widened and he froze, very much a deer in headlights.