Survival 101 (part 1)
Posted on Thu Aug 29th, 2013 @ 1:42am by Commodore Samantha York & Master Chief Petty Officer Apu Barnum & Commander Alexandra Vance & Ensign Mandy Lane & Warrant Officer Sterling Kamala IV & Gaia & Admiral Maximilian 'Max' Hunter
Edited on on Thu Aug 29th, 2013 @ 1:47am
1,098 words; about a 5 minute read
Mission: Tabula Rasa
ON
[Compound]
Mandy had been silent the first day, watching, and learning what she could by eavesdropping. Today, she decided to finally talk, and be useful to those around her. She started by approaching the one who appeared, by her examination, to be the leader of the group. "Hello. I am Mandy." She showed her wristband, with her name on it as proof. "And I've been watching everything around here. You seem to be in charge, Sam." It was knowledge she had gained by her eavesdropping the day before. "I was wondering how I could help today?" She asked, and folded her hands behind her back.
Sam didn't think of herself as a leader. An explorer, yes, but not much of a leader. Still, it was clear something needed to be done. "Hello, Mandy. I think today we need to organize ourselves. Hunters, gatherers and explorers to go out. People to stay behind to rebuild the camp and cook." She looked around. "Let's gather as many people as we can and see what they think."
"I feel like hunting would be something I would do." Mandy said, following the gut feeling she had. How to hunt? No freaking clue, but it seemed like something useful. "Have we got any weapons to hunt with?"
"There's a room on the end," Sam said, pointing. "There are some weapons in there. Be careful and make sure to come back before dark. Hans has been hunting. Look for him."
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Alexandra sat quietly in a small makeshift tent she had made for herself and studied those around her. While they were calm and had essential needs they were unorganized and unworried by their actual situation. Alexandra had made it a point to ensure she was ready for anything, food gathering, a raid. Something inside her demanded she be ready.
She also felt the need to study others. She liked Sam and Damon, they were kind and caring. The man who grabbed Damon was too aggressive and rude for her. She didn't like him at all. She would continue to sit quietly and keep to herself, even though she longed for a friend to talk to.
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[Wilderness]
Sterling had awoken alone the day before, with no idea who he was except for his name tag and no idea where he was at all. He had seen his reflection in a stream and he knew that he was not human, but he had no recollection of what race he might have been.
He had been able to slake his first, but he was growing more and more hungry. He found a path, nothing more than a game trail really and began to follow it.
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[Compound]
Gaia came out and stretched, someone had found a stick and had made a very rough broom and had swept out her kitchen space. She took it next door to Apu and handed it to him along with a rough made dish of something to eat. Gaia flashed him a friendly smile and left.
"Thank you," Apu said, taking both the broom and the food. He'd been busy that morning. All the broken and rotting bits were gone and the room needed a good sweeping.
Gaia then left to find out if Mojo and Jenna had collected flat pieces of thick slightly curved bark to serve her wheat mush on. She served each of them and herself. They had found some corn too and Gaia used her dull knife to take it off the cob and create a corn mush, commonly called grits. It had no seasoning but it was edible. She took a 'plate' and approached Alexandra. "Are you hungry?" Gaia asked with a hesitant smile.
Alexandra placed her hand on her stomach. "Yes I am actually." She said with a smile of gratitude. "I've only had two cobs of corn since I woke up yesterday. Are you the cook?"
"Well, I cooked that if you want to know." Gaia chuckled and looked around others were eying the dish of food she had given Alexandra "But I am not sure if I do cook all the time or just sometimes. In either case I do enjoy it and plan to do more. Food sources will need to be found to feed all these people though." Gaia looked a bit dismayed as feelings of confusion still ebbed and flowed through the crowd.
"There are large fields of corn not far from here," Sam said, overhearing the conversation.
"Hi Sam." Alexandra said with a smile. "I was just telling my new friend here about the corn we had yesterday."
"Good, so you can get a group of folks together and go gather it?" Gaia replied as she met the brunettes dark eyes. Instinctively she knew that they could communicate with out talking and she raised an eyebrow at her.
Sam smiled at Alexandra before answering Gaia. "Yes. The more we can send out now to gather food, the better. We can cook some and dry some. We'll need to see if there's anything else out there that's edible."
Sam began to organize groups to gather the corn, clean it and prepare a room to store it.
Alexandra approached Sam. "Do you need some help with organizing some of the groups? I can take some people out to find more food if you would like."
Sam gave her an appreciative smile. "That would be great. I still get a feeling that we're missing something here and I want to go find out what it is." She sighed. "Why can't any of us remember?" It was a question that ate at her. It made no sense. Maybe, as they got organized and, they'd find more pieces of the puzzle.
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[Wilderness]
Sterling spotted smoke and cautiously approached a cabin. He walked up to the door and knocked.
The door swung opened quickly as a hand shot out and grabbed Sterling by the collar of his shirt. He was then pulled in and thrown against the wall inside the cabin. He could feel a blade on his neck and a first grip as the eyes of a man with a slight five o'clock shadow locked with his. The bracelet on his hand read "Max", it was Admiral Max Hunter. Or in this case, former, Admiral Max Hunter of Starfleet Intelligence.
(To be continued...)
Ensign Mandy Lane
Medic
Commodore Samantha York
Commanding Officer
Commander Alexander Vance
Executive Officer
Warrant Officer Sterling Kamala IV
Security Investigations
Gaia
Lounge Manager/Owner Bazinga's
Chief Petty Officer Apu Barnum
Quartermaster
Admiral Max Hunter
Fleet Special Ops
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