un: flora // video // open to stars & moon // forward-dated to 10/27

[foxlore]

⟪ for just a moment, the anxious fear that comes with knowing everyone can see her and hear her right now overwrites the urgency of her task. it passes quickly enough – flora takes a deep breath, straightens her apron, and begins her explanation: ⟫

Uh, some of you might already know me. I'm Flora –– ⟪ wait, it says that as her name on this compass... thing, so it's not really necessary to start with that, is it? ⟫

Not so important right now, is it? ⟪ she straightens her apron again. ⟫

I know it is unwise to go out. But I also know many of you are setting out regardless, to fight these monsters and to escort those home who relied on the mirrors for safe and quick passage. I... I wanted to support those efforts.

⟪ now that she has reached the core of her reason to address everyone at once, she seems a little more at ease – tension is easing out from her shoulders, her voice sounds a little less nervous-high in pitch. ⟫

With the help of the natives, I am preparing bundles to ease survival. They contain a few rations of food, a spare cloak, for the winter can kill as swiftly as any beast, tinctures for healing, bandages –– nothing to fully replace a proper healer, but perhaps enough to carry someone over until one can be there. Oh, and a small container, so snow can be melted into water.

They're meant to lightweight, you see, and they're meant to save you time, so you really only need focus on your task, so you can move about your task swift and be back home –– or back in shelter – by nightfall.

⟪ she's offering a smile, but even she looks worried. ⟫

Some are packed already, and you're free to come pick them up at Court. And some of the natives will help me distribute them to anyone who won't be coming out to Court today –– but we need more distributors, and if others are staying back, I'd love their aid in packing the bundles.

⟪ she nods, having said her bit. ⟫

Thank you for listening. And please, everyone, stay safe.

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⟪ ooc info: hullo everyone! i've talked about this on plurk a lil, and here it is, in... actual game canon! everyone's free to assume their character picked up or was insistently handed a survival package (or two, or three) to take on out to escort/fighting missions. as it says in the ic bit, fellow helpers and distributors are needed, and since flora's only in the court of stars right now, she'll icily be looking to have people haul quantities of them to neutral lands. bonus points if someone in moon stars a similar thing!

while this felt most sensible to do as a network announcement, i'd be happy to do some log threads surrounding the packing & distributing. c: so we can either have network threads turn into logs or you can pm me/pp me (nehelenia) and i'll write starters!! ⟫

Comments

[foxlore]

Klaus! 's nothing, I'm not used to being seen and heard by so many at once. Good to see you, though.

⟪ she's beaming at the sight of him, though, glad to know him safe and well after the night's horrors. ⟫ I'm with the Court tailor right now, for spare cloth, if you'd like to join me?

⟪ still, what he says next resonates: ⟫ Got plenty of distributors, and people who help for a bit and then move out with the goods. So if you'd like to stay back, that would actually be ideal? 'tis where most our resources are, and you'd do well coordinating! In general, though, if you'd like to carry some to further-off settlements, it'd be nice, but I told all the natives helping to distribute the same thing, too: there's no use in getting caught after dark, no one's helped then.

[channellings]

Ohhh. A little stage fright then, I gotcha. It's good to see you, too.

[he's smiling as well, not nearly as exuberantly as flora, but the genuineness is still there. she didn't get hurt and that's fantastic.] The tailor? Y...eah... I can be there in, like, five minutes! Need to make myself more presentable. [seriously, just ignore how disheveled he looks at the moment. it's not his proper appearance.]

I'm fine hanging back. Frankly, I'm more than fine with that, considering I won't have to worry about being outside whenever nightfall comes. If it's absolutely necessary though, I'll deliver to the further-off places. These long legs get me places rather quickly, after all.

[foxlore]

⟪ she shakes her head emphatically. ⟫ I'm not making anyone out there who doesn't want to, and there's plenty others who volunteered for it.

⟪ that said, knowing he's well and planning to stay safe puts her in a bit more of a cheeky mood than she thought herself capable of today. ⟫ And I could outrun you for sure.

⟪ but then, she's frequently four-legged. ⟫

[channellings]

Not really making me when I've volunteered too, yeah? [regardless of his preference to not go out. people that are doing so need all the help they can get, though.

also, color him curious:] You think? No offense, but I'm not so sure about that.

[foxlore]

I was... kinda glad to hear you rather wanted to stay in. Means there's at least one friend I won't have to fear for the life of.

⟪ reynir, too, is probably going to stay safe, but... 'probably'. a lot of this seems to hinge on 'probably'. so many good people here who wish to help. sal's staying in for now as well, and that, too, is a reason to breathe more calmly. ⟫

You know what, I'll pick you up by your room. And then I'll race you back to the tailor's, and you'll see.