Lady Absinthia

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: First things first, the Animal Planet Table has been moved to the original OOC post. Figuring it could come in handy in the future. I think we are pretty good at getting people on the same time line currently. (I wasn't expecting that.) Pay close attention though because the order the sections are posted are not in time order. So read carefully and pay attention to all sections and characters. (Never knew when your paths might cross!)

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Administration (A): Gunny sat there and listened to Hunter vent his frustration. The man seemed unphased by what he was saying. But at certain points his eyebrow would twitch. He had been made aware of the interview Maddoc had had with Hunter. It hadn't gone well. In fact the interview along with how Hunter acted in quarantine was why Gunny was against Hunter staying. Maddoc had put up an argument, much like he had for Nikki. The allowance was granted but with stiff regulations. Part of that being therapy. The other part was Gunny was aware it was made full and clear that no matter what happened the dog would remain within the town whether or not Hunter was here. Once Hunter was done, Gunny glanced towards the door as a knock came. "Come in."

The door opened and it was Roy, with Maddoc standing behind him. They both entered. Roy glanced around and didn't say anything. One could feel the tension in the air. Maddoc however wasn't as quiet about it. Looking at his younger brother the man started speaking, the language wasn't a common one even before the apocalypse. It sounds more like drunken Irish gibberish than anything else but Gunny seemed to understand and the two started to exchange words. Roy took a step back. Gunny words seemed to be reserved and short in any language, Maddoc was getting fired up.

Gunny placed his hands on the desk and stood. "Enough." One word, delivered simply and without inflection. Maddoc growled but shut up finally. Turning his head he looked at Hunter. "This has nothing to do with making people fall in line, it has to do with an agreement. Being part of this community means you understand it is military. Being former National Guard you know full and well what being lax in duty means. It means the first thing to go is special privileges. A dog is special privileges. Not everyone has one, not everyone is allowed one, they take up resources. They are a privilege. You losing said privilege is on you and no one else. It has nothing to do with emotional attachment."

The man was about to continue when a radio call came in. "Gunny DoLittle, have the dog and am moving to a foster home." Gunny picked up the radio. "I don't know why the removal but I knew I should have made a report..."

"Continue," Gunny said into the radio.

"Failure to clean up after the dog, had to call him back on it during lunch," she informed Gunny, and the room in the process. Maddoc's head jerked to the side and he glared at Hunter.

"Thank you, out," Gunny said before setting the radio down. Taking his pen he made another notation in Hunters file. "That right there alone is enough to have the dog taken away. If you cannot care for a companion properly you are not allowed on." Looking back at Hunter as he set his pen down. "You are on day 1 in Camp. Probation, day 1. Your file is filled already with marks against your attitude. You have yet to speak with most within the community or those that entered with you with any ounce of respect, courtesy, or common sense. You are curl spoken, judgemental, and refusing to see any of your own personal faults. I have a note here about having a problem with being told you would be shot." Stopping he looked down to double check before looking back at Hunter. "At least we are honest, I see you eyes, I know that look. You plan and think about harming people. We just let you know what will happen if you try to harm us. You are the far bigger threat."

Closing Hunters folder Gunny sat back down. "The dog was a privilege. You being in these walls was a privilege. You have no earned your place as others have. Years building a community that thrives the way it does. Despite others concerns about your attitude a special recommendation was made for you. One that is being reconsidered now due to your constant issues. Drunken disorderly, dereliction of duty, excessive vulgarity, waste of community resources, and more. One, two, three, four, five breaches of protocol and more, all within the last twenty four hours. One problem, yes we would have talked. Two problems, more duty added. But all this? No, this I will no abide."

Roy knew where this was going, he was already moving behind Hunter and not trying to hide it. Maddoc at this point was chewing on cigar and had his face in his hand. "I here by recommend that you Hunter Monroe are exiled from the community. This is not a decision but a recommendation. It will be presented to your work seniors, should they agree it will go before the CMB council, then Maddog and myself before being presented to the General. You will have a chance to defend yourself or plead your chase at the tribunal. For now, you will be placed in holding. Roy take him into custody."

Letting out a short breath Roy nodded and pulled his handcuff out. He didn't say anything. Maddoc did however as he cast a glance towards Hunter. "I wouldn't try anything kid..." Maddoc warned as Roy went to put the cuffs on.

"Hell of a way to get out of cleaning Rivets Restroom," Roy finally said. In truth Roy wondered if exile was the better of the two options.

Downstairs in the basement, the man that busted his ass and lost his leg seems to be having a lot better time with things than Hunter it. Medic nods a bit. "Yeah, you got it right. Odd hearing it again after all this time," he said as he picked a bit at his pants with one hand and rubbed the back of his neck with the other.

Glancing at the door he shrugged. "I hope so but who knows. Rolodex isn't exactly the Hospital's favorite person right now," he started and then sighed with a bit of a chuckle as he started to explain. "You see, last time she borrowed a gurney she, well, she decided to reenact a scene from MASH, the show from the seventies and eighties. So there was this gurney race down the main street right outside. She got like a dozen people in on it. And everything was going great until there was this crash, into the General's golf cart, and well, injuries. Since then Mary has loathed that woman with a capital L."

Hospital (B): "Yes really," Mary said frankly before listening to what Thalia had to say. After hearing she pointed over to the wall where several were lined up. "Don't scratch it," she said before looking over towards Rolodex. "And it better come back here with him on it and not you driving," she warned.

"Wouldn't think of it darlin'," she said in a overly sugary sweet voice before moving over towards the gurney to grab it. (At this point Rolodex will help Thalia move the gurney, rolls have been made, the two will be able to get it back to Alexander by the end of this round. You may take control of Rolo and bunny her as needed to help with this and make the post go smoother for this round alone.)

Water Repair Shop (G): Way to go people, everything is going along better than expected. Lisa will not need to make another roll for her skill this round. Both her and Manny will just finish up the medical room on the boat this round, at the very end of your post that is. (You won't have time to leave the water repair shop this round.) Next round we will move on, for now, finish up and get the carts loaded to move out so you can get the dirty out of there. Well done! The rolls were in your favor.

Mechanics (K): Looking over what Maddoc had left, Mizrahi wasn't paying a lot of attention to Ash. That was until Ash spoke. His head went up and he nodded. "I check," he said as he started walking over there. He had to, if it wasn't done right and Ash was cleared that was on him. Stepping in he glanced around, seemed the place was done. "Good," he said as he took the clipboard off the wall between the two bathrooms and signed off on Ash's work for the mens. Looking at the womens he grunted. "If not back soon, you must finish," he told Ash as he hung up the board.

At the question he motioned for Ash to follow him. "The Mill," he said as he stepped outside and pointed off to the south east. "Settlement in old paper mill. Trade with," he told Ash before checking his watch. "You, clean up, funeral," he said. "Check back in when back." It was about that time and Rivets had allotted Ash more time than most to get ready for the funeral. Granted, she better have considering the job he was assigned.

Supply (R): Thankfully other than the mouse nothing else seems to be crawling out of the woodwork. Everything else is calm and no one is coming in to bother you all. Now what happened with the mouse? Well read below for the rest of this area.

Underwater Garden (U): You are moving out and over towards the Mess Hall. Things go fine. You will be able to move the cart and everything on it, without any issues or spills, from the Pier to M5, just south of the mess hall, on the main road this round. During your movement you will catch sight of DoLittle with Hunters Dog as she walks it away from Hunters apartment and it seems she is heading towards the main supply building.

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Thana Martin Location: Underwater Garden (U) -> M5 Skills: N/A

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Thana glanced over at Nigel and smiled. She didn't mind being called Athena, it had a nice ring to it. "If I am Athena, then which one would you be. I doubt Sportacus is a real deity," she said with a bit of a smirk. She had read the nickname in the files and heard it once in Quarantine. She was sure there was a story behind that but she really wasn't worried about it. Considering from what she had gathered it was from the two older men who seemed to be what Jay and Silent Bob liked to refer to themselves as Hetero-life-mates, she didn't think there was actually a lot to the story.

Gathering her things she nodded. "Yeah, seems taxes went away but the paperwork didn't. Now if I could only find a twinkie that would be something," she said as they started heading away from the pier once everything was done and locked up down there. Unzipping her wet suit she rolled it down to her waist. It was nice to just not have it compressing on everything, granted on her thigh the compression did help some. She still had a long way to go in recovery. There were moments when she missed the pins in her leg. She was used to them by the time they came out earlier that week, it was like having to learn to deal with the weight of her body all over again.

The mention of swords made her smile a bit. "Actually Joaquin can probably set it up. At least with non-sharpened or wooden for now. At least until you and Thalia are off probation in the community and everyone is more at ease with new people having weapons," Thana said as she walked with him towards the Mess Hall. Her limp was getting a little better the more she moved it out of the water, the heat of the air versus the cold of the water made a difference. "It'll have to be supervised of course, run by Roy, and set up for a time and place but I don't think it would really be a big issue. Long as you follow the rules and such. Ask Roy, or hell even Major would know."

Catching something out of the corner of her eyes she turned her head and spotted DoLittle with a dog. She didn't know the dog but it matched the description of the dog Hunter came in with. It made her wonder why the vet had the dog but there were so many reasons, and it was only day one, that it didn't even cross Thana's mind that the dog was being removed. For all she knew the woman was taking the thing for a walk since Hunter had work to do like all the other new people.

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Nikola Warren Location: Supply (R) Skills: N/A

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"Exactly," Nikki said agreeing with Amelia assessment of the old ladies. It was exactly like that and it seemed that even the end of the world couldn't being about the end of the Sewing circle, or in this instance the Poker circle. Either way, people liked to talked, especially when there was not much else to do. Nikki recalled over hearing Maddoc and Gunny talking at one point, about how making sure people kept busy doing things that were useful was the most important part of survival these days. Idle hands and all that jazz. She wasn't sure she agreed with that but she couldn't fault the logic. Half the time when she did something she wasn't supposed to it was because she was bored.

There was a nod from Nikki. "You're welcome. Most everything around here is common sense, it is just learning what to do. Reminds me of what I think college must have been like for others. Drop off stuff here, pick it up there. Well college for the rich. Like, yes, Gerard, that's a good man, would you mind flouncing my bouncy!" Nikki said doing a horrible impression of a snooty rich person snapping her fingers in the air before giggling and popping a bubble with her gum.

Everything seemed to be going along well. Hearing about the man Amelia was paying respects to was nice. Not nice that she was talking about a dead friend but getting to know Amelia. She liked the woman and was glad she was assigned her. It was a nice change and Amelia seemed sweet enough. "Glad you get to then. It's nice to have somewhere to go to say goodbye." It was, Nikki knew this. She wished she had such a place to go visit to remind her of her dad. She had to leave his body in the woods in Alabama. Then again, the whole camp kind of did that for her. They were trying to get here. She needed to go fishing.

Thoughts about fishing though went right out the window when a mouse came out of nowhere. "Mr. Bo'jangels that is not how we greet people!" Nikki scolded the mouse. She went to grab it but that didn't work. The mouse was much faster than the young woman was, scurrying off before Nikki had a chance to grab him, thankfully he didn't run up Amelia's leg but back under the shelving instead. "Damn it," Nikki grumbled from on her knees. Huffing she looked up at Amelia. "Been trying to catch that fucker for three months..."

What Are You Listening To?

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Things are moving on just as they were the last post. Times will starting getting a little bit more off come next round. This one they are pretty even just make sure to take note of what is going on where and more importantly when. I don't think that is going to be a big issue this round. Reminder: React in character not what first gut reaction for yourself might be. (Reason for reminder is because the update might send out of some those gut reactions so want to put a note to think before you write out there this round. ^^)

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Administration (A): While Hunter spoke Gunny said nothing. He placed his pen down on the stack of papers in front of him. His eyes looked at the kid but didn't move or flicker or blink. It seemed Hunter had a lot to say. In the end, Gunny waited for him to finish before he said anything. Then when he did speak his tone was even and calm. "Up until this point nothing but bringing you here to speak to me has happened so I do not feel it is overreacting. Especially when looking at the fact you are stating you don't remember." There was a slight pause before he continued. "I do not believe you are making enemies with everyone. I do however believe you are confrontational and trying to keep people at a distance. This combined with being emotionally immature and making some grand assumptions is creating some detrimental situations for yourself that are full self-inflicted."

Sitting up some, Gunny picked up pen and flipped over a sheet in Hunters file. "This does make the decision easy. Removal of special privileges will do for the moment." Looking up he set down his pen and picked up his radio. "Wolverine, need escort for Monroe comma Hunter, from Administration to Mechanics." Writing down a few notes, Gunny then looked at Hunter. "The dog will be removed from your care until further notice." Turning the dial to change the channel he continued. "DoLittle need pet removal from Condo 32F." Setting down the radio down Gunny sat back in his seat. "And Miss Warren, it isn't anyone's place but yours to speak to her about your actions."

Medic sat back on his read and got comfortable but he stayed close and his eyes were still watching Alexander closely wanting to make sure the man was as good as he was acting and not abut to go into shock while they waited for Rolodex and the girl to get back with the gurney. "Hell, no ones asked me that in years. So used to being called Medic these days." Letting out a slow breath he rubbed his face before looking back to Alexander. His name wasn't something common and usually the end of a joke when he was older. But hey the guy asked and Medic wasn't one to not answer things when asked, he just didn't volunteer a lot about himself. After Franklin and Newnan, and everything before that, he was good to just be. Nothing more, nothing less. "Names Moreau, Jahosafat Moreau."

Hospital (B): Heading out of the front of the Administration building and over towards the hospital, Sandra looked at Thalia oddly about the question. That seemed to be right out of left field and she wasn't sure what to think about it. Yet instead of thinking why Thalia asked it she seemed to stop and look around for a minute, thinking on the actual question. "Actually yes, over by Desalination, there's a road that loops, it's got them," she said. "Ain't that something?" she half asked, half pondered before heading back towards the hospital. It wasn't actually something she had wondered about before but as far as she could remember that was the only place in town she had seen them. Or at least remembered seeing them.

Getting close to the door, it swung open and Roy stopped, stepping aside and holding it open. "Rolo," he said as he hooked his radio back on his belt.

"Hey darlin'," she said walking past him and into the building itself. Roy held the door open for Thalia and waited for her to pass before he let go and started walking towards Admin.

Inside the hospital, Mary was standing at reception going over some paperwork with the desk clerk there and looked up oddly and a bit miffed as Rolodex came rushing over. "Need a gurney, quick."

"Oh hell no Sandy, last time I let you have one you used it for gurney races down the main street after dark. We had to set a broken leg and pop a shoulder back into place after it, it's driver, and it's rider crashing into the Generals gold cart!" Marry stated flatly as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Sandy gave the most fake innocent smile. "Why darlin' I was just tryin' to liven up the place and as much fun as it would be to do again I need it fer an actual emergency. Alexander, that new fella with cute smile, well he fell and Jo told me to get one." Mary didn't seem to be buying it. "I swear, just ask her," she said motioning towards Thalia. Mary's eyes darted towards Angel and she tilted her head to the side.

Water Repair Shop (G): Things down in the water repair shop are going excellent. Lisa is on top of things and was able to shave some time off the completion. Combined with rolls made this round she is doing well in teaching and Manny is doing well picking up on the process quickly. More time has been shaved off and everything is going smoothly. So much in fact that the smell is airing out much quicker than expected which is making dealing with all of it much easier. Lisa can once again make a roll to see about shaving another 15 minutes off the time. Keep this up and they will most likely be done before Manny needs to leave to get cleaned up and ready for the funeral.

Mechanics (K): A "thank you" came out from under the vehicle that Mizrahi was under before the sounds of someone tinkering beneath it echoed out. After that things are running pretty smooth and it seems quiet in the shop. The sound of Ash cleaning and Mizrahi working echo's through the garage. One can every so often hear the sound of kids playing, squealing, and laughing outside.

The sound of gravel under boots comes through and before anything is said the smell of cigar hits the air. Standing there was Maddoc, chewing on a half burnt cigar before going and checking the women's bathroom. "Where the hell is Monroe?"

"Gunny," Mizrahi said from under the truck. A look that was half duh and half frustration washed over the man's face as he set down a broken part that he was carrying in his hand. Mizrahi rolled out from under the truck but stayed on his back as he looked up at Maddoc. "Late report had to be added."

"Fuck..." Maddoc grumbled. "Fix that," he said as he pulled out a sheet of paper and set it down next to the part before walking off. It was more like stalking off as he stomped with each step.

Mizrahi rubbed his face some with the crook of his elbow before standing up and going to see what Maddoc had left for the mechanics shop. Looking at the time on the wall there was still time before Ash had to leave, he shouldn't have troubles finishing up the mens bathroom before he needed to leave to get cleaned up for the funeral.

Supply (R): Remember last time things were quiet and I mentioned that it might be too quiet. Well apparently the dice decided to bite us in the ass with that and in the most amazing way possible. Now, for a bit things are calm and quiet in the place. It isn't until after Nikki and Amelia get fully back to work and are in the back organizing things that things take a dramatic turn. What happens? Well nothing for Nikki or that she notices at first. Amelia is the one that takes the brunt of what happens. Again, what is that? Well we aren't exactly sure. At least not yet. Roll on the chart below!

^{Animal Planet}

^{Call your roll in chat and roll 1d100. Find your results in the chart below and act accordingly. If the roll results in a characters fear being tapped into, roll against Will, if Will roll fails contact GM for further instructions.}

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An insect crawls out & onto your hand. Reroll: 1-25: Tick * 26-50: Cicada 51-75: Cockroach * 76-85: Centipede 86-95: Wasp * 96-100: Brown Recluse Wasp or spider - Reroll 1d100: 51+ results in sting/bite	A small animal runs out & up your leg. Reroll: 1-25: Mouse * 26-50: Hamster 51-75: Gerbil * 76-85: Hedgehog 86-95: Squirrel * 96-100: Rat	Something comes out of the shadows... Reroll: 1-25: Cat rushes you and weaves between your legs 26-50: Dog runs at you and starts licking your face as it tackles you 51-75: Goat rams you in the ass with its horns 76-85: Bat lands on your head and freaks out 86-95: Skunk comes out and sprays you 96-100: Viper strikes and bites your leg
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A large pig/hog comes running through the place, it is coming right for you and is set to knock you over as you are in its path. Roll against Dex to get out of the way. Pass, your good. Fail, pm gm.	Rabid Coyote comes around the corner and you are in its sights. It is foaming at the mouth and growling. It's getting ready to lunge. Roll against INT for quick thinking on how to deal, may be replaced with appropriate skill if character possesses one. Pass or fail, pm gm!	A panther/cougar native to the area bursts through the area and lunges at your character with claws and teeth bared, going in for the kill. Roll against Dex to save your ass! Pass or fail, pm GM!

Underwater Garden (U): Well, thankfully after the who thing in Supply everything with the Underwater Garden seems to be running smoothly and good to go. Keep going! And send a little prayer up for smooth waters for now. ^^

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Thana Martin Location: Underwater Garden (U) Skills: N/A

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Thana righted herself and counted the buckets before grabbing a clipboard off the wall. She started walking down the underwalk of the pier, stopping at each one and counting more before making some notes. Stopping for a minute she looked over towards Nigel and smiled slightly. "I'll go with ya, I need to talk to Cook anyways about how the produce is turning out and what adjustments she is having to make with serving them. But could use the help to get them up there. But first, could you start moving each bucket onto the cart there once I tag it?" she asked. Se was pretty sure he would as it was his job to help her but it didn't hurt to be polite and simply ask the man for a hand.

Looking back down at the clipboard Thana flipped to the back page and started pulling off paper clips, once she got one with one bucket she would put the paper clip on the handle. "Tagged," she say before she moved onto the next one. On the list where she was writing she was keeping tabs of how many of each kind of either fish or shellfish was pulled out of the water, general size and appearance of the animal. Same went for the plants that were pulled out. How many of each, which batch they were from, etc. It was a lot for her to write down but Thana was trying to do something that had only started being done a couple of years before the world went to shit. She didn't have the resources people used to have. The most valuable thing she had to make this work was patience and details. More she wrote down the more she had to review better chance she figured she had of making this work.

Once she was done with all of them she set the clipboard down on the cart. Taking a moment she grabbed her head and turned it quickly to one side, it cracking loudly before she did the same thing in the other direction. Then it was her back, and fingers, and knees. After the woman was done sounding like she was a bubblewrap factory that had just exploded she let out a relieved sigh and looked back over towards Nigel. "Alright, if'n you'd push that up towards the Mess Hall I can lock up behind ya and we can get going. We'll probably be dry by the time we get to the Mess Hall in this heat," she said as she pulled the keys out and waited for Nigel to lead the way this time.

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Nikola Warren Location: Supply (R) Skills: N/A

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Nikki laughed a bit and nodded. "Yeah, well break up and date someone else they will be all over it. Gossip central. Can be funny to watch. They don't mean any harm, they are just older and bored," Nikki said as she started picking up the things that she had picked out for Amelia that turned out not to be the girls style. That was fine, she had picked out more than enough for Amelia to pick through and everything that Amelia didn't want to wear would have to be put back. She knew this when she was pulling own outfit after outfit. Though a thought did run through her mind that made her laugh, Amelia not being able to chose and just wearing ALL the outfits. It made her laugh to herself.

Hanging a dress back up Nikki looked back to Amelia. She got that, one couldn't appear weak. "Yeah out there it's pretty bad but in here, more of it's okay. I mean it's hard to get used to but if people don't know your weakness around here then if you end up going out again and are paired with someone, well it can lead to trouble. Don't want two Type A personalities who will try to lead paired up. Also don't want two people who can't lead out there together, then no one does. So a little bit of vulnerability is okay. I mean don't expect ya to do it right off but once you get comfortable, it's actually better. At least here. Out there, fuck that."

"I'd put them back on until right before you leave, so it doesn't get dirty. After that, I can just hang them up until your back and you can change out and back in again," Nikki said with a small smile. She'd wait for Amelia to change back into her work clothes. If not, she kept going. Either way, in the end Nikki would lead Amelia to the back to where they could get on with their job. Organizing things that had come in and while they were at it, putting together the supply carts that would need to be picked up later that day. "Mind if I ask about who yer goin' to say goodbye to in the cemetery?" she asked quietly as she pushed a stack of towels onto a shelf.

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Alright - with things currently as they are this is a shorter update than previous. Next round I will be pushing forward in some posts to start getting people ready for the funeral. We will probably stagger this so some characters will be a little more ahead on the time line than others - don't worry it will line back up quickly after a round or two.

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Administration (A): Downstairs Medic looked over towards Thalia and Sally. "Gurney and board from the hospital," Medic said with a slight nod as he was looking over Alexander. "Whoa, take it slow," Medic added as Alexander sat up. "We don't want you moving a lot," he said before looking back at Sally who hadn't moved yet. "Rolo! Gurney!"

"Oh yeah! Right! Fiddle sticks!" she said before heading back out of the room and up the stairs. Coming through the door that separated the front from the back she made sure it was closed up right once Thalia followed her, if she was, before heading out of the Admin and towards the hospital. There she'd have to explain and such a bit but she didn't think it would be a problem. And Thalia could help her move things back, that was if someone in the hospital didn't do it for them. It was a toss up depending on how busy things were right then.

Back downstairs Medic shook his head a bit before looking back at Alexander. "We can get your leg back on once I get some x-rays. Just wanna check to make sure something didn't break, and doc will probably wanna scan your head," Medic said as he made sure Alexander had his leg and was comfortable as he could be on the ground for now. "Now just hold still and fill me in on anything wrong or hurting." Medic is pretty sure that Alexander is fine and dandy, that it wasn't anything bad with the fall. Just a slip and the man is fine. He's talking, he's seems to be stringing sentences together well, moving on his own, so from his opinion everything is perfect but the man has been at this a while and in this world if you don't have to chance it you don't. A few tests is probably the best best.

Gunny Office: Will update next round. It is as it left off in the previous round.

Water Repair Shop (G): Maddoc is off and gone by this point and the two are left alone to do their job. Nothing big is happening this round to cause any trouble or set backs - which is good. There is a gentle rocking to the boat that doesn't seem to be causing any issues right now, again good. So things are pretty much unchanged at this point. Lisa can roll again along the same lines as last round to see about being able to cut down on time. Other than that, keep moving forward.

Mechanics (K): Mizrahi looked confused. "Must ask Dawri," he said in a bit of a defeated voice. He was trying to figure it out and he thought that Ash might know. The man had one of those American accents. Yet he was telling Mizrahi that he was from Virginia, apparently that made a difference.

"What do ya need to ask Sparrow?" Volts asked as he came strolling back into the shop and caught the tailend of the conversation. Mizrahi looked over and pushed off the side of the door frame where he had been leaning. Volts unscrewed the top of his water bottle and went to take a drink.

"Ma tuenih bialkhinzir wal'anf walharara," Mizrahi said, glad someone who spoke his language was back around. Yet, what Mizrahi said caused Volts to nearly choke on his water.

"Say that in English..." he said. "I think somethin' was lost in translation..." he added wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.

"More turned up than a briar push durin' hog beatin'... Tesla say wrong," Mizrahi got out. Volts started laugh and shake his head. It took the man a few minutes to get it under control.

"More turnt' up than a briar bush durin' hog heatin'," the man was finally able to correct it seemed. It didn't clarify a thing for Mizrahi. "Muhbat jinsiaan," Volts followed up with. This made Mizrahi's eyes widen and him shake his head violently left and right as he held his hands up.

"Not what I mean, no, not that," Mizrahi said before turning and walking off. The man was quick to get back under the hood of the vehicle he had been working on. Volts lost it, leaning against the door and having to hold on. He would have kept on laughing, it it weren't for the fact his shin suddenly was connected with a wrench that was rather nicely tossed from under the truck by Mizrahi. Now he hadn't been meaning to nail Volts, just the wall next to him, but he wasn't complaining either when Volts yelped like a dog and start saying some rather heated words in Arabic as he stormed off and slammed the door to fabrication.

Outside of the talking, things in the Mechanics shop are pretty calm. The cleaning in the mens room is taking a bit longer than one might think considering the difference between the two - meaning the mens was far cleaner to start than the womans. Problem is because the mens is cleaner they store more in it - like spare parts. So having to move those out to clean and then move them back is adding to the amount of time that is needed to get it done.

Supply (R): Everything is as it was the round before after the old women exited the building. There still isn't sign of Auntie currently so the place is quiet other than the two girls in there shopping. Time is ticking away and there is work to be done before the funeral time get there and Amelia has to leave. This round though nothing happens, no one comes in to seek anything or to bother you two, no strange noises. All is well - nothing to worry about this round. It's quiet (Perhaps too quiet. O.o)

Underwater Garden (U): Now the water is murky but it always is in the gulf, especially near the shore. The waters of the Gulf Of Mexico are never what one would see in pretty pictures of clear blue waters. At least not in this area of Florida along the coast the way it is. I'm sure Cuba is beautiful this time of year. So swimming there is going to need extra caution as even when one is close up, checking on plants or moving things, it is still murky. Further one gets from what they are looking at the worse it gets. There is probably a 20 foot visibility under the water right now. The currents are there and you can feel them but they are not causing any trouble thus far. In fact under the water things seem rather calm for the time being. There are a few smaller fish darting about, nibbling at algae growing on man made surfaces. Some shrimp walking over kelp or along the chains. One or two soft shell blue crabs are walking along the bottom, which at this point beneath the pier is not far below you, twenty feet maybe from the edge of the pier and quickly moving to nothing towards the shore as one could expect. All is well - nothing to worry about this round.

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Thana Martin Location: Underwater Garden (U) Skills: N/A

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Trying to get back into the swing of things was proving to be an easier transition than Thana had been expecting. It wasn't like she had had a lot of time before she had left Camp Mexico Beach in search of the others to get a real feel of how she wanted to do things. Things had gone so hectically with her trying to recover and put in her hours and do her interviews by those that were there and go through the military training they wanted done before someone was part of the community that way and more that when Thana got back she was worried that having to deal with the gardens was going to be overwhelming. Today it wasn't. How tomorrow went would be another story.

For now however Thana had someone that was working out well enough. He was educated, strong, and a decent conversationalist. She'd have to ask about this whole Sportacus thing in his file later but for now it was working out well. At least well enough until he mentioned sparring with Thalia and Joaquin and his sword arm being sore. It made her stop mid dip into the water and just stare at him. Her head tilting to the side slowly. "Oh you mean actual swords!" she said after a few blinks before laughing it off and heading under the water. Her mind had taken a turn towards something entirely different when the man mentioned a sore arm and swords. Even in this world a grown womans mind can still hit the gutter.

Under the water, Thana was moving on. As they had only snorkles today there wasn't going to be going all the way down. But there was enough to tend to where they were just below the surface. Baskets and traps had to be brought to the surface and emptied into buckets floating half way in the water to keep anything they caught alive until they took it to the Mess Hall later. Some crops needed harvesting in small amounts, trimming dead or dying bits off others. It was not much different than working above the water it just took more time and a lot more preparation to get things in order. Not to mention Thana going back to the surface to clear water out of her snorkel every so often and rest her thigh. She wasn't saying anything but the way she grabbed it from time to time or rubbed it made it pretty clear that she was just pushing through.

Pulling a bucket up onto the underdock, Thana huffed before clearing the water off her face as it dripped from her hair. "Bit more than I expected today. We're gonna need to run this up to the Mess and dump it there before we can keep going," she said as the water in the bucket drained out the pre drilled holes in the bottom that let the water keep moving when it was in the water but easily strained it out without them losing any food in the process.

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Nikola Warren Location: Supply (R) Skills: N/A

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Nikki nodded a bit with a laugh. "Yeah. Not all the time but when things change it throws her off. Well, that's not right. Shit. Okay, if there is like a medical thing and someone comes in and shit hits the fan Mary is right on top of it. Cool headed, she's got it. When things that aren't life and death change around her, she flips some. Medical being pushed back for a boat returning for example," Nikki explained as she leaned back against the counter. Popping a few bubbles she thought back on several times Mary had snapped on her or others around her at the time. She always thought it was silly to blow up over something like that and it made her wonder just how the hell Mary was a person that they'd trust in Medical. Then she saw people get sick and come in and saw Mary do her thing. If someone spilled a glass of milk, Mary was the last person Nikki wanted around. If someone was bit or shot Nikki would take Mary over anyone else anyday of the week.

Now, onto the old woman and their curiosity. "Nah, it's more than that really. I mean, it's their curiosity and shit but yer also the new folks. They've been watching the other couples for a while now. It's like watching reruns for years and suddenly there is a new Soap Opera on the TV so you just gotta see what happens. Pretty sure between you and Riley and Sparrow and that Captain guy those gals are goin' to be gabbing like its a Sunday social, or think that's how Sparrow puts it," she said pushing off the counter and looking around the place. Inhaling deeply it was odd how no matter how many years passed, any place that stored stuff for well storage all smelled the same. Even now, taking a deep breath Nikki was reminded of the old Good Wills she used to roam through when she was younger. Smelled just like this. Some things never changed.

Looking at the hat, Nikki smiled. "Hey I think it looks sweet," she said. Then tilting her head to the side she cocked a brow before shrugging. "Shit I would have picked the pageant gown in pink and wore that shit. It's the end of the world, have fun with it, stand out. Hell being alive makes ya stand out. Not smelling like a corpse makes ya stand out. And anyways that sun is brutal. The hat will be good for your head until the hair grows in some more," Nikki said before a light bulb went off in her mind. She got an idea. "Or we could rummage through the wigs," she suggested.

What Are You Listening To?

🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Lunch is considered fully over this round. (It has been over for the P.C.'s but for NPCS and Shelved we were still in that open block of time.) Going to be pushing forward a little this round - we are not yet to the point of people starting to get ready to leave for the Funeral Detail yet so no worries - I will make sure that addressed clearly when we get to that point. (Most likely be another round or two so we can get through a few more things before then.)

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Administration (A): Volt hadn't given Hunters joke a chuckle or laugh. More of one of those deeply grown looks that men got when they were looking at their sons when they did something wrong. A look that seemed to scream, "boy have you lost yer damn mind?" and it not really being a question but more of an exasperation. A look someone might get after they said "hey y'all watch this," but no one actually stopped the person because deep down they were sick individuals as well that wanted to see just how bad the train wreck got. Thing was, Volts couldn't stay and watch, he had work to do and had left. He did however make a mental note to ask about it later if it came up in conversation. Wasn't like they had the 5 O'Clock News on Channel 3 anymore.

"Gunny will be out shortly," Rolodex said towards Hunter after Volts had stepped out and the door had closed behind him. She was watching Hunter, about to stand up and introduce herself to the boy when the door to the back swung open. Turning and figuring it was Gunny she had a bit of a surprise when she saw Thalia instead and without that nice young man that was with her earlier. She tilted her head to the side a bit when Thalia leaned in and spoke quietly. "Well pickle my peas!" she exclaimed. "Yes, of course," she added as she reached for the radio, about to put a call in when the front door of admin swung open.

Stepping through the door was a darker skinned man who looked very tired holding several sheets of paper. "Sandy," he said with deep voice.

"Medic! Well ain't ya just the answer to our prayers," Rolodex exclaimed as she stood up and and took the papers quickly from the man as he held them out looking a bit confused. Her other hand grabbed his as she set the papers down. "You wait there," she added as she pointed towards Hunter. Medic nearly stumbled himself as Rolodex drug him towards the door. "Come on," she said to Thalia as she kept dragging Medic. The man looked resigned to whatever she was going on about it and didn't fight it but he looked annoyed enough to be sure as he was pulled along like a dog being drug to the tub. There was even the barest hint of a growl as the door closed behind him once he, Rolodex, and Thalia were through it.

"Mind telling me what the fuck Sandy?" he finally asked as they got to the stairs that lead down.

"Alexander fell, lost consciousness," she said and Medic looked really confused.

"Who the hell is Alexander? Nevermind, where is he?" he said. Sandy pointed down the stairs.

"Down there, they're cleaning up the old storage rooms," Sandy explained. Medic huffed slightly and nodded before heading down, now at a quick pace that he had gotten his wrist away from Sandy and knew what was going on. "After ya," she added towards Thalia, letting the girl go first down the stairs before following suit.

Back in the main lobby area of Administration a few minutes passed before the door opened and Gunny stepped out. He looked like he was about to say something towards the desk but noticed that Sandy wasn't sitting there. A brow went up slightly as he took a closer look at her desk area. "Hrm," was all that left his lips as he picked up the sheets of paper that she had hastily left there from Medic a few minutes ago, then he picked up the paper that Volts had brought in with Hunter. His eyes scanned them before looking over at the seating area and taking note of Hunter.

"Monroe," he said with a bit of a motion with his finger indicating that he wanted Hunter to follow him. It was through the door between waiting and the rest of the building. A narrow hallway that was covered with paneling like it hadn't aged since the 1970's, very reminiscent of most every administration office in the country over the last forty or fifty years before the outbreak had happened. Granted, paneling was very popular in general for a good number of years, especially in the south. One didn't redo the walls, they just put another layer of paneling over the previous and called it a day. So popular in fact many cars had paneling for years. Down the hallway Gunny stepped into his office. The office looked like others, filing cabinet, old desk that had seen better days but still had plenty of good years left most likely as long as someone didn't do something to give it undue wear and tear. "Have a seat," he said pointing towards the office chair. A simple enough chair with no rollers, metal frame, and rough olive green upholstery.

Once Hunter had entered the office, Gunny shut the door and walked to the other side of his desk. Setting down the papers he took the single one from the top with one hand and opened a folder with papers in it with the other. Glancing down at them he read outloud. "Probationer: Monroe, Hunter. Charges filed on July 22nd: Food Waste and Drunken Disorderly - witnessed by Cook, Goat, and myself. Note added by the General of 'overly vulgar speech in the presence of minors'. Hrm." Looking at the new paper that Volts brought in with him. "Probationer: Monroe, Hunter. Charges filed July 23rd: Failure to report for duty at designated time - witnessed by Frankenstein and probationer Holloway, Ashton." Stopping he let out a short breath and looked towards Hunter. "10-886 - Absence without leave." Article 10, Code 886 of the Military Code of Military Justice. AWOL. While AWOL was usually remembered for people deserting it was more commonly know by soldiers for being late to work or skipping out early. "Do you deny the charges?" Gunny asked as he leaned back in his chair and laced his fingers together in his lap.

Now, back to the basement - Medic made his way down the stairs and down the hallway. He peeked in his head into the wrong room to start but quickly made his way into the correct one, spotting Alexander down on the floor. His head tilted to the side slightly. He hadn't met this one before, granted he hadn't met Thalia before or Hunter either. Three new people. He had heard there were new people but he hadn't felt like eating lunch so had missed seeing them. He still had no idea just who had arrived. Kneeling down next to Alexander he looked over the man. "I'm Medic." It was a quick enough and accurate introduction. "Pain, nausea, or known breaks?" he asked as he started to do a cursory look over of Alexander.

Water Repair Shop (G): Stepping over to the two once he was fully off the boat Maddog pulled out a rag from his pocket and cleaned off his hands. "Right, the doctor," he said remembering the files. Rivets quirked a brow. "Dentist," he clarified. Rivets grimaced and took a step back which drew a laugh from Maddog.

"He should be in I.A. instead of supply," she said before giving a thin lipped nod and turned, making her way away from the rest of them much quicker than someone might think she was able. "I got work to do in the shop!"

"She ain't quick but she moves with purpose," Maddog laughed shaking his head before looking at Manny. "She hates dentists, be grateful," he added before looking over at Lisa. "I don't think this will take you two long. Probably less time that usual. Guy said the trip was pretty calm. Medic should be back once he gets restocks approved in Admin and collects them from Medical," he said as he shoved the piece of fabric into his back pocket. Giving a bit of a nod he started walking off.

Lisa knows the drill for this. She and Manny will only be tending to the small medical room that is set up on the boat for the trips. The boats infirmary is make shift, being put in long after the boat had been built. The boat itself obviously didn't originally have such a set up. It is a nice set up even if very cramped and different than one might imagine. It's orderly and looks to be decently clean but Lisa, and Manny, would know that just because an area looks clean doesn't mean it is sterile and if they are doing medical out at sea it is best not to risk it since there isn't exactly a hospital anywhere near by.

The cleaning is going to take a couple of hours at least. Lisa may make a roll against her Custodian Skill of course to cut down on the time it takes to get if fully done. If you do, roll in chat. Roll at or below skill number, this is a success and time to fully get cleaning done up to par is cut down by 25%.

Mechanics (K): Mizrahi nodded. He thought he understood what Ash was saying. He understood English far better than he spoke it. That and Ash was using normal words as far as he could tell. More what he could read in a book. Talking to Thana left him wondering if she was actually speaking English or something else entirely that she made up herself. He had heard of odd phrases before but after weeks on the road with the woman he had become truly confused. He had heard some things that left him scratching his head even after she explained them to him. He was trying though, trying to understand them, and use them... "Yeah, garden ain't made by sittin' in the shade," he said trying one out.

This made Tesla stop and stare. "What the fuck?" he asked under his breath, half coughing as he did.

"That not right?" Mizrahi asked.

"No!" Tesla laughed. "That's about hard work, not things being hard."

"Oh," he said before shrugging. "More turned up than a briar push durin' hog beatin'."

"Push? Hog Beatin'? Okay, stop, you have got to stop learning English from Sparrow," he laughed before giving Ash half a wave. "Good luck man," he added as he walked off and back into fabrication, the door closing heavy behind him.

Walking over to the bathroom, Mizrahi leaned against the door slightly. "Briar push wrong?" he asked, still not sure if Tesla was being on the up and up with him or if he was just teasing him.

Supply (R): Mary looked like she might blow a gasket but she didn't. Her eyes narrowing somewhat. "You see that it is or I'm gonna have a talk with Auntie about you," she seemed to threaten before turning on her heels and walking out of Supply, the door swinging shut behind her.

After that little exchange - Supply is just dead. Seems that no one is coming in or out. Those that had been in the back were the only noise that was made and after a little there was none at all. No they weren't dead back there. They came up and signed out. Older and their shifts were partly over night, the early hours in the morning prepping for the main shift. This had been the tail-end of their day and they were done now it seemed. Writing down their out time before heading out and giving the girls a bit of a wave as they went. "See ya tomorrow mornin'," one of the older women said as she left Supply.

"Unless you girls wanna join us for Gin Rummy tonight after dinner, playing down at the picnic tables by the chapel," another said before heading out with the others. Seemed there were options of what people did with their evenings or down time in general. Gin Rummy hadn't been on the board by Assembly but this was a good example of people doing their own thing even if they weren't doing things already up and listed out. Granted Gin Rummy wasn't a big deal, it was a deck of cards and older folks - it really was the picture of a retirement home activity.

Underwater Garden (U): The Gardens are just Thana and Nigel. Above them one can see through the spaces between the wood people walking about and see from above and then down into the water on one side that some are just fishing. Seems appropriate for the pier. The end of the pier however, where Thana and Nigel are, no one is fishing off. This is probably a good thing and there by design. The last thing Thana or Nigel would need right now is to get a hook into their cheek and someone try to reel them in. It would be the worst life action underwater scene of Bedknobs and Broomsticks ever, and a lot bloodier.

Now, under the water, thankfully things seem calm. The weather outside has been hot, as it is summer in the south, but there hadn't been any strong storms over the last few days. This is leading to smoother waters. Now, because they are by the shore, before the sandbar is does mean that things are easily kicked up and the water isn't perfectly clear - it never is in the gulf. Though right now is about as good as it gets. Lights will be needed to see around once you are deeper than a few feet and even by the surface the waters viability is only a dozen feet at best.

While it is only Nigel and Thana under the water, it doesn't mean they are alone. They might be the only humans breathing under the water with the help of their snorkels but it doesn't mean they are the only things alive under there. There are some fish swimming around, eating off the algae that is growing on the wooden posts that keep the pier in place, some shrimp and other shell fish crawling around. There is even a jelly fish or two floating about out there. At least for now it seems that is all that is under the water, what all is under there is anyone's guess - for now, the dice aren't showing anything getting to ya this round.

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Thana Martin Location: Underwater Garden (U) Skills: N/A

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Thana glanced over at Nigel. She really hadn't ever thought of it that way. "Prefer Athena, wiser," she said with a slight shrug. Then a slight smile came to her lips. "Plus she won the city," she added with a bit of a wink thinking back to stories she had read in school. Thana might have been Navy but she couldn't deny the pull of Athena to a girl growing up and wanting to be strong. Thana had faced plenty of challenges in the military being a woman, Athena had been a bit of a role model, even if she was just a story from long ago. There had been far worse people she could have looked up to growing up, especially all things considered.

"Anyways, I just scienced the hell outta this. Fear my botany powers," she laughed a bit as she pulled her mask down over her eyes and made sure it was all secure. "Qui plantavit curabit," Thana added a bit more seriously. Now, Thana didn't speak Latin. She had never taken a lesson in her life but she did know a few proverbs that she had memorized over the years. Qui plantavit curabit was one of them. It was one that held a lot of meaning to her, one she had run across in one of her botany books back in college. It was the of the Roosevelt Family and basically meant that he who plants will preserve. Fitting for the Roosevelt's considering Teddys role in National Parks long time ago. Fitting to Thana she felt right then as she floated in the water and held onto the edge of the pier. She planted it, she had to care for it, it would help them all preserve.

Looking over to Nigel, Thana nodded a bit. She wasn't minding his help nor his presence. Granted she would have rather had Ash near her but she knew if Ash was there she wouldn't be getting the amount of work that needed to be done completed. She would be too focused on Ash being close to do the job that needed to be done. That was not something that had been a problem in her past. She was very good at keeping work and personal apart, even if she was dating the person she was working with. That was before the outbreak though, before she walked into Newnan, before she met Ash, before over a year of thinking she may never see him again and then resigning herself to that. Yea, things were different now and as long as she was around him she was going to be focused on him.

Having Nigel there made it better. He wasn't someone that was part of CMB when she came in. He hadn't seen her recover, he didn't know her before. He was new, seemed educated and spoke well, didn't seem to have personal issues. Frankly the man was a unicorn in a world of acid dipped Jokers. Maybe he would like to move from Supply to Mess once his probation was over? Time would tell. "Maddoc runs swimming/snorklin'/divin' lessons twice a week ifn' yer interested. Would get ya better suited fer being out here, I'm startin' them up soon as I get cleared by Doc," she let Nigel know.

"A'right, time to get started, ready?" she asked, not wanting to jump the gun on this. Sure they were anchored and close enough to shore but Thana had been in waters like this enough to know anything could go wrong at any minute. "And watch fer jelly fish, thems gonna get ya worse than most thangs out here."

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Nikola Warren Location: Supply (R) Skills: N/A

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Nikki rolled her eyes. She rolled them so hard in fact that it actually hurt and had the old wives tale about eyes getting stuck that way were true they would have when she listened to Mary. "Get laid!" Nikki yelled out after the woman before huffing and popping a bubble with her gum. Shaking her head she looked over to Nikki. "If that woman had an orgasm it would do more good for the rest of us than she knows," she added before leaning over the counter and resting her head down on it. She had work to do, she knew that but dealing with Mary could be a head ache. It wasn't like she really disliked Mary it was just Mary was in a mood and Mary seemed to be in a mood more and more often these days. Nikki felt bad for Lisa having to work with the woman some days. Then again Mary could be fun, when she wanted to be and didn't have a stick up her butt.

Looking over to Amelia she got back to their conversation. "Oh you know those weird things people would build that really didn't do anything but looked neat? Like you roll a ball down a track, it knocks over dominos, then makes a balloon pop, which makes a chicken lay an egg, that rolls down another track and cracks on a glass to fall into a pan to fry? Like that but for Walkers," Nikki said, trying to explain what Lisa liked to do and totally blanking on what the actual process was called. Maybe she should spend more time with her nose in a book, or maybe not. She figured she got the point across. If not she could keep explaining. Nikki did enjoy talking to someone new. At least someone that wasn't putting his foot in his mouth, or a handful of oatmeal. She cringed at the memory. That was not pretty.

Lifting her head up she looked at Amelia as she came out and smiled a bit. "That looks pretty good!" she exclaimed before glancing around. "But it needs something," she added as she came out from behind the counter. It was about this time the older women came out of the back and were signing out to leave. Nikki wasn't paying them much mind until the two of them spoke and one invited them over to cards later. Nikki nodded and waved a bit, waiting for the door to close before saying anything.

"They just wanna know about the two new resident lesbians," Nikki said rather bluntly as she looked over to Amelia. "Ain't nothing bad. We have a lot of people that swing more than one way. We just ain't had a full on female couple that looked to be long term in a while. Hell we only had one gay couple till you showed up. They're old and curious," Nikki said, rolling her eyes again as she walked. She seemed to be searching for something.

"There it is!" she exclaimed as she reached up on a shelf and pulled a hat box off it. Dusting off the top she brought it over to the counter and opened it. Inside was an older hat with a veil. "There ya go," she said holding it out.

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🧚🏻‍♀️ The Walking Dead - Year 6 Part 1

☠ 𝚃𝚆𝙳: 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝟻 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Camp Mexico Beach Weather Forecast: Dawn at 5:57 A.M. - Dusk at 7:41 P.M. - High: 87F, Low: 72F - Winds SW at 4mph - Gusting to 10mph - No rain - Cloud Cover: 26% - Visibility: 9miles. Notes: Lunch is officially over now as far as the PC's are concerned but NPC and shelved ones still do have lunch, so for certain areas there will be bells to denote time. Time will jump some this round, please read all sections carefully to keep note of times and when things happen. Please also note that the order of the post does not denote the time of the post. Each section is on it's own time frame and move at their own rates. Admin might move faster than Mechanics, Supply might start later than Water Repair. So make sure when posting, you take that into account. Hasn't seemed to be a lot of issues with this but some minor ones I have seen skipped over could post problems later. (Sigil with Ash missing the entire conversation between Volts and Rivets 2 rounds ago is a good example.)

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Administration (A): Down in the basement of the administration building a certain one legged senior citizen was laying on his back and claiming rather rightfully so that he was too old for this shit right as the bell rang to end forth lunch and signalling it was 1330 hours. Others in the building might have agreed or understood his sentiment and pain, that was if they heard it. Thing is they didn't. Being down stairs with a floor separating you from the rest of the world and people back to work or out makes it hard to notice such things. Good thing Alexander is paired up with another, even if she is one armed and that might be a damper in being able to help him up.

The real question though is where the pair goes from here. Alexander has taken a hell of a spill. Sure, Thalia took a bowling trophy to the face earlier but that was a small cut on the face. A man hitting the ground like that, at his age? Oh, hip could be broke, could end up needing to ice his ass for the next 48 hours for all we know. So what happens from here - you two might wanna discuss that and see how to play it out. (It will be up to you if/when your characters leave the basement this round - do make sure it is either before everyone starts filing in, or after they do as to keep problems from a rising with continuity. NOT DURING!)

Upstairs, as people are unaware of what is going down stairs they are working. At least the ones back in Administration. The reception desk is closed as Rolodex is out to lunch. This means the doors that lead further into admin are closed and locked. Keys are needed to get past the point but that isn't an issue for Lisa and Manny. They come in and drop off the paper work in the in-box for Rolodex shortly after 1330 hours but before anything going on in the basement is known - they will be long gone by then.

Now outside of Admin and down the street a bit after Manny and Lisa are gone and out of sight Volts is taking Hunter that way. Looking at the kid, he folded up the slip of paper he was carrying and tucked it into his pocket. "Kid, people usually put their best foot forward when they show up to a new place," he said chuckling a bit. His chuckle wasn't deep, it was a bit higher pitched and he hissed a little as he bit down on his tongue between his front teeth. "If what I'm hearing is your best..." he started before snapping his head back and letting out a loud "ha," followed by a rather long and drawn out, "daaaaaaaaaaammmmmmnnnnn."

This little bit of a vocal scene caught the attention of several filing out of the mess hall about that time and heading back towards their respective jobs, people from fifth lunch. Two in particular: Riley and Tatiana. Riley looks to be bee-lining it and not paying a lot of attention. Tatiana on the other hand quirks a brow towards the two, seeming to study them before following Riley. Tatiana tilts her head down slightly but her eyes are straight ahead and her pace is faster. A bit ahead of the two is Rolodex, someone only two of the newer members have actually been introduced to.

Inside of Administration, Rolodex unlocks the door, steps behind the reception desk and is just settling in and checking her in-box when Volts opens the door and walks inside. Looking up she smiles a bit. It was around 10 minutes until 1400 hours at this time. "Well hello there Mr. Dwayne, what can I do fer ya today?" she asked in a thick southern accent that seemed a little over pronounced. "And who's this?" she asked spotting Hunter as
he came into the building.

"Afternoon Ms. Sandra, this is Gunny's 1400 and well he comes with this," he said pulling out the slip of paper from his back pocket. Handing it over to Sandra. Her look getting a tad worried as she took the paper and unfolded it. Looking it over her eyes darted to Hunter and then to Volts. "Yes, seriously...." he said and seemed to answer an unspoken question.

"Well, a'right, have a seat Mr. Monroe," Rolodex said to Hunter and pointed to a row of chairs along the wall near the front door. Picking up a hand-held she turned the dial. "Mac, yer 2 is here, with a 10-886," she said as she pushed the talk button down and then let go.

"Seriously?" came thought in a crackle, it was Gunny's voice. After about a two second pause he continued. "Just a minute."

"Sure thang," she replied before setting the radio back down in it's nest. Volts watched the scene for a minute before turning on his heels and high tailing it out of there. The man had been asked to bring the kid over and drop him off, if he had been asked anything else it wasn't clear but it was obvious that Volts wasn't sticking around for the rest of the show if there was one.

Hospital (B): Lisa will know that whatever didn't get done before they left will have to be done before they clock out for the day. Germs and unfinished cleaning in the hospital are not allowed and have to be completed. (Why a Doctor would suggest putting off cleaning a lab where testing and blood and infection can easily spread is my ~facepalm~ moment this week. >.>)

Mess Hall (C): Tail end of the PC lunch was simply the others eating and spending a few minutes together. Riley was glad to have been able to see Amelia for a bit and hear about her day. It would be nice to be able to see each other midway through the day. Today they all did have the funeral to go to and be at the Assembly post before 1600 but that was today and right before dinner for them. At least without a funeral they would be able to see each other midday to catch up it looked like. At least for this week. Who knows if they would be having the same lunch in a week or even a month.

Once lunch was wrapped up - each bell tolling to finish up lunches one by one until they were all done and most all the food had been gone through, save some of the tuna salad, the Mess Hall was closed up for clean up and prep for dinner. The place had to stay pretty busy from well before the main people got up for the day and long after the main people turned in for the night to be able to feed 300 people for three meals a day. The added meal yesterday had to add even more. What some might have noticed between their lunchs was the fact that some were rolling trays of food out of the Mess Hall. This might have seemed odd as it was made very clear that food outside of the Mess Hall, save for a few select times like the party, it was a no no. That would be until they spotted the trays being taken into the hospital. People who couldn't get out of bed had to eat as well.

Water Repair Shop (G): Around 15 minutes before 1400 hours is when Lisa and Manny arrive at the Water Repair Shop. It is located on the same side of the main road as the Hospital is but it is at the far west end of the camp, right before the bridge that leads to the west gate on the other side of the canal. It is a large parking lot that is open, several trailers with boats up on them set about. Long buildings that look to be made of simple steel sheets. The more you walk towards the water the clearer it becomes that there are more buildings behind the main ones in the parking lot. These are built to cover part of the canal, next to a narrow boat ramp. The place is mostly empty save for two boats actually in the canal. One under one of the covers, one docked closer to the ramp and too large to be under one of the roofs.

Rivets and Maddog are there. Maddog on the actual ship, chewing on an unlit but half burnt cigar. Rivets is standing on the dock with a clip board and is writing things down as she walks up and down the smaller side dock. "Any major repairs?" Maddog yells down from the boat.

"Some rust but nothing heavy. Though the engine needs work, they've been running it far too hard," Rivets yelled up. "But after the build Franken put in, no wonder Goliath runs this thing hard."

"Yeah, land lover hasn't gotten his sea legs yet, he will," Maddog chuckles before catching glimpse of Lisa and Manny coming over. "A-hoy!"

Rivets rolled her eyes and looked over to Lisa, pulling out a sheet of paper from the back pages of the clip board. "Guy will be back from lunch soon, said to give this to ya when you got here. Said it was mostly just sanitizing and restocking."

"Yeah, apparently the worst they had was some minor cuts and one hook through a thumb, fully," he said mimicking stabbing his thumb. "That and it stinks on here from the chum left overs," he added before starting to walk down the gangplank.

Mechanics (K): Mizrahi crossed his arms over his chest as he leaned against the door frame lightly. It seemed that Ash was having a hard time figuring out what he had said, or at least he thought it was that. His English wasn't the best out there but he was learning. Thana and he had spent many weeks on the road, mostly driving and talking. He was having trouble communicating with her, she was having a hard time communicating with him. Granted his English was far better than her Arabic but she was learning and he liked the fact she put a lot of effort into it while they were out on the road. Looking at Ash though he wondered if she still would.

"I too try. It is, hard," Mizrahi said before letting out short breath. "Anger quick when shield, wall," he said, stumbling over his words as he tried to find the one he was looking for. His lips pulling to one side as he balled up his fists and strained a bit while flexing his arms in. Then the word finally came to him and he snapped his finger. "Protect." He still wasn't sure he had said that right but he didn't think that Ash spoke his language. Granted, he hadn't asked. "Arabic?" he asked. He figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

Hearing the door to Fabrication open he turned his head. It was Tesla carrying a few saw blades. "Got these sharpened, was gonna have Volts bring them over but can't find the pain in my butt," he said as he sat them down on the work bench.

"Admin, back soon," Mizrahi said. "New kid." Tesla seemed to speak Mizrahi's broken English well enough to get the gist. That or he didn't care. He had a location and when Volts would be back basically, the rest might just not have had mattered.

"Good," he said before glancing over at the bathroom and stepping over, finally seeing Ash. "Oh hey," he said looking around. "God, best day in this place is the day you get to shuffle this job off on someone else," he chuckled a bit. "I think everyone loses about ten pounds on this duty not wanting to eat."

"Dusty."

Tesla started laughing. "Nothing keeps that man from eating, he'd eat jerky cleaning a bathroom if they'd let him," Tesla added before shuddering. Shaking it off he looked back to Ash. "Well good luck and pray someone else comes in or fucks up so you aren't on this long," he said before heading back over to Fabrication as the time closed in on 1400 hours.

Supply (R): Aunties lunch ended the same time that Nikki and Amelia's did but as the bell rang she wasn't there but she had other places to work. It was clear by now Supply wasn't just a Goodwill like building where people could shop for things if they earned some extra spending cash. Supply was the main hub of everything in Camp Mexico Beach. Amelia and Nikki had spent the morning before lunch going around the camp and collecting request lists, and then filling out requisition forms so those requests could be fulfilled. Supply had to be everywhere and there were places that Nikki and Amelia hadn't gotten too before lunch.

So no sign of Auntie and clothing on the counter. Other than that, everything else seemed pretty much the same as it was when they left for lunch. That was until as the time got close to 1400 hours Mary came into supply. Glancing around and checking for completed carts. They normally wered0oen by now but it was also well known that when new people came in and events happened things slowed down and they had to play catch up for the next couple of days. Then again, Mary was called S.B., aka Scary Bitch, for a reason and it probably wasn't because she was soft and cuddly.

"Where the hell is the cart for supply replacement in Medical?" she snapped as she motioned at an empty place where something was obviously supposed to be, or at least she was acting that way.

Underwater Garden (U): The hydroponic gardens were one thing, the underwater garden was something else entirely. At first it didn't seem like much and could be a bit of a let down. From the beach one could see the pier itself and the way it jutted out over the coast. Nothing special at first glance, it was just a pier. That was until someone stopped looking at the main walkway of the pier and underneath it. As the pier beneath and the legs went into the water one, as they got close, could see the steel fencing blocking off people or things from getting fully under the pier, then the fence gate at the shores edge, then the walkway beneath the pier.

Once one got passed the locked gate and started walking under the pier, it still wasn't much at first. A slippery walkway under a pier with thick black tubes running the length of it at the waters surface and then slipping below. It was hard to see much beyond where one was because of the thickness of each wooden post that held the pier above in place. Between them though started to be shelves, nothing special, a few empty plant holders here and there, bags of sand and soil. Much of it looked like storage that might have been forgotten about.

Then there started to be more, like what was in the greenhouse garden. Rows of different plants, most looking like they were starting, in planters along rigged between the posts. It looked more like how one would hold a lab though than a garden to fed people as it looked to be smaller things not ready to be eaten and far fewer than one would need or was worth the space it was taking up or more than that the resources. It went on until the pier ended. Where the pier ended up above, so did it below but there was more. A pool like ladder that lead down.

Underwater was a different story. Just like the walk way beneath the pier there was another below the water, lamps provided more light than the sun could below the water, which was far more murky than one might have liked but it was the gulf, there was only so much clarity even on calm water days. Below the water however, it was lovely, at least in some people's minds. There were rows of small seedlings just sprouting in boxes, others even smaller growing in starter cups in black tubes, the deeper one went the larger and more grown the plants got.

It was mostly types of seaweed and lettuce beneath the water but there were other things growing as well. There were some vine fruits like what looked like strawberries but they were white and more hearty vegetables like potatoes and even things like carrots and onions. It was really a sight to see, that below the pier and the water, and the tide was this little world all its own. Many of it surrounded by mesh or grates, some open where there were traps and seemed to lure in shrimp and crabs and other shell fish. Anchoring points were here and there, specially between where a section of underwater walkway nearer the surface would end and the next would start.

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Thana Martin Location: Hydroponic Gardens (T) -> Underwater Garden (U) Skills: N/A

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Thana nodded slightly. She was a bit excited to show someone what was going on in the other garden. Most that had seen it thought it was interesting but that was it and she hadn't exactly been able to show many. Her father and Maddog had seen it, they had started it with the help of some others going off books Thana had had when she was in college and never gotten rid off, or ideas from letter she had written when she was over seas. They hadn't actually been able to achieve much of anything besides getting a skeleton of a place to grow plants under thew water. It was one thing to read about it, one thing to garden normally, it was another to try to get plants to adapt to salt water from fresh, especially for a bunch of retired military folk that had had half of their lifes meals from an MRE or a C-ration pack before that.

"Well it's a start but we're gettin' somewhere finally. Hopefully in a year or two we'll cut down on the amount of fresh water we need fer growin' by a heavy percent. Would make thangs a hella lot simpler for many in the camp," Thana explained as she finished getting ready and began to lock the place up. Atlas wasn't about and it seemed that someone wasn't going to fill in for him. Yet from what Thana said they were going to be spending the rest of the day at this other garden so made sense to just lock up instead of having someone stand there at a door that could be locked for hours and hours.

Pointing towards the beach Thana gathered her bag of things and started heading that way. There was a slight nod from her when Nigel mentioned poking him. "Oh I will, noise don't exactly travel well underwater and well you wouldn't wanna take out yer breather down there, unless yer a fish," she said as they walked, a bit of a smirky chuckle coming from her as they did.

Reaching the section below the pier, Thana pulled out her keys and unlocked it. "Careful, it gets slippery really fast," she said pointing towards the green growing on the walkway that was being washed over by ripples in the water just at the surface. Waiting for Nigel to enter before locking them in and everyone else back out again. Stepping carefully Thana started to walk beneath the pier, reaching out and holding on to a line of chain that was anchored in places just at shoulder level.

"Actually yeah, did my doctorate on Salt Water Farmin'. Modifying fruits and vegetables and grains to be able to be grow in salt water through salination adjustment over time until fresh water was no longer needed. Set up several gardens with the U.N. in places like the Middle East and South East Asia - deserts and islands. Places fresh water is scarce but food is desperately needed," Thana explained as she moved down the walk way. "Small scale but for a place that was wiped out by war or mother nature it could mean the difference between survival and not," she added as she reached near the end of the pier and set her bag down on one of the shelves.

"Alright, bag there, anchor in here, and then follow me. Take yer time, I'll be right there. Better swimmer than walker right now," she said pointing to her leg. Half made sense, underwater she was buoyant, less weight and strain on the thigh as it healed. As she said what he needed to do, she demonstrated it. Tying herself off, dipping her mask into the water before putting it on, etc. Climbing down the ladder she found the first walk way and stood on it, the water coming up to her chest. "Alright, mask on, ya got yer snorkle to breath though, have a look, we'll get ya setting with an air tank in a few," she said as she pulled two over to her from the walkway. She wanted to give him a second to see what was beneath the surface before having him swim it. He did say he was alright but not exactly the best, last thing she wanted was him distracted if something went wrong right at the start.

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Coming out of the back room, Nikki looked around and spotted Amelia. Tossing the clipboard she had been writing on and taking inventory with onto the counter she skipped over and took her watch back. "Sure thing. Ain't nothing. There are clocks around and such but mostly ya just get used to time and bells and knowing but I was glad to get a watch after a bit. I tend to get in my head and ferget time," she said with a bit of a shrug between chews on the piece of gum that was already back in her mouth and bubbles she was popping with said gum. Her blonde hair was now pulled back into a pony tail and it seemed to bounce with a life of its own. Not that it really was as Nikki was constantly bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"If ya get some extra credit round here, would get one if I were ya, can come in handy around here. I mean not like ya need to keep track of tea time when yer out dealing with Ass Faces, unless yer trying to set up some type of weird trap fer them like Lisa does and ya gotta time something but in here it does help," she continued as she took the watch and laid it down face down on the counter. Resting her wrist on it she fastened it back in place before shaking her wrist a bit to get it to fall how she liked it.

"Huh?" she asked slightly confused at first, then it clicked. "Oh yea, wasn't sure how much time you would have and well, findin' things in here can be a bit overwhelming first few weeks, especially if you're a in a hurry. Figured, why the hell not. Needed to fill in the time before I went back on the clock anyways," she said looking through a few of the items idly before shrugging and looking back over at Amelia. "And wasn't sure your size, so um, if ya see something ya like why don't ya try it on? We got some changing rooms over there," she said pointing off to the side. Just a bit of curtain hanging in front of what looked to be a quick constructed set of walls inside the larger area.

Turning her head when she heard the door, Nikki groaned a bit seeing Mary come into the place. "Oh hell, bad mood just walked in," she said under her breath towards Amelia before looking at Mary. Nikki didn't bother saying hello to the woman as the woman wasn't walking towards either of them but instead was walking over to an area that looked like it was a little too open for everything else that was crammed in there.

"Wait for it," Nikki added quietly, not long before Mary turned, motioning towards the empty area and slightly snapping at her. "There it is," she said in a whisper before rolling her eyes slightly and scowling towards Mary.

"Same damn place it always is the night after new peeps come in or we have a party. In the damn back," Nikki said flatly with a bit of a snark in her own voice. "Don't like it, talk to Auntie. It ain't in my job description to put up with ya like Doc or Lisa," she said before sticking her tongue out at the older woman. "It'll be ready by dinner, like always. Don't get snippy with me because you walked over here wanting something you knew wouldn't be there," she added before looking back at Amelia and motioning towards the changing room.