deercountry | Mostly Closed Catch-all for November

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Mostly Closed Catch-all for November

Who: Lance (

azurestar) and CR
What: Catch-all for November, after this
When: All of November
Where: Prufrock, Cellar Door, Crenshaw

Content Warnings: discussion of death, murder, trauma/ptsd, psychosis, past torture

( ooc: this is a catchall for Lance this November after his conflict with Reaper and then Maul, though I am trying to keep my new threads this month limited in number, if you have CR with Lance already you are welcome to come plot something with me here or on plurk at

spypigeon and we can start something here in this log or I may ask to wait till next month while I get his inbox more caught up and under control if I've already got too much going on, either way I'm happy to plot always! )

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[You'd have to be pretty blind to not know what happened with Lance, Reaper and Maul. Bolin saw all the stuff on the network. He heard people talking. He even saw some of the rubble.

But he doesn't feel he knows Lance well enough to get involved in something that is clearly so very, very personal. At least not right away. They've shared a few moments now, so he feels like they're close enough he can come and check on him a while later.

Which actually means sleuthing Lance down at Shiro's place, shenaniganning himself through the door without actually breaking in, and more or less kicking down Lance's door. What? He's asleep? Not anymore you ain't!]

LANCE!

[BLAM! Take that door! Literally kicked open. But it's with good reason, Bolin's arms are full of stuff which clink and bump as he jostles it around. ]

Are you awake? Were you sleeping buddy? How are you feeling?

Edited 2021-11-08 02:19 (UTC)

i. chopping wood

[What happened with Reaper and then with Maul isn't easy to process. Especially considering its extremely public nature. For years he'd kept it all to himself from shame and fear and now it's out there and he can't take it back. But what he can do is fix the houses and businesses that Maul destroyed to get to him for those several hours on the first day of their battle. The only real challenge is finding the materials and then transporting them. Luckily he has a whole stable of horses, one of whom is a huge work horse belonging to Shiro by the name of Bob.

Luckily, the Stable where they sell supplies and rent out transport in Willful Machine allowed him to buy one of their large carts and then he went to the forests to take down trees, prepare them for construction use and then load them in the cart. He can be found out in the woods around the main city forming round, bright blades out of solar energy and plasma and then sending them through the trunk of a few trees at once. The horse and cart is standing at a safe distance and there's already some chopped up (and charred) lumber in the cart. A massive white dire wolf guards the cart and a dark reddish coyote wanders in the distance sniffing out mushrooms...]

ii. mushroom interruption

[Working out in the woods comes with its perils. There's monsters that lurk in the forests and this month there's various mushrooms with unknown effects. While he's out here, Lance will also be grabbing mushrooms he recognizes as edible to carry in the cart. But it sure is a literal pain in the neck when one of those Floaters comes by and paralyzes him when he's out here at night. If you happen to be out here in the night, where he is working will be easy to spot as he's lighting the area with a couple small stars he's created with his powers. The massive white direwolf will come to stand over him protectively and growl at the darkness, sensing hungry beasts...

Daytime also has its own perils and Lance may have his survival skills, but sometimes doesn't think things all the way through. Like coming across blue cheeks. The latest tree he's taken down falls and reveals these bright blue mushrooms nearby. Curiosity piqued, he'll pick one up and sniff it, taste test it with his tongue... and then eat it. Hey, the Weepers turned out great, so why not? Please make him puke it up, this would be an embarrassing way to go.]

iii. repairing

[In the city proper, Lance can be found directing Bob, the massive horse through the streets to Prufrock, hauling the large cart filled with Lumber. Another of the horses he cares for walks alongside the cart with packs of nails and other necessary tools and hardware he managed to get in Willful Machine from the smiths. You can catch him trying to get the cart through a pothole or a narrow bustling area and help him figure out how to move the load or get the horses to move when they're feeling stubborn.

Then he finally makes it to the area of Prufrock where Maul had tried to kill him. There's business owners and home owners already working away on repairs and they seem to know him by now. They aren't particularly warm because of the circumstances, but they appear grateful and don't tell him to leave when he starts helping them to lift up large pieces into place. He also offers to get up in the rafters in their steads to place important support beams and nail them in since as a Sleeper with powers, falling is not harmful to him like it is to them. Come help out or just chat with him as he works if you like, but he'll be more open to talking if you're helping these people too.]

[It's around close to sunset when Lance gets "home" to the old Voltron barn he's been living in that was plopped into the far northeast corner of Cellar door district, right on the border of the districts around it. Bolin woke him up early that morning at the Voltron house where Shiro took him after the fight with Maul to talk about a musical. Or at least he's pretty sure it was Shiro, his memory of it is really hazy and both Shiro and Hunk are big and strong enough to have had that back he was rested against.

Regardless, he slept for a little over two days in Keith's old room and ended up spending a lot of time with Bolin after he had a bit of a hard time dealing with everything that happened. His new friend was there for him and reminded him of some helpful life lessons he once knew, though a large part of him is still skeptical and jaded after all he's been through. Despite that, though, there's a small part that tentatively wants to find a way forward. So very tentative and terrified.

He's pretty drained by the time he gets back to the barn in one of Keith's black t-shirts and a pair of jeans. Got to check on Kaltenecker and the horses, though he's sure that Hunk took good care of them while he was… away. On the way back, he found some interesting looking mushrooms and picked them to examine in the loft later. With nowhere to store them, they're held in one hand as he comes to the stable's door to find it's already partially opened.]

…Hunk? You in here?

[Bolin woke him the other day and it seemed like he was alright, but then the smallest thing triggered a painful wave of feeling. Bolin did his best to help him through it and Lance was grateful, but he wasn't yet ready to face more people. So he left placing a note in the kitchen to tell Shiro he was okay, he just needed to head back to the barn to check on the animals.

That was only part of it, but he couldn't exactly go into the long complicated emotional reasons on a piece of paper. One of those reasons being that though Keith's old room brings some comfort, it also aches to be there near his things. But even with that note he knew Shiro would probably worry, he wasn't exactly in the best shape. Lots of internal and external damage is still healing, though he's not in any danger of dying so long as he doesn't go running around like wild.

Still, he should come see Shiro in person to show him he's okay. Physically anyway. He discovered some amazing mushrooms the other day as well that helps to steady him a bit and he brings some along. The signs of corruption have leveled out thanks to them, his canines are only slightly pointed and he hasn't bled from his eyes in a few hours.

With shrooms in a satchel over his shoulder, he pushes the front door open, his voice is a bit scratchy still, but clear.] Shiro? You home?

[Walking through Trench is pretty perilous this month. The streets seem to move around and change, which gets most people lost, and then there's the psycho Zealots going around kidnapping and tormenting Sleepers. The fact that they are ancient sleepers is a fact he has elected to try and ignore, but it wears on him deep down.

Then there's the mushrooms. Next to everything else going on, it's easy to not look down at your feet when you're busy looking over your shoulder and trying to figure out if the street you were just on moved or something and you're going in circles. And Lance is currently trying to navigate his way back to Prufrock with a massive work horse pulling a cart of lumber and a giant white direwolf guarding the rear of that cart.

Edelya, the direwolf lifts her head and perks her ears suddenly on alert lookng behind them and the horse snorts suddenly not sure it wants to keep going forward. Going by those reactions, it seems like there's something coming behind them, and something in front of them. Great.]

Maybe if we just… [He moves to pull Bob the giant horse down a more narrow street to the right to maybe avoid both… but the cart gets stuck.] Really??

Edited 2021-11-19 21:44 (UTC)

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