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Tachome Dhaume ([personal profile] bardbarous) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2021-11-13 09:34 pm

We Were Stupid, We Got Caught ( closed )

Who: Tuck [personal profile] bardbarous, Vyng [personal profile] spiritwalks, and Fat Billie [personal profile] wapples
What: The Spout Lore fam live together, love together, and then one of them gets kidnapped
When: during the month of November
Where: Sleeper Farms and other places

Content Warnings: child endangerment, torture, body mutilation
spiritwalks: ('Cause I know)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Vyng looks up from his naturalist drawings scattered across the writing desk, startled by his best friend's voice — and how it's coming out of an otter-dog's face. (A bad omen, if he ever saw one.) He sets his quill down to listen with rapt attention.

...

...

...Well, shit.

Righteous anger flares in the pit of his stomach. (Meat hooks? Organ harvests? What the fuck!?) Vyng nearly snaps the pen in his grip. Whoever these robed wretches are, they're going to rue the day they messed with his family.

But this is the part where he's supposed to say something reassuring, isn't it. Of course, when put on the spot like this, the soothing-word well can start to run pretty dry.]


Hang tight, bud! But not too tight. We don't want you bleeding out everywhere. Just, just— Hold on, alright? We're gonna get you out of this mess.
spiritwalks: (I know you can make it right)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[It relayed the message, though, right?

...Vyng has no fucking clue.

Hm.]
spiritwalks: (Boy I want you to be happy)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, no, time to focus. Vyng shoots to his feet and casts his eyes around the tent.]

Billie? You asleep somewhere, bud?
spiritwalks: (I was gone)

Rescue

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Through some combination of quick-thinking, a sprinkle of luck, and blundering their way through social encounters...Vyng and Billie have made it into, uh. Well. Whatever this place is.

Casting his eyes around, Vyng takes in their surroundings. It's like a factory from the pre-Exodus era. Steel pistons. Metal staircases winding in a dizzying number of directions. And rows of...stalls?

He glances down at Billie.]


Ever seen anything like this before, bud?
Edited 2021-12-28 22:56 (UTC)
spiritwalks: (Don't you know you got my eyes)

Doggone it!

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's cute.

[Vyng stands beside Tuck, watching Billie scamper around with his new canine companion. Every so often, the dog dutifully points with its paw toward the next cluster of edible mushrooms. Billie's basket is amassing a small collection at this point — he's actually collecting them faster than he can eat right now.]

See? He has a friend now.
Edited 2021-11-23 05:29 (UTC)
spiritwalks: (And maybe you're just a little bit...)

Tats for Tots

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
spiritwalks: (And maybe you're just a little bit dappy)

Shenanigans at Shiro's

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
spiritwalks: (You'll be happy all the time)

Mayhem at Michael's

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-21 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] wapples 2021-11-22 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? What? No, I'm awake!

[No, he wasn't, he just doesn't want to admit he was napping.

Billie comes out of the kitchen rubbing his eyes.]


What's going on?
spiritwalks: (You'll feel the ghost)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-23 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe he should figure out a delicate way to put this, but...ah, fuck it. They can't waste any time.]

Tuck's been kidnapped. We need to find him.
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[personal profile] wapples 2021-11-25 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
What? Who? Where?

[The sleepiness is gone, suddenly replaced with alarm and fury. No one kidnaps his dads! He scampers back to the kitchen to get his raccoon skin and his daggers, then immediately back to Vyng.]

What're we waiting for? We gotta go!
spiritwalks: (Feel your mother at your side)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-25 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It'll be fiiine. First of all, people in town look after each other. Just offer to do some yard work for the grocer. Or show up with a bunch of pretty rocks you found at the beach. People love that stuff. Luca told me.

Second, Billie's resourceful. If he isn't satisfied with what we've got, you know he's gonna hit his own little food-run circuit. That's what he does.

And third, you don't need to worry about feeding me. I can just forage, you know?

[A beat.]

Maybe I'll get a goat.
spiritwalks: (You'll be happy all the time)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-27 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Traumatic as it may be, the story only bolsters Vyng's case.]

But we could feed our goat compost. You don't want Billie eating that, do you? The goat would be doing us a favor.
spiritwalks: (Boy I want you to be happy)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-28 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[By the time Billie returns, Vyng has already collected a couple of gas masks and a tiny pair of gloves. He bends down and extends the smaller mask out to the boy.]

Hold on a second there. We've gotta finish suiting up first, Billie. Want me help you put this mask on? Or do you wanna try it yourself?

[Since the extra protection isn't negotiable, the least Vyng can do is let him choose how to put it on.]
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[personal profile] wapples 2021-11-28 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? What's this for?

[He takes the gas mask and shrugs. He trusts if Vyng says they have to wear them, then they have to wear them and pulls it on over his head. He immediately starts to complain.]

It smells weird, and it's hard to see.

[It's hard to see because he has it on completely backwards. Good job, Billie.]
spiritwalks: (And maybe you're just a little bit...)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-30 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
There's a bunch of blood pollution outside. We need to be careful and not inhale too much of it, or else we could get sick and lose our way. These masks are gonna help with that.

[He wonders if that's what happened to Tuck. How else could anybody manage to kidnap somebody so huge?]

You almost got it there, bud. [A generous definition of "almost", maybe...but, listen, they're all doing their best here.] Try turning it around?
Edited 2021-11-30 00:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] wapples 2021-11-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Okay.

[Billie grabs the mask and turns it around so it's facing the right away. He's still not a fan, and he still finds it a little hard to see through, but at least this is a little more acceptable. He still dislikes it enough that he's not going to admit to the improvement.]

We don't have to wear them all the time, do we?
spiritwalks: (I was gone)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-11-30 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Not all the time, no. Just when there's a red mist outside.

[...He hopes it isn't all the time, at least. Blood pollution seems to ebb and flow with the seasons, and Vyng wants to believe there are clearer days ahead of them yet. With that thought, he fastens his own mask and reaches for his spear.]

Tuck said something about fucked-up people in robes. That's probably who we need to be on the look-out for.

Have you seen anyone like that, Billie?
spiritwalks: (Fly)

[personal profile] spiritwalks 2021-12-01 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
...You mean like the ones that keep clogging the toilet?

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