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redshiftlogs2019-08-02 06:10 pm
fishermansweater) wrote in redshiftlogs2019-08-02 06:10 pm
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ψ where do the codfish go? | OTA
Who: Finnick Odair + OTA
What: Spooky-animal-Fish related adventures
When: Early August
Where: Agricultural levels and bottom level
Warnings: No warnings so far, but Finnick has PTSD and depression so things might come up in threads
nighttime - agricultural levels
Being from Panem, Finnick's used to power outages.
He's not used to power outages that confine where he can go and what he can do, though, so being confined until the generators are working tested his patience. He's been confined to District Thirteen for weeks, now he's confined to the parts of Anchor that have power. Fortunately, enough power comes back that they can go more places, and return to what had been his top priority before the power went out: trying to gather enough supplies to properly investigate the lake. The vid he'd been shown when he arrived suggested there used to be fish there. Are there still fish there?
Armed with a trident, rifle, and knife, he and Annie still need to create some fishing tools, and then they need to find some bait. That's why one night, after the dust storm has stopped, Finnick and Annie are up on the agricultural levels hunting for insects. They've been up here during the day enough time to gather some leaves and grasses to weave a couple of containers to keep their bait in, but tonight's goal is catching it.
Finnick's prowling a perimeter watching -- mostly listening -- for the sound of the mutts that haunt this place. The light on his rifle bobs off in the distance while Annie sits by a small fire catching the insects lured to the warmth and light.
When he sees the lights off in the distance, at first he's not sure he even sees them. Then he's uneasy, remembering the traps in the arena that had each come at their specific time and place, and each been a special sort of danger or torment to the tributes. He knows better than to go chasing something like that in the dark.
He swings the rifle around in a slow arc, letting the light fall on the trees in front of him, but he starts and lets out a yell when he sees the glowing deer step into the light.
daytime - the park
Fish in the lake have proved elusive when Finnick's gone looking before, but today, he's prepared. He has a woven container with a variety of insects, along with some lures fashioned from grasses and twigs from the Agricultural levels. He and Annie have also sharpened sticks into something like a fishing spear -- not as good as anything they'd have had access to back in District Four, but they're victors. They both know how to improvise.
The process of locating fish in an unfamiliar body of water can take some time. It involves working out where the fish will be, watching the water for signs of them, and sometimes requires offering them the incentive of bait to come to the surface.
That's why Finnick, stripped to his underwear, is in thigh-deep water in the lake, staring intently at the water. There's a little lure made of grasses tied and twisted into the shape of a large insect bobbing in front of him, and he has a long sharpened stick in his hand.
"Hey I think I see something!" he calls.
He's calling around the lake to Annie, but that might not be apparent to any passers-by, since she's not immediately visible through the trees around the shore if you don't know she's there.
nb: Annie is not available for threading, but she is going to be floating around in the distance because the co-dependency is strong with these ones
What: Spooky-animal-Fish related adventures
When: Early August
Where: Agricultural levels and bottom level
Warnings: No warnings so far, but Finnick has PTSD and depression so things might come up in threads
nighttime - agricultural levels
Being from Panem, Finnick's used to power outages.
He's not used to power outages that confine where he can go and what he can do, though, so being confined until the generators are working tested his patience. He's been confined to District Thirteen for weeks, now he's confined to the parts of Anchor that have power. Fortunately, enough power comes back that they can go more places, and return to what had been his top priority before the power went out: trying to gather enough supplies to properly investigate the lake. The vid he'd been shown when he arrived suggested there used to be fish there. Are there still fish there?
Armed with a trident, rifle, and knife, he and Annie still need to create some fishing tools, and then they need to find some bait. That's why one night, after the dust storm has stopped, Finnick and Annie are up on the agricultural levels hunting for insects. They've been up here during the day enough time to gather some leaves and grasses to weave a couple of containers to keep their bait in, but tonight's goal is catching it.
Finnick's prowling a perimeter watching -- mostly listening -- for the sound of the mutts that haunt this place. The light on his rifle bobs off in the distance while Annie sits by a small fire catching the insects lured to the warmth and light.
When he sees the lights off in the distance, at first he's not sure he even sees them. Then he's uneasy, remembering the traps in the arena that had each come at their specific time and place, and each been a special sort of danger or torment to the tributes. He knows better than to go chasing something like that in the dark.
He swings the rifle around in a slow arc, letting the light fall on the trees in front of him, but he starts and lets out a yell when he sees the glowing deer step into the light.
daytime - the park
Fish in the lake have proved elusive when Finnick's gone looking before, but today, he's prepared. He has a woven container with a variety of insects, along with some lures fashioned from grasses and twigs from the Agricultural levels. He and Annie have also sharpened sticks into something like a fishing spear -- not as good as anything they'd have had access to back in District Four, but they're victors. They both know how to improvise.
The process of locating fish in an unfamiliar body of water can take some time. It involves working out where the fish will be, watching the water for signs of them, and sometimes requires offering them the incentive of bait to come to the surface.
That's why Finnick, stripped to his underwear, is in thigh-deep water in the lake, staring intently at the water. There's a little lure made of grasses tied and twisted into the shape of a large insect bobbing in front of him, and he has a long sharpened stick in his hand.
"Hey I think I see something!" he calls.
He's calling around the lake to Annie, but that might not be apparent to any passers-by, since she's not immediately visible through the trees around the shore if you don't know she's there.
nb: Annie is not available for threading, but she is going to be floating around in the distance because the co-dependency is strong with these ones
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Cho clearly noticed something he hadn't; there's a focus in the way she starts drawing, so he leans a little closer, bending his head towards her so he can see what she's doing. She'd noticed more of the layout of the place than he had, and as she sketches buildings and ponds, something long-ago stirs in the back of his mind, resurfacing after years of irrelevance.
He moves a little closer, his brow wrinkling in concentration.
"Those pools are for fish. It's for farming, right?"
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Her impulse to hug him is strong, and she would probably give in and do just that if he'd put on his shirt, but he's still naked from the waist up, and so she finds it much easier to restrain herself. "I think it is a fish farm, or at least a hatchery with enough room for multiple concurrent spawns. Or, if it wasn't meant to be, it's set up pretty perfectly to be converted into one. I didn't get as close a look as I'd have liked." But she's getting carried away, and if this is a thing that can actually happen, the lookout should probably be invited into this conversation. "Annie!" Cho calls, too excited to spend the time to run over to the tree again. "I've got great news. About fish! How do you feel about coming over here for a little bit?"
Please don't make her climb a tree to share this.
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Excited. Not alarmed, not frightened, but excited.
"Fish?" Annie replies, not sure if she's loud enough to be heard or not. Still holding half the sandwich, she makes her way down the tree and lands lightly on her feet before walk over.
(She watches, as she walks. Keeps her sense alert. She still doesn't trust this park, this pond, or anything really here.)
"What's this about fish?"
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She's practically vibrating, she's that excited. They could do this. They could really do this.
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He's sure she'll be able to see it too, especially with the context of Cho talking about fish and showing what the different parts of her diagram mean. Annie had been at school longer than him; he doesn't know what they covered in those few years after he'd won the Games and gone to live in his mansion, never needing to worry about school again.
Cho's excitement is obvious, and so is Finnick's as he jogs after her, his shirt still forgotten on the bank.
"Do you think we could set it back up?" he asks.
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"We should, right? If there's all that stuff still left. If we just have to clean it and maybe disinfect stuff, or or or, uh, fix other pieces of equipment, that's doable. Right, Cho?"
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She should probably be embarrassed, but Finnick already knows. He was there. He saw her totally fail to be able to defend herself. And if Finnick knows, then Annie probably knows. Which she doesn't judge at all. They're two halves of a whole. It would make sense that they have no secrets from one another.