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Post by JULIO VEGAS on Dec 12, 2013 19:22:25 GMT -6
the great outdoors. an arduous, challenging foe vegas had gone up against time and time again! and each fated clash had a location, had a purpose, and this?
camping was only another destined match between him and the wilderness he had yet to win!
julio hadn't phrased it exactly like that to his compatriots, though. “adventure” and “new experience” had been his choice words, along with the tactile use of jazz hands. and he hadn't been dishonest; both had been true descriptors of what this camping trip would actually be and what he'd intended it to be. it hadn't been that hard to find someone with tents to spare mid-september for the impromptu trip to upstate new york - julio wasn't sure if he should have found that surprising or unsurprising - and there was plenty of other things to pack which were then...
discarded to the ground flamboyantly and fairly haphazardly once their settling point had been found. initially eager to carry anything he could really once their camping point had been decided he was now stripped free of those weights, even if those weights happened to make unsettling crunching noises at their less-than-careful descent to the ground.
and julio was uncharacteristically silent for a few moments as he adjusted without the weight - adjusting meant stretching, probably unneededly. but suddenly, something seemed to interrupt those languid stretches - a pain? his hand was brought to his temple, eyes closed before he suddenly announced, “heroine evie!”
spinning to look at her, julio's eyes were certainly lit up with energy despite their trek through the woods. it was clear he had experienced not as much pain as an apparent prophetic message as he continued, “a task has dawned upon you - the sacred light of destiny has dictated to me that it is you, the chosen one, who can… y'know.”
the theatrics faded away as he gestured to tent bags now on the ground, but they returned soon enough, “who can assemblage all manners of technology with her legendary gift!”
“and vegas trusts all those accompanying have no objections to the sweet words of destiny?”
@etoile1, @dee1, @natasha, @cadence, @aries / yooo finally there's six of us so short and sweet works for posts! uncreative inaccurate thread title as they r not tentful yet
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 19:52:02 GMT -6
he'd been better with the bus trip than he thought he'd be, but he was rapidly learning he should have brought more gum and lollipops. he was going to have to ration them. he'd already handed out a huge chunk of his stash, and he wasn't really in the mood to start chewing half his fingernails off again.
especially not in the godforsaken back woods of wildest, untamed new york.
olly had come along because seeing julio and aries try not to kill each other squashed into a tent would be priceless, and he was pretty sure someone was going to punch the californian boy. he wanted to see it. he wanted to record it, for the good of all humanity.
hence why olly was not helping with the tent in the slightest, instead observing the situation through his camera. he had enough batteries to power the engineer's suit for the weekend, never mind his recording equipment. it was easy to get everything important in frame, not so easy to keep from sniggering loudly.
julio still had entirely the wrong idea about evie's powers, clearly.
"none at all, mate, keep fightin' the good fight."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 20:14:47 GMT -6
God, this was the stupidest idea. The stupidest. Why did he let himself get dragged in to this? Oh, right, he hadn't really let himself. Aries was positively kidnapped. He should report all of these assholes. Every last one of them. Maybe they'd get arrested and then he could go home.
These were the thoughts that comforted him as he was forced to trek through the woods, walking on a "trail" (Julio insisted he was trailblazing but really they were just wandering through the trees and wading through dead leaves and twigs) as he lingered at the end of the line. The five others were going on ahead of him and he just grumbled under his breath, stuffing his earbuds in his ears deeper and cranking up the volume on his music.
That is, until they reached the campsite. Just as Julio dropped the equipment, his music mysteriously cut out. Checking his phone, it had turned off, and it wouldn't turn back on. Fuck. Was it dead already? If it was he was going to seriously kill someone. Ripping his headphones off he stuffed his phone in his pocket just as his overly dramatic roommate began his speech.
"Who the fuck does he think he is?" he muttered, mostly to himself, but the others around him probably heard it too. Not that Aries cared. Heroine Evie? Sweet words of destiny? Seriously, what the fuck.
Even though Julio had asked his question of the group, Aries remained silent. His only response was a stony glare that had permanently set into his features. This was going to be the longest fucking weekend of his life.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 21:39:06 GMT -6
Cadence was absolutely out of her element. Natasha had told her that they were gonna go camping!!! That it was gonna be a super big fun blast!!!! So here she was, dragged away from her precious bedroom and electronic security blankets. She didn't even have her baby robot, as Tasha had convinced her to leave it home. All she did have with her was her cellphone and while it was something, it just wasn't the same as having a mouse snark back at you for asking it what the temperature was. Denny was determined to make the best of it though, how bad could camping really be? New York wilderness couldn't be any worse than the family trips back home, right?
She had been pretty quiet on the bus, once off it she had been more or less the same. Before she had been just observing, nodding along and adding in whenever her sister nudged her, but to hike she was a little too preoccupied trying to not slip and die on wet leaves or rude tree roots to even listen properly to what the people ahead of her were saying. She was second to last in their little line and did hear Aries grumbling under his breath the entire walk. Every step it annoyed her more and more. Why was he even here if he was going to be a baby about it all?
Once they were apparently done walking (thank God), they had arrived at the campsite, which meant that it was time for everyone to participate equally in this so-called "adventure" that was camping, including the grumpy cat that was behind her. She smirked as she turned off his phone, he deserved to sit through his roommate's extravagance. Hearing his comment (wow was he always rude?) made her determined to come up with something better than him simply being miserable, she needed something to do on this trip after all. Pranking Aries seemed like it would be a good pastime while she had to do camp-y stuff...whatever that would end up being.
She almost giggled at Julio, but instead brought it down to just a smiling. Denny nodded in agreement at his direction.
this is rly bad but i swear it'll get better and shorter it's my first reply post in a lonng while!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2013 12:20:59 GMT -6
Camping trips were like, super exciting, you know? They were this thing you did with a bunch of people (the more the better) and you went out into the wilderness and you like, survived and stuff. And you came back home a better, changed person. Maybe you fought a few bears. Maybe you had to pee in a cup. Maybe you had to walk all the way home, surviving the long, cold nights. Or at least, that was what Natasha imagined a camping trip to be. She'd never been on one. Her family wasn't the sort to go into the great outdoors. If they wanted fun family bonding time, they watched Disney movies or maybe they went to Chuck E. Cheese's. So she was completely, utterly excited to go on one. With people. With friends. With Denny. Like, really, she could dropped all these losers and just gone on a great adventure with Cadence and maybe Julio (it was his idea, it was probably rude to like, you know, not bring him). But the more the better. The more the wilder. She was not actually familiar with most of the people on the trip. She knew Julio (because who didn't?) but the others were more or less strangers. There was this kind of pissy looking girl and then this pissy looking guy and they were probably dating or something because they looked perfect. And then there was this other kid who had a camcorder and she was almost tempted to pick everyone up and be like - hey, hey, look at me. But she didn't. At least, not yet. That could wait. When they finally stopped walking, Natasha looked around excitedly. She clapped her hands together, bouncing on her heels. She had no idea what the hell Julio was saying but it sounded like he was having fun and that was super great. "Are we going to do a like, ice breaking game?! We need to do an ice breaking game. We need to." she asked, no wait, demanded, looking around at everyone for their eager cooperation. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2013 2:05:24 GMT -6
This all reminded her of Alaska, despite how not-Alaska it actually was... but the crisp, cold air that chilled her throat and the potential to have a run in with an angry moose was a feeling she knew all too well. She was absolutely silent the whole way up, her thumbs hooked behind the straps of her backpack. Evie, being at least semi-accustomed to the great outdoors had dressed the part: a thick jacket, denim jeans tucked into steel-toed boots, etc. Nothing was going to weather her down.
Nothing except people. She didn't really know anyone on this camping trip, making her wonder why she ever agreed to go on it in the first place. Oh, right, because Julio seemed absolutely bent on getting her out of her comfort zone. Evie watched every member of their makeshift crew on the hike up. There was Aries, a person she hadn't exactly hit it off with yet, some guy with an arrogant-looking face, two girls (sisters?) and then Julio. Fantastic.
It was rather obvious when they arrived at the little camping spot that they were to claim their own, but just in case anyone needed assistance on the uptake, Julio took it upon himself to gracelessly unload their cargo onto the ground. He went off on a characterically dramatic tangent, one that Evie would have tuned out completely if it wasn't for the fact he suddenly said her name.
Wait, what?
"Excuse me?" she asked, the calmness slipping from her voice, visible anger in her eyes. "Tents are not technology!"
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Post by JULIO VEGAS on Dec 21, 2013 14:16:52 GMT -6
to olly's reassurance there was a thumbs up; julio looked delighted with the other. in fact, being filmed was nothing but THRILLING to vegas. what was initially just a simple thumbs up soon turned into full-on posing. flexing his biceps to the camera - trust julio to never wear anything with sleeves, even at the tumultuous risk of bug bites - he replied, "then get vegas' good side, heroic olly! that is the noble task destiny has sent you.”
“oh oh, one must also make it an urgent priority to record aries' luckless looks as well,” he added as a second thought, gesturing wildly to the camper that had been swearing only moments ago. he announced to the camera, “witness the portrait of a sullen man, a lost soul with nothing left in the world! behold how his tidings will change this weekend.”
otherwise julio didn't address sulking aries directly; he was far too easily swept away into natasha's enthusiasm, leaping on her suggestion with fervour once and providing the cooperation she wanted. now his melodramatic speech about aries was over he turned away from olly's recording to her, “glorious! an ice-breaking game sounds like a heaven-sent idea. vegas would expect little else from the revered natasha.”
“yet what ice-breaker?” it was a serious question and julio looked to be taking it very seriously, folding his arms, “what can one trust to break such ice?”
though the true extent of evie's powers seemed like news to vegas.
“are they not categorised as such? why not?” he genuinely asked, looking down at what he'd unloaded onto the ground only moments before. tents weren't technology? thanks destiny.
there didn't seem to be a heaven-sent message following that. maybe because he was now considering evie's temper with a little more caution than he did with aries', “then these non-technological tents are but a challenge for us then! something vegas and his companions must all overcome together with combined strength, courage and intelligence.”
“plus vegas is pretty sure he has instructions somewhere,” he added on quietly, returning his attention to whatever he discarded down and crouching to survey the bags.
@etoile1, @aries, @cadence, @natasha, @aries, @dee1
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2013 21:38:56 GMT -6
he had no idea what had gotten into aries, honestly. why had the guy come if he didn't want to be here? because they had julio and the super energetic girl julio hung out with (natalie? natasha? he was terrible with names and he'd never really spoken to her), and the girl he thought had maybe been introduced on the bus as nata-whatever-it-was' sister (again, he hadn't really been listening), and they all seemed happy enough to be here. the other girl he didn't know at all, but at least she was being politely quiet.
aries was ruining it with his bad vibes. bad vibes and grumbling. rude, frankly. he zoomed in on the californian's sullen expression with the camera, not chancing getting close enough to get slapped upside the head.
"got it, mate. for those that come after us, look at the face of grumpy, destroyer've worlds." he wasn't as good at dramatic voiceovers as julio was, but he was learning. he was getting something out of drama club, at any rate. "and we'll... uh, i dunno, all i can think of is those saturday cartoons where they make friends with the bloke. don't think you'd go for that, would you, mate?" another harder zoom on aries' face. maybe he'd edit in some dramatic music.
the suggestion prompted a raised eyebrow, looking at her with faint confusion. "what, like, two truths and a lie or something? i'd be up for it." natasha, that was it. he'd have to remember that, or he was going to slip and call her nutella or something and look like a right twat.
uh-oh, though, quiet girl was angry at julio, and that meant pointing the shakycam in her direction until julio started looking at the bags. "... you're kiddin', right? you've never gone camping? any of you?" he heaved a theatrical sigh, putting the camera into sleep mode and tucking into his inside jacket pocket before hefting the bag he was least likely to smack julio in the face with. it took just a moment to yank the drawstring open, and olly was suddenly starting to tip the contents out onto the nearest dry piece of ground. "fuckin' yanks, mate, you're useless."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 0:39:50 GMT -6
Man, everything was just grating on his nerves today. Peeling his sweatshirt off (that was a stupid idea) he slung it over his shoulder and continued to glare as Julio mentioned he was a sullen man, a lost soul with nothing left in the world. That almost set him off but he maintained his calm through some combination of composure and witchcraft.
"Fuck off, Vegas," he growled, glaring over at Olly's incessant videotaping and narration. Turning away from the lens he simply raised his arm and flipped the camera the bird, not caring that he was sending off mega-negative vibes to everyone, even the one person he considered his friend on this trip.
One of the girls mentioned ice breakers and he nearly groaned aloud, and of course Julio agreed with that. He would take no part in it obviously and simply to keep himself from being roped in to doing them, he went over to where Olly was setting up the tents and complaining about no one knowing how to put up a tent.
Grabbing one of the collapsed poles and setting it up, he glanced over at his dark-haired friend. "You're sleeping in the middle, just so you know."
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