oasisnetwork | 03: Niceties (Forward dated to the 22rd)

[Daryl takes to the earpieces about mid-morning.]

Alright, so it looks like most of us have been settling in at one of two places. The Hotel and the Warehouse. Some of you have taken yourselves elsewhere and as long you got shelter and can defend it, you're okay.

For those that ain't in the know, the Warehouse is this old building some of us found near the wall on the edge of the lake. Sound walls, one of them iron fences around the parking lot got them spikes on the top. Turned into loft space before everything went the way it did. Point is, we found a storm drain that's bringing water in pretty directly. So we got plenty of that for boiling. We got a fence we can defend. Room inside that to start a garden. Plenty of space inside for them that wants it. Found a bedding store, gonna be dragging some mattresses over from there...

[Not being all together was a little frustrating, but there was so much room and no walkers in the city (that they'd found so far), so it wasn't as worrisome. And hell, if the hotel got compromised, those that were there could find refuge in the warehouse.]

We got ourselves a friend that landed alone last week. Brought me something of a peace offering couple days back, after Newt went and got himself stuck up a tree.

[And the day Daryl yelled at everyone.]

Good sized deer. Been smoking the meat so it'll keep. Most of it's ready. You want some, you can come get some. Plenty to go around and deer's worth the effort of making the walk.

[Anything else he needed to bring up? ...oh, right.]

For those that need to be concerned about it [Alex], tonight is the first night of this month's full moon.

[There. Leadership for the day done with.]

[[action for those partaking in the smoked deer or anything else at the warehouse is perfectly fine.

EDIT: I misunderstood how the lake was butting up to the city, so there's been an edit regarding the warehouse location! It's close to the wall that has the lake on the other side. Not on the water itself. Sorry for the confusion.]]

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[ Wait, that's not what she meant-

Although. He just answered her question for her, so. She'll use that in her favor. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. ] I will! I'll get the best stuff ever. [ So then at least she'll feel like she earned it. Or... die trying, she supposes. ]

Yeah?

[He snorted.]

Whatever. You sticking around for a while or not?

[ Excuse you, sir. Challenge extra accepted.

She still doesn't have an immediate answer for that question. It'd be smarter, definitely, to stick with a group of capable people. Lord knows she isn't. At the same time, however, she has a lot of... issues with potentially being the reason for things going awry or people getting hurt because of her incompetence.

Also, y'know. The whole, uh. Not being human thing. That too. ]

Yeah. [ It may not sound super sure, but... it's an answer. ] Just give me tonight to get my stuff all together and then I'll. Stick around for a while, I guess.

[ That gives her a month to figure out what to do until the next full moon, at any rate. ]

Alright.

[Daryl's chin lifted and he gave her another once-over, eyes squinting a bit before deciding she could probably handle a watch shift.]

These are the rules: Everyone but the girl gets a stint on watch for a few hours a day. We rotate laundry, cooking, and cleaning duties. No one gets stuck with any one job of the domestic variety unless they pick it. They still gotta know how to handle a weapon. So if you don't know, you're taking lessons. Other shit you gotta help out with is building defenses and making runs. Runs are done with a partner unless I can trust you to go it alone. That's my decision to make. Not yours. You can figure out your partner, just have one.

[Daryl jogged to the door, opened it, and pointed to the tallest building in the distance (all 8 floors of it)]

That there's the hotel. Some of ours are staying there. I don't recommend it. Ain't as defensible. But it's there. Padme, Thomas, Newt, Dean... Dean's friend. They're ours, too. You want to make one of them a run partner, you can talk to them about it.

[Daryl leaned against the doorframe, turned his attention inside again, nodded towards the stairs leading to the other floors.]

Top floor has half the roof collapsed in. It's no good for living on with the weather and all. But the other two floors got plenty of space. Pick some that ain't taken and it's yours. We can make a run for a mattress in the morning.

[ Handle one? She'd love one. Anything to make her feel useful, really. Though watch duty is important, it also comes with a higher risk of failure so she'll take it as seriously as possible. She might even act like she's taking it seriously, too, which really says something.

She follows him around, listening carefully... This is probably the most she's heard Daryl talk since meeting him. Guess he reserves it for the important things. She can't blame him. ]

That all sounds good to me. Just, uhm. One thing. Don't put me on cooking duty unless you want everyone poisoned. I'm the chick that blew up a microwave trying to make a mac and cheese cup, so... Y'know. Cooking? Not my strong suit.

Then you'll learn that, too.

[Daryl said flatly and with no sympathy. She wasn't the first to bring up their lack of cooking skills. And he wasn't going to let anyone slack out on it just because they were a self-confessed terrible cook. He was a terrible cook. But roasting meat over a fire was simple enough and that's all that really needed doing most nights. Variety wasn't great in the meal department, but their non-perishables would last longer that way.]

Hey, man, it's your funeral.

[ Her cooking isn't that bad. It's... No, okay, it is. The woman can't even remember the last time she made something edible without assistance. Even microwave meals were a challenge.

Though it's not really her fault humans haven't figured out a way to make machines that don't have meltdowns when you leave a metal fork in them. ]

Can I - request a time to stand watch? I mean, I'm a bit of an insomniac, so. Nights are better for me and if it gives other people time to sleep, even better.

One of the night shifts is yours, then.

[He wasn't going to argue if she was willing to take it.]

Just make sure you're quiet unless you really got a good reason to be loud.

03: Niceties (Forward dated to the 22rd)

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