paradisabeyond | (no subject)

[Good evening, explorers! After departing from Cair Paradisa, the path was south at first, but turned west fairly early on. Skirting well south of Eldritch Forest, the travelers had camped near the edge of the Amber Steppe, not quite within sight of the forest that marks the Totem Coast. The grasses are parched brown by the heat, though greener patches mark the presence of water. It's near one of these - a small, bubbling stream leading west that Raine has chosen to follow as it will almost certainly run into the river marked on her map - that the travelers have made their camp.

The carts and wagons are arranged in a defensive circle, though the campers are free to set up their tents outside them as well as inside wher ethe rest of them are. There are small cooking fires scattered around as well as a large bonfire in the center for socializing.

Play music? Sing? Teach those poor non-Earth kids how to make s'mores? Or just sit around and socialize with others.

Or hide in your tent and ignore everyone, if you really want to.]

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Oh, just fine. Can't complain.

[He takes up a stick for himself, produces a pocket knife from one of the pouches on his belt, and starts to whittle it down to a skewer.]

These things always start out pleasant enough, anyway.

Yeah ... I really hope we don't run into something as big as that worm in the Libet tunnels, but ... if wishes were horses and all that, right?

[He actually laughs a little at that, looking at him sidelong.]

Stantz, I think you just did what scholars call "jinxing it."

[absolutely crestfallen, here, with a dash of horrified:] Oh, no! I hope not ...!

[Haha, oh no!! Hellboy laughs some more, shaking his head.]

No -- I'm joking.

[He points at his face with a giant stone finger.]

It's hard to tell, but this is smiling for me. I'm kidding.

Oh, okay, good! [he laughs, relieved, and starts to tend to his smores again] ... I'd feel really awful if I did actually jinx us all.

[the shifty look he gets and the odd tone in his voice suggest that maybe it wouldn't be the first time he'd done something like that by accident]

[Yeah, HB catches that look ...]

... you aren't bad luck or anything, are you?