Winchester/Fairfield Expedition - Camping

[not_mafia]

[After a long day of traveling over the hilly, grassy grounds of Nostos after a quick trip in the TARDIS, the sun is slowly starting to inch its way down to the horizon, the light catching on the clouds and making quite a spectacular sunset view. It's time to halt the traveling and rest the animals, get those tents pitched and crack out the canned foods. You're pretty deep into the Dead Zone, now, and stretched before you are rolling plains, with the only foliage being the golden grasses and some shrubbery. The air seems quite a bit warmer than it was in Paradisa as well. It is not an empty plains, though; buffalo roam the area, generally pretty tranquil as they graze on the grasses, sometimes lifting their heads to look curiously at the residents. Well. If they had eyes, that is.]

CAMPFIRE | TENTS | THE GROUNDS | THE BUFFALO

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TENTS

[not_mafia]

[Best get all those tents up before it's too dark, or else you might find yourself hammering your thumb instead of a spike. Or maybe you don't even need it to be nighttime for you to hit yourself! If that's the case, you should probably ask for some help so you don't have to tackle tomorrow with swollen digits. Once they're up, you can slip away if you're feeling tired, or if you simply want some privacy.]

[fanstheflame]

[after helping Ino set up their tent, Gale's making a round of the camping area, keeping his distance but trying to scope out and see if anyone needs a hand. there seem to be a lot of newcomers on this trip, after all, and he wants to make sure that things go smoothly after such a rocky start.

if you're having trouble, or at least seem to be, though, he'll wave and call out]

Need a hand with that?

[luxe_can_kill]

I could use some assistance over here.

[She's too rich for this...]

[fanstheflame]

Sure thing. [he looks over her equipment. okay, this looks easy enough] Where do you want it? Which way do you want it to face? ... I'd recommend that way, so that when you get up in the morning, you're not opening the flap and getting the sun right in your face.

[luxe_can_kill]

[Mitsuru just realized that she was planning her tent to face East, so that would immediately blind her when she leaves the tent in the morning...]

Anywhere the sun won't hurt my eyes, I suppose. You have my gratitude.

[fanstheflame]

Hey, not a problem. [he picks up the canvases and the poles and sets to work]

Nice to meet you - I'm Gale.

[luxe_can_kill]

Gale? I remember that name. You offered to teach outdoor survival.

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Nora looks up from where she had been pulling the pieces of their tent out of a bag. She held one of the poles in one hand as she shot him a helpless look]

Would you mind?

[fanstheflame]

Hi, Nora. [he smiles and waves as he heads over] Not at all. ... Which way do you want it to face?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Her smile turns grateful as she looks around, thinking.]

Maybe that way?

[She points in a direction that seems good enough... it's not like she actually knows anything about these things.]

[fanstheflame]

... That's East. [he can't help but smile] You point the tent that way, you're going to get the sun right in your face come morning.

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Shit. She laughs, grinning sheepishly and shrugging]

Is this the part when I should tell you that I only went camping once in my life when I was, like, 9?

[fanstheflame]

You can, but it's okay. I know not everyone's used to living like this. [he starts unpacking the canvas]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She watches him. She'd offer to help but she honestly doesn't know what to do with it]

Yeah there really isn't much camping in suburbia.

[fanstheflame]

Suburbia? Is that the name of the town you live in?

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She laughs]

No, no. The name is Paradise Hills. It's a smaller town right outside a big city called Phoenix. We're considered the suburbs of Phoenix - thus Suburbia.

[fanstheflame]

[give him a minute]

So a suburb is ... another word for a "smaller town"? Does that mean "suburbia" is a nickname for a suburb?

[eat_me_beat_me]

Well... a smaller town on the outskirts of a big city but yeah. [she laughs] And suburbia is more of an insulting way to call a suburb because people are weird in the suburbs. Like all the houses look exactly the same and shit.

[fanstheflame]

Oh. [he's finally starting to get it, as he sets up the tent] ... So you didn't like living where you did, then?

[pompous_today]

[For Simon, the trip had been rather uneventful. Despite not being an outdoorsy type, he and his family had gone camping (and he and River had slept inside a tent in the yard) enough times to where he had little trouble getting things set up. Of course, the tents were far more low-tech than he was used to, but it wasn't nearly as bad as he'd expected.

That task done, he stood back and blew out a breath, wiping his forehead before sitting down to inspect his med kit for the dozenth time.]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Once their tent had been set up, Nora found a nice place to sit. She doesn't want to be right by the fire but she's not going to be moving too far away from everyone, either. She sits down on the ground with her back against a tree, pulling one of her knees up to her chest. She pulls a red commonplace notebook out of her bag and starts to write.]