hadriel | 003 | Video + Action

[ The video starts out shaking, the view beginning with a brief shot of Sharon's stained boots (brilliant red spatters) and the dirt floor beneath, but it's soon shifted up. The focus settles on a fire engine red box, nearly a foot in length, that rests against the wall of one of the buildings. The lid has a strange symbol painted on it, a triple moon, and after she's certain people have gotten a good look, she kicks open the box, lid flopping back. The workmanship on the box is shoddy at best, but that's not what you're supposed to be noticing.

No, what you're supposed to be noticing is that the rectangular box is filled with a variety of items. There appears to be cloth, canned goods, a blade, and a canteen stuffed within, among other things. ]

There are a handful of these caches throughout the city. You spot the symbol [ She kicks the box again, and it rattles as the lid falls shut, the symbol back into frame. ] You'll find a box nearby. In it should be enough goodies to help you survive if you're ever caught off guard when the shit hits the fan here. There's also a healing trinket in each one, thanks to Kate and Carlisle, along with instructions on how to use it.

[ She pulls back, lifting the camera up to show another of the triple moon symbols on the wall in red paint. It's not large, but the bright red is enough to catch an eye or two. She doesn't turn the camera to her face as she continues to speak, leaving everyone to enjoy paint drying. ]

You use something from it, you put it back when you can. I won't be doing rounds to check on these things often, so if you fuck someone over by being a dick, that's on you. [ This is obviously the perfect place to end the post. No goodbye. No sign off. Yeah. She's good at this. ]

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[ And, for those who wish to encounter Sharon in person, she can be found throughout the city, painting the symbol on various walls, about eye level for those of an average height. She may also be found stocking any one of the red boxes. So, come over, have a chat, or criticize her on her shoddy workmanship. ]

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I didn't know you were a carpenter. [ Comes the light, amused quip from Cecily. ]

I don't know if you've noticed this, but those boxes kind of suck. [ so no she is not a carpenter. she's a... puts things together and hopes it works person. ]

Don't undervalue yourself; I think they're lovely.

[ Trying to stifle a grin, here. ]

Oh, yeah, they're lovely. [ A roll of her eyes. ] People should be lining up just to see my carpentry skills.

[ The hinges were the worst part and she may or may not have raided the abandoned buildings and just stole them off the doors. ]

You know, you could make more and give them as offerings to each of the gods.

[ working so hard to keep a straight face!! ]

And I fill them with shit and set them on fire and leave them outside the temple doors, right?

[ Look, if she's giving anything, it's burning piles of shit. ]

That is how you do it.

[ Apparently?? You modern kids and your dog shit fire bombs. ]

Of course, you would need a lot of shit for that. I don't want to think about where we would get it.

There's this book in my world titled: Everbody Poops.

You see where I'm going?

I'm trying very hard not to.

[ ... ]

That's a book? Andraste's holy knickers, your world is much more twisted than I thought.

It's a book for children! You know, teach them that taking a shit is totally normal! [ She will totally admit that it's... it's really fucking weird, but there are some kids out there that benefit from it. She guesses. She'd read it once in the children's library and had been thoroughly unimpressed (duh everybody poops). ]

But if you think that's twisted, oh, boy, I wish we had internet access here because I could show you a whole new world of nasty twisted shit.

[ ..... ]

Dare I ask what internet is?

[ Fuuuck how does one explain a thing like the internet? ]

It's, uh, it's like the phones, except an entire world of people has access to it. And anything put on it can never really be erased. Some people use it to communicate long distance with loved ones overseas, some share pieces of their lives with strangers, other use it to discuss ways to cure disease or poverty.

But it's mostly just used for cat videos and porn.

Lots and lots of porn.

[ .......... ]

'Cat videos'... and porn.

[ Eventually, she bursts out laughing, looking delighted. ]

And I've been missing that this entire time? Oh, what a tragedy!

[ She laughs, too. ]

Yeah, you've missed some real gems out there, though I think you got the gist of the internet when Rage did that one thing... uh... with the phones? Remember?

[ People were singing and linking pictures they couldn't possibly have gotten. Ah, what a time to be alive. ]

... Oh, no. It isn't like that, is it?

[ The messages she had sent to Cullen had been absurd. In all the worst ways. ]

[ Sharon laughs genuinely. ]

Not all the time, but kind of, yeah. It's a mix of everything. People send messages to the wrong person or the person they shouldn't anymore but do when they're drunk despite that. It's an absolute mess. It can show off both the best and the worst that humanity has to offer.

I've seen the best and worst of humanity without these devices, thank you.

[ Since she's none-too-talented with them, she prefers to just... keep the damn thing in a drawer. ]

I admit they can be convenient, but at what cost?

The convenience outweighs the cost, I think. We can move vast amounts of information between us quickly, contact one another when endangered, play games, write notes or novels, and, best of all, we can talk to the gods without having to enter their stupid fucking temples.

Mm-hmm, whatever you say. I won't have you crying to me when you inevitably suffer the same, humiliating fate that I did.

[ smooch ]

Hey, I'm smart enough not to write lovey-dovey goop to my significant other over text!

I don't think I wrote anything that awful.

[ Maker, she hopes not...... ]

You should go back to that month, read through some of the shit you guys said. It was fantastic and if I had a printer, I'd print it off and frame it for you. [ to be fair, it was a Rage event of memetic proportions and nothing Cecily texted back then really counts, but she's allowed to tease her best friend. can't stop, won't stop. ]

[ oh andraste's holy, flaming ass ]

I will absolutely end you if you ever find a way to do that.

I guess it's a good thing we don't have a printer here. [ c: it's a good thing she doesn't like to ask the gods for things because it would be fun to slip her conversation with Cullen under her house door one day and run off. ]

Thank the Maker for that.

[ sharon PLS ]

Are we finished here?

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