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[theweakhavepurpose]

[The video opens on a pile of wood, sticks, shrubbery, and chunks of what might have been siding, all piled into a very obvious pyramid surrounded by rocks.]

So everything has sucked recently. Back home in Montana, when shit got rough we'd always get together and have a big bonfire. Get drunk, make s'mores, all that stuff. It didn't make things better but at least you forgot about it for a little while.

Worth a try right?

[He sounds like he's honestly asking. He's trying really hard to be positive for once.]

I've got some graham crackers, chocolate, and other things for roasting. No marshmallows though so if anyone wants to come through in the clutch it would be appreciated.

I'm lighting this up tonight at dusk, so if you want in, be there. I've only got so much to burn and it might not last more than an hour or two.

((OOC: Feel free to use this like a log and make top levels and do action things. Go forth and get some bonfire mingling on!))

Comments

[theweakhavepurpose]

[He so would have and they both know it.]

How'd uh.. last week go?

[You know the whole.. explosion of Fear's temple and all that.]

[itsnotaonesie]

[SIGH well yeah that's a good place to start, Peter guesses. Not that he's going to give a straight answer, but that's how teens do]

Easily one of the worst weeks of my life. Kinda did a lot of stuff I wish I could take back.

...Sorry about your wall, by the way.

[theweakhavepurpose]

[Well that's not great. At all.]

The worst huh?

[Considering what he knows about Peter that could either mean he killed someone or that he accidentally stepped on the tail of a puppy.]

It worked out. I'm using a lot of that for kindling now. So in a way you helped with the bonfire.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Either thing is equally horrible. But no he totally killed someone.]

It was pretty bad. But uh. Nice bonfire. Glad I could accidentally help.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Even when you don't mean to you're still a boy scout.

[Or a friendly neighborhood spider, whatevs.]

This uh.. really bad week. Did it involve you doing more than storming through people walls and houses?

[itsnotaonesie]

[I mean Pratt isn't wrong. Peter makes this little half-chuckle, half-snorting noise like yeah that sounds like him.]

Kind of a lot more, yeah.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Ah.

[He can think of a lot of really bad things, but he can't really see Peter doing any of them.]

You didn't try and get Maine out of his armor did you?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter can't see Peter doing any of them either, AND YET.]

Psh, I wish.

[Then this would have just been horrible awkward and not horrible oh god look at all the blood.]

No, I hurt people. Like, bad.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Ah.

[As someone who has also maimed and killed his friends, he feels like he should have some words of wisdom here. But unfortunately his way of dealing with it was to become a catatonic shell and that's not really helpful.]

You know it was a god-thing right? Sometimes you do stuff you wouldn't have otherwise, it's not your fault.

[itsnotaonesie]

[siiIIIGH I mean Pratt isn't wrong but also Peter is a teenager so naturally he has to be difficult about everything.]

I-- yeah, it was a god-thing, but like... Like, I can't let myself be influenced by them. I need to be stronger than that, because if I'm not, people get hurt.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Strength is definitely not the issue here.

[He's the expert on that man, listen to him.]

I don't think anyone would hold it against you here. But if you wanna talk about it.. I'm not going anywhere for a while. Gotta make sure the fire doesn't get out of control.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Maybe Peter will just chill and listen. Maybe.]

I mean, I guess. People are pretty cool around here. I'm not really sure I know how to talk about it, though.

[theweakhavepurpose]

The other option is to bottle it up forever and that's working out great for me.

[Look at him, he's got jokes.]

If it makes you feel any better during the event I ran face first into a railing and destroyed someones deck by falling into it like a complete moron.