snowblindrpg | [log] The worst convenience store in the world [closed]

Characters: Ritsu, Charles, Charlie, and Quark
Location P10, at the gas station
Date: Day 170, just before dusk
Summary: Taking shelter in a crappy gas station convenience store before night falls when suddenly, guests!
Warnings: Cursing, but that's all so far! Will update as needed.

It's sort of hard to figure out where to go when your only real instruction is Keep moving, but Ritsu heard enough chatter about a place called the "split tunnels" (and subsequent map drawings that... are honestly really confusing to decipher) so he decided at some point that yup, that sounds safe. Safer than sticking around in weird residential homes. Safer than that dilapidated school building. Safer than just being out in the open. Probably.

But damn, if this place wasn't huge, and damn, if he wasn't getting worried about his supplies. Ritsu's starting to wish he had gone into that weird school if it meant he could have stacked up on food, but then he saw a convenience store and, while it looked nothing like the ones back home, surely it had to have something.

But no. It was just a crappy convenience store.

At least it has a toilet. Well, if dusk was going to set eventually, he may as well hunker down for the night and try and sleep. The building is small and the abandoned pump area outside should provide decent noise alerts should anyone (anything) show up, too. It's not as... cozy as the abandoned homes with startlingly creepy decor, but at least he doesn't feel the overwhelming sense of dread of not knowing exactly who is responsible for said decor.

Then he hears the door open and scrambles to his feet, yanking a spoon out as he does out of pure instinct and please don't be a weird monster damn it he really doesn't want to be an obituary entry--

Oh, it's just other people. He lets out a shiver of a sigh. That was embarrassing.

"Sorry."

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Charles thinks he's got this whole snow-traveling thing down by now. He's finally got some boots, a shawl to put around his face, and some sunglasses to block the glare from the snow. He's also got his trusty hatchet, of course, which... Charlie has recently applied googly eyes to, but you know. Still very functional. And intimidating. Which is the important part.

He tries to take point while they explore around, since he'd prefer the other two don't get killed by something, and also he's got the longest legs, so he just kind of winds up ahead by default. So naturally, when they approach the gas station, he's the one in first.

As usual, he's cautious to the point of overdoing it, slowly leveraging the door open, peering in, glancing side to side- shit, there's something there. Charles steps in fully, not wanting to be caught halfway through the door, and raises the hatchet in both hands... and lowers it almost immediately.

Jesus Christ, it's just a kid. A kid holding a spoon, which is... weird... but he'll just assume that he didn't have anything else to fight with.

Charles steps in further to let the other two enter behind him.

"Haven't seen you before." He looks the kid up and down. Nope, hasn't seen that face, he doesn't think. Has he heard that voice though? Maybe. "You one of the new ones?"

...What the hell is that, a hatchet? Why does it have eyes on it?

Then again, Ritsu's the one holding a spoon - which he quickly slides back into his pocket once he realizes it. That was embarrassing.

...Doesn't he know this voice? He's pretty sure, but he's listened to a good number of audio and video posts in the past few days. It's hard to pinpoint it. And of course he's barely seen anyone these past couple days, though he's not sure if he's ever seen him in a video, either. Then again, Ritsu isn't the best with names and faces. Maybe this will be useful.

"I am." There's a moment of hesitation before he allows, "Ritsu Kageyama. And you are...?"

Charlie stumbles in behind Charles, blinking as his vision adjusts to the dark gas station. It takes his eye forever to switch between stuff being bright and stuff being dark, which is a bummer in this place.

Charles is talking to someone, though, and that someone (Ritsu, apparently?) is talking back. Charlie can just make out a blurry silhouette... Is that a spoon? Cool. He waves the hockey stick he's been touting around like a fancy wizard staff.

And of course Charles' first instinct is to lead with the hatchet. Goddammit, dude. Charlie wiggles a hand at him to get him to put the thing down, even though he already has.

"Hey, man. Dunno if I've seen you around before. I'm Charlie. This is Charles and Quark." He gestures at the other two respectively. You guys totally wanted to be introduced, right?

It's a parade of guys with increasingly less intimidating weapons as Quark slams in at Charlie's heels, nearly running into him when he realizes the others have stopped and are talking to someone. He has a knife in his pocket, but since he doesn't plan on doing any fighting himself, he never bothered to take it out.

He beams at Ritsu as he catches the introduction, waving too. He was just in time to notice the spoon, and can't stop himself from laughing a little. "What were you going to do with that?" Even though Ritsu's put it away, with all the tact of a child Quark jams his finger in the direction of the pocket it was stashed into.

[log] The worst convenience store in the world [closed]

here we go at last yeehaw

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oh my god I'm so sorry