[log] Saltomons and the gang [closed]

[devoutish]

Characters: Alfie Solomons, Charlie Kelly, Emily Kaldwin, Royce Melborn, Stephen Strange, Tifa Lockhart
Location: building 43
Date: afternoon of 205 to morning of 206
Summary: problemas
Warnings: n/a; will edit if anything comes up

A standard two-story house with a basement. The first floor has a kitchen, living room, and dining room, while the second floor has two bedrooms and a bathroom. One of the chairs in the kitchen has been broken, with a leg missing, and pushed off into a corner out of the way. Another chair is broken in a more obvious way--it's missing a leg, too, but it looks like it was slammed against a doorway or something. There are scuff marks on the dining room floor. All of the furniture has been scattered about. The basement seems to have been converted into a veritable sports shrine. There's an old couch in front of a television stand that's empty of the large television that must have sat on it. The couch is missing a lot of its stuffing. The wall is covered in posters of various sports stars--none are people anyone would recognize, but the sports are: basketball and hockey. Even the area rug beneath the couch is a bold red and blue with the logo of the hockey team on it (an angry-looking goose, if you're curious). The TV stand in the basement looks like it was broken and then put back together. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, STEPHANIE BROWN, GREED, EDWARD ELRIC, DAY FORTY THREE, TRAVELLING NORTH." has been carved into one of the walls.

Comments

[thewarningafter]

[The irony is that Mr. Solomons now has a legitimate need for painkillers...but with supplies low and people fighting over them, Stephen keeps that thought to himself.]

It'd do you good to rest. Emily, too. You can shuttle back and forth between this house and the one next door to avoid the hallucinations.

[devoutish]

We've got a few days to go before those set in. It's four, five, six days before it gets to be a risk.

[thewarningafter]

You'd probably know that better than I would, but don't push it. Do you have enough food to get you through for a while?

[devoutish]

For now. I've got a bit over a week's worth.

[thewarningafter]

Good. Well, great.

[It's not great. He can't give this man any meaningful measure of help.]

I'm going to get out of here before lockdown, so if there's anything else you need, now's the time to ask. Five's too many in one house.

[devoutish]

Royce will put up a fuss, but he's got a broken arm. If you can talk him around to getting it looked at...

[Alfie would be pleased.]

[thewarningafter]

Won't let me touch it. He said he'd let me walk Tifa through splinting it for him, though.

[devoutish]

Good. We've done our best, but we don't have the supplies you do.

[thewarningafter]

I could've walked you through splinting it over the network days ago if I'd known.

[Checking in on the two with broken ribs, yeah, that had to be done in person. Stephen would just like to point out that their silence on the network about those injuries made things worse for Royce.]

[devoutish]

You couldn't have given us things over the network, mate. We know how to splint broken bones. It was the supplies that would have been useful, yeah?

[thewarningafter]

Gee, make a guy feel like a glorified pack mule, why don't you.

[He is a medical professional, Alfie, not your supply runner.]

[devoutish]

Being useful and having useful things is a very good thing here, Doctor.

[thewarningafter]

Yeah, well, I've heard about what happens to people who have useful things around here.

[Stephen never was very good at holding his tongue.]

[devoutish]

[Alfie doesn't even blink.]

Have you?

[thewarningafter]

Don't tell me you don't read the news.

[devoutish]

I think if I was gonna steal from you, mate, it would have happened the moment you walked through the door.

[thewarningafter]

You think I brought the good stuff with me?

[devoutish]

You came here to treat four patients, mate. I fucking hope you did.

[thewarningafter]

I'm kidding.

[He's not entirely kidding.]

[devoutish]

And I'm not really planning to steal from you.

[thewarningafter]

[Stephen's not so convinced Alfie could take anything from him right now anyway. He'll have enough sense to keep at least that one to himself, though.]

Well, great. Glad we're on the same page.

[devoutish]

Yeah. And I do appreciate your stopping by, mate.

[thewarningafter]

Of course.

[Of course he came, he means.]

[devoutish]

And taking care of our girl.

[thewarningafter]

Yeah.

You make sure she doesn't overexert herself.