Catch-All Log (Open and Closed TLs)

[nadine_he_loves]

WHO: Nadine Cross, Others
WHAT: Various, including care package assembly, search and rescue quest, open prompts
WHERE: Cadens and Libertas
WHEN: September
WARNINGS: Potential gore/other aftermath stuff in quest thread, drug use, will add as needed



[General catch-all for September, specific starters in top-levels below!]

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[nadine_he_loves]

Nadine's moving out of the way for Dean and Jo and into the open even as she's giving the word, already getting out of the path and opening her bag to pull out what she'll need to stitch the woman up. Best to save Jayce's magic for times it's needed more desperately, she knows how tiring it can be to cast spell after spell.

"I'll get this one patched up, it's bad but it's not so bad it can't be stitched and bandaged and good to go. I've got almost unlimited sutures, you don't have unlimited strength." This said to Jayce, voicing her opinion. There are a dozen rolls of surgical thread in her kit.

"If you can try and keep her still and as calm as possible?"

No matter how they spread their energies between the four of them, they're going to be exhausted by the end of the day. From either physical or magical exertion, or both.

[hextechhead]

Jayce is ready to help the woman out when they heave and he sweeps her up as easily as he did the man. His healing magic may end up exhausted by the end of the day, but he's still got the arms. He manages to move them as quickly as he can out of the possibly collapsing area over to where Nadine went to keep smart and safe. He sets the woman down gently in front of her.

"Get out of there," he says to the other two, although he assumes they're smart enough to do that on their own. Which becomes very helpful when only a few seconds later, Jo's eye is completely correct that once they're moved, it starts to come down.

They saved the two people, but this was still their home, and now it is rubble. It is difficult for Jayce not to see that in the way they look at it, grateful to be alive, but there is pain there too. Jayce nods to Nadine and gently puts a hand on the woman's back. "It's going to be okay, Nadine here is one of the best medics you could ask for, ma'am."

[tobeclosetohim]

There's another look toward Dean when Nadine is out, and Jayce says he's ready. A grim readiness, even though the result is all but spelled out across eroded walls around and what's left of the dilapidated ceiling above them. It will start giving as soon as they undo the last column of support in the whole place.

He starts to count, and she pushes in, lifting. At first, it's an ominous groan from the ceiling above the part of the wall their shifts; then it bleeds into creaking, coming from all around them. Which is about one second before the cracking, and things are beginning to collapse toward them, crashing into the ground and every other point where gravity wins the war against balance.

"Go, go, go." This at Jayce, and the woman he's dragging out, and Dean, and herself.

Everyone needs out that exit as soon as possible, and Jo yanks the shovel back, headed in the same direction as the other two had gone. Still looking back to where Dean was before she could let herself get that far. There's debris from a cracked, fallen something-or-other that slams her shoulder, but though she grabs from her shoulder, it doesn't slow her down once Dean's there with her.

[righteously]

Oh, yeah. This bitch is coming down.

The second it looks like Jayce is clear, Dean's moving out after. Rather, he's moving out deliberately behind Jo, who he immediately crowds as the roof begins to collapse. He's there towering over her a good head taller (and practically twice as wide at the shoulders), a firm guiding hand at the small of her back urging her on, his physicality engineered to try and keep the falling carpentry from cracking her skull open — which is all well and good, but apparently it ain't quite enough for his subconscious.

As soon as the debris starts dropping in his peripheral vision, the wings come out mindlessly and on instinct. A mass of white feathers arches up high over her head like a god damn fluffy umbrella, shielding them both as they haul two metric tons of ass straight out the door.

Once they're clear, those wings fold into his back again and disappear as though they never were. Dean hardly even registers it, barely realizes he did it — he's too preoccupied with catching his breath and whirling around to watch from a safe fifteen paces away as the structure fully collapses in a near-deafening cacophany of dust.

After a heavy pause, he mutters under his breath, "Sure hope they didn't have a cat."

If they did... adios, Mr. Whiskers.

[nadine_he_loves]

Nadine is focused on her task, aware of the collapse behind them but unable to turn to look. She's working on stitching the wound, going as quickly as possible. Thank god Jayce was able to help with the blood flow. It makes it easier. And sutures are one of her specialties. Nadine had mastered stitching wounds long before she ever set foot inside the Cadens Academy of Medicine.

But they'd gotten the survivors out, and they'd made it out themselves. It's good, starting out strong. It won't last, she's not naïve, but it's good to start with a win. They can hold on to this, when they need to.

"And you're all sewn up." A small smile is directed to the woman she's just finished stitching up. "We're going to radio one of the retrieval teams, and they're going to come and take you both to one of the medical tents in a safer area. They'll take care of you."

Insofar as care can be given. Few things help with the loss of home and all worldly possessions.

"Everybody good?" Mostly meaning Jo and Dean, who had been closest to the collapse when it all came down.

[hextechhead]

Jayce's attention goes from Nadine straight to the building, concerned when he hears it going down and steps toward there, since Jo and Dean don't seem to be out yet. But they are hurrying out and he sees those wings, eyes widening slightly. Though he's seen many things that are strange to him, so he assumes that is simply something about Dean he didn't know before. He has wings, and they seem very good for defense, good to know.

Then his attention goes to the house that is fully down now and he sees the faces of the people they saved. They're alive, and glad about that, but there's grief too, at the rubble that was their home. His heart goes out to them and he knows this is just the start. They saved these two, but they won't be able to save anyone. Jayce is soft-hearted so he tells himself to steel his spine for what's coming next.

For now though he takes the radio and tells them where they are, being fairly good at knowing latitude and longitude. The radio is working just fine but he's ready to fix it if need be. "Help is on the way."