[closed] january quest times

[lightkeeping]

Who: Aloy, Michael
When: questy times
Where: Solvunn, Secondary Settlement
What: ...questy times
Warnings: this big shark that has its mouth open all the time

[Some (but not all) of the reason why Aloy has decided to take up residence outside of the settlements is a not-so-subtle excuse to avoid farm chores. She’s a hunter and survivalist, not a gardener, and she’d much rather spend her time defending civilians from monsters or otherwise exploring the surrounding wilderness. That said, she’s a curious person by nature, and when she hears about the shark, she knows she has to go see it for herself. The only creatures she’s ever seen of this size are particularly deadly machines, and those aren’t really creatures at all.

So the shark is impressive, yes. Getting roped into chores while she’s trying to get a look at the thing, not so much. Still, she’s as incorrigibly helpful as she is curious. If there’s a task to be done, and she can expedite it in any way, Aloy will do it.

Even if it’s greasing up vines (???). Even if it’s gathering up unfortunate sea creatures and tossing them back into the water. She figures the latter is more suited to her talents (lifting heavy things). It does not, however, leave her arms free for much else.]

Hey! [Aloy doesn’t particularly care whose attention she gets—the nearest person to her will do. There’s a pile of detritus currently impeding her path, but she quite literally has her hands full with some kind of spiny-looking fish that seems much to large for someone of her size to be carrying comfortably.] You want to get that out of the way for me?

[She’s a little busy with this fish, thanks.]

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[lightkeeping]

[Aloy shrugs. She's spent most of her life adjusting, often to worse revelations than this. What stings the most is knowing how needed she is back home, separated from her friends and her duty. She can't even begin to guess how she might reverse the summoning ritual. For now, she'll do whatever she can to help here, and protect the settlement.

Even if it means a job like this. They could probably continue at it forever, if the shark keeps luring in sea creatures, but she does prefer this to whatever they're doing with the vines.]

Come on. Let's see what else they've got for us.

[familysucks]

['Let's see,' she says, as if the scene further up the beach isn't going to be more odd-looking fish for them to throw back. Maybe she's an optimist.

Though he'd be able to sympathize with being cut off from one's duties, Michael has no home to return to, so far as he is aware. His presence here makes no difference to a dead universe. He may as well make himself of use in Solvunn, even if what they ask of him is inconsequential compared to the kind of responsibilities he's used to shouldering. He follows after Aloy without comment.]