what do you call a lie from a skeleton? a fibula (august catch-all)

[skelepun]

CHARACTERS: Sans + Errybody (OTA + Closed)
LOCATION: All around the ship
DATE: Immediate aftermath of the mission + period of downtime aboard Ximlia
CONTENT: Catch-all log for post-mission feelings and general happenings!
WARNINGS: warts and all portrayal of alcoholism, some existential dread, you know the drill. any more specific warnings will be listed below the cut in the thread descriptions:


(( Pick your poison! All top levels are in the comments below, but you can click the links from the entry menu as well.

These are in rough order from directly after the mission onward. I scrutinized the locations page very closely, so feel free to refer to the map and info there if you need any additional context! ))

Sunlight Room (night) | OT1 (first come first serve) - A few hours after So-Yeon's death, their arrival back aboard Ximilia, and Sans' conversation with Viveca; Sans gets absolutely wasted for the first time in a long time and he's hating every second of it. He may be kind of an asshole so buyer beware...

Infirmary | Closed to Ratchet - Next morning; Sans is hungover af and goes into the infirmary looking for anything to ease his skullache. Winds up running into someone he'd really rather not look in the eye.

Kitchen | Closed to Shinjiro - Later that day; still in hangover land and emotionally wrung out, Sans' efforts to find food that won't make him queasy lead him to an angsty teen.

Wandering Around The Ship | OTA - That night; despite being profoundly exhausted, Sans can't get to sleep. He tries a few different tactics to remedy that aka there a few different spots to run into him. Hug a skeleton, if you dare.

Common Living Area | Closed to Finn - The second day back on Ximilia post-mission; Sans seeks out the other person who's been on his mind a lot since coming back.

Simulation Room | OT4 (first four only) - Sometime between this mission and the next; Sans is going in and out of the simulation room over and over again for reasons that are Unclear. We take a break from the abject angst on this one, promise.

Wildcard - Got another idea? Poke me at safelybeds or just comment and I'll roll w/it!

(( I've written some of these starters in prose, but feel free to swap to action brackets! I couldn't care less 8D ))

Comments

Wandering Around The Ship | OTA | evening (first day back)

[skelepun]

Imagine what the people back home would say if they knew Sans the freakin' Skeleton couldn't get to sleep. There'd be riots in the streets. Insomnia wasn't his thing, y'know?

Which, unfortunately, meant he didn't have a damn clue what to do about it.

A - At the Door to the Northeast Wing

[ The floor outside the large doors sealed doors isn't comfortable, but he's gotten lucky with mysterious doors before. Maybe whoever was on the other side of this one had some sheep counting tips for him.

Passers by will see him with his hood drawn up, rapping a hand against the door in a steady knock knock, muttering something under his breath that sounds kinda like.

Uh.

Knock knock jokes. ]

B - Common Living Area

[ Sans is pulling books off the shelf, flipping through the pages with an appraising expression before setting them down in an untidy stack by his feet.

Whatever he's looking for, it seems like the only thing he's accomplishing is making a big mess. ]

C - Living Quarters

[ Shocking as it may be, Sans never bothered to stake permanent claim on a room. Each night before the mission was an exercise in trial and error, skulking around in search of unlocked doors and empty beds.

Things were different, now that he was back. For one, his fellow orbers had graduated from suspicious strangers to people I kinda don't wanna steal a bed from. And second, things were starting to feel a little... y'know, permanent.

For better or worse.

It's late -- you may even be asleep, or close to it -- when there's a knock at your door. Answer it? ]

C

[bossily]

[It's late, but she's not asleep. When there's a knock she trudges her way over to open the door, and doesn't look surprised to see Sans there. She just assumes he knows where she's at and has come for a visit. Because why wouldn't he want to do that??]

I hope you brought a blanket. There's only one in here.

B

[retributioning]

That looks efficient.

[ renfri's tone is perfectly dry, which of course means that it looks, well, the exact opposite of efficient... not that she's offering to help, or even asking him what it is he's looking for.

what she does, however, is crouch down and pick one of the books sans has set down (Common and Uncommon Butterflies and Their Characteristics, with a highlighted note of NOW WITH PICTURES IN COLOR!) and starts to flip through it. ]

... huh. Not bad. [ she slips the book to a pouch she keeps under her cloak. ]

A.

[spoilers]

[ They've only had one conversation, but it's hard not to notice an animate skeleton living among them. Even with his hood up, there's little question who it must be, and River has always been of a curious nature. She hovers above him, leaning against the door. ]

Who's there?