[ So... Argenti lunged, something kicked the Express warp system into overdrive, and everything went wrong from there.
It's Caelus's own fault for chasing after the knight after realizing that something went wrong, but one way or another, he got caught up in the malfunctioned warp, and now he's stuck with Argenti on some other planet entirely. His reception is spotty out here. He's managed to make enough contact with the Express crew that he knows they escaped the nightmare beetles just fine, and everyone's okay; it's just that they're all stuck looking for him and Argenti now, and that's a problem.
The planet they're on doesn't seem so bad, though. It's not as cold as Jarilo-VI, or as futuristic as the Space Station and the Xianzhou Luofu; it actually appears to be largely uninhabited by humans, which is a little interesting. But he and Argenti have set up camp in what appears to be a lush forest, with relatively non-aggressive birds and bees and bears out in the woods. Their tent is by a riverbank, so they've got fresh, running water, and Argenti even managed to find his (overly fancy, if you asked Caelus) spacecraft, the One and Only, so they have some extra supplies.
(The engine's busted, though, so they can't use it to leave the planet. They're just going to have to wait and see if the Astral Express can pick up Caelus's SOS coordinates before his phone runs out of battery.
Mercifully, yes: the Trailblazer has a battery pack, and if that fails, he can use the juice out of his electric bat to charge his phone, too. Thank you, Herta, for the random Curio, the provenance of which he has never quite been able to get out of her.)
Anyway, they're surviving. It's less camping than glamping, since they're relatively comfortable in a lot of ways. If this goes on longer than a few weeks, Caelus might have to hunt a deer or something and figure out how to cook it, but they have plenty of creature comforts. Argenti has food in the One and Only's pantry, and also salt and pepper, so if he does have to hunt a deer they can at least season the meat, and for now, no animals are being harmed in the course of this thread. Argenti likes hard bread, so Caelus is buttering a thick, crusty slice for him while the knight is, uh... bathing in the river.
Does the redhead generate his own sparkles, or is that just the sun bouncing off the river's clear surface? Caelus wonders. Maybe he's staring for a bit too long at Argenti's naked body, but really, he's not currently entertaining lustful thoughts. He's really just wondering. Where do the sparkles come from? How does Argenti survive things that really ought to kill him? ]
Argenti, food's ready.
[ Caelus sets the bread down on a plate. Yes, they have plates, and a table, and chairs. Again: they're basically glamping. ]
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It's Caelus's own fault for chasing after the knight after realizing that something went wrong, but one way or another, he got caught up in the malfunctioned warp, and now he's stuck with Argenti on some other planet entirely. His reception is spotty out here. He's managed to make enough contact with the Express crew that he knows they escaped the nightmare beetles just fine, and everyone's okay; it's just that they're all stuck looking for him and Argenti now, and that's a problem.
The planet they're on doesn't seem so bad, though. It's not as cold as Jarilo-VI, or as futuristic as the Space Station and the Xianzhou Luofu; it actually appears to be largely uninhabited by humans, which is a little interesting. But he and Argenti have set up camp in what appears to be a lush forest, with relatively non-aggressive birds and bees and bears out in the woods. Their tent is by a riverbank, so they've got fresh, running water, and Argenti even managed to find his (overly fancy, if you asked Caelus) spacecraft, the One and Only, so they have some extra supplies.
(The engine's busted, though, so they can't use it to leave the planet. They're just going to have to wait and see if the Astral Express can pick up Caelus's SOS coordinates before his phone runs out of battery.
Mercifully, yes: the Trailblazer has a battery pack, and if that fails, he can use the juice out of his electric bat to charge his phone, too. Thank you, Herta, for the random Curio, the provenance of which he has never quite been able to get out of her.)
Anyway, they're surviving. It's less camping than glamping, since they're relatively comfortable in a lot of ways. If this goes on longer than a few weeks, Caelus might have to hunt a deer or something and figure out how to cook it, but they have plenty of creature comforts. Argenti has food in the One and Only's pantry, and also salt and pepper, so if he does have to hunt a deer they can at least season the meat, and for now, no animals are being harmed in the course of this thread. Argenti likes hard bread, so Caelus is buttering a thick, crusty slice for him while the knight is, uh... bathing in the river.
Does the redhead generate his own sparkles, or is that just the sun bouncing off the river's clear surface? Caelus wonders. Maybe he's staring for a bit too long at Argenti's naked body, but really, he's not currently entertaining lustful thoughts. He's really just wondering. Where do the sparkles come from? How does Argenti survive things that really ought to kill him? ]
Argenti, food's ready.
[ Caelus sets the bread down on a plate. Yes, they have plates, and a table, and chairs. Again: they're basically glamping. ]
But take your time. It's not like it's hot.