Greater Analyze

[solitarysoul]

Who: Levi and Open
What: Stuff. Maybe some things
When: Throughout February
Where: In Milton and in the woods close to town

Content Warnings: Levi's general content warning post, for reference. One prompt contains the possibility of a lot of those coming up. More specifics at the prompt

Marksmanship
A few days after putting up his note, Levi has set up a little row of bottles and cans on a fence near the gas station. He's got a shotgun, a handgun (his back up gun) and a rifle (not his) so any prospective students can try them out. None are currently loaded, since ammo is limited and he's decided to go over form/basics before shooting.

If anyone shown interest in his lessons he'll be around adjusting things or gathering trash from around the gas station for people to shoot at. He's brought his bow and arrows, so occasionally he can be found doing his own target practice with that.


Bob and Weave
Earlier Rorschach had managed to find and set up a boxing bag in a garage. He even gave Levi some pointers, but now Levi's back on his own. He has his oversized coat off and his rifle and satchel resting against one of the walls and Levi is alternating between practicing his form vs the air and punching the bag. Aside from the lesson Rorschach gave him, he got a few boxing tips during those last few days in Prehevil, but he's still pretty new at it. Why not come by and chat? He may be able to pass on a few pointers even at this early a stage in his education.


Undergrowth Awareness
CW: PTSD, Child soldiers, trench warfare, death and gore, body horror, ??? (will add to subject lines if others come up)

Levi's not really sure what possessed him to eat that mushroom. Finding a lot of them seemed good, he started picking them so he could bring them back into town for easier access. But they all looked so good, he just had to have one.
He really wishes Olivia was here, though, she could have told him which ones not to eat. Under normal conditions, at least. Because as it turned out the one he picked as a snack was a horrible choice.

He doesn't notice anything at first, then it was just small things he could try to avoid looking at. (Because if something was wrong with him, he needed to not be in the woods.) He almost gets back to town before it all becomes too much. Before the sights and sounds and smells of the front line trenches and Prehevil intrude too much for him to continue.

The mushrooms have been forgotten, dropped on the ground in a little trail that will lead to Levi himself. He's huddled under a tree and clutching his rifle like the security blanket it is.


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Undergrowth

[desperate_times_right]

Since discovering her new power and its attendant hunger, Chloe has been spending a lot of time in the forest herself.

She often sees Levi in passing, out hunting on his own, but this is the first time she's seen him looking like this. Was that thing that got the spacewoman back again?

“Hey, kid. You good?”

[solitarysoul]

Levi vaguely tracks Chole's movements as she approaches him but startles when she speaks. He starts to raise the rifle but stops himself. "C-chole? W-what are you doing here?"

He doesn't not sound okay, clearly having some sort of panic attack.

[desperate_times_right]

Levi looks a little spooked, which is weird. She didn't know he did that.

“Out hunting. Same as you, I'd wager. What's going on?”

[solitarysoul]

"Hunting?" He furrows his brow and looks around. The landscape resolves itself into a forest, but he takes it as a separate one. "I-its not safe here. Y-you should g-go...uh..."

No, if they were by Prehevil town wasn't safe. Were they in Prehevil? He doesn't remember getting there, but he didn't remember getting to Milton and he's pretty sure he was in the trenches a few moments ago. He can still hear the artillery fire, but he can sometimes still hear that in quiet times normally.

[desperate_times_right]

“Yeah. Like, for food?” It kind of feels like they're having two different conversations here. “Do you need help to get home?”

[solitarysoul]

He stands up, still maintaining a death grip on his rifle like he may need to use it at any time. He keeps it pointed at the ground, though.

"I don't have a--you mean Milton? Um. I-i not sure the way from here."

He may not be seeing the same trees as she is.

[desperate_times_right]

“Yeah, Milton. Why, you going somewhere else?” He seems really confused. “Are you hurt or anything?”

[solitarysoul]

"N-no! I'm fine, I'm fit. Everything is fine. Really." He looks around for a moment then back to Chole. "We can move."

[desperate_times_right]

“Are you sure? You must be freezing, sitting out here.” Maybe she should try and get a warm drink in him.

Marksmanship

[meadqueen]

During some of her free time, Randvi makes her way to check out Levi’s lessons. It doesn't hurt to be able to make use of anything that might be available.

“Levi, hello. I saw that you're offering lessons?”

[solitarysoul]

He looks up from rearranging the targets and offers Randvi a smile. "Yeah! A-after what happened. Um, you know. But I though it might be a good idea if more people knew how to handle a gun incase they need to."

So they don't do stupid things, like shoot at the sky.

[meadqueen]

“It's the weapon that I've seen you carrying before, isn't it? I don't know much about them.” Or anything, really.

[solitarysoul]

He nods. "Mine is a rifle, but there area lot of different kinds of firearms--ah, that's another word for 'gun.' Most of the guns here are just three types, though. They're all pretty good beginner guns, though. If someone wants to learn how to use one."

[meadqueen]

“Right now we need any edge we can get, I think.” A weapon likely won't do much against that horrible creature, but it's not the only threat they face here. “Are these common weapons in the future? Can you show me?”

...I know next to nothing about guns <<;

[solitarysoul]

"They are where...uh, when? Whatever. Where I came from. Ammunition is limited here, since we can't make it as easily as arrows. But, um," he's kept the spare guns next to the fence the targets are on so he heads over to there and picks up the handgun.

"This one's a revolver. They're easy to wield and usually only take one hand to fire."

[meadqueen]

[Compared to the one Levi habitually carries with him, this one is surprisingly small.]

What type of projectile does it use, a stone?

[solitarysoul]

They use bullets. They're, um, little metal things and the gun uses explosive powder to send them flying really far and fast. So there's quite a bit of kick back when the gun fires. This one should have the lowest of the one I have out.

Undergrowth Awareness

[aetherialshackles]

While Erich is slowly turning into a forager of some kind, trying to find any way to be useful in the small community that's forming, he's not a very he's one hundred percent only focusing on whatever he can find on books or other people have shown him. His incredibly thin body is hidden by the large black robe that's pretty much stained and smelly at this point, because he can't separate himself from it, but he's... still moving. Someone has been bringing him meat now and then and he's very grateful for that, because his alternative diet is... pretty much bark. And whatever is in town when newcomers arrive.

Point is, the mushrooms immediately catch his attention and he's quick to gather them with curiosity, taking some time to sketch them on his notebook, and gathering them as he proceeds. Of couse it's all dropped on the snowey ground as soon as he spots Levi and he's quick to approach- not only sitting like that will probably lead to hypothermia, but- that's not the only thing wrong, there, there's something in Levi's expression that puts him in high alert.

"Hey... friend?" he asks, kneeling at some distance, fully aware that the rifle is a dangerous weapon and merely trying to enstablish eye contact with him.

[solitarysoul]

Sadly for Erich, Levi has some bad history with men in black robes. As the other man nears he raises the rifle, but when Erich speaks he hesitates. He knew that voice, and it wasn't one of the priests.

"E-erich?"

[aetherialshackles]

He should probably stop gathering only black clothes where he can, should he? But the young man can't do much in that sense right now. He can, at least, sound as reassuring as possible though as he raises both hands in front of himself when he realizes the other is having a panicked response to his presence.

"Yes. It's me. Erichthonios." Now, considering he followed a trail of mushrrooms there and his general knowledge of flora and fauna, he can at least guess what the issue is... right? His tone softens greatly and he speaks to him like he would with a child. "You will get a cold if you stay out here like this, you know?"

[solitarysoul]

He lowers the rifle and takes one hand off of it, but that hand still hovers near it. "E-erich...from...we're in Milton?"

There was certainly enough snow, but he doesn't quite feel the cold at the moment.

[aetherialshackles]

"Erichthonios from the Pandaemonium. And we're in the one and only Milton, yes..." The only place with any goddarn person in that forsaken land, as far as he knows. "What are you doing out here?"

He would like to ask him what he's seeing, if anything, but he hopes that a slower approach will help the other focus more on what's actually around them.

[solitarysoul]

"From the...what?" He shakes his head. That wasn't important right now. Right now he was...what had he been out here for..?

"Uh...I, uh, f-found some mushrooms. I was going to bring them into town." He is not currently holding mushrooms. Huh. "I don't know what happened to them."

He tries to keep his attention on Erich but it keeps darting to other places. Sometimes its a branch moving in the wind, sometimes its an animal nearby, but many times its absolutely nothing.

[aetherialshackles]

... has he never formally introduced himself? It hardly matters. He wants to... do his best on the ongoing issue, even if the priority probably is bringing him inside a building to keep warm.

"Right. I think I found them. Some of them at least." Good to know he has to steer clear of them- they may perhaps good used as sedative in case of need? He doesn't know and won't think too hard about it for now. "You almost made it to town. I was going there as well, trying to see if anyone can teach me how to patch my coat."

Small conversations, just normal things, trying to ground the other. He can't see whatever the other is seeing around the place but he's ready to face eventual changes in mood.

[solitarysoul]

He may have, Levi's a bit to distracted to remember if so. It takes him a few moments to respond, he'd gotten clothes patched up here before...it takes him a moment to remember who it was.

"T...there's a man from the ship. Y-you know? The ship that got stuck in the a-artic. O-or something? H-he sewed up my pants leg before. M-maybe someone else. I don't know."