making my way downtown — ota

[ravkas]

Who: nikolai and you.
What: hanging out making good and bad decisions.
When: october.
Where: around town.

Content Warnings: always applicable for nikolai: potential violence, gore, animal death, bloodlust, maybe cannibalism but we're not there yet, drug abuse, just general darkness because why deal with your problems when you can make jokes about them.

— use what you got.

[ even with a fairly grievous injury, nikolai cannot keep still. luckily, he’s aided by the treasures he’s found in the home he’s claimed for himself, a spacious house facing the edge of town on one side, the snowy woods on the other. the perfect blend of community and privacy.

apparently, someone that lived here before indulged in quite the cocktail for various ailments. nikolai finds orange bottles and neat baggies all lined up in a drawer, some familiar and some not. being as inventive as he is — and a little desperate, the wolf bite and possible fracture at his right arm throbbing with near constant pain — nikolai manages to cobble together an effective mix that dulls the worst of his aches. it at least frees him to leave his house to head to the community hall to assess the state of things after the attacks. ]

What an interesting way to write.

[ he squints at the handwriting of the missing persons sign at the message board, digging for a pen in his pocket — but ending up knocking the bottle of pills to the floor. the bottle rattles and rolls loudly, a little overfull because nikolai is nothing if not ambitiously overprepared, and stops at your feet. ]

Have there been any leads on this — person with a lot of hair? [ nikolai sniffs at the message, then pulls back abruptly as if realizing that is. not a normal thing to do. ]

— handyman available.

[ nikolai is here to help — he’s traversing the town to be nosy while keeping himself busy with minor or major repairs after the attacks. he can fix locks, rebuild broken windows, patch roofs, help you burn a body, whatever you need. bonus points if you didn’t invite him in and he just decided your sad little house needed help because you’re not that handy. ]

— go to bed, idiot.

[ ingesting a mouthful of raw, dead wolf corpse was not part of his finest hour. it turns out feral wolf has all the necessary nutrients to make a man very ill. or maybe it’s just his monster, locked away but still swimming through his veins like an infection, doing the work for him. either way, he’s running a fever while out investigating the trails of blood that have begun cropping up around town, making notes across a hastily sketched map in a notebook pilfered from his borrowed home.

something compels him to get on his knees on the icy ground to examine the droplets further, his gloved hands touching the edges of the blood. if you see him smelling it or even tonguing it — yeah, he’s got a fucking problem.

the irritating sound of dogs barking just reminds him that he’s already been bitten by one creature and he doesn’t need to tangle with a second. when he attempts to get to his feet, he falters — embarrassingly — and tips right into you. ]

— NOTES.

[ ooc: will default to brackets. in the last event nikolai was bitten by a wolf and still sustains this injury. he also ate some wolf because it was that or eat a person. nikolai is also host a demon! in this game the demon manifests as more of an affliction, meaning nikolai will sometimes display animalistic behaviors and crave human and animal flesh. yes, the first prompt is definitely for all the annoying drug abusers who miss their candy, please come be nikolai’s problem. feel free to mix and match and just show up at nikolai’s house! he can often be found just doing Little ADHD Genius Things like trying to repair a plane in his yard or deciding that he can somehow build a boat in the spare room. ]

Comments

go to bed

[solitarysoul]

[Levi was, once again, doing unneeded patrols through the town. He's seen the blood trails, but since no wolves--or anything else--seemed to be coming into town anymore he's got his rifle slung over his back instead of in his hands. That was probably for the best since he jumps backwards with a gasp as Nikolai bumps into him.]

Ah!

[ravkas]

[ nikolai does not enjoy leaning on others for help in any sense, and this being quite literal, he makes an effort to right himself from the boy despite the fever brightness of his eyes and the weakness plaguing him from his own poorly thought out decisions. he is mostly successful, peeling back with an apologetic hand in the air — which says quite a lot, since nikolai also rarely expresses sincerity to strangers except under pain of death. maybe he really is dying. ]

Are you all right?

[solitarysoul]

I'm fine, you just startled me. Are you alright? You don't look so good.

[He frowns and holds an arm out in case Nikolai needs to steady himself more. This guy looked like shit.]