16TH ♫ | carbon my body a billion years of time

[torya]

THE POST-APOCALYPTIC MEME HOW TO PLAY - comment in the subject line with your character's name and canon. - state any preferences you might have. - choose a scenario or use the number generator. - have fun! SCENARIOS 1. Alien Invasion ▸ Aliens have taken over the earth. 2. Climate Change ▸ The climate of our planet has shifted suddenly. 3. Cybernetic Revolt ▸ Technology has turned against us. 4. Impact Event ▸ A meteor struck the Earth. 5. Nuclear Warfare ▸ They dropped the big one. Enjoy that fallout. 6. Pandemic ▸ A disease is threatening to wipe out human life on earth. 7. Resource Depletion ▸ There are no longer enough resources to support life. 8. Zombie Apocalypse ▸ A classic, zombies have invaded and destroyed everything. 9. Other ▸ Combine several scenarios or come up with your own! (x)

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RNG says 7|warning for everything the Saigusa have decided to be

[notabadegg]

[Haruka was blamed when the rice crop failed, of course. It was her fault when the same thing happened to the neighbours, her fault when the news said it was going on all over the planet. One day, when she was thrown out of the house again covered in bruises and welts with curses ringing in her ears, her sister had had enough and snuck out to hand her a bag of the family's rations. Haruka didn't know where she was running to, but anywhere had to be safer, and so, slowly and with a lot of mistakes, she made her way down the mountain.

She doesn't know how long she's been going, but she's thin and weak when she sees another kid in the shrinking bushes checking out lifeless leaves. Slowly, she approaches.]

H'lo?

[knightoftimeout]

[Dave looks up briefly, then goes back to his important task of poking at the dead leaves.]

Hey.

[He's not actually poking them, exactly; he's stretching them as carefully as he can against the barren ground without breaking them, examining the dried-out petioles and stipules as if they're rare fossils, intricate skeletons.

He already knows they're not for eating. He's a fragile skeleton himself, in his faded red hoodie.]

'Sup?

[notabadegg]

Uhh... the sky.

[Haruka scratches her head and carefully approaches.]

I kinda ran out of food. I'm sorry. I bet you're hungry too.

[knightoftimeout]

Mm. Not really.

[He looks at her again, more studiously this time, and finally gets up, brushes his grubby hands off against his grubby jeans.]

You want a snack? I got stuff.

[notabadegg]

[stomach growls] Really? I just got dead leaves...

[knightoftimeout]

We gotta be careful not to eat too much at once so's there's more later, but yeah. [He nods and shrugs.] My bro piled it up for us. I'm waiting for him to come back.

[...From the state of his clothes, he may have been waiting a long time.]

[notabadegg]

'Kay. [She smiles and offers a hand.] I'm Haruka. Do you know where he went? Like fighting bears?

[knightoftimeout]

Prob'ly.

[Dave looks at the hand she offers, takes her wrist to move it up, then gives her a nice high five.]

I'm Dave. This way. [He starts to lead her back up-slope, though on a diagonal to the way she'd come.] You live around here, Har...Harka?

[notabadegg]

[Haruka blinks but smiles wider. She follows him.]

I used to. Had to run away. [She shakes her head.] But, but! I bet we can find something good. Where're we goin'?