The beach, late Monday afternoon

[unusual_sith]

Rufus had said he had lightning "spells" of some sort, and Lana was curious about them, so she'd showed up to the beach to compare notes. And lightnings.

This could be very interesting.

And if Rufus didn't show, well - a beach was still a fairly novel experience for Lana, so she was going to remove her boots, roll up her leggings, and see what the water felt like on her feet.


[OOC: Open beach, open post! Come meet the Sith or just hang out.]

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Beach (non-Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

For your own wading and rock-throwing pleasure.

Beach (Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

Come hang out with Lana! She's very pleasant (for a Sith)!

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[studyingfear]

Rufus did show, and when he did, it was without his dog. He sauntered over to Lana, the wind tugging at his hair.

"Enjoy your classes?" he asked mildly.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

Probably just as well, unless Dark Nation was good at dodging.

Lana nodded to him and headed back onto the beach, shaking the water off her feet. "There's not much to tell so far; we've mostly done introductions. One of the teachers cast an illusion over himself; I'd love to find out how, but if he knows, he isn't saying. You said you didn't have any today? What do you do when there aren't classes?"

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[spectre_alenko]

It was Monday. In preparation for dancing, Kaidan made an effort to go outside. He still wanted nothing to do with anything involving trees, so he headed beachward for the time-honored activity of throwing rocks into the ocean while trying not to think.

He was getting really good at not thinking. There was something to be said for apathetic numbness. He knew sooner or later he'd have to deal with it, but for now, it was nice to be able to just chill with some rocks and the surf and the ... far... far too open sky.. and let his brain catch a nap.

He saw the blonde girl wading further down the shore. Since he wasn't a teacher, and because he couldn't think of any way to approach that didn't have absolutely bad and creepy optics, he stayed where he was. If she came over and spoke with him, cool. If not, he could just throw rocks for awhile.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

Lana noticed the man, and nodded to show she'd seen him, but otherwise didn't approach, since he seemed to want time alone.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan nodded back politely. He hadn't met any of the students, other than Peridot, and this blonde girl was not the one Kanan had pointed out to him as a wannabe bus-thief.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord... really didn't want to interrupt anybody in their reverie, or their rock-throwing personal time, or... whatever this gentleman seemed to be up to. But, so help him, his own inability to find anything useful along the shore made him feel all the more inclined to do so all the same.

"I'm begging your pardon," he said, approaching the other man cautiously. "I don't suppose I might trouble you for a moment?"

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan heard the steps coming toward him and craned his head to see who it was just as the other man spoke. When he heard the question, he dropped the rocks to the beach and dusted off his hands. "Sure, I'm not doing anything. You're one of the new crew, right? What's on your mind?"

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

"Fjord," he said politely, offering him a hand to shake. "It's Fjord. And I was wondering if you happened to see anything unusual out here, by any chance?"

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan took the hand and shook it, "Kaidan. Good to meet you, Fjord. Unusual on the beach? No, not today. Did you?"

The tone was mildly curious and a little resigned, as if he fully expected the answer to be 'yes, here's another thing that will hurt your brain'.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

"Unfortunately, no. Finding something unusual on the beach was really rather the hope," Fjord replied, keeping a cordial tone even while he was clearly disappointed. "I'm trying to figure out how I ended up here, you see."

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[spectre_alenko]

"Ah," Kaidan said after a moment, "Another random resident. I was too, just a few months ago. On a shuttle home one minute, on an island that's displaced from time and reality from my own. The island, uh, just kind of does that to people. I think it needs us, in some way. Or maybe we need it. Not real sure, but you'll meet people from pretty much everywhere and more than half of them won't be here because they originally chose to be."

Well, that was a mouthful. Welcome, new guy?

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord's eyebrows crept upwards a little as Kaidan spoke. He... didn't follow some of that, but nothing that seemed terribly important, at least.

"Ms. Amaya had mentioned that her last teachin' buddy also washed ashore," he noted, looking thoughtfully back along the beach. "Apparently it's a more common occurrence than I'd imagined."

He paused a moment.

"Sorry, the island needs us?"

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[spectre_alenko]

"Washed ashore, fell out of the sky, walked through a door.. there's all sorts of ways people have arrived," Kaidan said helpfully.

Uhoh. "Has anyone told you anything at all about the island yet?"

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord wasn't really here to hang out with Lana, no. What he was here for was to look for some manner of clue as to what the hell had brought him here to the island in the first place.

The fact that one of his students happened to be wading around in the water right where he had woken up some few days ago was... awkward, a little.

Still, he gave a polite nod in her direction as he wandered the shoreline, trying to see if he could find the exact spot he'd woken up the other day. The tides seemed to have tidily wiped all evidence of that away. Sigh.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

Lana nodded back. Then, since he didn't seem the type to answer questions, just watched.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

Her loss, really. He wasn't the type to answer questions in a classroom full of people. There was always the chance he'd be more approachable one-on-one.

Occasionally he would crouch to clear the sand away from some odd piece of detritus, hoping to make out anything even remotely familiar. Ultimately, he just wound up with a few bits of sea glass, a rusted belt buckle, and a nickel.

He sighed.

Well, that was a waste of his time, then. Damn this island.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

All right, at that Lana was too curious not too ask.

"Looking for something, instructor Fjord?"

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

"Nothing in particular, I suppose," Fjord replied, frowning down at his handful of... useless crap, mostly. He picked the coin out and pocketed it. The rest, he dropped back into the sand. "This is one of those, 'maybe I'll actually know it to see it' situations. Assuming there's anything to find at all."

The odds, admittedly, looked like they were stacked against him.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

"What sort of 'it' were you hoping to find?" Lana asked.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

"Ideally, some indication of how I arrived here," Fjord explained. "It would appear that if there was any such thing, the tides have beaten me to it."

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[unusual_sith]

"You're another one that arrived here by accident?" Lana asked.

Re: Beach (Sithly)

[built_fjord_tough]

"By accident or by the island's machinations," Fjord confirmed, giving one last shake of his head as he looked out to sea. "Between the handful of conversations I've had about this place, I'm not entirely certain which I ought to believe."

OOC!

[unusual_sith]

No world-ending!