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Hi. I'm... Hunting and wilderness. [The voice is young and female, a vaguely midwestern US accent, who pointedly offers no name. She stutters every now and again, but tries to stay casual as she speaks.] Sorry about all the--overgrowth. This message is about all of that. Um.

The city is too big for me to really go around yelling all the plants off the buildings, but if it's cut down and--you know, regularly pruned--it shouldn't grow back so fast. Same with everything in the paths. If you have any bad mold growing or anything, you can, um, message me? I'll show up and get rid of it.

[She takes a deep, shaky breath.]

Okay. The other thing... I might have fucked up. I don't know yet. If you guys can keep an eye out for a type of fungus, or any spores, that would be helpful. They look anywhere between a sort of...pale yellow to a pale pink, sometimes just white, and the outside is sort of reddish-pink. It grows in plates, and it'll travel through tendrils when possible. They like water and damp stuff. Usually they grow from human bodies. If you see any, don't go near it, don't fuck with it. Just message me through this thing. More importantly, if you see any spores... well, you probably shouldn't fuck with them anyway, but especially not if the spores are whitish-yellow. A little won't do much, but if you start feeling dizzy, it's over. You can walk through them if you have a gas mask. [There's a pause for a few moments, and a shuffling that sounds like paper.]

These things are called cordyceps. They're a fungus that can infect people through the spores. When you're infected, you'll get sick and then become aggressive very quickly. It's...basically zombies.

I haven't seen any yet. If you do, though, be careful. The spores are nearly impossible to get rid of, but the plants themselves can be taken out with fire...or bleach. Probably.

There’s a certain stage in their life cycle where they start glowing in the dark, but I… don’t really know what stage it is. Also… there's no cure, at least not where I'm from.

Anyway... if you need to get in touch, I guess you can, um, comment here. Or message me.

[There is a hand drawn image of what is, presumably, a cordyceps plant attached to the message.]
(OOC: temple information and IC inbox. Characters will not find any of the cordyceps fungus around, for the time being.)

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Wait. More zombie stuff? Seriously?

A zombie fungus.

[ Is it bad that that's really neat? ]

You've been in town though, right? What are the odds that you brought the fungus in and nobody's been affected yet?

Yeah, I know. CBI isn't sneaky, at least. But I think I'm the... third, from a world like that.

Someone said cordyceps from their world does the same thing, but to insects. I think it's the same idea.

[That's a difficult question, because even with Georgia and Shaun, Ellie isn't totally comfortable answering that question honestly. Still, she stitched up Joel with her bare hands, so she's probably not too infectious, right?]

I don't know. If it's because I took the throne, I don't think so. I've never lived in a place like this, and the forest is definitely different, so I don't think I brought anything new, but... better safe than sorry, right?

And I don't think I brought it myself. Even if I were a run--a stage one infected, I'd still have to bite people to turn them.

[Contrary to popular belief, Ellie doesn't enjoy biting people.]

Zombie making spores. If found,
don't touch. Got it.

How, exactly, did this happen anyway?

The zombie apocalypse from mushrooms? No idea. I was born after the outbreak.

I was talking about them being here, but yeah, a zombie apocalypse from mushroom is pretty weird.

You're Hunting? ❰ she's still not entirely sold on referring to themselves by the thrones they supposedly sit on, especially considering she's yet to see if this god of hunting is any better at hunting than katniss herself is, but. she's not going to stir the pot right now. instead: ❱ Then you'd know the best spots for game. ❰ right? because katniss wants to know. ❱

They might not be. The plants started going crazy here after I took the throne, which is what it's like in my world. So if that happened, why not the fungus?

I'd rather not give my name and face out to everyone.

[That's one of the advantages here - Ellie doesn't have to meet people to talk to them, and they don't have to know exactly who she is. She sounds young, but the goddess of hunting sounds more impressive than Ellie, the fifteen year old kid.

Ellie's good - but her skills were shaped by desperation, not long years of practice.]

Um, right now it's mostly small prey animals. There are a few jackrabbits near those crops to the south-east... and lots if squirrels and rats. I haven't seen anything bigger yet.

Fair, but maybe they just missed having someone around?

Weird.

[ Yeah Steph doesn't know anything about fungus or insects. Oh well. ]

So the odds are pretty in our favor? I'll keep an eye out, but we don't need to like, run a survey of the population or anything?

Yeah. Just keep an eye out and be careful when you to into basements, shit like that.

Thanks for the heads up, oh Huntress. I'll take the proper precautions and check out what I can.

Maybe. The plants don't really talk to me, though.

Edited 2018-01-15 06:41 (UTC)

That was a joke. How do people make it obvious that they're joking on this thing?

In voice, usually inflection and tone.

Text is usually emojis. Like this. ^_^ B-< |8-)

[Georgia is going to very pointedly use video. She will make the feed private, but she's making a point here.]

Stop editing my spreadsheet and stop hiding, Ellie. This isn't a game. If you're going to take the kind of powers associated with being a deity, then you'd better fucking stand behind them. Especially if your screw-ups could lead to this level disaster.

Fuck off, asshole. That's why I did this. People know how to get a hold of me and that's all they fucking need, so take my name off the goddamn spreadsheet and I'll stop editing it.

Huh. Are those supposed to be faces? That first one's kind of cute. The other two look weird, though.

[She'll stop editing it anyway. Anonymous editing's been revoked and this account is now blocked :|

Georgia wants to keep yelling. She probably will keep yelling. But Ellie's a child. She ought to at least attempt patience first. Not that Georgia's excessively good at it.]

Why do you want to be anonymous? What are you afraid of?

[Well, she'll just...

...

do nothing, probably?? Ellie can barely work the tablet, much less figure out how to get around being blocked.]

Does it really matter?

[The honest answer is that Ellie has no idea. She's just fucking scared of everything. It's better here than back home, sure, but she doesn't like the idea. She just wanted to help for once, but she fucked up maybe and she doesn't know how to fix it, and everyone wants so much more than she wants to give.

(It's about the power. Whether to give her name or not is the one fucking thing she has control over these days. It's the one thing she can decide to give or take as she pleases, when she feels like there are so few choices in her life. Of course, being the goddess of hunting helps, but it doesn't shake old habits, ingrained in Ellie like fractured glass.)]

Just take it down. That's all I'm fucking asking, alright?

It does matter.

[The fact that she sounds like a scared kid now makes it slightly more likely she'll do it. Despite the reputation she's carefully built, Georgia Mason does have a heart, and she knows how hard it can be, growing up around the dead. She can't fault the kid for being paranoid. Georgia is too. She just has different ways of dealing with it.]

Look. If what you're afraid of is retribution for your choices, there's no way I'm taking it down. Holding powerful people accountable is my job. If there's something else...

[She hesitates, then nods sharply.]

I'd consider it. But I won't forget.

[There's a delay before the next message. Ellie isn't fucked enough to record herself laughing and crying for ten minutes, and washing the redness out for another ten. She's trying to keep it together to everyone else, because otherwise it's a weakness people can sense like a clicker can find you in a dark room.

But powerful. Ellie doesn't feel powerful, even though that's a part of the reason she took the throne. Not for power's sake, but safety. Safety in the power of a god, something like that.

It's fucking funny, and it's fucking fucked all at once. Ellie has enough insight for that.

The video is pointed down at some tree roots as Ellie talks.]

Look. It's a lot of mights and ifs, just like--this fucking post. [Like most things in Ellie's life.] It's not to get away from my choices, okay? People can contact me, and apparently Zelda blabbed my name out, and she's seen me. You can find me at the temple, at least. And if I do something shitty, I'm sure you'll be the first to shout it out to the whole fucking city!

[Her voice, which was rough, takes on some pressure. It's not clear if it's holding back anger or grief.]

I've been chased around for enough of my life, okay? Just because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe it's stupid, but I'm sick of it. [The camera jerks with a gesture. ] I know there's not much privacy with taking a throne, but I just want to give out who I am on my terms, alright?

But here. Here's my fucking face, and my full name is Ellie fucking Williams, not that it matters.

[She turns the camera to herself. Her eyes are a bit blotched and red, but she doesn't look like she was having a breakdown, which is the point. A redhead, vaguely blue-green eyes, and a freckled baby face make her look closer to twelve than fifteen, even with the scars through her eyebrow.]

There. Now you can hold me, the fucking all-powerful god of plants, accountable. Happy?

[Happy's not the word for it, though Georgia won't apologize. It would be a lie. She might be sympathetic, but she's not sorry. The girl might feel like a victim right now, but she needs to understand the stakes.

She's a child thrust into a role she isn't prepared for. Georgia has sympathy, but it doesn't change the fact that Ellie has responsibilities. Georgia would help if she could, but she doubts she's capable. She didn't know how to deal with children even when she was one.]

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