21st Transmission [Video/Written/Action] (Forward Dated to March 17)

[thefinaljedi]

[Well it's about that time of year, when the weather begins to shift and it's beginning to get to the point where cultivating and preparing to for planting season is becoming a necessity. And to get all this started, Luke needs your help. He opens up the journal and smiles at the camera.]

Good afternoon Luceti,

For those of you that don't know me, my name is Luke Skywalker. For the last couple of years I've been tending to some of the farmlands outside the village, trying to build up emergency stores as well as bringing a bit of self-sufficiency to the enclosure. And as some of you may know, within the last year both Nami and Applejack have both departed, leaving the orchards near the farmland untended. I've been tending to them as best I can, but the vast majority of the help I had with the work has also returned home.

In the interest of better utilizing the space I'd like to request the help of anyone willing to volunteer their time with a bit of manual labor. I'm afraid it's simply not going to be possible to manage it all by myself, and any help would be greatly appreciated. It's beginning to near the planting season, after all. I'm happy to offer whatever services I can provide in exchange.

[There's a pause, and he seems to look somewhere off camera.]

On a related note, if there's anyone who knows anything about building irrigation systems, I'd appreciate any advice.

Thank you for your time, and may the Force be with you all.

[Shutting off the feed, he sends out two private messages.]


Written, Filtered to Loki
Loki, I know this is much less interesting than musical theater and cookies, but I was hoping I could get your help with a bit of magical work on the farm.



Written, Filtered to Trafalgar Law
Law, I figure we should probably revisit some of those supply caches and check on them. Possibly restock and take care of a few other things down that vein.

Comments

Private, written

[thefinaljedi]

Exactly. I'm glad you agree.

And Ginia? Yes, we've met.

Private, written

[deathsdoctor]

So when do you want to go around? Today? Sometime this week?

Ah, I see. Mind if I send her a message, so she can come with? If she's going to help, this is probably the perfect time to get her familiar with the caches.

Private, written

[thefinaljedi]

Whenever is convenient for you.

And that's certainly no trouble. May as well get her started early.

Private, written

[deathsdoctor]

Alright. I shall do that.

Tomorrow, then. Bright and early - say nine, in front of the town clinic?

Private, written

[thefinaljedi]

Perfect. I'll see you there.

Private, written ->. action?

[deathsdoctor]

You too.

[He may leave this entry around for his gardening ninja husband too.

Now to fire off a quick message to Ginia and fastforward to the next day, y/n?]

Action!

[thefinaljedi]

[Sounds good to me!

Luke's waiting outside the clinic around 8:45, bright eyed and ready for the day!]

Action!

[deathsdoctor]

[And hark! A Law does approach, with a sack tied to his nodachi along with the wooden charm that customarily hangs from his scabbard.

(They're going to get hungry sooner or later.)

He's a bit early, but better that than late.]

Action!

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[Ginia arrives shortly after, a bag slung over her shoulder. With the message coming in the day before, she's had enough time to reschedule her usual training with Souji and drop Laika off with Levi. She gives both men a friendly wave, cellphone ready in her pocket.]

[thefinaljedi]

[Luke offers them both a salute and a smile. He's dressed simply, in a black jumpsuit, lightsaber clipped to his belt, along with several tools and macrobinoculars. Everything a guy would need for a day out.]

Good morning. Thanks for coming out, you two.

[deathsdoctor]

Morning. Nice day for it - it's no problem at all.

[Beat.]

Any thoughts about which cache we'll hit first?

[thefinaljedi]

May as well start with the closest.

[He nods towards the clinic door.]

It's not much, but here we are.

[deathsdoctor]

[Law opens it and holds it open. Polite thing to do.]

After you guys.

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[Ginia bows her head at Law as she enters the clinic. With all the time she spends at the Battle Dome, the clinic there is the one she's most familiar with. She'll move aside to the side, studying the clinic and paying attention to everything around her.]

[thefinaljedi]

[Luke enters and heads down a hallway towards the back room. It's not a big place, a few doors leading into examining rooms and recovery rooms, a desk, and a few doors that lead into offices. The front is just fairly sterile, well lit, and has a few benches.]

Right this way, then.

[deathsdoctor]

[Law himself doesn't spend much time in the Town Clinic for a couple of reasons. One is that he tends to have his hands full of managing the Battle Dome's clinic, which means he only comes in when his help is requested.

Secondly, the memories of the attack by the droids in the building make him less willing to casually stop by. It hasn't changed since he was there last (not that long ago - business) and he nods as he follows behind the two. Takes out a notebook and a pen from a pocket within his coat for any notes he might need to take.]

[thefinaljedi]

[Luke opens the door and heads into one of the smaller recovery rooms that'd been re-purposed into a storage one. There are boxes of various medicines, still sealed up. Blankets, a few cots, crutches, bandages, and other supplies are carefully stacked up.]

I've been setting aside stuff before things get shifted in, sort of padding what I can from the item shop too. No food here, though. Any suggestions?

[deathsdoctor]

I think we should start storing water here as well at least. Not only for drinking purposes, but for any medical use as well.

You remember how it was when the Kin'corrans here. We could barely get anything from the taps.

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[Ginia looks around the storage room, assessing everything. She quickly takes her phone and pulls up the text-to-voice program, typing up a message and turning up the volume on her phone. The voice is stilted as it reads the words without any inflection, an synthesized copy of a human voice.]

Water would be good. Dried food and meat would be good to store here, also things like granola bars.

Also I've heard of the situation with Kin'cora, but not in detail. How bad was the situation? How long did it last?

[thefinaljedi]

Good idea. I'll start doing just that.

[Luke nods before turning to Ginia.]

The situation was bad enough that we had to ration food. It was for right around a week. And the Kin'corrans weren't precisely the most gracious guests.

[He looks back to Law, hoping the man remembered. They'd attacked the farm and been repulsed, and destroyed the forge.]

[deathsdoctor]

In their defence, they had just been invaded and half their population killed or captured. Not exactly the best terms to meet them on. But...

[How could he forget?]

But food shortages thanks to the Malnosso cutting off the shipments, the power cap being increased until the people with abilities had a bare trickle of what they normally were, and power and water shortages made things worse.

Not to mention that a lot of people in Kin'cora already had tensions with Lucetians thanks to events back in everyone's various homes. There would have problems even in the best of circumstances.

Everything together made it worse. And I can't say we were at our best either. No one made out an saint from that.

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[A messy situation all around. No doubt it'll come into play in the future too.]

Was that the first time we were ever cut off from supplies?

[Ginia's hunch is yes, but it doesn't matter in the end. If it's happened before, it can and probably will happen in the future. Anything can and will and it's frustrating the village as a whole doesn't seem to take that into consideration.

She gives the supplies another look over.]

Honey wouldn't be bad to store either, both for flavoring bitter medicine and its own antibacterial properties.

[thefinaljedi]

That I'm aware of, yes. But Law's been here longer than me, so I'll defer to that.

[At the suggestion, Luke raises an eyebrow. Honey never really occurred to him, but in a way it does make sense.]

Think you can handle that one, then? With the farm, I've got a lot on my plate.

[deathsdoctor]

No. But the time before Kin'corra was far before my own time. Very few people are left that would remember it.

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

[A question to ask Raine at some point then. But she nods at Luke's question.]

Of course. I can also collect the other food and water for this cache too.