Catch and Release [Closed] [Llau, Fac, BetaW]

[BetaWülf]

T'vaoan Major Roh Gel
Former ONI Prisoner
Salvation

Roh was absolutely giddy as he fiddled with the beacon, giggling quietly as his left eye twitched slightly. His hands were shaking from a combination of retained stress from the situation they were just in, a poor diet while in captivity, and pure excitement. The beacon came to life making all sorts of annoying noises, but Roh didn't care, is ears could be bleeding from it and he still wouldn't care. The damn thing was operational and that's all that mattered right now.

Roh's eyes bulged slightly as he was unexpectedly hugged by Eal, he tensed up at first as he was entirely unaccustomed to being shown compassion, but after that moment his shoulders slumped as he relaxed and patted Eal on the back. His father hadn't been very... good at emoting, his aunt was the only person who had ever really been there for him, aside from Grandmama Zaat whom he didn't see that often.

"Yes... home... I don't know which one I'm supposed to go to, to be honest; Gel or Hul?" he sighed, rubbing between his eyes. "I wonder if my Father even knows I've been lost in combat, or if they informed him that I died, if at all" Roh said "At this point I'll just be happy to get back to the Y'Deio system" he said, trying to make himself give at least a small smile. He managed the bare minimum of a smile.

As he continued to fiddle with it, the frequencies started to become more and more familiar, getting closer and closer to a Covenant signal. After about twenty minutes of experimentation, Roh managed to get it to something akin to a Covenant distress signal. He clenched his hands together tightly, bringing the balled hands to his forehead, his eyes squeezed shut as he muttered to himself in prayer to Aecor.

"Now we wait" Roh said, turning to Eal, placing a hand on the older T'vaoan's shoulder.

[Faclan]

Eal Tas - T'vaoan Murmillo
Contestant on ONI Survivor.
Happy camping time.

Eal was pretty elated when the Beacon spurted into life as well as the noises meant it had some power and wasn't just some cruel joke. But he then listened as Roh replied as he looked up at the sky a bit. "Both of them would be happy to have a warrior and an individual like you back Roh - and whoever you decide to lead in time will flourish I'm sure. I bet Mistress Gel is out there right now trying to find you and us as well. But once we get that working we should all focus on getting some food and water in us...Still can barely believe this is happening, Praise be to Aecor indeed." Still smiling like an oaf Eal grunted and pushed himself up and moved over to some of the supply boxes. To see what they had been left with.

During the twenty minutes were Roh was fiddling with the beacon to make it actually helpful to them rather than an annoyance Eal was shifting through the boxes to see what they had been left with. Most of it looked like Human military rations with written instructions...hopefully Roh would be able to decipher them. There was a lot of them too and each of them had different titles on them. But Eal didn't care, anything would be better than that paste they were fed in captivity. With his remaining time he fiddled with the tent poles and actually managed to get one of them up. It took a lot of finagling and holding it with his beak so he could press with his other hand but it seemed to be holding up fine. And even came with a cloth floor. Talz would be going in there once she had eaten something. And finally he gathered some basic kindling and set them a bit away from the tent when the Beacon finally started to make noises Eal recognized. He was exhausted and in pain...but he had rarely felt better in his life as he tried to pat Rohs hand on his shoulder, but his stump just wiffed past it. Eal shaking his head and chuckling as he responded.

"That's all we can do now, we seem to have a lot of supplies at least so we'll be fine. But I think its time for some food. Could you try to make sense of the Human rations and I'll try to start the fire?"

He started to move over toward the kindling with the fire starter he had found in the box before he looked over as Talz groaned and slowly sat up. She then breathed deeply and looked around, but upon seeing her two friends just hanging around with no binds or Humans she just smiled before flopping backwards onto her blanket pillow. Rubbing her eyes some before she glanced to her side and happily took the water, taking some gulps before pushing herself up to smile at Eal and Roh again.

"Whats for dinner?"

(:> - the rations probably MRE like. Just add water after removing the extras and soon youl have hot food.)

[BetaWülf]

T'vaoan Major Roh Gel
Former ONI Prisoner
Sustainment

Roh looked over at Eal as the older T'vaoan spoke, nodding when he asked the younger T'vaoan to work on the food while he tried to start a fire. Roh rummaged through one of the crates until he pulled out several of the Human food packets, putting the extras back so he had but three left with him. He tore one open, taking a tentative sniff of the contents. He'd eaten worse.

He sat in place for a moment, looking at the back of the package. It was difficult to make sense of as the odd lines in addition to the text confused him, it took him a few minutes to realize they were instructional drawings; but that didn't really make them make more sense to him. After several more minutes of concentration and effort he believe himself to have the vague idea. Add water.

Roh took one of the water bottles and poured some of its contents into the packet, kneading the water into the apparent food stuffs inside. He waited a moment or two before sticking a claw in, pulling out a piece of the gooey substance to eat. He put it in his beak, cocking his pseudo-avian head to one side.

"They could be worse, better than the slime they were feeding us before" Roh said to Eal and Talz, the latter having just asked what was for dinner. "Here" Roh said as he scooted towards Talz without standing, handing her the ration pack before preparing one for Eal and himself and handing one over to the older T'vaoan.

"Aecor bless this meal, may it be good and filling and restore our Piratical vigor and vengeful malice" Roh prayed outloud over his and his companion's meals.

[Faclan]

Eal Tas - T'vaoan Murmillo
Contestant on ONI Survivor.
Togetherness and joy.

Nodding as Roh started to pour over the food instructions Eal turned back to the pile of sticks and small amount of ignition material from their supplies and then held up the firestarter and hummed to himself about how to make this work with one hand. He didn't really know how it worked so he didn't want to try and hold any of it in his beak less he set his head on fire. But it seemed to be a grinding or striking kind of thing but he had never held these materials before so had no idea which one was supposed to scrape and on what. They had plenty of time to test however as Eal flipped the thing around a few times before guessing that the smaller hanging on piece was the scraper...just gota find a way to hold the main piece.

Grabbing a small flannel Eal squirted some water over it before placing the main piece in his right foot talons and then wrapping the wet cloth around his foot in case it did a lot of fire. Shifting his butt a bit to be nearer the firepit he took the thinner piece in his remaining hand and just shrugged as he set it against the flatter surface and gave it an experimental scrape. He gave a little squawk when a huge amount of sparks shot off the grey stone like side and quickly started the fire. Eal very glad he had taken the wet towel precaution as he rolled back and then nodded before tossing some more twigs into the fire.

"We have fire!"

Setting the safety towel aside Eal nodded as Talz happily took the offered food after thanking Roh and started to stick in her claws to eat it as Eal just shrugged. "At least its hot and we can finally have a meal free of those bastard Humans." Taking his own meal, if he could read the English he would see it was 'Homemade beef stew with gravy' but it was good whatever it was and thank Aecor it was meat. Real meat...Could use some greens but Eal happily took a few chomps before he glanced up and Roh and cleared his throat before nodding.

"And may Aecor see us deserving of a passing ship to see our SoS - so we may return home and thank them properly."

"To vitality, each other, and those out looking for us!" Talz concluded with a raised water bottle and food packet before she scooted over to be closer to the fire. The sky starting to get a little darker, but the three Kig's seemed pretty happy that they were all alive and still together.


(Cool little easy to store Magnesium firestarter; Lil Sparky )

[BetaWülf]

T'vaoan Major Roh Gel
Former ONI Prisoner
Warmth

With his prayer concluded Roh began to eat his packet of food stuffs, he wasn't terribly fond of it however. It was food though at least, a still better than what the Human had fed him. With every handful shoved into his toothy beak Roh would throw his head back and bob it, allowing gravity to aid in his ingestion of the food. After he got a bit of his food eaten he felt better, good enough to move up to be by Eal's fire. Roh noticed the light wasn't quite so bright now, so the day must've started fading.

Roh held his forearms out sideways in front of the fire to warm his hands and the feather shafts on his arms. They weren't quite so pronounced as a full blooded T'vaoan's, but they were still easily discernible; just not as long but about the same width. He continued to eat in silence, not out of any particular enjoyment of the food itself, though. Just because he could mostly, get some of the fading light and warmth from the glowing fire before. Roh looked up from his food to see how Eal and Talz were holding up, they looked better to him now that they were eating.

"Hmm, I think I'll need to see if the hunting here is any good if this is the only kind of food we've been left with; some fresh meat would do us good and the exercise would certainly be welcomed" Roh said, stretching his arms out and rubbing his elbows to help alleviate the stiffness in his joints from his time strapped to a table from his Human captivity. "Do you think there are any blades or anything we could make some out of in all..." Roh said waving his hands wordlessly for a brief moment "... shit?" he said gesturing at the crates.

"I'd like to think there's at worst one knife to our names in the crates" Roh said with a hopeful glint in his eyes, though his expression wasn't the greatest and it'd had been that way for most the day already; but that just seemed to be how he looked now. Angry and disenfranchised.

[Llau]

((OOC: I'm sure Mike left the Kigs a couple of survival knives of different sizes, with one having a serrated edge in one of those crates, and they will be nice and sharp because the lil shit loves knives.

Just have to find it. >.>

Look for the shiny things. o3o))

[Faclan]

(Well Roh has longer arm and skull feathers than Eal now cause they were plucked D: - but starting to finally grow back.)

Eal Tas - T'vaoan Murmillo
On the unnamed Kiggle camping ground.
Pondering and blades!

It didn't take much to see that Roh was still angry about all that had happened to them. Where as Eal was more just relieved that it was over and all of them were alive and free of the Humans. AND they had been left with supplies. But his own happiness did make Eal ponder a bit. Shouldn't he be angry too? He had been brought up to never let slights or attacks against him or his friends go unanswered...So he should have been angry? Why wasn't he? Poking at the food bag some more Eal stared down into it as Roh talked - was it because he held life more important now than revenge as he did when he was younger? No no...he wanted to slowly bleed and butcher those ONeI so that wasn't true. Was it because he had been the leader and was just happy that his troops had made it out? What was it?

Eals deep thoughts made him mostly miss Roh's little spiel. But Talz just nodded and set down her food bag and walked over to the crates. The sleep seemed to really help her even if she still felt a bit sick. And after rooting around in the box that the Beacon had been in she ah-hahed! and soon came back to the fire with three sheathed blades in her arms. "Found these!" She exclaimed happily, plopping one in Eals lap which finally made him come back to the waking world, and then handing one to Roh before plopping down and pulling out the one she got for herself. "You could even show us some of your Gel and Hul techniques Roh - if you are allowed to that is." The female seemed to be in very high spirits compared to her male companions - just glad to be alive.

It was a decently long survival knife, sharp on one side and ending in a straight back blade. With two different types of sawing surfaces on the blunt side for work like that. Talz giving hers a few swings before smiling and starting to slip it back into its sheath before she ooohed and held it up to her face. "There's a little animal on it! How cute." Smiling she set it beside her and then tucked back into her food as Eal just glanced at his sheathed one before looking back at Roh.

"Well at least we have some blades now...But tomorrow Roh you can search. All of us could have some actual sleep now. Some real sleep and only being woken up on our own time. We even have a shelter too and as long as he stoke the fire before we sleep to last most of the night we won't need to worry about the creatures if there are any." A bold claim to be sure of an unknown planet. "So we can all awaken ready to go to survive until someone finds us."

If Roh would unsheathe his own blade his extensive training with melee weapons would probably let him feel that the blade seemed unbalanced, which may lead him to find the hidden compartment in the bottom of the survival knifes handle.


(Found, and confirmed with Sheep, the type of knife Mike left the Kiggles - one for each of them; This one - Big 11'' blade with two different types of saw backing (16'' overall) with a sharpening stone, matches and striking surface, bandaid, small rope and hook, little compass, and that green thing I can't recognize all held in the handle. There be three knives, two of them have a wolf on where the etching normally is (Mikes personal blades that he stored in) and one of them will be a factory one. With 'UNSC (The UNSC Eagle) Survivor' where the Border Patrol is. And then 'Earth We Defend * * * Against Alien Invaders' under it. You can say what one Roh gets BetaW :> . Eal is gona keep his for 'giving back' to Mike later >.> . )