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[transgressed]

[Fang's up...somewhere pretty high, up on the rooftop of a building. Looks like she's pulling a Batman and getting her brood on. She is in heavier, drabber clothing than usual (to her displeasure), save the scarf around her neck, which looks a fair bit more elaborate. Her spear is propped up nearby.

It almost seems as if she doesn't know she's being recorded, but then she speaks up:]

'Round this time of year, in Oerba — that's where I'm from — there would be big hunting parties. A last little bit of celebration before the chill and the frost set in from the mountains nearby. Suppose that'd be my version of this "Krissmiss" thing you lot have been going on about.

[She picks up the spear and stands to her feet. Stretches her free arm over her head.] When things started to go south, with the war and all...

[Another bout of stretching...] ...we couldn't do that no more. Not enough groups to go hunting, you see, and the land wasn't safe. The animals scattered. I figure they were smarter than we were. That's not much of a holiday story though, is it? Guess I'm in a reminiscing mood. But I was wondering: is there anything to hunt around here? Anything safe to eat? A spar'll only go so far.

[She tilts her head.] Have any of you ever hunted for your own food? There's gotta be someone around here who's not like... [Cocoon people. She waves a hand.]

Point is, I'm starting to go stir-crazy. Even Cocoon had some nature, here and there.

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Voice

[wilder]

There's gotta be something, right? Food doesn't appear outta thin air and it'd be stupid to have it shipped.

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[transgressed]

[She tilts her head.] That's my guess. The land around these parts doesn't look like it'll hold many crops, and if this United Earth has really got such a chokehold on resources, I figure there's some hunters hiding in the woodwork.

[A pause.] If the land looks this way, the animals have gotta be in a bad state too. I haven't ventured that far out, so I figured I'd ask before wasting my time.

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[diplomatique]

[ he might look a bit dirty. his caretakers would have a fit. ]

I have not personally hunted on my own. In long treks across regions, however, alongside a party of six, hunting became essential. I would accompany some members of my party in finding food upon finding a place of repose, but as I am not particularly strong in my own right, my place was designated to magicks and healing.

[ a beat; ]

It seems many worlds have their own points of celebration. A hunting party seems most exhilirating.

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[transgressed]

[Fang approves! A little dirt never killed anyone, far as she's concerned.]

Magic and healing's useful. In a place like this, where you don't know the terrain or the creatures lurking around, it might make the difference between life and death.

[She taps the spear against a dense packing of ice near the edge of the rooftop. Her expression turns nostalgic.] That it was. We didn't do much gift-giving, but it was one of those times everyone worked together. Oerba was like that.

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[direhit]

I've... never had to before, and never had much of a reason to think about hunting. [Sadly, she'd fit right in with those Cocoon people.]

My mom used to have a garden though, and sometimes I'd try to do a little planting when I traveled and came across things like berries.

It is kind of depressing here though. You miss seeing nature around.

video;

[transgressed]

[Cocoon people....but Fang decides to be nice.]

Depressing's the right word for it. Thought I'd never miss an Adamantoise chasing me through the plains, but here I am. I heard talk there was a garden around here. It might be that you can grow something there.

voice; what is a hiatus i'm technically supposed to still be on

[accidentalrebellion]

[Katniss hasn't paid a great deal of attention to the network. Not in weeks. Not when she'd been out of range for some of that time, anyway. This she'd almost pass over too, if it didn't have something in it to catch her attention. (The part about hunting. Let's be real.)

So, after a slight delay:]

There isn't much.

video;

[transgressed]

[The feed catches her expression — a brief moment of surprise — before it evens out again into lazy indifference. She had not expected a useful answer, it seemed.]

Damn. Just my luck...how far have you gone out?

voice

[theguideless]

[Martin recognizes her more by her voice than anything, what with occasionally hearing her when he's holed up in Bariyan's room. but he thinks...maybe it'd be nice to speak? MAKE MORE FRIENDS, MARTY.

more on the quiet side:] I was kind of a hunter before, too.

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[transgressed]

'Kind of,' huh. [Her expression is skeptical. Please excuse her manners...or lack thereof, Martin. Fang is a little blunt.] What did you hunt?

voice;

[ladyspitfire]

Hunting for your own food is generally the only way of having any sort of nourishment when you're at war. Yes, I often hunt. I fear I'm out of practice with so much available at the market.

video;

[transgressed]

[She's aware of that much, but she's learned things work differently in a world like this, which seemed closer to Cocoon than Pulse.] I'm used to that logic, but seeing as there's a whole mishmash or worlds here, I thought I might be in the minority.

Have you hunted here yet?

[Video]

[kungfublackfrog]

Where I was before, you kind of had to.

[And to his surprise, cougar tasted pretty decent.]

[Video]

[transgressed]

Living out on the land, I'm guessing. You come from a village?

[biwinning]

...Thith actually thoundsth kind of like what 12th Perigee'th Eve ith like. I didn't think humans did that kind of thing.

[transgressed]

What's a "12th Perigee?" That another holiday I don't know about?

[video]

[acemedium]

[She looks pretty interested throughout the post, and then-]

We could always hunt for burgers!

[video]

[transgressed]

[Unsure...] Don't think that's the way this sort of thing works, sweetheart.

[video]

[blossomgale]

Fang. If anyone tells you of a place to hunt crab... let me know.

[video]

[transgressed]

Hey, kiddo. Might be a few places around with clean enough water, but I'd be careful of the shellfish around these parts.

Why are you looking for crab?

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[onblackwings]

Of course. There's no other way to get food in my world, unless you have someone else to hunt it for you.

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[transgressed]

That's the way it is where I'm from, but a lotta folk I've met are used to getting food through easier ways.

video.

[demonbloodblade]

I've hunted my own food many times. And ...well, I suppose roasting over a fire is 'cooked'.

There doesn't seem to be much north of here as far as animals. Those beasts that attacked after that trip to the plains a few months back seemed to be not entirely edible, honestly.

video.

[transgressed]

What trip out to the plains? I wasn't here 'til recently. How far out did you lot go?

video;

[sacrificar]

Searching for any remaining life?

video;

[transgressed]

More like searching for something to do. If I sit around any longer, I'm gonna forget how to fight. They've got some nerve, bringing us here and then leaving us to rot.