we're all living under loaded gun

[amygdalae]

[Every week was bad, but this one? This one most likely has hit them all the hardest.

All well, almost all of them. Bruce certainly can't speak for everyone here... not that there's a lot of them left now.

Anyway.

Working with Speedwagon in the kitchen the two of them whip up a decent, simple fare of food just so that their stomachs won't go empty - Bruce knows that a lot of them won't have much of an appetite at all after what happened, and he can't blame them. He doesn't have much of one himself even after the food is done.

Once everything is set up in the dining hall a couple of hours later after everything that happened downstairs Bruce goes around to slip a notice to every body's room. (Everyone that is still alive, that is.)]

I know what happened was hard to take in. I feel the same as well.
If you wish to be alone I understand, but if you need company, or somebody to talk to... there is food in the dining hall made by Speedwagon and I.

I sincerely hope to see you there.

- B. Banner

[For Sigrun and Cherryblod respectively, he'll have the note along with a plate of some food from the gathering by their door.

As mentioned earlier, there's a small fare of simple, light food and snacks for everyone to eat if they have the stomach for it. For better or for worse there's alcohol too, although Bruce certainly isn't going anywhere near it. But if anybody needs that drink after what happened, he can't blame them for the need for it, either.]

Comments

[goodforsomething]

......yeah. Me too, I guess.

[That's worse than having your brother hurt. He knows - all he has to do is think about that happening to Dipper or Mabel.]

It doesn't even look like much - just this little triangle guy. But he gets in your head. [Stan shakes his own head.] I should've been there earlier. Ford was half outta his mind when I showed up.

Was Lobco okay? [He still feels like he's talking about a seafood company when he says that name.]

[cherryblooded]

She's alright now. Still jumpy, but she gets out and about.

[Whatever's happening to their world aside.]

But for a few months after I rescued her she would barely talk. Could hardly get her to eat, even, and she wouldn't leave the house. Not that I blame her, after months of torture.

[goodforsomething]

...fuck.

[It's an expression of sympathy. There's no such thing as a good demon attack, but he hadn't quite been picturing months of torture.]

Well, uh...I'm glad she's doin' better.

[cherryblooded]

Thank you. Same for you and your brother.

[Demons are awful, is the important thing here.]

[goodforsomething]

Yeeeeah. And with any luck, it'll stay that way.

[...he hasn't told anyone this, but Cherry told him when his world went to shit.]

Last I remember, home wasn't lookin' too hot.

[cherryblooded]

How bad is it?

[goodforsomething]

Giant orange portal in the sky spittin' out nightmares. It turned my goat giant and then the totem pole grew arms and legs and tried to attack the house. Gravity Falls is a fucked-up town, but it's never gotten that bad before.

[cherryblooded]

-Ah. Good luck.

[It sounds a little like what's going on with his home. But orange instead of red.]

[goodforsomething]

Thanks. The Shack had some kinda magic shield around it, so at least I got that.

...I just hope it's only Gravity Falls. I dunno how long after the kids leavin' town that was, but I think...I remember bein' worried about them when it hit.

[cherryblooded]

Nice to know we're both hoping the hellhole we're in is only local.

I'll keep the children in my thoughts, if that would make you feel better.

[Someone's kids should live.]

[goodforsomething]

Yeah, sure. That's about what I'm doin'.

[It's all he can do, under the circumstances.]

Hope your family's alright, too.

[cherryblooded]

[That just gets a silent stare.

You saw his son be executed, Stan. He's as much family as Lobco and Doloz are.]

[goodforsomething]

[He meant the ones back home in the apocalypse, given the context of the conversation...but fair point, he winces a little at the look.]

The ones back home, I mean. Someone oughta be. [The safety ship's kinda sailed on everyone in here]

[cherryblooded]

Appreciate the sentiment.

[He's going to set his head on the table now and maybe look up never.]