songerein | [Catch-All]

Who: Old Man Nier and YOU
Which: Open Log + Interactive Dream
Where: Reverein fields, the town itself, Nier's home village
What: Catch-All for March 2022. Old Man tends fields and mends fences. Old Man picks up orange hate feathers. Old Man picks herbs for Jude and co clinic. Old Man dreams of his home town where no one there seems to know him at all.
Warnings: Probably nothing worth mentioning. Will update as necessary

01. 'Spring'ing into Action

[Just the thought of working in the fields makes him think of older, more simpler days. Although he supposes in retrospect, there was nothing simple about them. Yonah had once asked him to grow her watermelons and somehow, he'd managed to accomplish it. Never does he consider himself an accomplished man of gardens and growing, but when he thinks about the amount of time he spent trying to cultivate a Lunar Tear, then he supposes he might be underestimating himself.

It's provided him a great reason to busy himself. To busy his thoughts. To think less about what happens when he leaves. If he leaves. If the others leave. He wants none of this. Instead, he's focused on the situation at hand. Or at least, he pretends he is. Honestly, he's more caught up in his thoughts than he'd like to be.

Fences are where he's chosen to begin. A decent number of them were damaged and before any planting can begin, they'll need to be tended to. He's in the process of covering some breaks, knelt down, pensive and probably up until the next few moments, has likely been a little quiet. Whether it's approaching footsteps or those being led elsewhere, he's not shy about speaking up.]

Get me that hammer, would you? I left it back there somewhere.

[He jerks his right hand over his shoulder indicatively. Help an old man out?]

02. I'm Not Angry; You're Angry!

[There's no shortage of things to be done in Reverein and Nier is usually more than happy to keep himself occupied by taking on any number of requests from the locals, which seem to be growing in number as the days go by. Gathering feathers seems like a relatively monotonous and unexciting task, which means it ought to be something he can get done in short order.

He's wandering around the town and along its outskirts to gather them, looking high and low. By this point, he's already managed to collect a few, which he has tucked into his somewhat barbaric-looking garb. Nier's a man with a lot of heart, though more than once he's lost his cool in the face of the circumstance. Where he'd normally be a rather patient man, it seems said patience is in absent supply today.]

Hey. You just gonna stand there, or do you feel like moving?

[He's had days where he was nicer.]

03. Go Green or Go Home

[When Jude announced the opening of the clinic, Nier was very quick to jump onto the idea of being able to supply him regularly with useful herbs, plants, and other like things in the forest. It reminds him of the times he's done something of the same for Popola. The names might change, but the situation always seems to be the same. In that respect, it's kind of nice. Something familiar. Just the thought leaves him comforted.

Whatever reason you might have for being out there, it won't be hard to spot him. Nier doesn't blend in well with the surroundings. On the contrary, he kind of stands out. And if he finds you, there's a very good chance he'll be nosy and want to figure out what you're up to. Why not lend him a temporary travelling partner?

Don't mind him as he's huddled down close to the ground, trying to get up a plant without destroying it completely.]

04. Home is Where the Heart Is (Unless You're Nier) - Interactive Dream

[...What is this place? It's a seemingly quiet and laid-back village, many of the structures appearing rundown and touched by the elements of time. There are people by the fountain not far from a dilapidated house.

Up the hill, along a variety of wooden steps that are in slight disrepair, there's a library with no shortage of books and a room that doesn't seem to make much sense.

Gates exist in different cardinal directions that lead outside of the village, each guarded for the safety of the village inhabitants.

Down in the market plaza, there's no shortage of item shops, and a plethora of relatively friendly villagers, who are ever willing to ask for assistance with their daily errands. A tavern, where a pretty girl named Devola plays music and sings a song. And on the docks behind, a little boat willing to take you to places called Seafront and some other main settlements that exist outside of the village.

It's a nice place, if not a little bit sparse. But it's the place that he calls home. He can easily be found wandering through the town, into the library, but spends the most amount of his time at his house, perhaps with his face in a very particular diary. His daughter, Yonah, is also here, and she may seem a little perplexed about what you're doing in her house, but she'll be very polite.

It's no real big surprise to him personally, but it seems like no one in this town knows a Nier. Not even Yonah. Who could this mysterious man be?]

[OOC: Please feel free to wander around the village by yourself, with a friend, or visit Nier. Character thoughts and feelings may affect the surroundings and the things witnessed, or experienced in this place.
Please also forgive how small these images seemed to be. Evidently larger images from Gestalt are difficult to come by. I may update these at a later point.
There is no restricted access to the town and its inhabitants. Do note that given this is also Brother Nier's home village, he has the same influences that Old Man Nier has here.]

05. Wildcard

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Made it easy for rolling the rocks near the end of the wagon where Nier could grab a few and 76 could get a few himself once he got down. Make this a good line of work, easier for the both of them working together than not.]

Yeah, can get them in places to help anyone who might decide to fish- ensure that the current isn't too strong to wipe out places fish have settled to spawn and all.

[Make it better to populate, keep up that bit of food supply and all. Chuckling softly-]

We could, because making it look nice is just the bonus of this sort of work.

[No one asked, but 76 felt it was better to do it than not. Future proofing as it were.]

So people like you and me.

[Because Nier loves a good afternoon out fishing. But if he fishes too often, he can deplete the population and he has to keep that in consideration. Fishing in moderation.

It doesn't take him long to lug a decently-sized rock, which might as well be a small boulder in his opinion, and he draws in a breath before he starts eyeing the layout of the water. Trying to decide where to begin, he settles on one very simple spot at his feet. The key is a hardy foundation, right?]

Pretty sure no one is going to care as much as we do, but if I'm gonna do a job, I'm gonna do it the whole way through.

Basically, yeah.

[Easy to start big, since their placements would be the most important and more for foundation than just looks alone. Be helping keep enough sediment in place while allowing current to naturally carry silt and the like away, try and help keep the shore from eroding in too much.

Wanted to try and keep the lake- well, easily gotten to and fished in. Keep healthy growth within for fish spawn.]

May as well if you're going to do it at all, honestly. Good job is what should be the end goal.

[Going to do it at all? You damn well do it well.]

When you say stuff like that and I realise it's something I'd say, too, it just reminds me how old we sound.

[And where was the dispute there? Both of them were old. If they weren't, they it just looked like they'd seen some shit and time had its way with them.

Somewhat satisfied with where he began, Nier began trekking back for another, thinking the whole exchange seemed like something he could easily get himself into muscle memory of.]

Not a bad thing if you ask me- things learned from experience and all that.

[His tone was light, even with a touch of the teasing dry tone he could take. It was truth, but it was also just a light ribbing aimed at the both of them. Old men.

Still, he made it a habit of makin sure he rolled several of the larger rocks near the end when it was him getting the last within reach. Taking advantage of that strength of his? Maybe. This was still some work he could fall in to easily, hold conversation while doing----and hell, easy to toss around suggestions in placement if it was needed.

They'd get this looking right- as far as either of them were concerned, at least.]

I guess that is what being old is all about.

[He was going to save that one up for Kainé the next time she made a joke about his age. Not that she didn't have the place to be doing so.

Hoisting another sizeable rock over near the one he'd already put down, he swept an arm out indicatively.]

We've got a good start so far. Can't wait to see it when it's done.

At least one of the things being old is all about- the other is purposefully misunderstanding slang, or some term, those younger use to see what they do.

[Sometimes? It was hilarious to use a term in such a way and just turn and look someone younger in the eyes and seriously ask "Was that a yeet?" And so on. There were so many other ways to work that, too.

76 made sure the rock was in a good position, nodding before he was returning for another.]

I can't either, be a nice side surprise for those that notice it.

[Catch-All]

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Getting to a good wrapping point to leave off the old men playing with rocks you think?

Yup!

These good old men ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪