Tenth shot at heading out. [OUTPOOOST / Backdated to this morning]

[eatshootsnleves]

[The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, parrots are screeching, and Arsenal's lounging in the lobby looking out for a redhead, a Superboy, and that girl he barely talked to. He's also scratching out a map of his own, an expanded bit of the area west of the lake.]

'Morning! Ready to head out?

((This is a gathering-together and setting-out post

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LK1: The Hills

[eatshootsnleves]

[It's a bit cooler up here, and the wind whips up from the plains they've left behind. Loose rock slides under their feet. Roy takes a deep breath of mountain air, and grins into the face of it all.]

Arright, Kon. Somewhere down in that valley is the barrier line. [Tosses him a couple of marker stakes.] Don't drop outta the sky, you hear?

[inheriting]

[Catches 'em. And gives him a funny look.]

Dude, I've crossed that thing before; no way am I face-planting for your viewing pleasure.

[eatshootsnleves]

[Fingersnap!] Damn, caught me. And here I thought I was so subtle.

[Takes a few running steps forward! Slides and skids down another ten yards of rocky hillside. Might be laughing under the dust he's kicking up.]

[ontheclockpro]

[Yeah he's already pretty ahead of you guys, leaping over boulders and getting past the loose rocks with ease]

It would've made it easy for all of us to remember where the barrier was.

[eatshootsnleves]

Just mark it with a giant crater.

[Oho that looks like a challenge, my friend, and so he's ranging on to catch up! A climber, this one, occasionally grabs a scrubby tree branch and swings over the terrain instead - landing with a jarring rattle of shale and sandy dust.] You alright back there, Erica?

blarrrgh

[lilblackdevil]

Yeah. Don't run too far. [she kind of misses having transport, but also knows her vehicles wouldn't be very useful here]

[inheriting]

Ha. Ha. Ha. [Flies over you all and off toward the middle of the valley. 8| Ya'll are just jealous.]

[ontheclockpro]

[Just a bit of a challenge! He watches that with an impressed eyebrow before casually stepping on a larger slab and using it to slide down a bit of the hill before jumping off it]

We'll try not to~

[eatshootsnleves]

[Oh ho fine, this is clearly provocation to find himself a loooong stretch of thin loose shale and run-jump! With an arm up to shield his face and bits of gravel spacking off his sunglasses, he can take the short way down for at least another two bends of the trail. Even when he stops the smaller rocks keep tumbling, bouncing down and away and straight off an edge.

Low whistle. Pause.] Nice view.

[variare]

[ despite being tinykins, if he wanted it'd be easysauce to keep up with roy and reno. racing and sliding down high-ass rocks looks like such fun! but he's staying a little bit behind to make sure erica's cool. almost looks jealous at kon being able to fly. IF ONLY ]

Being this close to the barrier but not quite past it always feels so weird.

[lilblackdevil]

[she's steadily plodding along, keeping pace at a moderate rate, having long since given up on compensating for the height and strength differences]

Yeah. Just a few steps, and everything shuts down.

[eatshootsnleves]

Not everything. [Teeters on the edge.]

[lilblackdevil]

Like what?

[eatshootsnleves]

Guns! [Carefully gets a good grip, leans out] Your wits, your brains. What more do you really need?

[lilblackdevil]

... [normally she'd be more into this shounenesque hotblood stuff, but right now, this just gets a good laugh]

[eatshootsnleves]

[He'll take it.]

Other than super-strength and the power to fly, of course. [Rolls his eyes upward, pulls himself back from the edge.

The rock he was just gripping splits down the middle and comes loose with a grating sssshunk, and he scrambles backward nimbly just in time for piece of hillside the size of a good sofa to slide out almost from under him. Crunch! And away it goes down the hillside, bouncing and rumbling a good fifty feet down.]