[HUB ISLAND | ICE BREAKERS]

[spellheal]

Who: Coven Members
Where: Coven Base Camp
When: Day 90
Open/Closed: OTA

You're not doing anything right now, right? Good. Genette's using some of the resources taken from Aimintas to create a little get together. Even if you do have something going on, she's not averse to using a little force to make the evening magical. In fact, the magic is exactly how she's pulling this off. Genette is offering you to a little get together at the base camp, which may be all it takes for you to follow her. If not? Your hand is tethered (or some other part of you) quickly and you're led to the camp anyway. This is important, darn it! What's so important? A little "party" of sorts. There's an assortment of foods, some of which have been hastily made since some groups have gone harvesting for new resources, and a large water basin that's acting as a punch bowl. The true purpose of this little activity is a 'get to know you' exercise of sorts. Genette's got a glass container of a large quantity of Elto bones that can short-circuit the tethers, but the caveat is that you have to participate in a little, tethered sharing circle. (It's honestly a good idea to know who you're stuck within your little makeshift coven, but Genette is the pushy sort when she sets her mind to something.) The way to be released from your Elto shackles? Tell everyone your name, where you're from, your magic (seemingly left a little ambiguous) and something else about yourself. Discussions are encouraged! The more people know, the better! After you're done sharing with the class, food and drink is yours to have -- or you can just run off, that's fine too. OOC: Characters who would have absolutely nothing to do with this can of course escape, whether fleeing in the first place or using Elto bones of their own to circuit out their tether. A ▢ This is it -- your character can breathe deeply, unlock their knees and get this little activity over with. All they have to do is share the criteria and they're free to go! B ▢ Afterwards, their free to stick around the area and mingle. There IS food and also drinks. They may also want to have a more private conversation about something they learned tonight.

Comments

[drizzle]

Oh, you're from an island too, huh?

[She can't help be amaze by that detail. So many island kids around, but then the next part will have her looking a little....surprise.]

H-Hey, you really shouldn't say those things so calmly....

[Jake, why are so calmly explaining that his home may have blown up? What the heck? She is just about to lecture him until he begins to talk about his powers.]

...I...why are you being so vague about your powers all of a sudden?

[JUST WHEN HE CALMLY TALKS ABOUT HIS HOME HAVING BLOWN UP!!! She's just. So much staring.]

No, that's okay, I rather....get to know you better first. We'll trade positions later. I think we have a lot to talk about.

[Like not talking so calmly about your island exploding for one!!!]

[potentite]

Sorry! Um, it's... just how it is? Um, I mean— I didn't really want my island to blow up but I guess Earth was too...

[Casually talking about the Apocalypse probably isn't better, whoops.]

Um! I will answer anything you like!

[drizzle]

[There will be a face forever given to him for that. How can he so casually talk about things blowing up?]

Glad you're so open for questions because I have a few.

If Earth and your island blew up, then where are you from? Why did it happen? And how can you be so calm about it? Didn't you have friends and family? Were you the only survival? How did you survive?

[All of these questions will be asked all in one take and under the same breath as she is now trying to regain her breath now.]

[potentite]

[Whoa! A lot of questions! Though, he guesses, that isn't so strange? They're questions that he thinks a normal person would probably have.]

Oh! Golly, um. Well! Okay. Um, in order... [He starts ticking them off his fingers as he talks to keep track.] Earth didn't blow up actually now that I think about it since Dirk and Rox were from the future. But the world ended and all of humanity died. But um, I'm from... the Land of Mounds and Xenon! It was my planet in the game after we entered. I guess I'm calm about it because I do my best not to think about sad things. [Repression is great.] My grandma was my only family and she died when I was five. My only friends were Jane, Roxy and Dirk and they survived.

[Well. They survived that part anyway. He doesn't dwell on it.]

I survived through some convoluted bullshit that Dirk and his AI brain worked out. I definitely almost died! If you mean in general, though, um... I holed up in my room and only ventured out sometimes to get fruit or fish or salvage canned goods from the ruins.

Phew.

[drizzle]

[What. Whaaaaaaaaat. What the hell, Jake!?]

I....I didn't understand most of that. What game? What's an AI? How are Dirk and Rox from the future?

[Okay. Now for the rest.]

The only parts I understood was the end of humanity. Still have no idea what it has to do with the end of the Earth though! Either your planet blew up or everything in it is dead, including nature! You wouldn't be able to survive if the world truly ended unless you can eat dead plants, animals, or contaminated water; if there is water!

[A weak look will appear.]

I'm sorry about your grandmother though. My own raised me too. [And, well, it would break her own heart if anything happened to her. With a much better smile, she'll quickly move on by...] What was Land of the Mounds and Xenon like though?