mapping party mapping party

[rebells]

Who: a bunch of less-than-upstanding nerd boys
Where: along this route
When: Day 8, or thereabouts
Open/Closed: closed to mapping party; pm rebells if your character would have icly asked to come!

[So you may have gotten a telepathic message a few days ago about an expedition to map the coastline . . . or maybe you were invited along by a friend. Whatever the reason, it's bright and early this morning, and it's time to set out!

Characters would have gotten a further telepathic message from Jay with a date and time to meet outside the shacks. They'll be heading east along the "shore," tracking the coast, and then heading directly back towards base camp . . . who knows what they'll find along the way?]

Comments

[probablynoteren]

... The only way the specimen would stay is if you ate it. Probably.

[Just sayin'.]

[parodeity]

Which is, like, not conducive to displayin' it, so. Yeah.

[probablynoteren]

[Lenka just gives him a vaguely baffled sidelong glance, because he's still not sure why you'd want to display that (or who would even see it, given how much time (or lack thereof) they've spent in their huts so far. Some of them even less so than others. Anyway...).

By this time they're approaching the edge of the... chunk of ocean, as it were, and he directs his steps towards the edge of the beach, moving carefully. From his experience on the first day and night, the sand doesn't usually just give way straight to whatever is below it. But. They have no real idea what the bottom of the island looks like.

The ocean, though, just kind of... stops. If they crouch down and extend a hand, they can stick their hand kind of. Sideways into the water. Which is what Lenka's doing at the moment, looking increasingly confused.]

... Force field?

[??????]

[parodeity]

...Or like...just...maybe this is the portion of the ocean that was lifted up and so it just stayed that way? From wherever this island came from.

[probablynoteren]

[... He's pretty sure water doesn't work like that.]

Water doesn't work like that.

[parodeity]

You summon fridges. I think we need to redefine how we expect stuff to work, probably?

[probablynoteren]

But... some stuff should still work the same.

[Sand works the same. The sky... no, never mind. Definitely never mind that part. The trees are still trees and boars are still edible and keel over if you drop refrigerators on them. That being said, the water sure isn't going anywhere -- even if he leans out over the edge of the sand bar, he can't see anything flowing down below...]

If it's not a force field, you'd fall through.

[Great for swimming, guys.]

[parodeity]

Well, I think we mostly all still need to eat and stuff? As to fallin' through...I guess we could test it and maybe get tossed back, but.

[probablynoteren]

I've met people who don't need to sleep. It's hard to tell. [the point is, they won't know without investigating, but--] But I think there's a better way to test it.

[He takes his hand out of the water and points down towards the bottom of the ocean chunk. There are places where the ocean floor is still attached, and places where it isn't. In quick succession, Lenka summons two refrigerators in either spot at a decent angle from where they are.

Waits.

1. Fridge #1 settles peacefully on the ocean floor, seemingly startling some fish. Or what look like fish, anyway.

2. Fridge #2 sinks placidly all the way down to the end of the ocean water -- and then just. Plunges into space. Soon enough, it's out of sight.]

[...]

[...]

No force field.

[parodeity]

...That's one way to tell.

[ THIS IS STILL THE MOST RANDOM POWER, TO HIM. ]

And we now know that whatever rockets us back here won't work on items?

[probablynoteren]

[It is a truly random power, but he is doing his best!!]

If it's magic, or something else, maybe it doesn't work on magical things... [he's mostly muttering to himself, still stretched over the side of the beach staring into the void] Or if there was a way to test it on us without jumping.

[He's not that invested in figuring this out. Also he is pretty sure jumping into space is not recommended for humans.]

[parodeity]

I've actually seen people jump off. We get like, sling shotted back.