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

[parodeity]

[ THIS IS STUPID. dave doesn't make any move to actually go in the water, but he's frowning with his brows furrowed, standing at the edge of the beach where the water just barely starts to touch his shoes. ]

So, like...if you swam out there, is it possible to just swim right the fuck into space? Is the water spillin' off? Or is it like an invisible cup?

[ again: he shows no signs of waning to swim out and see but What The Actual Fuck. also by this time he probably actually got persuaded to confess to a snakebite and dealing with it somehow. idiot. ]

This absurdist landscape makes me feel right at home I guess but dude. Do you get slingshotted back if you swim out, too? That sounds like a good way to drown, if so.

[p_mortem]

[ Dave is equipped with infinite tools to make this possible, so Minato can't understand why he would stand there debating with himself instead of just swimming off into the sea like Minato would done without hesitation if that's what his curiosity dictates.

If not Dave, Minato's always willing, so here goes. ]

Got a few art requests for you.

[parodeity]

Sure, what's up?

[ look...dave simply will not be going out there or at least not ditching his clothes? maybe he will swim fully clothed. that can occur?? but he pulls out a red pen, raising an eyebrow at minato.

apparently the strider art shop is open for business! ]

[p_mortem]

Anchor. Rope. Boat. Oar.

[ They don't have to swim, and they don't have to swim off the edge either, just go far enough to peek over the edge and haul themselves back with the rope. ]

[parodeity]

[ he looks enlightened as soon as minato says "anchor", nodding. ]

It may not be the best boat but I can do one big enough for two.

[ he clicks the end of the pen. the tip glows with light. it's one of the combination items made with rose and john, a pen that...writes in light. the light won't stay forever but he doesn't need it to in order to complete a drawing.

this will take dave several minutes to do all of the requests, and the result is

uh

PROBABLY seaworthy?

but also this is the ugliest fucking boat ever. i'm so sorry minato. ]

[p_mortem]

Perfect.

[ PROBABLY seaworthy is good enough; hopefully Dave can draw fast enough to patches for the boat if needed. Minato tries not to look too hard at the boat as he ties it to the anchor that's left on the shore, and starts shoving it off into the water. Most of the boat is submerged once they get into it, so... this is fine. He doesn't have to look at it, he just needs to keep his eye on the horizon.

He's also never rowed a boat in his life, so it's slow, slow going. ]

[parodeity]

[ dave is more useful at rowing probably? he's not as brute strength as some other people, but he's used to swinging a sword around daily and is more or less at least athletically built, even if it's more lean runner than MUSCLE BUILDER.

but also he has never rowed either so it takes him a few minutes to figure it out...alas. ]

D'you see any fish in here?

[p_mortem]

[ Minato finds a wonky crook at the side of the boat to lean out against to see. The boat gets a little off course since he's not rowing his side, but he needs to water to be still in order to see into it. ]

No. Maybe they're down deeper. Think we should try fishing while we're out here?

[ They can drag a net behind them and go even slower than they are now. ]

[parodeity]

We may as well? Although after the crab fiasco, I'm not sure I trust the seafood.

[ but he will click his light pen again and start drawing a net.

...

fish can swim straight out of these terrible holes. ]

[p_mortem]

[ That's... yeah. That's fine, Minato thinks as he watches the net get cast out behind the boat, because holes that large will cause less drag, and if they do catch something, at least it'll be a big one. ]

...You can't draw draw fish, can you? And bring them to life?

[ Like how Minato can't transform living things, and how John will later tell him he can't combine them either. ]

[parodeity]

I...genuinely don't know? I feel like even if that were possible it would be incredibly cruel.

[ HE CAN'T DRAW WELL. THEY WOULD HAVE TO LIVE A SHITTILY DRAWN LIFE? ]

[p_mortem]

[ That's true, bracket text. ]

What about something like a flower?

[ Life, but like. Shittitly drawn flowers aren't as cruel. ]

[parodeity]

Haven't tried, but I don't see why not. I can try? Like. Apples seem to be a possibility and flowers are...basically also grown shit.

[probablynoteren]

I... don't know.

[Lenka's come over to stand next to him at the sight of water... in space. What the fuck. He's not usually the type to stand around and yell at clouds but this is a bit much, isn't it?

He's showing no inclination to wade out, either, still dressed in his full uniform getup including gloves, in the sun (he looks a little ridiculous, but at least exploration-ready) -- and would probably stop Dave if he made a move for it because snakebite or not, haring off into whatever this is is just a bad idea right now. Instead, he motions down the coast, to where the water ends.]

If we find where it ends, we can see if the water is spilling, or how far down it goes [and that's what he does, he starts walking along the water instead of into it, because there's nowhere else to go] ... Slingshotted?

[parodeity]

[ dave isn't familiar with lenka but probably heard his name at the meet and greet or something. either way, dave flicks his gaze sideways and seems more or less at ease for the moment. ]

When you jump off the side of the island you get thrown back in. My sister did it, I didn't - but you're right, we don't really gotta jump in if we just walk to the edge. No swimmin' required.

[probablynoteren]

She jumped--

[Reflexively he looks over his shoulder to where... the rest of the group probably is, but there hadn't been any girls in it, so it's very unlikely Dave's sister will show up. He doesn't know what she looks like anyway -- come to think of it, the only things he knows about Dave besides his name and his appearance are what little John's told him.

They're certainly a strange bunch, but probably not in a bad way. Death wishes aside.

(He doesn't have too much room to talk about strange, though; at this point, none of them do. Still.)]

Yeah, we don't need to jump. [he's not entirely ruling out swimming, but that would be a pain in the ass] Is it magic, or is there... a force field?

[This is such a weird island.]

[parodeity]

[ when lenka sees rose lalonde for the first time he will probably be able to go "ah that's dave's sister". they look pretty related. but alas she did not want to come exploring so she's not here right now. ]

I'm not sure. Like...I don't know how to tell the difference? Maybe if someone had a magic ability that let them sense magic, but that ain't what I got. Speakin' of - what did you get?

[probablynoteren]

[Between these two and Jake and John and Dirk on top of it, he's going to have trouble figuring out which of these people aren't related. For the moment he has but one to deal with, so at least things are simpler.]

Oh... [now that you mention it] I don't know what the difference would be, either.

[And despite all the newfangled powers floating around, he doesn't have the foggiest where to begin testing such a thing. It's probably not as important as the fact that they probably won't die in space. Why is that a thing in the first place.]

And uh. I call refrigerators. Magic is weird.

[parodeity]

You...huh. To do like...what.

[probablynoteren]

They just appear. I guess you can eat what's in them.

[But not everything is food. Um.]

Or use it. I thought it was good for expeditions like this.

[parodeity]

Or use it?

[probablynoteren]

There isn't always food.

[A moment's thought, he's summoned a fair amount of fridges at this point, honestly.]

Shoes. Combs. Stuffed animals, clothes. I think I saw a specimen jar...

[He didn't really want to look at that last one, honestly.]

[parodeity]

I would've been into that, if you find another one.

[ DEAD THINGS IN JARS! ]

What kinda limits does the power have?

[probablynoteren]

[Dave.......]

The specimen jar? The stuffed animals? You can help yourself, but they don't stay.

[Look, he has to make sure, Dave might have had to fight someone else for stuffed animals or something.]

I can summon three fridges. Most things disappear when I send one away, but eating still counts, I think.

[parodeity]

The specimen jar. But they don't stay? So you gotta have the fridge stayed summoned as long as you want to make use of the stuff.